Seriously tho, I’m turning into a real Starcraft Esports addict, I keep watching the games from the Korean leagues. I’m even watching a game as I’m writing this, Fantasy vs. Mind.

Where did this all start? Starcraft was never popular around my gaming buddies, when we did LAN Parties we never even played it once, only RTS I can remember us play was Age of Empires/Mythology and that kind of thing, but most of the time we used to play FPS games like CS, battlefield, COD etc.

When BlizzCon 2007 went live I started watching the Stream of the events of the Con, mostly to catch some panels and just stuff like that (being a WoW player ;)), however, I kept the stream running on my other screen and after a while they started to show the tournaments, first WC3. Tournament wise its “ok”, but it feels to slow for me, and to hero based. Lose your hero, lose the game :<

Then after those games they showed the StarCraft tournament with shoutcaster Nick ‘Tasteless’ Plott, this guy is crazy when casting StarCraft and he’s really good at it. Currently he’s in Korea shoutcasting for GomTV as the english part of the show, together with a Korean female known as lilsusie.

This got me interested, but not enough to look around for games to watch, it wasn’t until WWI08 I got really into the watching of the games and wanting to watch more and even learn to play the game (Of course the announcement of StarCraft 2 gave a little boost in this :D). I started looking around and I found sites like TeamLiquid and SC2GG who had some nice info about where to find replays, vod’s and even english casted games by both amateurs and people like Tasteless.

At first I only watched games of players that interested me, like: boxer, this guy is f*cking king, too bad his in the army now and doesn’t play as much as we want him too. (Its funny tho, the Air Force in Korea has their own team in the Leagues :D).

After a while I ended up catching up to the preset games which actually made things a lot more interesting looking at results and the current standings in the leagues and stuff :D

I used to watch football and stuff like that, but tbh, this is a lot more interesting and fun to watch. At least for me :D

Didn’t do sephi-boy yet, think I need to level a bit to do him on proud mode. Think I cleared it with Sora being below 50. Got final form tho, but wtf is the point of drive forms if you can’t use it on the final encounter :<

My clear screen can be seen here.

As a major FF fanboi (;DDDD) I’ve always owned a its platform of choice (nes, snes, psx and ps2) over other consoles, simply due to the money.. and tbh, the games on those platforms are amazing :D

I’m not that much of a console gamer anymore, I’d rather have my games coming on the PC simply cause I will prolly always use one. However when it comes down to J-rpgs I bite the apple and go for the console. My biggest problem used to be that I didn’t own a working TV, the one I have is really really old and I can’t seem to find the remote anymore :< However, I bought this awesome device called “VGA BOX”, its basicly a vga switchbox allowing me to transfer VGA output into my PC Monitor and switch between sources, this made it possible for me to play my PS2 again a lot more and I’ve cleared Kingdom Hearts, starting on Kingdom Hearts 2 now.

When I bought my PS2 I used almost all my savings on it (being like 15yo lol) simply to play games like FFX and the likes. It got bagged for a while simply cause I didn’t own a TV! Now the new generation consoles comes out and its new generation of games and I have to admit, FFXIII looks pretty damn awesome. The new main characters look great, and I hope the new story will fit them well! The gameplay seems more fast-paced, pretty different from the standard turn-based, I guess they’re going for a different style (Tho all I’ve seen is the E3 trailer, It might still be turn-based, but I doubt it :D).

Now I’m at this big dilemma tho… xbox360 or PlayStation3? I’ll prolly still buy the PS3 sooner or later instead of a xbox tho, I still have a lot of PS2 games I’d like to play through and with the PS3 being backward compatible I don’t have to swap consoles to play them. And the FPS/Action/RTS stuff on the xbox don’t really interest me that much, I’d rather play those with a keyboard and mouse >.<. It’s gonna have to wait untill I get a more steady income anyways :D

The cat is no problem, as Its just give it food and the couch to sleep on. The rabbits on the other hand, are more of a job. Every “morning” (more like 12-14pm) I have to feed them and refresh their water thingies and maybe clean after them. My sister said I had to take them for walks and stuff… No way I’m taking this tiny thing around my neighbourhood on a strap…

I did bring the little one inside with me sometimes, tho I think she ate some of my candy stuff cause she got really energized and the next morning it looked like she have had diarea or something so I stopped doing that :P

And as everyones gone for this week and the fact that its not burning sun everyday its really quiet around the house now, and I can’t say I hate it. These past two weeks all my siblings have been here, my brother, my two half-brothers, my half-sister and their half-brother again. Its been nonstop outside my door and bedroom window (which is next to the garden right where everyone sits to get sun!). So its been pretty much non-stop, my smaller brothers hiding from work, my sister wanting help to fix something or do some level on some game. I actually made her play Kingdom Hearts, even though shes only 9 and can’t really speak english. I thought it might be a good learning experience :D

So right now I’m sitting inside enjoying the bad weather due to my pollen being a pain every single morning for the past 2-3 weeks and the silence of no grasscutting or other outside noise-making activities. I woke up around 1400 and still have to eat something.

Other things I’ve done this week.. Ah yes.. I’ve been watching a ton of movies :O

Movies:
WALL-E – (Awesome!)
Kung-fu Panda – (Awesome!)
Futurama Movie 2
Street Kings
Definately Maybe
The Children of Huang Shi

Documentaries:
War Made Easy
The True Story of Charlie Wilson
When We Left Earth – The NASA Missions 1
The Sovjet Story

Seems most documentaries are about wars nowadays :|

Now its time to eat! Bai-bee!

This makes the default TotemBar in WoW show regardless of you using the default playerframe, it will also move it with pressing down alt while clicking on it. Will prolly clean up the code some and release it later on.

Prints out:
23:17:14 steino@kimiko work $ time lua q2.lua Catch-Gamer.no AQ2 #1 Teamplay, players: 7/16, map: urban3 [action] real 0m0.078s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.010s

Requires Luasocket.

Made by Me and haste.

You can basicly make this work with any kind of game out there aslong as you know what packet to send. Qstat is a nice place to look for info on other types of games (hf reading that source :—D)

function lastfm($atts) { global $s, $c; extract(lAtts(array( ‘label’ => ‘’, ‘labeltag’ => ‘’, ‘break’ => ‘br’, ‘wraptag’ => ‘’, ‘parent’ => ‘’, ‘posted’ => ‘’, ‘section’ => $s, ‘sticky’ => ‘’, ‘user’ => ‘’, ),$atts)); function openURL($url, $headers = null){ if (function_exists(‘curl_init’)) { $ch = curl_init($url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); $data[‘html’] = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); } elseif (ini_get(‘allow_url_fopen’) == 1) { $data[‘html’] = file_get_contents($url); } if($headers) {$data[‘headers’] = get_headers($url, 1); } return $data;
} $url = “http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/user/” . $user . “/recenttracks.xml”; $xml = openURL($url); $info = simplexml_load_string($xml[“html”]); // OUTPUT $out = array(); for($i=0;$i<5;$i++){ $fm = $info->track[$i]; $out[$i] = tag($fm->artist . ‘ – ‘ . $fm->name, ‘a’, ‘ href=”’ . $fm->url . ‘”’); } return doLabel($label, $labeltag).doWrap($out, $wraptag, $break, $class);
}

In other news, its 26°C in the shade here and my pollen allergy is killing me. I’ve earned 500 NOK on 3.5h work doing IT-support for wealthy off-shore workers and helped my little brothers fixing their old boat and my older brother is flown in here from Tromsø.

Gaming-wise I haven’t had much time to play anything, except the 3h+ ActionQuake2 session with haste <3. Been logging on to WoW from time to time, but I just keep being disconnected due to inactivity instead I have recently started playing this game SAGA for killing time, its free to play and seems a lot of fun, only thing is that you have to buy booster packs for units, tho they are rather cheap.

Instead of gaming I’ve been coding a lot, at least compared to what I normally do on a day-to-day basis. I’ve set up lighttpd on my desktop for development stuff and other random usefull(?!) stuff like a remote control for my MPD that I can access from my mobile while I’m outside dying from sunburn and pollen! Also I’ve touched php again (do’h) fixing this site up with new features and I felt something inside me die. The last.fm plugin (for textpattern) seems to be working perfectly, just needs some tuning and I’ll prolly put it out on the site or somewhere else. But most of all I’m spending my time on lua coding, not just for WoW add ons, but just lots of random stuff to try to learn more about what it can do and how to do it in better/faster ways!

Well, thats it for today.. I have to see if we’re bbq’ing tonight!

The site is pretty much fully functional now, just need to fix the categories listing to just show categories with articles in them :D

The anime listing is up and styling tho its slightly outdated, might get around to fix that later on again.

Oh, the design is ninajed from zen-garden as I can not do CSS at all :DD