Jack's Blog

Ok, here's another one of those "progress reports".

College Life
I was recently bombarded with 4 tests, which hindered progress on pretty much everything. The World Literature test was possibly the hardest, as I had to associate given passages of text with their author and what book it was from. We've been reading religious texts, including "The Old Testament" [Genesis], Ovid's "Metamorphoses" [book 1], Ahkenaten's "Hymn to the Sun", "Popul Vuh" [books 1-4], and John Milton's "Paradise Lost" [books 4-12]. I'm pretty sure it was a disaster, heh. Psychology, Physics, and Programming [The 3 P's] were easy stuff.

Final Fantasy Tactics [BYOND Remake]
As I mentioned above, I'm in college and was just bombarded with tests. However, I'm still in the extremely long and painstaking process of ripping the landscape art. Once I finally have the first battle field ready, I'll be able to do the easy stuff -- programming in the pseudo-3D engine. I also still need to rip character sprites. Basically, I have a lot of art to rip because I can start adding structure.

Iccusino
Yup, Aaiko brought back the Iccusino. I am adding Texas Hold'em to it, fixing up some odd bug that -just- recently showed up *cough*Aaiko-messing-with-my-code*cough*, and "rigging" Keno to make someone win the Jackpot 'eventually'. I'm thinking after the Jackpot reaches 20k, the odds that it'll "cheat" to make someone win will be significantly low, but exponentially grow with every 1k tokens over 20k. Last I heard, it was just over 96k.

Contests
Tiberath recently linked me to a C/C++ programming contest that simply wants you make a console app. Calculator. Pretty simple little program to do, so I figured I might as well participate.


Other News
Ry4n is Mr. Awesome. 'Nuff said. Also, I only have $32 to last me 2 weeks, heh. I guess that means no movie night or parties. :( Hooray for being a full-time student with no source of income. :/

... and due to peer pressure [don't quote me there Mikau!] I have cracked and made a MySpace account.

So, fellow sinners, if you also contribute to the random BYOND website downtimes, then add me to your friends list! Be sure to leave me a message of who you are though. I probably won't recognize you, and therefore not accept the request.

This is what happens when I poured 5-Hour energy onto my dialup modem...



Yes, my dialup which normally downloads at rates between 1.0 and 3.5 kb/s is downloading at MUCH faster speeds. It's absolutely insane.



WARNING: DO NOT pour any liquids onto modems or other electrical devices! I was trying to be creative in bringing about this interesting situation.

I recently got back from my trip to visit my brother. I didn't make a new 4th of July package this year. Maybe next time. I just didn't have money to waste, nor my camera.

I finally got all the stuff sorted out with the university, too. So, I will be attending this fall semester. [That means I'll have high-speed internet again, woot!] My schedule is pretty simple.
Classes on M/W/F are 10AM to 2PM
Classes on T/H are 8AM to 11AM and at 4PM to 5PM
[That's 20 credit hours]
That leaves my afternoons pretty much free to work and exercise.

Yeah, I forgot to mention that... I'm working on getting a life outside of the computer. Exercising vigorously every day and trying to break out of my introversion to meet people. That'll work better when I'm up at the university though. Big gym and thousands of people.

As for the Final Fantasy Tactics remake... I'm still working on it. It's just taking a VERY long time, since I can't get any useful/reliable help.

- Jack

Huzzah? I'll be up in Ferndale, Maryland with my brother and his girlfriend for a while. Probably until the second week of July. They're not too sure if they have internet access up there, hence why I'm leaving this message. ;)

Final Fantasy Tactics - This is going fine. Still very busy ripping the landscape art. It's a very long and boring process.

Anywho, Happy 4th of July.

(I might make another little 4th of July package. >=D)