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Playful

October 23, 2006
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This morning i played with the Prince of Persia series’ latest piece named The Two Thrones (T2T for short). It’s quite fun, and not hard either – though i continued my little brother’s game and he plays on easy level.

I experienced bugs only twice: once it froze when i tried to save the game (luckily it was in the very beginning, so it didn’t cause much problem), and once i successfully threw a guard inside the wall causing him to die. Believe me, it was quite funny as i catched the guard, made an acrobaric slice and then elegantly threw him in the wall.

The game itself is really good. I was a bit shocked when i first saw the real-time rendered graphics, because it didn’t quite look as good as i expected, but then i got used to it. The controls are easy to learn, and easy to use too, also the sometimes very long and very powerful combo moves the prince can use against enemies. He can do all he could in the previous episodes, and also a lot more. He gained a lot more combo moves (there was already a lot in Warrior Within), and he still can use two weapons simultaneously.

He also gained a new ability called speed kill. If you can sneak near an enemy unrecognised, and then, when the screen flashes, press the second weapon button, and then, when the weapon flashes, press it again, he can kill the enemy in only two hits, without getting hurt or realised. Just as in Splinter Cell or other sneaking-quietkilling games.

The secrets (where you can find health power-up) are quite easy to find, but just as hard to get to as in the previous episodes.

The other new thing is not really new… It’s the debut of the Dark Prince. He’s much like the Sand Wraith from Warrior Within. When the Vezir (who got revived somehow) frees the Sands of Time again, the Prince gets infected by it too, and also gets a chain around his left arm. Sometime later then the Prince transforms to the Dark Prince. He uses two weapons too: the Dagger and the chain on his arm. Quite powerful, so to say. He also always criticizes the Prince when he’s not in his dark form. They quarrel with each other (quietly – in a bit schizophrenic manner), which sounds quite funny.

I haven’t played much yet though – when i finish the game i’ll write about the story too!

Pointy

October 23, 2006
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This is good. I know someone who has a personality just like this cute little animal on this pic. At least that person claims so. I haven’t really experienced it yet, on the contrary… That person is rather a nice and cute figure, so free as this one…

pointy

Title: Pointy
Creator: ~just-inout

New password

October 23, 2006
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I just checked and found out that using this clever thing my password (that i thought to be secure) can be hacked. Funny, isn’t it? Though one’d need to know its hash to find it out, but that’s not hard for a pro hacker i think. Anyway, i found out that it’s not secure anymore so i changed it. I’m in the process of changing it everywhere i used this one. Don’t misunderstand me, i won’t change it everywhere to the same thing – i use a random string generator to make my passwords…

Now at all the important places i have the imaginably most secure passwords… or not. But now, i think i’ll go back and learn some japanese or read, maybe watch a movie. Wanna rest after a whole day of coding.

Back

October 21, 2006
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The server’s been having problems this afternoon, so it couldn’t be reached for about an hour before now. I have no idea why it was down – i can only hope it was not because a bad script i created… =)

I worked plenty today, did the archive system for the blog and the complete working structure plan for Kiltant. The latter is especially good because now i can follow a ready plan, don’t need to improvize which page i’ll do next – also, it displays the dependencies well. That decides which page should be a module and which should be core: core is the one that’s needed by all (or almost all) pages, while module is one that’s needed by only a few pages or is a front-end page displayer itself. The core files are responsible for the database connection, the authentication and other security measures, navigation and including required display pages.

With that, i have made an optimised query function for the database and an easy-to-update dependency system. I also consider using classes, which i haven’t seen any use of yet, but maybe now…

Aki

October 18, 2006
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You don’t know what that means? No problem, it’s in Japanese, and means “autumn”… Nice, isn’t it? I really love autumn – probably because i was born in october too… Right now the trees outside are taking their fall clothes, just before they become bare naked…

Title: Where The Leaves Die
Creator: *Gwarf

Change

October 18, 2006
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The big thing is that i once again will change my avatar – this black and red one doesn’t show any contrast with the blog layout and also is a bit too depressing for me. So i’ll recolor it and use that one instead – with some brighter, if not happier, but less depressing colors. You’ll see it by the next post, i haven’t uploaded it yet.

Also i think i’ll work further on refining my knowledge on the subject of AJAX and the XMLHTTP object in JavaScript. It isn’t half as complicated as it seems, it only takes a good tutorial to show the basic functions that i couldn’t figure out else way and then everything goes easily.

Tired

October 17, 2006
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“I am. I was not, then i came to be. I can’t remember not be. But i meant to travel far, very far to get here.”

Do you know what this is? The lyrics from the best ever music album ever published, titled Be by Pain of Salvation a few years ago.

This is a bit off topic though, just was inspired by the name of the category i once again write in.

I am tired. Very much. I have been working all afternoon, on different things, but all coding: AJAX, PHP and such. Fun.

That wouldn’t be a problem by itself, i’m somewhat used to work through whole days without problem, but today is a bit different.

Usually, if i listen to someone else’s problems, i kind of devour his or her negative thoughts and such, give him or her some seemingly good adwise, then think about it for a day. Somehow i’m really cheery when i just received someone’s problem pack, but also tired. And then today, i got another problem… then another… and had to help out everyone… and couldn’t speak with those i wanted to… well, it’s been a bit too much. I think i’ll go to sleep now. Or at least turn this freakin’ PC off.

Also considering enabling turning off “i am” and “feel like” posts for users, since some are really lame and troublesome. See you.

New Yahoo! mail

October 15, 2006
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Today a friend of mine told me that it’s worth trying out the new online mailing system of Yahoo!, because it has a new interface. Not as if i had any problems with the previous one, but this is really great. It’s so useful as a real mailing program, though it’s written in JavaScript and is compatible with (i think) all major browsers nowadays.

Most of you have probably seen websites that use the trendy Web2.0 technologies like AJAX and such. Well, i don’t think you could name any of those that’s not used in the new Yahoo! system. Do you like the dynamic interface of Gmail? Then you’ll love Yahoo!, not to mention it doesn’t need any invitations (at least it didn’t need any when i registered – so about 3 years ago), it’s totally open.

The scripting is really quick, though some pop-up boxes take a while to load, but i guess that’s when it uses Prototype-style client-server connection, and mine is a bit overwhelmed right now =).

It has everything that a full-power mailing program nowadays has, and in addition to the usual mailing services it also has implemented feed reader – though i wonder who’d use an online AJAX program for reading feeds… It’s a nice offer anyway.

If you ever want to be shocked by seeing a whole complex program coded in only JS and XHTML, then you should try this out…

10/10

Principle of equivalent trade

October 15, 2006
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If any one of you have seen or know the great anime titled Fullmetal Alchemist, then you most probably have already heard about the principle mentioned in the title.

People cannot gain anything without sacrificing something. You must present something of equal value to gain something. That is the principle of equivalent trade in alchemy.

Alphonse Elric

But if you watched the whole series or at least have seen the movie (Conqueror of Shambala) then you should know that this principle proved to be false – there are nice demonstrations of this by Dante or Hohenheim.

And i think it’s not working in our world either. If you look at any field of life, you can first have the impression that the principle applies, but as you delve further in, you’ll probably see that there are some things that cannot be explained that way, and that those are the things that give life the real taste. Both bad and good.

(Oh, and new avatar in use…)

Great, really

October 13, 2006
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As of now today i haven’t done anything serious. I mean, nothing that really worth mentioning, so i guess this one will be again a boring, “what’s it like living as vale”-ish post. You can skip if you want, but then would miss any good thoughts that accidentally pop up.

Morning-morning… thursdays are fun days for me, because i don’t have first lesson (just as on tuesday), so i could sleep longer if i wanted – though i usually don’t do that, rather go to school and play ping-pong in school. School was just as usual as it always is… nothing interesting happened – at least nothing worth to mention, that i could say in english.

I arrived home around three pm, then umm… well, i haven’t done anything, just checked my mail and chatted with people via msn… I think now i’ll write a couple of news posts for DB (this time really)…