Much Ado About Everything

Yes, I finished the game a few weeks ago, but just yesterday I had a 12 hour marathon watching the recap of the game that I got off Ebay.  It’s basically as if you’re playing the game, sans random battles.  Must’ve been a lot of work to make it.  Anyway, the fact that I managed [...]

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I guess you can’t have good news without bad news.  Sad news of the day is that Stanislaw Lem, one of my all-time favourite Sci-Fi authors, has died.  He was pretty old – 84 – and hasn’t written anything that I can recall since 1988 or so, but his books were fairly important to me [...]

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I finished another game.  This one was fairly short – though as a first-person shooter, it’s not expected to be nearly as long as an RPG.  Still, it should’ve been longer.  Luckily, I haven’t paid full price for it. I have to say it – majority of game designers these days seem to be freakin’ [...]

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I watched three episodes of this anime so far and I’m intrigued by it.  The show has definitely succeeded in creating an atmosphere that a friend said reminded him of a Phillip K. Dick novel – to which I added that he should add William Gibson’s Necromancer to the mix as well.  I also heard [...]

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I finished Radiata Stories yesterday.  Steven said “so soon?” but it’s more like “only now?”.  You see, the game is supposed to be short by RPG standards, around 20 hours, but I ended up playing it closer to 35 hours.  Yet I shouldn’t have done so, because I didn’t have much to show for it. [...]

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Whew!  For the first time in ages – no, really, years (which are effectively ages when you consider human lifespan – wait, does what I’m saying make any sense?) – I did not finish all subquests in a game.  Well, that wasn’t too difficult considering there really aren’t any as far as I can tell [...]

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So we had a veritable blizzard here in Vancouver last night, and it was snowing pretty strongly most of today’s morning.  Yet it was sunny in the afternoon!  What a crazy city this is! I continued watching Vandread, and it’s still funny and interesting to watch.  Lots of action, very good looking action too! Oh, [...]

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I have seen a few trees around town beginning to bloom!  Come on guys and girls, let’s organize a watching picnic (hanami).  Who’s up for it?  Check this website first.  They finally updated the site and confirmed there’s stuff happening.  Forecast for bloom – I’m guessing only of Flowering Plum and Whitcomb cherry – is [...]

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And no sooner my cheeks have dried up from Final Fantasy Eight ending, I already started playing Wild Arms 4. My first thoughts – whoa!  Did that guy just speak?  Maybe I’ve been playing old PS1 games a bit too much?  You think? Anyhow, so far it most definitely fits within cliches mentioned on http://project-apollo.net/text/rpg.html”>that [...]

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While working on creating build scripts for my website – I started with some tricks off a website dealing with a substitution preprocessor I ended up getting really annoyed by my editor vim, up to the point of trashing the keyboard.  This was caused by so-called “smart” audoindenting.  There is just no way to turn it [...]

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