White Rabbit Trails

Forge Thief

jcm — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:47:17 +0000

I meant to post this but instead made a page. Click on To Catch a Forge Thief for the whole story. I got this kid kicked out of Forgehub for stealing my work. He tried to enter in under a new name after he was kicked out, but gamertags don’t change. So his duplicate account got banned as well. Crime doesn’t pay. Unless you’re robbing banks or laundering money…

Grifball Wallpaper

jcm — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:21:39 +0000

Here’s a little wallpaper I put together with the Grifball logo from multiplayer.

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Longreach (Elongation)

jcm — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:17:16 +0000

These are some pics of the remake I did of Elongation for Halo Reach. It isn’t exact because I didn’t have the original to compare to as far as weapon spawns and such, but the layout is pretty much the same except for the lack of working conveyor belts. I set it up for Team Slayer, Oddball, Crazy King and CTF.

I could have made this much better if not for the budget limits (I guess everyone could). I had to remove some aesthetic pieces to make sure I had enough for the weapons. Instead of a blue hallway and red hallway like in Elongation, the ends are blue and red similar to Longest from Halo CE. I also replaced the crates with blocks in the blue base due to the fact Bungie only gives you 10 to work with.

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Halo Reach Beta Wallpapers (Set 11)

jcm — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:53:33 +0000

New Halo game, new Halo medals. Okay, so these are actually from the beta. After playing the game I realized they have changed things up a bit. Bungie has seen fit to make the new medals look grungier than I made the old medals look in my wallpapers. It could take a while to replicate vectored versions of the new ones and of course they won’t have the same grungy look that Bungie did a great job at.

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I’m not sure just how accurate these remakes of the medals are. This is the best I could do replicating them. These are beta medals however. Revenge and Headcase have changed for Halo Reach.

Halo 3 Medals

jcm — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 21:47:34 +0000

I’ve posted some higher resolutions of the Halo 3 medals (higher than the ones on Bungie’s website anyways). I did the best I could with color matching when I made these, but I’m sure there are some inconsistencies with the actual ones.

More Vectored Halo 3 Medals

jcm — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:20:31 +0000

I’ve posted some more vectored Halo 3 medals you can download on brandsoftheworld.com. Here are the links…

Stick – http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/search/115777162/241395.html

Laser Kill – http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/search/115777162/241396.html

Last Man Standing – http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/search/115777162/241398.html

Sniper Kill – http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/search/115777162/241399.html

Wheelman – http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/search/115777162/241400.html

More to come…

Vectored Halo 3 Medals

jcm — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:43:21 +0000

At last! For those of you out there who have requested the vector versions of the medals, your time has come! There is a website called Best Brands of the World and it has loads of vectored logos from all sorts of companies, games, etc. I’ve only loaded six so far, but I will load more when I can. Here are the links…

Extermination – http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/search/115481882/241160.html

Beat Down – http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/search/115481882/241166.html

Incineration – http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/search/115481882/241167.html

Splatter – http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/search/115481882/241170.html

Assassin – http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/search/115481882/241171.html

Death From The Grave – http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/search/115481882/241172.html

If you download these and use them, please let me know about it. I’d love to hear how people are using them. Send me any links to artwork that you post online using these vectored medals. The website already has some vectored art of rank medals that someone else made. Enjoy!

Halo 3 Wallpapers (Set 10)

jcm — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:28:19 +0000

Okay, there are six wallpapers in this set. I’ve strayed from the norm a little…being that I didn’t make any medal wallpapers. There are two wallpapers that are just random designs. The other four are some Halo 3 propaganda posters that I made up. One of them is modeled after an old WWII propaganda poster.

Get A Life, General…

jcm — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:43:45 +0000

Most of the time you’ll find me playing Team SWAT in matchmaking. This is my favorite thing to do because the matches are generally quick and shields are bothersome to worry about. Also if you see me on there, I won’t have a mic on. In fact I usually have it muted. It didn’t used to be that way. I’m only a 35 in SWAT and it’s taken me a while to get there. I also like to be a Spartan because it seems kind of cheap to be an Elite just for SWAT. Occasionally I’ll un-mute it to see if anyone’s talking. A lot of people don’t communicate with their teammates and I think it’s because they don’t want to listen to those people out there that have nothing better to do than talk down to other people. I find that it’s mostly minors (18 and under) who have nothing useful to say. Not all kids are like this of course, but the antagonistic punks out there are generally teenagers and occasionally people into their early twenties.

Several times I’ve received messages from my muted teammates that say something like “ELITE!!!” and so I respond “NO!!!” I’ve been playing Team SWAT long enough to know most people are an Elite because there is an advantage getting shot from behind. Why do people feel the need to tell me? I have over 200 XP in this playlist. So I get a lot of “How do you have over 200 XP and are still just a (whatever skill level I was at)?” Well I will say that a lot of my Team SWAT time early in my Halo 3 career was spent playing late at night when I was so tired I should have just went to bed but my teammates carried me and so I’d get the XP but my skill level wouldn’t really go up. Sometimes I would party up with people that weren’t very good but we would have a good time because we wouldn’t dog each other for playing lousy. We’d actually talk to each other with respect. These were the times when my skill level would really drop.

Another reason why I’m only a 35 in SWAT is because I’m just not as good as some of you guys out there…and I’m fine with that. I don’t see why you feel the need to tell me. How bleak is your real life that you have to get online and talk down to people to feel better about yourself? And most of you nerds wouldn’t say it to my face because you’re little scrubs that still live at home with mommy and daddy. But when you sign in to Xbox live with your level 50 account, you feel like you are the man (and I only say men because I’ve found that women don’t act like this online). It’s easy to talk trash hundreds of miles away with an anonymous identity to protect you. But a word to the not so wise…if someone was psychotic enough with the right equipment and knowledge, they could find you if they wanted to. So don’t send me messages like “u suck bad!” (courtesy of gamertag: LENGADRy1) or “garbage” because your opinion is worthless.

I’ve actually started being an Elite recently, but not only in SWAT. My kid likes to play with me sometimes in Social Matchmaking and he is always an Elite because he thinks they are cool. I use the Elite now because I’d rather not hear some kid tell me to change into one. One moron (gamertag: SKI15) told me that the reason I’m only a 34 (my skill level at the time) with so much XP in SWAT is because I was a Spartan. He said even a sack of rocks could put two and two together and that I need to change. Well I’ve never seen a sack of rocks add numbers, so call me if anyone sees this, and I’ve seen many Spartans own Elites in matches. I threw some grenades at that guy during the match. I shot at him a few times as well. I didn’t want to betray him, just let him know I heard what he said. I had it un-muted but didn’t have my headset on to talk. I had a killing spree going before he even had 2 kills. He started doing pretty good and told me I should quit because I wasn’t even helping the team. I guess that got in my head because I don’t think I had many kills after that. Stupid kid.

I’ve also started quitting matches to lose XP so that I don’t become a General in the playlist with a low skill level. I did this so I don’t have to listen to those jerks out there. So I salute those Staff Captains out there that play SWAT as a General or Brigadier in the playlist at a skill level of 25. Hey guys – don’t stop playing just because some pre-pubescent creep feels the need to make himself feel bigger than he really is. And if you are a 50 and you’ve never talked down to anyone online, you are the elite players in the game and everyone should take a lesson from you.

So to all of you a-holes out there that like to ruin everyone’s fun…GET A LIFE!

Halo 3 ODST Wallpapers (Set 9)

jcm — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:41:20 +0000

Here are some ODST wallpapers. I’m going to try to put out new versions of previous medals I’ve already done. I’ll probably make them “cleaner” looking. I’ve also began working on some other wallpaper sizes for widescreens.