So I’m allowed to buy a PS3 game today (I might be able to wangle two), and need to know what is worth it. I already have Little Big Planet, Metal Gear Solid 4, and Burnout Paradise.
Suggestions?
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After setting up a website for my mother, enabling her to accept orders for her small business I began to quite like Ubercart for its simplicity. One of the big things I like is the attributes system, where a product can have user-definable variations that can affect the price. There are limitations of course, but being free is a big bonus. The only element of Ubercart that isn’t free is the time it will take to discover its limitations. With all its simplicity comes quite a lot of rigid inflexibility and today I have hit a point that goes to the very core of Ubercart: it lacks support for anything but discreet units for products (no decimals), lacks support for ordering by a specific unit of measure (UOM) and thus doesn’t have any kind of UOM conversion available. I was in the planning stages of transitioning our company website to using Ubercart but now that I’ve discovered this particular weak point, using Ubercart in this case will be impossible. What is it about software that individual packages will include a single great feature but lack everything else I need? If only it were possible to take all those great features and make one super application… Why do developers tortue me so? See my Steam achievements for Oui’s level of addiction. I’ve been watching True Blood, which consists of lost of sex, blood and various vampires and stuff, and while the first season was mostly ‘meh’ in the last episode a new character was introduced played by none other than Michelle Forbes! I have a total geek-boner for Michelle Forbes because everything I’ve seen her in she’s been simply amazing. The following selection of her work should help to illustrate the epic proportions of my adoration for her:
When I looked from my desk out of the window this morning I was greeted with a rare sight – clear blue skies. I can count on my hand the number of times the sky has been blue in Bangkok, the last time being about 2 years ago, and I expect today will be particularly hot. Luckily the aircon in the computer room was repaired a couple of days ago so we should be able to ‘weather’ it. In other news, WordPress makes updating so bloody easy. The admin interface informed me today that there was an update to WordPress available and gave the option to automatically install it or manually download it. The automatic install worked like a dream and was done in less than 10 seconds! Even better is that plugins for WordPress can by updated in exactly the same way. If any updates had killed the site I wouldn’t be singing their praises though. Many Drupal users yearn for updates to be as simple, but unfortunately the level of customisation performed on practically every single install of Drupal makes it impossible to perform any kind of automatic updates that could potentially destroy the entire site. If you’re using Drupal and haven’t customised your site, why are you using Drupal exactly? While I’d dabbled in online games in the past in the form of competitve experiences such as Quake 3, which I will eternally suck at, Ragnarok Online was my first true online game. I played the Thai version and luckily there wasn’t that much reading to be done in the game as Oui was my very reluctant translator.
The entire game is about grinding from the get-go and looking back I wonder how in the hell I ever found it entertaining. It might have been the cartoon graphics that are done in the 2.5D style but it was the first game that both Oui and I played online, though we only had the one account. Like many games of that generation it has PvP features that you can’t opt out of. The way PvP worked in this game is that if you flag you can attack anyone whether they are flagged or not. It’s a player experience that griefers love but the majority of other people hate and you never see it these days except in older games that are still hanging on thanks to a few dedicated players. We only played it for about two months because we tired of the grinding and constantly being killed by other players quickly, but it was our first taste of what was to come. I finally did it (got the title for the Midsummer Fire festival in WoW) but I swear to god I nearly gave myself RSI trying to do the torch tossing achievement, alternately hammering my keyboard and mouse like a guinea pig on speed for 5 minutes and continually speeding up because I’d think I wasn’t doing it fast enough, before remembering I had to be in Dalaran to get it. At least I was fully prepared once I arrived in Dalaran. There are a bunch of photos on display outside of Central World at the moment of various forms of aquatic life. Ben: “Wow, those photos look amazing!” Oui: “Mmm, that looks tasty!”
One of the things I love about Thailand is that, unlike everywhere in the west, this sort of thing is allowed to exist without fear of public humiliation. These guys are mini-celebrities in Thailand at the moment. Let’s be clear on something, I love my PS3. Adore it even. Saying so doesn’t automatically mean that I hate the Xbox360 or those who love it though. There is one thing I hate about my PS3 though: the Playstation Network (PSN). Don’t get me wrong, I love the content and I love how easy it is to buy stuff on there – that is if they would make it easy for me to buy anything on there. First a bit of background. |
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