Le blogue de Maxime Laperle

Finally ! I’ve finished the plaster scrapping of my hallway and I must say, that I’m drenching with sweat from every possible tiny detail that came from that small little renovation job. Of course, it was insufferably boring, and not even Madam Stevie Nicks could help with the tedious boredom while she was singing her heart and lungs out through the ear muffs of my IPod (Well, okay, she did help somewhat, Let’s just say that I Can’t Wait , is a song that help me be more patient.) Until then, I’ve completely finsished the scrapping part, now comes the sanding of the entire hallway which is also boring, tedious and excruciating that is if you’re an intellectual like me. If you’re a man in construction, you’d be doing this unflinchingly, and you wouldn’t bitch, whine and complain like I do. Aftewards on that small chore, I sat down and watched Small Soldiers, which is my first terrible Joe Dante film, even if it means that it was more or less well-directed. And you still know that it’s...

Well, I was pretty much stuck doing some plaster scrapping in my own hall, when I had in my ears every possible Stevie Nicks song blaring away through my IPod : Stand Back, Landslide, Edge of Seventeen, Talk to Me, I Can’t Wait , Gold Dust Woman, Crash into Me. If I wasn’t listening to some music, it would have made scrapping my wall from stuckout and plaster, completely unbearable, and filled with insufferable tedium. For a good thing, I wasn’t already sweating buckets, but just a lot from my forehead. My roomate handed me a small handkierchef to tie over my nose and mouth, while thanking her, I was almost finishing one section of my hall and decided to call it quits for today. On Sunday, I’ll be doing the stucco around the door frame. Which would only bring us to my review of Innerspace , another Joe Dante sci-fi classic since The Howling that I last reviewed, and made more of a recommendation than a complete review. Innerspace, is a lot like another science-fiction made by Ri...

Well, I’ve finally done it this time evenly, I finished my small maze videogame that took me almost to forever to make, it’s really why you haven’t seen me in roughly three weeks on this blog. But heck, I try to make my existence known here someway or somehow. So to put things into perspective, to ease off some pressure or stress, I decided to watch a great horror flick, directed by Joe Dante, The Howling, who also made Gremlins, Gremlins II, Innerspace and Small Soldiers . Great movies, if I do say so myself, especially Innerspace , it’s a movie with Martin Short that simply has it all, a great concept and great premise. Now I’m just dying to see another release of a Joe Dante sci-fi epic in the works. And now, I was viewing an 80’s classic, and it transpires everything about the 80’s because it has Dee Wallace-Stone in it, a phenomenal actress that has made most of her career in horror chillers and science-fiction films. Maybe it’s both the genres that she likes, or the direct...

Now aside from the fact that I’ve lost a day of work, that could have been used for the programming and designing of my Virtools maze game, which is very rudimentary. Well in my case, the maze is made out of plywood and gyproc texture, for every wall in the maze, (yeah I wasn’t amazingly inspired). As for gameplay, I only wanted to make a Pac-Man for idiots. I’m not using Unity yet, but right now I’m having every sort of problem of doing the simplest collision management tasks in scripts, and the online reference doesn’t happen to work either. In a way, I’m trying to do a collision detection on a skin character with an object, the object is itself a switch. Well anyway, I needed to unwind because programming games sure knows how to be a strain on the mind, even if you need to be slightly alert to judge your tasks that you gave in the “building blocks”. So this huge collosal stinker of a Rick Sloane epic, would probably show me the light of hubris, which relaxes me a lot. Luckily ...