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I'm starting a playthrough of Painkiller (the 2004 FPS game made by People Can Fly) in a few minutes over at https://twitch.tv/andreaen.

I've completed about half of this game before & have been meaning to finish it for years.

First step: figure out how the monsters work, second step: teach the monsters to pick up and use items on the map. (Step two might be asking too much.)

I've spent the last few days working through & partially rewriting the Quake 1 monster code. It's not super complicated stuff but I've never studied anything like it before so it's all new to me.

Streaming #quake1 for a bit today over at https://twitch.tv/andreaen .

I've refactored / re-written a lot of the QuakeC game code recently so I'm going to test that by running through the standard id1 maps (and maybe some of Than's Deathmatch Dimension).

Everybody wake up there's a new power_of_heavy_metal #quake3 Defrag video

Watched Brother (2000, dir. Takeshi Kitano) today. First watch (& my first Kitano too). A gangster (played by Kitano) is exiled to America and starts his own crime family in L.A. .

A whole bunch of recognizable actors in this - Omar Epps of course, also James Shigeta, Tetsuya Watari, and Pat Morita (for a single shot). Score by Joe Hisaishi! A lot of abrupt, fast violence. Everybody's doomed from the beginning. Really enjoyed the ending.

I remember seeing this on the shelf at my local video store when it was new. Happy to have finally picked it up & taken it home (so to speak).

Ooh. there's a new free release from Skee Mask:

Track 2 is tasty. 8 seems good too.

Happy New Ear everybody

I guess this is my version of an end-of-year media wrap-up. I often forget to log things so my lists are spotty / incomplete. Still a fun exercise though.

I didn't read many books this year but I did watch a few movies and a little TV:

https://djcev.com/memory/Log/MoviesAndTV2023/

I try to keep lists like this for books, movies/TV, and music purchases, even if I don't have anything interesting to say. (Stale takes, bad opinions, etc.).

41 now. Another year done and ready to be filed away.

looks like this year's North American MTG Eternal Weekend just started & there's live match coverage of the vintage tournament today:

If you've ever wanted to see people play decks worth enough for a down payment on a house this is the time.

I've been a little quiet here because I had a breakthrough over the last few weeks with my implementation of CPM-like movement in #quake1. I've got something that works much better now, though it's only compatible with FTEQW.

Every day I've found new bugs and then fixed them. Bugs in clientside movement prediction, bugs in the slidemove, etc. It's been consuming all my time.

I'll record a video of it soon, or maybe stream some gameplay. For now I've posted the code here:

https://djcev.com/git/fte_dogmode/blob/qc/player/pmove.qc.html

Completed VtM:B and got my revenge against Ming Xiao for yesterday. To be fair I kind of cheesed my way through her fight (flamethrower). The rest of the ending was easy with some help from viewers.

Really love that game. It's rough around the edges, in some places unfinished even, but it's such a good time.

I do wish it had better (more consistent) audio mixing.

Finishing my playthrough of VtM: Bloodlines tonight at https://twitch.tv/andreaen.

Starting at Griffith Park then playing through to the end (Hopefully I won't run out of ammo this time).

Streaming more VtM: Bloodlines today at https://twitch.tv/andreaen.

Finishing up the Chinatown hub and then moving into the last areas of the game. (We're past the nastiest part of it but still: warning that this is a pretty violent horror game.)