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Making a lighttube chair reminds me of when I was in my intro to philosophy course and the professor said “you can’t imagine something that you don’t know/can’t understand” and being stubborn I tried real hard and came up with a pink giraffe.  :-/

Looked at my arenas to figure out what’s going on. Also pirated photoshop - that’s how all worthwhile endeavors restart.

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Takeda has a shit reference face so he looks like the dude from the Burning, but, whatever.  Playing the game long enough to do some ghoul shit was the reward for spending hours deciding the best polygon for a razor/saw board.

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I like treating this super small following as those who are REALLY REAL and thus, you get my un-muted version containing the Morbid Angel I was listening to while making this video.  BEHIND THE SCENES.  Actually, not a huge Morbid Angel fan, although, one of my best friends, first time I met him was in a Sociology 101 course and he was wearing a Morbid Angel hat and at that time I was a deathcore nub and I thought he was an elitist but now we’re elitists together against a common friend who is still an aforementioned deathcore nub.  Real rec: All of Death Leprosy and Waylon Jennings.

Anyway, I’ve spent last two nights going through weapon hacks and making it logical.  Got these three activator weapons done and now on to more shit.

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I’ve only watched one deathmatch show since NGI and got a new job rediscovered political philosophy blah blah blah, but felt the need to return to form by making Drew Chaos, Vince Jones and Penelope Ford  - who will only be visible from a distance and as part of an entrance.  PRIORITIES MOTHER FUCKER.

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Fun fact: I am not a good arena modder. Actually, I’m not a good texture modder either, but FUCK IT!  Anyway, started work on a non-wraparound IWA MS arena from 2002-2003, showing progression from placement to actual design.  

I hate that Yuki Kasai fan I made and debate replacing him.. (blue clothes near crazy pipe guy).

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Thinking his fear shirt is next, then maybe a steelers jersey?

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Did more portraits and ALMOST finished the FUCKING CROWD!  Two more generic guys and..maybe another non-generic front row person...BUT WHO?! (they’d be near my NEW Little Mondo).

Unrelated note: I’m talking to a bot now who responded to a question about Zandig with asl...:-(  Oh, and I bought seeds for our garden - THIS PLAYA GON’ GET EARLY CAULIFLOWER AND POLE BEANS!

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I played Sole’s “Imsotired” instead of complaining about being tired. Good song.

Anyway, like...3/5 done portraits?  Some haven’t been upgraded at all, others need corrections - but, I think it looks cool and because this is so unnecessarily niche I really only need to satisfy myself.   I like Freakshow’s because he looks like a meatball and if you compare before/after Ito it’s pretty drastic/realistic.

In ToS news, I reserved a spot at a nearby campground 3 months in advance.  DEATH MATCH FAN-(planning)GOD!

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Ughh...did names for...5 hours?  Feel like there was some sort of trick I was unaware of.  Decided to not do the AKI-process for portraits and instead just use a filter - I prefer it and don’t give a fuck if it’s not AKI.

Now I only have 6 more stables to make pictures of!

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Took off another month for...oh, I was playing GTA VC (super good, beat it when I was a teenager and still enjoyed it) and then I got halfway through the original Max Payne and decided I wanted to learn Microsoft Access (for farm planning).  

Anyway, found a crowd stretch hack which, the original game just has half body textures with ghost legs (see left), whereas if I use the hack, and then resize (which means redumping/scaling) the skin, I can make fullsize Whack Packer (see right)! 

So, plan is to do that for the front row...back row arena-specific code did not work and fuck that, so I’m just going to recycle various promotion specific shirts on generic fans.  Then crowd is done and I can focus on the joy that is mapping Freakshow’s moveset.

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I’ve decided to make 8 Nick Gage attires. 

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Got over 70% complete attires.  Suck it.

Left = old

Right = new

Arsenal was added w/two attires

Almost finished Supreme’s second attire.  After that, fucking with dudes who have no reference pictures and then getting back to arena hacking.

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I’ve been posting a lot more regularly on twitter with updates (GAMS_inc) just because I’m on there a lot more.  I’ll still use this primarily as the place to capture all the shit that people don’t really need to see, like WIPS. This is still a WIP because I want to give him a bandana & necklace entrance attire, but...I think it looks good. Feel like I’m getting better at it, which, if I didn’t that would be a real sorry state of affairs.  

OH YEAH!  I can do arena specific crowds, 6 each promotion.  I know my IWA MS 6, but need help with CZW (little mondo, Shaft, Frank Talent...) need another three so any suggestions would be appreciated.

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That was way too much time on Lobo.  Anyway:

Top: Progression from nothing, to done but with fake colors, to done w/in game colors

Bottom: 3 versions of Lobo - still not 100% on hair/face (it’s just an in game face with big nose since I can’t find any) but I’m okay saying he’s done.

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Top: A GODDAMN DECENT REED BENTLEY REFERENCE PICTURE HAS PAID OFF!

Second: For some reason I gave Beater the wrong arm accessories, so fixed it and gave him his bionic pads and electric tape.  Also gave Abby his head dress and gave him an alternate attire so he’s basically done.

Third: My game isn’t the prettiest or smoothest, but it does have the most bizarre, selective, attention to detail.

Bottom: I sometimes wonder if modding is my primary interest, or secondary to making simple spreadsheets to compile said information.  Anyway, “less than done” includes shit I never started (BRANDON FUCKING PROPHET) and stuff that is 95% done (Jimmy Lloyd’s face needs some modification), etc...

*Unrelated to this, but listening to music while modding - can confirm Jeffrey Lewis is better than Lord Worm’s solo efforts.

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Progress has been slow at GAMS HQ.  Kid takes up a lot of time and haven’t had much desire to mod lately.  Did manage to update Hatred to have his new look.

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Looks about right.