Kree’s Den

Last night’s dream had some interesting stuff in it, amidst the clutter. I was dreaming that I was reading a book, supposedly a Terry Pratchett book but it wasn’t really his style. I forget what some of the earlier events were, because they were sort of random. For example, the devil himself was there doing something or other, but he ended up doing very little and stopped to talk to someone on a bananaphone. I think there were some bananas nearby and he thought it would be hilarious to make a phone out of a banana, just because he’s the devil and he can.

Well anyway, onto the proper stuff, not the crazy stuff :P The main(-ish? it’s hard to tell in a dream) character was a human-sized dragon. I’m not sure what he was doing but I think he was trying to save somebody or something equally important. Anyway, the only stuff that happened before I woke up was some kind of zealous archer started firing arrows at him just because he was a dragon, and so he had to hide behind a stone wall. He probably said something along the lines of “Why me?”, because he’s not much of a terror at human size, so he’s kinda trapped there. Some adventures came by (can’t picture them well) and he started pleading to them to help him out and to not smite him just because he’s a dragon.

So yeah, sorta disjointed, but all my dreams are like that. Some other interesting things was the idea of a “safe haven”, which is an area of ground that magic can’t touch, so it protects from anything other than regular weapons. There was also (I think) a tent or something that belonged to a wizard-like fortune teller guy. He had made his own “faux-safe haven” area along a boardwalk to protect his visitors/customers. Also, there was a lake under the boardwalk and I think this was also the reason why the archer was shooting instead of running up and attacking the poor dragon dude immediately.

I’ve been updating my wordpress and plugins, and I’ve decided to start using Akismet and Bad Behavior plugins to stop spam. If you find yourself being blocked or such please let me know because I absolutely hate false positives.

On the up side I’ve decided to re-activate trackbacks, here’s hoping that these plugins will stop all those useless spam trackbacks from appearing.

Also, I’ve been thinking about changing the theme to something else instead of this half-finished theme, so don’t be surprised if everything looks different all of a sudden.

Just messing around with Wordpress to try and get things working better.

BTW, I could seriously use tutorials for drawing pixel art background scenes.

Ack, I haven’t updated like I should have Hopefully this really long one will make up for that!

So, anyways, some much-needed news/ramble!

I bought the Orange Box (& Garry’s Mod) over Steam and a new iPod Nano with my Christmas mula :D

Portal was hell’a fun! It’s short but jam-packed with concentrated awesomeness! The ending song wraps it up so nicely (and gives me something to repeat endlessly on my new iPod 8D) It’s got the mind-bending portal puzzles mixed in with a great script and voice-acting! The WCC is a freakin’ INANIMATE CUBE, but he’s got a giant fanbase already XD. I wish I could find some good fan-made maps to sedate my lust for more portal content.

Also, getting Episode 1 & 2 prompted me to finish playing Half-Life 2 and I ploughed through all of them lickety-split! I feel like a real FPS guy now! I CAN’T WAIT FOR EPISODE 3! YAAAAAAY! GIMME GORDAN WITH A PORTAL GUN! :D

… and I haven’t even tried out Team Fortress 2 yet :P Btw, my SteamID is KreeTheBasilisk

The iPod was a bit of a sudden splurge (that I could have bought Mario with D: ) but it’s awesome fun to listen to the Joystiq podcast when I don’t have anything to do. Also, sorry my poor DS Lite, but this iPod is also way easier to lug around with me in those gaps of travel time.

Apart from those two things, we mainly ate tons of candy and nuts for Christmas :D Fun family times. Also, my brother got Cluedo. CLUEDO! XD ‘Tis fun. Also, I ate all my Gourmet Jelly Beans and now he doesn’t want me to mooch any of his :P

Ohh, before I forget, back before Portal and HL2 consumed my soul, I played a lot of Kyntt Stories. It’s free and artsy, try it out! There’s extra map packs and more in the forums. “Within a Deep Forest” is also a blast.

So yeah, there’s my long-winded update of what I’ve been up to. Feel free to poke me with countless probing questions! :)