SteelSkin.net - The Ramblings of Chris Nutt

There is a great website called Akihabaranews. It seems to mainly be a blog about the latest technology to hit Asia and more specifically Akihabara. Akihabara I am (un?)reliably informed is the hi-tech haven in Tokyo. Reading the site got me thinking, I like tech and I also like design I should feature tech on my blog and gallery that are inspirational and interesting. Either things I like the look of or own… watch this space.

I have no idea how you get 100% page height as long as min-height is 100% screen height.

Frankly anything with underground in the title or just about anything with a ‘gritty’ setting seems to be getting made these days. It’s just getting silly, even SEGA’s latest Sonic game involves a black hedgehog with a gun. Above fifty percent of E3 this year seems to be this urban-ised tat that claims to be mature dispite it obviously being aimed at 14-18 boys. Maybe I’m just not ‘down’ with the younger generation, but this durge seems entirely deviod of taste or sense. I’m not against gritty games the GTA series, Streets of Rage are both classic examples of good gritty games. However I don’t want every game to have a brown filter across it or some impossibly shiny neon modded nedmobile with some over photoshoped z-grade model draped across it.

My friends are far to busy to play these days so if you are an aspiring Nightelf on Tyralon (maybe?) look my my new character Io.

Io actually started off as Palemoon (the same but female). I kept reading these stories about female players or rather ‘characters’ getting treated more favourably than men. So I spent an afternoon to find out if it was true. Its not true as such, more that they get more attention. So if you like getting noticed and a bit of healing/fortification its cool. I have two problems with it though, one if you are not female it just seems a little wrong like you are coning people (then again I’m not a different species either) and two there are a lot of geeky teens that chase ‘hawt’ characters. I’ve posted all the bits from Palemoon to Io now and I’m all together happier. However I am annoyed that my sister or female friends would have to use an unattractive race just to avoid these people. I’m even more annoyed that its even harder to look good as a guy in WoW. They might all look like porn stars in Lineage 2, but at least there is parity.

Io is a NightElf Druid, I’m really looking forward to getting my shape changing abilities :)

I am using Gallery2 for my Photo Gallery, It will be integrated at somepoint back into the main site.

The current version of V2 uses CuteNews, the final version will use Wordpress. Some of the changes involved will be good and some of them will be less so. Imagine V2 as a concept car and what it will become is the production model. I hope to keep the soul the same.

I am aiming to do a CSS Zen Garden job on it as well so that the site and content will be easily and independently updateable.