Ammunition > Heroics

Well, I have quite a bit of stuff to talk about, this time, so we will start with an amendment to an earlier post.
Ben pointed out that the graphics for Doukutsu Monogatari / Cave Story look "clearer than 8-bit."
Well, I did say they were snazzy, but I decided I should probably confirm this.
It turns out that it actually uses this totally arcane palette that may not exactly fit in with the standard 8-bit set. It's still less than 256 colors, though, and if you set it to 256 colors (save a screenshot as a bitmap), it'd probably look pretty much exactly the same. It does technically run in 16 bits, but seriously, what computer goes below that? Mine sure doesn't...
Anyway, it's just another mysterious factor that just adds to the weird coolness of the overall game, and for the small number of colors it uses, it's pretty crazy-looking stuff.


Next off, I think I need to provide you with random information that you probably did not know.

1: SOS does not actually stand for "Save Our Ship." In fact, it doesn't stand for anything. It's just easy to tap out in Morse code (. . . _ _ _ . . .), and people gave it words to stand for later.

2: You can't kill someone with a penny dropped off of the Empire State building. You actually can't kill someone with a penny dropped from anywhere, because its terminal velocity (the fastest speed at which it is physically possible for an object to move) isn't fatal.

3: I'm not sure what the exact statistics on this are, but some people can't smell potassium cyanide. I've always (always= ever since I found out about three weeks ago) wondered whether I can smell it, but if I ever find out, I'm probably not in a very good situation.

4: Vlad Dracula is a real person. He was also known as "Vlad the Impaler," and was a tyrannical, violent prince of Wallachia.

5: TNT stands for trinitrotoluene. It's actually one word.

6: Ice cream trucks are illegal in the entire state of Iowa.

7: Elephants are indeed afraid of mice. Nobody knows why. Well, nobody I've ever heard of, anyway...

8: There was once a rooster that lived for eighteen months... with no head. It's absolutely, 100% true. He's in the Guiness Book of World Records, and you can learn more about him at www.miketheheadlesschicken.org.


Well, now that you know all that stuff and can impress your friends with your idiotically pointless knowledge (I should make a trivia game sometime; I know a lot of this stuff and will probably do this again some time in the future), I'm going to talk about this great idea I had.
See, I thought of what may possibly be the ultimate video or computer game. It would be totally awesome; I would make it (and may eventually), but it probably wouldn't be nearly cool enough.
Ready for this?
Pirates. Versus ninja. Versus robots. Versus zombies. Versus werewolves. Versus vampires.
Wouldn't that be the coolest thing ever?! It would, right?!
It would have guns and swords and explosions and it would be the ultimate battle of doom. It would be some kind of fighting game, but it would need to be super-unique and have online multiplayer and all that fun stuff. Conceptually, it's perfect. You get ninja, zombies, vampires, pirates, robots, and werewolves together in a crazy battle to the death. It's like three sets of polar opposites / sworn enemies that probably don't get along between each other, either, so it'd be total chaos. There could be cool environments to fight in, and fun weapons and, uh... explosions and stuff. Really, whatever it was, it'd almost certainly be supercool.

I also have stuff to say today about National Novel Writing Month. This was like two months ago, but whatever. When I first heard about it, it sounded interesting, but then I realized it's kind of ridiculous. You can't write a novel in a month. It doesn't work. In fact, their definition of "novel" is 50,000 words, which is pretty short. RoE is five to six thousand words right now, and when it's done it'll probably be sixty to eighty thousand (if it's not, I'm going to have to rework it until it is, because I don't want it to be something you finish in one afternoon), and I plan on working on it for the next couple years.
Conceptually, I don't like this either, because it seems to be another one of those "I'm gonna write this super-successful book and make tons of money, and have fun too!" things ("Great American Novel," like "Web 2.0," is one of those phrases that causes me to fall into a fit of seizures and then try to kill whoever said it with my bare hands... Well, not really, but I hate it... so... much...). I say, if you want to write just to make money, you're doomed to failure. Money is a stupid goal for anything, especially writing. My idea? Come up with a goal, like "I want to get people to read more" or "I want to make people think." It'll influence everything you write, and it'll come out really well and accomplish your goal. If you write to make money, it's going to read like a book that was written to make money; that's just the way it is.


Well, I'm done for now, then. I have other stuff to talk about, I think, but I should probably save it for another day.


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