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Maybe I’ve been living under a rock, and you all know about this… but in case not, check out Freddie Wong’s web series “Video Game High School”.

Freddie Wong has been a YouTube star for a long while now, with live action video-game inspired action scenes each week. You’ve probably seen a few before, even if you didn’t know who the maker was.

VGHS is a feature length series from him and others and (for a web series) it’s really good.

Season 1 playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=ELLdMMObVx91g&feature=plcp

Official site: http://www.rocketjump.com/category/vghs

Morning,

Okay so WOPIT #4 is scheduled to take place in two weeks time. I’ve noticed that Fuzz has marked down as a No for the 14th, but a Yes for the 7th. So if there are no objections, I will change the date to the 7th, which is one week from today, as everybody who has been marked down for attendance has given a Yes for that day.

Also, if you have the time, please fill out the map choice table at the bottom of the WOPIT #4 event post as nobody else except myself has filled it out yet.

So remember, ONE WEEK FROM TODAY!

Cyas in the arena of awesomeness.

I’ve been pottering around with programming for a while, especially making use of the Qt framework. Qt is a powerful cross-platform toolkit used for developing GUI-based software, command-line tools, consoles, operating systems, and some other stuff.

The program I’m posting about here is a simple (and dreadfully incomplete) model viewer. It started off as a desire to look at the models from one of my favourite games, Anachronox, for which I was unable to find a viewer at all (let alone one that worked on Linux). Based on Quake 2’s MD2 model format, it’s old and relatively straightforward, and probably not of much interest to most people, but the supported formats can be expanded, and I plan to add more in the future.

Why post this? I would like some input that I can’t necessarily manage myself, and am not ready to release it to the world at large. I have no idea if it works on Windows (or OSX), so someone would need to test that. While it should be pretty easy to use, I need to see if it actually is easy to use. I need to know if it requires more necessary features. I need to see if it can be crashed. I need a name for it, too.

Mornin,

So this afternoon should be the do or die moment for the billion dollar rover.

9 hours from now, so about 2-3 this afternoon for us east coast Aussies.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html

Landing coverage LIVE NOW on NASA TV – http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

EDIT: Check this out.. Can watch the whole thing simulated!!! Avast sandbox complained but its good! Try it!. http://eyes.nasa.gov/index.html

As some of you may know I’ve gotten into GFXs lately and tried new things, now on CG I’ve gotten a little known for making pretty good sigs for people. The more known I get the more requests I get :P which is a good thing as if I get really known around CG like “MasFX” then I can start charging for sigs, banners, and logos. I have a friend who is an artist and together we can create really good logos for money. Now to me I see a future cause with some of the money I get, as I can put some of it into Team IPX, it won’t be 100s of dollars but over time it will grow, but this won’t start for a while as I need to get known as a good GFXs first :P but if you need anything done like sigs, or logos, I would gladly help out cause I could use the practice :) ATM I’m doing some sigs for people but my main task is a new IPX banner, which I have put forward a couple of tests…. So yea, this post is just about me saying that in the future I can help out with donations and things like that…..