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Thursday, December 29, 2005
Bad Bobcat drivers...
I'm now back up on the Gold Coast after spending Christmas in Melbourne with my family. It was great to be able to go back there to see them all, but I'm looking forward to getting things moving up here.
Basically, where I'm staying right now is very temporary. As a matter of fact, I am moving out next week to a location much closer to Brisbane itself. Although I will really miss the gorgeous beach here, I am eventually planning to live within the city. Myself and my roommate have our eye on a few buildings there and I'm really excited about the idea of moving right into the city. It should be very comfortable; I love the fact that Brisbane is a city, but it's small and quiet enough not to be too crazy. I find that very appealing.
Also, once I move, I will once again have regular 'net access. That'll be great, because there's a ton of stuff left to do. Having a break from some of that work has been nice, but now I am very eager to get back into it. I have a lot of ideas and a lot of plans, so it'll be interesting to see all of that stuff unfold over the coming months.
While I'm here I also want to thank those of you who sent e-cards through to me during Christmas. It's always great to receive them and if I do not directly respond, it's just due to a lack of access here at the moment. But I do want you to know that the thought is very much appreciated!
CosmicSailor: I agree with you about tutorials. But in my experience, this relates to tutorials on many different things. It can be frustrating and difficult to find that one magic tutorial that is both useful and really easy to understand. As predictable as it may sound, this is something I was happy with about Art of Otaku. I really hate those ridiculously complex tutorials that seem to only confuse matters further.
Annie-kun: Thank you! At the moment my address isn't settled...within the next month or so though, I should have moved into the city. And by then, I'll have settled down.
I hope you are going well, I miss you!
Mimmi-chan: Oh yes, I've had the fun of cooking here quite regularly lately. I cooked a very impressive meal last night (my roommate was completely stunned at how orgasmic it was), so I was very happy about that.
When I was at home I was cooking a lot too, so I've kind of had that practice. However, the range of stuff I can cook very well is still limited...but practice makes perfect I guess. I'm sure it'll only take a few more fires and flour explosions for me to get it right. ~_^
Liam: On my first night back, I did nothing but walk around Brisbane with a friend. Other than the fact that I still hadn't really adjusted to the humidity (and I was silly enough to be wearing long jeans...ouch), it was wonderful. I am continually amazed by how the city is both so clean and well-organized while also being very laid back and never too busy.
I think one of the best things is that Brisbane is both large enough to be a cool place to visit, while being small enough so that it's very easy to get around.
The Botanic Gardens are great and walking around Southbank was wonderful. That whole area is very pretty. I can definitely see myself living there. ^_^
indifference: I will feel much better when I am more settled, but things aren't too bad at the moment. It's just that I hate my living situation being in flux as it is now - especially in a place that I've never lived before.
As far as user-friendliness goes, I'm with you all the way on that. I really feel that my number one priority with myOtaku should be to make it ridiculously easy to use. That's a big challenge, especially as we include added features and so on. But I'm sure we can do it. ^_^
Charlie: It's cool. It was a very sudden decision, so I think it's still sinking in with me as well. lol
SunfallE: I really wonder how developers will cope with multi-threading on the newer systems. I was watching an interview with Valve's CEO about this very issue...and he was saying that there aren't enough tools to debug the code and so on. It basically seemed that the whole thing is a big headache and a lot of companies are going to have to invest a huge amount of research and development into this area.
Considering the difficulties that the current generation still brings with it, I wonder how they all feel about being thrown a major new challenge that they didn't really ask for.
SugarCone: I think there is definitely a place for great graphics and I'm really happy to see new advances in that area. But I think that gameplay always has to come first.
I don't care how good a game looks if it's not fun to play. But if it's fun to play, I'm really going to appreciate any extra effort that went into producing beautiful graphics.
Baron: The Gold Coast is wonderful, although I am really eager to move to Brisbane, which I think I actually prefer. Still, it's been fun so far and I'm really enjoying all of the challenges that I'm facing here. It's been good to just throw myself out into a new location where I don't know anyone and see how it pans out.
dream wings: Thank you so much! I appreciate the support. ^_^
I've made some friends here already and it's all been great fun. I am looking forward to getting more settled, because I'd love to stay for a while.
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