The World Is Square
Jan. 2nd, 2005 01:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vovatHappy new year, I guess. New Year's Eve and Day weren't all that great this year. In addition to the general lack of excitement, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bethje's dog Dewey had to go to the vet yesterday. He's still there now. Not exactly the happiest way to start off a new year.
I haven't been keeping up with much of anything on the Internet. I mean, I've been reading my e-mail and my livejournal friends page, but I haven't even looked at any forums or newsgroups for over a week. I guess I'll have a lot of catching up to do, or else I won't even bother catching up.
Another thing I don't think I've been keeping up with is taking pictures. I took a photography class back in high school, but I can't remember anything from it. I have no idea what an F-stop is anymore. The thing is, I don't even have a simple camera I can use. It's been ages since I've photographed anything, and, while I don't intend to become a photography buff or anything, I should probably at least take pictures of loved ones for my wallet.
About the only thing I HAVE been doing quite a bit of recently is playing video games. I got the pirate ship in Final Fantasy II, and I must say that sailing in that game is kind of annoying, because of the way the land is set up. It also reminds me of something odd about a lot of games where you can sail around the whole world. The way they're set up, if you sail to the North Pole, you'll immediately end up at the South Pole. The world map wraps in every direction. Obviously this makes no sense from a realistic point of view, or else the Arctic explorers would have been surprised to find themselves in Antarctica, and vice versa. It might work to have the middle of the map be the North Pole, but such does not seem to be the case, since there are often cold areas near the top and bottom of the map. Dragon Warrior III's overworld is based directly on our Earth, and it also has the northern regions, like Muir and Greenlad, near the top. I have no idea what the programmers were thinking when they came up with that.
Another odd thing about long-running game series is how the similar characters show up again and again. Take, for instance, the fact that every FF game except the first (well, I don't know for sure about anything beyond the ninth, but I assume they hold true to the pattern) has an engineer named Cid. None of them are the same character, and the worlds on which the game takes place are all different, but there are similar traits between all of the Cids. Hyrule must have had a lot of different Links. There's a thief named Bakor in both Dragon Warrior III and IV, and they're unlikely to be the same guy, unless he did a considerable amount of travelling through time and/or space. There's nothing wrong with this, I suppose, but it's kind of odd. I guess similar video game worlds will produce similar people.
bethje's dog Dewey had to go to the vet yesterday. He's still there now. Not exactly the happiest way to start off a new year.I haven't been keeping up with much of anything on the Internet. I mean, I've been reading my e-mail and my livejournal friends page, but I haven't even looked at any forums or newsgroups for over a week. I guess I'll have a lot of catching up to do, or else I won't even bother catching up.
Another thing I don't think I've been keeping up with is taking pictures. I took a photography class back in high school, but I can't remember anything from it. I have no idea what an F-stop is anymore. The thing is, I don't even have a simple camera I can use. It's been ages since I've photographed anything, and, while I don't intend to become a photography buff or anything, I should probably at least take pictures of loved ones for my wallet.
About the only thing I HAVE been doing quite a bit of recently is playing video games. I got the pirate ship in Final Fantasy II, and I must say that sailing in that game is kind of annoying, because of the way the land is set up. It also reminds me of something odd about a lot of games where you can sail around the whole world. The way they're set up, if you sail to the North Pole, you'll immediately end up at the South Pole. The world map wraps in every direction. Obviously this makes no sense from a realistic point of view, or else the Arctic explorers would have been surprised to find themselves in Antarctica, and vice versa. It might work to have the middle of the map be the North Pole, but such does not seem to be the case, since there are often cold areas near the top and bottom of the map. Dragon Warrior III's overworld is based directly on our Earth, and it also has the northern regions, like Muir and Greenlad, near the top. I have no idea what the programmers were thinking when they came up with that.
Another odd thing about long-running game series is how the similar characters show up again and again. Take, for instance, the fact that every FF game except the first (well, I don't know for sure about anything beyond the ninth, but I assume they hold true to the pattern) has an engineer named Cid. None of them are the same character, and the worlds on which the game takes place are all different, but there are similar traits between all of the Cids. Hyrule must have had a lot of different Links. There's a thief named Bakor in both Dragon Warrior III and IV, and they're unlikely to be the same guy, unless he did a considerable amount of travelling through time and/or space. There's nothing wrong with this, I suppose, but it's kind of odd. I guess similar video game worlds will produce similar people.
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Date: 2005-01-03 03:59 am (UTC)I remember you saying before that you went to the IUP Honors College. Since I'm applying there, would you mind critiquing one of my essays? Do you know what they're looking for in an essay? Every little bit is appreciated.
Since the post is marked friends-only, I'm adding you to my friends list.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/arfies/84036.html
Thanks for everything! :)
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