- 12/06/2004 -
.: Ah, Good Days Abound :.
Well, I just organized myself a little outline for todays update, looks pretty big today (word of warning: HUGE). I suppose this makes up for all the time lost when I don't update... I'm kinda liking this updating every other day, this way I feel like I'm actually updating something. We'll start off with what's going down at home... By the way, the title is in honor of Ryan's new blog update today.
So, my parents both left to go to Michigan this Sunday to watch my brother get inducted into the Order of Engineers, which my father was inducted into, and I will not be I don't think (Computer Science is in the ENG dept., but I don't think it really counts...). So, I had the whole house to myself for the next hour or so, and for most of yesterday. It was nice being able to just sorta sit here and not have people bother me. And I had food when I was hungry, not when dad got home, so forth. So that was probably the best part about the weekend. As illustrated in the last update, I've been looking around the internet for some new webcomics to read. The following (same that I posted before) are what I've found, and they are all well drawn and well done in general.
- Mondo Mecha seems to be the most promising of them all, mostly because I've been really itching to read a good science fiction something recently, and I've been to lazy to read the two newly purchased Battletech books, bought about a month ago now. I read the start of one book, and it seems to be well written, but recently I've just kinda stopped reading books. Don't know. Anyway, Mondo Mecha hasn't gotten to the purpose of the title yet, but it's really cool. Set in I believe 2300's Mars, it watches two people struggle through poverty and trying to find a job. It's still developing, even after 86 well drawn pages, but highly worth the read. Go start up!
- Game Under is an entertaining work. It's basically about video games (doh!) and isn't really funny, but isn't boring or stupid, so it's a win. Well drawn, and good dialog end out for a solid B webcomic.
- Star Cross'd is a extremely well drawn comic, I did a pretty good explination on the last update I believe... here.
Thats all I've found so far, although I admit, I have not really looked that long or hard. I'm sure there are hundreds of amazing webcomics, but therein lies the problem: there's just too many! Even if I didn't go to school, it would take me forever to read all of them up to date. Not to mention keep track of a plotline along them all. But, I enjoy them, they're fun. Next topic...
GAMES! Oh boy. So, as many of you noticed my away messages recently, I've found a few new games. Upon getting extremely bored of the few MMO's I have, I decided to take some time and search more out. (My time has been mostly spent searching it seems...) I came up with a few: Maple Story, Project Entropia, and Anarchy Online. However, these few are rather large in their own rights. Anarchy Online seems to be the best of the lot, however it is also the only one charging. At an alarming $14.95/mo also. That offsets the amazingness and throws it down the stack into the rest of the common RPGs. Sadly. The trial even requires a credit card to sign up for. Depressing to say the least. I spent a good portion of four hours downloading miscellianious content from the webpage also (not to mention the client before I realized I need a credit card). They do have an exceedingly well crafted webpage, clearly defined and easily navigated. They even went so far as to craft 5 TV length episodes of a story, I'm not sure if it is a basis to the actual game or not (I don't think most of it relates), but it does seem to use many of the same ideas (like "clans") as the game does. The most depressing part is that if it were to just charge, say, 12.95 or even 9.95 (*drool*) I'd snatch it up in a heartbeat. Alas, I'm not made of money, and nor does my harddrive have space for games that charge way too much. Next on the list (woot for reverse order): Project Entropia. This game is well done, and seems to play a tad slow (I think it's due to my video card, not the game) because of the distances the game draws. It will literally draw the map out a few minutes running distance ahead of you, and this severely lags my computer. A problem of this game, is that while you do not need to pay to play, it is a good idea to do so. The game takes out of game USD and converts it into in game PED (Project Entropia Dollars) at the exchange rate of 1 USD = 10 PED. It doesn't seem to be a bad exchange rate, and in fact, if I had money it would be a fantastic exchange rate. Most things you start out with don't cost much, and just by putting in about three dollars I could easily get going and probably not need more money for a long time. However, since I'm frugal and don't have money anyway, I'm forced to drop to "sweating": a task involving much death and running around. Sweating involves getting really close to a monster, left clicking it, and hoping it doesn't aggro the hell out of you. If you luck out (has yet to happen to me), then after about 10 seconds you can left click again and drain sweat from the monster, which is used as a component for some magic something or other later on. Anyway, since no NPC buy's sweat, a player is forced to sell this to other PCs, often at less than a few PEC's (Project Entropia Cents) each. I saw somebody selling 400 of them for 2.80 PED ;_; I have six. Slow process... Just 794 to go and I can buy a weapon and perhaps some ammunition... Lastly but not leastly (as it is the most entertaining for a no-income person such as myself) is Maple Story. Maple Story is a side scrolling RPG with surprisingly well done English (no way in hell they're actually from here or any other native English speaking country, probably another Korean group, not sure.). The game is simple, with only about 4 buttons needed to be pressed for any length of time (movement, jump, attack, pick up stuff). The game has a nice leveling system, and so far a pretty good class system also. It's a nice thing to do to fill in time while I'm otherwise extremely bored. And, now on to the next topic: school stuff.
Starting from the beginning and moving on, skipping the boring things, we arrive at third period Technical Drawing and Computer Assissted Design and Drafting. It is here were I discover that I'm over a drawing ahead of out schedual, even with all of the extra credit drawings I did. Which is cool, that means I can sleep or something for a day or two. Probably won't, but if I do by accident I've got nothing to worry about. This leads to lunch fifth period, where I discover in greater detail the wonders of acRO. Apparently, a friend of mine's male aco was mistaken for a female aco. This compounds with a lesbian mage on acRO who asked him if he was into girls. Naturally, he said yes. They ended up leveling for a long time together, and other funny stuff happened, and I don't think she knows yet that he's actually playing a male sprite and is male also. Quite obviously a n00b. Either way, it's funny. Matt's a girl. Ahahaha. The best part is, he was at Ryan's house when this all happened, and Ryan told Matt's girlfriend what was going on, and she responded with, "eh, whatever floats his boat". Priceless. Now, to seventh hour, with my favorite class of the day, Computer Science. Mostly, it's my favorite because after we finish working on our projects, we can do whatever we want on the internet. Anyways, we had a test today, which wasn't that bad, I think I got a 'B' or an 'A'. Since there is only one class of Computer Science, we sort of take it over seventh hour. Before our class, since our room is a computer lab, is keyboarding. On the board is the words, "Found in the girls bathroom AGAIN" with a little arrow pointing to the marker tray where presumably something was last period. This arrow, however, points directly to the center of the desk where Mr. C is sitting. He's sitting there in his slightly sleepy, slightly grumpy state, staring out to the end of the classroom, when somebody notices the sign and points it out. Cleverly deduced, Mr. C was found in the girls bathroom yet again, and is unhappy about it. LOL! He promptly laughed and then proceeded to erase it, telling us a story about when he was in college, he attended a lecture where the prof's screensaver was a caveman bashing a computer. Now, he's a physics major, but I think he mentioned this was a programming class, and so while he was being taught programming, on the screen above the prof is an animated screen saver of a caveman bashing computers. Priceless.
Sadly, my parents just came home, and I am out of topics to write about. Thanks for reading this far though, twas a long one... Till next time...
Adion is currently listening to: Ernesto Vs Bastian - ETS Global Mix (11/04)
So, my parents both left to go to Michigan this Sunday to watch my brother get inducted into the Order of Engineers, which my father was inducted into, and I will not be I don't think (Computer Science is in the ENG dept., but I don't think it really counts...). So, I had the whole house to myself for the next hour or so, and for most of yesterday. It was nice being able to just sorta sit here and not have people bother me. And I had food when I was hungry, not when dad got home, so forth. So that was probably the best part about the weekend. As illustrated in the last update, I've been looking around the internet for some new webcomics to read. The following (same that I posted before) are what I've found, and they are all well drawn and well done in general.
- Mondo Mecha seems to be the most promising of them all, mostly because I've been really itching to read a good science fiction something recently, and I've been to lazy to read the two newly purchased Battletech books, bought about a month ago now. I read the start of one book, and it seems to be well written, but recently I've just kinda stopped reading books. Don't know. Anyway, Mondo Mecha hasn't gotten to the purpose of the title yet, but it's really cool. Set in I believe 2300's Mars, it watches two people struggle through poverty and trying to find a job. It's still developing, even after 86 well drawn pages, but highly worth the read. Go start up!
- Game Under is an entertaining work. It's basically about video games (doh!) and isn't really funny, but isn't boring or stupid, so it's a win. Well drawn, and good dialog end out for a solid B webcomic.
- Star Cross'd is a extremely well drawn comic, I did a pretty good explination on the last update I believe... here.
Thats all I've found so far, although I admit, I have not really looked that long or hard. I'm sure there are hundreds of amazing webcomics, but therein lies the problem: there's just too many! Even if I didn't go to school, it would take me forever to read all of them up to date. Not to mention keep track of a plotline along them all. But, I enjoy them, they're fun. Next topic...
GAMES! Oh boy. So, as many of you noticed my away messages recently, I've found a few new games. Upon getting extremely bored of the few MMO's I have, I decided to take some time and search more out. (My time has been mostly spent searching it seems...) I came up with a few: Maple Story, Project Entropia, and Anarchy Online. However, these few are rather large in their own rights. Anarchy Online seems to be the best of the lot, however it is also the only one charging. At an alarming $14.95/mo also. That offsets the amazingness and throws it down the stack into the rest of the common RPGs. Sadly. The trial even requires a credit card to sign up for. Depressing to say the least. I spent a good portion of four hours downloading miscellianious content from the webpage also (not to mention the client before I realized I need a credit card). They do have an exceedingly well crafted webpage, clearly defined and easily navigated. They even went so far as to craft 5 TV length episodes of a story, I'm not sure if it is a basis to the actual game or not (I don't think most of it relates), but it does seem to use many of the same ideas (like "clans") as the game does. The most depressing part is that if it were to just charge, say, 12.95 or even 9.95 (*drool*) I'd snatch it up in a heartbeat. Alas, I'm not made of money, and nor does my harddrive have space for games that charge way too much. Next on the list (woot for reverse order): Project Entropia. This game is well done, and seems to play a tad slow (I think it's due to my video card, not the game) because of the distances the game draws. It will literally draw the map out a few minutes running distance ahead of you, and this severely lags my computer. A problem of this game, is that while you do not need to pay to play, it is a good idea to do so. The game takes out of game USD and converts it into in game PED (Project Entropia Dollars) at the exchange rate of 1 USD = 10 PED. It doesn't seem to be a bad exchange rate, and in fact, if I had money it would be a fantastic exchange rate. Most things you start out with don't cost much, and just by putting in about three dollars I could easily get going and probably not need more money for a long time. However, since I'm frugal and don't have money anyway, I'm forced to drop to "sweating": a task involving much death and running around. Sweating involves getting really close to a monster, left clicking it, and hoping it doesn't aggro the hell out of you. If you luck out (has yet to happen to me), then after about 10 seconds you can left click again and drain sweat from the monster, which is used as a component for some magic something or other later on. Anyway, since no NPC buy's sweat, a player is forced to sell this to other PCs, often at less than a few PEC's (Project Entropia Cents) each. I saw somebody selling 400 of them for 2.80 PED ;_; I have six. Slow process... Just 794 to go and I can buy a weapon and perhaps some ammunition... Lastly but not leastly (as it is the most entertaining for a no-income person such as myself) is Maple Story. Maple Story is a side scrolling RPG with surprisingly well done English (no way in hell they're actually from here or any other native English speaking country, probably another Korean group, not sure.). The game is simple, with only about 4 buttons needed to be pressed for any length of time (movement, jump, attack, pick up stuff). The game has a nice leveling system, and so far a pretty good class system also. It's a nice thing to do to fill in time while I'm otherwise extremely bored. And, now on to the next topic: school stuff.
Starting from the beginning and moving on, skipping the boring things, we arrive at third period Technical Drawing and Computer Assissted Design and Drafting. It is here were I discover that I'm over a drawing ahead of out schedual, even with all of the extra credit drawings I did. Which is cool, that means I can sleep or something for a day or two. Probably won't, but if I do by accident I've got nothing to worry about. This leads to lunch fifth period, where I discover in greater detail the wonders of acRO. Apparently, a friend of mine's male aco was mistaken for a female aco. This compounds with a lesbian mage on acRO who asked him if he was into girls. Naturally, he said yes. They ended up leveling for a long time together, and other funny stuff happened, and I don't think she knows yet that he's actually playing a male sprite and is male also. Quite obviously a n00b. Either way, it's funny. Matt's a girl. Ahahaha. The best part is, he was at Ryan's house when this all happened, and Ryan told Matt's girlfriend what was going on, and she responded with, "eh, whatever floats his boat". Priceless. Now, to seventh hour, with my favorite class of the day, Computer Science. Mostly, it's my favorite because after we finish working on our projects, we can do whatever we want on the internet. Anyways, we had a test today, which wasn't that bad, I think I got a 'B' or an 'A'. Since there is only one class of Computer Science, we sort of take it over seventh hour. Before our class, since our room is a computer lab, is keyboarding. On the board is the words, "Found in the girls bathroom AGAIN" with a little arrow pointing to the marker tray where presumably something was last period. This arrow, however, points directly to the center of the desk where Mr. C is sitting. He's sitting there in his slightly sleepy, slightly grumpy state, staring out to the end of the classroom, when somebody notices the sign and points it out. Cleverly deduced, Mr. C was found in the girls bathroom yet again, and is unhappy about it. LOL! He promptly laughed and then proceeded to erase it, telling us a story about when he was in college, he attended a lecture where the prof's screensaver was a caveman bashing a computer. Now, he's a physics major, but I think he mentioned this was a programming class, and so while he was being taught programming, on the screen above the prof is an animated screen saver of a caveman bashing computers. Priceless.
Sadly, my parents just came home, and I am out of topics to write about. Thanks for reading this far though, twas a long one... Till next time...
Adion is currently listening to: Ernesto Vs Bastian - ETS Global Mix (11/04)
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