Perfect World International is a free MMORPG video game developed Perfect World Entertainment. It is the official English version of Perfect World, the incredibly popular MMORPG developed in China around 2006. Perfect World International is the official version of the original Chinese game.

The game story is typical of most MMORPGs, not very developed and relatively pointless, since no one really reads or follows it anyway. Gameplay is delicious on high detail, with great visual effects and solid gameplay. Compared to other competitors like SilkRoad or Rappelz, Perfect World is more solid, less grinding, prettier, better trading options, has NO spam bots, and the grinding is actually enjoyable.

One of the major features that I personally enjoy more than any is the ability to fly, simplifying traveling and drastically reducing the price of traveling massive online worlds.

Overall, for the casual gamer, Perfect World has no competitor. You do not have to be completely dedicated to the game to enjoy, unlike SilkRoad, where you are completely restricted to one place on the world until your a certain level (like 30!) At any point in the game, at any level, you can go as you please with little or no restrictions other than the monsters roaming around. It really is the ultimate free MMORPG in my opinion.

NOTE: Don’t be fooled by the Malaysian English version of Perfect World, the lag is terrible and the translations cannot be understood, AT ALL. Perfect World International is the official English version, easing gameplay.

Media

• Story Line Video
• Everything else you would need to know about Perfect World in video form.

Well now, I just took a random glance at this blog today and realized something: It’s been over 4 months since I posted here. This sort of came at an alarm to me, but after I sat down and had a long string of discoveries on where my time has gone over this last half year, I’ve finally come up with an explanation.

First, my hands have been tied literally from the beginning of high school to now. I am what some might call “gifted,” and therefore I take the associated class to go along with that category. Needless to say the amount of homework, effort, and time spent in these classes is tremendous. From the beginning of the first semester to finals I had to work my sorry ass to the bone to get the correlating grades I wanted, which left me effortless to even think about running a site or programming. During last school year I also began to develop my love for basketball, finally make a competitive team that travels throughout my city to the tune of about 50 games. You can imagine how much dedication that took.

Next, this site was never really anything more than an experiment on my part. I wanted to figure out how to write, read, interpret, and build websites and manage web servers. The intention was never to do this seriously, and lets be honest, no one really reads this site anyway unless your the occasional glancer of specific mac software. This being said, my membership to Dreamhost is going to expire, in which I plan not to renew it. As cheap as it is there is no reason to continue the hosting.

Adding on to the experiment part, I have literally lost all desire and drive to continue developing software or a website. Slowly watching the state of the internet over the last few months (up to a year), I have decided I want to stay as far away from here as possible. It is too volatile, and the jobs I would be looking into involving the internet are all over-seas or massed produced (you don’t develop software, you develop a piece of software OVER AND OVER.)

Finally, I have lost all interest in the Mac world. It has gone a direction that I cannot follow: giving in to consumer demand and sacrificing flagship products for feature-crippled look-a-likes. It just seems the developing world I became fascinated with has totally turned their eyes to a new product, and its left me with dry feelings. I never expected it would come to this, but I’m so tired of Apple and its associations with the DRM world, not to mention AT&T. It just left me bitter.

So, what does that mean for this website? Nothing really, it’ll be gone in about 2 months. If anyone wants this theme or any of its content however, they can use the contact form for a request.

Oh boy, WWDC is tomorrow. Yes, normally by now I would be bouncing out of my seat with glee about what Steve Jobs would be saying about his pride and joy…THE MACINTOSH COMPUTER LINE! But since this cash cow iPhone’s birth *the beginning of the end of Apple Computer honestly*, Steve Jobs seems to have forgotten what made him rich and famous besides iTunes, which is a totally different rant. Now, all I see is my favorite computer line is slowly dying into the wind, because people just don’t give a damn about it anymore. Macs don’t have a touch screen after all *god forbid it doesn’t have a greasy touch screen that shows every fingerprint!* But this isn’t even the best part. The focus of the WWDC, THE WORLD WIDE DEVELOPER’S CONFERENCE, is no longer the Operating System of Macs. No, it’s now the operating system of the iPhone, which used to be OS X, but now Apple has decided to separate the two and call it OS X iPhone. Wonderful, so what exactly is Apple now? I promise you it’s no longer a computer company.

Now for my worst beef with Apple. Why is this corporation so willing and ready to drop their PPC users completely off the face of the map? Especially their broke developers still dedicated to their cause but cannot afford a new laptop. After all, I was excited to start learning to program for my iTouch, but gasp, I can’t install the fucking SDK. Why? INTEL ONLY! So am I obliged to jump on the bandwagon and spend thousands of dollars so I can help benefit the Mac community with my software? Do I have to do this to make Apple happy? I won’t do it, sorry. I’ll switch back to Kubuntu Linux and Windows before I will be bullied by a corporation I’ve given so much money to already. That is exactly what it is, bullying. Apple is taking away all my privileges as a developer because I will not spend money to upgrade. It’s as easy as flipping a switch on the GCC compiler to compile for both PPC and X86, Apple just won’t do it. This however, has really only affected OS X developers still on PPC. Not to mention if you drop PPC, you drop all 32 bit architecture processors, including many of the early Intel Macs. But the day is coming when the consumers will suffer, and that is the day that the Macintosh line will ultimately be forced to switch or leave the platform entirely.

As many people have already figured out, the 1.1.4 firmware and every version number underneath can be jail-broken for the iPod Touch and iPhone. Many lower-end users who do not understand filesystem’s or UNIX generally choose to just let Installer handle their installations and uninstallations. This works for those users, but their is the elite group. Those who want to tinker with the mobile OS X’s UNIX shell and base and want to utilize and control its power. These users want full access to the filesystem, and until recently used OpenSSH, which is a secure connectivity tool so people can read and write to a filesystem remotely via a router or the internet. However efficient this is, it has it’s downfalls. Many times the daemon has to continually broadcast the SSH connection, even when it is not in use, and there are no GUI controls to manipulate it’s features. This just doesn’t seem like the ideal way to connect to an OS X based product and is definitely not the prettiest *Mac Style*

Now, Apple has this wonderful, easier to use, LAN file transfer protocol called AFP (Apple Filing Protocol), also called AppleTalk. This is the ideal way to share and distribute files over a Mac-dominant LAN, because it is totally integrated within OS X itself and it’s tools like Finder. Now this is file control in style. Now, how can we use these built-in tools with the iTouch?

Welcome to AFPd. It’s a simple AFP server for the iPhone or iPod Touch that provides full access to the filesystem on your iPod or iPhone, plus a GUI for controlling options, no questions asked. It however can arguably be more secure than SSH because you can control whether it’s broadcasted over the LAN and whether you can actually transfer data over it. Not to mention it’s gorgeous in Mac OS X Leopard, automatically being identified if it’s enabled in the sidebar of Finder and full read and write access in all Cocoa glory. Delicious. Now isn’t that better than controlling your pride and joy in Transmit or PuTTy?

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