Hamst3r.com is the blog of Jamez "Hamst3r" Gillman. While The Hamster Alliance website is a showcase for all of Hamst3r's music, Hamst3r.com is a showcase for everything else. All rants, rambles and reviews will be found here.
I’ve added a Let’s Play section to Hamst3r.com. Check it out.
It’s a collection of all the commentated game playthrough videos I’ve made and there are quite a few up already. Stuff like VVVVVV, Serious Sam HD, I’m Not Alone and Metro 2033. I’ll be adding stuff to that page every time I record some new game footage, so I’ve included it’s updates to the RSS feed for this site.
You can also subscribe to me on Youtube to get these videos as well. I have all the videos organized into playlists on my Youtube Channel.
I’m not interested in racing as a sport. I also have no desire to ever race a vehicle in real life. The components of a car are equally uninteresting to me. Does the car go fast? Yes? Great. That’s all I need to know.
When I play a racing game, what I want is white-knuckle craziness, which is what appeals to me about rally racing. Rally is insane.
The best kind of rally is the basic point to point time trial through wildly varying environments. You start off on a dusty mountain cliff and the next thing you know you’ve gone through a forest and are now ripping up the roads along the beach. The terrain is uneven and unforgiving. The roads widen and thin. Hairpin turns appear unexpectedly, keeping you on high alert the entire time. It’s you versus the road.
That said, I’m really looking forward to DiRT 2, which is coming out in September 2009. I played through the career mode in DiRT 1 and enjoyed it immensely. I have a few concerns about DiRT 2 though. I’ve heard that they have included more closed-circuit races. That’s not what I want, as stated above. The first DiRT game would have been perfect if it completely got rid of all the closed-circuit and endurance races.
Anyways, I hope DiRT 2 delivers and I guess I’ll be reinstalling the original DiRT until DiRT 2 comes out!
I have an idea for an animation that revolves around a piece of music I wrote titled, “Mode 7”. The title is a reference to a technology developed by Nintendo for the SNES that would allow for 3D-like environments. It was used in games like F-Zero and Mario Kart.
Anyways, this cityscape is a backdrop for the animation:
They’re scavengers, they get into absolutely everything and there are thousands of them about. Not to mention that they’re also filthy. They’re like a plague!
They’re kind of cute though. I wouldn’t mind having one as a pet if they lived longer than a few months.
