Archive for October, 2008

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Perfect World International

Perfect World International is a free MMORPG video game developed Perfect World Entertainment. It is the official English version of Perfect World, the incredibly popular MMORPG developed in China around 2006. Perfect World International is the official version of the original Chinese game.

The game story is typical of most MMORPGs, not very developed and relatively pointless, since no one really reads or follows it anyway. Gameplay is delicious on high detail, with great visual effects and solid gameplay. Compared to other competitors like SilkRoad or Rappelz, Perfect World is more solid, less grinding, prettier, better trading options, has NO spam bots, and the grinding is actually enjoyable.

One of the major features that I personally enjoy more than any is the ability to fly, simplifying traveling and drastically reducing the price of traveling massive online worlds.

Overall, for the casual gamer, Perfect World has no competitor. You do not have to be completely dedicated to the game to enjoy, unlike SilkRoad, where you are completely restricted to one place on the world until your a certain level (like 30!) At any point in the game, at any level, you can go as you please with little or no restrictions other than the monsters roaming around. It really is the ultimate free MMORPG in my opinion.

NOTE: Don’t be fooled by the Malaysian English version of Perfect World, the lag is terrible and the translations cannot be understood, AT ALL. Perfect World International is the official English version, easing gameplay.

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Whats been going on for 4 months.

Well now, I just took a random glance at this blog today and realized something: It’s been over 4 months since I posted here. This sort of came at an alarm to me, but after I sat down and had a long string of discoveries on where my time has gone over this last half year, I’ve finally come up with an explanation.

First, my hands have been tied literally from the beginning of high school to now. I am what some might call “gifted,” and therefore I take the associated class to go along with that category. Needless to say the amount of homework, effort, and time spent in these classes is tremendous. From the beginning of the first semester to finals I had to work my sorry ass to the bone to get the correlating grades I wanted, which left me effortless to even think about running a site or programming. During last school year I also began to develop my love for basketball, finally make a competitive team that travels throughout my city to the tune of about 50 games. You can imagine how much dedication that took.

Next, this site was never really anything more than an experiment on my part. I wanted to figure out how to write, read, interpret, and build websites and manage web servers. The intention was never to do this seriously, and lets be honest, no one really reads this site anyway unless your the occasional glancer of specific mac software. This being said, my membership to Dreamhost is going to expire, in which I plan not to renew it. As cheap as it is there is no reason to continue the hosting.

Adding on to the experiment part, I have literally lost all desire and drive to continue developing software or a website. Slowly watching the state of the internet over the last few months (up to a year), I have decided I want to stay as far away from here as possible. It is too volatile, and the jobs I would be looking into involving the internet are all over-seas or massed produced (you don’t develop software, you develop a piece of software OVER AND OVER.)

Finally, I have lost all interest in the Mac world. It has gone a direction that I cannot follow: giving in to consumer demand and sacrificing flagship products for feature-crippled look-a-likes. It just seems the developing world I became fascinated with has totally turned their eyes to a new product, and its left me with dry feelings. I never expected it would come to this, but I’m so tired of Apple and its associations with the DRM world, not to mention AT&T. It just left me bitter.

So, what does that mean for this website? Nothing really, it’ll be gone in about 2 months. If anyone wants this theme or any of its content however, they can use the contact form for a request.