D A L I F . C O M - Gaming

Wiiiiiii

nospam@example.com (Dalif) — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:33:54 +0200

Ranc bought a Nintendo Wii the other day, chipped and everything, ready to run, and let me tell you right off the bat, that thing is FUN. He had gottan a free Xbox 360 from work somehow, and while it had nifty graphics, and some decent enough games (he borrowed 5 games from some dude) it just didn't catch on with either of us. Also, it made a helluva noise, what with the cooler and harddisk in the console.

The Wii, however, doesn't make a sound hardly. And it's smaller, more compact, and has a motion sensitive controller. That's right. Motion sensitive. When I started reading about the Wii back in the days, when the King of Spades was still a knight, and the Queen of Hearts hadn't lost her virginity yet, I was well skeptic about this motion thingy those pesky japanese had invented. "How the hell does it work? I bet it lags something fierce, and doesn't respond well", a then more ignorant version of me was pondering to himself. However, I was positively suprised. That thing is f00king amazing. It's precide and responds to the least of touches. It came with Wii Sports, which is a fun little collection of 5 sports games, all playable with the motion thingy.

Mere minutes after plugging it in and booting it up (a process that went completely problem free) it had already beat the Xbox in amusement points. The Xbox may have superior graphics... same goes for PS3, but the Wii is just too damn cool, and the fun with the motion controller just never really stops. Had a look over the list of games that are out or will be out soon, and my little geeky gamer-brain was overloaded with pictures of me laughing and having fun. Now, the truly enlightened of you will now be thinking: "Wait a cotton picking nanosecond... here I was thinking Dalif was, hands down, the coolest guy on earth, and now he's gone all pear-shaped over a console? This is blasphemy... this is MADNESS". But let me assure you, dearest of readers, I am still the insanely cool and low-key guy you've grown to love and respect and hold dear. I'm just living a boyhood dream of consoles... something I never had. And also, who the hell wants to grow too old for motion sensitive controllers? I mean, they are pretty much the coolest object around. Give the Wii a go sometime. You'll be pleasantly surprised.

Peace of dah worldah!

nospam@example.com (Louiszche) — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 04:20:26 +0200

Yeah, things are clearing up for me. Phew.

There were times when I really didn't know if we were gonna make it (could I ever forgive and let go?), but my spirit is up now. I'm still hurt, but only when thinking about it and I think I need to loosen up (because I have become kinda obsessive with sending him text messages all the time, urgh! Never thought I would be one of 'those' chicks!), but all that will come in time.

I don't think I have made a more responsible and right decision in my life than staying with him. We really are a team, we just tend to forget it and let our weaknesses take over instead of talking with each other. We'll try to fix that. Things are allright. Now the water just has to settle and become calm once again. I love him.

Yesterday I bought "Baldur's Gate" 1, 2 and the extensions to both. For DKK 50,-!! Kinda cheap. Sooo old games and everything, it's just a total trip down memory lane. Whoa! Just a terrible shame that I SUCK! OMG I have never felt more ashamed. If my team at CS found out I would lose all credit I have. So... Sccch! Don't tell a soul. I have even... *shutters*... considered CHEATING! OMG LULZ! But apparently the game is so old that real cheating wasn't invented when it was developed, cuz you can't get god mode or anything, and even have to change the game code to get the little cheat there is to work. Christ.

Baldur's Gate for the win - and much better than Diablo2 (but I play tabletop roleplay with dices and everythin', so I can't really be neutral since D&D is like a very old, very loser-kinda friend of mine).

Post Holiday +1

nospam@example.com (Dalif) — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:25:37 +0200

First day done with... let me tell you folks, I wish I had gone for the head against a brick wall option yesterday... I was bored shitless. Couldn't focus. I got, as tradition would have it, shit assignments, and while I started one of them, I just couldn't be arsed to finish it or work a lot on it.. I have three weeks for this. I think I can handle that.

On a slightly related note, my cousin sent me an email today, regarding a job at EA Games.. as a games tester. Now, this might not be what I had in mind, but it's not a totally bad idea, that's for sure. I meet the requirements (yes, there are actually requirements), but I've a hard time figuring out what exactly the job is about, and where.. as far as I can read, it's in Spain. Granted, Spain isn't like my favorite country in the world, but I'd not mind going there for some time, to work in games testing.

It's not something I'll go after for 100% sure, but taken the first paragraph of this post, and a LOT of other post into consideration, I'd say it was safe to say I'd like out of my current employment. It's grinding me down, to be honest, and I'm not liking that one bit. Going to Spain for like a few months or perhaps half a year, might be a breath of fresh air. Especially if I'd be working for EA, testing computer games. Can any of you imagine a better habitat? Surely I can't grow tired of that.... or can I? Oh well, it's something to consider.

Another technologic era is coming to an end

nospam@example.com (Dalif) — Thu, 17 May 2007 00:26:23 +0200

Yeah.. I bought a new comp today. After having this bad boy I'm on now for just over 4 years, it's time to cave in, and fork out some dough for a new one. It's gonna be thousands of hertz of Processor goodness, coupled with some killer graphics, some nice memory and a spiffing case to keep it all in. Yup, the start of a new era. But I'm gonna miss this old one tho.. it's been like a brother to me. Always there when I needed it, and to be fair, I haven't had problems with it for years. It's the most stable install I've ever had. Runs like a doozy... most of the time. After a defragmentation of me old harddrives, I've gained like 40% speed back.

Anyway, the new box will arrive Friday, which means I'll be occupied for the weekend. I'm off work for 4 full days, and it's just needed bigtime. Just going to bed at night, and knowing I don't have to wake up at a specific time the morning after. mmmmm one of my favorite feelings in the world.

On a slightly related, but not really, note; I've considered starting to play poker, just so I'd have something to do when I was at home anyway. Online that is. But I'm not sure I'd enjoy it a whole lot. Also, when I get my new box, coupled with this new LOVELY monitor, hopefully I'll be able to do a lot more 3D modelling at home. And that's gonna be swell. Should keep me busy at night, I hope. I'll pot pics and updates on the gear, as soon as I've got it. Cheers!

The Goodbye Screen

nospam@example.com (Dalif) — Mon, 14 May 2007 19:29:23 +0200

I'm chalking this one down on a few categories just for kicks.

Anyway, I bought a new monitor the other day. So far it's been my 19" Samsung 930BF that I got for Christmas in '05 along side my old trusty Sony Trinitron 17". The 17" from Sony was the first monitor I ever bought while actually caring about what I got, and it's served me for 6 years now. It had a brief 1 year hiatus, where I thought I had lost it, but on the very day I was going to throw it out, I decided I might as well yank the backcover off, and have a look inside if I could fix the problem. Turned out, I was able to fix it afterall. Messing around a bit, I found a little fuse that I figured I'd try changing. Lo and behold, the monitor worked like a charm after that. But now, it's over... and I'm gonna miss it. Had some good times with that monitor.. good times indeed. Remember when I wanted to watch an episode of Scrubs, and the monitor played it for me? Yeah I remember too.. like it happened yesterday. Good times.

Anyway, the 226BW 22" monitor from Samsung will pick up where old Sony left off, and so far things are looking splendido. Found out tho, that I only have one DVI and one VGA exit on my gfx card, so.... when I buy a new comp, I need to make absolutely sure the fucker has two DVI exits.. because running vga on a nice tft monitor just doesn't quite cut it.

I'll post an image later on, when I've decided it's time to yank up the old cam and snap a pic. Got around to vacuuming the place, and I must admit, it sorely needed it. So now that I have a new monitor for working with 3D, step 1 in my masterplan to better my skills have been completed. Step 2 is a little more daring, as it requires me to fork out quite a load of cash, but I daresay it's for the best. Step 2 is buying a whole new comp. I'll update you guys on the specifics later on. For now, I'm gonna marvel at this gem... crystal clear image, crisp colors and a sleek design. Yeah.. I'm happy.

Just the usual

nospam@example.com (Dalif) — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:32:17 +0100

Bored stiff these days. Work is pretty shite. If I don't do anything, I'm bored. If I start up a project that I'd like to do, I'm told to do something else. I don't really get it. It's lame, and I'm fed up with it. Got the lamest assignment today. I dunno if it's on purpose or what, but it seems like the best thing is to find the least suited person, then insist on him/her doing that specific job. Just fucked up.

On a happier note, dieting and working out at the gym is on bigtime now, and it's feeling pretty good. Had a good run in on Monday with a lot of working out (not just lifting weigths) and I felt well cool afterwards. Wanted to go again yesterday, but different things drew it out, and I ended up not going. Today was planned as well, but we just had a fuckload of snow here, and Ranc had to stay late at work, so it's been postponed to... tomorrow I guess. I'm hoping we/I can go three days a week. Seems like we're getting somewhere.

Got a reply from the journalist on Politiken about my "case". Pretty interesting. I don't have any hopes for anything really, nor do I care if the case is re-opened, but it's amusing anyway, to have a case that's active again after a full year. Looking forward to seeing what that's about.

And finally, I've taken up a bit of gaming again. Oblivion. It's 60% fun I guess. Keeping me off the streets anyway. And that's always a positive thing.

Oh well, nothing really interesting. If I get the time, I might try and do up a logo for this blog. Something nifty. I'm getting used to this blackish darkish look. Kinda liking it. The green orange one was just... I dunno. Didn't fit me, I don't think. RIGHT... dinner time. Toodles.

Game dev

nospam@example.com (Dalif) — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:38:52 +0100

Yeah.. in an interesting twist, I may have just joined up in the developement of an open source first person shooter computer game. It's just in the startup phase, but... still pretty interesting.

I was idling in #3dsmax on Quakenet when I this guy joined, and asked if anybody was interested in joining him and 7 others in developing a game. Since I'm desperately looking for any experience in this particular field, I figured an open source project with no deadlines, no money etc.. would be a perfect place to get it. No demands, no angry investors. Just people doing it for the fun of it.

Anyway, the project is called Varzeneh: Chapter 1, and can be found over at sourceforge. Will be following this vehemently and with great interest. Hoping to see my name in the credits some day :)

SWG is byebye

nospam@example.com (Dalif) — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 14:30:06 +0100

Well... today I finally decided to uninstall StarWarsGalaxies from my box.. a full year after I stopped playing it. I know I should've removed it long ago, but I just couldn't bring myself to it. It probably sounds really geeky, but it was pretty close to me, and helped me through rough times, so I didn't wanna let go. But I've come to the conclusion, that it's for the best... besides I need the harddisk space :p

SWG, thanks for the good times, sorry SOE fucked you over. Here's to you!

Entering the gates of Oblivion

nospam@example.com (Dalif) — Wed, 03 May 2006 09:38:23 +0200

Yes, the gaming category. Many many many MANY have emailed me and asked me "WHY YOU HAVE GAMING CATEGORY WHEN YOU NO USING IT?" and to that, I can only express the deepest and most heartfelt regrets, that I had been so careless as to make a category and not use it, thus baffling hundreds of thousands of already confused websurfers. But, friends, it ends today!!!11one

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SOE's evil reign might finally be over

nospam@example.com (Dalif) — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:06:52 +0100

Yes, I know I know.. I stopped playing SWG in November of 05, and as such, I should let go already. But truth be told, playing that game for 2½ years certainly leaves a mark. Back in the good old days, when I started out and everything was new and breathtaking, I didn't quite realize just how much this game would mean to me for the next years. But it did, and as a consequence I follow it's developement at a distance. One of the reasons I quit, was that all the things I enjoyed in the game was being shafted viciously by SOE. The game focus was being moved from the passive skills, so to speak, over to active combat related skills. Since the social part of it meant a lot to me, being a businessman in the game primarily, I was devestated to find, that this part of the game was being being removed almost entirely.

Anyway, this leads me to the point of this post. As I said, I watch it from a distance, and I was glad to read this post recently. Apparently the peeps over at Lucasarts have finally realized that SOE is a bunch of scatterbrained game developers. I dunno who made the executive decisions at SOE back in the day. All I know is, they should be removed asap. The game started out with a massive support, and I believe that support was dwindling from month one and onwards, due to devs not paying attention. It was all talk, but no walk.

Should the news posted in this thread be true, then I might consider going back, and resubscribing. I mean, it WAS a damn fun game. And I'd enjoy getting to play again, despite the fact, that it means lots of time wasted into what basically amounts to nothing :)

Geeking irl

nospam@example.com (Dalif) — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 03:02:42 +0100

Rancor asked me a few days back, if I wanted to join him, a guy from his workplace, and the guy from his workplace's friend in a game night kind of setup. Apparently they were one man short, so I was called in. I reluctantly agreed, not being a fan of doing social stuff with complete strangers. But knowing Ranc, I figure I might as well give it a shot. That, and the fact that a deaf girl would be cooking us food as well. That I could not miss.

For a brief moment I was scared the game we would place would be pen and paper roleplaying - something I consider myself above somehow. All power to those who like to play it, but I just find it geeky to a degree with which I wouldn't be comfortable identifying myself. However, it turned out to be the game of Descent (not the computer game with the spaceship that floats around), but an actual fantasy dungeon co-op kind of boardgame. It was a somewhat decent game, taking about 5hrs per game. One guy acts as Overlord/dungeon master, whereas the rest take on the roles of different heroes. It reminded me a lot of DiabloII. All in all an amusing evening with some slightly geeky people. I think I'll whip up my bro and go find a game we could check out from time to time. There are a lot of cool games with different themes. I find I actually enjoy the concept of playing a game for 7 hours straight, as long as it is even slightly entertaining.

The deaf girl was sort of weirding me out too. She was probably a nice person, but it's just odd to have a fifth person around you all the time, that you do not in any way communicate with. She was in the kitchen messing with stuff, when we arrived. Max told us not to speak to her, as she wouldn't hear anything anyway. But it's surprisingly hard not to comment on certain things. Like, when we ate, it is polite to comment on her food, which happened to be fairly nice. But... she's deaf. Won't hear anything. So I told Max, who speaks sign language, to tell her. Or I commented to him, and he translated. But for all I know, he could be telling her I thought her food tasted like puke. Or that I was gonna kill everybody in the room as soon as we were done eating. And when she went to bed, she talked to Max briefly, and waved at the rest of us. And as a reaction, I just said "night night"... then trailed off into a indistinct mumble and a halfhearted wave. She didn't catch any of it anyway. Quite an interesting evening all in all.

Jack Thompson Sucks Monkey Balls

nospam@example.com (Grue) — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 04:17:36 +0100

Well, I was refreshing digg for the umpteenth time this night when this item popped up. I guess Jack Thompson isn't really news anymore as he just raves on and on, but I thought it would be interesting with at post with some interesting reading about him. As follows:

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