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I don't have plans for any new guides but nailed down 2 that'd been floating around with half circles on GameFAQs.
Dark Heart of Uukrul
Lode Runner 4(Arcade) -- final level was on nicovideo.
Still to go, Super Lode Runner 2 (Famicom) and QBert 3(SNES)--the 2nd, I may pull.
It's good to get a sense of completion about these things. I'm hoping I'll finally sink SLR2 this weekend. I have the last gold chest in the last level...but it's nice to have a burst of stuff done.
Maybe people will find ideas for what they want to rewrite, etc.
The ones before 6/1 helped keep me afloat in HGWars.
4/6: Taxman: warming up with a Pac-Man clone is as good a way as any to just write.
4/7: Gamma Goblins: this was mostly an exercise in weeding out the really awkward bits.
4/8: Galaxian: I finally got to where I could roll the 6-digit score. Actually, it clogged at 99990. That was cool. This was the sort of rewrite I was just happy I could do better than when first posted.
I'm happy with how I kept the word count down on my reviews this year. I set goals for them and hit them, for the most part. I got progressively happier with my proofreading both before RotW/judge evaluations and after. I got used to determining what screenshots worked best, and that helped more than I expected. However, I still see problems when I proofread/add 1 last detail/forget to proofread. Connectivity can go poof.
Pre-6/1 games are HGwars fodder, largely.
5/Miner.html">Miner: My first exclusive HG review. It was rather short and I was half worried I was scamming HG points for such a small review. I shortly dropped the guilt once I needed to buy that next piece of land.
So I wrote a FAQ for Shadow Brain, leaving open a few small questions. I generally mark them with ?? -- this works with other writing as well, e.g.
??plotbreak
??spell
??vocabcheck
It's normal not to feel the immediate inclination to correct these. What wasn't, though, was that I didn't get any of the maps I intended to, posted to GameFAQs. There are details to fill in but one was in PNG form and I wrote it on my to-do list every day this week.
Maybe I've finally had it with FAQing? Maybe I'm really ready to move on for good? I hoped that I would get to the point where writing-writing took over game writing, but all the same I hope there are spare games to pick off when I have the time.
After Purdue's odd technical foul for an illegal player (assistant coach forgot to fill John Hart's name in after Hart was gone on Saturday for a funeral) I thought back to the best technical ever. Bobby Knight had that chair throwing incident you can see on YouTube, but I think this is harmless--well, except for the refs' egos. So quick and to the point. The whistle interrupts his PSA!
There's also a video of Gene Keady getting an impressive technical, which also Lou Henson's comb-over too, but while Keady tosses his blazer, there's not enough yelling.
So with my fiction writing I had a constant question--how much had I gotten done? And in what ratio?
Two scripts in the last 24 hours were useful: one, that just says what sections in my text file are how big, and two, that says how much of the sections have ideas organized.
My chapters generally are organized like so:
Billy went to the beach. He found a dollar in the sand. Bully Bobby said "Hey! That's my dollar!"
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Billy spent the dollar on a Flakey Jake and a can of A&W Root Beer.
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B asks BB if know serial number
Is BB trying to impress girls?
B has friends at beach?
It happened as I placed a hold on a library book today.
I was #86 in line for the regular-print version of the book, when I placed an Internet hold. That was major dungus, so I saw if the Large Print version was more available. Yahtzee! Two branches, one 7 miles NW of downtown and one 13 miles south, had the book "not checked out."
So I figured I'd place an Internet hold at the NW branch, then walk there this weekend.
Checking an hour later, one copy was "in transit between libraries" from branch #2 to branch #1.
I asked about this at the main branch. They said I could call the librarians to hold the book nonelectronically a few days.
Oh, right! That whole talking to people thing. It's ancient, but it has its positives.
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