Infrequent posts about stuff.
I thought it was interesting that the mention of “Wits & Wagers” in a recent Microsoft Xbox announcement did not mention that it was a video game version of a fairly well lauded board game. Mostly I’m just looking forward to having another game to use my Big Button controllers with.
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One of the things that I’m enjoying most about Chain Factor, besides the incredibly addictive game, is the code hints/easter eggs that you get sometimes that show up as an “error message”. Like this one:
ERROR 003
LEVEL 3 / CODE NNN
* UPPER BOUND FOR BASIC SCORES?
* ok i’ve got to stop playtesting and start coding. i’m starting to see
* colored discs everywhere i look. do we know the upper limit on
* basic mode scoring? i’m thinking about memory allocation…
* -F* No we don’t. Figuring that out is the players’ job.
*
* Here’s another to do: find someone in the Minneapolis area to check
* on the OOH which should be up: 494 and hwy 77 - might need some
* searching around.
* /s
Incredibly fun stuff. Give it a try.
Update Finally got error 1 again:
ERROR 001
LEVEL 1 / CODE NNN
* MEDIA MATRIX
* s, this printout is unreadable - i’m missing half the entries in the
* locations column…
* -F* Yes, actually it would be useful if you could go out and confirm that
* these are up:
* LA Century N/L E/O Aviation - should be obvious.
* 1815 Hawthorne 90278 - not sure about this one, you may have to
* look around a bit.
* /s* can’t wait to see your mad media jamming skillz
* -F* We’re going to put Primacy to shame - not just sticking up a few
* posters but appropriating the media machine on a grand scale.
* /s
Update 2 Yet another one:
ERROR 007
LEVEL 1 / CODE D
* ++Power Outage?++
* F, why is MAX_POWERS set to 1 here, what is this?
* /s* this is totally the idea, one power, no greys, but garbage starts at
* max frequency - fast and furious, on ly the stong survive!* This wasn’t in the spec. I get the idea, but next time let me know
* before you implement something like this.
* /s* ok boss.
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I really want some one to do a feminist deconstruction of the the game: Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble.
No really. I honestly have no idea what to think about it. None at all.
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Some people have too much time on their hands.
Maybe I should start a competitive coin flipping league. A cursory Google search doesn’t appear to show any.
I picked up my copy of The Lord of the Rings Online today and I am just getting everything updated so I can pick up where I left off with the beta for the past couple of weeks. If you end up taking a look, look up Blairn on Vilya and say hello.
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While a bit unfortunate that it is not longer, Opera Slinger turns out to be unreasonably fun for such an odd premise: Using the classic WASD first person control scheme, get your character into the spotlight before the competition and then sing your heart out. It’s only one level, and just four songs with some pretty corny lyrics so it plays out in less than 10 minutes. I did find navigating the opera house to be a bit more problematic than I would like, but I imagine running it a couple more times would solve lots of those issues.
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The Super Mario Theme performed by three trombonists!
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From the maker of the Grow series, some of my favorite puzzle games ever, comes Dwarf Complete! I may or may not have stayed up all night trying to complete it, and I only needed hints from the web twice! Woot!
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I had an excellent evening playing games with Shaun and Scott where we played “I’m the Boss” by Face 2 Face Games for the first time. We only had time to play through it once but it was incredibly fun. It seems to be an extremely well balanced game at this point, though it’s hard to say for sure after only one session. Very highly recommended.
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So in a pretty quick turn of events, my main character in World of Warcraft has been stranded on one server while my guild left for another one.
Somewhat surprisingly, I’m only a little irritated with the guild. I had only recently come back after a very long hiatus and most of the current members of the guild I do not even know. Still, it was quite a shock to login after only being off for just over a week because I was busy with real life to find all of the old trusty guild stuff suddenly unavailable.
Now I am trying to figure out what to do. I missed out on the free realm transfers and my petition to get a free one was denied. I could pay to have the character moved to the same server as the rest of the guild, but I really don’t know if I want to bother. Several of the people that went on hiatus from WoW about the same time that I did are going to be in the same situation if they do decide to come back, but I really am not sure how likely that is with many of them and am pretty sure it’s not going to happen with several others.
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