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haha - copy and paste - old school.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Friday, March 26, 2010
Cup Cake with attitude
http://www.butchbakery.com/index.php
I like to think if a Predator was a cup cake it would be one of these…
Thursday, March 25, 2010
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Monday, March 22, 2010
Children’s Art Brought To Life
Now you know what the kids are seeing when they imagine monsters - No wonder they get you up in the middle of the night :)
Friday, March 19, 2010
Free online games and why they fail (RPG)
OK I've been playing games for 20 plus years so am posting this because it could improve so many online games - Currently am playing Aika ( http://aika.gpotato.com/ ) which is better then most free online games, but the reason it won't last is the same as most of the others out there. This isn't aimed at this game as it does some of the suggestions am about to offer for free :)
What you need to do game designers: Immersion = good game
First off movement - some many games don't have basic movement controls. A = left, d=right, w=forward, s=back and space=jump (also have an auto run, which aika does). Why? I expect to be able to move in those directions an to be able to leave the ground under my own power.
Environment - DON'T STOP PEOPLE FALLING TO THEIR DEATH. Sorry for shouting but ffs it's a cliff if i move to close to the end i should fall, not bounce off an invisible wall, if am walking down steps i should be able to jump the railing. Yes i might take damage but i can do it in real life and i want to forget am playing a game. You let em carry stupid size guns or swords, but trying to climb a small hill or hut and thats a no no.
Stop with trying to be realistic looking - too much time is spent on this, why do you think wow works so well and the others big games not so well. While i want to be immersed in the game i don't want real life. If you look at like a book, how big and boring would it be if it was just mundane life going on and on.
Character Creation Screen - I need to be able to choose either a male or female of all classes. Really would it be that hard to produce both, use the time you have saved trying to make the game look like the real world. Me, i like to play hunter, ranger, shooter (whatever ranged unit), my friend likes to play a Pally. The amount of games i won't even try because the ranged unit is a girl only, in Aika the pally is a girl, count my friend out. Maybe it's an old school thing but i don't want to play as a girl and am sure there are some girls out there that don't want to play as a boy...
This one is for all RPG games - Let me loot what I've just killed. By that i mean, cool I've just beat this creature and he had a BFG, wait where did it go? What do you mean all it has on it is moldy bread, wtf! I can see it on the ground, i earned it i want that gun (shield, sword, ect).
Don't make stuff easy for the come latelys - I played wow for 4 years, i was a casual player, i could only dream of getting what some of my hardcore friends. Until Wraith of the Lich King, then i kept catching them up, which should have made me happy, but then things like the cost of mounts went down which pissed me off as it took me twice as long as everybody else. Then i got bored and have stopped playing, my hardcore mates get everything too quickly and just end up repeating the same instance which equals them getting bored and stop playing.
PVP - don't give people the chance to not PVP in the world, unless the one starting the fight is so much higher there is no chance of it being a fair fight. In fact scratch that if you want to pvp someone 5 levels below, give the one with a lower level skill a (level difference x Damage) bonus and that would stop ganking.
Pets - people love them. so give them lots to choose from, but make them useful for different stuff
Mounts - I so want to fight on my mount, please let me (not like wow's fighting where every class has the same attacks). Also if am a class that can tame, let me tame my own mount.
Legend quests - This is an idea I've thought of, one off quests that are very hard but if you start it (no one else can do it, unless you give it up or it isn't completed within the time limit). But if you do complete it, you get something added to the game for ever (a huge statue or a brew named after you).
Random instances or one off treasures - every now and then spawn a treasure box in a remote location or open a single player dungeon. Once completed de-spawn never to be there again.
Finally GOD like power - A quest that gives the user god like power for 1 month or until they are killed by another play. But this creature is only on when the player is one.
My 2cp
FreakAngels by Warren Ellis » Episode 0001
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As far as i can tell this is a free web comic by the man of many moments Warren Ellis. Enjoy
Thursday, March 18, 2010
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Axe Clean Your Balls
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It's an ad for shower gel, why are they cleaning sport balls? :P
Interactive Horror Movie Calls You From Inside the Theater
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How cool is this, but i think it would be better to add your mates number without telling them :)
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Go Away
Check out this website I found at 27bslash6.com
David, David, David, your my hero in so many ways. Thanks Mr Thorne for showing us life should be taken less seriously, apart from the breathing bit which should always be taken seriously...
Top 10 Geekiest Cake Designs
Do all these the cakes below threaten to devour us all? Yes they do. These creative and beautiful cakes are done for popular gadgets, and some of them are so accurately rendered that you probably can%u2019t spot any difference between the cake and the genuine one. One quintessential example would be the giant iPhone wedding cake. The icons are neatly arranged in four columns and rows, and it even displays the four bars of AT&T%u2019s 3G signal, digital time and a battery status bar. Another favorite of mine is the Nikon D700 camera cake. It looks pretty in both the exterior and interior.
At this point of time, I think I gonna head down to the nearest confectionery and grab a bite. Enjoy!
iPhone 3G Cake (link)
Pink iPod Cake (link)
Nikon D700 Camera Cake (link)
Blackberry Cake (link)
MacMini Cake (link)
Amazon Kindle Cake (link)
Nintendo DS Cake (link)
Wii Remote Cake (link)
Xbox 360 Cake (link)
Apple MacBook Cake (link)
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Cake = hungry = lunch time :)
Tron Legacy Official Trailer 2 HD
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Look at the light-bikes and tell me you don't want one.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Frak ye - Galactica: Sabotage
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This makes me want to watch my season disc's from the start - nice...
Monday, March 8, 2010
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Probably the sexiest thing ever. « Albotas
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Am repulsed and attracted at the same time, this must be how a magnet feels when it see another magnet!
Your high IQ will kill your startup - Cube Of M
In 2004 I was in Brazil, walking down the hill in Lapa to get some lunch. I was with a friend who I had met in the hostel I was staying - his name was Ofer. We were having a meta discussion about intelligence, and what role it plays in success.
Then out of the side of the road stepped a man. He was holding a knife in one hand and a bottle in the other hand. He spoke to us in fast portugese, clearly asking us to hand over the things we held. I stood there, not very sure what to do. Ofer started speaking quickly to the man, telling the man not to rob us.
What you have to know about Ofer is that he had been an Israeli soldier. He hated violence of any form, but he knew how to be violent.
The man threw the bottle on the floor and it broke into pieces, he picked up the bottle and lunged at us. I ran off, and Ofer stood there and dodged the man, all the while talking to him. The man attacked several times, and each time Ofer just moved aside.
Then finally, Ofer kicked the weapons out of the guys hands, punched him, and he fell. He then told me to run, and we ran down the hill to the restaurant.
We sat there and he continued what we had spoken about. He said: That demonstrates what I mean. The man with the knife did not know how to use that knife. If he had been as trained in knife fighting as I was in hand combat, he would have been able to destroy me. But he had a tool that he felt gave him an advantage, but it's nothing compared to a person who has no tool, but has worked to develop what he has.
Intelligence is like a knife. If you are intelligent, you are at a clear advantage against people who are not intelligent. But if you are intelligent, and another person is not as intelligent, but the other person is willing to train harder than you, the other person will very quickly overtake you in ability.
How your intelligence will destroy you
People who are born intelligent start off life with everything easy for them. They don't have to work hard to get good grades, they never really have to do much to get ahead. The major challenge of early life is school - and school is designed for average people. So intelligent people just breeze through.But there is a point where every intelligent person faces something that requires more than intelligence. It requires hard work, it requires the ability to fail, it requires being able to do tough tasks, boring tasks. For the first time in their life, in spite of their intelligence, these intelligent people are challenged, and they start failing. Like when they first attempt to create a startup.
And that's where most of them retreat. They focus on things they can't fail on, and ignore the other important things. They start to blame other things (like the school system). They procrastinate. They refuse to face new problems because they know they will not be able to handle them, and this does not fit into their worldview that they are invincible.
Let me tell another story. In 2007, I had dinner with the father of my girlfriend in Paris. He is currently a vice president at one of the top 5 consulting companies in the world. He is a jewish french immigrant from Morroco - he came in the 70s to France with no money and no connections, and he made it up to become Vice President, even though he studied to be an engineer.
I asked him: How did you do it? How did you start from being an immigrant to become executive material? He told me: I got this far because I'm intelligent. He continued: But there were many many people as intelligent as I am who graduated together with me. They are still engineers right now. The difference between me and them is that when I arrived, I knew that I did not have family here in france, I did not have connections. And I knew there were a lot of other people as intelligent as I was, and who had all these advantages. The only way to be successful then would be to gain a slight advantage over them - I had to work and train harder than they did, I had to get to know more people than they did, I had to learn more about more things that they did.
We started off equals, but at some point all the effort I put in started to pay off, and where they stopped improving themselves, I continued, and I got better and better. Where they were afraid to try new things because they would fail, I tried and I got better and knew more, till I was good enough for the job I hold now.
How this relates to you
Being intelligent is like having a knife. If you train every day in using the knife, you will be invincible. If you think that just having a knife will make you win any battle you fight, then you will fail. This believe in your own inherent ability is what will kill your startup. Success comes from the work and ability you put in becoming better than the others, and not from some brilliance you feel you may have within you.So don't believe that the brilliance of your idea is what will make you successful. What will make you successful is when you are out there every day, doing something new, challenging yourself, trying new methods, studying new ways, having a lot of small failures, then getting better every day.
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Shame am not intelligent :(
What happened in my birth year?
Check out this website I found at whathappenedinmybirthyear.com
This is quite cool.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Best Fails of 2009
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Thanks to http://www.theboredninja.com for this. There are some nose grinding, flesh ripping, bone crunching action here. But all i can think of is "The Rocket man" when that went bang, am thinking somebody's cherry went pop...
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