For some time now I’ve been trying to make time to upgrade my blog’s wordpress junk. A new version came out some months ago with new features and such but I just couldn’t get around to doing all the leg work required. Well I finally did it. Yay! Now my blog has threaded comments, which is a feature I’ve wanted for a long time now. Only problem was… they didn’t work. Crap… now what… Well the reason was that my theme was not compatible with the new wordpress. So back to the internet I go to find a theme that I like so I can mess with it and put it up on my site.
I get really nervous messing with other people’s themes. I’m not a programmer at all. I can barely do basic stuff at the best of times. I actually thought I screwed it all up but thankfully it was okay. So now I have a new theme AND threaded comments AND avatars! Woo!!!
Actually the avatars are called Gravatars. It’s some sort of universal avatar system that works with wordpress sites. I had my doubts about it but after trying it out it was super easy to do and I don’t have to worry about any of the backend code stuff to make things work. If you’re registered at my blog I recommend you go get one.
The only thing I could get working was the lightbox2 plug in. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong but I’ll live with it for now. I guess it’s all a learning process.
Holy crap… what the hell has Joe been up too? He finished his 366 post thing and then went and disappeared. Actually, I’ve been sick. I caught some sort of viral infection and it knocked me on my ass. I had flu like symptoms for a few days and then my throat got so sore I wanted to shoot myself in the head. It was so bad it would keep me up at night as I laid there and tried to resist my bodies natural urge to swallow. I didn’t want to eat anything and if I had a nap I would wake up in absolute pain from my throat.
It was awful. I’m not so bad now. It’s been reduced to a cough that won’t go away now. At least that’s better then shooting myself in the head.
In other news… I’ve decided to try and learn the Game Maker program. I mean, I can push pixels and make game art… heck… it’s what I do for a living. But I want to try and make some simple games myself. I have ideas that I’d like to try without having a studio get in the way and screw up what I want to do. Plus, even if I suggest an idea to the studio, it becomes their property. I won’t be able to use it at all, so I’d rather try and see what I can do by myself. Nothing complex… just fun. ^_^
I so want to play this crane game more then I’ve wanted to play any other. ^_^
I’ve actually had the pleasure of holding one of those “stress boobs”. They’re very squishy and quite heavy so I’m not sure how a crane claw is going to be able to grab one. Also those boobs tend to crack and split over time due to the gabbing and groping they receive. They should come with a complimentary bottle of coco butter cream.
I needed a hair cut so bad that tonight… I cut it myself. Well, I actually let my wife cut it and we used the hair clippers. I used to shave my head when I was in high school, not my whole head mind you though. Just the sides, I had long hair up on top and pulled it back in to a pony tail. I was a bad ass… or at least… thought I was.
So yeah… haircut. It was getting to the point where I would wear my toque all the time because my hair was so bad. But now that it’s been clipped I can start gelling up my fohawk again. ^_^ I guess I still think I’m a bad ass.
In today’s games of epic stories, hyper real environments and over the top gameplay, it’s nice to see something simple come a long.
Bit.Trip Beat (a Wii Ware title) is just that. It’s a simple rhythm game done in a big pixel style that takes us back to the Atari days. I see games like this as a reminder that what these are… what we’re playing is supposed to be games. I feel that most titles released are more “interactive story experiences” rather then an actual “game” but that’s just me. That’s not to say that I don’t like what is released now but I like my simple concepts too… and I think I like this. I can’t help be feel interested in it. Maybe I’ll pick it up on Monday.
Play Asia