"I was otherwise very normal before I became 4 years old"

How short of shorts can I get away with at PFfest?

You'll need a plugin to play spc files, of course.

I found a post where he even gives the password for the level he's talking about. There is no track actually called "Out Where The Lake Is", he made that up, according to his post here:
http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/Music-2522-1.html

"Out Where the Lake Is", as I call it (from chapter 10 on "Bubsy in: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind" (passcode MSFCTS)), is my all-time top favorite song, of which, during the 12 years I've had it, I've listened to it anywhere from 900,000 to 1,200,000 times.

Try that password when you get home, and we can figure out which track he means.
(Yes, I did some googling. I'm genuinely curious about this song!)

It's a generic bluegrass type song. The SNES version has synth banjo and fiddle, but the Genesis version the Ulillillia guy is obsessed with is a bit more primitive - just your basic midi sounds.

having said that, the nintendo bluegrass is pretty sweet. not sure i'd want to listen to it 1,200,000 times though.

Originally coming with Eternal Champions, a game I dislike, the Sega Genesis system itself didn't seem exciting. Then, along comes Bubsy. For days on end, I'd be playing "Bubsy in: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind". This was my top favorite game of all time. It's the only game that I know of from this time where the screen can scroll at even 95 pixels per frame (causing the background to move nearly 3 pixels per frame able to go from the top of the level to the very bottom in just a half of a second).

It's waaaay shittier, but it's obviously the one he's referring to. The Genesis Bubsy Soundtrack ("Bluegrass Bobcat" is track six) and the plugin to play it.

wtf dude

I donno I found this site fascinating. I think aspects of it are definitely depressing, because it does seem like he's not been properly cared for, but what can you do in a case like that? He's written so much in so much detail that it really gives you more insight into autism than reading some reference book on it...its a window into his, uh, 'mind game.'

http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/the-legend-of-the-10-elemental-masters/7691432

The Legend of the 10 Elemental Masters
by Nick Smith
* * * * * (37 Ratings)
Paperback, 258 pages

£8.12
Ships in 3–5 business days
Nick Smith (aka ulillillia) writes a captivating story with many unexpected turns. Based on the concept of RPGs (role playing games), follow Knuckles, a powerful, spell-casting wizard, as he investigates a mystery of supernatural proportion. A powerful evil presence seeks after the elemental masters. Knuckles tracks the force's every move as he works on fulfilling his greatest dream. It is unknown what evil act the force has planned. (Note: the cover is brightness-adjusted, enhancing print quality.)

By eric.r.pfeifer
This novel is sheer genius. Nick Smith boldly reinvents the literary form, creating a gestalt blend of fantasy, insanity, mathematics, and narrative. Without a doubt this is the most innovative book I have ever read. A must own for anyone interested in avant-garde outsider literature.

You can preview the first few pages online.

http://i47.tinypic.com/2r2yj6f.jpg

purchased.

I wonder if his parents are kind of surprised that so many people are buying his book? I realize it won't exactly be a best seller, but when he starts getting monthly checks for several hundred dollars they're going to be O_o

It's kinda hard to find on his site, but here's the page about The Legend of the 10 Elemental Masters

http://www.ulillillia.us/stories/10elementalmasters/home.shtml

http://i47.tinypic.com/10za6bo.jpg

Holy shit, if you zoom in on the cover, Knuckles is reading a screen that gives the stats for the blue ball/elemental master he's looking at.

http://i45.tinypic.com/2vwgx3k.jpg

Apparently the blue ball is a Level 5624

tbh that first page does make it seem very readable

except when you have to stop and check color values

The Legend of the 10 Elemental Masters really is a book that could only exist right now. It's the product of a mind completely overwhelmed by the statistical organization of RPGs. Pen and paper RPGs have been around for a long time, but they included a social component, because you needed to interact with friends in order to play. In contrast, the RPGs Nick was obsessed with when he was playing 10+ hours a day for a couple of decades catered to his instinct for isolation. The other big factor is that the internet has allowed him to gain any sort of audience in the first place, and to self-release his book. His audience wouldn't have been possible 20 years ago, and he probably wouldn't have been able to get his book published even 5 years ago.

it's a shame he had to be born in North Dakota - if he had gone to a better hs, he'd be a math phd by now

rad post Z S +1

rpgs are the art of organized randomness

ok i think i'm going to buy this.

I wonder if he chose these numbers to such precision for a reason? like, did he specifically choose strength = 23,278,101 over, say, 23,278,000 because that extra 101 makes a discernible difference in the image he is trying to evoke, or did he just want the numbers to be statistically "random"-looking and not rounded because he thinks that's more realistic?

or maybe he just created functions for each stat based on some variable like experience points and plugged in a value

I spent a few minutes reading through his blog, and this kinda stuck out for me:

#10 Christmas 2008 the worst in at least a decade: Christmas is my second favorite holiday of the year, a close second; Independence Day is in first place. However, this year was one of the worst in a long time. We had company over, something extremely rare, and both parents wouldn't let me go out of my room due to a reason that's confidential. I had a solution, a blanket (which worked before), but my parents wouldn't allow it due to a supposed "rule". This ruined this year's Christmas. As a consequence, I'm now taking counter measures for what they did - not doing things they want when they tell me to. In addition, I'm not going to get them any where near as much in the way of gifts next year, and canceling any birthday gifts. I had one for my dad, but now I'm not going to get him it because he played a role with this. At least one was friendly and had sympathy, my sister. She won't be affected by the counter measures. As a consequence, I was not able to participate in the gift-opening (I was still lucky enough to get a photo), or even the family games. Instead of doing this, with nothing else for me to do otherwise, I worked on my web site update.

This is :( on so many levels.

Still, it's heartening to learn (in other blog entries) that his parents have made some effort to draw him out of his cubbyhole. he mentions stuff like helping his dad repair his roof, doing some web design at his dad's workplace, and being encouraged by his parents to major in video game design at DeVry (though he admits that this is a long shot). he could probably make some sort of living for himself if his family didn't live in some no-name Midwestern town that's 50 miles away from civilization as we know it.

oh, iatee otm

or maybe he just created functions for each stat based on some variable like experience points and plugged in a value

i wouldnt be surprised if he had the battle and stat mechanics designed these are probably some of the easiest things to code

yeah, and it would explain the scientific notation for some of the values

or maybe he just created functions for each stat based on some variable like experience points and plugged in a value

I think that's much more likely, yep.

His taste in videogames is really unique. Stuff like Super Metroid and Super Mario World that are kind of considered universal classics get an average-to-good rating from him. Bubsy, on the other hand, a game that I don't recall anyone else talking about since the mid-90s, is pants-shitting awesome to him. And I'm pretty sure I remember reading that he claims he's listened to the level 10 music in Bubsy over ONE MILLION TIMES, and sometimes for days or weeks straight on repeat. It's safe to say he is the biggest fan of Bubsy on Earth.

I would say there is a 90% chance of that

I would say there is a level 12 chance of that

http://www.ulillillia.us/images/mountainfun.gif

Fuck, I just found his Youtube channel

This combined with Bourbon Saturday should be interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25bjSoyXlw0

Watching that video, I now realize that his character of Knuckles, from The Legend of the 10 Elemental Masters (L10EM), was probably more of a rip off of Bubsy than Sonic's Knuckles. I realize that he passionately denies the influence of Sonic at all (see the section "5: Disclaimer - the Name Knuckles" here for his argument in chart form), but he makes no mention of Bubsy, another furry character that also floats, and which he was/is completely obsessed with.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdLbUHdKTJ4

most people dream of getting sexed
my mud dreams will leave you perplexed
sky color 66-99-CC
recollection percents that sting like a bee

haha lame

CRIT-CRIT-CRIT-CRIT-CRITICAL
MASSIVE DAMAGE TO YOUR BRAIN WHEN I'M ANALYTICAL

ulillillia.us is down. :(

And he hadn't updated it for months before that.

works for me

me too, wondering where he's been

Maybe he made literally hundreds of dollars from his book and he's livin' the dream?

I hope not, his dreams seemed pretty scary, what with all the blue water.

For real though, maybe he got some help?

still uploading to youtube

April 2011 update!

Wonder if this is a serious thing:

#5 A documentary about me!? Wow!: During the summer of 2011, a film crew (sorry, the name of the company that's doing this is classified) might be coming to make a documentary about me. Details are vague at the moment, but this is definitely a first for me. It all happened by chance too. One day, I was doing my daily check as usual and, out of nowhere, I got this E-mail and it started from that.

On the other hand, wish he'd have someone to talk to about some of this kind of stuff:

#13 A yellowish-green gelantious unknown - annoying: This has been something that's been going on for about 2 years by now and it's extremely annoying. While I'm sleeping, there's about a 10% chance each sleep-wake cycle of mine that this will happen. When it does happen, I'm otherwise forced to wake up and take care of the mess. What's the problem? I wake up to a sticky, yellowish green (hue 100°, saturation 70%, value 80%), gelatinous substance in my underwear. I've been thinking I'm piddling in my underwear, much like 1-year-olds often do (only in diapers). I have no idea why this is happening. How to stop it? That I don't know either. At least it's rare, but I would like it to stop. I don't know what's different that I'm doing that's causing this to happen.

He's actually moving out!

http://www.ulillillia.us/mainindex.shtml

Also, what the Hell was this?

The Upcoming Ulillillia Documentary Has an Ulillillierrffic Trailer

Whoa.

Pizza delivery. What is pizza delivery like? I haven't had a delivered pizza where I'm at for well over a decade. The last time that happened was back when I was in elementary school, mostly unaware of solving equations.

love that picture of him in the lake.

wow, so ulillillia.us is pretty much dead, i guess. he blogs here nowadays: http://www.platformmasters.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=267

can't believe he's moving east-southeast to FARGO!

Sam's Club. There are exactly zero warehouse clubs in Minot. Yep, zero. Little did I know that it seems that Sam's Club, despite having to pay $50 or whatever for membership, offers discounts far greater than I thought. It's not 10 cents saved, it's more like 40 cents per pizza or 80 cents per 2 pack. That's WAY more savings than I thought. Given this, I could easily make up that $50 membership in hardly a month with just one item alone. Consider one of my typical items I get: Red Baron Singles Deep Dish 2 pk as the cheese (UPC 072180 637529) and 4-cheese (UPC 072180 631046) varieties. When my sister saw that a 12-pack of these (basically 6 of the 2 packs) were only $9.98 (the 2 packs are usually $2.48). This means instead of $1.24 per pizza, it's $0.83, a 41-cent savings and to think I eat 4 of those pizzas per day, that's a huge savings.

four pizzas a day! it's true though, he will realize incredible savings with a Sam's Club membership.

Just purchased his book after reading this thread.

His recent YouTube posts of his journey to Minneapolis felt like outtakes from American Movie. I like his narrative style.

"Red Baron Singles" appear to be the American equivalent (look similar, owned by same brand) of kinda disgusting CD-sized UK single-serving microwave pizzas "Chicago Town Deep Dish" but I guess probably less disgusting for the more pizza-discerning US market

http://i.walmartimages.com/i/p/00/07/21/80/63/0007218063751_300X300.jpg http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/2937/10799011h.jpg

so they're probably not full-sized, but I would still like to eat 4 pizzas a day and be as skinny as Ulillillia

btw my "whoa" earlier was re him moving, but I liked him measuring his life as Before and After Equations

this guy is my favorite and I am really happy he got to move

I don't know what's more depressing, that he won't go past a mirror even if the house is on fire (and has thought about this possibility enough to write it in a list of pros/cons of moving), or that after however many years his mother still has mirrors all over the house and apparently keeps putting more up

anyway I wish him all the best in his new place, this must be a seriously big change for him and I hope it works out

and I am really happy he got to move

So am I.

I've been a 'fan' of his for, I don't know, five years or so? I'm actually kind of worried about this, though. As rough as his home life is, I'm having a hard time imagining him being able to fend for himself out there. I guess he'll be living with his sister, but still.

His book would, I'm sure, be a great gift for any ilxors participating in any Secret Santa swap this year (I'm not).

I can't believe he's actually made it out into the world! Really, sooo happy for him!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DayNcWGMDKg

I watched this earlier, and what a treat it was. I love his voice so much, I could probably fall asleep listening to him go on about his computer hardware, how he creates his youtube videos, and other such things that no one really cares about. He sounds like, I don't know, a really, really boring, college professor or something.

At about the 15:00 minute mark of the above video, he devotes a few minutes to his penny collection (about 25,000). He goes, on and on about it of course, to the point of absurdity, even.

FUN FACT: Because he walks at an average of 3.6 mph, and most other people walk at an average of 2.8 mph, he used to get in trouble in high school because he would actually PUSH people out of his way because they walked to slow. I was extremely surprised to learn about this type of aggressive behavior of his.

Please don't take my interest in Ulillillia as something that I find as a source of amusement, or something. He fascinates me so much, because at one point in my life, I could relate to him frighteningly well.

http://www.gofundme.com/sisterillia

"This is no longer about me getting a bicycle or insurance on my vehicle; It is about living. More specifically, it is about the cost of living, and Nick's and my lack of ability to afford it at the moment."