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Brooks Bishop

Brooks Bishop

Programmer, web developer, wannabe blogger, internet addict, cat person, lover of tech and art and fine hats. http://twofedoras.com
Found some good info on implementing Inverse Kinematics for some planned specialized animation for RunawayTank enemies. But now, sleep!
@jamesvenezia thanks :). I thought #runmaria was tough. Probably mostly due to the right to left. ground collision felt slightly offset too
@nickgravelyn the jump is actually based on Tony hawk Ollie mechanics. So it's one button for both speed up and jump to conserve button use
@nickgravelyn I'm definitely in for #xna7day again! And btw, would love to hear any thoughts on RunawayTank from you or anyone else.
On a total J-Rock kick.
My xbox controller for windows arrived. I can finally enjoy Spelunky with some degree of not sucking on my part. yay!
Richard Lenski Provides Evidence of Evolution in Action - http://friendlyatheist.com/2009...
Court Rules That Phones Ringing in Public Don't Infringe Copyright - http://www.eff.org/deeplin...
Milkshake: IceCream Editor for XNA - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Milkshake: IceCream Editor for XNA
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Finally bought Ikaruga on xbox arcade. Love this game, in spite of how terrible I am at it.
So I've been listening to "Secret of Mana Plus" nonstop recently. It's a prog-rock re-imagining of the soundtrack to Secret of Mana. And in my usual desire to complement my current infatuation with similar music, the closest thing I could find that I already had was post-Waters '80s Pink Floyd.
I got a haircut today. Took off a little more than I normally do, so now I look like Drew Carey.
Free Play 2007 - Keynote Lecture, Jonathan Blow 1/8 - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Free Play 2007 - Keynote Lecture, Jonathan Blow 1/8
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Making a Piranha Plant - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Making a Piranha Plant
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Picked up my copy of Scribblenauts. Rooster hat is ridiculous...ly awesome.
jealous - Geoff Schultz
Arch Enemy – Silverwing - http://www.last.fm/music...
It's too hard to find the specific type of jazz music I want. You read "jazz" as a band's style, and that basically tells you nothing.
I want to start a band called "Pre-multiplied Alpha."
nerd - Geoff Schultz
The dream has been realized! Dual 24 inch samsung (1920x1200), mounted to the wall with Ergotron LX wall mount articulated arms.
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Hot diggity damn, grats on getting it all set up! - Geoff Schultz
This may goad me into finally getting rid of this shitty ol' 21incher and getting a second 24incher. - Andy Bakun
it's totally worth it - Brooks Bishop
They rotate 90 degrees too. so I can run one or both vertically as well. - Brooks Bishop
I gotta get XRandR working. One problem I had with having two equal sized monitors is that I'd be tempted to center them, and then that would suck for full screen games. So I'd actually have to have 3 monitors total. - Andy Bakun
yah, I would've gone with 3, but congrats.. looks great! :) The rotating bit is sweet.. - Tim Hoeck
Unfortunately, my system itself is a bit lacking. My old one died when I was a bit low on funds, so what I had money to get only has one PCI-E slot. I'd need to upgrade and get two new video cards to run more than two monitors. Eventually, I'd like to do just that, and hang a nice TV above to play media on. - Brooks Bishop
Whoo. My Ergotron LX wall mount arms arrived today. Time to mount my monitors to my wall!
Don't catch anything on fire. - Geoff Schultz
Holy crap. Lightning just hit a tree outside my office and it burnt down in a few minutes.
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Lol, wow, pew pew pew! - Geoff Schultz
And the best part of the story: we're in a photography studio, and everyone takes pictures of it with their pos phone cameras - Brooks Bishop from iPhone
woah. looks like maybe somebody's back yard? - Jim Hearts FF
rofl @ the cell phone camera comment - Geoff Schultz
:o - chaz2b
Damn! - Derrick
we had a violent thunder and lightning storm last night in central florida. lighting hit a church approx 1/2 mile from my house. it is estimated that we had 1200 strikes within a 4hour period. here is the church burning down: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news... and here is my documentation of the events out of my front door: http://friendfeed.com/cma3... - Carlos Ayala
The story of Nobuo Uematsu's mustache - http://www.destructoid.com/the-sto...
I wonder how computers would have evolved if we had four arms and hands... We'd all be counting in base 20, for one.
I could finally raid and cyber at the same time! - Geoff Schultz
Ah, but "therein lies the rub" to use an awkwardly double-entendre-ific phrase of a response. If we had the extra appendages, wouldn't hardware and games have been designed to utilize them? - Brooks Bishop
I don't rightly know. It is also possible that the detailed motor control would require so much extra processing that we might have never evolved past simple machines. Even in creatures that seem to have lots of arms they tend to only have 2 that have fine motor control. Crabs for instance have their big claws and then two little dexterous arms. - Geoff Schultz
Destructoid - My Little Pony goes to Silent Hill with these creepy customs - http://www.destructoid.com/my-litt...
Destructoid - My Little Pony goes to Silent Hill with these creepy customs
Spent the last hour debugging a piece of XNA Content Pipeline code and screaming at it since there was no ability to debug because it caused an IDE crash, only to finally realize I used an 'M' instead of an 'm' which caused a property calling recursive loop leading to an eventual stack overflow.
oops - Geoff Schultz
Whitest Kids You Know - Moon Bears - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Whitest Kids You Know - Moon Bears
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