Gaming

I do play games very often, mostly on Steam. I own a fun game called Minecraft, which can be bought for about $30 here. It's basically a sandbox game in which you control what happens. You can fight zombies, make logic gates, and some people have even made simple calculators in it. You will find that I have a separate blog in which I post more about gaming, which is here. It is pretty empty as of now, but I am coming up with more posts soon. You can find me on Steam, and if you'd like, send me a friend invite. I'm on pretty much all day, and you'll often find me playing Feed The Beast, a modpack for Minecraft.

StackExchange

I haven't posted something in a while, so I'm going to talk about one of the websites I visit more: StackExchange. This website is a network of question and answer websites. Of course, there are tons of those, ranging from forums to blogs such as this one. However, StackExchange is different from these. There is a much better user base. For one, there are no riots, spamming, flaming, and so on, and when something like that does happen, a moderator performs a rollback and the user goes poof. The site also has a community-like feel, similar to Wikipedia. About six months ago, I started on Stack Overflow asking and answering questions about Windows Batch. My most recent addition was Area 51, where I asked a few questions and made some site proposals.

One of the things that I love about the site is that while writing answers to questions, you can also learn things. Another thing is that with reputation comes privileges. If you don't have enough reputation, you can't do anything. At 20,000 reputation, you become a trusted user, and you are allowed to do pretty much anything. However, you have to earn trust, and that's what makes it better than a normal forums website - it's very hard to spam without someone flagging you for moderation or deleting your posts.

I enjoy various subjects on StackExchange, such as Chemistry, History, Anime and Manga, and Arqade (gaming). I am hoping that Beta websites flourish, such as the Anime site. If you have good questions for any of these sites, feel free to ask them here. Try to make them good questions though. For example, "Why does my game give an error when I log in?" is not a good question. My ultimate goal is to become a Moderator or better, and I hope that a prolonged experience on this site can do exactly that.

Well, that's it for now, I'll have more stuff later.

Hello World/Prologue/Whatever

This is my first post using Blogger/Blogspot, so here's a bit about me and this blog.

I have varied interests, including programming, various areas of science, reading, and mathematics. In general, I am somewhat an obnoxious person, and am pretty lazy, which makes me cut corners and get screamed at a lot. I was bored, so I made this, and now I want to share my boredom with you. Basically, this blog will be about random stuff. You may see me sometimes blogging about gaming, and sometimes about programming. I will try to vary the subjects that I talk about here, but will eventually write more about programming, gaming, and science than mathematics and reading/language arts. The title of this first post pretty much sums up what you can expect in this blog.

In my spare time, I read fiction, nonfiction, and pretty much anything readable. I sometimes help out at Wikipedia, editing stuff, creating new articles, checking for overall consistency.  I also code various useful stuff in various scripting languages (which nobody except me will ever use) and attempt to discover the secrets of the universe (a.k.a physics). I enjoy mathematical problems, as well as logic puzzles, and the time-consuming Rubik's Cube. I try to make up more shortcuts so that I can be even more lazy, and then get even more free time, and so on. I enjoy trying to hack stuff, such as school computer systems (because it's fun) and other things.

Well, that's that, so have fun, bookmark this blog if you care enough, and whatever, I guess. Posts will be up once or twice a week, depending on my workload.