I bet you all thought I’d let the SlaugtherFest V fester and dump it to the curb! LIES!
Sometimes, all it takes is the presence of another l33t h4xx0r to the those coding juices going. CypherXor came by yesterday and while he was coding his own cool stuff, I was coding on my opus… SlaughterFest V.
I’m happy to report that we finally have movement 
huzzah!
I’ll post another update later on today with more information, but I just had to get this out there
Hello all,
Just before my birthday, my computer went KABLOOM! Kabloom, as you may be aware of, is not a sound that one wishes to hear out of one’s own computer, especially when not only is it brand new but all the components no longer have the 90 day manufacturer warranty anymore. *sigh*
Well, today I finally got all my replacement peices and was ready to rebuild it. Things were going fine if somewhat slowly because of a new cooling solution for my computer. This thing is a monster. Really. It comes with mounting brackets that you attach to the back of the motherboard for support! Not only does it work amazingly, it’s completely silent!
Anyway, I did something dumb, and ended up slicing up my finger pretty good. A visit to the emergency room later, I was back home ready to finish what I started. As they say, if at first you don’t succeed, you still have 9 more fingers.
Long story short, my computer is back in action and it’s better than ever I love it.
This is one of those small victories that make a lot of crap worth it…
Since early childhood we are taught that newer is better. The new toy outshines the old one. That new car is better than the one you just finished paying for. Etc, etc.
Of course I’m too smart to buy into that junk, right? Well, maybe not. I spent some time installing Visual Studio 2005 because it’s newer, better, shinier. Of course, I then had to set about to convert by game project which compiled and ran fine in Visual Studio 2003. This should be painless, right?
I know what you’re thinking right now. You’re thinking that I’m trying to lead you to believe that it was easy but instead it was really hard, right? Well, no.
It was actually really easy. I opened the project and 2 seconds later I was set. Or so I thought.
What VS can’t do is help you from yourself. Old libraries needed to be recompiled, and this meant the PopCap SexyFramework as well. While the project was converted admirably and compiled, tons and tons of compiler and linker warning were spewed. I should have paid attention to them, but I was eager to play with my new toy. Recompiling SlaughterFest V seemed to work fine… until I actually had to change the code. To make a long story short, I finally got everything to work perfectly, downloaded a VS 2005 friendly version of SexyFramework, and spent hours and hour just to get to parity!
Yay!
Well, it’s not all bad. The new IDE is actually rather nice and has a few features that have been sorely lacking in the previous releases, features that make my life easier, and that’s what it’s all about: spending an entire night wrestling with arcane errors to make my life easier…
On a related note, I haven’t worked on the SlaughterFest V since my last update on it maily due to work. Now, having reached the good place, I think I’ll be able to devote a few hours during the weekend to continue this project. I can’t wait.
I will now issue a challenge to myself. Self, I challenge you to update this blog by Sunday morning *with good news* about the status of the project.
Let’s see how things go.
The president’s bold, inspiring words during the State of the Union address were… bold and inspiring. After assuring us that everything is many shades of peachy and/or keen, he said:
I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research: human cloning in all its forms, creating or implanting embryos for experiments, creating human-animal hybrids, and buying, selling, or patenting human embryos.
So the president’s official stance of furries is finally known. I was personally afraid he would flip-flop on the issue, but it’s good to know that he’s a god-fearing man of convictions.
