Great Expectations

Posted by JoshDreamland on March 5, 2007, 4:50 p.m.

I have some great expectations. More than I would like to have.

Mrs… Er, will call her BITCH_E. BITCH_E wants the entire English class to read Charles Dickheads', pardon me, Dickson's Great Expectations. Fine, whatever, I am a decent reader.

It's 550 pages.

So, as usual, I was negative towards the whole thing. (For those who don't know me well I am a dangerously bad cynic when it comes to new things, see my blog on GM7. O_o ) So I of course started on her. She says "Take out the big book." I make a show of extracting Great Expectations from my book bad. So this went on and I think she actually got mad at me for a minute there.

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Another 'Great Expectation' I have relates to something more desirable. Yesterday I submitted my Metroid game, as promised. It is more of a demo as of yet, so I hope people treat it and rate it as such. There is not too awful much in it yet, in fact the Morphball is a bit buggy with the new door system, but nonetheless I think it will all work out well in the end.

So maybe I'll get a nice rating, maybe a 9. I'd like that. But people are more cynical than me when it comes to games mimicking real video games. So I tried to explain that it isn't even close yet, but I'm still gonna get like a 5 or 6 I know it. -_-

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After putting up with a lot of crap from IE, I decided to get FF. So here it is. As I type I already notice a very nice new feature; Spell check! So here are the positives and negatives:

Plus (+)

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• Spell check

• More secure (supposedly)

• Comprehensive password field recognition/remembrance

• Similar display to IE, less coping.

• Field remembrance: When you go to a page and return,

——-form data is preserved

Delta (Δ)

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Only appearance glitches:

• When using the middle button pressed scrolling, if you click outside the displayed web page, you stay in scroll mode

• Does not change cursor in that scroll mode

• When you go to drag highlighted text, does not change cursor to arrow from bar

So I'm gonna keep it.

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I hope Metroid Prime GM, the also temporarily titled game, gets on the home page today. I have a giant-ass book to read.

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Comments

Josea 17 years, 8 months ago

@block0man: He's called Don Quijote, not Don Quixote ;)

Graydon 17 years, 8 months ago

I can see what you mean.

twisterghost 17 years, 8 months ago

<b>I</b> like to <b>bold</b> every few <b>words</b> in my comments <b>too</b>

Nah, just kidding.

block0man 17 years, 8 months ago

@gml_josea: There are a few different spellings, I guess.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote

twisterghost 17 years, 8 months ago

Ok, lets have a quick English lesson.

Quote:
well my agmes 35 and 36 in the queue, i higly dobut ur game will get on today. but good luck, as long as its good i can get past the metroid part, but if its a noob remake.. oy itsa be a blood bath… and reading isint that bad.. i just read iliad

"well my agmes 35 and 36 in the queue,"

I'm sorry. We don't have a "Submit Agmes" button.

"i higly dobut ur game will get on today."

I higly dobut things all the time. Oh, and nice job saving two keystrokes with "ur."

"but good luck, as long as its good i can get past the metroid part,"

Oh…kay…

As long as its a good game, you can only make it past the metroid part of it?

"but if its a noob remake.. oy itsa be a blood bath…"

You used "but" too much. How about "however?"

Oy! Itsa me! Mario!

"and reading isint that bad.. i just read iliad"

Let me just take a moment to point out one of those places where a type just looks worse than it normally would.

"reading isint that bad"

Hooked on phonics!

This has been a quick learning session, brought to you by Twisterghost.

s 17 years, 8 months ago

I learned my spelling and vocabulary from video games and books,so I just have the issue of pronouncing everything wrong.

LunchTime 17 years, 8 months ago

lol @ Twisterghost

melee-master 17 years, 8 months ago

Heh, books that schools force you to read generally always suck. That's why most people don't like reading, even if they realize it or not.

s 17 years, 8 months ago

Hey Josh,did you delete your game AGAIN???So MPlayFighter has gone with NSider Mario,eh?

JoshDreamland 17 years, 8 months ago

@serprex–

lol, Maybe. Sorry. ^_^;;

Do you allow strifing and crouching?[And by crouch I mean not the morphball]

Strafe–Next release Crouch–It's 3D, so no.

Also,how fast are the bullets?

Fast as I could make them and still have it look good. They're decent.

And another thing…do you have a virtual Zaxis so that people can go below and above a platform?

Hell yes.

AND ANOTHER THING!!!What is your room system?Is it all in these packets or is it like in one big room which uses deactivation and stuff to not go all laggy?

The latter, except for there are so few rooms so far I haven't finished the deactivation system.

With all the time it's gonna take I may have the new version up immediately after its release.

block0man–

lol Kinda gross.

foslock–

Thanks for that. T_T

twisterghost

lol

And nice grammar lessons. XD

Shadow Yoshi

Only if you're a n00b.

serprex

Same thing for me with computer terms.

melee-master

So true. I hated To Kill a Mockingbird.

serprex

Yep, all gone. Too glitchy (the 64Digits page, not the game)