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Smith, the Ascendant

“Oh God!”
“Smith will suffice.”

2010 03 06 yzt hilarious
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United States of Zombieland

The other day, my brother Ehsan recommended two new movies for me to see. One was Tarantino’s “Inglorious Basterds“, which is of course a no-brainer, and the other was “Zombieland“. Man his taste is impeccable!
I am now exactly 3 minutes and 14 seconds into the film (I swear to all the Random Number Gods that [...]

2009 11 20 yzt Comments (3)

Dragon Age, plus God of War Collection

I had heard of the new Bioware RPG Dragon Age: Origins but I guess I had forgotten about it. Today, I stumbled upon a couple of reviews and some videos and now I’m in love with the game! It appears to be very long (which probably means a few months of gameplay for me; yay!), [...]

2009 11 06 yzt books
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Self-justifying Choices

Running away is a solution to many things. Giving up, throwing in the towel, passing the buck, unshouldering the burden, admitting your incapability, playing dead…
It’s a perfect solution for mediocrity, isn’t it?
If you thought that was the rant, you’re sourly mistaken. Here it is.
Let’s try a thought experiment. Nothing real, just a wild and fantastical [...]

2009 08 05 yzt ignore
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

I watched “Watchmen” last night and I liked it. Most of the movie was quite mature and “grown up”, as opposed to other teenager-friendly comic book-based movies like Spider Man.
Let me tell you what I didn’t like in the movie. I didn’t like the casting. All the characters, with the exception of Rorschach (Jackie Haley, [...]

2009 03 22 yzt Comments (2)

Dead as Dead Can Be

Found a great “mood” poem (here) the other day:

Wake up and see
I’m dead as dead can be
The doctor told me.
Some day, I’ll get up, I’ll get up and walk away
Wake up, face me
Don’t play dead, cause baby,
I’ll spit at your feet and say-
‘you fuc*king disappoint me.’
Dead as dead can be,
Cold and too far away to [...]

2009 03 06 yzt Poetry Comments (2)

Death In His Blood

Death… is in my blood.
Fate has brought me here.
I hope for nothing.
I fear nothing.
If you haven’t already seen the new God of War III trailer, cut off your pinkie and go watch it immediately (here’s the lower-resolution version if you are bandwidth-bound.) This is a great trailer, one that makes you lose sleep or want [...]

2009 02 15 yzt cool
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Daring EA

I just noticed that EA – a game publisher that is mostly known for popular, unoriginal and mediocre game – was responsible for Spore, Mirror’s Edge and Dead Space in 2008.
I like the idea of the first two and the implementation of the third (although I’ve yet to play any of them in any meaningful [...]

2009 01 06 yzt Comments (26)

Better Soshiant Videos

Here are two higher-resolution in-game videos from Soshiant: one (~90MiB) and two (~86MiB).
Here’s another video (~71MiB) showing some characters from concept, through modeling, to animations.
Note that our engine is not even in alpha. There are many bugs present, most of with are level design bugs due to our rush for the exhibition (camera placements and [...]

2008 11 04 yzt Soshiant
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Awesomeness!

Amir Hosein made a post to the OGRE showcase forums about Soshiant. The response is overwhelmingly positive. I’m hoping that our love, care and enthusiasm can fuel our effort for just another year or two, and I believe we will make it, and we’ll make it big time!

2008 10 31 yzt Soshiant
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Soshiant Demo

The Soshiant website just went live. (UPDATE: Here’s the English homepage.)
And again, we are pulling an all-nighter to ready everything for the exhibition that opens tomorrow. This will be the first time that the public sees our baby, and you could imagine how excited we are.
However, there’s still a long road to go for Soshiant [...]

2008 10 21 yzt Soshiant
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Reign o’er Me

He didn’t have a traumatizing childhood. He didn’t have a lover who’d left him. He didn’t have children that had died in his arms. He didn’t have a wife withered from a wasting disease. He had not killed anybody. He wasn’t enslaved or mistreated. He hadn’t suffered a great loss to mourn. He hadn’t have [...]

2008 08 21 yzt rants Comments (0)

Weeping Blood

Everything was ready. The ordinary razor blade was broken in two to provide better grip and control, the tissue papers to dry the blood that would be running shortly, the ash tray to gather the excess blood and soaked tissues, the lit candle for the hot wax that he would use later to fill the [...]

2008 07 19 yzt ignore
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