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Stop complaining. It’s not like you have a website. Get your own website and see how often YOU update it. I dare you. Here’s a graph that shows HOW MUCH I CARE

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Home from work today, still battling some sort of epic flu virus and I thought I’d post here to say that I am determined to survive. In today’s world, some may say the economy is faltering, but I say fear not. Just buy extra shares of Halls, Vicks, and TheraFlu, and you’ll be in good shape. You’ll have my personal guarantee that I’ll be doing all that I can to make sure that the production lines keep buzzing and the coughdrop makers stay busy.

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It’s been a busy couple weeks here… I still have a ton of recent photos waiting to get sorted and uploaded. Most are from the Pats/Dolphins game back on 12/23 with the family. Work goes well, keeping me very busy, and in my spare time I’ve been putting the final touches on Stronghold for TF2. Mostly just lighting and clipping issues, but fans of the early early beta (b1) will be glad to know access to the upper ramparts is now back, and this time for all player classes!

Aiming to have this one off and away by this weekend, barring any last minute ’surprises.’

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Happy New Years! Sidewinder is now updated!

It should work out a lot better this time! Some of the changes:

• Added progressive spawns for both teams, activated by capturing the mid point
• Revised capture and respawn timings
• Removed the worthless pit in the middle, revised the middle area
• Miscellaneous clipping issues fixed
• Added more directional indicators throughout the map
• Fixed *I hope* some doors that would stick when players stayed in the trigger area

Revised middle:

And lastly, the download:

17 mb (zip)

Enjoy!

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Woke up in the middle of the night with a sudden desire to plug in the new Christmas toy, my 6×10 Genius tablet. Lots of crappy drawings in the near future, I guarantee it.

Took a solid 20 minutes to get familiar with the device, and there’s a lot more learning to go. But a solid start, this thing’s a blast!!

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Have a great holiday. Stay safe out there!

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Now available for public server rotations, I’m proud to release beta versions of both ctf_rocktumbler (Capture the Flag) and cp_sidewinder (Control Point). The level geometry remains essentially the same for both, but the alternate scoring and objective systems should yield a nice contrast between play styles. I am very curious to see which version becomes the favorite, and, as always, welcome feedback and opinions.

Downloads can be found here:

cp_sidewinder_b3.zip (15 mb)

ctf_rocktumbler_b3.zip (15 mb)

Enjoy!

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Currently revamping a lot of the site… switched to a linux hosting setup, wordpress, etc. I still have to decide on the best method to bring all of the old site content into the new format. Stay tuned.

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3:00 PM — …After scraping the ice from the car, I had no choice but to take 84 east to try and get across the Connecticut River, bound for Ellington. Over two hours after leaving work and about 6 or 7 near misses later, I still wasn’t within sight of the Hartford skyline. Hearing on the AM radio that multiple tractor trailers had jacknifed between 44 and 46, I decided to bail on Exit 43 into the back roads of West Hartford. The streets were a nightmare, and I heard on the news this morning that W. Hartford got 11″ of snowfall, some of the most in the state (aside from the NW corner). Not a great choice there.

5:30 PM — I made my way to a Shell station in town, fueled up, and borrowed a cell phone from the clerk to call Sarah. Our Simsbury branch got out at 1:00, and Sarah was already home by that point. I hung up with her and decided to try and make my way up to 291 and cross into the eastern portion of the state that way. I bought a map, de-iced the windows and got rolling again…

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