Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

NFT

We had a long argument with a guy who insisted that he had invented a perpetual motion machine that could provide endless energy. It involved magnets and a giant space laser.

No Frickin Thanks?

Non Fungible Token?

Im looking at google

I enjoy that I made myself laugh there again. I do love me some tacos. If were talking about trading taco company stock... I'm in.

PANTA, NO

THICC

Talking about slangs, i just learned a new one, THICC

This is also battle-related, but swapping gear during battle is now a core game element in FFXI. Was this something you originally intended?

Matsui: It was completely outside of our expectations. It all happened because we added macros to the game. (Laughs wryly)

Isn't it extremely taxing in terms of processing?

Tanaka: In terms of swapping graphical elements around, it’s actually not as bad as you might think. Rather than processing it through the PlayStation 2’s (PS2) memory, the graphical resources necessary for the gear swap are read from the hard disk drive (HDD), so anything that’s no longer needed is immediately erased. The HDD is treated like a large memory in this case, so all that's required is the memory space to deploy the process.

In other words, there wasn’t a reason to prevent gear swapping.

Tanaka: We didn't have any issues with opening the equipment window and switching out gear one by one. However, using macros to swap multiple pieces of gear at once to modify character stats during combat was a method we hadn't expected.

Matsui: FFXI doesn’t have a clear definition when it comes to determining whether or not you're in battle. When you're in a party and you defeat a monster, other party members may still be fighting a different monster. It’s difficult to define whether you're in battle or not in that sort of situation, so it was therefore also hard to create a rule to prevent swapping gear in battle.

I was impressed that even when you gear swap right before using a weapon skill, it still reflects the stats of the gear you swapped to.

Matsui: It's extremely lightweight compared to the load caused by graphics. However, after level sync was implemented, the processing load became quite heavy, partially due to the increased amount of data handled during battle.

(Also, yes, I know there are worst conditions for other Canadians on this site xD)

We're jumping up from -38C to -6C over 24 hours. Gon' be nice! Time for BBQ!

I woke up to -20C (not accounting windchill) and drove 50 minutes SW to end up at -10C with no wind while on the roof of a hospital.

I don't even know what to say to that. lol

That is a pretty wild turn though on your end xD