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Underwear Ninja comes with Space Suit
to blog or not to blog, which is the path a true underwear ninja must take? whichever path it be, it will surely be a rough-hewn one. argyle, possibly. |
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Sunday, August 20, 2006
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seattle: day two
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so i get up and take some shots of the alexandria rossoff building. it's got a funky "apple core" base and is the focus of most of the pics i took out of my hotel room window. mostly because its the only really interesting building that i have a few of.
head down to the lobby at 7am
chris has some problems with his card key (he left it in the room) so i had some time to peruse the USA today. well well well look what they're talking about in the lifestyle section. microsoft to unviel XNA for creating your own video games *pictured here*. to be released TODAY.
hmph. i wish i woulda heard it before america did but oh well. i'm here and that's that. turns out that the keynote speaker was talking about the picture that was in the newspaper.
after a quick walk to the harbor coz we got lost, we ended up at the convention. which, as it turns out, was right next door.
yada yada yada boring keynote address that unviels the XNA program. i like the concept. and i wanna try it out.
the smallest room in the whole convention was allocated fo the audio track of classes.
and man o man were those confusing
they basically told all about the guts of XNA and how it's a little different from earlier directX in the way it routes, processes, and plays audio. how it's very similar to PC in most ways. and its all very technical and very powerpoint-oriented.
ya it was rough and i'm gonna have to look back at those notes and powerpoints again. i haven't even worked on 1 xbox title yet and there's people (like the guy that wrote the music for the "halo" series) in there that have the pleasure of asking questions like "what's the advantage of multi-streaming on 4 and 5 instead of 1 and 2?" and other gibberish that i'm too ignorant to understand.
what I wanna know is "how do you put sound in an xbox game...." ugh i'm outta my league here.. i feel like "derrr derr dughghh"
after a day of banging my head on my table there was a par-tay across town at a bar/segway transport/barbeque club.
yes, it was a mishmash of things that didn't seem to go with each other very well.
there were:
xbox 360 games on plasmas screens to play on the walls.
a live band on stage. but no drummer. just a drum track. (lame) especially lame since the reason to go to one of these partys is to network and mingle. and it made it really hard to do when everything you say has to be a shout and every other word people say is "what?!?"
an open bar, which was nice.
fannnnntastic barbeque chicken and pork!
gogo dancers, which was nice too but a little awkward considering the current clientel. it was actually pretty funny to see the geeks of the US stand and stare at gogo dancers.
a mini segway transport rink. really mini.
its hard to look "cool" on one of those.
unfortunately, i didn't think to take pics of it except for one of the stupid gimmicks that the band had to try to sell a cd of their crap *pictured here*.
the bus back to the hotel was nothing of note and would have been unworthy of a tale save for 1 "gentleman" who, when he got on the bus, yelled "yaaaaaa, microsoft PARTY! woohooooo!" very sarcastically and then gave the entire bus the finger.
...and then proceeded to tell us how ignorant we all are because the engine only uses 1/6th its processing power. how we're all "fucking idiots" because we didn't utilize out multi-threading. mind you, he's yelling all this. apparently he takes these things very personally.
he singled out a middle-age woman and started calling her a fucking moron. she said "i have no idea what you're talking about" and he was shouting about how that's the problem.
"you just wait til christmas! when you're all out of a job!!"
and as it happened, one of the lead program designers for xbox was sitting next to him.
i could elaborate on what their conversation was about (since i was sitting right in back of him) but i'll just say that he put him in his place. the dude was almost to tears after being told about what makes a good processor and what, instead, makes a good video game. |
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posted by underwear ninja
1:08 AM
 
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What an awful thing to do to a perfectly good segway. It looks like a pimped up PEZ.
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Yaaaa, microsoft PARTY! woohoooo!
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What an awful thing to do to a perfectly good segway. It looks like a pimped up PEZ.