I was falling asleep driving home the other day, couldn’t keep myself awake! I started doing random weird shit and just happen to record it:
On another random note: A few days ago the most wonderful thing occurred. I played Garry’s Mod WITH my son. As most of you know Aidan loves the game. Maybe its because there’s no objective he can fail at, or maybe its because he can spawn as many Mossmans as he likes and shoot them in their face… I’m not entirely sure. But he loves the game!
About a week or so ago I custom built a laptop for my wife. I even threw in a nVidia card, the 9800 series or whatever… not exactly sure right now. Well anyways, it runs games great, even the Source Engine games. I figured… instead of Aidan taking over my computer and playing games he could play games on her laptop. So I created him a Steam account, gifted him my extra Half Life 2, then bought him Garry’s Mod. As if my son having his own Steam account wasn’t cool enough… this meant we could play games together!
It was awesome! I put him in a Ventrilo room with the transmit set to voice sensitivity and we played through a couple HL2 single player maps together. He was able to comprehend that it was his dad with him in game, he would ask me to follow him and watch him as he shot Combine and random citizens. Everything was going great until he decided to shoot me. I asked him to stop so he killed me with the crowbar. Being the tough guy I am, I respawned and took him out with an alt fire of the shotgun. BAD FUCKING IDEA!
Maybe he’s smart enough to figure out 3D games and coordination with keyboard+mouse controls, but the trauma of having his dad shoot him was too much. He broke down in tears, screaming and crying. Ask Chad he was there… it was pretty sad. Oh well, live and learn I guess.
And by learn I mean he learned not to fuck with his dad.
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By the way Aidan is 3, and Chad’s comment below was a true moment:
Aidan, put down the car and come over here… AIDAN PUT IT DOWN
Hilarious video. I noticed I hadn’t updated in a few days so I’m throwing this up because I found it so funny. I’ll do a real update soon. Maybe even today. If you’re lucky. Maybe not. Who knows. Why so serious?
Edit: I just realized my last 3 blogs weren’t much, okay I’ll definitely update today.
So… if you’re logged in and you visit the homepage for YouTube, there’s an area that has recommended movies for you. I suppose its based off previous visits and all sorts of informational statistics its collected (it is Google powered after all). This is what YouTube decided I should watch…
Since I’ve been creating movies more and more lately, I decided to make a page where I can put them all. So at the top of my blog you’ll now see a link to the Movies page. And with THAT said… I’ve created another video:
I had a lot of fun making this video, and I learned a lot about editing… and about being a director. Waxx so kindly put it into perspective for me: “hi I’m Brandon I tell everyone absolutely nothing yet expect them to do it”… or something rude like that.
Also, today marks a day in history… for my alias “foszor” is now** autocompleted by Google from their main page. Go try it out… start typing “foszor” in and it will finish it for you. ABSO-FUCKING-AMAZING!
So I was doing something totally unrelated to anything I’m about to show you, yet I managed to figure this out. It’s pretty simple but its not very practical. I mean, it takes like 6 or 7 minutes to actually do it in game, which would mean you’d totally get owned in the ass in verses if you attempted it (anyone up to that challenge? send me a video of you doing it in verses mode and I’ll post a picture of my tits).
Anyways, I first tried it with the boxes, but they weren’t tall enough and I kept breaking them
Then I tried it with the hand jack, and it was barely not tall enough. Then I managed to flip the hand jack over, which was then too tall to jump on. So I had to reset the campaign again (this time not breaking the boxes) and use the boxes to jump on it. Easy enough? Sure it is, but the fucking bots like to get in your personal space so I’d recommend doing it with friends or kick the bots. On to the video!
Edit: I know it doesn’t make sense to do it, but in my defense I was trying to get the no medkit achievement ON EXPERT and spending all that time to save a little health would really help in the long run! AND NO, ZOMBIES DON’T SPAWN IN SINGLEPLAYER WHEN YOU’RE DOING THIS… I HAD NO CHEATS ON WHILE DOING THIS!
So what’s Gadget? Well its now the official name of the game engine Chad and I have started. Its purpose is to provide us a new medium for the game ideas we seem to develop constantly. Garry’s Mod was a great outlet, but I believe we’ve come to a point where we’ve outgrown it.
Fortunately enough, we both have experience with the Source SDK (Chad more than I) and learned some great concepts from its example. We’re designing Gadget with a lot of Source Engine style ideas and organizing it similar to what Valve has done.
Back in the day I completely rewrote the Quake 2 engine… and made a couple of cool games out of it. But it’s been so long I don’t remember hardly anything anymore; I also blame Garry for making me lazy and scripting for the last few years… naw just kidding Garry But now I’ve realized something, and I quote from what I said to Chad:
“I never knew how much I didn’t know”
It totally sounds like double talk, but its true. I didn’t even know what a heap and a stack were, when to use references, pointers, structures… NOTHING! How’d I manage to make games? The fuck if I know… in retrospect it was like playing darts in the dark. I would randomly change stuff until it worked, not ever truly know why it worked.
We did a lot of work on it today, even made the logo (see above).
Im super happy to see people raving for phones beside the iPhone. Droid X is selling out around the country! Fuck ya open platform! #androidabout 1 week agofrom Twitter for Android
@casemate I JUST received (mins ago) my tough case for my Nexus One & the screen protector arrived folded & u dont sell them individually :(about 2 weeks agofrom webin reply to casemate
But now I’ve realized something, and I quote from what I said to Chad: