November 17, 2013

Lazy Sunday. Not much to write about. As per usual. I played Minecraft today, for the first time in a little bit. I finally decided where to put my orchard and got all the trees planted. I still need to finish the walls (if I want walls), the main path, and the lighting. I also did a lot of decorating, adding a kitchen on my main floor, a library and seating area with carpets on the second floor, and I built a small bedroom on the roof. I was pretty happy with everything. I am still annoyed about not being able to breed animals because they keep disappearing. And today I discovered that I can't put flowers in flower pot and I can't catch fish. I can pull them in but I can't actually get them. Then I decided to try the latest update and see if things would work. But that ended up wrecking my garden because none of my mods loaded. This also made all the food I had collected and all the seeds I had, completely disappear from my chests, except for all the vanilla Minecraft stuff. So that kind of sucks. I will more than likely end up cheating in all the seeds and replanting the garden. I'll eventually get all the food back. Then I can start crafting all the food that is made by combining various ingredients.

Tonight I made chips, did laundry, and watched stuff. I watched the first episode of Under The Dome. I read awhile ago how they had combined various characters from the book to make things easier. My first reaction after the first five minutes was that they didn't get a single character right. There was too much combining for my taste. I am a big believer in the fact that books and their film adaptations are two completely different entities, but sometimes it is hard to accept the adaptation. I do want to see the rest of the show but I stopped after the first episode because I wasn't in the mood for the small amount of frustration the character choices was causing.

So I started watching Indie Game: The Movie. I got it in an indie game sale awhile ago and when it popped up on Netflix I decided to watch it. But not on Netflix because I already had it downloaded on my computer. I've got about a half an hour left but I'll finish that up tomorrow. So far it is interesting. It focuses on three games: Braid, Super Meat Boy, and Fez. I have played the first two but never got around to Fez. Braid is very cool and it also has a really good soundtrack. Super Meat Boy was fun but it was meant to be tough, and it was, so it was also frustrating. I also liked The Binding Of Isaac, which was made after by one of the two Super Meat Boy guys. As for Fez, I read too many discouraging things. I think on Xbox there was a error that would cause people to lose their save file and the creator couldn't fix it because of some issue with Microsoft. And then recently there was a whole big thing about something I have forgotten about but I think it resulted in the creator quitting the video game industry. So there's that.

Also tonight, I watched a segment on 60 Minutes with Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, and their billionaire pledge, getting other billionaires to sign a pledge saying they will give away half of their wealth in philanthropic ways. It really made me wish I was a billionaire. Not so much to have all the money but for the ability to give that kind of money away. Right now my donations to charities range from five dollars to somewhere over a hundred dollars. That doesn't even show up on the radar of a billionaire. It would be nice to give the amount of money that results in obvious benefits. Some is better than none but it was still be nice to be able to give thousands or even millions of dollars to worthwhile causes. It is inspiration to become fantastically rich but it doesn't seem to come with the motivation to actually get there. Not even to buy a lottery ticket. I may get their someday. One of the people they interviewed on the show was the lady who invented Spanx. That very simple idea made her a billionaire. I need a simple idea. And the balls to follow through with it.