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Monday, 28 October 2002
Help me, I'm lazy.

A little while back, I wrote a tutorial on player skinning in MOH:AA. (What that means, basically, is how to change the appearance of the player models in the game Medal of Honor: Allied Assault.) The tutorial was specifically geared to putting your own face into the game.

Since writing it, I've received at least one email per week that goes something like this:

HI, I LIKED UR TUTE. U LOOK LIKE A PROFESINAL. I TOOK PICTURES OF MYSELF LIKE U SAID, CAN I SEND THEM TO U AND HAVE U MAKE ME A SKIN?

(That was one of the more readable ones. At least he had the decency to attempt to write it in plain English, instead of 133+5p34|<.)

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him to fish, and he'll ask you to go fishing for him.

I've developed a good way of handling it, though. I say that I'd be happy to make a skin for them; I charge $25 an hour, with two hours' minimum payable in advance. It's amazing how many of them then give it a try themselves.

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