Sorry about my slow reply. Honestly, I've been kind of discouraged and demotivated by the minimal responses, especially when I compare my app with the new applicants'; y'all are very quick and cheerful, in response to them. Anyway, I was wondering, how many people are reading this? It would be encouraging and nice to know if there were any . . . Also, I was wondering if there are still nobles who stand by their declarations that they will never give me their vote.
Since I'm sort of in between servers at the moment, I'm fulfilling my Minecraft needs by playing my first real hardcore singleplayer world, and it's a lot of fun.
I put together a short tour for y'all here.What else have I been doing with my time? Well, I must admit Minecraft has been very absorbing, but I've also been reading and writing (for school and pleasure); attending school and doing physics, sci-fi, Latin, and comp-sci (a very pleasant semester in my opinion); and practicing tennis.
I'm reading "Revenge of the Lawn", a collection of short stories by Richard Brautigan. In science fiction today we read
Terry Bisson's "Macs", which I reccomend: it's really warped, scary, and interesting.
I'm really trying to take Latin seriously this semester, because it would be awesome to be able to fluently read and write in it; I could use it (sparingly) on Hermertia for cryptic pieces of lore.
I've written two things (in English) - they're not lore but I think they would appeal to Minecraft players (one explicitly mentions Minecraft), so I'll upload them once I have both of them, once I get one of them back from my sci-fi teacher.
In Science Fiction today was Tuesday, so we had "Twilight Zone Tuesday," and, also, it's "Taco Tuesday" at a local restaurant so I'm going to get tacos for dinner. Tacos are delicious!
This semester is also very pleasant because I don't have to see that girl I mentioned, except in the transition between 2nd and 3rd period. I ignore her and shun her during that transition because that's what she did to the messages I sent her over the summer. Today I walked right past her and her favorite guy friend, the popular class president, who she "likes," and I felt spacey for the rest of the day and when I got home I cried for like an hour about it. I wish that I would never see her again, or that somehow she would (falsely) get the message that I hate her and don't want to have anything to do with her and I'm going to find a girl who's nice. (Sorry if this has gotten too personal and correspondingly incoherent. I would just delete this whole paragraph but I'm not in the right mood.)
Nicholas, I
added the source code to my games folder. The one called "puzzle" is just Inertia's level editor. Also, I have to warn you: my code is disorganized and uncommented. Here's a tip for navigating the jungle: at least in SideShooter and Inertia, there's the base class (interface actually), GameObject, which all the "entities" - alien ships, spinning earth, spinning moon, the player - derive from. In main(), a list of all the GameObjects is kept. All GameObjects have the methods refresh() and draw(), and main() repeatedly refresh()s and draw()s every GameObject on its list, and that's basically how the whole program runs. In case you want more details, you can read
this thread, which is where I put together the software model of GameObjects, inspired somewhat by Game Maker. Sidenote: the StdDraw class present in all my games is a very simple and crappy graphics window.
Also, to Nicholas: I'm interested in the legal system of Hermertia. I've seen how y'all vote on plugins and whatnot and it's all real legit. Snoutmol II may aspire to become a lawyer, if he's admitted into Hermertia and given an education in your libraries . . . but that of course is a very lofty goal. Even if slavery is illegal and no one would recognize it, are debts legal? Would people legally recognize if I owed a double chest full of gold blocks? I'm not exactly excited about the prospect, but at this point I'd do it, if it would help at all . . .
Caesar, sorry for not telling my story about Ursula, Antontus, and Snoutmol II escaping the golden horde. I (lore off) have absolutely no plans for that story and frankly I'm not excited to come up with it. I may resort to telling it sometime though, if nothing else arises that I can discuss . . .
Again, thank you ANYONE WHO IS READING THIS, for your attention.
-Snout