June 9, 2015

I ended up staying up way too late last night. Like 4:30AM late. I was using a multi-stream site to watch four streams at once because they were all in the same tribe and they were doing a dungeon run through a cave in ARK. It was very entertaining to watch and I kind of lost track of time. The best part was when they came to this spot where they needed to make a couple jumps across lava in order to reach the loot, which had several bats hanging out nearby. Most of the group was on one side because they had gone around but one guy, the main one I watch for this game, was on the other side because he had just died and run back into the cave. They were all trying to figure out a strategy to some how aggro the bats away so the one guy could jump across and get the loot. And then he basically just said screw it, yelled “LEROY JENKINS” (which was entirely appropriate for the situation), jumped across, grabbed the loot, jumped back, and they all ran for it. There were several instances in the gave where they just had to make a run for it and it was funny every time. There were two loot spawns in the gave and unfortunately an asshole had been in the cave before them and abused a glitch. After the loot has been taken the container is supposed to de-spawn and then come back after five minutes or so. Well, the asshole had replaced the loot with just a random thing from their inventory so the container didn't de-spawn. This meant that their original effort to get the loot was for naught because they just got the crappy thing, not the loot. For both they were able to wait around for the loot to respawn without too much trouble. As an added level of difficulty, because the game isn't that optimized yet, the amount of crap going on in the cave completely tanked all of their computers. They were all getting single digit framerates, maybe low teens at best, even though they all have beast computers and had all the settings turned all the way down.

But while I was watching that and staying awake way too long, I also did a little work on my website, so I was kind of productive. Slightly.

I ended up sleeping until 11:30AM, maybe a little later, and although it felt great to just lay in bed, it kind of sucked losing so much of my day. Needless to say, I did not really accomplish much before lunch. This afternoon I did a little textbook reading and made a logo for my website. I might decide to change it at some point but probably not because it is simple and I like it. And I can worry about the look of things after I get all the content figured out. I did add in the second and third pages today, and I didn't really do anything to them, but it's a start.

After dinner I hunkered down and read two and a half textbook chapters, the half being the one I started this afternoon but didn't manage to finish. When I finished that I worked on my website a little bit and solved an issue with the logo I made not showing up on the second two pages. Turns out I needed to add two periods in from of the images link so it would move up a level in the directory where the images folder is located. Two little periods. It reminds me of all my experiences with programming languages where a missing bracket or semicolon or parenthesis was enough to break everything.

I did a rough summer budget tonight and used that to decide and finally buy ARK. I still can't sink loads of time into it because I have a lot of school stuff to keep up with but I figure I can run around and check things out. Which is what I did tonight for little bit before the game crashed. I probably spent more time creating my character than I actually spent in the game. I was running along the beach collecting stuff when everything froze, maybe fifteen or twenty minutes into the game. I had read earlier in the patch notes about them coming out with an option to launch the game with that should fix the crashing option that I experienced. I didn't actually try it out though because I took it as a sign to stop for the night and write this so I could go to bed. It's already after two o'clock in the morning. I have done very poorly at getting back to a decent sleep schedule.

Tomorrow I need to read a bunch for school, work on my website, and probably write some stuff as well. So hopefully I can wake up at a decent time and not get too distracted by other things, which will inevitably happen.