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, 20 August 2008

Mugen Update...

Ok guys, my plans now is to make another video of the update Ultimate Akuma because I changed his colours and his name...his name is now is Super Mike (Me).
The reason behind this is because for years I sometimes get this odd dream where I turn into an alternate evil version of myself with a slump forehead (like Akuma's), red eyes and yellow spiky hair, where all I seek is destruction.

Then I shall introduce you all to a video showing you all the characters that's currently on my roster.

And then finally, despite it's not fully finished yet I shall upload my Mugen project for those of who are interested in it.

Tuesday, 19 August 2008

Footie & EOR

I have this Footie game for the PC (Soccer to some) called FIFA Manager 08.
So far I've been making my own design for my teams kit (Manchester United), I've been posting previews of my home kit I've been working on on a forum called "FIFA Portal":



Now 1 of the admins there has said he likes my kit alot, and he offered me the job of being a kit maker for the forum www.fifaportal.net , so I said "Sure, I'd love to ^-^ " :D

And I'm now on EOR, I was given 3 accounts in 1 as a part exchange deal for buying imvu credits for my good friend Daisy, normally I wouldn't do this sort of thing but Daisy is 1 of my many good friends I can trust :]

An Eo Mugen?

I know what some of you might think "Is it possible to add eo characters onto Mugen?", the answer to that one is yes.
I have on me a tool called "Mugen Character Maker"...sure I haven't tested it out yet but I am aware of a few things that's needed to create a character, especially characters from eo.

Sunday, 17 August 2008

File hosting...

I decided that when I decide to upload my Mugen for you all that's interested, or any future patches I make for eo, I shall upload it to a site called Mediafire http://www.mediafire.com/ why Mediafire and not megaupload or something? In case you're wondering, because I'm sure that some newbs on the Eo forums for example will jump at the chance to accuse me of being a keylogger, and Mediafire does a virus scan on files you're about to download.

Saturday, 16 August 2008

Note to Eo'ers

Becareful when writing personal stuff while on eo.
Say if you were writing your personal information on a website, there's a chance that that could've been typed on eo aswell.
It has happend to me a few times before but luckily I never typed in anything personal.

Friday, 15 August 2008

Wtf? o.o

Now is it just me or do Spiders get bigger and bigger each year?
I mean I went to the bathroom and their was this big fuck off spider at side of the toilet roll holder probably looking at the metal part at it's reflection thinking "Oh yeah, all that hard work out sure has paid off, helloooo gorgeous"...more like: I swear that when Spiders get chucked out the house they come back next year after taking steroids or something, next thing you'll now they'll turn green and throw a car at ya o.o
But that reminds me of Spiderman's greatest enemy he has never gone up against and could probably never beat...let's call this person "The big giant Newspaper" dun dun dunnnnnnn

My current projects

Mugen:
I'm still looking round every now and then for some new stages & characters.
They are some cool characters that I wanna add that are still in development by the creators.
I can edit characters sizes, names & colours, but I hope to some day use the Mugen Character maker that I downloaded and make my own character from various sprite sheets.

FIFA Manager 08:
I'm currently making my own designs of FIFA Manager 08 kits, I started on a home kit for Manchester United (My team) :]

Saturday, 9 August 2008

My life threatening illness and joining a gym

Here's the update on my health situation:
As most of you know, I've had collapsed lungs when I were 20 years old then when I were 21, and when I were 22, and when I were in hospital (for a week), I went through an awful lot of pain.
Sure, having a tube inserted into your chest sucking out water & access air is real pleasent if you're into extreme pain, and after having 2 operations to have my lungs glued to my rib cage to prevent them from collapsing again I was later diagnosed with emphysema, and I know you're wondering "Do you smoke?"...the answer is: No.
The doctors did tests to find a possible cause of my emphysema which all results came back null and void.
So the doctors have put it down as because I was at the time tall and thin (I weighed 7 stone back then and now I weight 10.4 stone).
But...I don't wanna sit at home and get fat, why? because my family has a history of heart problems and most of people who have emphysema die of heart failure, so this is why I would like to join a gym provided that they give me like a private physio or something so I don't do anything that my body wont forgive me for and come out feeling like an elephant has trampled all over my body.

And as for my Mugen project, my brother found me those wires but the wires I were after weren't in amongst those other wires so I'm gonna go buy 1 tomorrow, but I will make a Mugen trailer for my project, with music & text (like a professional trailer).

Peace out.

Friday, 8 August 2008

My problems with HyperCam

Sure it'd be great to video some mugen matches for you guys to see and upload them to YouTube but so far I can only do it without sound.
I have the full version of HyperCam, but here's where the REAL problems start.
Sure I have no sound on my recordings which is also due to my laptop being run on Vista.
So I looked up thr problem I have on google which lead me to a problem resolver on YouTube where someone showed you how to use Stereomix, I tried that and my laptop doesn't HAVE stereomix, so I searched for another problem solver on google which lead me to another video on youtube showing how Vista users can install Stereomix, I tried that and even THAT didn't work, so I could either use my Playstation 2's Eyetoy webcam microphone which would sadly result in poor quality of sound and I would have to try not to sneeze or cough during the recording lol, so I thought I'll leave that as a possible option after remembering "OH...I have a bag of wires somewhere in my Jungle of a house that'll allow me to connect a few wires together so I can connect my Microphone socket to my Earphone socket and then hey presto!!", trouble is I can't find this bag of wires as it's been ages since I saw em, but on the plus side I could maybe try and buy some more since they didn't cost me that much tbh.

Thursday, 7 August 2008

If you wish to create your own Mugen....

There's loads of sites you can download characters from, and here's many that I know of.

http://www.freewebs.com/jonvinnymugen/mugenchars.htm

http://mugenhistory.com/

http://fanaticmugen.free.fr/index.php?section=chars

http://www.scruffydragon.com/f/downloads.html

http://66.102.9.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.mugenfury.com/&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dsephimugen%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4ADBS_en___US206&usg=ALkJrhjduxr1DVoZZYstDDtGKwuyM4DrxQ

http://www.mugenation.com/

http://www.loganir.netsons.org/

http://presstart.free.fr/chars.html

http://www.heroesofgaming.com/mugen/p13_sectionid/2/p13_currentpage/2/p13_ordertype/rating%20DESC/p13_pagesize/10/p13_searchby/title

http://infinitymugenteam.com/

http://www.mugenchina.org/tf/eng.htm

http://dohko.blo.pl/

http://gcnmario.free.fr/

http://www.mugenchina.org/~tf/Index.htm

http://www.freewebs.com/sicmugen/

http://mugentomb.free.fr/

http://sw20w.web.fc2.com/mugen/mugencharlink.htm

http://www.geocities.com/simple_mugen_2004/index.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIaf6lcXphI (Click on more info)

http://amit.dabydeen.com/mugen.html

http://www.mugenguild.com/~pots/

http://amit.dabydeen.com/mugenlinks.html

http://www.tufftony.com/tufftonysmugen.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHkhbTVViPA&feature=related (Click on more info)

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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