here’s the blood necro build i’m playing with right now: awaken the blood, soul leech, vampiric gaze, mark of subversion, life siphon, dark pact, well of blood, and res signet. i’ve got 15 attribute points for blood magic (17 when awaken the blood is active) and the rest for soul leeching. it’s working pretty well [...]
i went shopping to get a usb cable so i could put some movies on my psp in preparation for a looong airplane flight. i was pleasantly surprised to find a nice package with not only the usb cable but also a nine inch nails dvd! it’s a little cheesy cuz most of it is [...]
korean numbers are weird. there’s actually two different sets of words used for the numbers. there is a set of korean words for counting things and a set of chinese based words for things like phone numbers and addresses. this is totally bizarre! and i thought the usa was backwards for not using the metric [...]
hex edit a shader compiled with the HLSL compiler and you’ll see it has added a bunch of extra data. it has an embedded constant table and a big fat string saying the compiler version. if you are making an intro this is wasting bytes! here’s the easiest way to strip that out. compile in [...]
microsoft’s HLSL compiler is nice. it’s amazing that you can do the math behind the ps1.1 texm3x3vspec instruction and the compiler recognizes it and emits a single instruction. when it does that you get the feeling that the compiler is a sentient genius carefully studying and optimizing your code. but of course cruel reality eventually [...]
halloween is over but it was great while it lasted. the mad king came to lion’s arch to give out treats and play games on monday. here’s some fun screenshots from the event: roaring for the king, paper scissors rock, tripping on absinthe, tripping on witch’s brew, reward, matching moon, dance