As you can probably guess, there is a chapter meeting tomorrow at Eden Prairie library. If you couldn't guess, now you know. You would also do well to know that they are on a monthly cycle. Anyways, you guys should come, since our turn out for the last meeting was quite impressive to say the least.
Using a program called Synergy I was able to do away with the dual boot. Since I have two computers in my room anyways, I figured I might as well use them both. I now have them set up with two monitors side by side. It's actually two computers sharing one mouse and keyboard. When I move my mouse from the edge of one it goes into the other. Quite cool.
I got substantially farther in the secret level, but I'm still unable to complete it.
I just beat this game, Cave Story, and all I can say is play it as soon as possible. It was quite possibly the most satisfying gaming experience I have ever had. Yeah, so it's one of those old looking platforming games, but it combines elements from all the best Japanese games of old. It's like playing a fusion of Metroid and Castlevania, except it's a 100% awesome. The art is stylish, especially on the large bosses. The music is enjoyable. The story is probably the best part, aside from the game play. Amazingly for a platforming style game, it even has three endings. The gameplay is rather generic, but it has enough twists to make it interesting and absorbing. Besides all this, it's a pretty hardcore game.
I played it twice. The first time took 6 hours and the second time took 3. The second time I did everything so that I could get the good ending by doing the secret level. The problem is, I can't beat the secret level...
Being the secret level and all, it's significantly more difficult than the normal game, but I wasn't expecting mandatory booster pack mastery >_>. If you can't tell, I'm about to fall to my death, because I wasn't efficient enough with the fuel.
Second time around I make it up to that ledge. I wonder what lies beyond that drop...
This I can handle.
Haha... tricky. Turns out I had use little enough fuel above to barely propel me onto this ledge. Another death.
Aww, look! It's Curly. She nearly dies to save your life. Or rather, in the crappier endings she either ends up dead or amnesic.
Yes, that is her strapped to my back. This section of the level is terrifying. There are blocks falling everywhere, and these stupid little Cupids.
Well, I tried to slowly kill everything, but...
Screw that I'm getting out of here! That block you see me flying haphazardly towrads ultimately ended in another untimely demise. I do know what lies beyond that hallway, since I've gotten there once, but not while taking screenshots. Actually screenshots are rather distracting.
If one of you wants to try this level out, here is the save file. http://mkbunday.googlepages.com/Profile.dat It's easier than going through all the work for the secret ending that way. If any of you manage to beat it, I will crown you video gaming god.
Hmm, and two new bands I just discovered. The first is Small Sins which a small electronica band. This is probably their best song.
http://www.myspace.com/thewhitestboyalive
Their other songs are okay, but not superb.
The second is The Whitest Boy Alive, which besides having an awesome name is awesome.
Had my timing been better this would have been shown on Easter, but oh well. I hope you guys had good Mother Days, they certainly deserve the appreciation.
Well today I had the AP Physics B exam, as many of you already know. I did do about as poorly on it as I had expected. After taking so many standardized tests I've gotten a sense of what I'm ready for and what I'm not.
Then I went on to soccer practice. Endurance is clearly an issue for me. Killers (run to the middle of the field, and back, then to the end of the field, and back, rinse and repeat) should not be as hard as they are, but oh well.
Btw, I would recommend reading Reinventing the Bazaar by John McMillan. It's an interesting (and sensible (hard to believe when it's philosophy, I know)) blend of Robert Nozick's libertarianism (minimal governmental intervention in lots of things) and other philosophers that want a more socialist state. Yes, it's true I did recommend a book from my philosophy course, odd as it is. Actually this guy is pretty readable. Unlike a certain John Rawls.
One other thing. I nominate Bingo for world's most terrible game. Who wants to play a game where all you can do is passively read numbers off the charts? There is no way you can actually influence the outcome of the game. And if you had managed in anyway to find a "strategy" to use during a game of Bingo, you would be promptly accused of cheating. I mean, how more boring could it get. You might as well just play a game of flip the coin, or roll the d20. Playing bingo was pretty much the hi-light (other than the good food) of our mother's day celebration. Our game of Apples to Apples Junior was almost as bad, since I could predict my cousins predictable (yes, I do know I'm being redundant) decisions a year before they happened. Apples to Apples is one of those games where the amount of fun is linked directly to who you are playing with, and in this case it wasn't too fun. The silly Junior part also made it impossible to create fun by creating twisted and perverted meanings. So pretty much, it wasn't too fun.
Ah, another weekend another debate tournament. My cases are still just as bad as they were last week. I beat Neverwinter Nights, Shadows of Undertide, Hordes of the UnderDark, Witches Wake, ShadowGuard, and Kingmaker in eight days.
