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Well again I completely skipped making a post yesterday. I have no good reason for it, so don't ask.
Not that anyone ever really asks me anything about what I write here anyway. My wife does get on my
case on occasion for missing posts, but beyond that I am the only reason that I continue to do this.
I guess I kind of knew that going in. I figure if I just continue to write things here, eventually
I will write something that someone will find in a search and then maybe become a reader. I think
that my Shadowtwinian Reign may take a bit longer that earlier anticipated though. After a lot of thought I have decided that the way I can drive traffic to my site is to play on the weaknesses of the average person. So, perhaps if I were to put up a couple of beautiful puppy photos I could lure some unsuspecting people into my web. Here is my first attempt.
You can never go wrong with puppies.
• One of the guest columnists over at DII.net
had an interview with the creator of this little game called
Deadly Rooms of Death or D.R.O.D. for short. I know that link is currently dead, I assume that the
influx of traffic generated by being linked to on such a prominent site pushed him way past his monthly
bandwidth limits. I was able to download the game before that site went down, and I found it at least
a bit amusing to play. It is like a lot of puzzle type games that I have played on the pc before,
pretty simple to figure out, minimal graphics. But, it comes with an editor.
So after having played a dozen or so levels in the game I figure what the hell, I am gonna make me
a Dungeon. I took a scrap of paper to draw a quick layout of how I wanted the rooms for the first level
to look. Mostly just for the doorways going in and out. Then I started to make "JoeBob's Dungeon".
I only made the first level to it, and I think it is about ten rooms. One of the rooms currently
just has a big block formation that spells the words "Cake Walk", as I didn't want to take the time
to figure out another puzzle to put there, but wanted to make sure that the level clear thing would
allow you to move on. It was a lot of fun trying to come up with unique little things to throw onto
the boards to make them make you think, yet easy enough that it wouldn't take you an hour to figure
it all out. I did hit one snag with it, as I discovered while trying to play my new level all the way
through. One of the levels that I made was unbeatable. I was able to do it while I was play-testing
it, since it let me choose where to start, and I always started right next to one of the enemies
so that I could clear the board before it was a horrible mess of bugs. The problem was that when you
came in through the only door you could it was possible to clear all the bugs, but the spawners
would put back so many of them so fast that you were not able to kill them without getting cornered.
Without actually playing it you really wouldn't know what I am talking about, so long story short, I
had to eliminate a few of the bugs and a couple of the spawners to allow a player to get at least one
of them killed before the new bugs would spawn.
Wow, I believe I have reached an all new low in content. Talking in length about a game that no one
has ever played, on a board that I created so there is no way anyone could have played it...Now for
something completely different.
• When I gave my Mother her new computer on Sunday, she was excited by the
fact that the previous PeoplePC wallpaper could now be something different. I told her that I would
try to download her a better picture for her desktop, and that is just what I have been trying to
do, the thing is that all of the pictures that I have found which match the specifications are
.exe files. That could mean that they are simply packed as .exe files with winzip or some such
program, but I don't want to take the chance with mom's pc since she certainly doesn't know how to
fix it if something goes bad.
What I am looking for is a really pretty image of a unicorn and pegasus together. The image size
would probably be best at 800x600 as I am sure that is what her screen area is set as. I found one
such image at a pc wallpaper site, but after downloading it the file would not open, siting an 'unsupported
start of file marker' or some such. If you happen to know where I can simply download a .jpg image
such as described without having to sign up for weird porn email from here to eternity, please send
me an email.
That is all for today. I may actually make a post tomorrow, even though it is my concrete day off,
just because I have a feeling that a topic is going to present itself. I am basing that assumption
on something that happened today IRL and I really beleive it could make for excellent bitching material.
That being said, if I make no post tommorrow, don't be disappointed.
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