Alstom Metropolis C751A: Progress Updates and Performance Survey

It’s been a very busy year for me, and I’m glad I’m finally getting some downtime to work on this!

I have mentioned the new textures and 3D detailing added that was mentioned in the previous blog post. Since that post, I’ve tweaked the audio slightly, but that’s about all the changes.

Also, there is a survey on the framerate and performance of the C751A. I’m gathering information on how the add-on is coping, as I’m starting to suffer from low framerates on my own computer. I’m recruiting testers for the next release, so check out the survey!

Questions and feedback are welcome in the add-on’s SGTrains Forums thread.

Here’s the survey link. You’ll need to have openBVE running alongside as you fill in the survey!

I’ll be away! 31 March to 6 April 2013

This is an update to let everyone know that I’ll be out of country for a week from 31 March to 6 April 2013.

I’ll be in Taiwan.

As a result, I may not be contactable, or you might have to pay horrendous international call rates to get me. I’ll try to get mobile internet access while overseas, but that may or may not be successful.

Deleting and restricting old posts on Facebook and blog.

I’ve just scrubbed my Facebook and blog clean, because eventually these two locations are public and may follow me into the future.

I’m sharing what I have done here, hopefully you will find this useful too.

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On Facebook: I’ve enabled subscriptions and commenting even if you’re not my friend, meaning not everyone has to add me to interact. I also stopped accepting friend requests unless I know them and have met them before in real life.

I’ve also limited all my past posts to Friends Only, then went through my timeline for a few months to re-assign the privacy settings to Public as necessary. Also, I’ve went through my photo albums and set a number to Only Me.

I also downloaded an archive of information stored on Facebook so I can keep my photos when I delete albums that are no longer visible to everyone else.

I also went though my notes and removed many older ones, especially those that are written when I was… let’s just say: less mature. Similarly, on my blog, I deleted some older posts that either no longer applies, or is something I don’t really want the public to see anymore.

I regret some of the things I have written too, but that’s another story and another blog post.

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If you need or want access to some of the stuff I have removed (for example, event photos that you were in), let me know, I might restore them.

STOMP posts negative article, bus enthusiasts decides to publicise those articles.

Anonymous users and STOMP strikes again – two new negative articles are up. Again.

That’s not the worst. The following is:

Bus enthusiasts, the group that is offended by the post, are the people who continuously share the offending article on their Facebook profiles, causing the article to be seen be more and more people.

If you are reading this, and you are one of those who shared the article, saying something along the line of “this just broke someone’s ricebowl”, you are the one breaking it. You’re the one who is sharing the post, and letting all your friends see it, and also the one encouraging others to share the post too. Peer pressure is a real thing.

At the rate the article is shared, almost half of Singapore probably already would have seen the article.

Wikipedia describes six degrees of seperation as “the theory that everyone and everything is six or fewer steps away”.

Stop sharing that article. Now. 

…and all the talk about backstabbing – I think I’ll just call it backfiring instead.

What is the best thing since sliced bread?

Most of us have heard the saying, “That’s the best thing since sliced bread!” What do you think is actually the best thing since sliced bread?

My answer: sliced wholemeal bread! Healthier, but still bread!