Great Expectations

Posted by JoshDreamland on March 5, 2007, 4:50 p.m.

I have some great expectations. More than I would like to have.

Mrs… Er, will call her BITCH_E. BITCH_E wants the entire English class to read Charles Dickheads', pardon me, Dickson's Great Expectations. Fine, whatever, I am a decent reader.

It's 550 pages.

So, as usual, I was negative towards the whole thing. (For those who don't know me well I am a dangerously bad cynic when it comes to new things, see my blog on GM7. O_o ) So I of course started on her. She says "Take out the big book." I make a show of extracting Great Expectations from my book bad. So this went on and I think she actually got mad at me for a minute there.

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Another 'Great Expectation' I have relates to something more desirable. Yesterday I submitted my Metroid game, as promised. It is more of a demo as of yet, so I hope people treat it and rate it as such. There is not too awful much in it yet, in fact the Morphball is a bit buggy with the new door system, but nonetheless I think it will all work out well in the end.

So maybe I'll get a nice rating, maybe a 9. I'd like that. But people are more cynical than me when it comes to games mimicking real video games. So I tried to explain that it isn't even close yet, but I'm still gonna get like a 5 or 6 I know it. -_-

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After putting up with a lot of crap from IE, I decided to get FF. So here it is. As I type I already notice a very nice new feature; Spell check! So here are the positives and negatives:

Plus (+)

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• Spell check

• More secure (supposedly)

• Comprehensive password field recognition/remembrance

• Similar display to IE, less coping.

• Field remembrance: When you go to a page and return,

——-form data is preserved

Delta (Δ)

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Only appearance glitches:

• When using the middle button pressed scrolling, if you click outside the displayed web page, you stay in scroll mode

• Does not change cursor in that scroll mode

• When you go to drag highlighted text, does not change cursor to arrow from bar

So I'm gonna keep it.

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I hope Metroid Prime GM, the also temporarily titled game, gets on the home page today. I have a giant-ass book to read.

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Comments

Graydon 17 years, 2 months ago

I switched to FF a long time ago.

[SJB]Dude7 17 years, 2 months ago

Fire Fox rules. I use it because most things Microsoft made aren't very great (in my opinion).

If you're still using Outlook Express, or something, then I would suggest getting Thunder Bird (by Mozilla).

Plus, I love Metroid's. I'll check your game out when it comes out!

I don't care if anything is considered a "fan game". Hell, you coded it, what does it matter if its based on another person's idea? Lot's of programs are like that, which many people may not notice.

Yes, the spell check is a plus :D.

By the way, in case you want to delete your cookies after you shut down go to Tools, Options, Privacy, Show Cookies, and you can remove them all (note this will log you off because it deletes sessions that would be stored for forums, etc.)

So yeah, good luck. I don't have to read any books, but I love Stephen King. I currently am reading Nightmare's and Dreamscapes (page 450 something). Have fun reading your book, XD.

sk8m8trix 17 years, 2 months ago

well my agmes 35 and 36 in the queue, i higly dobut ur game will get on today. but good luck, as long as its good i can get past the metroid part, but if its a noob remake.. oy itsa be a blood bath… and reading isint that bad.. i just read iliad

s 17 years, 2 months ago

Just rename it to MetroidWanaBe,then people will expect it to be worse

I like Firefox's search system,try it out.I have great expectations also for M3D,but I'll be glad just at it being 3D.

JoshDreamland 17 years, 2 months ago

sk8m8trix– Ouch. No blood yet. Just bug guts. Nothing really to shoot except bugs.

Graydon77222-Can't say I blame you. That makes me want to keep it more.

[SJB]Dude7– Glad you're so keen on the idea! Yeah, love the spell check. Hope you're not let down!

JoshDreamland 17 years, 2 months ago

Serprex– I really hope it builds up to the standards. Right now there isn't much… But I like it.

sk8m8trix 17 years, 2 months ago

wait.. is it 3d?

JoshDreamland 17 years, 2 months ago

sk8m8trix–

Yes.

omicron1 17 years, 2 months ago

This page rendered with Opera.

Graydon 17 years, 2 months ago

I tried the old Metroid game demo and it was very fun. I didn't realize till now that it was your game. Even more of a privileged for you to be on my fav users list.