EVE Online
Here I am going to speak a little more about games again. Eve Online, I tried it awhile ago, and it wasn’t the most terrible game in existence, however I dislike for one very simple reason. Their learning systems depends wholly on how long you have been paying them. Thats right, you don’t work hard, or grind monsters, or mine, or whatever else to learn skills, you character learns them at a set pace, which basically equates to for them, longer and more money you give us, the more skilled your character is. Honestly that is a bit annoying to me. I mean sure I can see learning time, or limiting how much you can learn in a given period, and while there are ways to optimize skill learning to a degree. I don’t want to wait around for a year to start having fun.
Oh yes that is another thing, permanent death is really possible, I mean there is a clone system and such, but dieing is really quite possible. Losing those years of hard work.
Truly anal people like me, who in a game of hard work, work our asses to hell and back. Like in Pokemon I usually out level the next gym leader since I trained my Pokemon to ex nauseam. People like me who could find some training engaging instead do not, as you generally log off and do nothing. So you are paying for a game that you do nothing in, and takes you almost a year to get to start to do anything really interesting (that is to say, being able to afford to be part of massive space battles). what. the. fuck.
Manga
I have read a lot of Manga recently, so much in fact I needed a calculator to figure out just how much Manga I had actually read. This has actually been going on for a few months now. But in total I have read nearly a 200,000 pages worth of manga. I could get into details, but the sheer magnitude of the number is a bit much.
In the more I have included the short list version, the long list is… long.
Batman – Arkham Asylum
Borrowed the game from a friend, installed, but doesn’t run (general protection fault crap), spent a few hours on it. I installed it again, no good. I wiped my drive and gave the disk back. No game is worth that kind of hassle you know.
Games are so concerned with anti-piracy that you cannot even run a borrowed game anymore, you HAVE to buy it, and even then there is no guarantee. Games have protection on top of protection. It is annoying is that everywhere you look you see people that cannot play it, but bought it, and people who downloaded it and can. I think good QA got kicked in the head somewhere along the line, or at least traded in for all those nifty ‘security’ features that do nothing for the people who bought the game… well except give them headaches.
Oct 10 is Binary Day
I here by designate October 10th to be binary day.
Why, follows are some reasons
1010 together create in decimal the number 10, this forms if you want to be extra geeky 101010 which produces the decimal number 42. This year it will already be 10-10-10, which would produce 42 all by itself.
Most people like to think of a binary day as all ones, but binary consists of both ones and zeros. But a 1 by it self, say in January, does not normally explicitly define the 0. I say 1-10-10, not 01-10-10. Which is no good, we need zeros!
So 1010 is perfect since it produces a binary number in decimal form, and the answer to everything when that 10 is added onto the original two.
Scrollbars revisited
Awhile ago I made a post on the behind the scenes scrollbar mechanics. I decided to type up a short Java class using my implementation. It is not ready to be put into anything in this form, but consider this another ‘example’ for how to put it together.
I have placed the example in the more section. 