All Nighter

Decided to turn today into an all nighter, well i only have to stay up for 7-8 more hours, and i have 3 monsters to turn to if things get ugly.

I had eggs and bacon with coffee for lunch, it felt so... "'MURICA!!!!"

Just saying.

Ironically, even if eggs and bacon is commonly believed to be one of the reasons americans grow fat, the eggs & bacon are technically not to blame, nevermind the eggs that are pretty much just healthy in general, 1 egg a day is a pretty good idea no matter what your diet is like, 2 may be overkill sometimes though, bacon is pretty much just fat, but the thing is if these 'muricans would stick to eating this fatty food, and drop all their carbohydrates, they'd be losing weight instead of gaining it, and yet they avoid fat (except for the eggs and bacon) and the problem is that mixing both carbs and fat is bound to make you fat, whereas eating no fat (only carbs) doesn't make you fatter, eating mostly carbs and a little fat does make you fatter for every little bit of fat you eat.

Some people are resistant to belly growth by nature no matter what their diet is, but not all are so lucky. The theory is that we burn what we eat the most of, we store what we eat least of. Eating less fat means storing more of it as reserve for when you really need it. Working out can empty these reserves since fat is pretty much muscle fuel, but the source of the problem is that people just aren't eating enough of it. Obesity grew after people started avoiding fat (not before) for a (recent) historical reference.

Coincidentally my workout plan of calisthenics is also based on history, history that mankind overall got weaker when gyms became "THE WAY" to work out.

These 2 "plans" that support themselves with proof, proven by history itself are the 2 most reliable things I've found when it comes to strength training and fat burning.

Also of course the fact that bigger, stronger muscles burn more fat (even while idle) is a given, so strengthening myself + eating mostly fat food = light-speed burning.

I was never obese, now i'm not really fat anymore, but i decided long ago that i set a rule not to ever drop below 80kg unless i was working out. Now i'm "working out", so who knows if i'll be down to 60 or 70 in just 2 months hehe.

Why do i talk so much about this bullshit? sounds like i'm one of those crossfit maniacs (they don't talk about anything else than crossfit)

I guess it's mostly to keep myself pepped up while i'm doing this.

None of the logs lately have had anything to do with the game's development, sadly. Not directly.

But one great thing is that i am a person as growing, i'm improving... Sure, i was always awesome (thumbup) but it was as if i had hit a roof, like... a human couldn't hold more awesome in one body and mind and soul than i already had unless they relied on luck, luck which i do not have. That was of course bullshit and i knew it, i knew my subconsciousness was limiting me, but the fetters have been loosened, and i'm finding ways to further improve myself, to become more, better, better in every way. I've pretty much mastered mental strength, i think it's impossible to permanently break my mind (impossible but i'm not suggesting someone could try, the most effective way to do it would be to give me everything i ever wanted then take it all away when i least expect it. But another more efficient way would be to cause mental damage through physical actions, like skinning me alive, or locking me in a box where there's no space for me to physically rest.)

Today i chanced upon a rather unique bug, my ´ key always does ´´. This is troublesome because i need that key to do comma'd letters (as i call them) like the icelandic ´´i (see what i mean? that should've been an i with a , instead of .)

I want to try something funny now, yesterday i drew some portrait, sure, nothing super pretty but like i said good for a first attempt. I want to try drawing that with mouse in the computer, see how it turns out.

I was thinking, i should organize my days a bit better, since i figured out my cheat of scheduling things per day rather than per hour.

So.

What are the things i'd like to do....
Art, Gaming, Workout, Cleaning My Room, Shaving, Meditating, Maths

Art: Every Single Day
Relaxing (Games and Anime and stuff): Any Day
Working on Amodos: Any Day (Preferably Every Day)

Monday: Workout + Shave
Tuesday: Learn Japanese + Good Deed (Placeholder)
Wednesday: Workout + Math
Thursday: Learn Japanese + Good Deed (Placeholder)
Friday: Workout + Meditate
Saturday: Learn Japanese + Good Deed (Placeholder)
Sunday: Play a new game + Clean Room

Maybe i'm pressing my luck, but if i find that i'm failing, the secondary tasks are the ones i can skip.

Maths you say? what's wrong with wanting to be good at math?!

That said, I'll need to find study material online for it. Why would i do this? cus it's one of the courses at school that i feel would make my life easier if i knew more about it. For example, it's essential if i want to do graphical programming, and being good at logic is crucial for being a good programmer.

Maths is also essentially puzzle solving, which strengthens my mind, and i take any opportunity i get to make my monster of a mind even stronger than it already is.

Lets see... what should i do on the japanese study days?

A good deed? yeah, as a placeholder since i don't have anything i need to do that i can think off off the top of my head, it will be used for a good deed until i find something better. I'll use it as a placeholder, but of course i'll have to commit a solid good deed all of these days, this usually involves helping somebody out. Like that guide i created for Wizardry 8, or more precisely, making wizardry 8 work, it's helped a lot of folks out in the long run :)

This program shall start next sunday. Anything that isn't the "takes as long as it takes" type will require at least 1 hour (i.e., learning japanese & playing a new game) I should print this.

Now, for drawing in paint or something... with mouse.

Damn, looking at this pic again makes it look about as terrible as the faces in Morrowind... On the bright side that's a triple A game marveled for it's beautiful graphics in it's own time i guess.... But the faces were hideous as fuck though. Here mousey mousey mousey.

Like i thought, it's hardly even recognizable hehe, drawing with mouse gets kinda brutally hard though after a little while.

I run into some problems too, using mouse has some pretty severe limitations i don't know how to work around.How the hell am i supposed to draw the eyebrows.. the eyes look pretty badass though.

Drawing the nose like i did on the paper is pretty damn near impossibru! so i'll use another nose type.

Well looking at this image, i said it looked terrible, but it was really mostly the lips and the nose that look terrible...

I can't draw them any better with mouse, but well. Lets see how this turns out, hair is the last piece of the puzzle now.

The thing i can't do with mouse is i can't... "scratch", i.e. can't really make tons and tons of "light" lines, this is what i used to do eyebrows before.

Hmm for a mouse drawn image it aint bad, actually i think it oculd be better than the first one, but it also took a lot longer to draw than the first one.

You know what, i guess i am going to sleep before dinner after all, it's unlike usual not because of mental exhaustion, but moreso because of physical exhaustion (my muscles are kinda sore and begging for recuperation time) brb!

Bar Hang: 50s

Ouch!
That hurt.

Massive improvement over 30s, but ow my hands went numb D:

You know, i think if i can hang on that bar for 2 minutes or more, that will be something to boast about!

I in fact think i can already boast about being resourceful, knowing that it hurts my hands to do even a horizontal (or whatever, when i lay down on the floor then pull myself up to a table) pullup, i just figured if i hang from a bar every day my skin will adapt to the pressure.

I'm so smart :D

Now that i have a Deviant Art account, i will be writing anything about art on there instead of here to avoid cluttring this up with (even more) pointless stuff (than already is here).

Bar hang: 50s

hurt again!
But not as much.

still, if i can hang for 50 seconds i guess next time it's time for pullups my skin wont be going to give up as easily as usual.

Who would've thought i could train it this fast?

Most of today has been spent on art. I'm improvingat light-speed. But i still need to properly grasp angling things to make them look 3d. By things i mean characters, i'm focusing 100% on characters. When i'm good with them the really hard stuff (environments) is next.

My hands have blisters... Ah, that's what you call it not callus or whatever... Blisters. The type that toughens your skin when they fade and generally spawn when you're doing difficult stuff with your hands. The area just below your fingers turns white, kind of thing. No wait, you do call it callus :I but it looks like blisters... it are blisters.

LOL!

I only just started drawing yesterday and i'm already doing gore!

It came to me so naturally... i didn't want to draw the arm... so i turned it to bone... and then added blood... and what do you know.

I'm a bad... bad... person, the world is better off without my art i'm sure... but i can't help it if i want to be an artist. But why did i mangle the arm of my first successful character? Why would i do that?

I should draw another character, this time a specific one. How about... Priscilla from dark souls!

Bah enough of this here, seems i'm not doing much more work on linux today, but this artist work is quite fun, and if i become good in my set deadline then it will be of use too (as in, i'll be able to draw art for my own game)

My sketches are already looking half decent, but sketches are only sketches, i'm going to buy a tablet ASAP and that motherfucker won't be cheap (the plan was to wait with buying a tablet until one month from now when i had decided if i was good enough or not, but... this is just so fucking fun! and easy! And i'm confident that in a month i'll have reached the level i planned to have by then. I'm more confident today than i was yesterday!