Wistrel's Diary

[Wistrel]

I'm telling you it IS yellow!

Ok so this will be the first of a few entries I've been meaning to do for a while on "fashion". To kick off this one's, in answer to the question me and DD have been asking each other for some time which is:

"Is the track suit in Kill Bill 1 yellow or orange?" Now WE both think its yellow and as such have both gone and got/made ourselves the best copies we can, of the costume in game, by using basic pants (trousers) and shirt coloured as brightly yellow as possible to create the illusion that the stripes are in fact black rather than dark grey and wasting all our pocket money on a pair of katsuishi's! THEN people tell us it should be ORANGE!!

If it were orange then every new person on the planet would already be there when they arrive Anyhow heres my answer to this debate once and for all. The only question left to answer now, is if I can afford to get Sarah to do my stripes!

[Wistrel]

Just for fun

Its amazing what a bit of procrastination will produce sometimes. I was just mucking about with this for fun, applied some random effects and well... this is what I got. Its not great I know, its a bit unprofessional but hey, I liked it so what the heck?

Incidentally I feel I should point out this has nothing to do with TCI. I was just using their name for fun.

[Wistrel]

Anger... Rarr!

> http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nov...k_im_sorr.html

I've already wasted enough of my life reading this crap and debating it with Az who thinks its big news. As far as I can see theres nothing more here than MA seeing an opportunity to get some more publicity (no news is bad news) by taking on some big wig, and a bored law professor trying to show the world how great he is by proving he can slag off a small company and get away with it just cause hes got tenureship, a strong grip on American law and happens to have founded some dull blog site that personally I'd never even heard of (even though apparently its supposed to be THE place to read ).

They are one as bad as the other if you ask me. The whole thing actually really pissed me off. Especially the guy who wrote about it in his blog on the Guardian website, pretty much just quoting what Hunter said. It was just his way of saying "look what I can get away with if I put some bullshit in quotes and post it in my blog cause then it doesn't count even though I know too bloody well that the ONLY reason anyone reads my blog AT ALL is because it IS on the Guardian website and that I happen to work for them (but don't think for a MINUTE this is the views of the paper cause that would libel!)"

Jeese what a crock of shit

Wistrel

[Wistrel]

A very interesting post

Not really anything I have to say (haha like THAT would happen this quickly, I havn't even dropped off the front page yet ;-) ) but I found this

http://e-pec.info/forum/index.php?sh...440&#entry5440

to be an exceptionally interesting thread over on e-pec. So thought I would spread the knowlege. Its about mob names, here is a sample:

Fugabarba - This one isa funny one lol. It's made of exactly 2 portuguese words, I dont' really know if it's suposed to be about that , but it sure is funny. "fuga" means "escape", or something like running away , and "barba" is "beard". lol , so we have a mob with a big beard that runs away a lot. That kinda fits to a fugabarba

There's plenty more where that came from if anyones interested so go take a look and while you are at it say hi to the folks on e-pec. Its a great little forum for the more pedestrian forum peruser

[Wistrel]

Awww.... I was so LITTLE!

Was just trying to find some old people on EP and came accross my very first post EVER. Awww... it brings back memories. I was so green!

Hey all,

Just saying "Hi" to see this is all working. Been playing on Calypso on and off for a week or 2 now. I love it, especially now I've managed to loose that yucky orange jumpsuit

So far been pretty much enjoying exploring the place. I'm keeping a map and log of what I find since it seems more fun that way. Hoping to get into clothes making eventually once I've had a chance to settle down somewhere but for the time being its a hunters life for me - or death more frequently

Even though at this stage I'm more interested in having fun than making money I think its great that you can. The whole thing is facinating!

Cheers to everyone whos been helpfull getting me started - you've been terriffic.

Wistrel

Its quite refreshing to see that actually I havn't changed much. To think, after all this time I STILL havn't been everywhere done everything or know it all yet. Here's hoping I can remain in this happy state of being for years to come!

[Wistrel]

Things to do on top of the world!

Wow! Middle of the third page! I really HAVE been neglecting this thing. Ah well, not much of a particularly exciting update but the other day I was trying out frapps and the windows movie making program. Just for laughs, made this:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/katsuragi/Sumit.wmv

The trip to the highest point on calypso was really fun and I was supprised to find it actually felt like real mountain walking! haha especially when the high wind noises kicked in! If you havn't been I really reccommend it, its north of Orthos... just keep going "up"

Incidentally an interesting thing happened. While I was there, I put down a stool and foot rest so that anyone visiting could have a seat and enjoy the view. I wasn't sure it would last but I was quite supprised it didn't stay a single day! Next time I was in, somone had half inched it! Ah well guess thats just the way of things on Calypso.

Wistrel

[Wistrel]

Wistrel Meets MA!

Wow oh wow! Its been a LOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time since I posted here!!! Soooo long... Its a shame cause game wise not only have I been "relatively" active but also theres been sooo much I've wanted to comment on and talk about but life over this last year has been nuts. I guess one can only do so many hobbies and when one takes over, others (like doing this diary) have to fall by the way side. I've got tons of pics and stuff I wanted to post. Who knows if I'll ever catch up. Heck I never even got round to documenting my time on CND! (Bizaarely I am missing that place recently....).

Anyhow, just a small thing to kick off with and apologies this is a bit "me me me" and not very interesting... sometimes you just need to rabbit before you can start. The other day I went to PA and in a moment of randomness decided to head over to the arrivals area to see if I could help out any new people. Who should I find standing there? None other than an MA Official Assistant!!!

I couldn't believe it cause I've never seen one before* but there she was, bold as brass hanging around and asking for the new people to come and talk to her. Well I WAS impressed!!! This was bold new move on MA's behalf and possibly perhapse a direct result of the new, long sought after, window mode. I'm guessing, now MA employees can run PE in a window they can afford to spend some time hanging around and work on a 2nd monitor or something? Whatever the reason though its a pretty good sign that MA are trying to do something about that large drop out rate I heard quoted some time back cause not only was she handing out advice but also pistols and ammo! Thats right, as Az put it, "MY GOD!!! MA freebies??? Whatever next!" I didn't check, but I suspect it was same as the recent ukash promotion (TT pistol and 10ped ammo) which was equivalent to something like 20% back (don't quote me cause I really can't remember) of the £5 deposit required for it. However just handing them out for free! Thats actually a really really nice move as it promotes good feeling in new colonists upon arrival, far better than just "starting the game with x y and z in your inventory" cause it feels like someone has actually welcomed you to the game and, no doubt, given you a starter for ten to play with as regards information and wise use of the equipment.

My best MA impression! (note the free ammo and guns bottom right)

So yeh, top marks to MA and I hope to see more of them hanging around PA in the future cause, as I hope they are discovering, people REALLY don't bite as hard as they have seemed to think they would in the past and it only takes a nice gesture before people will meet you half way, stop complaining and start being usefull

Wistrel



* no one has but I'm guessing its a white and blue person

[Wistrel]

A Matter of Respect

Who do you respect in game? Well I guess we all have someone we respect and look up to. I suppose for me its, anyone who "gets it" as one Marco B once put . I think out of game I have separate respect for those who have done great stories and things such as Kira Red, Epic and Donald. There was also this recent poll about who was the most "outstanding" entropian which was, quite rightly, won by Neverdie who is the Calypsian equivalent of Zaphod Beeblebrox! (can you imagine him saying "I'm so cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month! I'm so HIP, I have difficulty seeing over my own pelvis!" and getting away with it? hell I can!) Interestingly, among the runners up were none other than the infamous Knuckles and Chainfire. Chainfire I have a HUGE respect for because not only did he write a DARN usefull program but also withstood a MASSIVE amount of criticism and reputation slurs from all kinds of people (who mostly didn't know what they were talking about) claiming he was a hacker or something. Some thanks eh? Knuckles I respect simply cause hes been around so long and has never ceased to cause upset and havoc but he still keeps on going and has never quit. That sort of resilience takes dedication

Still, its always nice when I meet what I would consider to be the ubas which, to me, are the people I remember from my early days in the game on the Entropia Pioneers forum who are STILL around. Whats even nicer is when they recognise and talk to me (cause when I turned up I must have been little more than "another orange" to most of them) The other day I had the fortune to meet Mango who, to be honest, I always just liked for the simple reason that she looked cool. I wasn't in for a disapointment either. She gave me a grand display of all the different Jackets she owned, my favourite alas, was from her beta days and its nice to say, she is still one of the coolest looking players I have ever seen. It's funny though... theres something about the latter picture, I have taken here, that put it all in perspective for me. Compared to Mango, I just look SMALL! Like a teenager or something talking to an older sibling. I suppose in many ways this is synonymous with my status in PE. Despite 2 and a half years on Calypso I am STILL a newbie with skills of a laughable standard. Ah well, its not the winnning, its the taking part that matters

Mango - arguably the coolest character in game



in comparison... Wistrel the bratty teenager!

[Wistrel]

"i'm lovin' it"

oh... god... no!

[Wistrel]

Entropia: The Movie

A while back someone cut together a load of scenes from movies and computer games that all seemed somewhat 'Calypsian' and created a great
trailer for a so called, "Entropia the movie". Will certainly say it looked pretty darn cool so I began to wonder just how much scope there really was for such a thing? Certainly MA's original storyline back drop is epic in proportions and provides massive scope for any number of short or long historical and present day accounts, the stories from The Gate and Entropian being fine examples of this as are the wealth of fictions available on Entropia Pioneers. My own fic, "a girl I once knew" has been commented on as being more like a trailer than a complete story (and I would say that was a fair comment) so could a movie be made?

Entropia pretty much contains everything on the scifi wish list so I would say "why not?" which brings us to the all important question of who would the lead roles be and who would play them? Well of course I guess it all depends on the story being told but personally I say why bother restricting life to one movie when you could make *several? The backdrop exists, its just a case of coming up with the imagination to write a few good scripts. Its interesting, having thought about this, that there are many many entropia fan movies however a minority of these actually tell a story or feature key roles and a script. I would probably attribute a lot of this to peoples unwillingness or inability to voice act the characters they want to create or perhapse it is because direction of more than a few avatars to make machinima in Entropia is too difficult. I wonder if films featuring such complex scripts exist for other MOG's that are on the market? I know, for example, the online game, Fragment is in fact born out of the successfull .hack francise of Japan and itself existed as a series of static computer games and animated series prior to existing as a MOG outside the realms of fiction. However, if the reverse is true of any other MOG's or indeed Entropia it would be great to know about and see what has been made.

Still, machinima aside, having seen the likes of Firefly (clips from which were used in the mock up Entropia trailer) it feels that there definitely is scope for something good in this vein of the slightly bleak futuristic colonisation of some far flung galaxy. Personally, for my own stuff, although I think in pictures in my head, I don't know if what I'm aiming for with my own ideas would really constitute a good script for a movie as I feel such a thing would need to be somewhat more rapidly paced. Perhapse though the current or future writers of Calypso could come up with something more suitable and then we'd be left with the fun task of deciding who our ideal real life actors would be to pay our Calypsian Dopplegangers For Wistrel, its hard for me to picture her exactly as, in my own story, I see her changing significantly as time plays out. However, recently I was looking up the new characters for the upcomming Harry Potter movie to find out who would play my favourite character, Tonks. I was delighted to see that she will be played by Natalia Tena who, funnilly enough, by my current view of things, would also make a pretty neat Wistrel...

Natalia Tena as 'Wistrel Chianti' (Entropia - coming summer 2008)

* Rather than the hollywood trend of sequels, I somewhat prefer the idea of several films that are entirely unrelated in style, depth, characters and time which would be somewhat more akin to the Animatrix ie they all exist within the same "world" but thats as far as any such restrictions would go.