This anime is crazy as hell. Funny too. Don't feel like writing a review so here's a few pictures to convey the message properly. :)

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Man this game is addicting... played it a few more times instead of searching for stuff I was going to search for, snapped a few screens with lightscreen while I was at it. I'm getting better it seems, but I still can't get past even ten levels, how about you?

...The transfer disappears. Just like that. I'm transferring between two internal drives, working on other things meanwhile the transfer is progressing, but once in a while it just aborts, and I'm wondering why... obviously. My computer is new, my OS is 7, my problems aren't previous. What's the dealeo?

Seems like I'm not the first person to post about this, still, it's worth a post. Today Namcos legendary Pacman game celebrates 30 years, and Google pops it up a notch with a real Pacman game in JavaScript on their main page.

Go to Google & press the button to play a game now! Or just wait a while, it will load automatically.

You probably know how to play the game already, but if you don't, it's easy. Just roll around the maze using the arrow keys, eat the round dots, avoid the ghosts, and once all dots are gone you move on to the next level. If you eat a large dot you get a power up, the ghosts turn blue, and you can eat them for a short while. Note that when they start blinking they are about to turn back, so stay back! Once in a while a fruit pops up below the center cage, which you can fetch for added points. The only goal of the game is to gain a high score, but it's pretty addicting! Every three levels you'll be awarded with a short comical animation.

Also, if you press the button again you Miss Pacman will pop up in the game!

She is controlled by the WADS keys, so you can play two people by the same computer. Pretty neat. :) I don't know how many levels there are, and Google hasn't revealed anything yet, but seeing as they've been careful to port over all the features from the original games (the original sounds, the original sprites & even some original bugs from the real game!) it's possible that the game features the same amount of levels too ... or it's just unlimited. You can read Googles blogpost about it right here.

Here's a bunch of screenshots from the game (Googles version), starting with the Pacman logo and sprite sheet (useful, maybe? I tried ripping the game, but Googles source code is too confusing, this is the only useful part of my failed attempt). I didn't get very far in the game, but far enough to note that all levels look the same, the ghosts get progressively faster, and, well, I've pretty much said everything else.

That's the logo.

Those are the sprites.

That's the end of my journey!

This is just a black screen, the transition between levels. Not so interesting.

The comical animation that pops up after level 3. :)

And finally, just a regular screen of the game in general.

I never played the real game, only a ton of flash clones over the past years, but I'm tempted to pick up the original just to see the resemblance. Hope to see more stuff like this in the future, Google!

I know I post too fast for anyone to even get a chance to follow me and my blogging adventures, but duck that, you'll have to try to keep up at least. See it as a challenge, a race that you probably can't win but that you'll participate in anyway just to get to the finish line, because when you get to that line you know that you made it, and that's all that matters. Right? And screw Twitter, I'm not falling for that fad again. It's way too addicting for a sane individual's wellbeing and fair use of time.

Moving on, remember when I had small icons of the latest One Piece, Bleach & Naruto episodes? No? Well I was thinking about going with that again, but then I thought, why? So I didn't. Still, would have been cool. :(

As you know or don't know but probably will know pretty soon if you keep on reading, I've been porting old posts from 2005-2008 to this blog. I was going to say that I'm done with the task now, but I just realized there are eight posts left from the old CDB engine that I haven't moved over, but apart from that, it's DONE. It was a time-consuming and not very enjoyable task, considering there is no fully functional way to transfer posts, comments & media from cutenews other than by moving single entries one by one. Not fun.

After transferring 425 posts and about 550 comments (I skipped 83 in the 'Lets count to a million' blog, and 23 numbers I posted myself in the Christmas countdown 2007), all the while fixing typos (holy shit I made a lot of typos in the past), broken links and parsing errors (cutenews never learned to parse å ä ö or ´ " '), I went through all posts currently on the blog (this one) fixing more typos & broken links, swapping categories, adding tags, changing titles, etcetc. I actually found one uncategorized post too, woah.

After all that was done I went though all 957 pieces of audio I've posted online and posted the ones still left unposted, which turned out to be quite a few, and after that I started fixing audio tags and proper formatting to once and for all get the audio folder fixed, and that's about where I am right now. After that, I'll be checking through the old engine one last time, then deleting it, fixing the review image size, fixing the review category, fixing the error pages, making the search engine just slightly better (dividing up results into different categories), fixing the download links, going through and indexing all remaining site pages, and that's probably all for now.

Oh, and all the emoticons didn't make it from the old blog posts, but that's probably for the better, I used way too many of those back in the day. Some of them are currently unparsed since WP uses different BBCode for the smilies, which is something I'll be fixing too... more smilies, and different ones than the current ugly WP defaults. ;)

For now though, I have homework to do, c u l8er.

I was going to post this a long time ago, last year, I think, but I wanted to make the post as massive as possible, and then I just ended up abandoning it, lmao, the project didn't keep the pace I'd have liked it to either. I didn't get all the files copied, I still haven't made a system backup, it's still a mess. Is it me? Nope, it's time, I had to get back to studies and websites and stuff, so the transfers had to be put on hold for a while. Anyhow, what follows below is the post I wrote earlier, there's a lot o pictures, lot of technical info, lot of random info, and hopefully some info worth reading. See ya!

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