We that’s 2000 done and dusted! What a terrific rollercoaster ride of a year it has been, and the level of personal change has been unprecedented.
Oh well here’s some of the things I hope 2001 will bring me;
-a good Masters’ degree and a job in Games’ Design
-a drastic reduction in weight (lets just say I need to lose a quarter of my present mass)
-several satisfying Gaming Projects/Products brought to a successful conclusion.
…and you didn’t miss me. Oh well, that’s the Universe in a nutshell, so don’t go around trying to get more than your 15 minutes of fame.
Caught the XMAS cold while at home, courtesy of younger BRo (cheers George) so been pretty out of it. Rachel is also dealing with the general anti-climax of Xmas, so she took the day off.
Played Games and wrote a review for Frag-energy today, but hopefully will be back into the swing of things tomorrow, when I’ll tell you about my XMAS (..oh go on!)
Been a pig of a roller coaster year…so thank fuck its XMAS!
Off home to the parentals opp North, via the Clan Smethurst, so I won’t beonline updating thisuntil my return post XMAS
So my little dumplings!
“Merry XMAS and a happy Saturnlia from MR Newt”
Went on my old works Xmas do. Had a really good time, but once the brain to alcohol threshold had been reached auto-piloted home via Guisely? Rachel was not impressed when I got home, since we had a pact not to get into a state (which see didn’t on her do the previous day, but I did DOH!). However too busy talking to god on the big white telephone to stand up for myself. I think though in a strange way this kinda sorted things out.
Now feeling pretty wobbly, but using this as an opportunity to catch up with all the First Person shooter news I have missed in the last couple of days.
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I sent this to my friend Matty, and while I read I thought this pretty much summed up where I am at this stage:
“Howdo
Hope things are going well. Like the updated Crazed website, nice to see
that things are being said even if the product section is still
“Unfortunately Crazed is not able to disclose what products it is working on
at the moment.” (hee hee, if only the poor fools knew what was coming their
way). I hear you are kidnapping poor Yorkshire men to further your foul plans
(say hi to Ivan for me, and I hear Sweetie Pete is moving Londonwards, has
this transpired thus far?). Sorry I couldn’t make your house warming party
(but who was that sexy nurse, and what was up Father Keef’s dress?) but
things have been so hectic here might as well hide my head under a rock.
Hope you are settling in fine in the new castle for Becky & Matt, and not
missing the joys of living next to one of Britain’s few fully functional
Voodun temples.
Myself. Well kinda of brilliant to say the least. You can’t go wrong with
1.5 days of UNI, a large dose of mullah, and all the time in the world to
enjoy it (mmnn dope n’ beer n’ Unreal Tournament!). Occasionally I fail foul
of those “poor student me” thought forms, blaming Lecturers, the charming
course leader, no books in the Library on poor performance
day/week/month/lifetime.You know the general “University of Bums on Seats”
(http://www.cynicalbastards.com/ubs/) malaise. However I am bouyed on with
the scary knowledge of what I have learnt in the last two months. I am now
at the basic level of programming, lets just say I know my SQL from my C++
to know that one is a procedural language and one isn’t and that I need to
JOIN my SELECT statements at some stage to pass this module or that, WHILE
passing various parameters to FUNCTIONS, IF they indeed work. My struggle
,if such a thing really exists, is the general perversion of the course from
MSC Software Development to MSC Games Software Development.
And thus to the cut and thrust of my short epistle. I need your help, Do you
know of any good Academic Journals that feature articles on Games software
development, especially in the realm of how Hardware is related to Games
Software (Direct X, Open Gl and all that 3d card malarkey for example) Why do
I need to know this? Well for source material Master’s level
essays/dissertations. This is immediately pressing because the lecturer in
IS and Platform Technologies has decided that this level of reference is
required for our upcoming assessment (see the attached word document to see
how deep in the doo doo/totally triumphant I could be).
Would be very grateful for any suggestions and completely understanding if
none are forthcoming.
Hope you are well. Pass my regards to Becky.
Seeya on the darkside you irrepressible loon.
;O) Newt
“If you intend to fail, or fear that failure is inevitable, then stick to
unclear goals to hide your incompetence”
http://members.madasafish.com/~newtus/
http://www.frag-energy.net
PS I promise I will try harder tomorrow.”
But then again things are bound to chage tomorrow.
IF there is a bus coming your way……..perhaps its time to take to the trees.
I now view the presents rather dismal frame of mind, a prelude to a new constructive ad energised mind frame that will carry me through the rather hectic XMAS period (remember 4 assignments + web page shenagians) and into a opportunistisc New Year.
Deconstruction/reconstruction type thang.
Still don’t understand? Well don’t ask me.
Last week was good for getting MOD reviews up at Frag-energy.
Did one for a Unreal Tournament MOD called Forward Edge Battle Arena, click here to read.
E-mailed the MOD team and go this response;
“Yes it is an awesome read (I d/l it and saved it to my hard drive)!!! Thanks
greatly for all your compliments and support. This will help out our mod
even more.
Yes, we can’t wait to release the next FEBA. Just one more week.
Thanks,
Richard Osborne
www.planetunreal.com/feba”
To think I was going to jack it all in. Ho hum.
Yup sports fans its official MR Newt is suffering Depression. Two weeks of living in denial. Of being a hermit, gradually withdrawing from the world. Nobody cares least of all me.
Oh well, I guess the recovery starts here.