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Ps3 Demos

Since I don’t have any games yet, I’ve just been playing around with the Playstation game demos. So far I’ve tryed out Motorstorm, Heavenly Sword, DiRT, and Gran Turismo HD. My favorite is definitely Motorstorm (so much, in fact, that I have ordered it already), with DiRT in second. They are both highly realistic racing games, Motorstorm being more desert-centric and DiRT being more about general racing. I’ve posted videos of Motorstorm before, so I won’t go into too much detail, but its basically a racing game that takes place along the top of a canyon (or at least, the demo level does…I have never seen another level…), and has pretty spectacular explosions when you crash or use the boost to get through for too long and it overheats.

DiRT, on the other hand, is insanely realistic, and not just graphics-wise. There are no boosts in DiRT, and both the car and environments take realistic damage with every collision. And again, the damage isn’t just graphical. Take too many impacts to one side of your car, and it starts to slow down and drift in one direction. Take way too many collisions, or enough ones at high speed, and your car stops working completely, causing you to forfeit the race. It’s all very impressive, but Motorstorm is just more fun. 😛

Heavenly Sword is cool, it plays like Soul Calibur, but with multiple opponents. Graphically? Amazing. Stunning, really. I might get it…who knows?

All in all, I’m very happy with the purchase 🙂

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Odd Error on Amazon

While looking at Stephan Martiniere’s book, Quantumscape, I noticed that the Book Description (under Editorial Reviews) is that for the behind-the-scenes book/dvd combo for Alien Vs. Predator: Survival of the Fittest

Book Description
Alien vs. Predator: Survival of the Fittest is the upcoming sequel to 2004’s Alien vs. Predator film. In this follow-up to the worldwide hit ALIEN VS. PREDATOR, the iconic monsters from two of the scariest film franchises ever, wage war in an American Midwestern town with the residents caught in the middle. Filming began in September 2006 in Vancouver. Tom Woodruff, Jr. and Alec Gillis from Amalgamated Dynamics (ADI), veterans of the first AVP and all the previous ALIEN sequels, will be handling the creature FX for the encore film as they did for the previous installments. ADI opens its doors to unveil the secrets of the creature design process behind two of the most frightening characters ever! From conception to fabrication and finishing, follow their talented crew in-studio and on location through this captivating book and accompanying creature FX DVD.

Odd. Very odd.

Update: I took a screenshot of the odd thing in case they fix it (I darkened the parts that don’t matter):
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LiquidMac

The program LiquidMac is just awesome. It’s a mac program (obviously), and it utilizes the sudden motion sensors in the powerbook and macbook/pro families, to do this really, really cool simulation of…well, I guess it’s some liquid substance. It’s made up of a lot of little dots, which if set to be blurry merge together to make some sort of blue glop, which slides around in its window in accordance to how the computer is tilted. It works amazingly well, and I’ve been playing with it for about an hour. If you have a powerbook, macbook, or macbook pro, you seriously need to try this thing out.

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The Magical World of Adium Extensions

I just discovered that Adium (the best Mac IM client out there) is highly expandable, and very well supported by a huge community (all the mac users who aren’t using iChat, basically…). So I wasted no time in making it look awesome. I got new status icons, a new dock icon, and best of all a completely new theme, called Morpheus.

The end result is pretty awesome, I think. It went from default to this:
blendyadium.png

(the swirls are my desktop, you can get it here)

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The Magical World of Adium Extensions

I just discovered that Adium (the best Mac IM client out there) is highly expandable, and very well supported by a huge community (all the mac users who aren’t using iChat, basically…). So I wasted no time in making it look awesome. I got new status icons, a new dock icon, and best of all a completely new theme, called Morpheus.

The end result is pretty awesome, I think. It went from default to this:
blendyadium.png

(the swirls are my desktop, you can get it here)

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Myst V on Intel Part Trois

Well, I had a craving to play Myst V again, after listening to the soundtrack a bit. This time around, the installer worked smoothly (if slowly, due to it running in rosetta mode), as opposed to Last Time

The game itself ran much better than the first time, there have probably been some rosetta optimizations since 10.4.4 or whatever it was I was originally using. I ran at 1280×800 (1680×1050 caused too much lag to be usable, and 1440×900 didn’t work for some reason…) with low video and texture quality, and no shadows. Anti-aliasing I sometimes had up and sometimes down. For some reason, the tunnels showed absolutely no lag on full specs, but Laki was unbearable….Well, at least I got to play through it again 🙂

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Myst V on Intel Part Trois

Well, I had a craving to play Myst V again, after listening to the soundtrack a bit. This time around, the installer worked smoothly (if slowly, due to it running in rosetta mode), as opposed to Last Time

The game itself ran much better than the first time, there have probably been some rosetta optimizations since 10.4.4 or whatever it was I was originally using. I ran at 1280×800 (1680×1050 caused too much lag to be usable, and 1440×900 didn’t work for some reason…) with low video and texture quality, and no shadows. Anti-aliasing I sometimes had up and sometimes down. For some reason, the tunnels showed absolutely no lag on full specs, but Laki was unbearable….Well, at least I got to play through it again 🙂

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Zibland.com Works in iPhone :D

I took a visit to my local AT&T store today to test out the iPhone, and I’m proud to report that Zibland works almost 100%. The only thing which is broken (which I already knew), is the fancy slider you get if you press the ‘older’ link near the top of the page. This is because dragging your finger on the screen only scrolls, and doesn’t drag, which is how the slider works. I’m working on a fancy thing to figure out if you’re using an iPhone to offer you a more streamlined page (larger text, less fancy stuff, smaller images, etc…) Eventually, eventually.

iPhone review tomorrow! 😀

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Ugly Tri-Boot Transforms into Pretty Dual-Boot :D

I used a live ubuntu disk (6.06, 7.10 doesnt work for some reason) to re-install ubuntu (luckily there wasn’t anything important on there…except my plasma server….I let go of my last shreds of UU today…), and then once i got in there i manually edited my boot/grub/menu.lst to remove all the excess entries (the memory tests and the different kernels, i never use them anyway) and add my osx86. I was about to add the XP parition when I realized that I wiped it yesterday…I don’t remember why I did that, but it’s not like it worked anyway.

So now I have a happy dual-boot server chugging down some low-seed torrents for me so i am free to turn off Eve and stuff without worrying about losing data or something. Yay 🙂

Maybe someday I’ll try out windows again, but I don’t know how to make the internet work on it…

(Thanks for your suggestion, LA…I had already done the above stuff when I got your comment ^.^)

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iPhone sells half-a-million

Heh. Hit that millionth unit yet, Zune? The iPhone sold 500,000 units in its first weekend. Cool. Yeah, it’ll probably slow down soon enough, but half a million in just over two days says something, I think.

Also the ringtones built into the iPhone suck.

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