ARRRGGHHHH! MAKE THE BEEPING STOP! ASDFING LJKEIU IKUANSD O:M OIUNSE BNHUIPA ARGGHH!!!!! HERE IT IS AGAIN!!!! AAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=369062

Hah! About damned time they started doing research into the effects of games on your mental health as a good thing. Eat that Jack Thompson!

A news piece on gamedev points out an 'interesting' piece of research done into video game violence: http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=36854339 experienced gamers were picked and given questionaires about what they played then shown images, plain average day images with violent ones inbetween. What did this research find? ( Read more... )

This computer sucks arse. It crashes more times than a 30 man Mini Cooper scramble race on a dirty track and locks more times than a vault door. Also, as 'neat' and 'tidy' as it might be, why do some people insist that lines of spaced out squiggles is writing?

Dun duhduh dunduhduhdeerrr, dun duh duh dunduhdudhdeer! *has NWO Crash on his new mp3 player*

OMG IT'S HERE! Well... at the flat. I'll be slapping it together this evening before gwen comes around. Ofcourse, it probably won't be installed by then, but should have it plugged in and installing. All in all, looks to be a bloody good machine. I'm ( Read more... )

Shudder to think if I lived like you! *headbangs to ring tone*

Just recieved a text off dad: "There's a box here from scan."
Ofcourse my reply was: "I'll be down in an hour or so for lunch :]

If someone tapped my face with a hammer when I walked through the door at work this morning, it would have shattered. It's waaaaaaaaay too cold. Atleast I've got this nice mug of coffee to wake/warm me up ( Read more... )

Just found a Relief Mapping research sheet and a page with lots of Relief Mapping info including Relief Mapping for Doom 3"DOOM 3TM uses a normal mapping shader over all game geometry. We processed all normal maps of the game to generate the appropriate depth maps, which are stored in the specular maps alpha channel (as normal maps are compressed ( Read more... )

I am now a Welsh Office Wageslave. It's oh so exciting.

Well, I'm 21 now and Michael over at PHWComics has made me this great birthday card.
( The Birthday Card! )