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A user from an alternate site listed this site called [Gaia Online] as being his favorite. Well, I decided to give it a look because I AM BORED OUT OF MY F***ING SKULL.

Now, I've not been in a chat room for, oh, say, 11 or 12 years. Ah, I remember those days. You used to be able to tell if you were going to get a bad connection just by listening to the phone static from the computer. Oh, I kind of miss the way things used to be. Oh, sh*t, I getting caught in vapor lock here! Anyway, looking at the site reminded me a lot of the aspiritions of that guy I used to work for as a programmer and made me wonder (just for a second) if I was poo-pooing on his dreams. However, you need to keep in mind that he was a sh*t-for-brains butterfingers who was under the delusion that he was close to creating The Second Race, so his aspiritions were far beyond being pipe dreams.

Mostly what I've done is spent time playing the jigsaw puzzle games to what sounded like the soundtrack of a Jenna Jameson movie I've seen years ago (and pretty much skidaddling once two people popped in to cyber, read the TOS, you idiots). It made me think about wanting to learn how to program in Flash. There's a few artists I've seen who appear to have dabbled in making Flash games ([Serocki] comes to mind) and maybe a few animations that have been pretty impressive (many of you might have seen [Dadward's] latest pornographic animation). There was a slight interest in myself taking a Flash course for the next semester at my college. The big deterent: the instructor who's teaching it. I've experienced this instructor briefly before (briefly because I dropped out of her class after I surmised how the class would be taught) and I have to say I have no tolerance for prima donnas. I wonder if Flash is something I can learn from a book.

Anyway, it is a small point of interest. The incentive for attempting to learn to write Flash games is the ability to post my creations on websites such as this instead of having to point people to a server where they have to download my executable-type program. The apparent negative about dabbling in Flash is the lack of discipline seems to exist with the language, and one thing I have little tolerance for is liberal programming.

As for the programming I have going on now, I think I am going to try using the engine I am developing for my main project to produce smaller, puzzle-type projects. People need to have these side projects when their principle projects demand such exorbitant amounts of time. Also, the smaller projects might help me refine the direction of the design of my engine object classes.