I lived in that stuff. My friend Mark and I would make jokes about it all the time. I had a darkroom in my parents house all my teenage years and then lived in one during college as well. I even worked in a lab briefly in the early 90s. Speaking of which, I just saw yet another photo store go under. Are there any left at all now?
To each his own. I was lost for hours in the darkroom and always smelled of the fixer chemical. Ah, glorious fixer.
I'm ok writing on a computer. It still feels like typing. I still carry a note pad around though and sometimes write freehand on that.
I really like being hands-on with art. That's why I'm a little bit miffed at digital photography right now. I used to love the dark room and then framing and matting afterwards.
I avoided Minecraft for a long while thinking the graphics were aweful. Then, I don't know, it came to Xbox 360 and I tried the free demo just for the heck of it. Oh did I not know what I was getting into.
There's not really a story, but when you do the crafting, it does seem to be preparing you to fight the Endor Dragon. You craft all you can craft in the world and then there's an item you need that's in the Netherworld. So you go there. Then you're able to enchant weapons, armor, make potions, and make an eyeball that shows you where a stronghold is, and low and behold, there's the gateway to the world holding the Endor Dragon. What do you do there? There's nothing to do there really except battle the dragon. So you do that. Then you realize you've just completed an old fashioned kill-the-dragon quest.
Everytime I see another screen shot, I want to go back and play it again and try and figure out the controls a little better. I will play it again. I wonder about Pilotwings Resort now. I think I want to try that.
I try to stay focused and have a plan in Minecraft because I don't want to let it eat up all my time. It's so easy to just mess around there.
It enables the Blaze creature to throw fireballs. It kinda turns them into swirling flames though, so maybe it alters you to use it. That's a neat idea - a magic wand that has its mortal costs.
I've heard of these emulator thingies. I'll have to look into that for those hard to find games.
