Automated Testing Is Fun

Crab Prople from Remagen!

Shadow Testing

Tracers Are Back

Lately I've been using this space for uploading pictures I need on our various forums. Kinda boring for you I imagine but easier for me than managing Picassa or my old Gallery linked on the right. Need to upgrade that thing.

The Mission Brief

From College Humor:

0800 hours; Secret US Military Base, New York

General: Welcome to your mission briefing, soldier.

Soldier: I'm ready to serve my country, sir.

General: You and your team will dropped off at the top of a skyscraper downtown. The mission objective will be to eliminate all enemy soldiers.

Soldier: Understood, sir. Will we have any aerial support, such as UAV recon planes or attack helicopters?

General: Yes... we do have some of those.

Soldier: So we will have constant assistance from above. This should be a breeze, sir.

General: Well, I mean we HAVE them, but I don't know if we're gonna use them.

Soldier: What?

General: We have a lot of great weapons, but I don't know... I don't think we should just waste them for nothing.

Soldier: With all due respect, sir, any aerial support would give us a great advantage over the enemy.

General: Oh yeah, definitely. I totally get that. But it's pretty expensive to fuel these planes...

Soldier: So you'll only fly them in if we're having a difficult time?

General: Actually I was kind of thinking the opposite.

Soldier: Sir?

General: Like let's say if you kill three people in a row without dying... I might be inclined to send a little UAV plane to tell you where the other enemies are.

Soldier: Why not just have the UAV plane around the whole time?

General: Well he'll be AROUND... but he'll just fly in and do his business if someone kills three people in a row. Sound good?

Soldier: Sir, this isn't making sense to me.

General: Look, you'll have a walkie-talkie to contact the pilots... but I've only told them to respond if you've killed a lot of people. Like if you kill five people they can maybe drop in a predator airstrike.

Soldier: It sounds like we're putting American lives in danger when they don't need to be.

General: Okay... I'll let you in on a little secret that might give you a significant advantage.

Soldier: I'm listening, sir.

General: If you jump off the edge of the skyscraper-

Soldier: Sir, I don't-

General: Listen! If you jump off the edge of the skyscraper and grab on to a broken, dangling window-washing platform-

Soldier: Right away I can tell you I won't be doing that.

General: Climb up the broken platform, walk on the ledge of the building without falling until the other side, jump onto another broken platform, lift yourself up on the roof, and walk around the ledge some more, you can get to a sweet sniper spot.

Soldier: And how would I get down?

General: Well you'll probably die once someone shoots the gas tank behind you.

Soldier: Alright sir, this has been great but you're clearly insane.

General: SOLDIER! This is important. The most notorious killer in the whole WORLD will be on the enemy team.

Soldier: Oh yeah? What's his name?

General: BoobGoblin69

Soldier: I'm out of here.

Link

Reflection

Eyefinity

Hubba Hubba.

Monkeys Like DX11

Jeff at AMD sent this over to me. They've already hit 2million DX11 cards shipped. Outstanding and they are great cards to boot. now if we can just get the kinks worked out on EEIIOL with them we'll be all set. Luckily Jeff is helping us spear head that too.

Campaign Data From Soloje

Soloje sent this up to the office today. Campaign stats he generates probably from CSR. Pretty neat to look at.

Satchels

A player recently reported that he was surprosed that his satchel placed at his feet wasn;t killiong him. This is probably an oddity thogh a long standing one but the truth is that they are shaped charges and we don;t really do very well with concussive or shrapnel deflection from other object. I illustrated thusly...

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Sometimes I get snarky. Sue me.

Combat Stance

Comparing combat stances for a post.

Fun With Ragdolls

Pak 38 Damage Model

The Known Universe

I want to carry this around on my phone. When any one asks me the ultimate question I can point at this and say "I believe in that right there! If that isn't God then I don't know what is."

Prepare to Have Your Brain Exploded by This Known Universe Video - Hayden Planetarium - Gizmodo

Creepy

Can't believe I missed this one for Halloween.

Rifleman Descending a Barracks?

Marcel would have been so proud.

The Furher Hates Us!

Who knew?

Veteran Boobs

From the Age of Conan newsletter comes this:

New Veteran Rewards for Age of Conan.

Sticking with the game over a longer period of time should yield rewards, right? That is why the Age of Conan developers are now introducing Veteran Points to the game. 

That's pretty cool. We've been talking a lot about economies and free play and rewards lately. But so what can you get?

• Breast Enlarging (Female only) – 3 points

Huh.

Look Ma Them Pictures Is Movin'

I've always had a fun time whenever I'm exposed to the gray area where Hollywood and Video Games meet. There's usually a fairly comical accident going on. Hollywood always thinks it is the best game in town (snark). To wit, today a very cordial letter came across the Producers SIG mailing list. This list is for game producers and is tied to the Independent Game Developer's Association (or is it Internationsl?). Truth be told they don;t really do much in Dallas so I don;t keep up too awful much.

Anyhoo, this letter was inviting us to join the Producers Guild of America. That sounds fancy. I like guilds and hey, let's face it, anytime people who wear flip flops to work and openly talk about bombs in their office elevator get the chance at a little validation, that's a good thing. So I trundle on over to the site to see what's what. Seems like a lot of NY vs LA stuff. I wouldn't live either place, ever, but what ever. Then I read this...

Welcome to the Producers Guild of America

The PGA's Board of Directors is determined that you find this an unparalleled resource for all aspects of producing in motion pictures, television and new media.

New media? Huh. That reminds me of being in art school 20 years ago and all they could think of when I did art on a computer was that it must be "mixed-media" or no wait "multi-media" yeah, yeah. It took several years for "digital" to really catch on and by then we'd mostly moved on. Then it hit me like a truck, these guys still don't get it. They still like to think of  themselves as being in motion pictures. Like Louis Meyer is still pinching secretaries and smoking in his corner office. That puts them decidedly above television, you know, that artless form of entertainment. Then of course there's us, at the bottom...

Problem here gents is that I don't think we really want to join your old school club. We're not really like you no matter what the base similarities might lead you to believe. See, we're leading the way just like you did when you first made the pictures move' only the thing is, you haven't gone much farther than that in a hundred years. No offense fellas, but you're just not in our league any more. I don't mean to be rude but let's face it, we keep getting invitations from you to the dance but have you noticed we never invite you to any of our cool parties? That means we're OK just "being friends".

Laffly Racing is Better Than...

I missed the Adopt-A-Rat last week. Sorry guys but I had to get Project China out the door for a certification. Jeremy however got a great video. Wish I was there.