Rughalt's Blog

Recently, I’ve stopped posting anything on the blog.

The main reason behind this is my new studies – I’m currently studying Biomedical Engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology. And I must say that it is a lot better than Physics. I’ don’t have to learn a lot, since I already know analysis and programming – only chemistry labs are PITA.

People are great, and the atmosphere is great (too!). I have even found interesting work (I write software for Electron Tomograph). Overall, I’m very happy I changed studies.

Hell yeah.

I (again) didn’t post anything lately. This is because – as the title suggests – I was (and still am) playing my PS3 a lot. I bought myself two games – Batman: Arkham Asylum and Far Cry 2.

I have already finished Batman, and I must say, I wasn’t disappointed. Game was short, but packed with action and had great storyline. I’m still playing it tough – I want to finish it 100%.

I have not yet finished Far Cry 2 – which is quite long actually – but the game made good impression – incredible open world setting, with beautiful graphics and quite simple gameplay. Even FPS controls are not that bad (I can hit enemies without much problems).

And, that is all for now. I think.

I have (or, now, had) a stupid dilemma. I have saved some money this summer, and I wondered if I should update Akane (my desktop pc).

But since the only component I wanted to upgrade was graphics card (to be able to play newer games), I ended up deciding between two things: a new “powerful” graphics card (Radeon 4770 or 4830), or new motherboard and crossfire Radeon 4650.

Today, I found answer to the dilemma – I will not buy new graphics card at all. I will just start buying games for PS3, which I bough with one intention in mind – that I won’t have to buy new PC parts every half year.

Playing on PS3 has one more advantage – Batman: Arkham Asylum (which is one of my must play) on PS3 is available now, and PC version will come out late in September.

And one more – the game is cheaper than the hardware I intended to buy.

So, PS3, I’m back!

As you can see, I’ve changed site theme, to the more blue one. I’ve also changed Dragonshorn Studios logo a bit (old version will still be used, tough). I think the site looks better now.

Also, I think I’ll change site layout some more, in the near future.

As for software news, I think I’ll try and release Tvistter version with both themes, but it’ll take some time.

During last few days, mostly because I was very bored, I released two new pieces of software – BackDimmer and Wrzuta Media Downloader. You can read more about them in the respective posts.

I have also two programs more in the works, and I hope to release them before end of the week. There is also update to Tvistter coming, but first I have to somehow get to my main computer and copy the code to the machine I use now (code I copied hoping I’ll do some upgrades turned out to be not-exactly-what-I-wanted)..

As if anybody cares…

But, during last two weeks a lot has happened.

No! Two last weeks were boring, and only few interesting things happened. I’ve passed driving license exam, and soon I’ll get my driving license. I’ve also written some exams at my university, but currently I don’t care about the results.

I don’t think there is anything to add right now. See you later.

Oh my God. Golden Sun, one of the greatest RPG series on portable systems of all time, will be back, spring 2010. Camelot, Nintendo – you made my day. That is all I have to say about it.

Video from E3 conference:

Every time new Pokémon game (main branch, of course) is released, I just have to play it as soon as I can. Although Pokémon Diamond was released two (three?) years ago, I couldn’t play it until now (for obvious reasons – lack of DS).

Even tough every Pokémon game is basically the same as the rest, the gameplay itself  is so good and fun that I don’t care about it. Catching and training Pokémon is just as fun as the first time I’ve played Pokémon (my first game on Gameboy Color was Pokémon Yellow). And with the improvements each version makes, game becomes more and more addictive.

The only problem with Pokémon franchise is the amount of new Pokémon they create. First two batches (250 species from Red/Blue/Green/Yellow and Silver/Gold/Crystal) were fine, but recent additions are just plain… just stupid. It seems that they slowly run out of ideas, and new Pokémon are just weirder and weirder.

Despite this, I find Pokémon one of the best RPG series on handheld consoles, if not the best one. So, excuse me, I’m going back to my DS. To play Pokémon, of course.

With Nintendo DS Lite!

I’ve recently bought myself NDS Lite, since my old GameBoy Advance broke (control pad isn’t responding anymore). So, after saving my money for two months I went to local game shop and bought it, since the price was quite low.

I’ve also got myself few games and R4 Revolution card to run homebrew. From short testing and playing Pokemon Diamond, Phoenix Wrigth and Castelvania I must say, that the console itself is great and games are fun to play. Homebrew Moonshell turns NDS into very good MP3 player, and additional applications (such as EBook Reader, Visual Novel player) made me left my PocketPC at home lately.

Concluding, I must say that I think I’ve made right choice, buying NDS instead of PSP.

See you later, I’m returning to Pokemon.

My winter break was short – too short in my opinion – but I don’t feel I wasted it. I’ve had my share of sleep, I’ve played enough computer games (but I haven’t finished Drakensang yet, so I’ll play more), and I did what I had to do.

Tomorrow I start new semester, and I’ll have new subjects – Mechanics, new portion of Mathematical Analysis and “Measurement uncertainty and Laboratories”.

And I’ll have less time.