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May 09 2007
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writing

Letting go

When I found the place again, it was through an advanced google search, the one where you have to get it to look for a specific phrase while at the same time eliminating results with a different specific phrase.

Even then I only found the place after eight pages of results.

It takes me a few more minutes to get the right client and get some settings the way I want them. I’m acting on physical memory now. My fingers just seem to know the way, I’m just along for the ride.

I connect and my password and userid grant me access.

The sea of black text flooded the screen, the usual disclaimers and warnings too dense to comprehend and suddenly I was back in my alchemical laboratory. I looked around to read the description. How I agonized over the wordings and spellings. I trimmed the descriptions in order to fit them on one page for visitors.

There were a few loose items scattered in the room, a guest key that I had coded a while back that allowed people to teleport here if they used it, but the second it left their inventory, they would get booted back to the main lobby.

I could summon it into my inventory at anytime. Handy when an anonymous guest got unwieldy. Continue reading →

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May 03 2007
Technology

Camera Time

Picked up a Fuji V10 from amazon the other day. It was a good dollar to megapixels ratio and a 1GB card was only twenty dollars, so that seemed like a win slash win situation.

Today is the field test so I’ll be taking pictures at the highest resolution every twenty minutes to see how it reacts in different situations. Plus, I’ve been meaning to document a day in pictures for a while now and I think 5.1 MP is a good way to do it.

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Apr 12 2007
Games

Hype!

Well, the God of War 2 site ended up being developer commentary alongside movies of God of War 2.  Glad I didn’t stay up for that, although it is interesting to watch.

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Apr 11 2007
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Kinda Tempted

By two things, actually.

First is the God of War 2 teaser site.

Yes, I know it’s already out and I’ve beaten it already, but now I’m curious about what this is going to announce. God of War 2 is one of those few games that compelled me to play it all the way through, so I have some impetus to stay up for another five hours.

Second is the Guitar Hero downloadable content on the Xbox Live Marketplace. I love the song “Killer Queen.” I really enjoyed playing it on the first Guitar Hero. However the price is a little steep. I think the whole microtransactions thing is not my cup of tea. And it’s not micro if it’s $6.25 for three songs.  I understand that yes, a song by the original artist costs one dollar on a music store of your choice.  I understand that the song I would be purchasing is in fact, done by a cover band.  Yes, I know that they’ve done some work synchronizing that cover to guitar controller input and the new gametypes in Guitar Hero II.

Yes, I do realize that someone has to make money from this, but it would be a fine, fine thing if they could just cut the people a break that have already purchased this game.  Maybe one large download with a price break or the ability to buy songs individually.  I’m just the idea guy, I don’t know if this would make sense or not.

I’m not asking for free, but in order to get the rest of the songs into Guitar Hero II for the 360, that would be about $100 at the current rate. Which is about $550 too much, considering I’ve already purchased the game itself (well, technically, I’m still trying to purchase the game with a non broken guitar), the 360, and I’m a Live subscriber.

And drop the price of the 120GB hard drive for the 360 already.

And I want a pony.

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Apr 10 2007
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Guitar Hero II

So if you’re thinking about Guitar Hero II for the 360, you might want to wait until they get the bad guitars out of their manufacturing run. Here’s part of my exchange with RedOctane customer support:

We have isolated the issue to a small group of controllers that came from a particular manufacture, we have since corrected the issue, Please take the bundle back to the retailer for an exchange. If possible we do ask that you send us the model number from your controller, it is located on the sticker and should be one of the following # 95055 or # 95065.
Thank You

In short, avoid those model numbers. I think you can see them on the SKU, so you don’t necessarily have to open up the box and look at the back of the controller.  Going back to Best Buy, I couldn’t find another copy of Guitar Hero II to exchange it with, so I had to return it. I think I’ll wait a little longer for them to “work out the kinks” in manufacturing, then get back to thrashing like that forty year old dude at the demo kiosk.

He was totally getting into it.

Totally.

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