Sunflash

that truck ditching that minivan at the exit... perfectly done!

annnd a quick happy new years to you folks. sorry im here and gone so much!

Yaaaaay turkey day! ./late

DID SOMEONE SAY APOC?!!!! *sits down with a larrrge bucket of popcorn*

A brief summery: other than some minor fumbles in trying to organize my start menu how I wanted(turns out that wasn't really saved in the upgrade) I've not really had any problems. I HAVE noticed this odd bit where on starting Windows it likes to force all my fans to max for a moment(four times in a row, usually), but everything still seems to run surprisingly well.

Interesting spin on the whole 'every menu and etc is in an overlay menu and not a new full-screen' bit. Nice to see the cityscape working so prettily tho!

afraid my detailed report will hafta wait. familu emergancy has callwd me out of town for a few days.

taking the plunge today folks. will keep you advised as to how things blowup! ^.^

further update: i aced two brainbench certification tests yesterday, while feeling like i had no idea what in the blue blazes i was doing. apparently i am allowed to awesome as long as im confusing at the same time.

so i am apparently an idiot savant. on the one hand ive probably dug myself an impossible to escape hole; and on the other im making it look like a two inch ditch. see, i decided to enroll at the local votech(vocaitnal/techicnal school) in order to semi-quickly grab some it related offical certifications so an it department would actually look at me. i say semi-quickly because it was supposed to take a full schoolyear, but still faster than a college degree. and incase you didnt catch it, i said supposed to because that was the intent. turns out, i accidently signed up in such a way tjat im supposed to be done by christmas. okay cool, exceot ive been keeping pace with the full year students, and the end of the first nine weeks is this week. so now i get to try to cram three nine weeks of work into ONE. im not sure i can do this. on the flipside, i just took a little brain bench test for part of this, and have managed to ace both parts. while feeling like i had no idea what i was doing. so yeah. idiot savant.

Think I'd be more interested in the idea if it didn't try to handle the non-windows patches and updates(that is, there should be /no reason/ Windows is trying to handle Nivida drivers) and therefore being completely breakable. But hey, here's a prime example of 'wait a month or two before getting it'.

So I admit the original post(from tumblr) about the Win10 upgrade thing is gone, so I'm doing this mostly from memory; but the primary reason to upgrade would be because it would allow for so many extra programming extras that you just can't pull off in older windows. I mean, there's software reasons(Was it XP or Vista that couldn't handle a certain amount of RAM that made the market panic?) that things arn't backwards comptiable as well as hardware reasons(can you picture a WinXp game trying to make full use of a six-core cpu with dual video cards and a bucket of ram?) for upgrading. I dunno, like I said I don't have the full explantion-post that laid it out pretty well and I'm sorry; but I don't really see a reason NOT to upgrade. Sure, maybe not the day of or something, but there's enough bonuses from where I'm sitting(improved handling of hardware through windows, more up-to-date security stuff, simpler access to the newer games(which will also benifit from the handling thing), plus its not a set-in-stone thing. Don't lose your license for the previous version of windows.) I'll be 1) Backing up my Steam Library and the like beforehand. 2) (Make sure you have a physical system restore disk) 3) Waiting at least a few weeks, probably closer to a month, to let them figure out the worst of the issues(8.0 to 8.1, after all) 4) Jumping in full throttle. 5) If something goes wrong, use my re-install disks to revert back to Win7 and lose a minor amount of time from the whole ordeal; and try again in a few months. MOST games that are post-XP should work pretty well from what I've heard/read; and even XP games should DOS-Box well enough. Of course, that's so hit-and-miss even in 7 YMMV as usual. I unno. Just seems like there's more reasons TO for me than NOT TO. But, of course, to each their own.

I have a personal pet peeve: I /hate/ blatent stupidity when you have NO EXCUSE not to know better; and I hate -=/LYING\=- What does this have to do with you, Sunny? Read on, you poor sucker that took the bait. Read on... So I vanish without a trace in the next year or so, just assume I went postal and leave it at that. >.> (Thanks for the rant)

I have nowhere near the knowledge or experience for helping with this. But I am chomping at the bit for this one!

Maybe I shouldn't continue then, part of this feels like a larger-than-life tragedy.

Right. Would you folks be horribly offended if I took some time here to rant and rave about work, school, and life in general? Or should I go find a Livejournal to gripe at instead?

Looked like you should've just loaded everyome with autocannons from the start.

I would pay good money for someone to replace it witj updated UFO:Aftershock textures. >.> (no im still not grumpy about it at all)

Part of the problem with any AI in a "Pro" game is that any humans have access to the "metagame"; for example in SC2 you'll see various tactics develop and become popular by everyone to counter popular strat A, then someone comes up with a counter to THAT one and snowball. I've seen several games won soley because the winner KNEW from watching previous gamed that thier foe liked to switch tech at a precise point or etc. This is sometging that you can practically never expect an AI to get close to replicating. With that in mind, RTS AI will never ever be able to even try to compete with the big boys without cheating. FPs are possibly a different story, but that's hard to say.

story sounds like ufo: aftershock.....

Nox nailed it square on the tactical shaped head. THANK GOD,I was cringing the whole time I was drawing that. Edit: For comparaison: http://assets.vg247.com/current//2014/03/advancewars.png

Got tired of messing with it. Can't ever get things near as right with a mouse as I can with a pencil(although even that is horrible so meh); but if you HAVE played this one you...hopefully SHOULD know who this is? Whatever, guess we'll find out! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v682/Bobaram/NtSG-5-21-15.png

Its not been THAT long! :O Also I'm trying to wait till a damn day off so I can actually do something decent; but I'm still waiting on a schedule for this week to show up at work too. Will probably have something up tomorrow regardless, even if it sucks worse than I'd like. Sorry.

for what its worth, ive played/watched too much starcraft 2 latly. All i can see is a Reaper shooting at clouds near a protoss gas and a probe. I probably need to wake up.

Luckily, unlike whatever savages inhabit Silencer's neck of the woods, I managed to find a /lady/. (Yes hi again SV. )