Fraxy

  So yesterday, Nadia linked Day and Night on the facebook page for our class. This has lead to a lot of questions on what exactly the video shows. So let me give you a bit of an introduction.

  Fraxy is a free computer game produced by, as far as we know, a single developer in Japan. It functions in English or Japanese, and has something of a community around it in both languages. The primary appeal of Fraxy is the ability to make your own creations in it. Generally, what people end up creating is very over the top, excessively long "boss battles". It then became common practice to record videos of the bosses, add music, and so on. Many have also taken to making the videos tell a story as you watch through a series of different videos.

  Which means, while I didn't make Fraxy or anything like that, I am totally responsible for both the recording, playing, and the content of the video that was linked on the Facebook page yesterday. And indeed, any one of you, if you are interested, could download Fraxy, download some bosses and play them, or even make your own.

Links of note:
http://www.fraxyhq.net/forums/index.php - The unofficial Fraxy Forums
http://www.fraxyhq.net/version/archives/fraxy_20140322beta.zip - Download link for the latest version of Fraxy
http://acmlm.kafuka.org/uploader/index.php?act=viewcat&id=25 The board2 uploader; You can find many bosses here.
Also feel free to try to find other videos on Youtube! There's plenty of them.

Twitter

Twitter was a fun experience. It's got a very fast flowing format which lends itself to a lot of different comments on a lot of different subjects. I saw some interesting discussion, especially on things like the hacking of dropbox and safe payments online. These are both big issues that I see coming up more and more often as time goes on. Online security is an issue that seems to be really hard to keep under control. I really hope we get some better solutions in the future.

Linkedin

This was an interesting week. Linkedin is a site I joined a long time ago and then never really used, because I didn't really encounter a lot of other users. Trying to use it this week made me realize it really wasn't that hard to use, so I think it's more likely I'll be getting into it more in the future. I read through a few discussions this last week, and was surprised to see a few things I was already aware of come up, like Whatsapp, which I used extensively during my previous school year, discussions of whether technology is having a negative impact on our intelligence, and of course, the fact that employers are scanning the social media presence of prospective employees. All-in-all, it was a very interesting week, and I look forward to using Twitter this upcoming week.