The "What's up?" Thread

[Torque]

I feel like being social today. Nothing really happening, shit just be chillin'. So what's up? What's going on in your lives? I'm eating lasagna(e) in my PJ pants, and listening to 3 days grace for some reason. I'll prolly roll on some SC2 later, if I don't choose to do anything more productive.

[phil_]

Day thirteen of my month of sobriety. Also, my copy of "Metroid: Other the entire internet is telling me this game sucks" seems to have sunk into a section of warped space over the weekend, as it hasn't been seen since Saturday.

[POS Industries]

Another day at work, another insignificant step toward having enough money to comfortably make this move out of Ohio. I picked up Tatsunoko vs Capcom a few days ago since it's been marked down, and I enjoy it despite 1) not having much to it and 2) online play being totally borked by the option to play with the wiimote alone, which uses a control scheme that allows for apparently limitless one button combos, which is naturally what everyone on there does.

But it's fun enough to pass the time with friends, anyway.

[bluestarultor]

I've been messing around with yet another game that came to me. It's just another side-scrolling platformer, but the whole "grizzled space marine" thing finally irked me enough that I decided to devote a game to aping it.

For something I came up with two days ago, it's got a lot of graphics and writing done. I have four characters with developed stories and personalities so far, along with a standard weapon and 4 sub-weapons, a few level themes, several enemies, sprites for the MC both in and out of his power suit, another guy both in and out of a power suit, Codec-style face sprites for all forms of the character sprites for when people are talking, an empty face screen, a static face screen, and a face screen with a little heart monitor thing just to keep the place when the HP bars go back up.

I'm actually pretty proud of how I explained the controls. Rather than do the whole "arrow keys move you" bit, I just named everything according to the keys involved, so your jump is your "Space Jump" and your normal weapon is your "Plasma Control" and such.

I mean I can't really claim it's clever, but I happen to know things like how people will go for the arrow keys first to move and such. People will probably catch on pretty quickly.


Edit: Honestly, though, it's far from perfect. I'm still used to working in DOS (mode 13h) dimensions, so I have a lot of sprites that look really great, but are only 16 pixels tall. It's done in NES style, though, so I have no idea how that will translate to whatever resolution the NES uses.

Edit again: Just checked. Actually not too bad.

[Torque]

Originally Posted by POS Industries

Another day at work, another insignificant step toward having enough money to comfortably make this move out of Ohio. I picked up Tatsunoko vs Capcom a few days ago since it's been marked down, and I enjoy it despite 1) not having much to it and 2) online play being totally borked by the option to play with the wiimote alone, which uses a control scheme that allows for apparently limitless one button combos, which is naturally what everyone on there does.

But it's fun enough to pass the time with friends, anyway.

what is it with all you Ohians(Ohioans? Ohiians?) wanting to leave Ohio? Seriously I know like three people from there who all say they want to GTFO... I went through there a couple times... seemed alright, state-wise... Cleveland looked like a rotten shithole, but Cincinnati seemed nice.

edit: Lucky Number 7! Who here think's I can nail off 77 attacks of 7777 damage before the first enemy strike?

[Flarecobra]

From what my roommate told me... it's a hole. Nothing there. It's the RL American equivelent to Onroc.

[POS Industries]

Originally Posted by Torque

what is it with all you Ohians(Ohioans? Ohiians?) wanting to leave Ohio?

First of all, I'll have you know I'm a North Carolinian. I just happened to find myself trapped in Ohio for the past few years for financial reasons.

Second, yeah, basically what Flare said. It's pretty and all, but it's one of the most unstimulating places I've ever seen. There's really not much to do but drink, get fat, have kids, and die. I'm slowly gearing up for a move to NYC simply because at the very least there's a wide array of auditions available for any number of gigs in the entertainment field. Even if I'm never really able to make a career out of it, at the very least I can say that I'm getting out and doing something.

[Torque]

Never got to go to NYC. Then again, I'm still alive, and not laying in a gutter with no wallet, or pants.
I attribute 100% of my being alive this very second to having never ever stepped foot in New York City. Seriously, New York City, prove me wrong!

[Wigmund]

Making my way through the first semester of my junior year of college.

I've returned to being an 'Undecided' major after fucking up last semester and coming to the realization that I despise higher math. So I'm currently taking Biology, Geology and Chemistry - thinking about a major in either Bio or Geo with the other one and Chem as a minor.

Other than that, I'm waiting for my car to get its AC repaired and playing Red Dead Redemption.

I've beaten the game, now I'm replaying so I can be John and rampage over everything. Sitting on top of the trains lobbing infinite amounts of Molotov Cocktails at passersby using Dead Eye to turn 'em into guided missiles is absolutely great. Little flaming comets of death.

[Specterbane]

Originally Posted by Flarecobra

From what my roommate told me... it's a hole. Nothing there. It's the RL American equivelent to Onroc.

That's the general rap it gets, not without being well earned, but it is a bit exaggerated. It used to be a good place to find work as an engineer, but there aren't many places for that these days.

I'm mostly killing time before heading to bed, making sure I get enough sleep before a job interview tomorrow. Aside from that I got to enjoy finishing the Worms: Reloaded campaign. My very future may still be up in the air, but at least I can enjoy the simple things.