ChezWorld

Question!

Brandon — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:57:34 +0000

If there were a $1 Million competition in which you could choose all 3 of the events, no matter how general or specific, which 3 events would you choose to maximize your probability of winning?

1) Dance Dance Revolution
2) Rock Band Drums
3) Arkanoid

The 3rd one is clutch.

Chez-Tris?

Brandon — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:27:02 +0000

I just put up a stable version of my Tetris game in the programming section. There’s still a lot more that I want to do with it, but it has the basic components of a Tetris game: moving pieces, clearing lines, and score tracking.

Check it out here! (Windows only)

The Tester

Brandon — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:44:30 +0000

Are you kidding me..?

Hello World

Brandon — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:10:08 +0000

Programming section is up!

http://www.chezworld.com/programming/

It’s amazing how much a job can distract you from things.

Brandon — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:02:41 +0000

It’s been a while hasn’t it? The last time I posted something I was unemployed. But now I am employed at Lockheed Martin as a full time simulation developer. If you’ve never heard of Lockheed Martin, it’s the world’s largest defense contractor and they make military-ish type things. It’s a decent job: the people are nice and hours are very flexible (half day fridays are awesome). As for the work, I haven’t gotten into anything too deep yet but it’s the first time I’ve been part of a development team greater than two people in size so I’m excited about that.

I would be lying if I said that my job was the only thing distracting me these days. I have a wonderful girlfriend, Sally, who I’ve been seeing for a few months now (6 months in Feb.) I usually don’t like to talk about girls until I know exactly what’s up, but I know what’s up with her and I’m really happy. The only hard part is the semi-long distance. She lives in long island while I’m still in south jersey so that’s pretty lame. I’ve been learning NJ Transit pretty well though.

On the gaming front I’ve been playing the same two games for the past 2 months: Left 4 Dead 2 and Guild Wars and I can’t get enough of them. L4D2 needs no explanation, but I feel like Guild Wars is the most under appreciated game in the history of PC games amongst everyone I know. There’s just so much to do in the game both PvE and PvP wise. And competitively it takes a lot of skill to play. I really like that the expansions are horizontal (meaning that the new content is spread amongst all areas of gameplay) rather than vertical (meaning the new content is solely focused on adding to the end game which obsoletes old content like WoW does). I am really looking forward to Guild Wars 2 but there has been no release day announcement so it’s going to be a while. I’ve pretty much stopped playing dance games all together but the community is still amazing and I will try to be a part of it as long as I can.

Other random thoughts that I don’t feel like putting into paragraph form:

-The Old Republic Q1 2011 YES
-Raquetball is cool
-Rock climbing is very cool
-I will never look at the Jersey Shore the same way
-Time to make a music game engine
-Time to make GAMES
-I really want to play poker
-The Battlestar Galactica game is amazing and I need people to play with me
-I need to do more physical activity
-PAX EAST!!!!

Facebook is annoying sometimes…

Brandon — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:17:24 +0000

Best Prank Ever.

Brandon — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:12:03 +0000

hahaha

Brandon — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:48:02 +0000

Quad Aces!

Sigma’s Sightread Madness

Brandon — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:10:19 +0000

I placed 2nd in an ITG Sightread Tournament and the final song was absolutely ridiculous.

Awesome song though!

Booth Babe Bounty

Brandon — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:47:25 +0000

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/07/ea-puts-sexual-bounty-on-the-heads-of-its-own-booth-babes.ars

Mechwarrior reboot!

Brandon — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:50:10 +0000

One of my favorite PC franchises is coming back to life. Here’s a teaser trailer:

http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/18954/mech-warrior-project/videos/mechwarrior_trl_phoenix_70709.html

sadly, the best tribute to Michael Jackson that I’ve seen yet

Brandon — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:32:20 +0000

http://www.hcn.zaq.ne.jp/cabic508/rsf/mq.swf

Music Section Finished

Brandon — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:54:40 +0000

Music section is up. Go have a look (or a listen!)

IGN’s South Park Guide To Gaming

Brandon — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:45:23 +0000

A nice little summary of video-game featured South Park episodes with clips:

http://tv.ign.com/articles/100/1000492p1.html

Annals of Innovation: How David Beats Goliath

Brandon — Mon, 25 May 2009 14:17:06 +0000

A very interesting article on how the underdogs can win if they think unconventionally:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/11/090511fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all

Finished!

Brandon — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:32:39 +0000

So it’s finally over. I am graduating from RIT tomorrow (w/ honors!) and it’ll be the end of a very interesting 5 year period. So what am I doing afterward?

I’ll be in good old South Jersey for the summer doing a lot of things actually:

1. Working on my Programming/Game Dev portfolio – So much stuff to learn. My first project will most likely making an online poker game, just to gain some experience with networking. Possibly also learning iPhone stuff.

2. Working on some websites – I want to make a tournament section for GrooveStats, finish ChezWorld v3, and start my top secret project GETTYBUNGA. Even I don’t know what it is yet.

3. Traveling – tentative visits include San Diego, Las Vegas, Lake George, insert random Anime con/game tournament here

4. Working remotely part-time for the web company I did my Co-ops with. I’m so looking forward to working in pajama pants.

5. RELAXING – Probably will be doing this more than anything.

And after summer? No idea, but I’m not worried. We’ll see how things pan out.

In other news I finally sold and transferred GrooveStats to the new owners. It was more hassle than I thought it would be but they were nice enough to keep access to the server so I could implement the tournament section.

‘Noob’ could be the millionth English word

Brandon — Tue, 12 May 2009 20:33:42 +0000

“‘Noob’ could well be the millionth word in the English language – a milestone set to be reached within the coming weeks.

The news comes directly from the Global Language Monitor that estimates the millionth word in the English language is set to arrive on June 10th, 2009 at 10:22 am, British Summer Time.

Approximately!

A number of British newspapers including The Daily Telegraph, The Sun and The Independent have all decreed that ‘noob’ could be that momentous word.”

Shakespeare pwned n00bs

“The widespread popularity of English as a second language in Asia has brought about the most fertile period of word generation since William Shakespeare’s time with new terms coined on average every 98 minutes,” reports the Telegraph.

Global Language Monitor acknowledges new words once they have been used 25,000 times by media outlets, social networking websites and in other public sources.

Other words that might make the cut include “defollow”, “defriend”, “greenwashing” (what companies do to appear environmentally friendly) and “chiconomics” (referring to credit crunch inspired fashions!).

Paul Payack, chief analyst at the Global Language Monitor, claims that the “average persons vocabulary is fewer than 14,000 words out of these million that are available. A person who is linguistically gifted would only use 70,000 words.

every 25,000 times eh? Time to start spamming ChezMix.

Some Guy Gets A Blizzard-Only WoW Item, Goes On WoW Rampage

Brandon — Sat, 02 May 2009 17:15:06 +0000

From Kotaku:

“A World of Warcraft subscriber has accidentally been given a powerful in-game item normally reserved for internal testing. And what’d he do with it? Why, he used it.

Yes, instead of doing the right thing and returning the item (”Martin Fury”, an in-game shirt), he kept it and went out on a bit of a killing spree. Because the shirt allowed the wearer to destroy everything within a 30-foot radius instantly, the user – Karatechop – managed to rack up an impossibly impressive set of achievements in the game, including the destruction of the normally-difficult character “Flame Leviathan” in a single blow.

While his account has since been banned, with Blizzard accusing him of cheating to obtain the item, Karatechop maintains that the item was accidentally presented to a guild mate of his by Blizzard, in an official Blizzard email, as part of the restoration process for a hacked character.

Who to believe, who to believe?”

I would’ve done the same thing. =)

Economic StimuLAN

Brandon — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 03:42:34 +0000

The LAN party I went to on campus was pretty good. Played some TF2 and L4D and I somehow won the Unreal Tournament III tourney. Funny thing is, I had only played it once for 20 minutes after I installed it and never played it again until the LAN.

Sweet hard drive deal!

Brandon — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 04:12:23 +0000

I just bought a 750GB External hard drive for only $60. =)

http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?t=1304721