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I like to sexualize my drawsomething drawings with stick figures for fun.

andyTHPS — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 01:29:34 +0000

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Food Comma

andyTHPS — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:53:16 +0000

Food Comma

Cartographer – Paradox

andyTHPS — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 22:12:03 +0000

Demo of Paradox from my band, Cartographer.

Could use some touching up and some extra colors and instrumentation, but I think it’s pretty slammin’.

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Cartographer – Stockholm Syndrome

andyTHPS — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 22:08:19 +0000

The latest iteration of Stockholm Syndrome from my band, Cartographer.

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Dummy’s guide to wiring your home internet. The alternative to home WiFi for under $10

andyTHPS — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:50:00 +0000

I have a wireless router and it functions just fine, but I need to get the most out of my internet’s potential bandwidth, and WiFi just won’t cut it especially when transferring large files to-and-from FTP’s or playing First Person Shooters on a consistent basis.

I’ve heard of a lot of cases where someone’s wireless router is too far from their laptop, XBox360, or PS3 to get good WiFi reception. Instead of calling an electricion, drilling holes, trying to manage with Wifi extenders, or just waving your laptop around in the air to get better reception, I always give them this list of items to get off of Amazon to remind them that wired internet is insanely better and still an option.

Here’s what you need to run a cable across your home.

100ft ethernet cable – RJ45 CAT5 CAT5E Ethernet LAN Network Cable 100ft White
Clips for ethernet cable – Gardner Bender #PCS-100 1/4″100/BX Coax Staple

Run your new 100 ft cable across the house, and into your gaming console or PC.
Use a hammer to mount your clips and ethernet cable up walls, along the ceiling, floor, door frames etc. to keep things tidy, and prevent people from tripping over cords on the floor.

Done!

Depending on your situation.. You also might need:

A hammer to nail clips into the wall – 8-oz. Tubular Steel Claw Hammer
Another small cable or two – Ethernet Cable, CAT5e – 25 ft White
Cable extender (in case 100 ft isn’t enough) – RJ45 Coupler F-F Straight
A Router – Cisco-Linksys WRT54GL Wireless-G Broadband Router
A Hub – NETGEAR FS605NA 5-Port Fast Ethernet Switch

A Hub will let you split the signal once again into 4. So if you have multiple devices across the house, you can run your 1 long cable into the hub, and plug everything else into it to prevent having to mount a ton of cords across your home.

Here’s how my cable flow goes.

Cable modem in living room
5 ft. ethernet cable from Cable Modem to Router IN
Three 5ft. ethernet cables from Router OUT to PS3, Macbook, and PC
One 100 ft ethernet cable from Router OUT, across house and IN to a HUB
Four 5 ft ethernet cables OUT from HUB and IN to Xbox360, Mac Pro, and PC.
The router also supports WiFi for laptops, iPads, and mobile devices around the house so I can be disconnected if I want.

Hopefully this helps someone.

I know I’ve had to gather these links for a few people, and it’ll be nice to just give them this post instead.

I don’t always open Journals in Diablo 3..

andyTHPS — Sun, 20 May 2012 19:57:40 +0000

On Diablo 3 journals..

Simple collision in THPSHD please

andyTHPS — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:10:02 +0000

After seeing a recent post from TonyHawksProSkaterHD‘s Facebook…

This screenshot and everything else has been looking great, and I am really excited about the game, but I just feel like I need to voice some opinions in hopes that the right eyes see it and hopefully avoid some common mistakes that were made by people making levels for extreme sports games in the past.

I know that we all want our modern games to look really pretty these days, but for most games (especially THPS), can we please keep the collision simple? We want objects to act consistent, and not have any surprises with extra geo/collision like garbage, decals, pylons, rafters, pillars, sticking out from walls or on the floor that break our wallrides or stop our manuals.

After looking at the floor – I really hope that any variety in height to correlate to pretty grates, metal plates and etc. are minimal enough to keep your manuals going.

I look at that airplane, and while I know it’s almost exactly what was in THPS2… that doesn’t mean it was perfect. I figure most players look at it, and just see one big kicker, and that’s how I believe it should be. I don’t want to have to dodge certain geo sticking out, or worry about running into anything when trying to use it. In fact, I’m pretty sure the one in THPS2 had a staircase on the other side that was pretty troublesome. I’d either cut it or slap one smooth plane over it and skate up it. Fuck it. Either that or put in briefcases shaped like wedges on each step so you could skate up it. Good enough for me!

Can I get an amen?

Schumacher by Corey Wallace

andyTHPS — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:58:08 +0000

A friend put me in touch with Corey Wallace to drum out some stuff to replace his drum loops for a commercial he was working on.

Thanks, Corey. I’m a fan of new friends.

Schumacher by Corey Wallace

Country tunes by Nathan Matthew David

andyTHPS — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:33:41 +0000

Drummed up some stuff for a couple country queues by Nathan Matthew David. Good times.
Country B – Nathan Matthew David

Country B – Nathan Matthew David
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Nathan Matthew David – Constellations

andyTHPS — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 23:09:15 +0000

So much is open for really exploding across the kit with this composition. The bridge is so intense. I absolutely love it. Cheers to Nathan.

Constellations – Nathan Matthew David (demo)