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This got me wanting to play Tie Fighter again. Just played it again for a moment to break off some of my piloting rust, and made it to level 9 in the training simulator for the Tie Fighter on my first try in ages (first badge already, and I just started), with a pretty nice score while at it. Those later levels get brutal, and popping a few targets at a time can only buy you so much time. Crashing really costs you big time by the end there, especially when the narrow ports are freaking rotating, and you have to weave between 2 of them with orbs blocking the way while at it. Serious reflexes needed for those kinds of maneuvers. Didn't expect to divert power so many times to get the best time/score. Still, that was fun. Now to see if I can reach and beat the Dodec Squadron in Mission 1 for the Tie Fighter again (12 Z-95s. Ugh. And I only knocked out half of them before being fried. Not bad for no shields and no warheads the entire time.), and this time, destroy more than half of them, in fact, complete the whole mission, secondary and all on Hard difficulty again.

I didn't expect royally screwing up in a driving test (turns) would result in me beating the gold score by a quarter of a second. I don't know how I did it, but I felt like I botched it big time, only to obliterate the expected time by a significant margin. I guess all those times gallivanting in Need For Speed paid off.

Managed to collect and upgrade everything in the game (also max. bombs and arrows), with a few dungeons to spare (last one, before the final level providing the final piece of heart (last item on the list, caused by railroading); but mostly-finished by this point). The last bosses, and the rematch boss rush was pretty much a 1-2 hit kill on those poor fools (although the last dungeon bosses were still pretty strong, and needed a few more hits), and I had everything by then.

Also, the 4 mages that tend to bug me during the last levels, I finally figured out how to efficiently take out simultaneously. You use the red cane to plant a block dead-center between them, and use it again to explode it in all 4 directions. This also helps for the final puzzles that I used bombs otherwise instead; now I can trigger them at-will instead. Albeit, a tad late there.

Just finished up playing LoZ:LttP. What a classic.

Quote from: ShadowHammer on March 19, 2015, 10:02:54 pm

I made an eldritch/illusion-type thingy to use as a gameboard in a forum game I might (read: will probably never) run.

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Still have to clean it up a bit, but I thought it was kinda cool.

Isometric paradox drawings are fun! I assume you've seen the penrose steps? If not look those up and pen rose's other works for ideas!

Kinda reminds me of the game Echochrome. Here's another.

"I've never liked the statement 'Practice Makes Perfect', or 'To be good at something, you must invest your time into it.'; it's by far, the least motivational thing to say to a person as lazy as myself.

Lazy people like to have fun, and the more fun you have, the better you get at something (regardless if it's boring to someone else), and when you're having the time of your life, whether be it relative (to oneself, or local social circle) or absolute (to everyone else and the big leagues), you're an expert in your field, and you know you rock at what you do.

To enjoy what you do (for a living, or as a hobby), can also make you an 'instant-expert' 'sans-practice'. Remember, lazy people, like myself, hate hard work and dedication. It's a waste of our time, and is no fun at all, and nothing more than a hassle to us; especially the recognition we get for it (I don't mind having fans, it's the fandom that develops that irritates me). We work hard enough to avoid said hassle. Artists don't work, they do art." --Itnetlolor

ADDENDUM:
I basically see that last bit about fandom as how I think Christ would feel about religion based around him as of late. He doesn't mind those that respect him; it's the zealots that bug him the most. For example, I've been to a -con before, and the artists/creators were awesome, but I can feel their pain when they see a total "fanboy" bug them about stuff. I never thought life would imitate art like that. Though it wasn't too far-fetched. It kinda reminded me about how I made more friends in school because my artistic abilities and my aims could net me big bucks as a future career. It made me feel like they respected the artist (money-maker they could sponge off of), but not the person (Me, the artist).

I never thought I'd feel relieved to fail in my ambitions like that. I avoided having tons of annoying non-friends thanks to failure.

"See, there's even a brightside to total darkness." --Itnetlolor, addressing to those that don't like negative/pessimistic people. Mostly blind-optimists that have their contrasts set too high, from being in the light for too long (AKA- Having their heads up their ass, with a wire hanger in the mouth 24/7.).

EDIT:
"What's more painful than not being helped? Being helped by those that don't understand you, or your situation, and also refuse to understand you, or the cause of the issue, to help you out, more efficiently; no matter if what you say to them (that would help/serve as a translator) would make their job easier to accomplish, or their advice easier to understand, and to accept, in general." --Itnetlolor; More times than not, any help I ask for, and aid in the advice-giving by providing a "rosetta-stone" of reference, the "rosetta-stone" is never taken into consideration. For example: Translating my pessimism in a way an optimist would understand. To find a neutral-ground, if you will. Like explaining context to a content-oriented person; especially if they have no idea how context works. It's like asking for an argument, and getting abuse instead.

EDIT EDIT:
Oops. I may need to re-adjust my personal definitions. I've read some rather large quotes that seemed rather normal-scaled to me lately. That seemed short enough IMO.

Then again, by my definition, with how elaborate I can get into those, those ARE short. I guess, unless I can complete the thought, those not-so-short quotes would be incomplete, otherwise. Plus, first quote's 199 words.