Making of Javantea's Fate 356

Greetings once again fellow human beings. Hack Mars progresses as I speak. Amazing things are working themselves loose and soon we shall see some interesting stuff surface. If yesterday's rant about how HM is going to innovate a new genre of gaming was not enough, here's some ideas for you.

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Making of Javantea's Fate 355

Below is preliminary proof that my AI Pathfinding algorithm works. I put it into a scrolling box so that it isn't ungainly large. It is abbreviated output from Hack Mars, my Video Game. Read more on that below. But to decipher my algorithm's output, here are some clues.
PFPath = Portal::findPath()

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Making of Javantea's Fate 354

Greetings, welcome to another Making of Javantea's Fate. I've been wondering about keywords in search engines. Recently, there have been attempts to pervert search engines by linking certain keywords (such as litigious bastards). So now when a person googles for litigious bastards, they get SCO, which is really accurate. Well, what I want is when people search for anime, manga, 3d video game, they'll get my page. But that's not very likely. I think that id, tucows, and co have me beaten just by number of links. Well, there is some sort of thing that says if a site is 0.0001% likely to be clicked and there are a million clicks per minute, then a person will get 1 click per minute. I get ~ 5 clicks per minute. I guess it's better than nothing. But most of those clicks never reach the most important page: this one. Should I rewire my site to be easier? Maybe someday. Until then, I can attempt to shoo people into my humble space.

*shoo* *shoo* that way, over there, no, up, up, whoa, to the left, THERE!

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Making of Javantea's Fate 353

The latest of the latest. I am at a lan party in Lynwood. Duran Duran is playing on the stereo. And now Fuel. I am DJ, unappointed, but coincidence drives much in our world. I just happened to have a working computer with sound next to the receiver, so here it goes. I had a problem with shoutcast that crashed my system hard, which is a rarity in Linux. That's too bad, but it happens. Until computers have perfect stability like their analog or even consumer electronic (CD players) counterparts, they cannot be used very well as live musical instruments. I see great capability strained by the constant crashing. Linux has a way to ensure that bluescreens do not happen normally. That is a huge step towards perfect computing, not just musical computing. The ability for computers to playback already recorded music has created a great benefit for music lovers, but will progress towards completely dynamic computer-generated music. Some minor attempts have been made. The most interesting commercial application of dynamic music and multimedia given by a computer is Rez video game for Sony Playstation 2. Players interact with the game through their character in a computer world where light and sound mix. My experience with this game is minimal (lack of PS2), so I can't comment on much more than it's attempt and success at it's goal of synestasia.

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