Monday, November 30, 2009
Be Resolute
I think resolutions should start the day after the shortest day of the year. That way, there will be motivation to carry out these resolutions. Starting after winter solstice just makes more sense than January 1st.
Saturday, November 28, 2009
No Digital Home for my Guns
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is a thoroughly enjoyable first person shooter. Its single player missions are awesome, just like before. You really feel like you are playing in a movie. It's that good.
The multiplayer matches are fun, but the redesign has taken away a crucial sense of home, of belonging. Gone are individual servers hosting multiplayer games. That means you can't log into your favorite servers, and waiting for the number of players to build up before launching into a game. Instead, the game automatically finds other servers and combines players from other waiting servers.
Now, I understand why they do this. It provides fast pairing to get games going. However, you lose a lot of customization, and with it, a sense of a particular digital home that I go back to again and again. I have met casual acquaintances this way, and it has been quite enjoyable playing against polite people that enforces the ban against egregious behavior.
Well, here's a shout out to "A Canadian Crew", whose servers I have spent a large quantity of time in. Thanks for the fun times with the Call of Duty 4. See you around, somewhere, on Call of Duty (6).
P.S. Its irritating how many otherwise innocuous people would use foul language and shout false bravado while online. Most would never say those things to a person's face, simply because they can get punched. In the online world, they hide their identity and the baser elements show themselves.
The multiplayer matches are fun, but the redesign has taken away a crucial sense of home, of belonging. Gone are individual servers hosting multiplayer games. That means you can't log into your favorite servers, and waiting for the number of players to build up before launching into a game. Instead, the game automatically finds other servers and combines players from other waiting servers.
Now, I understand why they do this. It provides fast pairing to get games going. However, you lose a lot of customization, and with it, a sense of a particular digital home that I go back to again and again. I have met casual acquaintances this way, and it has been quite enjoyable playing against polite people that enforces the ban against egregious behavior.
Well, here's a shout out to "A Canadian Crew", whose servers I have spent a large quantity of time in. Thanks for the fun times with the Call of Duty 4. See you around, somewhere, on Call of Duty (6).
P.S. Its irritating how many otherwise innocuous people would use foul language and shout false bravado while online. Most would never say those things to a person's face, simply because they can get punched. In the online world, they hide their identity and the baser elements show themselves.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
The Fairest of Them All
I agree with one of the opinion articles on the Yale 360° blog: New York City is the most environmentally sound city in the States.
It is attributable to a simple reason: if it's small and crowded, you don't need a car. A portion of the heat you need comes from neighbors below you. Mass transit is affordable and may even be profitable. Providing energy costs less because you don't need miles of transmission lines; hooking it up to the apartment's central electrical grid is good enough. You only need a few cell phone towers to handle everyone with such high population densities.
Unfortunately, convincing most American people to move into the city core is going to be a lost cause.
It is attributable to a simple reason: if it's small and crowded, you don't need a car. A portion of the heat you need comes from neighbors below you. Mass transit is affordable and may even be profitable. Providing energy costs less because you don't need miles of transmission lines; hooking it up to the apartment's central electrical grid is good enough. You only need a few cell phone towers to handle everyone with such high population densities.
Unfortunately, convincing most American people to move into the city core is going to be a lost cause.
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