I just noticed I haven’t posted anything in exactly a year…I really need to stop not posting. So, I’m going to endeavour to post here more often, but I’m quite aware that I’ve said that before…

Anyway, until yesterday, the site had been down for about a fortnight. I hadn’t been notified per say, because my contact details were stored in somewhere on their site that didn’t exist 3 years ago when I signed up. That’s fixed now though.

But yeah, they’d sent a few emails to my other email, the one that inundated with spam from everything under the sun, and thus I rarely check it. But I went onto dezonus.com, noticed it was down with a HostPapa message, and then thought to check it. Lo and behold, yeah, there it was.

Anyway, went to renew, and the charge was almost twice as much. I rang them up to find out what the hell was going on, and the rate I paid first was their “Introductory Rate”. Turns out, there’s a page on their site, that you can’t find unless you’re linked to it, that lists the renewal costs, and that’s how they can get away with it. It’s the same story as my previous host.

I was pissed off, and decided to look around to find better deals…but it seems that even at the higher cost, I’m still doing well.

Still, I think it’s really dodgy that they do that, and that most of them seem to do that. It’d be much better if they were honest upfront, and said “Hey, just be aware that when you renew, it’ll cost this amount”. I probably would have looked that amount up, gone yeah that’s good, and been fine with it. Honesty is the best Policy.

So, as you may or may not have gathered by now, not a great deal of people read this. And that’s okay, I don’t post a lot, and I haven’t really gained attention or anything yet. This will likely change when I get my game up, but anyway…

I’ve been being barraged with spam from “Cheap Uggs” with a completely nonsensical message following it. I’m going to look at getting an anti spam plugin, but I do truly wonder why you would bother. By now, they would have figured out that their comments aren’t getting through, and this place doesn’t get much attention (other than them)…so…

Then again, it is the internet…most things don’t make much sense…

So, University finished up for the semester. The Holidays Started. I started off great, with a lot of planning for the next major update to Dez-Game, and a minor update to get a refresher of where I was. And then…well…

Winter happened, and when winter comes, it rains a lot. When it rains, I lose internet at home. Not totally, but it becomes completely unreliable. This lack of reliability prevents me from being able to upload to my webspace, work on any of the sites within the webspace (such as this), and also, most annoyingly, prevents me from playing any games which require internet.

I’m not trying to say that the lack of internet is why I’ve made no real progress on things such as Dez-Game…That’s down to a severe lack of time management and motivation. But I am saying it certainly doesn’t help.

I’m a gamer. That’s one of the things that I enjoy most, and recently I got introduced to a game called Planetside 2. It’s an MMOFPS (Massively Multiplayer Online First Person Shooter), and the only one I have ever seen. I freaking love that game, and it’s one of the main sources of excitement I have. In fact, since it, I’ve found most other games (particularly MMOs) a lot less interesting.

However, as I said before, I’ve not really been able to play online games lately, which upsets me. In fact, it’s probably why I haven’t been able to motivate myself as much lately…

But anyway. Uni is back on now, and this semester’s timetable is actually not too bad, in contrast with last semester’s… I may very well be able to find some time to get some of these things achieved.

Then again, I do believe that is what I said last time…

Yesterday, Hysting (a good friend of mine) introduced me to A Game. He showed me A Game, and I am quite fond of A Game.

Knowing full well that I’ve likely already lost you, A Game is a new Idle Game that hasn’t been out real long. It’s Based on Minecraft, kind of a Minecraft meets Cookie Clicker type thing…

Any way, I’ve played that a bit now, Formed Team Dezonus, so If you do give it a shot, come join me.

I think I’ve gained some inspiration from it, Namely, I’ve decided to set up the Dezonus Forums. On there, will have a dedicated forum to Idle Games among other cool things…

Now I’m off to go do that.

My Girlfriend got a Windows Surface the other day. It’s like an Ipad, but Micrsoft brand and running Windows 8. She was showing me some of that Apps that she put on it, and she was showing me how she had gotten Cookie Clicker.

I’m Quite fond of Orteil’s Cookie Clicker. I’ve gotten to the point where you have an absurd amount of Cookies per second (378,118,134,915.8 to be precise, and that’s with the Elder Covenant Invoked), and she has been too after I introduced her to it. However, at a glance, I could tell straight away, This wasn’t Orteil’s Game…

What this was, in fact, was somebody who had copied the concept of Orteil’s work (with a few minor tweaks), copied the name, and then chucked it on the app store. Doing a quick google search, I found that there is also another one for windows phone. Links Below:

http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/cookie-clicker/9836dd85-7ca3-4d04-a3fe-780340ec2998/m/ROW

 http://www.windowsphone.com/en-au/store/app/cookie-clicker/6a3e1df7-da1c-4103-a3d2-b8d9d098d677

I’ve sent a message to Orteil via his blog, I do hope he can at least get them removed from the windows store, as frankly what they are doing is dishonest and unfair. I personally would not have a problem with it if the name wasn’t the same, and the games at least looked different, but these are just blatant copies…

If you’re reading this, I would like to do a few things. Firstly, I would like to welcome you to my blog. I’ve never done a blog before, so it’s kind of a scary new frontier for me. I don’t know how well it will go, I don’t even know if anybody will read it, but I’m going to give it a shot anyway. I’m not even sure what exactly I’ll write here. I don’t intend to use this like people use Facebook; that is, posting random links to articles/YouTube/whatever else they think is cool in that moment. I do intend to make this space meaningful, but this will likely also mean that postings are infrequent. I’ll likely post about significant thoughts and updates to any games that I end up releasing

The second thing I would like to do, is thank you for reading this. I hope that you’ll check in from time to time, and I have no doubt there’s a way to subscribe, but of course that’s all up to you.

I’m hoping to have at least part of dezonus.com up and running soon, however it’s quite likely that people wont see this before then…