http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:Icetigris&section=today deviantART RSS for by:Icetigris en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:05:52 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/28364662/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/28364662/ Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:26:42 PST
All I want to do is sleep and draw and cosplay and write and play video games and work on my game project. I'm sick of homework and tests and assignments. I think I'm sick of computer science. I just want to work in the game industry already, goddamn, I'm so sick of school.

On a totally unrelated note, last night I dreamt I was a vampire and I bit Seto Kaiba from Yugioh. Shit was so cash.

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/28004064/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/28004064/ Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:11:58 PDT
brb gotta go study for 2 midterms.

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/27594363/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/27594363/ Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:17:18 PDT
I'm a game developer.

Oh my god, you have no idea how exhilarating this is. I've been working my ass off for years, studying computer science, trying to keep my art skills maintained, looking ahead to someday when I would be leading up a game project at an existing AAA studio, and eventually my own studio.

I'm now at the first step. My proposal got picked in Game Development club and so I'm the project lead for a 3D game with a development team and everything. Holy shit, this is amazing. At the end of the year, the club has an event where we show off our work to people at Firaxis.

Firaxis.

Oh my god.

Sid Meier might play World Weaver.

I don't think I've ever been this happy in my life.

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/26994328/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/26994328/ Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:02:31 PDT
Computer Graphics, Advanced Operating Systems, and Advanced Computer Architecture. All that plus TAing 2 lab sections and office hours and going to lab meetings.

Oh god I'm going to die.

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/26076230/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/26076230/ Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:01:28 PDT ritabuuk won best Drama/Serious video in the AMV contest. Also I cosplayed as a half-done BLU Sniper with my hair down and a bottle of Aussie shampoo. I was trying to pull off something from the chan, but I ended up being too painfully shy and didn't talk to practically anyone. It was fun to wear regardless and the timing was ridiculous. I finished temporarily hemming the vest 15 minutes before the tf2 gathering. That's what I get for trying to make the hat myself. I'll have the whole thing done by the next con, hopefully. Certainly by next Otakon.

Comic tiem yayayayay

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/25618104/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/25618104/ Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:43:09 PDT

It's turned it to shit.


Before I launch into an oh-my-art-sucks bawwfest, let me first say that I did minor in art, so it could be a lot worse, and I am happy with my choice to major in computer science because of one thing: I have a job. This also is the fastest/easiest to break into/highest paying track of the game industry, which is my ultimate career goal once I finish with graduate school. I also do enjoy studying the subject; it's very interesting if you like math.

However, my art is at a level that I feel I would be at in my first year out of high school had I been practising. There have been many times during my college career where I have said to myself "I wish I had gone to art school". I still draw animu and I'm starting to get really sick of it. I really wish I could draw on the order of a professional concept artist, which I am well aware takes years of intense study and dedication that I may never be able to invest due to my chosen profession.

This is not to say I'm not doing anything about it. I have mentioned that I am working on a Team Fortress 2 fancomic. This is true though, again, due to working in the sciences is VERY slow going. I have about 7 pages penciled and most of the plot written. However, it also takes me a long time to do the art for the comic because I am so out of practise. My grasp of anatomy, while improved from figure drawing classes, is still lacking and I still fall into old traps all the time. I'm terrible at facial expressions and I have COMPLETELY forgotten how to paint digitally. I haven't picked up a copic marker in 3 years. I'm hoping the sheer number of drawings I will have to do that require skill in these areas will force me to improve dramatically. We'll see what happens.

I have also resumed cosplaying after a 3 year rut. I'm hoping to have a new costume done by Otakon for the first time in about 4 years. It's not Louise, though I have made some progress on that clusterfuck of a costume. I'll finish that one eventually, even if it fucking kills me.

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/25378028/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/25378028/ Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:07:12 PDT Biosafety Level 2 and 3 labs down the hall. I see people in hazmat suits everyday.





It's my third week working on an NP-complete graph visualisation problem. I'm using horrible, open sores libraries with no documentation and a shitty IDE on Lunix. At least I get to work with chill post-docs, a really nice chair, and free Metro fare.









Oh, NIH. I missed you. <3

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/24883753/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/24883753/ Fri, 22 May 2009 01:02:43 PDT
STOP BLOWIN HOLES IN MY PLOT













Shit, this update.

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/24843339/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/24843339/ Tue, 19 May 2009 16:53:07 PDT ritabuuk, ~nothing2portend, and I partied at my house. Yesterday I slept. Shit is done. Thank god.

I got to meet Bill Westenhofer from Rhythm & Hues. He's cool. He was cooler than Rahm Emanuel, but that's because visual effects are cooler than politics to me. They were both good speakers. The engineering school graduation was way better because they kept telling us that we worked harder than all the fake majors and have superpowers and that we are a rare breed. I feel special. We got medals. Nice ones.

So now I got my BS in CS, soon I'll be back at NIH doing another internship, and then going for an MS in CS. Then, hopefully, it's onto a job in the game industry, as per my childhood dreams.

Life is pretty okay. Also this Sniper/Spy update is pretty fucking cool.

NEED TO UNPACK AND WORK ON TF2 COMIC AND COSPLAY FFFFFFFFFFF

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/24413430/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/24413430/ Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:51:29 PDT TinEye.com

STEP 1: FIND STOLEN IMAGES ON DEVIANTART
STEP 2: PASTE URL INTO TINEYE
STEP 3: ???
STEP 4: PROFIT.

SHIT IS AWESOME. REPORT EVERYTHING.

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Games Backlog
1. Sonic and the Secret Rings
2. Half-Life
3. Fire Emblem Path of Radiance
4. Okami
5. Quake 4
6. Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion

Art Backlogs
1. Art trade for *WhiteSnake
2. Journal request for ~Stacie-Yuriko
3. Journal request for ~TFDarkscream
4. Journal request for ~AmaiNeiko
5. Journal request for ~Stareon
6. The last RE Fun with Post-It Notes bits
7. Old QC porn for the lulz
8. some other shit

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/24209865/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/24209865/ Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:50:38 PDT HOLY SHIT YOU GUYS MY GAME WORKS ON AN XBOX360 I AM PLAYING RIGHT NOW THIS IS SO FUCKING COOL XNA IS AWESOME THANK YOU MICROSOFT FOR MAKING IT

I MADE AN XBOX GAME
I MADE AN XBOX GAME
I MADE AN XBOX GAME
I MADE AN XBOX GAME
I MADE AN XBOX GAME
I MADE AN XBOX GAME
I MADE AN XBOX GAME
I MADE AN XBOX GAME
I MADE AN XBOX GAME
I MADE AN XBOX GAME

HOLY SHIT THIS IS SO COOL GAME DEVELOPMENT IS AWESOME

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/24106162/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/24106162/ Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:18:07 PDT
Applied:
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
University of Toronto
University of Maryland, College Park
Rochester Institute of Technology
University of Pennsylvania

Accepted:
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
Rochester Institute of Technology
University of Pennsylvania

Money get:
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
Rochester Institute of Technology

And the winner is...














UMBC!

Full tuition teaching assistantship fuck year PLUS stipend. Also, it was one of my top choices anyway due to the computer graphics research going on there. Shaders and rendering YAY. Also, bonus drama get! More on that later (i.e. after the inevitable shitstorm that will happen on Passover). Free education, free money, and lulz--what more can you ask for?

Funny side note, I looked back in my old journals to see if I wrote about what school I picked for undergrad and looking over stuff that's more than a year old made me cringe. The stuff from high school is especially bad. Oh well, I was a teenager once too, though fucking hell it's embarrassing. I'm glad I finally learned how not to give a shit.

In other news, I've been working on art. HOLY SHIT RITE? I have some paintings I've done in class, some ceramics that I may or may not post, and another page of TF2 comic penciled. I also worked on a SEKRIT BREAK cosplay over spring break. I'm getting pretty sick of working on Louise, but I will finish it, I swear to god. I just need something easy to shake the lazy out of me and make it look like I am actually still a cosplayer. I haven't finished a single costume since high school. THANKS, ENGINEERING SCHOOL.

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Games Backlog
1. Sonic and the Secret Rings
2. Half-Life
3. Fire Emblem Path of Radiance
4. Okami
5. Quake 4
6. Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion

Art Backlogs
1. Art trade for *WhiteSnake
2. Journal request for ~Stacie-Yuriko
3. Journal request for ~TFDarkscream
4. Journal request for ~AmaiNeiko
5. Journal request for ~Stareon
6. The last RE Fun with Post-It Notes bits
7. Old QC porn for the lulz
8. some other shit

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/23635693/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/23635693/ Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:23:42 PDT
I've been doing nothing but Japanese for the past 3 days and it's like WHOA NOW CHANGE GEARS TO MOTHERFUCKING XNA. You can imagine how well that's going.

XMLがだいきらい。このゲームエンジーンが大変。FFFFFFFFF

GOD ALL I WANT TO DO IS DRAW MY GRATUITOUSLY VIOLENT TF2 COMIC AND PLAY VIDJA GAEMS AND SLEEP WHY CAN'T I DO THESE THINGS FUCK I WANT TO GRADUATE ALREADY

_{I even have 3 and a half pages drawn already ;o;}

In other news, I got into UPenn. TOO BAD I CAN'T PAY FOR IT LOL

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Games Backlog
1. Sonic and the Secret Rings
2. Fire Emblem Path of Radiance
3. Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion
4. Okami
5. Quake 4
6. Half-Life

Art Backlogs
1. Art trade for *WhiteSnake
2. Journal request for ~Stacie-Yuriko
3. Journal request for ~TFDarkscream
4. Journal request for ~AmaiNeiko
5. Journal request for ~Stareon
6. The last RE Fun with Post-It Notes bits
7. Old QC porn for the lulz
8. some other shit

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/23185138/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/23185138/ Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:25:04 PST














For those of you who aren't single, enjoy your Valentine's Day, but for the love of god, keep it to yourself. It's only 2 fucking hours in and I've already had 3 encounters with asshole couples. I hate PDA all year round, but this is just ridiculous.
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Games Backlog
1. Sonic and the Secret Rings
2. Fire Emblem Path of Radiance
3. Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion
4. Okami
5. Quake 4
6. Half-Life

Art Backlogs
1. Art trade for *WhiteSnake
2. Journal request for ~Stacie-Yuriko
3. Journal request for ~TFDarkscream
4. Journal request for ~AmaiNeiko
5. Journal request for ~Stareon
6. The last RE Fun with Post-It Notes bits
7. Old QC porn for the lulz
8. some other shit

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/22867658/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/22867658/ Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:53:51 PST YOU GUYS

I GOT IN SOMEWHERE

WITH MONEY

HOLY SHIT

YES PLEASE



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Games Backlog
1. Sonic and the Secret Rings
2. Fire Emblem Path of Radiance
3. Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion
4. Okami
5. Quake 4
6. Half-Life

Art Backlogs
1. Art trade for *WhiteSnake
2. Journal request for ~Stacie-Yuriko
3. Journal request for ~TFDarkscream
4. Journal request for ~AmaiNeiko
5. Journal request for ~Stareon
6. The last RE Fun with Post-It Notes bits
7. Old QC porn for the lulz
8. some other shit

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/22591614/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/22591614/ Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:59:40 PST
I've gotten a little better at TF2, now that I've gotten to practise a little. Unfortunately, with the beginning of school, all that's going to go straight to hell in about a week. Then I'll be a fukkin nub once again. Oh well, at least I have some achievements from the Medic and Pyro pack already. I want to be a better sniper since he's my favourite character and because I'm a good sniper in every other FPS ever, so I like that niche. Unfortunately, fucking everyone wants to be a sniper or a spy all the time and because I like to try to be credit to team, I will switch to classes my team actually needs more of, like medics and engineers. Hence, I haven't played the sniper as much as I'd like. Though, I've already gotten some headshots. I also got some backstabs the other day. I SUCK at the spy, but it is so satisfying when you do it rite.

Also, that srs bzns TF2 comic's script is in the works. I don't know when I'm going to have a chance to draw anything, but if I do, it's gonna be awesome.

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Games Backlog
1. Sonic and the Secret Rings
2. Fire Emblem Path of Radiance
3. Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion
4. Okami
5. Quake 4
6. Half-Life

Art Backlogs
1. Art trade for *WhiteSnake
2. Journal request for ~Stacie-Yuriko
3. Journal request for ~TFDarkscream
4. Journal request for ~AmaiNeiko
5. Journal request for ~Stareon
6. The last RE Fun with Post-It Notes bits
7. Old QC porn for the lulz
8. some other shit

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/22321949/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/22321949/ Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:21:57 PST




I'm done with that shit now. Thank god.





In other news, I want to write a srs bzns TF2 comic. HAHA LIKE THAT WILL EVER GET DONE. I like the Sniper. I got my first headshot the other night on an engineer. HEE HEE.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF gnight


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Games Backlog
1. Sonic and the Secret Rings
2. Fire Emblem Path of Radiance
3. Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion
4. Okami
5. Quake 4
6. Half-Life

Art Backlogs
1. Art trade for *WhiteSnake
2. Journal request for ~Stacie-Yuriko
3. Journal request for ~TFDarkscream
4. Journal request for ~AmaiNeiko
5. Journal request for ~Stareon
6. The last RE Fun with Post-It Notes bits
7. Old QC porn for the lulz
8. some other shit

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/22203784/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/22203784/ Fri, 26 Dec 2008 04:35:22 PST
BUT OH MY GOD IS TEAM FORTRESS 2 A FUCKING AWESOME GAME. I BET IT WILL BE EVEN BETTER WHEN I STOP SUCKING AT IT.

Also, Portal was fun. I'm also playing Half-Life properly now.

_{I'm never going to study for the GRE or get any work done on my game engine at this rate. ;o;}

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Games Backlog
1. Sonic and the Secret Rings
2. Fire Emblem Path of Radiance
3. Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion
4. Okami
5. Quake 4
6. Half-Life

Art Backlogs
1. Art trade for *WhiteSnake
2. Journal request for ~Stacie-Yuriko
3. Journal request for ~TFDarkscream
4. Journal request for ~AmaiNeiko
5. Journal request for ~Stareon
6. The last RE Fun with Post-It Notes bits
7. Old QC porn for the lulz
8. some other shit

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/21618097/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/21618097/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:11:44 PST
I can't wait until Chanukka. Thank god it's during winter break this year; the past 2 years have been total bullshit.

Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired.

Fuck school. I can't wait until I can finally get to making games for money instead of just a grade.

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Games Backlog
1. Sonic and the Secret Rings
2. Fire Emblem Path of Radiance
3. Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion
4. Okami
5. Quake 4
6. Half-Life
7. Portal

Art Backlogs
1. Art trade for *WhiteSnake
2. Journal request for ~Stacie-Yuriko
3. Journal request for ~TFDarkscream
4. Journal request for ~AmaiNeiko
5. Journal request for ~Stareon
6. The last RE Fun with Post-It Notes bits
7. Old QC porn for the lulz
8. some other shit

Link to the journal with refs for my own convenience: [link]

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/21331344/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/21331344/ Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:25:55 PST
AMERICA, FUCK YEAH!

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Games Backlog
1. Sonic and the Secret Rings
2. Fire Emblem Path of Radiance
3. Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion
4. Okami
5. Quake 4
6. Half-Life
7. Portal

Art Backlogs
1. Art trade for *WhiteSnake
2. Journal request for ~Stacie-Yuriko
3. Journal request for ~TFDarkscream
4. Journal request for ~amaineko
5. Journal request for ~Stareon
6. The last RE Fun with Post-It Notes bits
7. Old QC porn for the lulz
8. some other shit

Link to the journal with refs for my own convenience: [link]

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/21126787/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/21126787/ Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:20:57 PDT
Will wonders never cease?

I'd do the traditional reflection thing here except that I really don't have the time this year. Maybe when I graduate from school. Speaking of, I need to fill out my graduation preapproval forms

OSHI-

Gotta go do 3D.

EDIT: HAHA I FUCKED UP AND POSTED THIS EARLY I MUST BE GETTING SENILE LOLOLOLOLOL

So, 5 years since my junior year of high school and I'm finally starting to do what I've always wanted to do: make games. I can do 3D graphics programming now--a feat I thought unimaginable at 17. I can do 3D art and I've worked in the industry (at a network security startup over the summer). Unlike all my previous internships, this was the first one I wasn't itching to be done with. I'd say that's a sign that I've found the industry in which I belong.

This coming May, assuming I don't fuck up, I'll have a BS in computer science and I'll hopefully be heading off to grad school to get an MS. I've made a few really good friends that I hope I'll keep in touch with forever and though I still have the experience of a five year-old with that bullshit sack of lies people idiotically refer to as "love", I think I've learned how to better handle myself when dealing with stupid brain chemical things like that.

Hopefully we'll see an end to the Republican-controlled government fascist oligarchy that's been controlling the US since before I even joined this site in about a week. That said, people are stupid and many of those who aren't are evil. We'll see what happens.

So yeah. I'm still a cynical bitch, but I've learned a lot since I signed up here and since going off the university. I think, in general, things are pretty okay.

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Games Backlog
1. Sonic and the Secret Rings
2. Fire Emblem Path of Radiance
3. Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion
4. Okami
5. Quake 4
6. Half-Life
7. Portal

Art Backlogs
1. Art trade for *WhiteSnake
2. Journal request for ~Stacie-Yuriko
3. Journal request for ~TFDarkscream
4. Journal request for ~amaineko
5. Journal request for ~Stareon
6. The last RE Fun with Post-It Notes bits
7. Old QC porn for the lulz
8. some other shit

Link to the journal with refs for my own convenience: [link]

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/20971834/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/20971834/ Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:09:12 PDT
1. Making a 3D game in XNA (this semester)
2. Making a 3D game ENGINE in XNA (my year-long senior project)
3. Applying to graduate schools
4. Taking 3 other classes and TAing at the same time

The recent art posts are from my drawing class. I don't know when I'm going to have time to do pretty coloured things again. Maybe after I graduate from school.

In other news, I hope you all have been following the election. It's epic this time around. All I have time to say is that I support the candidate who supports a woman's right to choose, separation of church and state, health care, energy research, and science. I support the actually intelligent candidate (Obama, if you couldn't tell). McCain is against almost everything I stand for and Palin doesn't know her ass from a hole in the ground. I find her an insulting pick and the thought of her being president it genuinely terrifying. There's a reason why I'm looking at Canadian grad schools and it's not just because I like Canada. Don't forget to vote on November 4th if you're a US citizen.

Anyway, I'm going to relist my backlogs so I don't forget about them.

Games Backlog
1. Sonic and the Secret Rings
2. Fire Emblem Path of Radiance
3. Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion
4. Okami
5. Quake 4
6. Half-Life
7. Portal

Art Backlogs
1. Art trade for *WhiteSnake
2. Journal request for ~Stacie-Yuriko
3. Journal request for ~TFDarkscream
4. Journal request for ~amaineko
5. Journal request for ~Stareon
6. The last RE Fun with Post-It Notes bits
7. Old QC porn for the lulz
8. some other shit

Link to the journal with refs for my own convenience: [link]

By the way, have any of you ever come across something and gotten really into it before seeing or playing it? I for some reason am on a Team Fortress 2 kick, despite the fact that I don't yet have the game or the time to play it. It's kind of weird.

Anyway, I just wanted to check in. You may not hear from me again for a while.

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/18440830/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/18440830/ Thu, 22 May 2008 01:50:02 PDT
Anyway, here's my games backlog, followed by my art backlog:

1. Baten Kaitos Origins
2. Fire Emblem Sacred Stones
3. Fire Emblem Path of Radiance
4. Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion (should probably restart this too)
5. Okami
6. Sonic and the Secret Rings
7. Quake 4 (I seriously still haven't beaten this fucking game)
8. Half-Life (should probably restart)
9. Portal (I got almost to the end of this at Katsucon before we had to leave; I need to buy it)

I beat Assassin's Creed the other day and I'm about to beat I have beaten Minish Cap. Assassin's Creed was really fun and I want to play it again, but I'm going to hold off until I finish at least a few games from my backlog. The ending was really...wait what? It seemed rushed, though it certainly set up for a sequel.

Art backlog, including outstanding art trades and requests from that journal meme shit:
1. Art trade for *WhiteSnake
2. Gift art for ~TheKaiserin
3. Journal request for ~Stacie-Yuriko
4. Journal request for ~TFDarkscream
5. Journal request for ~amaineko
6. Journal request for ~Stareon
7. The last RE Fun with Post-It Notes bits
8. Old QC porn for the lulz
9. some other shit

Link to the journal with refs for my own convenience: [link]

I apologise for taking--in some cases--years to finish your art. As such, I am NEVER taking requests again. Like holy shit.

In other news, I'm working on a piece of 3D animation that I would like to not suck. It has my character, Alera, in it and it will involve fighting and badassery. I need to rethink the hair I think and maybe have the character model critiqued. The lighting and environment is shit and needs to be scrapped. Also, I need to actually, like, texture her skin properly. I'm so lazy about UVing and texturing. I hate it. HAHA DISREGARD THAT, MAKING A GAME ENGINE NAO.

I'm also going to be starting my senior design project soon because, apparently, the first 3 months of the first semester of senior design are spent dicking around with project proposals and Gantt charts and UML diagrams and other assorted bullshit. If I get that out of the way (and maybe some of the engine programming; I want to make a game engine), then I can have a less stressful senior year. Junior year was stressful enough, I'd like to have a little fun in college. Then it's grad school. I need to register for the goddamn GREs. Fuuuuuuuck. Took the GREs, did okay, probably going to take them again.

Anyway, yeah. I start work at a little startup in a few weeks. Got a job doing OpenGL and UI programming. I think it'll be pretty cool. I've started there and it's pretty fucking cool.

Let me know if I forgot your art in the backlog. I tried to get everyone, but I wouldn't be surprised if I forgot something. I'll know if you try to request something, though. I will see what you did there.



Enjoy your Thursday.

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/18330017/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/18330017/ Thu, 15 May 2008 01:15:16 PDT
Also, I do not recommend the Hair and Fur modifier unless you want your render times to be over 9000 hours. I do, however, recommend Multi-Sub Object materials. Those are AWESOME.

I gotta get this shit rendering.

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/18191295/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/18191295/ Tue, 06 May 2008 04:58:25 PDT
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I finished that 3D engine I was spazzing about in my last journal. It can load a mesh and texture it. Wheeee. Now I'm doing databases shit. I HATE PHP. It's a piece of shit and the docs suck. Need sleep, omg.

Finals rape time starts tomorrow. Fuuuuuuuck

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/18058797/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/18058797/ Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:59:59 PDT
A shitty one.

In C++ and OpenGL.

Poorly.

Somebody please shoot me.

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/17567500/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/17567500/ Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:38:56 PDT
Hopefully I'll start hearing from different companies about internships soon so I can start looking at graduate schools. GREs, oh god. I need to do a second sweep of the game industry now that some time has passed and I know a lot more, like OpenGL and 3ds Max and a little MotionBuilder.

Class registration is soon. God help me if I can't get Japanese again. Fucking databases. The CS department clearly haets me.

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/17381420/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/17381420/ Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:03:47 PDT
Thursday: I got to do motion capture for the first time. It was really, really, ridiculously fun. I highly recommend getting 19 reflective plastic balls taped all over your body and jumping around under 8 cameras. It was really cool seeing the biped reflect my real-time movements. It was sort of mesmerizing.

Friday: I went to New York with my family and saw Spamalot with my dad. I saw it a few years ago in DC and this show was just as awesome. My hadn't seen it yet, though, and my sister hadn't seen Avenue Q (which I saw with ~ritabuuk over winter break and my mom and dad have already seen), so my sister went with my mom to see that. Then we ate at one of Bobby Flay's restaurants, which was great for everyone else, but merely okay for me because they don't really cater to vegetarians. The fries were good though.

Saturday: I applied to 3 internships at Pixar. I had started the applications before, but I actually submitted them plus my demo reel and portfolio on Saturday. I'm trying not to get my hopes up, but I might get one of the software development internships. I also saw Young Frankenstein, which was good, but I think the movie's better. Then we went to the Met and saw the musical instruments exhibit, which was really cool, as well as the Egyptian temple, Japanese art, and part of a temporary exhibit on Poussin's work. Then we ate at one of Mario Batali's restaurants, Babbo, which was INCREDIBLE. Oh my god. Everything was so good.

Sunday: We went to this exhibit at the Morgan Library about drawings from the Uffizi. There were a few of Michelangelo's drawings, but most of them were his contemporaries. It was a beautiful exhibit though. It got me wanting to draw moar. >:] We took the train home, which was delayed, but not for that long.

Today I sent the hardcopy part of my Pixar application, so hopefully they either don't care or don't get to mine until it gets there. I mean, I probably won't get the Technical Director internship anyway, but I guess it was worth a try. Everybody wish me luck!

Now it is my intention to play video games for several hours. Actually, it's more like my intention to do 3D for several hours, but it's sort of in the same vein, amirite?

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/17173640/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/17173640/ Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:29:45 PST
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I have an idea for the last one. It will be special. A fitting end to the series, I hope.

...

In other news, I don't wanna do databases. They're boring.

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/17074576/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/17074576/ Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:08:39 PST
Also, while I am enjoying the new collections feature because it lets me organise my favourites and crap, there is some SERIOUS server-side fail leaking into the tubes:

-I don't know what dA's backend uses, but every so often when I'm browsing, I will get a page of garbage for no reason.

-Sometimes the images will not be called forth from their servers and I get a page full of placeholders. I must reload 3 or 4 times.

-Sometimes when I do that, I get an error saying that I am submitting POSTDATA, which is something I've never seen happen on dA before outside of login errors.

-I must hit the back button twice when navigating away from a collection back into Browse.

-There also appears to be some kind of memory leak or fucked up javascript or something because I've had Firefox crash by eating up tons of memory more times in the last week or so than I've ever seen before in my life.

Functionality aside, I am annoyed about placement of ads right in the middle of galleries. I use an adblocker anyway so I don't see the ads (and when I do see an ad, I manually block the domain name of the ad's host), but the placeholder is still there and it breaks the formatting of the page. It looks horrible. Put more ads if you want, but at least put them in frames so I can block the frames. Leave banner ads as banners for god's sake. This is an art site, where are your web designers?

I would go into all the other design issues of this site, but it's rape week, so I need to study for 3 midterms, make a presentation for my graphics programming class, and finish a project for said class.

By the way, if you find art with a saturated colour palette and isn't faved by the whole internet already, please direct me to it. I want to keep hoarding shiny things for my Saturated Colours collection.

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/16776188/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/16776188/ Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:52:02 PST
I GOT ANDY ROSS'S GUITAR PICK FUCK YEAH.

There were a bunch of other vultures trying to get the last pick he'd left up on stage after they'd left. Eventually, a 9:30 Club staff member came over to untape the setlists from the stage and clean up. She handed the pick to me because I asked nicely. Those girls were shooting daggers at me with their eyes. LOL.

Moral of the story: asking nicely will get you nice things.

I felt even better after overhearing some other girls talking about how the opening band was "ok". You can like or dislike a band, but Bonerama was a good act. The sound equipment had some issues for the entire show, but they have talent and skill. They are much more than merely "ok". I can't tell you how sick I am of people with no appreciation for musical skill beyond their own tastes.

In other news, school has consumed me again this semester. Raep raep raep raep raep. I might post some stuff from my drawing class if I can get someone to photograph it. It's way too big for my scanner. Anyway I have to do physics and databases and make another tutorial for computer animation and blahblahblahblahblah. Lol sleep.

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/16576264/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/16576264/ Sat, 26 Jan 2008 04:52:59 PST
Well I did eat some of those liquor-laced chocolates and I get to pick out the wine at dinner tonight, but unfortunately, my liver's closed, due to methotrexate. Honestly, though, I'd rather not drink, take the arthritis meds, and have no pain, rather than the reverse. Fuck RA.

Thanks for the birthday copypasta from whomever posts it.

I may be getting an atomic solar watch for my birthday. I want one of the Oceanus men's watches because they can get updates from all 4 of the atomic clock radio transmitters (US, UK, Germany, and Japan), whereas the women's watch can only receive updates from the US and Japan radio transmitters. I'll go with the men's watch if it's not too clunky and ridiculous looking (or too expensive), but if it's way too big on my wrist, I'll probably go with the white-dial women's watch. Atomic is awesome; though it sounds like the signal can sometimes be flaky due to interference, it means I don't have to set my watch manually. I hate setting clocks and other timekeeping devices, so this thing makes me excite.

In other news, my drawing class is awesome. I've gotten to draw from 2 nude models so far and it's been really interesting. The professor is awesome and I think I'm really going to get a lot out of the class.

Also, I'm going to see OK Go next weekend. I AM EXCITE.

g2g need sleep

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/16439910/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/16439910/ Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:19:15 PST
Oh my god I'm so burnt out and the semester just started. I'm TAing for a class and taking A Rape Physics. My poor GPA will be violated again this semester if I'm not careful.

DID YOU KNOW THAT ALL COMPUTER SCIENCE MAJORS ARE AWKWARD? IT IS A TRUE FACT AND CAN BE PROVEN SCIENTIFICALLY, MATHEMATICALLY, AND GRAMMATICALLY.

Enjoy your AIDS.

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/16294442/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/16294442/ Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:00:55 PST
My dad got a HUEGbox 360 for the house so we could play Guitar Hero 3 because he couldn't find any copies for the Wii. Guitar Hero is fun and I'm helping develop a game for the HUEGbox 360 anyway, so I don't feel so bad, even though I can't say we're a Nintendo family anymore. I also got a Triforce DS and Phantom Hourglass for Chanukka. Much rejoicing on my part took place.

Now I'm back, after seeing Avenue Q and visiting my friend ~ritabuuk. Yaaaay

I don't really feel like writing anything else. Sorry if you were wondering why I dropped off the face of the earth. Now you have your answer: I forgot my laptop AC adapter and was too lazy to hook up my desktop. 8D

I'mma go play some Assassin's Creed and stab some guys in the neck. :]

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/15915054/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/15915054/ Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:28:26 PST
So, the semester is coming to an end. I finally have a little time to breathe. I got back from my Japanese final a little while ago, I had my algorithms final already (good riddance), the animation festival was a couple of days ago, and I'm now bullshitting a paper for my calligraphy class. All that's left after that is my final project for operating systems and my final for computability theory. Hopefully I didn't do atrociously in algorithms and the curve is generous in computability theory, otherwise, everything appears to be turning out okay.

I'll try to upload my animation or at least link off to it so you can watch it. It's kind of rough around the edges, but it was my first time in 3ds Max and I think I did relatively well given the time frame and my experience level.

A couple of nights ago I saw CAKE again with ~ritabuuk. God that band is awesome. I was hoping they would play "Nugget" this time, but they played "Love You Madly" which is my second favourite song of theirs so it was okay. They gave away a tree. Apparently they're doing that at every concert on their tour this year, which I think is pretty cool. Some of the people in the audience were real assholes, like the guy in the seat next to me. He was ogling me the entire concert with his girlfriend right next to him. I hope she dumps him. What a luser. There was also this really creepy guy in the front row (we had REALLY good seats, 3rd row from the stage) who kept yelling "pussy" at one of the opening act's lead singers (she was kind of creeped out by him, understandably so, though she did play along with it a little) and kept obstructing the view of the stage during CAKE's performance. I'm surprised John McCrea didn't tell him to gtfo, though I guess security was doing a fairly good job of that anyway. Overall, the concert was awesome, though I think I like seeing them at the 9:30 Club better.

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/15658066/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/15658066/ Sun, 25 Nov 2007 00:50:21 PST I hate UVW mapping.
I hate UVW mapping.
I hate UVW mapping.
I hate UVW mapping.
I hate UVW mapping.
I hate UVW mapping.
I hate UVW mapping.
I hate UVW mapping.
I hate UVW mapping.

Here comes the deadline crunch. I'm going to die. I just hope I can get my animation done and not fail all my other classes. Oh god, this semester has been a living hell. Also, I think I finally have to take the second half of hardcore physics next semester. Someone please shoot me.

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Fuck you and die, GW. Stop being such fucking poseurs with your fratfucks, sorostitutes, and hippo trying to rip off the turtle. You are NOT cool. If I don't fail out or kill myself, I will take my degree and run, thank you very fucking much. Now do you know why engineers are misanthropic, lazy, hate-everythings? Because college raeps us. Grad school will be better- OWAIT. That's what I said about college. So it's gonna suck. Great.

Gnight.

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/15264851/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/15264851/ Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:57:18 PDT
It's sad, but I find myself becoming one of those crotchety old "Ohhh DA was so much better back in the day" people. Well, I must say, it's kind of true. There's so much drama and shit going on now and it really is sad to see this place turn into such a slum. Quality is scarce and fantardery and furfaggotry have taken over. Oh well. I don't plan on abandoning this account any time soon, so I guess it will be interesting to see how this places ages over the next few years.

I think I normally take this opportunity to reflect or something. I dunno, I haven't looked at my old journals in a while. I don't really feel like it this year though. 2006 was pretty shitty and 2007 hasn't been anything special either. I will say that I am more pessimistic about human nature than I used to be. Everyone in their teens says "oh, I hate everyone" or some kind of emo shit like that, myself included. Except for my very close friends and a few odd people here and there, people really are horrible, incompetent, selfish, and catty.

On a more positive note, I do realise just how much I know compared to when I entered college. I can program well in 2 different languages, fairly easily read any other C-like language, I know about the underlying structures in a processor and I'm learning about the constructs laid over them with operating systems. I know how to do low-poly modeling, I can write and speak fairly well in Japanese, and I know some pretty obscure math. It will be interesting to look back on undergrad from grad school.

Anyway, I need to get back to modeling my characters for 181. See you guys.

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/14974144/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/14974144/ Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:40:49 PDT
I have a test tomorrow in CS 150, a Japanese interview on Wednesday, homework due in both 156 and 150 for Thursday, a project in 156 due for next week (which I haven't started yet), storyboards to get done for 181, 151 homework for Sunday (in which the professor is an epic asshole) and on top of that I have to practise calligraphy and get a detailed design doc done for game development club.

Dear god, please kill me.

Anyway, don't expect jack shit out of me for like 3 months, maybe more. If I upload something, rejoice! It's either coming from 181 or calligraphy or hell has frozen over. Anyway, see you guys after I try not to fail school. I'll be a-lurkin.

<3

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/14514014/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/14514014/ Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:55:26 PDT
Actually, I have the best professor ever. No seriously, EVER. My computer animation professor is so awesome. She worked on South Park. SOUTH PARK. I'm seriously not shitting you. She's also definitely the coolest person ever besides that. I'm really, really, really excited for this class.

I also have an adorable Japanese professor. She made us a song about direct verb te-forms and we had to learn it and sing it in class. If my Hebrew teachers in high school were that cool, I would be a fluent speaker.

My operating systems professor seems pretty cool, though I've heard that his class is a lot of work and I'm a retard again this semester and taking 6 classes. My computability theory professor seems nice, but her lectures are kind of all over the place. The only classes I haven't had yet are East Asian Calligraphy (which I've heard is fun and an easy A) and Algorithms and Data Structures II. I had the same professor for that class last semester where I had to do a huge web development project and write shit. It was a stupid class. This one is more CS-related, but I dunno how it's going to be yet. The books are apparently optional so I'm not buying them. Fuck that, they're too expensive.

Anyway, I'm working from the engineering building right now because the internet connection in my room is fucking broken and it has been since I moved in. GG, STS, GG. They should be in my room as I type this fixing it. Hopefully they get that shit working because I can't live like this. NEED INTERNETS.

For those of you who care, once my mom is done giving meaningful names to all the Scotland pictures, I'm going to put them up on Flickr. I've never used Flickr, but it'll be an experiment. WHAT WILL YOU DO??

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/13892706/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/13892706/ Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:47:32 PDT
I taught myself some music theory. I feel smarter.

Otakon was fun. Hi, ~spookymeggie!

KTHXBYE! <3

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/13703215/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/13703215/ Thu, 12 Jul 2007 02:28:44 PDT
Whatever, now I get to go back to my batshit insane nocturnal routine. Internets, music, drawing, and cosplay have been on the menu this week. I picked up my guitar again after like 6 months or something; it felt weird, but primarily because my fretting hand fingers don't have their calluses on them anymore.

My new thing seems to be Gorillaz. Wtf is an appropriate response, I would say, but I have a weakness for animuted things. Bleh, the fanbase scares me though. Now I think I know what I used to act like when I was in middle school. Jesus. I might draw some fanart of them at some point.

I think I'm depressed or something. Maybe it's a side effect of the RA, but I can't focus on anything and I'm tired all the time. I need to remember to take my folic acid. Fucking methotrexate. Shit.

Either that or shit luck and my relatives and their unceasing harping on the issue of guys. I mean really, I wish they'd fuck off. My only love is BlueRaven; computers are predictable and you can turn them off when they're being shitty. Humans don't like me anyway.

I think we should make a cartoon band. It seemed to work well for Albarn and Hewlett. I just need to make sure they aren't too animu and I have to stop sucking at guitar.

I hate summer. It's too hot.

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/13554390/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/13554390/ Sat, 30 Jun 2007 17:05:08 PDT B-Sides and Rarities album at least 100 years ago, and it finally came sometime this week while I was away at camp.

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG. I love CAKE. Their cover of "War Pigs" is awesome.

I think when my job is over (or I quit, whichever comes first) I'm going to try my hand at modding Oblivion. How awesome would a Skies of Arcadia mod be?

I can't wait to go to Scotland. I can't wait to go to Scotland. I can't wait to go to Scotland. I can't wait to go to Scotland. I can't wait to go to Scotland. I can't wait to go to Scotland. I can't wait to go to Scotland. I can't wait to go to Scotland. I can't wait to go to Scotland.

Also, Otakon. Though I probably won't have time to work on my costume at all (unless I quit my job).

Anyway, I'm going to enjoy what little of my weekend I have left. For great justice.

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/13310346/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/13310346/ Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:33:37 PDT
I don't even care if what I say here fucks me up. I can't fuck it up much worse anyway. Here's the story for the last couple of weeks:

1. I had a training session for camp.
-1a. I met a guy there. I like him.
-1b. I realised that camp is gonna suck bad.

2. I emailed said guy.
-2a. No response, probably because I'm a weirdo.
-2b. I have shit luck.

3. I looked for an industry job.
-3a. I found an internship and applied for it.
-3b. They liked my resume. (that was the silver dragon from my last entry)
-3c. The phone interview went well.
-3d. Scheduling was fucked up.
-3e. I can't take time off school, so they said I could try next spring.
_{--3ei. I guess this isn't the worst outcome, since I guess I do have a foot in the door at least.}

4. I'm stuck with this camp job.
-4a. I'm none too pleased.

5. My 4GB of new RAM came!
-5a. I was happy. I love hardware <3
-5b. I successfully installed my pretty new Corsair RAM.
-5c. I turned on BlueRaven and checked my specs.
-5d. Windows only saw 3GB.
-5e. I wasted about 3 hours trying to figure out how to update my BIOS.
_{--5ei. That didn't work because none of ASUS's directions for doing so work.}
-5f. I ended up sending Microsoft a help ticket about it.
_{--5fi. Turns out Microsoft is a bunch of retards and their OSes aren't smart enough to see all 4GB. Fuckers.}

6. June 12th is Genevieve's birthday. She would have been 14 today.

I predicted every single one of the genuinely bad outcomes. Why? I am a pessimist. No matter how well things seem to be going, they will inevitably go badly. If they don't, well that is the best time ever to be wrong.

Dear god, something, someone, please surprise me. I'm sick of being right.

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/13209184/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/13209184/ Sun, 03 Jun 2007 23:54:25 PDT You'd better believe it.

I think I'll make my own website soon. I need to use the SEAS webhosting anyway before I graduate. Heehee bandwidth. How do I Flashed web? I like memes.

This place isn't really where I want to be directing employers anyway. It's more of an art blog. That doesn't mean I won't keep updating it, but it's definitely going to be just for fun as I head into the professional work phase of my life. I've been clogging this tube since before the internets were pluralised, I think. Yeah, I've had this account since 11th grade. Weird.

Ugh I don't want to do anything these days. I keep waiting for emails from unicorns and fairies and imaginary silver dragons. I like dragons. Do you like dragons? I think I've been using my journal as an artform for too long. You people must think I'm all insane. Well, I'll tell you this: I enjoy soundwaves because they tell me when the slugs are going to crawl under my house and explode. I did not employ a snail chariot. That's not my job.

I am NOT, I repeat, NOT sleep deprived. Yet. But my bandwidth hath dried up like a river unto the vast and empty desert. Fucking residential DSL. I miss GW's fiber optic network. Fuck the copper wire. Didn't you know? If glass and copper got into a fight, glass would win. COPPER IS SOFT AND MELTS HAHAHAHA. Glass would just shatter and cut copper in the face. Also cocks.

C++!!! I need to learn it. Java can fuck itself up sideways. You know what's funny? Brainfuck. I swear to god it's a real programming language! Maybe I'll program something in it if I get in a masochistic mood and you guys can download it and run it. It will probably do something totally stupid. At least it's a compiled language so you don't have to download some retarded interpreter. You know, like with Java. I think we should all dip cookies in some Java and then delete it from our computers. Sourceforge will give your computer VD anyway.

ALSO I AM A PIRATE KING. LIKE SRSLY. JUST LIKE IN THE MOVIE.

I need to stop listening to this playlist.

EDIT: I GOT AN EMAIL FROM A SILVER DRAGON. TEE HEE. I AM EXCITE.

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/13117633/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/13117633/ Sun, 27 May 2007 20:39:23 PDT
I'm working at a tech camp this summer and all I have to say really is "lol what?". Now I have no idea what to think. Are we teaching game design or are we being OMG HAPPY COUNSELORS!!!!11ONE

Whatever, it should still be fun. Nerding out over game design is what I do best.

In other news, HOLY SHIT MY ETERNAL ARCADIA LIMITED BOX CAME. Normally I'm not such an otaku, but I wanted the artbook and I did really well this semester, so I decided to reward myself. ARRRRRTBOOOOOK. God, I'm such a nerd ;o;

I'm tired. Maybe I'll edit this more later. I'mma go draw some shit and then slip into a coma and die ^^.

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/13020130/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/13020130/ Sun, 20 May 2007 01:04:56 PDT
Right.

Fucking.

Now.

Right, so anyway, I'm a goddamn nerd. I started a Japanese blog the other day as my Eternal Arcadia Drama CD translation project hub. You may lol now, but I will finish it! It may take me a really long time, but I will fucking finish it! For the good of the people.

信じるよ！！

I need to do so much crap and I just don't want to do any of it. Maybe it's because my arthritis came back and is going to take a couple of weeks to gtfo again. It was a dumb move on the whole. I was backed down to 4 methotrexates like 6, maybe 8 weeks ago. So, of course, my arthritis came back just in time for finals! Oh joyous timing! It's getting better, now that I've gone back up to 6, but I feel like I should just stay there indefinitely. I will take the pills, and even the horrible blood tests, if I can sit for more than 20 minutes without my hips hurting or play video games for hours on end without my joints stiffening up or blah blah blah blah old lady joints on a 20 year old. It fucking sucks. GG, immune system. STFU.

Right, but about all the crap I have to do; I have to learn 3 game engines (Torque Game Builder, BeyondVirtual, and MultimediaStudio) for camp, finish 551262462462 pieces of backlogged fanart and shit from forever ago, finish my Louise costume, start my Yoshino costume, stay on top of my Japanese, AND I'm taking an online summer course from my university to get rid of my last bullshit social science credit. Fgskds. I hate those goddamn requirements. I just want to take computer science and art and Japanese ;;;;o;;;;! Fuck everything else.

I should go to sleep 3 hours ago. Before I do, if you can get fansubbed Digimon Savers (and you might not be able to as easily as before), you should watch it. Do it before you see any of its raped manifestation. Dear god, why do so many good series get ruined by shitty localisation and piss poor dubbing? Everyone should just watch it subbed.

Fuck, I really need to go to bed.

おやすみ

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/12857463/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/12857463/ Sat, 05 May 2007 21:47:38 PDT
That's what happens when your C program tells you that it's fucking broken. So broken that it had to dump out all the contents of its program stack. Usually this is due to fucked up pointers.

Well I'm coming to the end of my sophomore year and I'm really happy about that. I just uploaded most of the crap I've been working on in my art classes all semester.

Summer is coming, thank the gods. I'm going to be teaching game design at a tech camp. That should be fun, I guess.

I beat Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean yesterday. Beautiful game, if a little flawed in places. It's not Skies of Arcadia, but it's certainly worth playing, especially if you're into RPGs. I identify with Xelha way too fucking much.

Anyway, are any of you Anonymous going to Otakon? We may need some people for a Digimon Savers cosplay group.

Shell closed.

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/12164267/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/12164267/ Tue, 13 Mar 2007 01:49:23 PDT
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In other news, Icetigris is taking a semi-break from internets for a while. I have too much fucking work, most of which Lappy can't fucking handle.

Everyone else around me seems to be getting shiny new laptops. Not that I should complain, my desktop is a gorgeous, high-powered rig, but I can't bring it home with me on short breaks such as this one.

I beat Katamari today. Yay.

Fucking Painter. I should go to sleep. I don't really want to look at my horrible, ugly art that I need to go back and salvage now anyway. Fucking shitpot fucker douche fuck. There are no words. I am apoplectic.

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/11898881/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/11898881/ Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:58:15 PST INTERNETS!!1

So I went to Katsucon this past weekend and had a happy time of cosplay and some jibblies. Remember kids, the iron is your friend. Also, unfinished hems are NOT okay.

But I digress.

I didn't get a whole lot, just some doujin and some Ramune (that shit is awesome, by the way, and I hate soda). I had a nice conversation with a guy at the import games stand in the dealers' room. He had this RIDICULOUS Fire Emblem Thracia 776 collector's set. It was $300, so there's no way in hell I'd buy it (RAM > box sets), but it was really cool to see someone who was a fan of Fire Emblem and actually knew about it before it was released here.

I met some cool guys, including ~blksoulalchemst, who go to VCU. I'm hoping I can con all of them into Skies of Arcadia cosplay at some point >8D. I also saw ~TheKaiserin at the con. She conned me into doing Digimon cosplay, but it was at least part of an agreement to get her to cosplay from Skies of Arcadia. I will have my SoA group, goddammit.

In other news:

I won a whole lot of internets the other day, but today I learned about the actual internet from a guy from AOHell. It was actually really interesting. He came in and talked about all of the server-side issues with scaling large, high-traffic websites like Mapquest. He talked about SLBs (server load balancing devices), using multiple servers and sessions, Apache, and what a server farm's physical setup is like. I'm a graphics girl by far, but this speaker sparked some interest in databases and network operations for me. This is why CS is fucking sweet. I'M A NERD.

On the other hand, architecture is going to fuck all of us really hard this week. I have a midterm on Thursday and let me tell you, binary division is analogous to being bent over the table, etc. Also, fuck MIPS. I hate assembly and we have to translate [buggy!] C code into MIPS. It's made of fail and AIDS.

LOLOLOL no brain. I'm going on like no sleep.

Also!

Art update:
I haven't forgotten about the requests meme thing. I'll do them at some point, but right now I'm working on art for my advanced digital art class. Due to the ToS here, though, I do not intend to upload nice versions of it here. Small, heavily watermarked versions may or may not become available. Look to y!gallery for some of them or a personal portfolio page I will post at a later date. My characters will not be raeped, kthx.

Lesson: don't take 19 credits. It's a bad idea.

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Lol what--POLITICS.

I haven't had a good rant in a long damn time. Like probably since before we took back the House. Oh man am I glad the Republicans aren't in the majority anymore, those sick fucks. If you've been reading about the non-binding resolution, I'm glad to see everything that's happening. This war is so fucked up.

I can't wait until the Republicans lose all their power. As long as the Democrats don't fuck up too much, we will see the end of all the bullshit that the Bush administration started. I really hope they legalise gay marriage and stop trying to ban abortion. I am so sick of all that shit. Fucking neo-Cons, hypocrites, every one. We have such a huge national deficit sinkhole to pull ourselves out of, oh my god.

The first thing that needs to happen is to stop subsidising the fucking oil companies. Then we need to fix all the environmental acts, including the Clean Water and Clean Air Acts and the Endangered Species Act that the Bush administration gutted for the purposes of funding their little oil company fuckbuddies. Then we need to really make the switch to clean, sustainable energy.

We need sugar cane ethanol. Corn ethanol is a joke. Did you know that it takes 1 to 1.25 gallons of petroleum to make 1 gallon of corn ethanol? Why don't we buy Brazilian sugar cane ethanol? Because there's a huge tariff on it because the oil companies don't want to lose their money to a hugely in-demand alternative fuel source. If we can lift those tariffs and convert some very large truck fleet, like UPS or something, to Flexfuel vehicles, we can build an infrastructure for ethanol and then start running cars on it. Also, the electric car is not far off. Tesla Motors released their Tesla Roadster a few months ago and it has flown out of their showrooms. When they release a sedan that I can afford, I'm totally getting one.

Oh I could go on forever about this. I'm such a treehugger.

In other political news, Tennessee can go fuck itself. Proposed legislation would require a death certificate for every aborted fetus. The only real point of this is, of course, to identify women who have had abortions.... ]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/11571916/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/11571916/ Fri, 26 Jan 2007 02:29:33 PST
Kind of weird being 2 decades old. One more year until I'm legal to drink in the States. Whee. Rheumatoid arthritis meds killed that fun. Oh well, I'm not into that shit anyway. I'm so fucking sXe.

At any rate, ~ritabuuk got me Katamari Damacy! HOLY CRAP THAT GAME IS FUN. It's so weird and drugged up, and so fun to play.

Also, I beat Kingdom Hearts 2 the other day. Seriously, what the fuck. That game is so overrated. There may be a few well-designed characters, but the "story" is so batshit insane/contrived/nonexistent and the gameplay is so uninspired, I honestly don't know what all the fucking fuss is about. Play Zelda instead. If you need an RPG, play Skies of Arcadia. Kingdom Hearts is for noobs.

So far, so good for this semester. I'm taking 2 studio art classes (one is being taught under the CS department so it's technically a CS class), 2 CS classes, one psych class (visual perception, none of that 101 shit), and Japanese. It's a little nuts because of the extra class, but I think the hardest class is going to be my CS 136 class, which is Computer Architecture 2. MIPS assembly != fun. Actually, assembly language in general is not fun. And then there's CS 147, Team Software Development, which is a writing and programming class, where there are too many kids and too many asshats. I hope I don't start killing my group members in the face. They're okay kids, though; I should be able to deal with it.

It's still early in the semester, though, so we'll see what happens.

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/11418063/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/11418063/ Sat, 13 Jan 2007 04:18:56 PST
But first:

Don't spam my user page. I will report you.

I will copypasta this a bunch of times so I can make myself clear.

Don't spam my user page. I will report you.
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Okay, now that that's out of the way, back to my stack dumping.

I've been having dreams about the 3 things that have been bothering me most the past year or so, and they aren't going away. They repeat in this horrible cycle that won't end unless I get really obsessed with something the way I used to when I was in high school, but even that only helps for a night or so. The dreams themselves aren't nightmares per se, but when I wake up, I end up being caught up in the thoughts of whatever the subject of my dream was that night for most of the rest of the day. I know this is only going to get worse at school because at least at home, I can read the newspaper or work on my costume or play video games, but at school, I have to work and I have to see one of the things that has been bothering me on a nigh daily basis. I really hope I don't have some retarded rediscovering of god or some shit like that. Maybe when we finally rescue a dog I can be normal again.

Speaking of which, my mom and I have wasted hours of time looking at the Australian Shepherd rescue website. We want to rescue an Aussie to honour Genevieve's memory, seeing as she was an Aussie and we love the breed. I've realised since she died that I'm someone who really needs a dog to stay balanced.

Anyway, for those of you who are still waiting on ancient trades, giftart, and requests from that one time I did that journal thing, I am doing them, but very slowly because of a combination of working on my costume, latent side effects from being tormented (god, I'm so fucking emo) about stuff from my dreams, and general laziness from being so overworked last semester. Believe me, if you decide to major in anything in the applied sciences, you too will not want to do jack shit when you have a break.

I need to get some more RAM for BlueRaven for 3ds Max to run more smoothly. I had an incident where I ran out of memory and I lost what I was working on, though I suspect that may have been the result of a Winamp plugin with a memory leak. Functionally, the plugin is great, it's called the Enhancer, but if you leave it running for too long, it will crash Winamp. It had been running for a while before 3ds Max told me it was out of memory and crashed, and both Winamp and 3ds Max crashed at the same time, so I believe the plugin has a memory leak. At any rate, I'd like to get at least another gigabyte of RAM for BlueRaven (probably as 2x512MB), though 4GB would be ideal. The problem with that is that I currently have 1GB in the form of 2x512MB, so I'd have to buy the full 4GB, rather than just 3GB more, unless I do some weird deal with a 2GB stick and a 1GB stick, but I have a feeling that wouldn't be as fast as just getting 2 presynched sets of 2x1GB. Does anyone know if that belief is unfounded or not? Please let me know if you know anything about relative speeds of synched versus unsynched RAM.

At any rate, I should probably pretend I'm asleep. People are going to start stirring pretty soon.

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/11216053/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/11216053/ Wed, 27 Dec 2006 20:52:08 PST
Fucking awesome game, though I still maintain that Ocarina of Time is the best game ever made. Waaaaaay better than Wind Waker, though. The graphics are certainly the best the series has ever seen and I'm looking forward to the next 3d installment (the next 2d one as well). <3

Chanukka was pretty sweet the last few days. I got 3ds Max so I'm all like naobivhreaobhgiqwheorighowgheghWHEEEEE. I need to learn how to use it, but when I do, expect some renders.

Holy shit this semester was ridiculous. I worked my ass off, lost stupid amounts of sleep, had basically no life, but I emerged victorious! I got the highest grade on the final (98%) in Software Engineering and I got an A- in both Japanese and art. I ended up with a B in Computer Architecture and I passed my fucking disastrous discrete structures class, so I'm pretty happy.

I saw Happy Feet and Night at the Museum (the former on Christmas, the latter yesterday). Both are quality films.

Christmas was a freakshow, as usual, with this year's attractions being a hugeass argument over illegal immigrants and the new popular activity of prying into my personal life. It's so fucking creepy, oh my god. They ask me if I've "met any nice guys" and I'm like fuck no, I don't have time for that shit, but I respond with "no, and it's not really one of my priorities". Then, later on, they bring up this Indian guy from the UK that I met briefly over the summer again and were like "oh, he would love to go out with you". JESUS FUCKING CHRIST, the guy gave me his number, I didn't call him because I don't fucking KNOW him or liked him after talking to him for all of 2 hours, and that should have been the end of it. But NOOOO. I really wish people would just leave me the fuck alone when it comes to guys. If I ever find an acceptable one, it'll probably be after college when I might have a life again. Also, that's when hell will freeze over.

I hate Christmas, I wish I didn't have to go anymore. I didn't get much for it, just a check (going into the new RAM fund), and some cheapass perfume that I think my mom will give to charity or something. I hate perfume.

Anyway, so now I have to start playing Elder Scrolls Oblivion, beat KH2 (ugh), and beat Fire Emblem 8 and 9.

I gotta finish my costume...

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/11054514/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/11054514/ Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:18:48 PST
Just to let you all know: I am alive for now, though finals are not over and grades aren't in yet. We'll see if that's still true afterwards.

News flash: I did get a Wii on launch. I have been playing Zelda when not working my ass off. Link is hot.

Oh god, somebody please shoot me.

Also: My life summed up in a panel (panel 3).

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/10766020/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/10766020/ Sat, 18 Nov 2006 11:40:53 PST
I remember when we first got Genevieve, she was a 12 week-old pure-bred Australian Shepherd puppy. Her name was originally Beth, but she took to the name Genevieve very quickly. Do you know the reference? She was named after the dog in Madeline's Rescue which, if you can believe it, was one of my favourite books as a little kid. I was in first grade at the time. She was always a really happy puppy, if a little skittish at silly things. She was always afraid of the car. It funny because as she got older, she started to freak out over other silly things like the washer, the dryer, and the toaster. She hated dings, so when one of us got a text message or a voicemail on our cellphones, she'd freak.

She was always the youngest-acting dog we knew up until the end. She bounced and ran and barked up until the last week of her life. She had the most expressive face and would always look you in the eye. She was hilarious when she would give you her "wtf" look. When she'd listen to you talk, she'd listen intently, cock her head from side to side, and bite her lip. When she was really happy to see you, she'd grin. I will never forget her little tushie-tail wag.

Genevieve and I grew up together and for almost every single milestone I've had for my entire life thus far, Genevieve has been there. She was there when I had my Bat Mitzvah, she was there when I graduated from high school, and she was there when I was accepted to and went off to college. It's going to be really hard coming home to a house without Genevieve. When I came back today, I saw her toys in the basket that she used to pick them from and I remembered that those had once been my toys too. Pooh Bear, Tigger, Piglet, and Eyeore. Eyeore was always her favourite.

I've never lost a family member before. This is the worst day of my life so far.

Requiescat in pace, Genevieve, pet, family member, friend.
June 12th, 1993 - November 18th, 2006

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/10528403/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/10528403/ Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:40:24 PDT
I came here as a junior in high school and now I'm a sophmore in college. That's kind of a surreal thought, I guess. I've changed a lot as a person, though I'm not sure it's been for the better or not; maybe in some respects, at least, I think I have. My art has improved over these 3 years, though college has cut into my time for art a lot more than I would like. Despite that, I'm doing the digital media option in my university's computer science program and next semester I'm going to be taking my first 3D computer graphics course. An opportunity for me to do actual game design draws ever closer. >:V

A lot of bad shit has happened over the past year, but I'm not going to discuss that in this journal because I've either already discussed it in other journals or I'm not going to discuss it until it's really time to do so. Some good things have happened too, I guess. I've been to a lot of concerts, the most recent of which was Carbon Leaf and Matt Nathanson at the 9:30 Club last weekend. I was also in my first cosplay photoshoot at Otakon this past summer and I started playing guitar.

At any rate, I've got a lot of work to do. I'd apologise for essentially being missing-in-action since the beginning of the school year, but that's what comes with being a CS major. I'll post all my backlogged post-it notes and art soon.

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/10397465/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/10397465/ Sun, 15 Oct 2006 04:57:06 PDT
Jibblies
(this one can act a little funky on Macs)

Lavabubbles


This is what we do in computer science. 8D

GUIs =



]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/10254612/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/10254612/ Mon, 02 Oct 2006 00:50:38 PDT
I miss implicit typedefs. ;;o;;

Also, C compilers are really bitchy. Oh, they'll tell you when something's wrong, but will they tell you what went wrong? NOOOOO, they'll just say "segmentation fault: core dumped," (read: "your program's fucking broken."). Granted, there are worse compilers than gcc (which is actually pretty good), but FUCK do I miss informative error messages. Java will actually TELL you when you have a null pointer exception. C? Fuck no. It'll just give you segmentation fault errors until you want to die. Don't even get me started on void functions.

Pointers suck, by the way. They fucking suck. I can't wait until we get back into Java, and I'm even more looking forward to when we get into C++, a language that people will actually pay you to know. They are so much less messy and (at least in Java) will tell you when your pointers aren't right. Null Pointer Exceptions suddenly because a wonderful thing. At least they're better than segmentation fault: core dumped.

Oh, ok, so in other news, I saw Aerosmith last night at the Nissan Pavillion. Fuck, oh my god, AWESOME. Motley Crue opened for them, which was amusing, given the pyrotechnics show, dancing goth girls, "satanic" stage setup, and the bike that the lead singer drove onstage during one of the last songs. Tommy Lee also smashed a guitar. A perfectly good Stratocaster =[!! They were silly. I loled. But, it was really weird, going to a concert with my parents to see a band that THEY saw when they were my age. It was cool, though we deemed the crowd unworthy. They weren't loud enough. Then again, we are used to Great Big Sea and Carbon Leaf crowds, who are a polite sort of rabid and know all the words and can sing in perfect tune with the band.

Anyway, I have ridiculous amounts of work that have to be done. It's also Yom Kippur. Fucking yay. Ugh...I need to get up and walk around. I've been programming for like 18 hours.

Preace, bitches.

]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/10131015/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/10131015/ Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:05:31 PDT
I have been attempting art, though I have a ridiculous amount of computer science to do.

The requests will be done soonish. Just remember that there are people in front of you in the queue and that I am an engineering student.

Slots:
1. - Kalas from Baten Kaitos
2. - Ephraim from Fire Emblem Sacred Stones
3. - OC
4. - OC
5. - Zero from Megaman X

ALSO, if you requested art from me, you'd better damn well offer requests in your journal. It's the rules. :B ]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/9965627/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/9965627/ Mon, 04 Sep 2006 14:04:26 PDT
I hate people. I hate PDA. I hate male humans. I hope all you fucking GW kids are happy with your internet. Enjoy wasting your bandwidth on stupid shit like AIM and Facebook. Fucking kids.

I'm also very sad because Steve Irwin has died. He was an icon for the protection of many unloved animals and a loving husband and father to his wife and children. The world has lost a truly great person. May he rest in peace.

Oh, also, I made a request on *WhiteSnake's journal, so now I'm taking 5 free requests. Sorry I wasn't quicker on the draw with that, WhiteSnake, but I've been working 8 hour days since Saturday.

Rules:
~You can request characters from a series, one of my characters, or you can request your own original characters, but I'm not drawing anyone's OCs from a series.
~If you want me to draw something that I don't know about, you need to provide a reference. No reference, no drawing.
~They will be speed paintings at best, sketches at worst. They will probably go into my scraps gallery.
~If you make a request, you need to offer 5 requests in your journal too.

Slots:
1. - Kalas from Baten Kaitos
2. - Ephraim from Fire Emblem Sacred Stones
3. - OC
4. - OC
5. - Zero from Megaman X

Fuck I want to sleep. I hate everyone. ]]> ~Icetigris http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/9922992/ http://Icetigris.deviantart.com/journal/9922992/ Thu, 31 Aug 2006 19:36:48 PDT
I can tell you that, at this point in time, I am playing approximately 10 games on and off.

1. Baten Kaitos
~I just started playing this one. Gorgeous graphics and an interesting battle system, though the fixed camera can get annoying in places when you are far from the camera and the voice acting is horrendous. The character designs make Icetigris happy. Cosplay may ensue. Hearts for Namco.

2. Fire Emblem Path of Radiance
~I've been playing this one off and on since it came out a while ago. I did a good job and lost the memory card my first file was on, so I had to start over. :[ But I love Fire Emblem, so it's worth it. FE FTW.

3. Fire Emblem the Sacred Stones
~Been playing this one on the Metro. Ye gods is it addictive, just like every other FE game. The character designs are better in FE9 and FE7, though.

4. Kingdom Hearts II
~Basically, so I can draw fanart of it. Sora sells. It's a pretty good game, I guess, but it's nowhere near LoZ.

5. Fire Emblem Fuuin no Tsuruugi
~Or FE6. I just got the English patch for this so I've been playing it on Lappy when I can. It's really weird if you've played through FE7 first.

6. Quake 4
~I'm a horrible person for not having finished this game yet. Please don't hate me because I have a mild case of gamer's ADD. It's because I haven't had a Zelda game to play in far too long. Have pity on a Zelda fan. ;o;

7. Fire Emblem Rekka no Ken (replay)
~Or FE7. I need to play through Hector's quest and replay Eliwood's quest so I can get Geitz and Harken. Also, support conversations. Oh my god, those things never cease to amuse me.

8. Tales of Symphonia
~I'll beat this game eventually if for no other reason than the cosplay. I wish I hadn't seen the huge spoiler for Kratos when my sister played it; that's probably why I haven't gotten off my ass to play it. I am a fan of the battle system, though. More hearts for Namco.

9. Skies of Arcadia (replay)
~I am going to get all the Discoveries one day. Also, I'm still obsessed. GO PLAY IT NOW.

10. Resident Evil 4 (replay)
~I want to get the hand cannon. ;o;

There will be residual fanart, I'm afraid. Ye gods! I need to get off my ass and post something. ]]> ~Icetigris