What's this? A Blog you say? Oh. A Blog. E Blog. I Blog. O Blog.

Look, I don't really care what it's called. I see it as a place for me to rant about my life. A place for me to complain about the bad things in life. And occasionally the life stories that blogs are logically supposed to have.

Now that I think of it, why are you even reading this? Unless you're really interested in my life. You ain't gettin' no home address, uh-uh no you ain't. Not until I'm 18 anyway.

You know what? Why bother. I'll just finish this off some other ti

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http://gamegrep.com/video/16498-reffxiii_new_final_fantasy_xiii_and_versus_xiii_trailers/

RabidChinaGirl says:
it's like Star Wars meets a fashion show
...why is there a woman playing a harp
there's a flying penguin
spotlights
Halo looking guys
...this thing is spitting tongues out
more Halo ish stuff
Star Wars meets Halo
half naked girl?
man?
woman?
guns
she's fighting armored guys half naked
why do the main characters always win despite wearing no armor?
why do all the characters look the same
it's weird
Guild Wars looking stuff
blah blah blah
OMFG they flashed liked 3 faces that looked the same
this is a fantasy based on reality
*what*
...a true figure is still hidden in the sleep
LMAO
this guy looks like Sephiroth in his teenage years
a girl in cute clothes
maybe she'll pull out big guns
and do something cool
oh wait
she's a girl
JUST KIDDING
dude the guys in suits look like men
why can't the mian character?
people wearing hoods
wow that's not overdone
bromances
lmao
मुक्ति says:
i think if you had a conversation with square about these trailers they'd probabaly kill themselves
RabidChinaGirl says:
LMAO
yeah I should work for Square
I wanna be their trailer approver
or their concept approver
मुक्ति says:
be their everything approver
RabidChinaGirl says:
they'd never get anything done
मुक्ति says:
everyone would be fired in ten seconds
RabidChinaGirl says:
their new games would turn int MGS + Halo + Gears
"DOES THIS GUY EVEN HAVE A *bleep*?!"
GIVE THIS WOMAN A *bleep*ING PURPOSE
GIVE HER PAANTS
मुक्ति says:
or just take away the guys pants
RabidChinaGirl says:
to see if he has a *bleep*
मुक्ति says:
:)
RabidChinaGirl says:
please give someone facial hair
I am losing track of who is who
they quoted Shakespeare.
THAT MAKES IT FULL OF COOL
मुक्ति says:
i dunno, then the dudes would look like chicks with facial hair


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My school gets off for winter break in a week, I can't wait to get off school and relax for one week. Plus the way that Christmas falls this year we get a longer vacation then normally.


Countdown- 7 (school days)

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Hello again! xD

About 3 days ago my computer stopped working due to an unknown reason. :( I have brought a new one but won't be here until next week. Also, my dad think that GIMP is responcible for my computer crashing, so I can't download it on my new computer unless I buy an external hard drive, which shouldn't take me to long to save up for. (Especially since Christmas is so close)

Now, to the reasoning behind the title.
Yesterday, I had Hockey, which most of my neofriends know I hate!

I hd the ball - For once - moved passed a few people when someone came to tackle me from behing (Which i against the rules) and hit my hamstring really, really hard now it's in a bandag and I can't out an weight on it for a few days.

Thanks for reading! ^^

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Neohome updated a bit

I haven't updated my NeoHome in ages and had a quick scout through my PM's to find them all. Unfortunately I was only able to add two or three little tidbits here and there and was hoping all those that PM'd me with things could PM me again as I appear to have lost them.

Also, I'm looking for suggestions on what to do with the left column as it's decently empty further down. I started out promoting a few third party Neo related things but, other than that, just started putting in some random shit. Ideas, suggestions?

And always looking for thoughts in general from design concepts to layout suggestions to just giving critisism. I'm getting kinda' tired of it's current look...maybe I'll start designing v4.

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PS3 outsells Xbox 720 in five years.

Gobble gobble gobble .

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The Neolympic Games have started! Or at least some of the events have.

The Events that have started are:

PokéMon Diamond/Pearl Battle

Super Smash Bros. Brawl Match

Digital Graphics Large Piece

Live Drawing

Participating from Team Caption are Kamikaze (Live Drawing), Sapphire Dragon and Linkin Park Fan (Large Graphic Piece) and GLaDOS portal (Brawl Match).

Best of luck guys! =)

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OH MY GOD WE HAVE BLOGS NOW! :D Since when did this happen? Since last week? Nah I've not really been posting around neo. What a great way to get to know other members. :D Thank you neoseeker. I love this feature already.

Now I'm going to go read other peoples blogs and see if I can find anything amusing. ^-^

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A moderate dose of psilocybin mushrooms may be in order to complement these:

http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/synonym

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia

Godspeed.

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He's been randomly showing up at house parties in Brooklyn lately. *bleep*, I love him.

FilmDrunk reporting on the source article:

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Predictably, the article decides to focus on the sad clown angle, wondering if he’s having a midlife crisis. Oh f-ck off. What the hell is wrong with these people? They even quote a goddamned psychotherapist. Trust me, psychotherapists wouldn’t know awesome if it punched them in the ear on the subway. Bill Murray doesn’t have a publicist, gives honest answers to people who interview him, and shows up in random places just to hang out with people. What more could you want out of him? The world could use at least 1,000 more Bill Murrays. And that’s why I’m naming this scotch glass Bill Murray. Come on, Bill, tell us a story. Oh Bill, you’re my best friend.

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I got this book for Christmas last year. Its called "Teach Yourself Game Programming With DirectX in 21 Days". Now if your interested in going into game programming, I highly recommend picking up this book. Its $40 USD and a tad outdated, but its worth it and teaches you great concepts about gaming, setting up and using DirectX 8, and some other useful things. So here is a good recommendation for Christmas present!

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Over the past few months, a few commercials have caught my eye, mainly because it isn't something that my mother would like to see. Gamestop has had a few commercials out, some of which, I've found very funny. Here was the first one:



Now is it just me, or are these geared more at teenage gamers? I noticed the second one come on ABC once whenever I was in the living room with a few siblings and my mom. When she realized what was being blurred out she turned the channel and changed it back about 30 seconds later. I'm curious, have they pushed it just a little too far? Personally, I don't mind them, but I know a lot of parents that don't like commericals cursing, even if it is covered up by a sound like in that first one.

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Tuesday's game took me to a place where the clothing of choice is tracksuit bottoms and most parents were about 16. I'd only been in the chippy 10 minutes before two 16 year olds came in with two babies! It's clear the intelligence level isn't too high either, at one point the Tranmere fans were chanting anti Welsh chants at us. I'm not exactly a human satnav but Tranmere is a lot closer to Wales than Peterborough is.



Tranmere is the only place I've been to where they send a policeman on to read you the riot act before you get off the coach. Considering the majority of the people on the coach were about 70 it seemed a little heavy handed, especially as any fight would have meant us being out numbered about 15 to one.

The game started off pretty poorly, we had about one shot on goal in the first half and we struggled to string to passes together so it was no surprise that we went in at half time one nil down. Not exactly giving a brilliant show to Sir Alex Ferguson who was sitting with Barry Fry for the game.



We finally woke up in the second half, we hit the post three times, and the crossbar as well. Just like the first match at London Road we decided to play Jekyll and Hyde over the two halves. Even after all this pressure we still hadn't scored, by the end of injury time I could see the ref was getting ready to blow for full time after our last attack so I stood up ready to go when he did. Somehow we managed to sneak it in after paying a bit of pinball in the area.

It didn't look like either of us were going to score in extra time so I figured I'd be seeing my second penalty shootout with Posh. I was confident since we'd beaten Ipswich in that one and they were two leagues above at the time. Fortunately I didn't have to go through the nerves of that again as Mackail-Smith managed to score and send us through to the third round with yet another match against West Brom, who knocked us out of two cups last year.

Next Match Attending

Posh v Oldham
14/12/08 3pm
London Road

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... BUT HOLY SHIT GEARS OF WAR 3 ANNOUNCED WTFBBQ WAAAAIIEEEEEEE~!!!! GameGrep has never brought me so much joy UNTIL THIS *bleep*ING MOMENT! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE~!!!!!


Yeah, anyway, a few people have been wondering about my work space since I complain 'bout wanting a bigger desk. I didn't take pictures of my actual desk, but I happen to have a couple snapshots of the men who keep me company as I work.

Behold:



Featured:
- Altair figurine
- Dante (DMC3) action figure
- Sol Badguy model
- Kain Highwind figurine
- Vincent Valentine model
- Red vs. Blue 2008 calendar featuring Burnie
- 2008 graduation tassel
- Dell Inspiron 9300, 17" widescreen
- a drawing my friend did of me nuking the shit out of his house
- tape measure

Vincent, Altair, and Kain have all suffered some degree of injury, which I remedied with super glue and paint. Sol and Vincent were bought years ago, while Dante and Kain were gifts from friends over these past two years. Altair came with the collector's edition of Assassin's Creed. That's why he's so minuscule.

Yes, that is an Xbox 360 sticker on my laptop. It came with the console!

Of course, I own two stuffed Companion Cubes (take that, Jamie) though neither are present in those photos. No, I didn't actually buy two -- one was a gift.

Oh yes, new background for the blog. Joy in green. And by the way...


Good thing Lionhead didn't announce a Fable III launch date today as well, or I'd be dead on the floor right now.

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So this problem has plagued Neoseeker for a while - Animated GIFs cannot be resized by GD without losing the animation. We rely on using GD to resize our images via PHP's built-in functions (such as imagecopyresize(), imagecopyresampled()) , but this method sadly destroys animated GIFs: the result is a GIF that has no animation and which often has a weird fluorescent pink or green background.

The problem has to do with PHP's implementation of GD. GD itself supports animated GIFs and has done so for many years according to their site. I've been waiting for a few years for PHP to solve this problem, in the meantime everyone says to use two PHP classes written by Laszlo Zsidi:

http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/3163.html
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/3234.html

So there's your solution, but its not my solution: it adds unnecessary complexity to what I consider to be something PHP itself should handle correctly. Those classes require that you break up animated GIFs into individual frames, resize them each, and then merge them back together. PHP resize of images is slow enough already, doing the above method sounds like a huge performance problem, a big no-no for us.

We'll be investigating ImageMagick as an option instead, which should handle animated GIFs without problems, then we'll see which way to move forwards.

I still don't understand why after so many years this hasn't been fixed, which forces developers to find alternative means whether it be complicated processes or external functionality. I do still cling to the hope that it will be added in the near future though, or perhaps PHP5/PHP6 users already enjoy this?

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