How to break things

By Ben, on September 26th, 2010%

I was just reading a list of known issues for Final Fantasy XIV and laughed out loud at the last one:

-If a player has viewed the credits, the game may display the error message ” An update error has occurred. Error 20524″ and fail to update properly. *We apologize for the inconvenience, but if . . . → Read More: How to break things

Dealing with life

By Ben, on September 26th, 2010%

Last weeks Q&A, wherein they discussed Euthanasia, was one that I’ve been mulling over since. Most of the discussion was your usual crap that serves no purpose but one of the panellists briefly touched upon the informal euthanasia which is currently practised by hospitals.

This made me think of my mum.

My mum had cancer . . . → Read More: Dealing with life

Train Woes

By Ben, on September 13th, 2010%

On my way to work yesterday I accidentally got onto the wrong train and ended up at North Ryde station. The last time I was in the area was when I was working for Gateway and the train line was in the planning stages. What a sexy station though, it makes me want to live . . . → Read More: Train Woes

More Final Fantasy XIV

By Ben, on September 13th, 2010%

I’ve come to realise that the game expects that you will talk to every NPC available, similar to the single-player games by the same name. They think that visual indicators to know who gives quests, who sells equipment, and who will provide completely meaningless banter, are not needed and that discovering who gives what is . . . → Read More: More Final Fantasy XIV

Tron

By Ben, on September 8th, 2010%

I need you bad

Final Fantasy XIV

By Ben, on September 6th, 2010%

I downloaded the FFXIV open beta over the weekend to check it out and what a chore. Despite the updater using Bittorrent tech it was quicker to open the torrent files in uTorrent than to use their downloader.

I tried FFXI in the past and thought that it not only looked drab and ran like . . . → Read More: Final Fantasy XIV

Important!

By Ben, on September 5th, 2010%

To those of you who don’t have the Priority Inbox in your Gmail yet, I need to tell you something: I have it :p

Seeing Everything New

By Ben, on September 5th, 2010%

Everything seems much closer

After visiting the optometrist he suggest I get glasses because I am far sighted. While my vision is not that bad, I get headaches after looking at anything close for extended periods such as a monitor.

It was interesting during my vision test when he had me hold a card . . . → Read More: Seeing Everything New

The Epic Weekend – Part 2

By Ben, on September 2nd, 2010%

In Part 1 of my epic weekend I discussed Saturday, but Sunday was much more involved because we spent the day at the zoo.

I’ll admit I grudgingly dragged myself from bed early on Sunday so that we could get to the zoo when it opened. We’re talking me waking up on Sunday the same . . . → Read More: The Epic Weekend – Part 2

Mai Me Arai