Z-Gamers V.3 Fundraising!

Let me start off this post by saying that Z-Gamers Version 3 is very epic. It has a very nice design, with a very nice layout, and all the pages are consistent and very nice-looking.

But there is an even more important task at hand than that. Michael Raines, the owner of the server has given me a task to attempt to raise $500 for a new server box. $500 is ALOT of money! I mean seriously, I don’t even think I can do it, but I need people to start donating! Even $5 or even $1 from various people will help contribute! And it’s not for a scam either, we really need a new server box before the hard drive fails and things start breaking down. The server will also run faster than it is currently running and thus will make pages come up faster and make my visitors and I very happy. Where can I donate and help? Go to http://z-gamers.net or http://www.chipin.com/contribute/id/72ec841e5b2f9b4c for direct pay to me. Just type in the value, fill out card/Bank info (Don’t worry, paypal is secure) and the money will not be used for anything other than what I told you above. Michael Raines will make sure of that. In addition, I hope somebody out there is nice enough to help out because frankly, we are small and don’t get much help but we are trying to go on with what we can.

Seriously, please think about donating for Z-Gamers, we really need help with the server and this is the only way…

(9:04:31 PM) sigonasr2: If I ever get money, I’ll be sure to donate it to the cause also lol
(9:04:40 PM) mikeyr71730: Yeah. I hate asking for money, but I have to do it this time before the system goes down.
(Later on in life…)
(6:00:26 PM) mikeyr71730: I’d hate for the server to go offline for good.

So After you donate or at least think about donating, click the more button to find out what I have been up to, because it’s a lot.

1 Month has Passed…

Oh man, last time I posted on here seems to be forever ago. So this summer has been quite fun but at the same time most wasteful. I’ve been wasting my time playing games this summer, but I’ve done some studying and a little game-making. So, let’s get started with what’s been happening.

After I got out of school, first there was not much to do. Fiesta’s Cypion Server Release was coming, and I was in action to get ready to play. Me and Dan were going to try to level fast, but we can’t possibly get the 1 million sparkcash, at least we can just grind as fast as possible. Whatever that happens, we were going to get to 105 eventually and not start an alt. However, things have changed recently (which I’ll explain below) and I’ve quit Fiesta again. (I also quitted Drift City not too far back.)

First off, Fiesta is pretty boring. I think eventually it gets old, you just kill monster after monster and nothing really happens after that. You have to grind now 105 levels and it is insanely hard to do. In fact, I don’t think it was meant to be done in less than a month and some people are killing themselves over trying to reach that 1 million, but I’m just giving up in general.

Now, an argument between my friend and I [and previously before] was that why do I always quit games and never stay “committed” to one. Well, here’s my case-and-point:
Games are meant to keep us entertained, right? So when we end up getting bored by them, the game has no purpose anymore. We need a new game that’ll keep you entertained again. So why should you be committed to a game if the whole point of them is to keep you entertained and you’re not being entertained? Yeah, you don’t and you pay more money to get a new game. xD

So then I obviously was bored and needed a new game. I tried to entertain myself with Game Maker, but you know…I really think I need to learn C++ or C and I’m gonna try using OpenGL eventually.

And now I bring myself into the present and past week. My sister and I always get along and sometimes we do stuff together. Well recently, we’ve been playing The Sims: Life Stories together, and even though you may think what the, this isn’t the kind of games Josh would normally play (Or you would) but I swear, it’s very fun. Maybe part of it is because we used to play The Sims on the Gamecube quite often. So I guess now I play The Sims: Life Stories. And we don’t just play it, we have a huge family tree thing we created awhile ago and we’re going to re-enact all the stories in the game. We’ve both almost completed the first family with their kids, and it is very fun. What makes it so fun? I think it’s the depth and complexity of the game yet how simple it is all implemented. I have fun building the houses, gaining relationships, and raising the kids from young babies to teenagers. If you like simulation games and haven’t tried it, The Sims: Life Stories is fun. And not just that, I heard The Sims 3 is going to be real good too.

So, that catches you up on what I’ve been up to. Sorry to my Fiesta people in the Cryptic_Fate guild on Cypion, I decided to give up…Again. So that is all, I am off now.

Starting my Blog

I have seen plenty of users do it and talk about tons of things with one, and I decided what the hey, I’ll give it a try. A blog obviously will include stuff that I do on a day-to-day basis. I will try to keep my posts as interesting as possible as I have read lots of blogs with simple posts saying what they do every single moment of their lives, it’s like…uh…yeah, so I’ll try to stay away from that. I think I should start by introducing myself. Where to start… I have always liked using computers, and I am interested in many things with using a computer. I tend to chat with friends often with Yahoo Messenger. My email is sigonasr2@yahoo.com by the way. My greatest skills with the computer is programming. I think programming for fun is a great reason to do programming. I have knowledge in BASIC, HTML, Javascript, PHP, Bash (Linux Interpreter), GML (Game Maker Language), and a little bit of Visual Basic and C. I also listen to music on my computer. I usually just like to listen to country music on http://pandora.com. I like to do some Computer Game Creation. I have Game Maker 7.0 and develop games with it. I have also gathered a group of members for the group and we call ourself the “Z-Gamers”. We have a website at http://zgamers.selfip.com. Obviously we haven’t done much yet. I also play some online games for fun. I play a game called BZFlag and a game called Urban Terror. Both are online games and they are both quite fun to me. I have gained quite a reputation on BZFlag including creating maps for the game, creating plugins, and being an admin and cop at several servers. I also have a few servers of my own. A person who goes by “OoO” is now a good friend of mine that I talk to often on Yahoo Messenger. His server is called Unstable and he is more free on letting me use his server as part of my own too. I also have part of another server called Fairserve which is owned by Josh Bodine. (Constitution on BZFlag) He is a moderator of the game and is a developer for the game. I get to talk to him occasionally.

I have gotten interested in Linux myself and have downloaded and installed Ubuntu…11 times to be exact. Now I have a dual-boot running Windows XP and Ubuntu. I did edit the grub file to put them at the top since it’s annoying to always just scroll down that list everytime.

My sister and I tend to pretend we have “animal” students. (Kinda childish if you ask me) and they do “assignments” for a class they are in. Well, I recently set up a local network between our computers so we don’t need to have the hassle of an online service to store our data on. I have to admit Windows XP is easier to set up networking than Ubuntu.

Outside of computers, I tend to play video games, do occasional running, and play some soccer. (I don’t like competitive though) I currently am having some trouble with my grades in school, so I am working very hard to get those up. Anyways, this is my first post to my blog and hopefully I have told anyone interested in getting to know me, a little bit more of myself.

Our school is holding a big spirit competition and our class is prepared to beat every other 5th period class that will try it. We’ve got literally everything coming along. I’ll tell you about it after it actually happens.