Rant 128 / Overdrive!

Starting this article with a 5MB Flash. Never forget what Japanese Flash artists on crack can accomplish.

This isn't a new flash movie. It can be found on Youtube. I just managed to find the flash download version on some website. Forgot the link. But now I can play this on Full Screen Mode!! Weee!





Started playing Planescape: Torment. Graphics are undoubtedly outdated, but it was released a long time ago. The game itself is good. The plot is quite original. Instead of saving the world, it's about saving the protagonist in this game.

The hero, this time, is an immortal. He cannot remain dead. He can be killed, but he will always rise again. As far as I can tell, the story is about him finding a way to finally die forever.

The good thing about this is that it's hard to get to the GAME OVER screen. It's still possible, like when he gets eaten or trapped forever. But the autosave feature is so amazingly efficient, it saves almost everytime I pass through a door. So there is little need to save manually. But out of habit, I always maintain 3 different saves other than the autosave and quicksave, just in case my mistakes don't become obvious immediately. It happens.

There are few bad points about it, but they are all due to the game being so primitive. For example, I can only buy one item at a time. I.e., I cannot buy 20 potions in one shot, and I have to click BUY 20 times for that.

It's not a big deal. The worst problem is that the AI it uses to plot a path when order the guys to move to a point sucks. First, it pauses everytime I click, so when I need to run quickly round a corner, I cannot spam clicks like I always do. Second, the AI just plain suck. It walks into walls when walls block their paths. I guess I've been spoilt by modern AIs like those in Neverwinter Nights 2.

It sometimes, in a way, crashes. Somehow my com just cannot process the magic effects fast enough, so they often turn out to be giant black rectangles. Worse, my screen freezes when the effects are huge. I accidentally found a solution to this when I pressed Alt-F4 when the screen first froze. I was returned to Windows, and Windows asked me whether I want to change my display to 16 colours because it cannot run the game properly in its present colour scheme. I chose to maintain the present display settings.

Then the game asked me whether I'm sure I want to quit. I clicked "No". This brought the game back, and the screen was not frozen anymore. This is my wonderful solution to frozen screens due to games being too old. (fucking vista)

I love the game. I just spent 10 hours straight playing it. I didn't even bother to get more water to drink. Heck, I didn't even eat a thing till 8pm just now. This is how good the game is, to me.

And the lack of GAME OVER helps too.






Found this news article recently. It's from 2 months back. It's about this 18-yr-old kid who is now legally a sex offender. Wow...

Apparently, at 16, he met this 13-yr-old girl in a teen club who told him she was the same age as he. They had sex, someone found out, he got charged for statutory rape. GG.



Consequences include "kicked out of high school, thrown out of parks, taunted by neighbors, harassed by strangers, and unable to live within 2,000 feet of a school, day-care center or park....prohibited from going to the movies or mall with friends because it would require crossing state borders, which he cannot do without permission from his probation officer."

Holy shit.

So you see why premarital sex is bad? Who knows whether the girl is lying? :P

"One neighbor came to the house and told Mary he wasn’t going to leave them alone until they took their “child rapist” away, so they moved". Mary is his mother.

The kid is WRONG! Their whole FUCKING COUNTRY IS WRONG! It's not his fault. It's the fault of his country's culture. USA, land of the free.

The general public cannot handle true freedom. True freedom only happens when everyone has to fight for himself, protect himself and live for himself. Once there are rules, once there are LAWS, there is restriction, the antithesis of freedom.

True freedom is anarchy. People cannot handle that. People want the illusion of freedom while living in a protected society. The U.S. excels in that, giving the illusion of freedom.

People are allowed to own guns, but they cannot use it as they wish. They can worship anything, but the majority of the population will just ostracize the minorities.

But in a way, there is some freedom, in terms of sex. And this led to this kid's situation. People cannot handle true freedom. This is an example. Give them freedom, and they won't know when to restrain themselves. Kids having sex. Is that pedophilia?

Not exactly. To be a pedophile, one must be an adult.

This question came to me when I was in lurking in 4chan. What if those guys who seem so interested in CP are really kids themselves?? (CP means Child Porn.) Wouldn't that be understandable???







Talking about 4chan, that forum is pretty interesting. I rarely go to their most active section, the Random section (aka /b/), but I have been there before. Some of the people there are sick. Avoid /b/. Visit /ck/ instead. Full of recipes!




Back to Torment I go!