TronCraft

I'm working on a texture-mod for minecraft. Pics might follow later. it's late. I'm tired. Hippo.

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My pictures, music and clips will show up there now :)

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Beautiful artwork

Programming shortcuts and Reading Up.

You know what I want to learn when I start my new studies next year? An efficient way to alter character models in-game without just cutting through pre-rendered, pre-designed seams. Gibs used to be innovative, but these days it just annoys me to see that, in most games an some animated movies, they take cheap shortcuts. The first shortcut is the instagib or partial gib. Return a character to it’s giblets. Left arm, right arm, they all detach. Or just a single one, such as, for example, the head. Second shortcut is by way of texture-edit.

Catface

Stop whatever you think it is you're doing and watch this.

True Selflessness

I've given this subject this subject some thought. I've always thought that there was no such thing as true selflessness.

Let's define a selfless act first: To do something without benefit for yourself.

I believe that benefit includes feelings. After all, you are not truly selfless if you feel that what you are doing is right and it makes you feel good. You have other motivations. Helping the other person is a side effect of making yourself feel good. People don't give money because they're selfless. People give money because they feel it is the right thing to do, and that satisfies their feeling of justice or whatever. Gandhi did what he did because he felt it was the right thing to do. Which must have given him pleasure. If he 'felt' it was wrong what he was doing, but knew it was the right thing to do, he wouldn't have done it, I think.

To give you an example: would you torture your sibling to save a million people? Would go at them with a knife and extend their suffering for as long as humanly possible, if it was the only way to save an entire continent? Would you murder hundreds and forsake yourself and your own self-respect if it meant saving a species? I know very few people who would say yes. And yet, I think that is selflessness. To forsake yourself, and your feeling of self, for the benefit of a thousand. This has come up loads of times in movies: sacrificing one for a million, or a hundred for a billion, is according to the movies, never right. Experimenting on the few for the benefit of the species is amoral and wrong. And yet, from the point of view of the species, is it really?

Is it not truly selfless to let this horror go on because you KNOW it will be for the benefit of the species? Ponder about this for a bit. I dare you. Could you do something you would never do if it meant the survival of everyone you know? That, I believe, is what it means to be selfless. Not giving a homeless man enough money to buy a differently faced coin of the same value.

Black Ops Multiplayer

Fun. :)

Black Ops and Modern Warfare are mutually exclusive

I know I talk about games a lot, but this is going to be a big rant. I know I also tell anyone I can get my hands on that games are the pinnacle of human storytelling. This has nothing to do with that. I am just going to bitch and whine about how one game is better than the other. But for good reason. But, you know, you've been warned. If this kind of thing doesn't interest you, I suggest you check out http://www.notquitewrong.com/rosscottinc/. It's awesome and a lot more funny than what comes after the jump.

Oh Dear

Here's a conversation that took place in my head last night that got me slightly worried about my own mental health.

"You really need to stop talking to yourself. He needs to sleep."

"Stop referring to yourself as he. You're going to think you're going insane."

"You mean you are. I mean... I am."

"Stop this, I want to sleep. Good.

The following line was also worrying, but slightly less so:

"I should blog about this."

The thinking about thinking about my own thoughts is happening enough to annoy me. Anyone know what I'm talking about? Thinking something, then having a thought about just because that's the kind of thought you expect you're going to have, only to contradict yourself until you drown in a sea of voices and thoughts AND CAN'T FIGURE OUT YOUR OWN OPINION!

Slow update

I've been busy with things like this