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May 26 2006
Life in general

Holy Crap He’s A Fake!

Wow. Reading all these posts about the infamous PSP Fanboy/DS hater got me…frankly not that excited at all. I figured “hey, first amendment, right? He’s entitled to his own opinion.”

Well, then I found this movie. The dude completely contradicts himself. In other words, the PSP Fanboy is a fake. He fabricated both 12 minute long rants which are complete opposites.

Pretty smart, in my opinion. It provides a good look at the response of the community. The DS fans (read: fans, not fanboys…) are much more protective of their system than the PSP fans. Granted, the anti-PSP video was released 5 days after the DS, and only 3 days ago, but there has been no fanfare about it. Odd.

I’m not trying to make a point, merely conjecture. Pointless, I guess. This, of course, explains his lack of solid proof and the constant use of “look it up” in both rants. Now we can just guess what his real preference is. As for me, I’ll stick with the –This word removed to protect Zib– (tee hee)

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May 25 2006
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Happy Star Wars/Towel Day!

Today is Star Wars day, celebrating the 29th anniversary of the original Star Wars movie. Hooray! Happy Star Wars day.

Also, today is Towel Day, the day where you bring your towel with you everywhere to commemorate the death of Douglas Adams, author of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series. Technically he died on the 11th, but it is celebrated (for some reason) on the 25th.

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May 25 2006
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GodMod – The Game

Ok this is the “second draft” of the post I lost…

While I was sitting in school getting bored (what else is new these days?) yesterday, a great idea struck me for a video game. It would be called GodMod – The Game. It’s a flash-based two person online game, mostly text based but with a few animations.

I made this mockup image to help explain:


(yes, those avatars are temporary placeholders, not final 😉 )

The idea is this. You have 1 minute to type the most godmodding (see excerpt) description of your opponent’s death you can think of. This can involve anything you want, from Seppeku to dinosaurs to landmines to just plain fire to rabid hamsters. So you type it in Area 1, then after one minute has passed the entries are submitted (regardless of whether you’re done or not).

This is where the code kicks in. The program scans the entries for keywords (such as Hari Kiri, Dinosaurs, Flames, etc.) and key phrases, and scores each entry according to how many keywords were used and how descriptive they are. The winning entry is displayed in Area 2.

As a bonus, the winning entry is then animated in Area 3. The losing character acts out the description (approximately), according to what keywords/phrases it found in the winning entry. For example, if the word ‘fire’ was found, it would burst into flames. I think that the game would be hard to make, but very rewarding.

Godmodding refers to when a player describes the outcome of their own actions against another character. For example, player A stating, “A strikes B and B takes damage” would be considered godmodding on the part of player A in most situations. In the game, you wouldn’t include yourself in the description, just the outcome.

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May 24 2006
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My Dream License Plate

Yes, that is a real license plate, not photoshopped. It belongs to a Cyanist (someone who works at Cyan Worlds). It’s the plate I want when I get a car, for a few reasons. First (obviously), it shows my obsession to the greatest game of all time. Second, it rhymes (I’d rather be/exploring D’ni), which is cool. Third, it’s a Washington license plate, which means that I would live in Washington state which means I would have a shot at working at Cyan Worlds, which is my dream…

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May 24 2006
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iTunes “Just For You”

I use the iTunes Music Store a lot, and to increase the variety of songs I hear I use the “Just For You” feature. No, I don’t listen to radio, because I can’t find any radio stations that play the kind of stuff I like. I use Pandora a lot, but after a while that starts to repeat as well.

So like I was saying, iTunes Just For You. It looks at what you’ve bought and listened to, and recommends songs to you. This post isn’t really about the feature, just a little tidbit I found out about the JFY feature.

That title piece that says “Just For You” up in the corner (in a very un-Apple font, I could add)? The one that looks like this:

This is what it used to look like:



In fact that was just recently replaced with the fixed logo. It is kind of funny, becuase we’re so used to seeing finished products that look great we don’t even notice when something’s off unless we’re actually studying the image.

For those of you who don’t yet see what I mean, here’s another image:


Observe the reflection.

Yeah, in the old one the reflection starts out fine (under the U), but then it turns out it’s actually signifigantly shorter than the words it is reflecting at the end (under the rest of the title). Tee hee.

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May 24 2006
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Uru Live ‘Blue Sky’

On the Uru Live Website, under the in developement section, there’s that “Blue Skies” section. I like most of what I see, the vehicles, the guild system, etc. The guild system is a great idea, very much like the ancient D’ni society.

Then there’s the one I don’t understand. “Player mounts”? What are player mounts? I know the answer is lurking somewhere on the Uru Live forums, but I’m afraid to wade through the posts there looking for the answer, because of the fact that there are already over 4000.

Lastly, there’s the pets. Yes, I said pets. In Uru. That’s just over the top and completely uncalled for. If you want pets in a video game, play this, this, or this. Don’t pollute our great game with your furry poop machines, please.

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May 19 2006
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The Da Vinci Code

I just saw the DaVinci Code. It’s a very good movie, but I haven’t read the book so I’m not going to compare the two. The movie was very good, with tons of Dogmatic (I mean events and things that are similar to the movie Dogma, not like Christian dogma) facts and events. I love conspiracy theories like that, plus all the ‘Holy Grail’ lines inspired a fit of Monty Python-style hilarity (I saw it with my friends) including cameo shots of John Cleese, Eric Idle, and Graham Chapman and Frenchie jokes (the Frenchmen who blow their noses in the knights’ general direction). The plot itself was amazing, and Silas was amazingly intense and just suspenseful enough. The ending of the movie (don’t worry, no spoilers) was just as amazing as the rest, if not more so. The special effects were overall amazing, especially when he’s cracking the Cryptex code. Overall, probably a 8 out of 10, but I’m not good at rating movies, I just like whatever I saw last.

(By the way, my favorite movie is V for Vendetta, followed by The Matrix)

I’m going to see the movie again tomorrow, so I’ll try to write a real review if I can. 😉

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May 19 2006
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The Return Of The King

*Sheds a tear of joy*

Oh my god, thank you. Uru Live is back. Or at least, it is set to be back this summer (in beta, back in full in fall/holiday season). It’s going to be so awesome, and I will not make the mistake I made before in not taking part in the phenomenon. It is such an amazing game that I’m amazed at how dense Ubisoft is for taking it down in the first game. But still, they just lost a ton of money for themselves now. If they had kept it up, look how much they could’ve made. In the first day there were over 200 people signed up for beta. That’s 200 people willing to pay $10 a month to play the game they shut down. $2000 a month, and that was only with the people who signed up on day one. The game is now being released through Gametap, but you don’t have to have Gametap to play, and it’s going to be available internationally. Heck, they might even port it to Mac! 😀

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May 19 2006
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The Wii

Well, Nintendo has chosen the name for their next-gen system (previously known as the Revolution). It’s going to be called…The Wii. The Nintendo Wii (pronounced like ‘we’) is set to be released in the 4th quarter of 2006 (this was revealed at E3). It features an innovative controller design (resembling a TV remote controll), and has the possibly most mocked name of all time. Oh well, I respect their decision.

Wii will change everything. Wii will start a Revolution.

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May 19 2006
Life in general

Happy Star Wars III Day!

It’s Star Wars III day, May 19th. On this day in 2005, the greatest saga of all time was completed.
*ahem*
She was alive. I felt it. SHE WAS ALIVE. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooo…
*cough cough*

Ok cool. The real Star Wars day is the 25th though. That’s when the original came out. Oh well.

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