reminds me of this tune

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=RlM5JQazs5Y

gorky 17?

to get rid of the problem of more boring tasks like watering your crops when your farm gets bigger, how about being able to buy tools in the town that let you dig a primitive irrigation system by diverting the creek or something.

Also, ideally if the game was robust enough you could have it with multiple starting scenarios, one where you start with almost nothing and build a farm from scratch and another where you start with a massive estate in the great depression.

One thing, that i always loved about the snes version, the only version I played, were the lovely pixel graphics, I think to keep the charm of the whole harvest moon fantasy you would need to have keep a similar style.

Australian summers are synonymous with large outdoor music festivals. Most of which, carry a hefty entry fee, of $150 or so dollars + drinks + food + all the other things that make a festival great, making them a rather expensive adventure. So, there are a lot of people who make quite a serious effort to get into these festivals without paying a cent.

One such summer, when i was 16 i decided to sneak in to meredith music festival, a huge 3 day rock n roll festival out in the bush. Me and a whole bunch of mates, a few older ones with cars and such, drove up in a big car convoy, there were 3-4 of us sneaking in, but i was the only one in the car i was in without a ticket. I had already bush bashed into a new years festival the previous summer so i knew what i was in for and to get mentally prepared, i got incredibly baked and drunk on the way up :D.

We got up to a sign saying 3km to festival gate and there was a huge line of cars so me and my friends figured to just drop me off, before doing so we racked up a few lines and dropped some e's, for stamina of course. then off i went, water bottle in hand, high and dry, alone, in the rolling dry hills of australian farmland.

The trip was pretty uneventful, the water ran out quickly, lots of weird stares from sheep, almost hit a few electric fences but learned quickly to check first. after 2-3 hours of walking, i was about 50 meters from what i could clearly see as the camping grounds, tents upon tents being set up. so with a big smile i start to walk down to the camping grounds.

Out of no where, a security guard on an ATV pops out of the bushes, and asks me what i think im up too, tell him i was lost and looking for friends, he says he had been following me for an hour. I'm pretty pepped up at this point so thinking fast, i pull out some story about how my mates played a dirty trick on me and booted me out of the car and have my ticket at the front gate for me. he doesn't believe me, but he drives me up to the front gate on the front of the ATV. it was like a walk of shame, a lot of knowing faces on my way through.

We get to the gate, and i call one of my mates, he was completely plastered. Luckily the dude couldn't hear what my mate was saying but i was chatting along about how they had to drive up to the front gate to give me my ticket and that they were all a bunch of tools. I hung up and told the guy they were on their way, he got on his ATV and went back to his post, and there were just two dudes chilling at the gate. they didnt give me any water, i was so so thirsty.

It was starting to get dark now, so i waited around wondering what the hell i was going to do till the sun started to set, then i told the guys on the gate that i was walking back to down and that i couldnt be fucked with this shit.

I Walked 500m down the road and jumped the fence on the other side. it was getting pretty dark now. I was getting real paranoid of all the stuff i was seeing in the shadows. So i crept back along the country side, circling around the festival a bit, for another hour or so until i started to hear the music again and see a line of trees and bright lights poking through. It was fully dark now and in the shadows it looked like there was a line of security gaurds in chairs with laterns surrounding the whole place. i went prone, and commando crawled through sheep shit ridden grass until i was right up against the trees. then as quickly as i could, jumped up, got into the light, and flipped around, pretending i was taking a piss. Then jumped over the fence.

The very first people i saw, i croaked for some water. they had an eski with ice cold bottled water in it and were more than willing to share. i told them how id just snuck in, they were all smiles then said they were volunteers. For a moment, my heart dropped in my stomach but they didn't seem to care. Eventually i found all my friends, dropped a heavy dose of lsd, and danced till the sun came up. good times.

it used to be bad when i was in highschool because id just be rebeling against sleep since the only productive thing to do in higschool was to rebel. then i finished highschool and i work at a night club once or twice over the weekend from 10pm - 7am so i flip my sleeping patterns around every weekend. i had pretty bad insomnia for a while and now i have just decided to sleep when im tired and thats it. at the current time my progressive cycle has gotten me back to going to bed around midnight and waking up around 9am, so im pretty pleased to see some sunlight. herbal remedies > pharmaceutical in relation to insomnia if any of you want to 'cure' it.

If any of you have played call of duty 4. they used a primitive but similar system to this where they don't have a number based health bar and rather you get visual feedback of your health. when you are injured the edges of your vision become red and you hear your hear rate rising and when your are near death the red intensifies showing veins of sorts and flashing and your heart starts to race. this fades over time, regenerating you. There are also no health packs in the game.  I think I prefer this system much more than the same old unrealistic percentile health systems and I'd really enjoy a system that took this further. 

the best cards on the market vs the cost atm are the 8800 GT and the 8800GTS, the newer ones based on the g92 chipset. the entire 9 series by nvidia is a sham. the 9600 is OK i suppose for low end inexpensive graphics. The 9800GTX costs $100 more than the 8800GTS, and it has a speed increase of around 3% overall. the 9800GX2 is *almost* as good as having two 8800 GT's in SLi, but it costs more... so go figure. the new 200 series however, are an entirely new chipset and blow all of the aforementioned cards out of the water... if you have the cash.

Deus Ex, one of the Hitman games, thief: deadly shadows and i think a tomb raider game are all free on gametap, www.gametap.com. be warned though, gametaps stupid drm doesnt support x64, so if you have 64-bit you cant play

change the premise to a scheduled flight over the north pole sometime in the 1950's, due to weather the plane gets taken off its course and as you go past a point 80km~ or so away from the alleged north pole you find the real north pole.

As you fly over it turns out to be a place with green grass, prehistoric animals and a strange english speaking aryan race. your plane then proceeds to crash into a lake/river/mountain due to the compass going haywire and you are stranded, do you choose to brave the cold of the arctic or venture further into this strange new undiscovered land.

http://www.v-j-enterprises.com/byrdiar.html

check that link if your interested. i think fighting dinosaurs and mammoths much in a contemporary fashion much more interesting than 20th century beasties

Limbo of the Lost 

its 42 days not 48 hours. happy i live in Australia... for now.

saw them live in australia last december and i swear that woman is some sort of hell spawn. scariest female alive.

its funny. i went to a psy trance bush rave full moon party a few weeks ago called diaspora

Once upon a time i was sitting in a teepee at a psytrance rave talking conspiracy theories with complete randoms and we got on to the topic of flouride in the water. And from what i understood from the hippy psycho babble was that flouride has undocumented properties that cause docility in the population when put into the water supply, making people feel scared and powerless. That Hitler tactfully used it during WW2 on his people and all sorts of things like that. They put flouride in the water in melbourne where i live. it keeps your teeth nice and shiny and keeps me at home all day  :D

I'm Australian :\