04 - 12 - 03
Heaven's Fall
2:50 pm

As predicted, my new job has officially evaporated all free time in relation to Razor Witt updating. My new boss is pretty cool, but I am actually working on HTML during the time I am working instead of listening to music and surfing the internet as I did under previous employment. For a few reasons this probably for the best.

In any event, I managed to wake up fairly early today (Saturday) and my contribution to your entertainment is in the form of five more converted reviews. I would have made the effort to fully bring the rest of them over today, but alas I have no access to Photoshop from this machine and thus could not resize the review pictures. Let it be known that five megabytes of information is completely inadequate for my needs. I am going to be petitioning for more space next Tuesday, if I can even do so. Otherwise I will simply move Razor Witt elsewhere. In either case I'll let you know the results.

What else? Well, I've DMed about three more 2+ hour sessions since my last update. I made my own share of mistakes handling alignment changes and whatnot, but the feedback has been very positive thus far. The story arc is in place and I have given the players ample motivation to do all manners of evil things if they choose to do so (which they have). Watching them agonize internally over whether or not to do evil or be greedy has definitely been one of the highlights of my time as a DM. I have grown a fondness for the DM chair, and you can be sure that I'll try to call it whenever possible.

Also of note are the results of the Housing Lottery and Fall Registration. I am taking the following classes:
  • Astronomy
  • Beginning Japanese
  • East Asian Politics
  • Medieval History
These classes fulfill most of the "General Education" requirements of Wittenberg, in addition to steering me more and more towards an East Asian Studies Major/Minor. It never ceases to amaze me how many people respond with a "What can you do with that?" when I mention the possibility of an East Asian Studies Major. What can someone do with an English Major? Communications? History? Math? By itself, no Major "lets you do something." Rather, the point is that you are capable of being proficient in a single area of study. That's the important thing. Of course, if you happen to be proficient in an area directly used by your potential job, that's gravy. Otherwise, it doesn't matter all that much. Oh, in case you were wondering, no classes start before 12:30 pm every day of the week, and the most time I will be in class on any particular day is four hours. I'm a bastard, I know.

Next year I'm going to be living in room 702 of Tower Hall. My amazing lottery number of 6 allowed me to pick just about anywhere on campus, but I desperately need ethernet, AC, and cable, while still being able to get to class from my room in a timely fashion. Tower supplied all four requirements, and as a bonus, some of my other friends will be living on the same floor.

Anyway, since I can only update in my free time, it is unlikely that I will favor a particular day over any other for updating. Logic says that Saturday and Sunday would be the most oppertune times for me, but I also do things on those days. In other words, I have no idea when I'll be updating. Worse case scenario: update two weeks from now.

Till then.

04 - 15 - 03
Will
11:41 am

Well isn't this a pleasant surprise?

Another four reviews have been converted and thus all of my prior reviews have been uploaded to my frightenly small Wittenberg account. Currently, only my latest two reviews (Baldur's Gate 2 and Deus Ex) have not been loaded and they won't be until I am able to somehow use Photoshop to resize some more pictures. How have I been able to free up enough space for four more reviews, you ask? I got rid of the Fallout Tactics Beginners Guide from Features. In the grand scheme of things it was not getting any hits and I would rather free up 800K of space if that meant I could centralize the location for all my latest reviews.

Other points on my action item list: apparently flash.to is going out of business. What this means is that if you have bookmarked this site with the address of http://flash.to/razorwitt, you might want to go ahead and change that at this time. Change it to what? This: http://up.to/razorwitt . The key difference, unfortunately, is the fact that whenever you open the splash page you have to go through the trouble of killing a pop-up ad. I'd really rather not "sell-out" in this fashion but I don't have any alternatives at this time. At some point I might end up getting some sort of free account or something to that effect from Geocities, Xoom, ect, but you won't see a noticable difference (the address of up.to/razorwitt will still work). As with most things, I'll send out a notice before I do it.

Something else of note: I am single-handedly designing Wittenberg's E-Postcards. You might be familiar with some other colleges' websites in how you can choose a picture, type in some text, and send off an email to whoever and they receive it in a postcard-esque fashion; that's what I'm working on at the moment. It's a huge project and one I'm very happy to be working on, despite the fact that I have little experience working with forms and other such higher HTML functions. I'm excited because if I manage to get it working then I'll have something (relatively) permanent on the web that will be my own creation. Websites are one thing; design features for college websites is another.

Cheers.

04 - 24 - 03
Okage: Dark Kingdom Waker
11:50 am

This update is somewhat special for a plethora of reasons. Yes, a plethora.

  • The final two reviews have been successfully updated. This means that every review for a videogame I have ever written is availible for a read at your convinience. While some of them are not really that entertaining to read, they are all there nevertheless.
  • While the event happened a few weeks ago, I did not take the time then to point it out: Razor Witt has had over 500 hits since November 11th, 2002. That is a relatively large amount considering Razor Witt has not been plugged or advertised other than by me telling a handful of random people about it in its 5 months of existence. I've mentioned this before, but I view 1,000 hits as the threshold that separates obscure homepages from litgitimate avenues of expression. Thank you for your patronage.
  • I have successfully figured out how to map my Wittenberg webpage drive, and so this update is being done in the comfort of my own room. What this means is that I am no longer tied to the painfully slow and limited Wittenberg computers, and thus can make small (and large) changes whenever I feel like it. Since I spend a lot of time around my computer, there is an increased chance that I'll work on the site whenever I become bored.
  • As you may or may not know, I am extremely close to achieving "Blue" status as a reviewer for RPGamer. The benchmark is 50+ reviews and I currently have 45 uploaded to the site. Why I'm stating this is because over Easter Break I acquired Zelda: Wind Waker for the Gamecube. This means that if I complete all the games on my platter then I will be able to write enough reviews to become Blue. Those games are Xenosaga (completed already, review in final stages), Dark Cloud, Okage: Shadow King, Kingdom Hearts, and then Zelda. Whether I finish these games in a timely manner is another matter altogether, but at long last I have the finish line in sight.
  • I finished the anime series Azumanga Daioh and DNA2. If that were not good enough, the friend I recently introduced to anime took it upon herself to watch Evangelion for seven hours straight (up to episode 21). Hearing her describe the "painful" scenes makes me feel as if I'm watching it again for the first time. Needless to say, this is a good thing.
  • The D&D campaign I'm running is starting to pick up in tempo as I become better at DMing. Had I known it was this fun to DM, I would have tried it lot sooner. My players will be in for a treat next time, to be sure.
  • If worse comes to worse, I have a babysitting job lined for the summer that will pay $700 a month and allow access to DSL and a television for playing games. While this is not quite the "dream job" of updating web pages for $13+ an hour I was hoping to net, the fact remains that I have at least something lined up. And as all the philosophers agree, something is better than nothing.
See? A plethora.

Okay, I'll stop.

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