As someone who likes to use school computers for their intended purpose, that is, playing flash games, it's hard to stay ahead of what is blocked and what you can get away with. One discovery out of absolute thin air is that of a game known as Leaders Strike 3D, a first person shooter that lets you gun brawl as an assortment of world leaders, past and present. These leaders include Abraham Lincoln, Vladimir Putin, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Angela Merkel, Kim Jong Un, and Hillary Clinton. It's a very basic game, with a small amount of basic mechanics (like shooting jumping, ADSing, crouching, etc.), but they come together to make a coherent experience that is more than you could ask for in any free online game. The discovery of this game has led to a search for more, a larger craving for interesting free experiences untamed by the schools lackluster firewall. Its a real journey searching for unblocked websites, but it is a fruitful endeavor in the end. What you find is a cascade of unheard of gems, in which you can fight your friends in blocky worlds with mediocre online, or fight massive spiders with rocket launchers. It is an amazing felling to discover games like these, even by accident, like in the case of Leaders Strike 3D, where we came across it on complete accident. However you discover something in this vain, it's always a pleasure.
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In my DDA class, we are beginning to work with parametric modeling. This is probably going to be the hardest unit in this course, and it definitely is as of now. Realistic modeling has always been on the horizon, but I never really wanted to get there. I have always feared entering that territory. After learning a little about it, it doesn't seem impossible, but it still looks like it's gonna be a massive step into 3D modeling, weather I'm ready to take it or not. I lot of things have me very worried. One of those things is how one wrong detail could ruin a whole design. And since there will be so many more vertices/edges/etc. to work with, this seems a lot scarier. I'm also worried for the school computers. They obviously aren't that good, so I'm willing to put money on me losing important work in the future due to an unfortunate crash. One last worry is how closely we'll have to follow tutorials and the margin for error. I don't know how hard it will be to follow tutorials or how long tutorials will be, but it seems so daunting having to follow a hour long tutorial (with pauses for actually getting stuff done) and get it 90% correct. Basically, all I'm hoping for is creative freedoms. Overall, I think I'll manage. I have with every other unit, and if that doesn't work, I'll just have to meme my way out by making things look bad "on purpose".
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