MastaLlama Member Posts: 671 From: Houston, TX USA Registered: 08-10-2005 |
Ok, waaay back in the day I found a site called ASDF.com. For some odd reason I went there again tonight and ran across this little tid-bit: http://www.asdf.com/asdfstory.html Clint - what is your last name??? What was airlocked.com???
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InsanePoet Member Posts: 638 From: Vermont, USA Registered: 03-12-2003 |
yes I believe that is. The proper name on the site matches my knowledge of Hanclinto's real name. ------------------ |
ArchAngel Member Posts: 3450 From: SV, CA, USA Registered: 01-29-2002 |
That's ol' clinto. ------------------ |
D-SIPL Moderator Posts: 1345 From: Maesteg, Wales Registered: 07-21-2001 |
quote:[/QUOTE] Are you sure this is not a new form of cyber stalking?  ------------------ |
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Nomad Member Posts: 63 From: Registered: 06-29-2004 |
Is that "aleph vav daleth samekh" the conversion of 1090, and not ASDF (which would be "aleph samekh (or shin) daleth pe")? "All of some excited lith pie" (a clever derivation from the phonetics, some vowel swapping: might take Ford off the hook from starting Armageddon). It might even, with patience, be transmuted to "I love some excellent pie". Mostly harmless, but surely the inventor of the keyboard had a thing for pie. |
Lazarus Member Posts: 1668 From: USA Registered: 06-06-2006 |
Hahaha. That's hilarious.  Clint, you were quite the comedian back then. |
jestermax Member Posts: 1064 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: 06-21-2006 |
quote: It sounds like a more youthful version of Clint, before the weight of the world destroyed his spirit  ------------------ |
HanClinto Administrator Posts: 1828 From: Indiana Registered: 10-11-2004 |
Yarr! I am found out! Yes, that was me. It's so crazy to me to see where that letter pops up. I even saw it posted on a "free essay" site once -- I have no idea why. The coolest ones to me are from postings on blogs in other languages. I found it posted on a Japanese blog once (I can't find the link now) -- it's just crazy to see how a casual letter written in high-school can make someone halfway across the world smile 8 years later. That's just so cool to me. A reference to it I just found is particularly interesting, since someone referenced my story in a way I hadn't seen before. (For reference, this is from a forum thread where people were wondering if game developers from Doom 3 put creepy things in video games that weren't intended to be there. People ridiculed this in various ways, saying that *of course* Doom 3 has intentionally creepy things in there -- it's a horror game. One of the posts making this point was the following): quote: So yeah, that was a little odd and cool, to see people using my last line as memorable referential humor. Crazy.
quote: It was sortof my pet project throughout middle school and high-school that I used to learn programming. It was rewritten at least 3 times in various languages and graphics APIs, starting out in Delphi, then moving to Visual Basic. The first version did graphics with moving picture boxes, then later I used the VB drawing API. Afterwards, I upgraded to BitBlt, then I just went whole-hog and learned DirectX. Through all of this, I also learned how to do network programming, and at the end of the BitBlt version I had a server that players could log on and chat and see each other flying around -- it was getting pretty cool. I was in the middle of the DirectX rewrite and getting ready to put multiplayer in, when I had to go off to my first year of college. In the middle of my freshman year, my dad called me to tell me that he accidentally wiped my drive, and all of my source code was lost, without a backup. The only thing I had was the compiled version up on the website. It was truly a nauseating feeling, to know that all of my source was lost. So with that, I got disheartened, and stopped development. I uploaded an old version of the source to the Air Locked website, posted about what happened, and then forgot about the website (maybe this is the crushing of the spirit that Jestermax was referring to. My first test-bed project where I resurrected it after college is one written in C# with SDL.Net that I wrote a couple of years ago to test a skill-based minigame centered around welding ([url=]screenshot). The latest incarnation of Air Locked has been my cooperative multiplayer space game that I was posting about early on in the "Weekly Updates" thread. Last week I got an idea for another educational minigame along the lines of the welding game that I want to incorporate into the next version of Air Locked. Maybe I'll post the idea here sometime soon to see what people think. So yeah, that's a long post, and it pretty much sums up my entire programming history. It's funny to me how much my life in computer science seems to center around Air Locked -- it's really crazy for me to dig back into Archive.org and read all of my old news updates for the game -- wow. I used a lot of smiley faces back then. So yeah, thanks for the blast from the past Mastallama -- it's fun remembering all of this and writing it down for posterity. --clint [This message has been edited by HanClinto (edited May 04, 2007).] |
RA Games Member Posts: 93 From: Sacramento, Ca., USA Registered: 05-22-2006 |
quote: Yes, but you also get a value of "442" in Hex. ------------------ |
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jestermax Member Posts: 1064 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: 06-21-2006 |
quote: hahaha, i think thats kind of funny ------------------ |
David Lancaster Member Posts: 276 From: Adelaide, Australia Registered: 05-22-2006 |
Another Han Clinto thread! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HanClinto Oh man, NOW THIS IS SCARY! Type 'Clint Harran' into your google search. It's scary... |
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Lazarus Member Posts: 1668 From: USA Registered: 06-06-2006 |
I thought his last name was Herron...  |
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InsanePoet Member Posts: 638 From: Vermont, USA Registered: 03-12-2003 |
"Mastallama: Yes, that is my last name. Airlocked.com was an old site that I had, which chronicled the development of a space MMORPG that I was trying to develop as my first serious foray into game development. It was intended to be a multiplayer game of an old Mac game called Escape Velocity. Here's a quote from the main page of my old site:" YES! Escape Velocity was THE GAME. I actually wanted to make a multiplayer version of it myself. ------------------ |
bennythebear Member Posts: 1225 From: kentucky,usa Registered: 12-13-2003 |
http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/user/HanClinto found that on google by searching: escape velocity, clint its was the third link i think. ------------------ proverbs 25:7 www.gfa.org - Gospel for Asia www.persecution.com - Voice of the Martyrs |
). The domain slipped away when I failed to renew it, and I haven't been able to get it back since (though I would really love to have it). Every once in a while now, I revisit the Air Locked universe in my game development, and develop little games to test out various concepts for the project. I'd still like to return to develop the game at some point, but it's pretty happy just being my little test bed for now.