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Last Feed Sample: When we reached the cliff face, we knew this was where we were supposed to be. Around us was the green grass and trees, the freshwater lake, the clean path from the mountains for the caravans to come though. The rocks behind us were Jet, and there was clay to the south and – unless my faithful hammer tap decieved me – oynx in further down. So we stopped, and we layed out our...
Mon, 9 Jun 2008 19:06:21 PDT
I got back from work this evening at about 7ish, decided I couldn’t deal with socialness at the pub, and so fired up Ikariam, a web-based Civ-type game, where I am playing on Eta. I’m currently saving up for a new palace so I can build a new colony, which is going to require 50,000 bits of wood. So I set some more of my colonists to slave away in the newly upgraded lumber mill on my...
Mon, 9 Jun 2008 19:06:21 PDT
I went to Gamecamp. It’s becoming quite common in reports of this event to wax lyrical about the location for a little while first, so I’ll do that. It was held at 3Rooms (I’m sixth from the left in that photo), which is a PR venue belonging to Sony’s PlayStation division. Effectively, it’s where they take journalists to demo new products.
It’s...
Mon, 9 Jun 2008 19:06:21 PDT
So.
I am not a massive fan of Second Life, though I do have an account there – as Jascain Switchblade – which I visit on occasion. I dislike it because I don’t like the interface, I find the graphics engine flakey, the streaming content jittery and skippy even before they added voice chat and a lot of the residents to be out of their minds.
To be fair, I have many of the...
Mon, 9 Jun 2008 19:06:21 PDT
My problem with Boris Johnson is this: For all he appears to be a bright bloke, he can – at certain proscribed times – entirely resemble the rest of the party from which he is an often welcome break. His latest missive from the depths of ignorance is an attack on computer games, in which he says:
These machines teach them nothing. They stimulate no ratiocination, discovery or...
Mon, 9 Jun 2008 19:06:21 PDT
I’m currently beta testing City of Villains, which is cool. With a few days to go the NDA is lifted, and I’m going to share a couple of characters.
In fact, just one for now, since The Hat has been wiped along with the server he was on. Bah.
(Stalkers main power is to go into Predator style invisibility and reappear in front of them to cut their noses off. To do this they have a...
Mon, 9 Jun 2008 19:06:21 PDT
Just in case you feel the need to feel like an inferior programmer, or just want a geeky printout to paper your walls with, ID Software have Open Sourced the Quake III engine under the GPL (Fileshack Download)
(No resource files, obviously, so you can’t compile it and suddenly have Quake 3 Arena, but I’ll interested to see what’s created from this)
Mon, 9 Jun 2008 19:06:21 PDT
This is one of the reasons I like playing City Of Heroes.
Crypic, who make CoH, recently announced that Blasters (Cyclops is a blaster, so is Raynebow) were going to get a new ability called “Desperation” where the amount of damage they do is inversely proportional to their health. Thus a dying Cyclops can do one huge, massive power blast that knocks Dr Robotnik over the skyline of...
Mon, 9 Jun 2008 19:06:21 PDT
So, I start at Evolving Media next Monday. This means I have to get this current project done – absolutly done and finished – by exactly one week today. Annoyingly, a number of things that dropped off the schedule over the last three months have been noticed, taking me from comfortably on schedule to “Oh fucking hell” in about 48 hours.
I am not enjoying being the only...
Mon, 9 Jun 2008 19:06:21 PDT
Open letter from the Computer industry to the Entertainment industry
Look at us: every year, we churn out more computer games than your entire industry is worth. You know how we do it? We like our customers. We don’t treat them like potential criminals, and try to make our products do less
This part, if no other part of that manifesto, is bollocks.
This month I’ve bought...
Mon, 9 Jun 2008 19:06:21 PDT
Workrave is telling me I should stop for the day. I trust it. This should not take long.
RSI back. Sentances shorter. Feel like am in a bad Bridget Jones parody.
Possibly Shatner impersonation.
Learning Python. Have taught python to play Foursquare solitare.
Badly.
Am positive that are better ways of doing things I’m doing. Doing it anyway. Learning Process Considered...
Mon, 9 Jun 2008 19:06:21 PDT
In which Paranoia returns
Mon, 9 Jun 2008 19:06:21 PDT
So, with little fanfare and a couple of outstanding bugs, the Nomic Rules Management system for the new Nomic game (Which is still open, btw) has gone live.
Technically, it’s a marval. Well, It has marvelosity. Technically it’s a malted hot drink then. (And with that, we begin the descent into anarchic britiocentric referencing, for which we apologise).
Okay, so this post is...
Mon, 9 Jun 2008 19:06:21 PDT
Once, I was a member of a Nomic game. Then the owner got exams, and it stopped. Then I was a member of another Nomic game, and the owner got a life, and it stopped.
Since I need more things to do in my life, I’m starting a Nomic game. “What is Nomic?” I hear you cry. Nomic is a game which defines itself as it goes along, and is thus really fun to play :-)
“How Do I...
Mon, 9 Jun 2008 19:06:21 PDT
In which stupid people take the easy excuse. The devil game made me do it.
Mon, 9 Jun 2008 19:06:21 PDT
There are people with too much time on their hands.
For best effect, have this in the background while you visit this
(Via Khendon on irc)
Mon, 9 Jun 2008 19:06:21 PDT
Our house in Reading, rendered in The Sims. I was bored, okay?
Mon, 9 Jun 2008 19:06:21 PDT
In which Aquarion makes a mistake which costs him the entire Internet for a day, and joins the Great Unwashed.
Mon, 9 Jun 2008 19:06:21 PDT
One of the nicest things about my current computer is that the following things work:
As I type, I’m listening to Pulp, f.e.e.l.i.n.g.c.a.l.l.e.d.l.o.v.e. You won’t see this in the “Now Playing” box because I’m having an argument with the doSomething plugin for winamp over the correct definition of “ID Tag”. Yet I digress.
Whilst I do this, I’m...
Mon, 9 Jun 2008 19:06:21 PDT
Various things have happened to me, and to Epistula, while I’ve been away. Also to the blogroll. So once more, it’s time for:
While You Were Out
Epistula got Textiled so I can write all my entries in english and the computer does the hard part. Yay.
Aqcom got a new Projects section. It’s currently a flat HTML thing mainly as a list (As much for my benifit as yours)...
Mon, 9 Jun 2008 19:06:21 PDT
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