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I'm back!!!
Posted Aug 2, 2001
I must admit, I havn't been here for a while - but now I'm back! Thank you for the birthday greetings! I've spent much time surfing in the Internet and chatting around with foreign and sometimes strange people, but I guess it's time to reactivate my account here on H2G2.
Ok, people, I'm still alive and I hope we will read and meet each other again in the near future.
Greetings from the other end of the world,
Kazuya
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Turok 3
Posted Oct 18, 2000
A few minutes ago I defeated Oblivion - this was really tough but in the end I managed it. The end sequence didn't answer all questions but I'm convinced that there will be a Turok 4 on Nintendo's Gamecube. I'm looking forward to this game. Turok 3 was a little bit short, it took me appr. 8 hours and 137 deaths to reach the final battle, but it was one of the best games ever with tense atmosphere and great ideas. I'm very satisfied with my today's achievement.
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I just learned something...
Posted Oct 13, 2000
...and that is: read the how-tos before acting. Okay, I must admit I wasn't interested in instruction manuals before, I prefered to figure things out by the trial-and-error-technique.
Now I found out that it is impossible to use GuideGL in journal entries. If i would have read the instructions I could have omitted that really ugly and strange last entry. I did not, so I have to suffer the consequences. For it is impossible to edit journal entries, each visitor on my page can see my useless effort to put some pictures on my personal space. That is enough punishment for my ignorance. So please don't post anything like "Do you know that you have GuideGL code on your space?".
Thank you.
Kazuya
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Questions, questions...
Posted Oct 5, 2000
There are a few things in the world I still don't understand.
For example it's difficult to comprehend why all the people in Startrek understand each other without knowing a word of a foreign language. They don't have a Babelfish, do they? Some say it is because of their communicators or a highly evoluted software on board of their ships that allows them to translate new language simultaneously into thousands of different languages. It may be true if they are on board of their ships. It may be true if they wear their starfleet communicators. But we saw people walking together at the beach on a lonely planet, wearing nothing than a swimsuit. We saw them stripped of their uniforms and insignia, captured by hostile enemies. They still do understand each other. The understand the questions while they are being tortured by the Cardassians, they understand the Breen or even the Founders who do not speak a humanoid language at all.
We know the Ferengis wear something in their ear, a kind of module, the technified version of a Babelfish. This is a sufficient explanation. The "they all have communicators and their ships are apt to this task" isn't.
Okay, it's only a small question. But I stil wonder.
I also ask myself why I am not able to solve some video games. Many people before me did, they just put them into their consoles and finished them. I dont' think they have differend kinds of fingers, hands and brains. Maybe they all cheated but I can't believe this.
E.g. it is impossible to me to talk that stubborn ray into leaving the cave and being eaten by an evil eel. It just doesn't follow my commands in Ecco the Dolphin on Sega Dreamcast. This happens to me in Level 3 out of 50+ and I wonder if I will ever see Atlantis. It is the same to me with games like Killer Loop (will I ever leave the beginners class?), Hydro Thunder (I hate Venice Canals and I visited them hundreds of times) or Medal of Honour (why do the people on the ship in Level 3 always recognise me?). It is the same with Trick Style (why does Rose kill me when I'm just 10 meters away from the finishing line?) or Zombie Revenge, where we are unable even with two players to defeat that slimy green monster with the huge eye just after we reached Cassandra? It just pukes on our heads and then one of us becomes a Zombie and kills the other player. There are a few more examples, but I guess I matched the point. I just can't see my mistake. I can't do more but lead the primal charakters through the games or try to ride my hoverboat/hoverboard or car as fast and as good as I can. I have the strong feeling some games are intended to torture the player - just for fun. Maybe the developers are paid by the industry or aliens from outer space. I am convinced that some games are not to be solved without cheats or without good luck and a lucky coincidence. They are not designed to be solved. They are designed to make me mad.
Okay, I have a few more problems with life, the world and some odd things I just recognized watching the people in the streets. But I think I will return another night and tell you about them.
This must be enough for today. I just wanted to write my introduction and I guess I should end soon and join the discussions. It would be more effective than wondering about the world on my own, in my personal webspace, where probably no one will ever cross my threshold.
Greetings to all of you and stay tuned.
Kazuya
P.S.: Did I tell you that I visit this space with my LINUX computer? No? Okay, now you know. Concerning Linux and Windows...well that's another topic. Maybe I will add it to my "I am wondering about a handful of things"-list.
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