So with nothing else better to do, I’ve decided to read or watch one hundred stories this summer and give my opinions on them. These “stories” are anything from books and movies to video games and tv shows. If there is a plot, I will review it. Now before we start, let me state a couple of things for both you and me. Sort of a guideline for myself or even a manifesto.
- I am not a writer. I am not even a reviewer. I am just an average guy who occasionally watches a movie or plays a video game. I’m not a movie snob or a hardcore gamer. I used to be a vivid reader, but that’s in the past. This is good and bad. Bad because you will be reading the sentence structures of someone who writes at a junior high quality, and good because I will form my opinions based on what I, an average person, views it as. I am not spoiled by quantity.
- You are not a reader. Ok, that wasn’t really true. I just wanted some parallelism in my sentences. What I am saying is that I am not writing for an audience. I’m not trying to make money (well, the Amazon affiliate links are there if you do want to send me a couple of cents) or trying to become famous. Think of me as the annoying friend at the end of the movie who tries to make sense of everything he just saw. I like to collect my thoughts after watching a movie or reading a book because I’m just weird like that. Might as well, write it down. I was planning to do this whole thing in a Word document anyways. I’m only publishing it because… I don’t even know. I guess I’m documenting my thoughts so my future self can have a good drunken laugh one day.
- tl;dr I have a short attention span. I’m assuming you do too. After this one, I will try to keep all posts as short as I possibly can. I will always give a one sentence “tl;dr” and a number of stars because we all know how useless words are.
Hey Yifan (I presume that’s your name),
Read (and enjoyed) your first 18 posts to 100 stories.
Suggestion for the 100 list: Read the book Transer of Power by Vince Flynn
You say you’re a fan of Professor Layton. I had to google it. I don’t have a DS, but these are my favorite type of game to play, Puzzle Games. I have a Wii, and soon an Xbox. Curious what other of these type of games you’ve played and liked?
I found your site when I was looking for Kindle hacks. I ended up reading all of the stuff on your site, at least the projects that interested me. In one of your posts (I think it was you) there was some difficulty in correlating LINUX/UNIX PID ($$) with a file. couldn’t you “ps -ef|grep” for the exectuable to capture the PID? Maybe it is ambiguous (such as “bash”) not allowing this method. I’m sure you would have thought of this. I’m a programmer pretty good at UNIX shell scripting. Not a hacker, but intrigued by hacking.
How old are you anyway?
Michael
Regarding linux pid: If I can execute shell commands, I won’t need to jailbreak anymore. The point is to find a way to run custom code on the Kindle. Sadly, the only way is brute force.
I’ll take your book suggestion in consideration, thanks.
If you like puzzle games, try the Ace Attorney series, they’re wonderful. Also, I already posted my thoughts on “999″, you have to play that.
Thanks for reading.