fractalnavel : KoL

forums and members and clans, oh my...

fractalnavel — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 20:17:51 GMT

ok, finally opened up my KoL clan for others. mostly maybe family. look at my KoL player profile, click on the clan, and go from there.

i also set up a clan forum here, which seemed like the responsible (?!) thing to do. need to get used to managing the cs version of this, since that's what i'll be shortly asking a customer to do. so far, some annoyances...

remember that if you register on this site, you can post comments and participate in the forums. who knows, if you want and ask nice, we can also set up a blog for you of your Very Own™

i'd really like to enable anonymous comments (never forum posts), but the spam factor, even with various counter-spam strategies, just plain sucks. be assured that registering here is only to make sure you're not a bot. or at least, not an unsophisticated one.

i mean, how do you know that i'm not a bot ?

you don't.

priorities

fractalnavel — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 01:28:54 GMT

Tucking in the Friar

While stumbling along the dimly lit aisles of the cellar, you encounter a fat little man wearing a brown, hooded cloak. "Hey," you say, "are you lost? Do you need some help?"

The little man holds up a handful of grain. "This is grain," he says. "which any fool can eat, but for which the Lord intended a more divine means of consumption. Let us give praise to our maker and glory to his bounty by learning about... beer!" He says, swaying back and forth and almost falling over.

"I think you've learned enough about beer today," you say.

"Nonshense. I can contemplate the majesty of beer all day long! I'm a member of an ancient order, the Deep Fat Friars. I could table you under the... drink you table the... you... I..." The friar collapses on the ground and starts snoring. You cover him with a nearby blanket, grab one of his leftover beers, and continue on.

KoL

the cruel face of addiction

fractalnavel — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 00:02:02 GMT

of course, knowing my perverse tendencies, you'll realize that this is much lighter in nature than the title would otherwise indicate. if i were really writing about "the cruel face of addiction", it would have been a light-hearted title.

gotta tell ya, i'm dissappointed with this windows live writer thing - it uses "font" tags ! etc. stupid shit.

oh, yeah, to the point: i'm talking about KoL crap here. what does it take to accumulate 100 different items, if the chance of their occurence is uniformly distributed ? well, without getting into enabling MathML here, like i did in the .Text installation, see the chart to the right. fuzzy, it's a bmp copy from mathematica.

it's essentially a logarithmic function. it tells a sad story. to get the last 5 items, for example, of a 100 unique item set , would take an additional 200 chances - ! more or less. 50% of one's effort is spent on 10% of the result.

odd - why does this sound familiar ? you kow, the old 80-20 rule. also, the distribution of wealth or other "privileged" position. if the chances are all equal, what is the result ?

it begins to occur to me that evolution is a reactionto statistical reality. well, of course. but the programming is inherent to the numbers. and so go the anti-entropic forces.

and all the armies thereof.

that old black magic

fractalnavel — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:37:02 GMT

[ok, one good use of these off-line blogging ools is to post thoughts when your network is down]

big "uh-oh" lately. every time i saw a remotely attractive female form today, i ... felt ... something. since when ? i think it has something to do with weight training and hormones. or maybe it has something to do with the fact that it's been EIGHT YEARS since i last played in that cornfield. apparently some of the crap i went through has been wearing off. need to be careful, don't want to get back into stupid patterns. one cure i've found is that as soon as i get to know someone even a little bit, there's no more attraction. what do you make of that, eh ?

Girls of Loathing

drawn by SpaceMonkey

Today is:
Frankruary 8

UPDATE:

omgwtf, i an SO in trouble [shouting] - i am ogling the stick figure girl on the girls of loathing calendar. feeftee watts per channel, baybeecaykez !!!