August 3: A Lazy RJ is a Happy RJ
Today I got up and did nothing all day. Yesss!!! ;D
I got my usual breakfast/lunch at the Yokosan, again trying desperately to find anything else there that at all compares to the price of korokke, but alas, no such thing appears to exist... Oh well, grapefruit, carrots, bananas, milk and korokke is a pretty decent breakfast/lunch.
After eating I played some StarCraft with Kevin until he had to go to bed. After that I investigated a open-source game called FreeOrion, which is apparently loosely inspired by the Master of Orion series, which I absolutely loved. Unfortunately, as I determined after several hours of play, the project is not far along enough to really be called "playable". The learning curve is nearly a vertical wall on the first couple of turns, as there are very few explanations as to what things actually do and how you put stuff together, but through a combination of a tutorial on the projects wiki (which gives false information) and some experimentation, I eventually discovered how to play the game haha. Unfortunately, after you make it that far, that's kind of it. There is not much logical tech progression, and some rather "important" techs apparently do not work with some of the races (including the one I was playing), such as Terraforming. O_O Yeah that's a big one. You can still build it, it just does nothing haha. The AI also is pretty much nonexistent. They will place use their initial colony ship to settle a planet near their starting world, and then will do absolutely nothing for the rest of the game. They actually did mention this on their wiki, so I was aware of this fact going into the game. Their economy/production system is kind of neat though, and I would like to see how it turns out once the game is in true playable condition.
It being a 4x game (and the slowest-paced one I've ever seen, at that), fiddling around with it and getting to the point where I had a stable expansion pattern and was teching up steadily and ready to start amassing forces to attack my non-existent adversaries took pretty much the whole rest of the day haha. I will be keeping an eye its development, as I would like to see how it turns out (if it ever does).
I didn't go to Akiba today because a) it was about 4pm when I finished playing StarCraft with Kevin, b) I will be going tomorrow, and c) because I got my dorm fees bill today, and it appears to be about 7000-8000円 larger than I expected. O_O Because of the discretionary money I budget an a per-month bases, my spending money total is still in the black, but it certainly could not handle a double-Akiba weekend after having to absorb that extra cost. I am kind of wondering what is up with the difference in dorm fees, as the offending category was "communal spaces" or something like that, which went from 630円 for half a month of living in June, to 9650円 for a full one in July. I am not actually aware of using any common space resources, other than tap water and a corner of the fridge door, so the increase is rather surprising. I can only hope that it was supposed to be 965円, and whoever wrote it up just made a hundred-dollar typo. >_< I guess I'm glad I've got ample wiggle room in my budget, and that this is therefore just puzzling and confusing rather than disastrous and stressful.
Anyways, I'd best get to bed if I'm going to get up to talk to Mom and Jiuna tomorrow. Night!
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