umm.. shit sorry. I shouldn't post about this. (client will be angry if google search for the product comes to teamliquid.net lol)
wish there was an option to delete a blog..
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OK.
Basically (without naming anything) I've been in the software industry for a year now. I've been working on the software that drives a new music deliverance system on USB disk. It's been advertised and shit in the news and this is kind of scary. It's strange seeing your work get advertised. I would link to the news except I dont want the client's google search for his product going here instead of his own site.
If you want to see the news about it, google "australian music industry USB"
Is anybody here into the whole 'chiptune scene' ? I've been getting into it a lot and have started to try make my own but im pretty bad. Just wondering if there's anyone here who wants to give me some tips or point me to valuable resources. Cheers.
btw if u dno wtf im talking about just search wikipedia for chiptunes
EDIT: I guess I should help people understand by posting some chiptunes by my favourite guys.
After reading a recent blog post by intrigue where he mentioned that introduction posts are interesting, it made me think, maybe I should do one... It feels a bit late, 1307 posts later.... whatever, I wouldn't normally be so self-important, but since intrigue said such posts are interesting; stay awhile, and listen!
My name's Dwain. I'm not black (apparently the name is quite common among black people in America...not that it matters). As far as StarCraft goes, I started playing the game around 1999/2000 when my brother burned the game off a friend. I didn't like the look of it at first, but when I started playing it, my obsession for the game grew like an obnoxious weed. It was to such an extent, that my brother was annoyed at how much I was hogging the computer, and started hiding the CD from me. It only took one slip-up on his part, where he left it out unattended, and I burnt the CD for myself, for which I have the CD-key memorized by heart, in my brainzor. My brother gave up trying to stop me.
I started out on fastmap which unfortunately lasted like three years T_T. A few months of BGH eventually lead me and my best mate to the glory that is low maps. Oh, I feel I should say something more about my best mate, prOxi.nextGen. It's important to note, me and him have both been tight gaming partners since around 1999/2000, we both started at the same time, and I owe him a lot of thanks for all the good times. We've always been really evenly-matched in StarCraft, which I think is what made the game so fun for me (aside from being the best game ever made, of course).
Discovering low maps was awesome. Without that, I wouldn't know about the pro scene, would never have played at WCG, and *gasp* tl.net would also be no more than something I'd vaguely heard of. And I'd never have met and played with some of Australia's best, and I'm glad I have 'cause they're all awesome dudes (especially Bazza, though I never met him in person since he's from another state).
Over the years I was in a few clans (and where I went, my buddy went), but eventually I decided I'd make my own team. That was in 2004. We're still plodding along to this day, and our website is still relatively active. It's something I'm pretty proud of. We're such a close family, all our main guys have been there almost since the beginning. And I know they'll never leave, 'cause they don't want to, even when we do experience severe drops in activity. It's family!
Outside of StarCraft, I'm a Software Developer. Or Computer Scientist, Software Engineer, whatever people are calling it these days, who knows. Team Liquid keeps me from my job a bit, but it's worth it (<3 tlnet). I'm actually in my first actual real development job, which is exciting. But next year I'm going back to University to finish my degree (Bachelor of Science - Professional Software Development), while maintaining this job part-time. I love software, as it satisfies my hunger to solve problems. I can't imagine doing anything else (well - anything else that has a good job market).
Though brought up as a Christian, I'm an Atheist, which my mother finds a bit difficult to accept. I hope one day all children are allowed to grow up and decide on their own religion (if they feel so inclined), rather than be brought up as a muslim, jew, catholic or any other.
I'm at TeamLiquid because it's easily one of the best things StarCraft has produced. All the mods are great, the community members are great, the humor is great. There aren't many forums I frequent, tl.net is special!
I love how the teamliquid staff are given special privileges (and so they should!), and have a 'go fuck yourself' attitude when newbs whine about it. Everybody says it how it is around here, and I like that.
Anyway that's me, what I'm about, and why I'm here.
And with it I bought Tetris. I must say it's quite fun. Pwning (and often being owned by) the countless Japanese players over wi-fi is addictively fun.
For all you mofos who have a DS, I'm wondering if any of you have purchased one of those loader cards which you put heaps of ROMs on to play illegally (hehe). If so, what brand of card should I get? R4, M3 and TT seem to be the options to choose from. Can anyone recommend me anything?
(also recommend games hehe!, and feel free to post ur tetris friendcode, mine is 115774811873)
OK here comes a whine blog. It doesn't feel like that long ago when I was an active aus-b team member and confidently won many games without too much struggle. I could make C+ PGTour quite easily and things felt great for me as a bw player. I was content with my skills. Maybe it was life calling, or just other distractions, I don't know, but it feels like only a few months have passed and suddenly everyone around me has improved so greatly that even C rank players have perfect timing, micro and macro. When did this happen? When did everyone suddenly become so good? It's like im playing against a progamer every time. :O
Actually, I guess it doesn't matter when everyone got so good. I just wanna know how you all did it. I still play somewhat regularly, albeit not as seriously, so the opportunity to get back up to par is there, just gotta seize it. Anyway, if anyone wants to come help me improve, come find me at op proxi on uswest onwards of 19:00 GMT+10 on week nights. And yes I know that is a ridiculous time in the USA, ruling out most of the people who would read this but w/e.
From the first day I heard about StarCraft II I knew I'd have to start saving some pennies for a new machine. Well, it's done. I just spent AU$2980 and while I thought it would feel rather scary handing over that kind of money, I found satisfaction knowing I'll be able to play StarCraft II at max settings 'til my heart's content.
You can see images there. StarCraft II might (quite probably) not even turn out to be as good as SC1 but hey, if anything was going to make me finally get off my ass and treat myself to an upgrade, SC2 was. If it weren't for SC2 this purchase would have felt wasteful.
