My illness: Emphysema

What Is Emphysema? Emphysema is a degenerative disease that usually develops after many years of assault on lung tissues from cigarette smoke or other toxins that pollute the air. These toxins destroy the small air sacs in the lungs, called alveoli, that stretch as they transport oxygen from the air to the blood and then shrink as they force out carbon dioxide. As a result, the lungs lose their elasticity, and exhaling becomes difficult as the damaged lungs trap air and cannot effectively exchange it with fresh air. As the damage progresses, the effort needed to breathe increases and, ultimately, each breath becomes labored. (Illustration provided by the American Medical Association.) Emphysema is one of a group of lung diseases referred to as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that can interfere with normal breathing. Other diseases that come under COPD include asthma and chronic bronchitis. According to the American Lung Association (ALA), nearly 16 million Americans are estimated to suffer from some form of COPD, and COPD is the fourth-ranking cause of death just behind heart ailments, cancers, and stroke.

Wednesday 14 October 2009

Working on my first pixels since reformatting

I've started work on a Ninja outfit which will be a part of a patch in future...that's the plan atm anyway, so I thought I'd show you what it looks like with the mask almost done, but I do have concerns over it though.



I like the face mask and the bandana on top of the head at least, so I'm thinking whether the black parts should stay or go...I feel it may look better if it went, but I guess only one way to find out is if I try it.

Hmm, I still can't yet decide...

Posted by VampireMike at 04:53 5 comments

Monday 12 October 2009

Online Gaming

Well just thought I'd say since alot of you wont know...I have tried Runescape before, but in my opinion it's too slow and too dull for my liking, and sure EO maybe falling into the darkest deepest parts of the shit pit right about now but because there's very few decent people on there, and some of them I happen to know, that is one of the reasons I keep playing it.

Now if you want my advice, one game is probably not worth investing in is Champions Online where you get to create your own super hero and choose his/her powers.
Sure this may sound really fun and good to you which at this point even I'd believe it does too, but the things that lets it down is not only does it lag but also not only have you got to buy the game from your local video gaming retail store, after 30 days of registering your game, anyone who wishes to carry on playing the game has to pay a stupid amount of money to subscribe so they can carry on playing.
So this game would be a hell of alot better if you have the option to play offline aswell as to be free rather than to subscribe, since the makers of the game have failed to realise one of the game makers most important rule in creating a game is "to make sure the users/buyers get their moneys worth", and for Champions Online all I can say is it's a rip off, all I have to hope for now is I hope DC Universe Online wont make us subscribe when that gets released.

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About Mugen...

Mugen is a fighting game for the PC where you can download & add ANY fighters you want, whether they're from Streetfighter, Mortal Kombat, Marvel, DC, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Dragon Ball Z and various Anime's and more, you can even add stages and theme music for that stage.I currently have a tool that allows me to edit colours of any character I want, I also know how to change the character's name's and the sizes of the characters, I also have a tool that'll let me create my own Mugen character which I hope to do at some point, what you'll need is the Mugen Character Maker, a sprite sheet for the character you want to create and sounds for the moves they do (like "HADOUKEN/SHO-RYU-KEN" for Ryu/Ken for instance).

Many people have made their own Mugen's available to download so you can either choose to make your own from scratch or download a pre-made one by someone else.
You can find several pre-made Mugen's at www.caiman.us

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