The Temple of Bague Wasting bandwidth since 1997 - Now in our 27th wasteful year!
Ramblings / April 10, 2007 / John / 2
See, this is just annoying. Why is it that certain types of people just aren’t happy unless they’re busy legislating? One of the nice things about blogs is that you take them as they find them. They’re not ever-so-nice reporters in sharp suits with elegantly styled hair reporting only the bits that make money, it’s
Game Diary / April 9, 2007 / John / 0
Well, Dracula has me stuck between a rock and a hard place, so while I’m off levelling up and exploring, I’m also picking up Final Fantasy III where I left off. Last time, I ended up getting a mini-me spell and heading off in search of a gnome village – which I promptly found. Due
Ramblings / April 9, 2007 / John / 1
More on Microsoft’s half-arsed indexing technology. It still accounts for 80% of the bandwidth usage on my site. As a result, I’ve banned the entire search.live.com domain. Hopefully others will follow suit. Inflating peoples bandwidth bills just to try and be like google is just plain rude, if you ask me. So – those of
Game Diary / April 9, 2007 / John / 0
Well, after an extended period of whacking, Hugh has been taught the error of his ways and the key to Dracula’s room is now in my sweaty grasp. So, I guess now is the time to go around and get all of the items I’ve missed and colour in the rest of the map before
Game Diary / April 8, 2007 / John / 0
Camilla is out of the way now, and I am the proud owner of a super-jumpy-ability! Hooray! As it happens, through thunderbird summons did the trick without me actually taking any damage :-/ I think it’s fair to say that the bosses are now easier than the normal enemies in the game, due to the
Game Diary / April 7, 2007 / John / 3
Death == DEAD. Again. On the first attempt, and only taking a few HP damage. Fortunately, while grinding up to level 35 in the area immediately before him, I was able to farm three or four high mind-ups, meaning I could zap the bony horror with four or five well timed Thunderbird Summons. Can’t help
Game Diary / April 6, 2007 / John / 3
Except aaaaaaaargh! I now know why this innocuous (what a horrible word to spell!) study type place has been called a “warehouse” when it otherwise contains no evidence of a storage architecture. It’s an excuse. Yup, that’s exactly what it is. An excuse for what? An excuse to fill the area with pointless, irritating, and
Game Diary / April 6, 2007 / John / 0
Except the fiery lava place isn’t the next area to be explored! While on my upgrade collecting payback trip around the castle (ok, so I was leathering hell out of anything that moved in the machine tower) I spotted a tiny little one-pixel unexplored doorway on the map. Rather than leading to the expected health/heart/mana
Ramblings / April 6, 2007 / John / 0
It’s a public holiday and I’m the only one in the department, so I’m taking the opportunity to indulge myself a little. It is Good Friday, after all, so only right that I should be listening to my favourite bit of music ever – Parsifal by Richard Wagner (Knap, natch). As an added bonus, Wagner’s
Game Diary / April 6, 2007 / John / 0
Well, with the infamous big zombie dragons gubbed, I reckoned it’s time to do some levelling, card, upgrade and potion collecting. So, equipped with all luck gear I’ve gone on a murderous rampage throughout the areas explored thus far, wreaking a horrible vengeance on all the things that gave me trouble in the past. I’ve