Blackout is my first and only attempt at writing an episode length screenplay. I am an avid fan of Doctor Who, so it was only appropriate that I try my hand at writing a Doctor Who episode. I tried to keep the Doctor and Companion vague, but my brain was floating somewhere between Eleven and …
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Time to Orbit: Unknown – Readings
Time to Orbit: Unknown is a free serial by Derin Edala posted at their website. You can support Derin via Patreon. Links to the chapters will be placed before the corresponding audio file. Disclaimer: There is no set schedule for recording these and I cannot promise to continue recording these. 001: Javelin (14m:13s) 002: Duty …
TF2 Mapping – Cow_Dustbowl, KOTC_Prefab
Introduction As a novice TF2 mapper, I spent entirely too long trying to come up with game modes that would never be conventionally popular. Perhaps the best example of this is my Cow_ and KOTC_ game modes. Cow_ Game Mode Cow_ is an attack/defend mode where the defending team is protecting several wooden cutouts of …
House in Piranesi and The Doctor’s Wife
Piranesi is a book by Susanna Clarke published in 2020. The Doctor’s Wife is an episode of Doctor Who by Neil Gaiman that aired in 2011. What do they have in common? House. In this essay, I will…
show that the House in Piranesi, a seemingly endless span of rooms containing marble statues and an ocean, is literally the same character as House in The Doctor’s Wife, Season 6, Episode 4.
The Art of GIF-making (Including “That’s a penis”)
Introduction: I have made a number of GIFs that I’ve posted on tumblr. Most of them are very, very dated at the point in time. I’m going to link them (all?) on a separate page and try to categorize them a bit. Most of these GIFs were developed for Tumblr from a period of 2010 …
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Half-Life Musical: 1 – “Song of the Black Mesa Transit System”
Return to Summary Page [Gordon Freeman enters stage left. He stands for a moment in his scientist outfit and opens his mouth to speak.] Barney [off stage]:Gordon Freeman, is that you?Aha! I knew it was.The boys in blue are inviting youto join us and get buzzed Scientist [enter stage right]:Gordon Freeman! There you are!Looks like …
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Half-Life Musical: 0 – Summary Page
Author’s note: There are no plans to continue this project at this time. On February 8, 2021, Marc Laidlaw (writer on the Half-Life series) posted a tweet about finding song titles for the non-existent “Half-Life Musical.” The song titles are in the image at the bottom of this post. I have no plans on writing …
Going up together? AKA btmap1_rc
Teamwork Required. In the Days of Olde, Portal 2 did not have the Perpetual Testing Initiative, which means that making Portal 2 maps required one to go into Hammer, get things set up for Portal 2, and generally scour the “Thinking With Portals” forum for information. While playing Portal 2, the level designer in me …
Zombie Fortress – ZF_Industry
Introduction: Zombie Fortress is a mod for Team Fortress 2 that’s been around since 2008 (Official 1.0.0 release on September 20, 2008). The earliest reference to “Zombie Fortress” I’ve found is from July 2008, where Lurk (also known as Sirot) posted about a Zombie class on the Penny-Arcade TF2 forums (honestly I’m not sure of …
UE4 – The Maskening
Introduction: During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, Allen Pan created a launcher that launches masks onto people’s faces. Around this time, I was experimenting with Unreal Engine 4 and decided the scope of my project was too large. A Discord server I’m on linked to the Reddit post and highlighted one of the comments: It …
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