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Real Life:
Got a new project though i'm not yet finished with the one i'm working on. Currently just encoding some string constants. These are actual messages that will appear on the display panel of the product we are working on. I can’t help it but smile when I found words like “caliblation”, “liner” comparison, “saveing”, “now caliblating…", "calender" in the actual specs I need to follow. Am I gonna tell them and hurt their feelings in the end or just let them produce another product that will give smiles(sometimes hearty laugh) to people around the globe.

I decided to tell them...

Its really hard to communicate with a Japanese through english. Duduguin ka talaga, quoting her in her blog entry "Turning Japanese". I saw an english lesson where they are trying to learn “l” and “r. Rain and Lane sounds the same! Fast rein and falling rein... They study english from gradeschool until university but they really don’t have the means to practice it with someone who really knows the language. Some even told me their english teachers can’t even speak it. So just be patient when talking with them. Or better yet learn Japanese.

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Game Life:
Its halloween inside FFX (Oct23-Nov1 Japan Time). They placed NPC’s in costume in towns. They will greet you “Trick or Treat” when you try to talk to them. The secret is to give them sweets to get some cool stuffs or just be turned into a monster. BOOOH! The result is totally random and does not depend on the sweets you give them. You can give them pies, cookies or fruits. I just give them oranges, apples and grapes because they are cheaper when you get them from NPC’s in SanD’oria. Some greedy players sold pies and cookies 10x the normal price during the first few hours of the event. I can’t blame them. There is a real economy inside VanaD’iel so prices soar when the demand goes up :) I did it myself. I’m now fruit vendor buying fruits from SanD’oria and bringing it to Bastok selling it for 2x its worth. I got tired of running after the monsters giving them treats and getting nothing. So I told myself why not make money out of this rather than waste money?



I got a few stuffs out of this event: Pumpkin Head II, Trick staff, Horror Head II and a couples of Jack-o-Lanterns. What I really want is the Treat staff because it can give you free warps! I guess I need to do another round of trick or treating later…

List of all the possible stuffs
1.Trick Staff -> 2.HQ Treat Staff
3.Trick Staff II -> 4.HQ Treat Staff II
5. Pumpkin Head -> 6.HQ Horror Head
7. Pumpkin Head II -> 8. HQ Horror Head II
9. Jack-o-Lanterns

Most people are saying you have to equip the non-HQ items to get the HQ items. (to get the treat staff just equip the trick staff). All items except 9. are EX and RARE.

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Guild Wars - World Preview Event on Oct 29-31! Not trying to be unfaithful to FFXI or anything... I joined the preview event last May (during E3) and quite enjoyed it. Hope some of you can try it out. We　can do some of the cooperative missions together! Its for free so no worries.

If your PC meets the required specs then download the client and join us this weekend!
•Windows XP/2000/ME/98
•800 MHz Pentium III or equivalent
•256 MB RAM
•ATI Radeon 8500 or GeForce 3 or 4 MX with 32MB of video memory
•500 MB hard drive space
•Internet connection
•DirectX 8.0

Clickables:

Download Client here

Event Details here

Guild Wars Official Site here