or: Time spent after watching The Mentalist and having a bad team in Dota 2.

Friends (yes I have a nonzero number of them)
I forgot how much fun it is to hang out with people other than my roommates. We had a few people stay the weekend, and we had a great time. We went to a bakery that had PORK BUNS OMG and other delicious treats. Also they got drunk. I don't drink--the smell of alcohol gives me a headache--and I'm glad now. The stuff smelled like a sharpie. They were drinking cheap, knockoff sharpie ink. It was hilarious, especially a few spit-takes when they tried to drink it straight. They basically forced one sober guy to leave for being too sober, but they let me stay cuz I'm chill about everything (also it's my room). One guy had an epiphany about his life, and we had been trying for 3 months to get him to see, so this sharpie is something strong. I hadn't seen a few of these guys in a while, so it was nice to catch up.

Fuck uni
Thanks to some fine print that wasn't actually provided to me, I have 12 less credits to take in order to graduate! So I'm back on track for 4 years, unless I fail something. I say that because in one class I'm not doing very hot. I understand the material and people come to me when they need help, but the homework. Homework is ~60% of the grade overall, and there's little partial credit. It's a coding class, so they make a program to grade the files. If your program doesn't consistently give the correct answer for their test cases, you get -50 points right off the bat. They don't tell us what the test cases are, and, for some assignments, they don't give us anything to compare our answers to. Close only counts in not this class. The other computing classes I've been in will at least look at your code and award partial credit if you had the general idea going.

I always seem to pick the hardest teacher for a given class, maybe because that's the only section that I can sign up for. I'm a bit ahead, so I don't have class-picking priority over older students, and so I get what's left. I had to choose a 3 hour lab at either 8am thurs or 6pm fri since those were the only ones left. SIX TO NINE FRIGGIN POST MERIDIEM ON A FRIDAY. I don't have the greatest social life, but come on. Obviously I picked the 8am.

I have 4 classes left to take for my minor, but I can't sign up for them until a week after the majors sign up for the classes. Three more days till I can sign up, and they're all already full. So I have to get an override or overload or something because this system is dumb. Sigh...#collegeproblems

Game(s)
Progress has slowed a bit all around, but I think that's just my perception. I've been doing the battle system for jugg 2, and it takes longer to make than something simple like the overworld or cutscenes (lol simple). I have to work on other facets of the game while coding the battles to keep focus, usually a menu or something I've put off doing. I totally lied about finishing in 2-3 months btw.

Creating the cinematic-esque animations in battle is interesting. I have to use dynamic programming and hard-coding, the two things you're kinda supposed to avoid. Avoiding dynamic programming in a game that uses no cpu is stupid cuz it's so useful. Animations kinda have to be hard-coded, but I feel dirty. A certain attack has its animation sequence panned out, and the next attack doesn't share anything with the previous. Some attacks need multiple animations for multiple casters! I somehow made projectiles share the same code as moving within cutscenes, so it kinda worked out. Also, I had to make a particle generator which took 10 mins. Does that mean I'm good at coding or something?

Everything else is kinda on hold/when I feel like it/waiting on art. I'm kinda doing stuff for the heat transfer alien guy, but mainly doodling how the game should work. It's strange to see game design amid calculus problems.

Umm
Don Jon wasn't in theaters anymore. I saw Ender's Game. I'm gonna participate in at least one club next semester. I went to a tailgate before a football game. We won. I'm too scared to see what I look like with facial hair to participate in no-shave november. I just realized it's still before midnight.