Posted from Morristown, New Jersey, United States.
This morning, I came across a rather interesting post focusing on WordPress themes. It’s a known fact that many of the blogs that are in the tournament are hosted by WordPress.com. But one of the things that author failed to mention that these limitations doesn’t necessarily apply to WordPress in general, but only on WordPress.com blogs.
One of the things that bother me about WordPress.com besides the fact that you must login just to comment is the severe limitations on how much you can customize a theme. Sure, there are some themes that have an array of customization options like Twenty Ten/Eleven, but others don’t. As a result, blogs look about the same, which bothers some people. To make it more troubling, the Custom Design upgrade costs $30 a year. It’s expensive, especially if you add the domain mapping costing about $18. For 2 years, you will pay about 96 dollars ($48 dollars a year), which is enough to get shared hosting if you pay a little more.
Although WordPress.com is a decent platform if you want to blog without spending anything or maintaining a self installation. However, if you grow and become popular, you might realize the limitations. This is when it’s a good time to get self hosted. There are some places where you can host your blog for free such as Kokidokom and others as long it’s related to Anime in some way. Although self-hosted installations take some effort to maintain (and you have to make backups), they are worth it in the long-term as there are more options to customize.
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Idiotic Comments from Phil Fish
Posted from Bloomfield, New Jersey, United States.
While surfing the Internet, I came across this article where the Fes creator, Phil Fish say that Japanese Games are (censored) horrible without giving any good reason. Not only I got enraged by his uncalled comments, but it ruins his credibility since what he said is unprofessional and also, he is in no position to say it considering that he took 5 years to make a 2D game that probably doesn’t deserve the awards it’s getting.
I do admit that Japanese Games have some problems like not localizing their games (eg Namco with their constant refusal to localize Idolmaster) and that Final Fantasy XIII is pretty mediocre, most of their games are rather good compared to what gets made in the West. I feel that western games are horrible because they play with the obsessions of violence, rehash of FPS games, poor quality mobile games that is filled with ripoff micro transactions, bad movie licensed games, ripoff DLCs over good gameplay and the list goes on. Needless to say, I feel that western gaming is going into a big rut, but that is my opinion. However, this doesn’t rule out all Western games since there are actually good ones out there such as Portal, Half-Life series, etc, but not that many.
I also like to point out that Japanese Games are made for the Japanese audience… so beggars can’t be choosers I suppose. Also, the fact that Sturgeon’s Law applies to everything, no matter where the game is made.
So in short, Phil Fish doesn’t know what he is talking about. He better off keeping his mouth shut and stop making Indie look bad.