Tuesday, March 21, 2006

New Determination

I would like to start this post by saying no, I am not just procrasinating because I have a play to write and it's due on the 31 and I've only written half of it. It's more than procrastination. I swear.

Anyway, after spending an entertaining couple of days reading through Yahtzee's website (http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/, THE funniest thing I have read on the web in some time, and his games rock), I have decided that I am tired being jealous of people who run funny websites. I can write funny articles, too. Self-deprecating, yes, very much so, but also hopefully funny. So there.

In this spirit, I am going to attempt to use blogs to write funny articles. I don't think it'll be that hard - it's kind of like that bad Family Guy joke where the dad does a "You Know What Really Grinds My Gears" segment for the local news. Just with more intelligence and less crude humor.

So, with this intention, I will abandon this blog - which I may return to if I want to post other, non-funny-article things - and create a new one in which I will attempt to be as funny as the people I admire.

Pray for my soul.

Saturday, December 24, 2005

I Solved White Chamber!

Ok, for those of you who aren't aware, White Chamber is the fourth in an awesome series of flashgames that can be found at http://www.fasco-csc.com/index_e.html. It just came out three days ago, and I want to be the first one to post the walkthrough online, since it's the only one of the four I was able to solve without a walkthrough someone else wrote.

This game in no way belongs to me, but belongs to FASCO-CS. If you like White Chamber, I suggest you go back and try Cromson Room (a little pixel hunting towards the end, but still good), Viridian Room (kind of weird), and even Blue Chamber (definitly the worst of the three, but still has its merit). Other people have put up walkthroughs for those if you get stuck, just search the name of the room and "walkthough" on Google.




WARNING: SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!




WHITE CHAMBER WALKTHOUGH

First, check around the room for the obvious: the key on top of the ledge above the garage door, the remote control on the shelf above the window, and the purple blocks in the basket in the corner between the window and the motorcycle. Take your time to examine the darkened window and the door which "never opens".

Play with the manual and pay attention to the instructions. At the back is half a piece of paper. Look under the table to aquire the crowbar, the hook, and the yellow bar thingy (I forget what they call it in the description).

Examine all angles of the motorcycle. Pick up the block and the key, and examine the lock on the bike wheel. You should now have two keys, one of which is described as a motorcycle key. Use this key to open the compartment in the seat of the motorcycle. Take the crowbar.

Insert the key into the front of the motorcycle and try pressing all five buttons in a row, finishing with the sixth button hidden on the handle nearest to the wall. The engine won't start, but now you have power.

View the front of the bike, where someone's dissembled the front light. By clicking on the yellow bar thingy, you shoul be able to automatically use the crowbar to put the bar on the front of the bike. Now all you need is a light.

Take a look at the garage door and clock on the small black dot just to the right of it. Use the yellow hook on that depression.

Turn and examine the poster advertizement. Click on the small red out-of-place dot - it's another one of those color blocks. Examine the remote control and click on the edge of it to flip it over. Place all the blocks you've obtained into their slots.

Face the unopening door and look up. There's a piece of paper stuck to the ceiling. Use the crowbar to get it off. It's the other half of the paper you got from the manual. You now have the morse code alphabet - the top left (.-) is A, below it (-...) is B, etc., with the first letter of the second column being N (-.).

In the corner between the table and the poster is a "strange box". Facing that corner, look up. A wire runs from that box to one above it. Click on it to close-up and use your second key to make it flash. When you exit from the close-up and click on the strange box again, a door slides open to reveal two buttons.

It'll become pretty clear the the first button is for dots and and the second for dashes, and the display reads four dots or dashes to create a letter. Spell "open" (---/.--././-.). After you type each letter, wait for the display to clear and the correct letter to display on the panel. Only the correct letters will display. Once you've spelled "open", the box door slides partially closed so you can no longer push the buttons, and a blue door appears next to it. Close up on the door and use the remote on the door.

The light on the remote default flashes grey. Every time you press the button, the ligh flashes a different color, rotating through all the colors for which you've placed that block in the remote. The color the light is flashing determines the shelf you can access when you open the blue door. In this way, you can access three different shelves and take the items there, one of which is a fourth block. Put this in the remote and push the button until you can access that shelf. You should now have a mirror, a bike light, and a pair of binoculars. If not, keep pressing the button and opening the door until you do.

Hang the mirror on the hook next to the garage door and put the light on the front of the bike. If you pressed all six motorcycle buttons correctly earlier (in numerical order, 1-2-3-4-5-6), the light should light and reflect off the mirror. Examine this effect and then turn to the window to see the car light up. Use the binoculars on the tiny little rectangle on the back wall behind the car. You should be able to look through the binoculars and see a sequence of numbers. FYI, this sequence is random and changes daily.

Enter this sequence on the bike's numbers, and then examine the lock. It should now be open (and the colors on it will look like the code you just entered). Clicking on it not only unlocks the bike but reveals a purple block. You have to take the gray block out of the remote to put the purple one in - just click on the gray block, click on the purple block, and click on the slot where the gray one was.

Use the remote to open the purple shelf behind the blue door. Now you're shown a wierd window you should recognize from the manual. Yep, click on those purple blocks. You seem to have an infinite supply, so don't get too concerned if it takes you a little bit of practice to figue out how to enter letters. Drag purple blocks from their "floting" position to four possible slots in the door to form a letter, and then press the button when you've got the letter right to submit it. Once again, only the correct letters will appear on the display.

This time you have to spell "help" (...././.-../.--.) to make the display flash. Press the button again to open a secret compartment and get a golden morotcycle key. Return to the motorcycle, remove the old key, put in the gold one, and once again press 1-2-3-4-5-6.

Yamaha makes some pretty darn powerful motorcycles. Enjoy the end credits.

Monday, November 21, 2005

Hi There

'Lo there!

I'm Ghost.

Yep.

Not much to say about me at the moment, cause I haven't really had all that much sleep.

Blogs and me normally don't get along all that well. We meet, it looks good, we say hi, maybe go out for pizza once, and then abruptly stop calling each other. I was trying to start one on LiveJournal, cause my best friend has hers there, but it just didn't work out all that well.

I'm hoping this attempt will be more sucessful. I like Blogs very much. It just takes so much freaking time to read/write them. Time I don't really have.

I write. A lot. Write write write write blah blah blah blah play blah blah fanfiction blah blah blah play blah. I'm okay. I might end up posting some of my poems here. I always do.

I think the reason blogs haven't worked well for me before was that there was always someone I knew on the site to whom I felt obligated to read their blogs and comment at least every other day. Maybe now, starting up a blog on a site where I don't think I know anyone else using it, I can just write my blog and get used to writing my blog and worry about reading other people's after I get used to writing my own. So I apologize in advance if you comment on my post and I don't immediatly run off and read your blog. It's not personal and I'm not trying to be a jerk, I'm just waaaaay too busy. Or I'm in the middle of writing something else and I can't loose my train of thought. They tend to run off rather randomly when I'm not looking.

Like just then.

Anyway, I hope I'll post more tomorrow. Or Wednesday.

- Ghost