Long-ass rambling post XD Sorry.
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flyboy_foxOuch... n.n; Majorly long LJ power-outage. I realize how addicted to LJ I am when I get this agitated because it won't load XD Anyway, LJ being offline won't stop me typing up a post anyway >.>
So... hmm... I'm still kinda not well. Despite actually getting offline at some insanely reasonable hour like 11 (after only being on for a very short while), I just COULD NOT sleep. I guess the sleep I fragmentarily got during the day during the migraines messed up my ability to sleep at night x.x Oh yeah, and when I DID get to sleep at about 4:30am, I dreamt that I was having another migraine! XD Score. My brain hates me. And then I woke up at 7. So yeah, I'm tired and my head still aches. But I don't have recurrent health problems often, and as far as 'major illness' goes, it's not :P It's just a nuisance and it makes me feel crap, but that's all it is. So, enough of that!
Heh, I got a lot of replies to that 'gender query' post I made XD I didn't realize it was such an interesting topic! But seriously, it was cool getting insight on how you guys view (and have viewed) me ^^ (Reminds me of that thing we said about Knux, Jei... "He's a question, wrapped inside an enigma, wrapped inside a conundrum... wrapped inside an echidna" XDDD He is!!)
So... I've been playing on Rubicon and Perplex City lately.
Rubicon first -
It's basically a machine-building game. You have crates, each with a numerical (or alphabetical hex) value, and you have to match them up with identical crates to activate a switch between them. To do so, you have to 'build' a machine, using conveyor belts, winches, bulldozers, gates, replicators etc, as well as components that can add the value of two crates to create a new crate with the combined value, or decrease value, or roll off to the side with different rules etc. There's 12 preset levels as well as dozens of user-created ones (and the ability to create your own). I'm on level 11, aka the "bad bee" level, and I'm about halfway to solving it. It's good brainfood! And the feeling when you create a machine that _works_ is just... whee, great.
Perplex City -
It's pretty big so maybe some of you already play it O.o You can buy the puzzle cards from most games retailers in the UK and in the States, as well as online from places like FireBox (whee, FireBox!!), but you don't NEED them in order to play. I only have six puzzlecards which I got free in my Mensa monthly magazine thingy (why are so many Mensans so stuck up? ;_; I hardly bother reading it anymore because they're so full of themselves x.x), plus the two free cards you get online when you sign up. Basically it's a HUGE global treasure hunt with a very real £100,000 or $200,000 reward for whoever finds the location of the Receda Cube (buried somewhere on Earth in what may be an 'arborelous' [tree-filled?] area). You can score points by solving puzzle cards, which range from the ludicrously easy (3.14 <-- what is this number?) to the slightly thoughtful (what is the area of a triangular lake surrounded by plantations with the following partial dimentions?), to the frustratingly hard to crack (literally! There's a global effort to crack '13th Labour', which appears to be an RC5-64 encryption, so users around the world are combining CPU power to try to crack the key), to the (currently) unsolveable (Riemann's Theorem, which actually carries a $1,000,000 reward in the mathmatical community to anyone who solves it XDDD). Oh! And they're not all math puzzles by any means. The ones I used as examples all seem to be o.o But there's visual puzzles and logic puzzles and verbal puzzles and some plain outright weird puzzles that take some looking at before you even work out what you're supposed to do O.o I find this kind of thing _fascinating_! :D I'm hooked. My favorite puzzle so far has to be one card that just has a picture of some guy on it with "Find me" in Japanese. Yup. The puzzle is to find this guy. Somewhere on Earth o.o All we know about him so far is that his name is Satoshi. XD Find him!! Anyway, I don't know if I'll be buying more cards, but there's a games retailer in the town that sells them, so maybe o.o
Hrn, LJ is still down... "LiveJournal is currently unavailable at this time". Surely that's tautology? Either "Currently unavailable" or "Unavailable at this time" would have sufficed :P ... yes, I'm bored >.>
Blah, blah, blah...
Toy-Box's second album 'Toy Ride' has eaten my brain ^^; It's unashamed bubblegum pop, but I like it ._.;; Lots. At first I didn't think 'Toy Ride' was even close to being as good as 'Fantastic', but now I see that it's actually far superior :P Almost every single track on here has earwormed its way into my brain, despite the fact that I'm sure their sound is marketed primarily at prepubescent girls ._.;; Well who gives a damn XD If I like bubblegum pop, then I like bubblegum pop. I can redeem myself with my other musical choices, anyhow.'Cause Bananaphone is soooo cool, you know it XD.
Dunno what I'm gonna do about NaNoWriMo :\ I lost three days already with stupid migraines, so I'm already significantly behind. Should probably face the fact that I'm not gonna get it done this year x.o Crapitty.
OMIGOSH WHAT'S GOING ON WITH LIVEJOURNAL??!! >O I need my fix... or... or... well, it doesn't bear thinking about >.>; *twitches with slightly unstable glint in eye*
This is turning into a long post o.o Maybe I'd best wrap it up there until I can send it n.n;;
...ohgosh, LJ is still running slooooow >.>;; But it's working enough so I can send it now-maybe-yes? :D *click*
So... hmm... I'm still kinda not well. Despite actually getting offline at some insanely reasonable hour like 11 (after only being on for a very short while), I just COULD NOT sleep. I guess the sleep I fragmentarily got during the day during the migraines messed up my ability to sleep at night x.x Oh yeah, and when I DID get to sleep at about 4:30am, I dreamt that I was having another migraine! XD Score. My brain hates me. And then I woke up at 7. So yeah, I'm tired and my head still aches. But I don't have recurrent health problems often, and as far as 'major illness' goes, it's not :P It's just a nuisance and it makes me feel crap, but that's all it is. So, enough of that!
Heh, I got a lot of replies to that 'gender query' post I made XD I didn't realize it was such an interesting topic! But seriously, it was cool getting insight on how you guys view (and have viewed) me ^^ (Reminds me of that thing we said about Knux, Jei... "He's a question, wrapped inside an enigma, wrapped inside a conundrum... wrapped inside an echidna" XDDD He is!!)
So... I've been playing on Rubicon and Perplex City lately.
Rubicon first -
It's basically a machine-building game. You have crates, each with a numerical (or alphabetical hex) value, and you have to match them up with identical crates to activate a switch between them. To do so, you have to 'build' a machine, using conveyor belts, winches, bulldozers, gates, replicators etc, as well as components that can add the value of two crates to create a new crate with the combined value, or decrease value, or roll off to the side with different rules etc. There's 12 preset levels as well as dozens of user-created ones (and the ability to create your own). I'm on level 11, aka the "bad bee" level, and I'm about halfway to solving it. It's good brainfood! And the feeling when you create a machine that _works_ is just... whee, great.
Perplex City -
It's pretty big so maybe some of you already play it O.o You can buy the puzzle cards from most games retailers in the UK and in the States, as well as online from places like FireBox (whee, FireBox!!), but you don't NEED them in order to play. I only have six puzzlecards which I got free in my Mensa monthly magazine thingy (why are so many Mensans so stuck up? ;_; I hardly bother reading it anymore because they're so full of themselves x.x), plus the two free cards you get online when you sign up. Basically it's a HUGE global treasure hunt with a very real £100,000 or $200,000 reward for whoever finds the location of the Receda Cube (buried somewhere on Earth in what may be an 'arborelous' [tree-filled?] area). You can score points by solving puzzle cards, which range from the ludicrously easy (3.14 <-- what is this number?) to the slightly thoughtful (what is the area of a triangular lake surrounded by plantations with the following partial dimentions?), to the frustratingly hard to crack (literally! There's a global effort to crack '13th Labour', which appears to be an RC5-64 encryption, so users around the world are combining CPU power to try to crack the key), to the (currently) unsolveable (Riemann's Theorem, which actually carries a $1,000,000 reward in the mathmatical community to anyone who solves it XDDD). Oh! And they're not all math puzzles by any means. The ones I used as examples all seem to be o.o But there's visual puzzles and logic puzzles and verbal puzzles and some plain outright weird puzzles that take some looking at before you even work out what you're supposed to do O.o I find this kind of thing _fascinating_! :D I'm hooked. My favorite puzzle so far has to be one card that just has a picture of some guy on it with "Find me" in Japanese. Yup. The puzzle is to find this guy. Somewhere on Earth o.o All we know about him so far is that his name is Satoshi. XD Find him!! Anyway, I don't know if I'll be buying more cards, but there's a games retailer in the town that sells them, so maybe o.o
Hrn, LJ is still down... "LiveJournal is currently unavailable at this time". Surely that's tautology? Either "Currently unavailable" or "Unavailable at this time" would have sufficed :P ... yes, I'm bored >.>
Blah, blah, blah...
Toy-Box's second album 'Toy Ride' has eaten my brain ^^; It's unashamed bubblegum pop, but I like it ._.;; Lots. At first I didn't think 'Toy Ride' was even close to being as good as 'Fantastic', but now I see that it's actually far superior :P Almost every single track on here has earwormed its way into my brain, despite the fact that I'm sure their sound is marketed primarily at prepubescent girls ._.;; Well who gives a damn XD If I like bubblegum pop, then I like bubblegum pop. I can redeem myself with my other musical choices, anyhow.
Dunno what I'm gonna do about NaNoWriMo :\ I lost three days already with stupid migraines, so I'm already significantly behind. Should probably face the fact that I'm not gonna get it done this year x.o Crapitty.
OMIGOSH WHAT'S GOING ON WITH LIVEJOURNAL??!! >O I need my fix... or... or... well, it doesn't bear thinking about >.>; *twitches with slightly unstable glint in eye*
This is turning into a long post o.o Maybe I'd best wrap it up there until I can send it n.n;;
...ohgosh, LJ is still running slooooow >.>;; But it's working enough so I can send it now-maybe-yes? :D *click*
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Date: 2006-11-04 08:00 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-11-05 04:12 am (UTC)So you like the new Toy-Box album better than the old one? XD oh no... I didn't think that was possible! n.n well it's cool you found some good new music. Toy-Box is so silly it's good XD
;_; nuu give up on NaNoWriMo... you never write! you must! pleeeeease?
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Date: 2006-11-05 11:41 am (UTC)In fact, if it weren't the fact that LJ decided to do maintenance when I wanted to comment, I would said this:
"*pokes Big the Cat, a tortoise and Livejournal to sees who's faster*"
As if you didn't know I was crazy enough. ^^;
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Date: 2006-11-05 03:19 pm (UTC)Happy? ^^
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Date: 2006-11-05 05:54 pm (UTC)Can't say I'd have the patience to play those sorts of games though ^^;