There will be spoilers in this, I’m sure. The plan outline: 1. The Independent path seems to be the easiest to do for this. Nearly all of the bits of it are optional. Charge through the quest as fast as possible. 2. Unarmed weapons seem to be the most useful in the game. This also means that in hardcore mode you’ll be carrying less stuff around with you. 3. To complete the ending as a very wimpy character, you need 100% speech to avoid combating the final boss.

Penn posts a list of things he liked. Kind of a yearly aggregate compared to the monthly one I do. Maybe I should condense my lists down to a yearly aggregate as well, but keep the monthly ones as reference?

Books: 15: Scott Pilgrim & The Infinite Sadness, 16: Scott Pilgrim Gets it Together, 17: Scott Pilgrim vs The Universe, 18: Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour, The further in you get on this series, the more it diverges from the movie. There’s a TON of things that match up, but often they’re done by completely different characters in the two genres. I enjoyed both. 19: Android at Arms. An interesting book, but it leaves a lot of loose ends.

Received another comment on the FCC and net neutrality via a friend on Twitter. The Internet Splits in Two I’m still trying to figure out exactly what part of what he’s saying that is new, that will suddenly create this bifurcated internet. Paying more for higher speeds? In 1997 I could pay more to use 56k rather than 33.6k. In 2001 I was paying $120 per month so I could have 128kbps internet instead of 56kbps at $40.

There was that time back during the PS2 where I went back and played PS1 games that I recalled having pretty good graphics. And I realized that these games have really awful graphics compared to what I was playing. Last night, I pretty much had my PS1 moment except by comparing PS2 games to PSP and PS3 games. I recently finished both Sly Cooper 1 and 2 on their HD Remakes, and realized that they had left intact a few of the old SD cutscenes.

This post should really be two separate things, but since they both pertain to FF14, I’ll merge them into one. One of the things I’ve seen repeated from the FF14 team regarding the lack of an auction house in FF14 is that they want crafters to be able to earn a decent wage from the items they craft and to be able to make a profit doing it, and this is why they needed to obfuscate the system in such a way that the buyer cannot get a complete picture of how much an item is worth, and the buyer cannot easily track down all instances of that item that are for sale.

I swear… Government enforced net neutrality people can be downright maddening at times with their lack of logic and lack of knowledge. I received this email from the ECA wanting me to call Obama and complain that he isn’t advancing government controlled internet further… Never mind that I signed up for the ECA because of the Schwarzenegger supreme court case, and not for this nonsense. On December 21, the FCC will meet and it’s reported that FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski will outline his Net Neutrality proposal with a vote before the end of the year.

For a long time I’ve been giving a different email address to every company that I deal with. The idea behind this is to keep track of who is selling or giving away my information to third parties. For a long time, the only hit I had gotten with this was Gamefly, and that hit was only a one time thing. Apparently someone had a word document worm and it managed to go out to their customers.

Books: A little low this month. 13: Scott Pilgrim’s Precious little life. Most of this book was covered in the movie, not many surprises. Slightly different in parts. 14: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. This book has a couple large sections that weren’t covered by the movie. Kim Pine is even better in the book than in the movie. The fight sequence in this was way, way shorter though. Games:

I’m saddened by the continued tendency of our people to sacrifice their liberties for the illusion of safety. The TSA’s latest BS that has been almost universally trashed andpanned by everyone I read Travel is unavoidable for me at work, but I’ll be encouraging them to let me drive whenever it’s within a reasonable distance. Also, whenever we take family vacations, I’m going to try and find an airline that doesn’t involve the TSA, which essentially narrows it down to what are counted as “charter” airlines, or I’m going to drive.