Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade was on one of the Showtime channels the other day, so I recorded it with my DVR and finally got around to watching it. Parts of it reminded me of something you'd see on Saturday Night Live. It's hard to believe that people could really say and do some of those things with a straight face.
I never heard of Twin Galaxies until I started visiting AtariAge, never knew that the top video game nerds in the country posed for a picture in Life magazine or that any of them went on the TV show That's Incredible and I was crazy about video games back in the early 1980s. I watched and read anything I could find on the subject. But I was interested in the games and who made them, not the kids who played them, so that could explain it. The people in this documentary did not exist in my world.
If you haven't seen it before, this documentary could make you feel creeped out and sad, while making you laugh at certain points. ...
I have tried various Firefox add-ons over the years, but the only ones I have kept are these:
NoScript Only allows scripts to run on web sites that you trust. It also ends up working like an ad blocker most of the time, so Adblock Plus usually isn't needed.
Tab Mix Plus Gives you more control over tabs. You tell the browser how you want to use tabs instead of letting the browser tell you what to do.
Download Statusbar Shows info about downloads in the statusbar and will automatically scan anything downloaded with your anti-virus software if your software allows it (Avast is one that allows it).
DownloadHelper Allows you to download flash videos from many web sites, including YouTube. Videos from YouTube can also be saved as .mp4 files for use with the QuickTime Player.
Googlebar Lite Besides the usual search stuff, it's the fastest way to search a web site. Just type something in the search box and click the Search this Site...
From where I live, the closest amusement park is Carowinds. I've been there 3 or 4 times over the years and I always feel like I wasted my money, especially since they don't have a Tilt-A-Whirl.
I hope I can take a trip to Dave & Buster's and play Skeeball and other fun games and not have a drop of guilt or disappointment. I might actually enjoy my time there and not feel like I wasted a ton of money.
The evil of outside isn't as bad now, so although I cough a little when I go out, I won't cough up a lung or rip a gaping hole in my throat that might attract werewolves.
I'm starting to feel like I have more energy, so now maybe I can get back to working on the batari Basic page and getting some work done on my stupid games.
I had this record when I was 3 or 4 years old. The record below sounds a little warped or something, but it's still nice that someone posted this old memory at YouTube:
After turning all of the question marks on the map to dots, I still didn't have everything. It became clear that I was either gullible for trusting a game map or the people who made the game were cheaters. Why have any question marks on the map if you're not going to have all of them?
Having a map that is incorrectly marked might suck, but I'm pretty sure that I got 15 bucks of enjoyment out of the game (and that's how much it costs). If you haven't played Shadow Complex yet, you're probably going to need this interactive map:
I got a 1600 Microsoft Points card as a semi-late birthday present tonight. Now I'll be able to get Shadow Complex or something else that might be good.
For being a toilet paper game, Shadow Complex is better than most games I've played on the Xbox 360 so far. I also think it's the best toilet paper platform game I've ever played on any console.
On March 22, I was moving furniture and other items around and I started coughing from the dust, then the pollen from some evil plant outside soon started bothering me on top of that, so I coughed up green and brown stuff for over a week. I couldn't take the coughing anymore so I bought a store brand version of Sudafed the next time I had money and it cleared up my lungs and stopped most of the coughing.
I don't know if it's the medicine or if I'm just tired from all of the coughing that stopped many days ago, but I still don't feel like I have the energy to do much of anything. I just want to sleep, and when I can't sleep, I just want to stare at TV or play a video game until I get sleepy again.
When I become ruler of the world, I'm going to ban dust and pollen.
I loaded an old version of the program to help guide me, but since variable names changed and how I did things changed, it was twice as hard to convert nybble variables back to regular ones, but I got it done and everything seems to be working. Now that I'm using regular variables again, it will be easier for me to study the code and see if even more variable are unnecessary. I already have 7 free variables, but I might be able to free up a few more.
The program should be more fun to work on from now on. If I can keep crunching down the code and freeing more variables, I may be able to do everything I want to do and not have to use bank switching.
I've been trying to get rid of every unnecessary variable so I'll have the room to split up the Nybble me this, Batman! variables. I need to go back to regular variables so I can understand my code better. When batari Basic finally gets built-in nybble variables, I'll use them, but until then, I'm sticking with regular variables and bit operations.
At the risk of killing it, I forced a name to the surface:
Gyvolver (the gy is pronounced the same as the gy in gyroscope)
Here's the story for the game so far:
Before Gyvolver can advance to a higher level of existence, a test must be passed. Gyvolver needs to get through a course filled with energy-draining barriers to qualify. The Prodvocate follows and if Gyvolver slows down for too long, the Prodvocate moves up and extracts a little energy from Gyvolver as motivation to speed up.
The story might change over time, but that's what I'm going with for now so I'll have something to work with. Now I have to figure out what the Prodvocate looks like.
I now have two sound effects working using data. I thought it might use up too much space since code has to be repeated for each sound, but it's not using up that much. Looks like I'll be able to do all sound effects using data.
I wish I knew what this game is about. It reminds me of a backwards version of this quote:
I know it's there, but I can't see it. Something wants to be born and I can chisel away at the 'marble' until it's revealed, but since I don't know what it is, I'm in danger of damaging it. I need to keep at it so I won't lose momentum, but I could end up killing it if I'm not careful.
There are nutty people in the world who want to silence you if they don't like your opinion. They hate free speech with a passion, unless they agree with your speech. Here's an example:
Sometimes I go looking for music videos at YouTube and there is a 90 percent chance that if I click on a live version of a song, it's going to suck. The lead singer mangles it or the whole band is off, but many people will post messages about how great it is. Is it stupidity? Fan 'blindness'? Brain gremlins?
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I thought it might use up too much space since code has to be repeated for each sound, but it's not using up that much. Looks like I'll be able to do all sound effects using data.
