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Not a lot going on this week. Work is still progressing, and I seem to have graduated. Ugh. I didn't apply to graduate and I didn't plan to graduate until Spring 2011. Well, no party for me I guess. Just one more thing that doesn't fall into place for me.

Otherwise, things are quiet here. I'd love to tell everyone that I have a lot of cool things happening, but I just don't. I have been getting into the PSN version of FFVII and Symphony of the Night. I've been going further and further in Heart Gold. Otherwise, all's quiet on the home front. I'll be sure you let everyone know if anything changes.

Let me know if you want to game a bit, I'm pretty free these days.

I uploaded a series of eight pictures from an Interview Magazine photo shoot of Megan Fox. I know she isn't the top choice of some of you, but she's still pretty hot and the photo shoot is pretty cool anyway.

Without further ado: Megan Fox as a Narcissistic Lesbian Android

Also, just to let everyone know, I fixed the issue that was showing up with the PDF and RSS feed. You can now save any article you desire to PDF (I don't know why you'd want to, I've just always made it an option) and the RSS feed of my news posts works again. You can find the feed here. Subscribe with your favorite reader.

On a side note, I also tweaked the theme to not show the right column in the gallery to make some more room for images. In addition to that, I added a couple category thumbnails for the sake of consistency and formatting. And I uploaded a new gallery.

Be sure to read the description if you want to have any idea what the pictures are about. Note that the gallery may be considered NSFW. By some. Maybe not by others. It's tough to tell, but just be on the safe side. Link to the gallery here.

Hello everyone! First let me say that I am not dead. My recent lack of updates may point to the contrary, but I assure you I still have a pulse and pull some breath.

I have been doing my best to relax this Summer break. I have been playing a few games to try to get them out of my queue. And reading, and watching television, etc. You know, normal Summer stuff. What have I been doing you ask?

• Vampire Hunter D Graphic Novel, Volume 4 (Amazon.com)
• Return to the Labyrinth Volume 3 (Amazon.com)
• Alice in Wonderland (Amazon.com)
• Alice in Wonderland (The Surprisingly Not Difficult To Watch New Disney Version) (Amazon.com)
• Cowboy Bebop (Anime Database)
• Pokemon Heart Gold (Nintendo/Pokemon)
• Super Mario Galaxy 2 - Beat the game with some help from Amber and Chrys (Nintendo)
• God of War - Finally got 100% of the Trophies in the PS3 Remake of God of War(GodOfWar.com)
• 3D Dot Game Heroes - Tongue-In-Cheek Retro Game Ripoff/Homage Humor (3DDotGameHeroes.com)
  

And this is why I haven't been around lately.

Well, contrary to my last post, I didn't really give up. What I did was reinstall everything and try again. I got the same errors, so the problem was probably not on my end. What are the chances that I would make the same errors twice in a row, right?

Anyway, I posted new info to the Panda3D forums and waited. I thought maybe the holiday last weekend was causing delays, but after a week, I'm guessing that I'm not going to get an answer at all. I checked earlier this afternoon and there were 65 views of my post, but not a single reply. No "This is what you do to fix it," no "Have you checked so-and-so setting?" and not even a "hehe, you suck at this." Nothing, nada, niet.

I have decided to try another engine. I'm attempting the same project in the Ogre3D engine. This one is high-quality, incredibly so in fact. The downside is that it's a rendering engine only. If I want networking, I add it in myself. If I want control input, I add it in myself. If I want sound even, I have to add it all in myself.

It allows for a lot of flexibility, but at an added learning curve. Oh well, we'll see how it turns out.