In the wild, mouse at the ready, hunting down links
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Final Fantasy XII complete!
The final battle(s) were every bit as frustrating as I anticipated. After three failed attempts, I was left feeling the ultimate Ultimate Bad Guy was all-too-accurately named. He did not seem beatable with characters between levels 38 and 45, which were what I had. The thing that was galling about this was failure meant replaying almost two hours of boss fights. And that’s with the cutscenes skipped.
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– Friday, July 4, 2008
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I’m not sure how close I am to the end of Final Fantasy XII. Vague story cues suggest I’m perhaps three bosses away from the finale.
The experience has been a mixed bag so far. That I’m enjoying the game is unquestionable — I look forward to every session — but the experience rings hollow somehow.
Presentation-wise, the game is great. Bear in mind I haven’t played many PS2 games and the console’s quirks and limitations haven’t really sunk in yet.
(That said … my god, the jaggies. I don’t see why a weapon would be necessary when I can simply bump into foes and cut them to pieces with the jagged outlines of the character models.)
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– Saturday, June 28, 2008
From the Spore Creature Creator features list:
Damn those ad people and their fashunctionable words. It makes me so glooporoy I could fleeblewurst my kablootie.
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– Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Opera numbers. “… more than 20 million users running the desktop browser …”
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– Monday, June 23, 2008
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Opera has been my primary browser for a while now. I still use Firefox to update my WordPress sites and IE7 for Windows Updates but Opera — hardened by disabling Javascript and cookie support and further fortified by the mighty Proxomitron — is my choice for the bulk of my surfing.
There are features in Opera I find indispensable now. Mouse gestures, Speed Dial, context menu options for dictionary and Wikipedia lookups as well as translation, the ability to reload closed tabs, searching eBay and Google from the address bar … the list goes on.
Those aren’t necessarily unique features — if they aren’t in Firefox’s default configuration, they’re available via extensions or will be reproduced in a future version soon enough — but taken in toto, they’ve made surfing the web a more pleasant experience for me.
Never content to sit on its heels, Opera the company is constantly adding and tweaking features to Opera the browser yet remarkably, the newest version of the browser, version 9.5, is faster than previous versions. Whatever they’re doing in Norway, they’re doing it right.
That’s not to say the changes are always for the better. They might be better for the Opera userbase in general but not necessarily better for me specifically.
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– Sunday, June 22, 2008
