BaconSandwich

Yo so I'm losing my mind right now. I made this render back in december when I bought the ticket to go to Florida to meet my friend. 
My sister took this picture last friday of us when we met. 

The outfits, the posing the everything. (the picture wasnt planned she just snapped it while we were walking)

To anyone who thinks you can't have a true friendship online, screw you. I just spent an entire week in Florida to meet my best friend in person. Yes, I flew all the way to Florida, and spent a week there just to see him for 3 hours. Do I regret it? Not at all, I'd do it again.

it's complete!

shield and sword:
full body

 

2000 rep wahahhdufajdfvdcxvfdojiojim 0i9k,09+o09i

look at 'em doin' a run

New PFP by Ember!

idk why but concrete footstep sound effects are always the best sounds in every videogame ever

Hey guys just letting you know I woke up today. It took me exactly 2.4 minutes to wake up. I walked downstairs and made myself a bowl of cereal and took about 10 minutes to eat it. More updates to follow.

Half life 2 is actually fun.

Congrats on 1000 rep my dude!

You guys are way too harsh on newer members, like yeeesh. And older members now too, apparently. You guys need to learn to be a little more nice towards one another, my goodness. 

So this decade is less than a month away from coming to it's end.
What was your favorite game of the decade?(Ones that released from 2010-2020, that you played)
Mine is Portal 2. I'v played a ton of great games, but none have I enjoyed more than that game. Or rather, none of the others did I play 20 times. Talk like Yoda I must.

Oh my gosh it finally happened... I hit 1000 rep. 
Although I still feel the same. I guess the God powers are just a myth. And there were no rainbows or thousand dollar bills, so I'm a bit disappointed. 
 
But all jokes aside, thank you guys so much. I personally don't think I deserve 1000 rep for several reasons, but apparently you, the forums do and I appreciate it so much. Even if it's just little green arrows and numbers, it still shows that I did something right, and that... isn't really a feeling I get all too often, so thank you so, so much.
I'll post something to celebrate sometime within the next few days maybe, and I am hoping to give back to you guys, so we'll see. 

In case you miss it, I made probably my one of my best wallpapers from this year. This wallpaper is actually inspired by my greatest friend who I'm meeting up with at a hotel in January. We plan to explore the woods near the hotel which, the woods have a railroad close to them.
Fun fact: it almost crashed my entire computer twice because of the railroad model. 
 

Improvements

cool things i've noticed in HL:Alyx: 
the NPC animations are even better than euphoria's dynamic "ragdolls", looking at the parts like when the player throws a box of styrofoam or something on a soldier and the soldier reacts to it dynamically.
subsurface scattering! basically at the start of the trailer, you can see the light bleed through the headcrab. you can also see light bleed towards the end of the trailer where there's a bunch of weird goo stuff around. 
volumetric lighting! there's that blue toned part that goes on for a few seconds which has that fluffy headcrab being eaten by a barnacle, and in the background you can see volumetric lighting. you can also see other parts with volumetric lighting, for instance that part with the goo stuff where there's some dude holding a flashlight while attached with more goo stuff.
floating antlions! at the absolute end of the trailer (just before the title shows up), when alyx shoots the glowy antlion, you can see a floating antlion with no animation! nice!
a zombine.. before half-life 2 episode 1? there's a part where you see a zombine destroying a wall. in hl2 episode 1, alyx acts alot like she's never seen a zombine before, so where exactly in the timeline is it set?
beta inspired characters! the combine soldiers and other character designs remind me alot of the half-life 2 beta concepts.

me when i animate:
*repetitively presses the space button and never finishes the animation*

I want to go to Philadelphia and watch Dear Evan Hansen gosh darn it. 

smii7y's old skin was wack so i remade it and rigged it
 

Here's what I get from this whole Half Life Alyx thing: If Valve is reviving Half-life, then I again have hope for more Portal. Perhaps in vain, but hope nonetheless.

If I have the high ground, you lose.
If you have the high ground, you lose.

aight 

I'm currently playing in a hardcore world, where I cannot place any blocks. It's difficult. Luckily I did find a village with a crafting table, but it's hard getting around the village because half of them are on cliffs and the rest are in a valley. The only things I'm allowed to place are torches, plants, and eyes. If you want a challenge I recommend this because it's pretty fun, and it restricts you so much. I don't even have a furnace, so I'll have to probably search for another village that has one.

So I finished playing Control. I must say I enjoyed it very much. It was unlike anything I'v ever played.  Although weird. Very weird. The story was interesting, and the gameplay was phenomenal. I was never bored with the combat. The puzzles in the game are in that perfect spot where they're not super easy, but not so difficult you get overwhelmed and frustrated to the point you find yourself plotting the murder of the developers.(Kinda like Portal 2)
But anyway, if you want to play a game where you can hurl objects at things, I would definitely recommend it.