Thursday, April 24, 2003
Me like free stuff
PH33R M3!!!1 ... or not ...I've finally figured out how to run Gimp, which is essentially a Unix version of Photoshop Elements (No affiliation to Adobe, it just does the same stuff, is all...). There's one major difference, of course - Gimp is FREE! Free, I tell you!
I have emerged from my first sucsessful dive into a unix interface since college. I won't go into how long it took me to get Gimp to run on Mac OS X, but I would never have done it without Apple's release of X11 for Mac and the good people at MacAddict Magazine. Don't mind me, I'm power trippin'
Bwa-HAHAHAHAHAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sunday, April 06, 2003
.Hack Tactics
Let me start by saying that You cannot plug an ethernet cord into a USB port! ... Ehem, lesson learned.I've noticed a definite difference in the ways that Kelli & I play .Hack. When Kelli plays, she has 2 notebooks out in front of her at all times. In them, she keeps track of every item, field, weapon, armor, &, yes, even grunty food. If I wanted to know what keywords to use to find the most Piney Apples, all I'd have to do is ask - she's been there.
I'm ... not so thurough. Sure, at times I'll spend hours on end trying to level everyone up, but that's only so when I go to the field where the next plot point takes place I can just breeze on through leaving nothing but a bloody swath of destruction in my wake.
The results of these two strategies are pretty streightforward - while Kelli has logged in more hours than me, I'm farther ahead in the plot. She hasn't even met Mia the cat player, and I'm already raising grunties. Does this make me a better player than Kelli? Not really - she could easilly get to where I am now if she tried. I guess she feels less of a need to do that since she's getting a sneak preview of what's to come when she watches me play.
In other news: HOW THE HECK DO I INSTALL GIMP?!?! ...lousy stinkin' Unix interface...
