Past Month Update

Sorry for not making an entry for a month. Haven't had much to write down these days. I should explain what has happened up till now.

Death in a Related Family

My Dad's Brother's Aunt's Sister was found dead by a possible overdose or a mixture of drugs, based on what I was given (I'm rarely on the loop of family issues and general topics). Even though I never knew this woman, dad claims I did years ago. After seeing a few pictures of her after the funeral I attended, did ring some bells but nothing much else. I didn't want to attended the funeral since I barely to never knew her, so didn't see the point in going. Not like it means anything for not being there, but dad made one of his infamous guilt trip moves on me to get me to attend.

Birthday

My birthday was the 14th, 22 years old now. It was... special this time. One I'm sure to remember for a long time. Gotten a lot of gifts, coincidental, in TF2 by secret saxtons, gives a random gift to someone on the server, that a few people were doing on a server I go to usually. Got some weapons, one I've been wanting for a long time and to craft, the Homewrecker. It'll really come in handing.

What really made this special is that on Sunday, birthday weekend, after the church service, I was called into the office to be told the church council has agreed to pay me $25 (may increase in the future) for my service with the sound board. I was surprised by this. The church was only paying me for funerals and weddings (from $25 to $50) at the time, but actually getting a schedule payment was the best! Unfortunately, mom isn't the least surprised or proud of this as she will still bug me to get a job that's probably on a 4-5 day a week basis, since this is only a one day a week job. I do want her to ease up though since I do have a paying job now and can start to be financially independent, however will be on payment and money management responsibilities like taxes, insurance, save up for any maintenance, gas, and save up money for personal use like games, but on a low priority.

Antilia Alpha Test Session

There was an alpha testing session for Antilia on the same weekend of my birthday. Still loving every minute of it. It was more of a performance test instead of content/feature test. Last test session people were having trouble getting online due to quality, memory usage, and loading. This test was a huge success thankfully. I've only gotten a few disconnects, been happening since Alpha started, but before my game would crash or not load at all and would require to restart my system. Something about video memory getting filled up.

There was another issue that arose in the last testing that was handled very well by the dev and mods in-game. It was possible to be naked in the game (no explicit detail fortunately). The issue was that since the game has anthropomorphic races and some people's view about the furry fandom being mainly "sex with animals", there was a risk of controversy happening because of the nudity. The dev and mods were strict against it. Thankfully it didn't get out of hand, some did it for fun but wouldn't last long as they would get warned to put their clothes on (males could be shirtless though). In the next testing session, underwear, or censorwear due to them being black, was added, pretty much painted, in a quick 10 min job late Friday night, said the dev.

Here's what they looked like during the 5.6.0b version in different angles (last weekend testing session):

    

(The female is a friend of mine who also took pictures for archiving, the male is me.)

In the forums, Jeff, the dev I've mentioned earlier, announced "The devs and I have decided to remove the undergarments and implement a different system anyway, so they won't be there in the next release." (From this thread: Screenshot Thread) My intentions at first were to see if anyone had any ideas of how they could be better, and to get a better view of them too before posting. I withdrew from what Jeff said, however.

If I showed pictures of what they looked like nude and if Jeff sees this blog entry, he'll demand I take them off while holding a giant mallet that the blue kitty can never weal with big glaring blinding eyes. I don't think he'll mind too much on the pictures of the censorwear though.

My friend in the pictures would view them as swimsuits (bikini and trunks) while at a beach, just to make things a bit fun and maybe encourage folks to join in the fun and silliness. It was a great testing session for me, and others at the end. Very fun. The next one is expected to be on the 29th and 30th of September.

Currently: Sore Throat and Frequent Sneezing

Up to this point, I've gotten a sudden sore throat for a few days now and starting to sneeze more frequently. It could be my allergies are acting up or I might be coming down with something.

Currently: Mom has a job

On September 21st, 2012, after 21 months of being unemployed and going through 17 job interviews with 1 call back, Mom finally has a job.