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Gaia Slots
So, it's no secret that I LOVE Gaia slots. Sure, it might be a sign of my impending financial doom by online gambling, but for now, they are FUN. Just to show how crazy I am, take this example: I logged in with about 2.2k gold. I spent money just buying tokens from the marketplace at a <1g/token ratio and ended up with 1.5k and 806 tokens. I ended up saving around 75g total, but when you're a cheapskate, it's worth the time and effort. So, I went into the slots game, marked down how many tokens I had, and make a goal of 1k tickets before I leave. I said a little prayer for good luck, and had at it.
Naturally, of course, I got nothing for the first hundred tokens. I think I ended up with 15 tickets by 700 tokens. Yikes! However, I'm not one to quit something before the job is done (Read: Stubborn), and I kept at it. Not three spins later, I'd managed a triple wing. Gee, how luck can change on you! There had been a few wings dropping in previous to that--Even a halo--but I hadn't been getting anything worthwhile. After that, there was a huge dry spell for a few hundred tokens where I didn't get anything save for a few coin or demon combos.
Next came a nice little triple present, netting me another 150 tickets, followed almost immediately by a taunting Wing-Coin-Wing. Grrrr. Next there was a spree of two matches that netted me some alright break-even tickets, but I was really gunning for another few hundred tickets by the end of my then-remaining 400ish tokens. By 300 tokens with no big wins during the last hundred, the future was starting to look pretty grim. I was ready to just cash out, but then I decided that I'd try to leave with no fewer than 3k new tickets (Spending my winnings usually works out better for me than spending my tokens, for some reason.) but that I'd shoot for at least doubling my then-current ticket count of 3785.
Given my luck, it should be obvious enough that that didn't happen, at least not right away. I ended up with no tokens and about 3.5k non-cashed winnings. Okay, so that's about 170 spins to try and win, not counting 2 Match spins. What could go wrong? Ah, how naive I am about luck... I'm surprised that the mysterious Awdience was still able to speak after how many times they had to announce my failure! Though there were a good number of 2 Match spins in there, the vast majority were just total failures, yielding no tickets. Bah.
Well, along goes the game, and I was down to about 3.3k winnings. Still not shabby considering I took in only 806 tokens! However, my router became unplugged momentarily and I lost my connection to the room. stressed I was pretty worried that I'd lost my precious winnings, and I had no choice but to close the window and hope for the best. Normally I'd go back and have to cash my winnings in, but it told me that I didn't have any tokens or winnings. Gasp! How will the story end?
Pretty well, actually. I checked my inventory, and I now have almost 7.2k tickets. sweatdrop Whew! My winnings are safe and sound, I pulled in a nice haul of tickets, and I can get to posting a new thread in the Barton OOC section. Hallelujah!
If anybody ever wants to do slots with me, feel free to PM. I'm always open for some games of chance. biggrin
--Busbee
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Learning Java for Computer Science
I want to be a game designer, pure and simple. Specifically, I love level design. However, this means that I need a Computer Science degree, which means that I'll be doing a lot of... computer science. To this end, I've enrolled in an introductory Comp Sci course for the 08-09 school year. (That's not to mention all the other crap that made scheduling a complete chore this year. I'll save that for another entry. sweatdrop )
Well, to cut a long, long story short, I've now got a shiny, almost-new Comp Sci textbook here in my room. I've felt like a TOTAL nerd just sitting here and reading it, but sit read and read it I have been. (Okay, Yoda.) Now, I've always been a programmer for simple things--I even managed to code my own web browser, feature-light as it was. However, I've never studied Comp Sci in a way that would come close to the amount of detail I'm about to have to go into. As a proper programmer... I'm looking forward to it!
The course is to be taught in Java, the standard entry-level Comp Sci language. If you've ever worked with programming at all, you'll know that the hard part when you're first learning a language is the syntax. I'm grateful that this language happens to have syntax that is extremely similar to both Visual Basic and C#.NET--Both of which I know. (The aforementioned browser was coded in C#.NET.) This means that I'll have a nice edge over my classmates, which spells out more time for me to screw around and see what I can make the poor machine do. (If computers could talk, they'd be complaining to me about being wasted on useless tasks, like trying to compute an exact value for "How big of a number the RAM can handle without crashing." The answer to that one? I don't know. The stupid thing crashed. sweatdrop )
In spite of all of that, though, I'm sure I'll still be making atrocious errors in my code, which I hope the IDE will catch before runtime. Speaking of which, I need to decide on an IDE use. I've got JCreator LE and Eclipse on my box right now, and I think I have J#.NET Pro installed (Though I don't think that trying to apply Java written for a Java compiler would work too well with J#.NET!), but I just don't know which one to use. If I recall, my copy of JCreator LE was installed from a CD that I borrowed from my friend Julie when she was taking the course last year, so I'll go ahead and assume that that is the IDE that the course requires you to use.
And now, to wrap things up, I read back over my post, and I've gotta say: I use the second person way too much. I'll be sure to lessen that in future posts. Tenga buen dia, everyone!
--Busbee
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