Seems like a good place to start an adventure doesn’t it?
This is my city project that was part of the Brohan project a while back. It’s now the starting city in my adventure map that may never be finished.
Now I have the program.
This was just playing around getting my bearings, about 30 minutes of render time. It’s a small pic.
To have something you hold dear threatened..
Some people have dogs, or cats.. or children that they care about.
Me? I have cars.Three of them actually, although only 2 of them are really important to me. The third is more of a tool I use when I need it.
One of these cars I use to drive to work every day, it’s my all around fun car, sporty, nice looking, I try to take good care of it. The other is more like a family heirloom. It’s a 57 belair. My uncle purchased the car in the early 1980s, it was a heap in severe decay.
Over the next 10 years he painstakingly restored it to the best of his ability, pouring his heart and soul into it like it was his life’s work. He spent some time taking it to car shows and things when it was finished in the mid 90s, but after a while it had some problems, and it started to sit up in his garage and decay.
Worried about this, and knowing my lifelong obsession with the car, he decided on my graduation day from highschool to give it to me, in the hopes that I would care for it and drive it, and enjoy all the life and love that he had put into the car, a symbol, if nothing else, of the deep connection that a family has.
I was a teenager when I got it, and didn’t have a job at the time, but I got one in short order and did my best to take care of the car. It’s quite expensive to maintain a rolling antique, but I’ve done what I can over the years.
I’ve owned the car 12 years as of about this time of year, a lot of you folks who are teens probably just had your graduation this weekend or will soon.
Yesterday I took it for a short trip around the neighborhood and noted the power steering was moaning, the fluid had been purged. An old problem I haven’t’ seen in a decade is back seemingly.. So today I topped off the power steering, the transmission fluid, made sure the oil was good, and took it for a short trip to the grocery store to buy lunch from the deli.
On the way home I was cruising along and everything was going swimmingly. However as I cross a neighborhood entrance a chrysler minivan with michigan plates pulls out in front of me, about 4 cars away.
In most cars this would be too close, but perfectly fine to slow down to avoid collision. In this car, it was a huge problem. I laid on the horn and the brakes, having nowhere to go since there was oncoming traffic, the tires were squealing and I knew I couldn’t stop any harder.
I avoided collision, perhaps they sped up. After a breif moment I was overwhelmed with an intense anger, more than anything I’ve experienced on the road before. I waved my arms and shouted angrily at them and they pulled over. However I continued on down the road, trying to just get away from the event.
When I got home I was shaking, furious with what had happened. How dare they try to take this away form me? Everything that my uncle had worked for, all the effort and love he poured into this car, to disrespect it so flagrantly.. I couldn’t take it. Had I hit them the damage would have been extensive. You may not know, but old cars like this have no crumple zones, they fold like tinfoil when they’re impacted. The paint would not be able to be matched, it’s enamel that my uncle painted himself under a carport in 1988. The chrome front bumper is original to the car, re-chromed by a shop that did a terrible job, leaving it peeling and pitted.
Eventually my anger turned to sadness, how close I’d came on a little jaunt to the store to losing my pride and joy, a car that was common in it’s era, and still common among it’s own kind, but a rarity overall.. so easily some irresponsible horrible person could just threaten one of the few things in my life that I actually enjoy, that I actually care for.. I found myself crying for a short while.
Now one thing you don’t know, in my younger years I had considered selling the car, cashing out and using the money on various things that teenager and young 20 somethings want in life. I’m glad I didn’t..
Sometimes it takes almost losing something to realize just how much you care about it.
Warriors touch their ass.. (warriors torchbearers come redeem our dreams..)
A friend of mine recently livestreamed the game Alan Wake. (check it out on steam!)
it’s a game about an author who goes on vacation, and is inspired greatly by stephen king. It’s sort of an interactive graphic novel. I think it’s quite good! My only complaint is the writing style used. I’m a bit of a casual hobby writer (I’m not very good.. I tried to get published once and was rejected..) so I have a hard time reading people’s work when it’s not.. compatible… with my writing style.
I felt the metaphors used were excessive and unnecessary. The novel was overly metaphorical, yet left little description to the reader of the supposed book Alan was writing.
.. ahem.. that aside.. check this song out. It’s by poets of the fall.. great band!
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO A THOUSAND TIMES NO!!
tell your congressman, your senator, your president you OPPOSE this nonsense!
These people have been AT WAR with the internet for well over a year now trying to find new and additional ways to censor and silence our rights of free speech and anonymity on the internet. TELL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! STOP TRYING TO CENSOR, ISOLATE, OR CONTROL THE INTERNET IN ANY WAY!!!
I built a floating island in Minecraft on our server, took a while to do the chains but i’m happy :D
Jon and Simon added snazzyness to the airship.
Texturepack is John Smith and I used dynamic shader mod.
Something a good friend cooked up on their minecraft server.
Makes you wonder what kind of forge it takes to make a chain link that big.
Server’s out of space.
Hrmm.. wonder why…
see how short the progress bar is?? I found an 11 GB folder in someone’s personal folders, I GUARANTEE YOU it’s a copy of the ENTIRE other folder on another drive. DX
OH, for the curious or otherwise IT person.. this is a freeware program called “dupfiles.”
I recommend you give it a try! I don’t use it much, but it’s REALLY useful when you suspect something.
ok… about the use of the word “fox.”
So I tried to track the tag “fox.”
Folks.. PLEASE stop referring to pornography with this tag..
obviously.. I like foxes. (vulpescraft.. reference to vulpes vulpes or red fox in case you dind’t know..)
the crude drawing of a fox for my icon..
I like foxes, photos of foxes, foxes as pets, drawings of foxes.. they’re great animals.
BUT.. I do not use the term “fox” when I think about porn or otherwise unclothed women..
AND I follow my blog at work.. SO.. I cannot follow the tag “fox.”
Son, I am disappoint.
