YRUHere?

Aww, what happened?

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:50:02 GMT

I setup these cool little check marks after visited links in my CSS. My computer crapped out on me a while back and I went back to the old laptop, which didn't seem to recognize them and put a question mark there instead. A little while ago something made the checks come back, but now they're gone again. It's kind of odd given that they mean the exact opposite to me. =)

I suppose I should use this opportunity to try out polls.

Fall update got me

Mon, 25 Dec 2006 09:20:39 GMT

Microsoft's going to send me a box to send my 360 to them in, classy! Hopefully they'll replace that USB port on the back that hasn't worked since I got it.

http://www.majornelson.com/archive/2006/11/01/ having-an-issue-with-the-fall-update.aspx

Busy Busy Busy

Sun, 08 Oct 2006 09:10:13 GMT

No time for details. �.�

Want a forum, but not a guild?

Sat, 01 Jul 2006 23:13:43 GMT

I spent a lot of time figuring out how to put the forum link into my info box (not a CSS master... or user) so in hopes of helping others I'm posting it. Technically, it's still in the guild box, but nobody has to know! =P

#guild_box .title {
        display: none;
}
#info_box .header {
        margin-bottom: 0pt;
}
#guild_box {
        margin-top: 0pt;
        border-top-width: 0px
}
#info_box {
        margin-bottom: 0pt;
	border-bottom-width: 0px;
}

Added some padding to the bottom of the guild box (not here, just on my page) as per O-matic's suggestion, looks nice. =)

Xbox Live Anyone?

Tue, 30 May 2006 00:52:48 GMT

I just got my Xbox 360 online, which means I have a free month as a gold member. If anyone's interested in playing, here are the games I have:

Xbox 360:
The Outfit
Project Gotham Racing 3

Xbox:
~~Conker: Live & Reloaded~~ (not backwards compatible =,()
Halo 2
~~Midnight Club II~~
~~Project Snowblind~~
Star Wars Battlefront
~~Unreal II~~
~~X-men Legends II~~

Don't be surprised if I don't talk while playing, the headset is too small so I turn it off and flip it up.

Gamertag: YMIHere360

Gone Again

Fri, 23 Sep 2005 17:55:21 GMT

I'm on a break from free time again and I'm not sure for how long. Tomorrow I leave for Michigan to visit family and attend a wedding (this one should go over a bit better than the last one I went to =P), and when I get back I'll finally be moving out of my parents house. The place is already furnished so I'm not sure I'll have room for the computer or even video games. It's probably better for me to minimize any distractions from work anyway. =P My roomate has a computer so I'll still browse occasionally, but for fear of key loggers I won't login unless I can get my brother to work his magic on it (I can't seem to get anything done with it). The place has a tiny yard, so I could cut the grass with scissors and be back to the AC before I ever could with a riding mower here. It's also only about 45 minutes away from here, so I imagine my parents will call me to test that theory out. =P Maybe I will pop in from time to time. =)

Sorry Hazzy, I owe you a theme when I get settled down. =P

Recent Games

Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:02:08 GMT

I've been playing a lot of games recently so I should probably bore you guys (plural, who am I kidding? =P) with specifics. Let me start off with the game that started the recent spree:

Age of Mythology - PC
Did I say I was playing new games? No, I didn't; quit whining. I bought this game a while ago with Rome: Total War and Age of Empires, but never played it because I found Age of Empires dull after just barely making it through the tutorial campaign (I probably missed something). Anyway, I really enjoyed this one. I think that's at least partially due to the mythological beasts. I make the matches last extremely long just so I can build a huge horde of beasts to demolish the competition. I haven't even beat the first campaign yet, and I have no clue how far through it I am (<SPOILER>just a little ways past the battle where I had to prevent someone from busting down some big door</SPOILER>).

LEGO Star Wars - Xbox
If you're looking for a challenge, run away! This game is insanely easy, which also makes it fun for everyone. You could have your parents and/or younger siblings playing this with you. The camera is a bit annoying at times, but other than that it's a fun game. I find it functions best as an all out war outside of the diner (a lobby area of the game) once you've unlocked some evil characters, sadly the ability to copy your savefile information to a memory card is missing so you have to unlock everything again on any other Xbox you plan to play on (or just use the cheat codes). I seem to get lockups when I go out there after beating a level, but on a fresh load I can sit out there for hours and watch these (strangly flexible) LEGO guys go at it. Of course, the game is full of spoilers for episodes 1-3, even without voices in the cutscenes (which can be quite entertaining).

Sid Meier's Pirates - Xbox
No, you cannot get a parrot! Bartender's ask you where your parrot is every now and then and I've seen a few people asking how to get one. This game's pretty good, I haven't played it in a while, but I remember beating it (well, as close as I can get in a free-form game) three times and being quite happy with it. I took it easy the first time, and even managed to get enough loot for my pirates buddies to stay on full time (3,000 gold a piece, I believe). Later I tried it on the hardest difficulty and got creamed over and over again, when it came time to divide the plunder I was happy to see that I could set the difficulty down a notch. Even at this difficulty swordfights were not an option for me, but my navigation specialty came in handy. I decided to be a bit mean and capture a messanger vessel that I promised to escort (a mail runner, fastest and most... "Three days, that's tomorrow! Let's go"... agile ship in the game). Even with the very limited firepower it became a lot easier to please my shipmates, merchant galleons just can't handle this little mosquito-like ship. Sorry about that random quote, Family Guy is on and I'll be taking a short break to prevent further indiscretions.

Ok, so I went to bed, time for more.

Leisure Suit Larry - Xbox
Aww, this isn't very puzzling at all, it's just a bunch reaction tests. I was hoping for a good adventure game, but there's really nothing to figure out here. Don't get me wrong, I'm pretty good at the hand eye coordination minigames, but after a while they get extremely boring and this game is built on them. They didn't leave out the crude humor, though, and the conversation minigame is entertaining whether you're winning or losing. I'll have to finish this game eventually, it's too funny to leave half finished.

Conker: Live and Reloaded - Xbox
One of my favorite games got an update. The campaign is still awesome with only a few changes. I'm not sure which version's multiplayer I like better, but since my best gaming buddy moved a bit further away I'm happy to still have bots.

Dominions II - PC
As far as global domination goes, this game takes the cake. It doesn't seem to have too big of a following so I feel bad about not wanting to play it multiplayer. I get creamed much like I do when playing other strategy games, but I have fun while it's happening. =P I summon every big baddy I can to try and hold off the invading forces, but they always make it in. I'll probably go back to this after I finish this post. Oh, and this is available for Linux and also has a demo available for download. I finally found a Linux game and now I can't play it on the Linux comptuer because I needed it's video card for this pc to be able to handle the newr games. I should probably plug http://www.tuxgames.com here because it was so easy to buy this. I paid $3 bucks more or so for the shipping, but I didn't have to give them my lisence, registration, birth certificate, employer's mother's maiden name, or the estimated amount of times I go to the bathroom per day. I just sent them money through Paypal and they sent me the game, what a pleasant shopping experience. It's too bad that they only deal with games for Linux, if any of you know of a website that will let me buy a game through Paypal without making an account or giving them my credit card number (what's the point of paying with Paypal if these guys still ask for my credit card?) please leave a comment.

That's not all of the recent gaming, but I'm getting tired of typing so I'm cutting it short (lucky you).

Gameapalooza Absentee

Fri, 22 Jul 2005 20:07:39 GMT

I probably won't make it tomorrow, I plan on going to see if some friends need help moving (it'll either be this weekend or next). Comcast seems to be having trouble in my area lately, so I probably wouldn't have been there long anyway.

Of course, if they end up moving next weekend I'll miss the next one too. It's a good idea, hopefully it'll still be around three Saturdays from now. =)

Social Lives are the Devil

Sun, 15 May 2005 00:53:26 GMT

So I went to my friend's birthday party last night (his birthday is the day after mine) and I got a nice reminder of why I'm a hermit. Some guy (who I will refer to as guy 1) had started drinking early and was getting on some peoples' nerves a bit. He was told to leave, and being hard-headed (and drunk) he saw it as some type challenge. I'm not sure of the exact details, but he was egging on some other guy (a new neighbor, referred to as guy 2) to fight him. Guy 2 walked off to his house rather quickly, and this is when I took notice. Guy 1 was having a not so friendly talk with one of the people who lived there, and with me being one of the two people there that was bigger than guy 1 I went over to keep the peace. They were arguing calmy, but in each others' faces so two other guys walked up to break up a fight if need be. One of those guy asked me to put his shirt on the table, and when I turned around to do so guy 2 was walking back with a pistol. He shot into the ground twice and told guy 1 to leave. Did I mention guy 1 is hard-headed, he just stood there and stared at him while me and the two other mediators yelled at guy 2. Guy 2 wasn't happy with the outcome so far, so he shoved the gun in guy 1's face. It was quickly pulled back by one of the other mediators, and I don't recall seeing guy 2 again. The cops were called, and I was severly happy with this. Guy 2 didn't know guy 1, he also didn't know that guy 1's dad is a cop and both guy 1 and his brother can get to those guns. Guy 1 left (not sure where), and his brother left making it plainly obvious that he intended to come back armed. Luckily, his mom was awake, but he did come back un-armed. The cops were already there, though, and they took guy 2 away.

Want to know the real kicker? Had somebody simply asked guy 1 to leave politely instead of trying to look like a badass, he would have left. These weren't kids, it was a couple of full grown men acting like this. I can't stand these hormonal bastards always ruining a good time to prove their manliness, and I'm done with being there to stop stuff like this from happening. People suck.

Evening up the Columns

Wed, 27 Apr 2005 21:11:33 GMT

Sure I could just remove some favorite games or friends, but what's the fun in that? Anyway, first on my to-do list is to get BaseConverter using ascii2text() instead of a list since this shouldn't take too much time. Next I was thinking of a forum, but then I remembered Kunark already has that covered (though, I thought it was only in the statpanels until I looked it up again). I'll still make one I'm sure, but it'd be more for my own entertainment/self enrichment as I plan on making one in PHP for my webserver eventually. I need to finish STM Blackjack, but I just don't want to work on it for some reason. So, now that I've laid out what I have on the table, I was hoping for someone to put more stuff on it. =P I'd rather make stuff that would be useful to BYOND in general, but it's certainly not a requirement, so strange ideas work for me too. I just like creating things. =)

It's not that I have a lot of time on my hands, I'd just like to have ideas ready in case I get some time to spare.