Everyone loves debating whether the iPhone and iPod Touch can be considered true gaming platforms. On one side of the argument, why shouldn’t they be? Not only do the top-tier titles like The Sims 3, Peggle, Assassins Creed, Rock Band, and Madden 10 run nicely, but they also have many groundbreaking original games including the now famous Tap Tap Revenge and Pocket God. On the other hand though, it doesn’t have buttons. The touch only controls can be extremely clunky with some games and some gamers argue that if it doesn’t have buttons or any type of control besides tapping and sliding, can it possibly be considered a gaming console?
Can the same thing, only 5 times the size possibly be the newest big thing in gaming?
If you put it in the way I just did. It sounds stupid. But I guess this new iPad thing is a bit more than an oversized iPod Touch. Not only can you watch movies on a much bigger screen and high-definition You Tube videos, but it’s now getting a dedicated Book section of the iTunes store where you can buy books to read on the device. This puts the iPad in direct competition with the Kindle from Amazon.
But wait. This isn’t Another Watcher or Another Reader, this is Another GAMER. Did they happen to mention anything about games on the thing?
Well, they showed a few games on it. And though they still have the clunky touch controls, the graphics look pretty cool on a big screen. And, every single app ever made for the iPhone, including the games, will be available for you to transfer or purchase for the device when it comes out.
But so far, theres been no response from any of the major publishers if they’d make dedicated games for it. And really, thats the only way the iPad as a gaming device will ever get off the ground. If we soon has big name publishers and developers like EA, Activision, or even Pop Cap announcing that they will develope games exclusively for the device, or even if they say they’ll work hard on their multi-platforms titles, we could have the next DS or PSP. Only hard work can get fix bad touch controls, improve graphics, and truly deliver a gaming experience without buttons.
But can Apple and our favorite gaming companies take up that challenge? That is the question.
Will enough people buy the iPad for it to be a new force in the gaming world, or is it simply just another device for Apple freaks and gadget geeks. (I am really really proud of that rhyme)
Recently Melesta provided me with Mochi Ads statistics for January 2010 for the Bilbo game. Here’s it as I promised (click to enlarge). .
The traffic is increased significantly starting from the middle of the month. And positive dynamics is kept though current traffic is almost 30 000 game plays per day.
1cc on normal! woooooo! 4 touhou’s down, 3 to go ^^ 東方花映塚 (tôhô kaêzuka (kunrei-shiki)) is the ninth game in the series and very very different from the previous ones. In pofv you battle against an opponent split-screen as faeries, spirits, and bullets randomly spawn and attack you.
The white bullets get sent over to your opponents screen if you can destroy them by killing a nearby fairy or activated spirit. Other features include powering up your spell gauge which lets you unleash more powerful attacks (while also clearing your screen of enemies).
If you charge up your gauge all the way and unleash your level 4 spell, a copy of your character will appear on your opponent’s screen and start attacking. Not quite the same as a boss battle in the other touhou games, but it still makes things more hectic due to the randomly generated clutter that’s already attacking you. You can read more about the gameplay here if you’re interested.
click for gelbooru
Chose to unlock and use aya after reading this thread on the character strengths and weaknesses. Not sure how credible the original thread author is but it worked out for me ^^ Reimu’s 360 field wasn’t working out for me as I’d activate spirits all around me and not destroy them in time (which spawns 3 red bullets aimed at you).
click for gelbooru
Now I’m on to Mountain of Faith. Ironically aya is kicking my butt in stage 4 orz Keep trying to capture her last 3 cards and getting caught off guard. Think I just need to get back in my bombing groove and I’ll churn out that next 1cc fairly easily ^^
quick update on figures, just got an e-mail from hobby search:
“Also, please note that order recombination is not possible any longer,
since the shipment process of the item(s) is already underway.”
I originally had mused to a friend of mine about getting an old brown leather helmet, an old 1920’s movie-style raygun, and modifying my pogo stick – to make the Commander Keen reference even MORE obscure! Now, recently there was a thread on a board we frequent to have art requests done. Naturally, what does he do? Go ahead and request steampunk Commander Keen! And that’s how this drawing came about.
So, without further ado, here it is, from its humble beginnings to its grand finish.
And finally…
Final!
Man, I was just floored when I saw this.
Absolutely amazing job.
If you’ve read my earlier post on hacking Minigore, and find it quite difficult to follow and want a quick fix, then this post is for you….
Once installed you should have:
12609991 Kills
All Characters unlocked (apart from the in-app purchases) eg. Gangster Gore + Santa
Expert and Insane Mode unlocked
Sensei Evan UNLOCKED!
Dual Weilded Grenade Lauchers!
I would encourage anyone to do this without cheating, however some of us don’t have the time to play it all day. Plus when Guerilla Bob comes out, you will not be playing Minigore much then anyways, so let’s indulge in Sensei Evan Dual-weilded Grenade Lauchers!!
Please note that this will only work on v1.26, so check in itunes before you carry this out and upgrade to the latest version if needed.
Instructions:
Download this file - mingore.dat
Using SSH, Find Minigore.app folder in var/mobile/Applications
Navigate to var/mobile/Applications/”Minigore Folder”/Documents
Backup you existing minigore.dat. e.g re-name it to minigore.backup
I was so excited to find out that there are new things in Furniture store, and there was at least some for people who do not pay by cash… so I think we all were kind of happy… then I went to the FASHION place to see what’s new… and first I thought that my browser is doing a job on me, that I see only CASH items but no
all of those items except few dresses, and wet suits, the rest all for cash.. I would not mind it was for cash if… half of it was doe yocoins, and the prices were little lower… come on glasses for 12 dollars they are not REAL… they are virtual glasses… but then again if people buy them, so they make it right for the company to higher the prices… I guess… so next item might be from 20 dollars and up … just thanks to those who buy the things for so much money…. btw if they plan to get this game going only for money they should say it by now… this is what real company who is reputable, and proffesional would do…. we are playing a gme which is showing that if you have money you can play but if you do not maybe its time to find another game the one which we actually can feel good about… maybe I should check this advertisement…. one says go here YOVILLE 2 this is where people who leave Yoville come… come on Zynga I know you can accomodate people who pay and who do not… let us have fun, because it becomes more and more obvious that fun was the word of the past….
As the next issue of Irregular Magazine is based around the theme of Swashbuckling, I’ve decided to write an article about the raiders from Norway, the Vikings. So I decided that I’d add some of the reaserch and web sites I’ve come across on here. I’ll also be adding a short WIP of the miniatures painted for the article as well at a later date.
So what do we know about the Vikings, well the image of the horned helmet is a myth, its based on a bronze celtic helmet found in the Thames. There is no current archaelogical evidence to support the image of a horned Viking helmet. Yes, they did raid the coast, but they were also proficent farmers, craftsmen and women as well a great explorers and sailors.
Viking Shield
The vikings heyday was between the 8th and 11th century, during this period the colonised large areas of Europe, the UK, Iceland, Greenland and were the first European settlers in what is now known as North America, or as the vikings refered to it as Vinland.
In Old Norse, the word is spelled víkingr. The word appears on several rune stones found in Scandinavia. In the Icelanders’ sagas, víking refers to an overseas expedition (Old Norse fara í víking “to go on an expedition”), and víkingr, to a seaman or warrior taking part in such an expedition. (Wikipedia)
One of the first sites I came across of interest was The Viking Answer Lady, and the page in particular concearning NOrse name construction. Though this wouldn’t be terribly useful for a wargame purpose, it would be great for those who are planning to role play nordic charecters.
The vikings were renowned warriors and were considered quite fearsome in battle, so my nect port of call was Regia Anglorum, a Dark Age re-enactment society in the UK. This site has a number of useful articles which include a detailed account of a Saxon/Viking Village called Wichamstow.
Weapons of the Dark Ages
Viking culture is rich in myths and tales of the gods, and a couple of good sites which looks at this aspect of Norse life ad cultures are The Norse Gods and Hurstwic.
The Vikings were considered great explorers crossing the oceans to become the first settlers in North America, and settling in Iceland and Greenland. The Norse who came to Newfoundland were not fierce raiders in search of pillage and plunder. The Norse appearance here was the final step in a relatively peaceful expansion of livestock farmers across the North Atlantic, taking in parts of the British Isles, Iceland, Greenland, and finally Vinland. For a more detailed account of Norse exploration vist these sites;
Norse in the North Atlantic and Leif Ericson (Old Norse: Leifr Eiríksson), (c. 970 – c. 1020) was a Norse explorer who is regarded as the first European to land in North America (excluding Greenland), nearly five hundred years before Christopher Columbus.
The Supernatural ARG game has BEGUN! Already 3 sigils have been released and the competition is going hard. I LOVE this kind of tie-in stuff. Reminds me of when Lost first came out, only its better, cos its more gamey.
(The first video released to promote the ARG(Alternate Reality Game))
Please join my army if you do wanna play, and all those Supernatural fans (UK only FOR ONCE! We get something decent that the US doesn’t lol)
It comprises of collecting enochian sigils online and in real life by following video clues from Castiel himself, getting armies of fans to amass points, and spreading the good word of SPN. Go to this site to take part, and join my army at the same time if you will .
Driving a taxi all day can be boring sometimes. Some days, no matter how hard you try, you never get anyone interesting and/or stupid to poke fun at. For this reason, I’ve opted to start a new game.
It’s name, you ask? “The Game I Play To Make My Day Go By Quicker When No One Smart Or Stupid Comes Along.” Sure, it’s not a catchy name, but who cares.
Basic idea is, every morning before I mount up and move out, I check Dictionary.Com’s “Word of the Day” (ClickClick) and, at some point during the day, I will endevour to slip this word in to a conversation with a customer. Then, obviously, I will pop the resulting conversation up here.
First up:
perambulate \puh-RAM-byuh-layt\ , intransitive verb;
1.
To walk about; to roam; to stroll; as, “he perambulated in the park.”
transitive verb:
1.
To walk through or over.
2.
To travel over for the purpose of surveying or inspecting.
WoG is a brilliant soundtrack, as ever, with what I think may be some of the best game music ever made. The album moves through styles and ambiences so gradually that the transition between Danny Elfman caper music and the haunting strings of Screamer or Years of Work is almost imperceptible. The album builds to a brilliant climax with Best of Times and Red Carpet, although the sudden intrusion of the credits music (and, earlier on, the Virtual World of Goo Corporation theme) makes you joltingly aware that you’re listening to video game music, rather than standalone ambient pieces. However, it’s still a fine album, though I would like to get the opinion of someone who hasn’t played the game. Seriously, it’s free – I’ll send you a link if you’re interested, or people in college can get it off my iTunes library. Next up is The Best of ELO (http://tinyurl.com/yjo9ts6). Another good album, although I do wish this would stop giving me albums I listen to so much. Although I said that about Weekend, and look what happened there. 321 to go, next review won’t be quite so hot on the heels of this one, as I have to go have a life.
I started playing Dragon Age: Origins a couple of days ago and I’m hooked. The game graphics aren’t that great, and the combat is a little World of Warcraft-ish, but those are about the only complaints I have. In all honesty, though, those shortcomings hardly detract from the game. Sure, there’s combat and leveling, but the combat practically runs itself and the leveling is straightforward enough for it to not be a hassle. (Some might call it “over-simplified” but I think other video games’ systems are too complicated.) The real beauty of DA:O is that it’s an RPG that focuses on the RP, and you rarely find in games anymore.
This may sound kind of funny, but I think I had forgotten what a roleplaying game was. In fact, I think RPG makers have forgotten what an RPG is. So many RPGs nowadays are just linear stories with inevitable plot points that the player can’t change: the only things players can affect are their combat specifics and the time it takes them to move from one plot point to another. I do prefer tabletop games because of the amount of story customization they offer. Gear is, well, let’s just say I’m not motivated by having the “biggest and best” in gear, so that’s not a big draw to me. I’d much prefer to weave a story, and that’s exactly what DA:O gives the illusion of doing.
Sure, there’s some railroading involved, but you can’t get away from that in any sort of game. DA:O lets you choose from, essentially, 6 starting stories, which affect the total game to a point, but after you join the Mega Order of Epic things pretty much follow the same course. I’m only about 9 hours into the game, so maybe later my starting as a female dwarf commoner will have an impact on more than just my interaction dialogue, but; for now it seems as though I’m going through the same things as my brother, who started as a male human noble, (post-Order-of-Epic-joining, of course.) Even still, the interactive dialogue is different. For one, I know a secret about one of my party members that my brother hasn’t discovered yet. Perhaps it’s because I’ve fostered a higher affinity with that character, or maybe it’s just the dialogue choices I made that were the difference; I don’t know. Either way, it’s a really deeply engaging game if you let yourself get drawn into the background and lore of the world.
CLUE Classic (21 MB download)
Solve the mystery that’s kept everyone guessing for more than 50 years! Col. Mustard, Prof. Plum, Miss Scarlet and the rest of the usual suspects have gathered together in stately Tudor Mansion to determine who killed Mr. Boddy, where the murder was committed, and how it was done. A family favorite for generations of gamers, CLUE Classic is a whodunit you’ll want to solve again and again!
The Craven Arms, Giggleswick (formerly The Old Station) on the outskirts of Settle opened just before Christmas and I would guess has been under a cover of snow ever since! Adrian Proctor, local Organic farmer from nearby Rathmell has refurbished the property and teamed up with his partner Ann and Sister Deb to create a real local foodie pub cum restaurant.
Chef and local boy Richard Wright under the guidance of Stephanie Moon has created a fantastic seasonal menu of local produce including Adrian’s own Pork & Beef from his Organic farm in nearby Rathmell, Adrian farms Saddleback Duroc cross pigs and Shorthorn & Red Poll cattle, images of which you can see adorning the interior walls of the Craven Arms.
The menu gives the option to sample a lot of the dishes in smaller portions which is great at Lunchtimes or when you want to try a selection of the great dishes. Our party of 3 tried a combination of starters and the “smaller appetite” dishes including melt in the mouth Pork belly with chestnut & apple, tasty Haddock fishcake with wilted spinach and fantastic homemade tartar sauce, Mushroom & spinach pancake with a Yorkshire Blue cream sauce (you can ask for the sauce without the Yorkshire Blue if you prefer), a very rich Game hotpot with sage (similar to the dish Richard & Stephanie demonstrated at Take 3 Chefs), real Pork Sausages with bubble & squeak and an excellent crusty Steak pudding & mash, to finish just 1 dessert was tried (it was lunchtime!) the Festive crème brulée poached pear and shortbread which was delicious. All dishes are homemade, prepared to order and very tasty. Total bill for 3 including drinks was £50.
Other dishes on the menu but not tried included Fish pie, 8oz Sirloin or Rump steak, Organic roast turkey, Pumpkin & sage cheesecake, Local rabbit, black pudding and walnut salad with honey dressing, homemade burgers, Sticky toffee pudding, toffee sauce and ice cream and a selection of lighter lunchtime offerings such as home cured salt beef & piccalilli sandwich or potted shrimp sandwich on toasted rye. As the menu is seasonal some choices will be changing during January 2010.
The Beer – we tried the Copper Dragon Golden Pippin a 3.9% abv blonde ale which was in good order and served in Copper Dragon Glasses, Black Sheep & Tetley’s were also on offer.
The Craven Arms is a great addition to the Yorkshire Dales food scene and well worth a visit.
The Craven Arms, Brackenber Lane, Giggleswick, Settle, BD24 0EA Tel 01729 825627
Borderlands, a game from 2k Games and Gearbox Software, is an addicting game i’d like to call a mixture between Fallout and Diablo.
“Wait, aren’t your judgement a little overreacting?”
Well it is if you see it on an angle i’m NOT seeing it from. Stick with the program here, kid. The game takes place in the fictional planet of Pandora (Yes, i’ve watched James Cameron’s Avatar and found the similarity.), which has become a lawless planet filled with unpaid-criminal-miner-has-beens, monsters and ancient aliens. Your mission is to find the Vault, which is said to hold powerful ancient alien technologies. Pretty simple? Well this isn’t really the game for all you storyline whores out there (including myself).
But hold up. What really kicks in this game is it’s varieties. Weapons with different brands and random perks from weapon boxes and enemy drops makes up for it’s inability to customize our characters (aside from its color), and it has its own skill point system, plus a unique skill for every character class and a weapon proficiency.
The multiplayer also made it exciting. especially because the “more players = more difficult = more loot” rule is implemented here. Heck, taking down massive Rakk Hives is always more exciting with buddies!
Sadly, i have to point out once more about the storyline. It’s short and predictable. I’m kinda glad they have side missions that are backed by a simple yet memorable background. The movement AI of the enemies are also “strange”, that they sometimes still run aimlessly to boxes, leaving them side-walking strangely.
So the point is, imagine if Fallout 3 has a somewhat crappier story, yet an ability to have random perked weapons and multiplayer. It’ll take your time before you realize it. Make sure you finish all your assignments beforehand.
Virtual City (65 MB download)
Unleash your inner mayor in this strategy game! Produce goods and deliver them to shopping malls, launch public events to keep your citizens happy, and trade with neighboring cities to build the city of your dreams! With 7 productions chains to master, 25 types of goods, and 16 achievements to earn, Virtual City will keep you playing for hours!
“@jimjonescapo naw, the loser gotta wear a ‘G-Unit headband” for a month straight ha ha ha…”
Outside of showing the industry that they have been certified gangsters, Jim Jones and Game have decided to link up once again in order to hold a basketball tournament. Looking to take place this upcoming summer, the court will be East Coast vs. West Coast with L.A taking on N.Y.
Although there has been no specific date, as of yet, everything now is just at its beginning stages.
News of the upcoming tournament first broke over Twitter on Saturday as Jones made a public service announcement searching for sponsors that wanted to take part in the event.
“Calln all sponsors dnt mis bein part of east west ballers tourny we need sneaks jerseys n sum finance 2 make ths a free event @ihategame”
Throwing his own jabs at Game, Jones is ready to show the West that behind the rapper moniker is a baller at hear ready to show them how things are run in Harlem.
“@ihategame u talkin greazy this is gonna be good I u got tht if I didn’t rap I would been in the NBA desease I got the cure for tht swish RT @ihategame:
@ihategame: #itsoverwhen thinks his team can C mine #youwerecooluntil u called me a FAKE KOBE. #nowplaying BALLIN by Jim Jones. get ready.”
Of course Game has never been one to not take the opportunity to throw in his own little slick lines whenever the time is presented.
“@jimjonescapo Capo, you already know how I DO. I had 40 at “THE RUCKER” won the championship & almost knocked ya man Rafer Alston out !! @questlove Aye Quest, I know u ball too. n*gga, you was like 10 feet tall on NBA 2K9 (not including) the fro ha ha ha @jimjonescapo called me a “FAKE KOBE” ha ha.. ole’ “SHANNON BROWN” when he had braids lookin ass n*gga ha ha.. send that song so I can blast.”
Along with the upcoming tournament, Jones stated that the two are in the lab and that there might actually be a “Ceritfied Gangsters Pt. 2” on the way.
Concept art for the Black Clover character, "The Organist." Yes, that's a mechanized arm.
So, for many of you, I’ve talked about this random game — Black Clover — and you’re confused as to what it is. You may have seen it on my Twitter background, you may have heard me talk about it in tweets, and you may have read some of my random descriptions in my blog. You’ve been introduced to one of my characters — Xavier Guldstein — but you don’t really know much about this world or what this game really is.
Well, now that Black Clover is coming closer and closer to being a reality instead of one of my ludicrous fantasies, I feel that I can talk a bit more freely about this project, this pen and paper roleplaying game.
Black Clover is my first professional attempt at a pen and paper roleplaying system. For a while, the game was going to be nothing more than a modification of Dungeons and Dragons Fourth Edition, running off of Wizard’s new open gaming license. However, when that brand new OGL never came through with the release of 4th Edition, I turned away from using the new D&D as a base and began experimenting with my own, deciding to take advantage of the moment and really craft a game that suits my world.
Black Clover is set in what I like to call Gothic fantasy steampunk, where it’s really a dark mishmash of steampunk values with punk/rock/emo/Victorian fashion. It’s a bloody world full of the wonder of invention, the intrigue of a fledgling nation recovering after the destruction caused by a great plague, and a society where heroes barely exist. It’s luscious, it’s twisted, it’s dark, it’s gory, and it flirts with the inappropriate constantly. While it’s one of my newer fantasy worlds, it’s quickly risen to be one of my favorites.
The world took off centered around two thoughts in my head one day when I was eating lunch: One question was, “What would a world that was obsessed with death be like?” while the other one was, “What would be the most powerful weapon in existence?” The answers came quickly — the world would be dark, corrupted, and the center stage for a few heroes taking on all of the wrongs in the world in a bitter, weak struggle to make things right while the most powerful weapon would be the human soul.
So created was the Black Clover Rifle, a mythical wonder of technology that had the power to distill the essence of the human spirit by siphoning it out of the person through six sharp, wicked hooks attached to the back of the gun. The energy would be routed through a central chamber containing an odd, onyx gem shaped like a four-leaved clover, where the energy was then dispersed into the barrel of the gun. Black Clover had two firing options: pulse the trigger quickly to only fire a part of your soul, or hold the trigger down to siphon your soul until you let go… letting the whole thing fire in one gigantic burst.
This was the weapon that finished a war by creating a two-mile wide canyon down the center of the continent for four hundred miles. This was the gun that destroyed an entire army for the cost of one human life. This was my world’s atomic bomb. Of course, after firing the gun, the weapon and it’s holder disappeared. Some say that he and the gun were consumed by the force of the blast, while others still believe the gun survived… hidden out there in Clover Canyon. If a full burst could obliterate an army, then how powerful could a person be if they only pulled the trigger for a fraction of a second?
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So, with this world had to come a brand new way to play roleplaying games. Carbon copying rules wouldn’t cut it for this universe (in addition to being illegal.) However, I did not want to innovate for the sake of innovation (and legal reasons.) Innovating to be innovative gets you nowhere fast — this system had to solve a problem in roleplaying. Lo and behold, after just one brainstorming session and a suggestion from a few friends, I stumbled over the idea of dynamic statistics instead of the usual static physical characteristics, like strength, dexterity, etc. With that, the Personality Drive system was born.
Personality Drive is how Black Clover solves a fundamental flaw of pen and paper roleplaying games: rewarding roleplay in a truly meaningful way. While many games support roleplaying, and we all know how great D&D can be when the people sitting at the table are dedicated to not dicking over the game… some people like to dick over the game. It’s hard to roleplay when power gamers are being jerks at the table, rules lawyers are shoving errata down the GM’s throat, and some people refuse to roleplay — preferring to play the whole game as one giant statistics fest.
How does Black Clover fix this? Quite simply — it ties your statistics to your roleplay. Each stat represents one of the aspects of the personality of your character. Utilize these aspects in positive ways that your GM believes to be true to your character, and your stats rise. Act like a dick… and well… you get statistics worthy of being a dick. The only person you can blame is yourself. Black Clover rewards you greatly for playing your character by offering you new abilities, new weapon upgrades (yes, you heard me, you build your weapon from the ground up), and better dice rolls. Character improvement isn’t measured by scores of experience or level — character improvement is measured by character improvement. As you explore who you are as a character, your abilities increase as you become more sure of what and who you are. Act in contradicting manners, you’ll have memories that will haunt you.
This system, while it sounds limiting, really offers a more unique experience by making the player understand that some choices ARE hard decisions. Heroes don’t make cavalier decisions when lives are on the line. Or, will you break your morals to do the right thing, even if it means doing the wrong thing initially? Will this power in personality lift you up or smack you down?
That’s just one aspect of how this game is very different from your standard roleplaying experience. Hopefully I’ve made some of you excited or curious to see more. Some of you… well you might be a little miffed right now, or baffled as to why I’d do such a thing with my core statistics. Trust me when I say that it works out. But, I won’t be completely sure of that until I enter playtesting… which isn’t for a bit yet. But, in my initial runs… things look dandy.
Since I’ve announced that there will be no levels in upfire, people been wondering and poking me in the eyes about moar details. Especially since in comment to my last entry i mentioned something about no npc commodities people were really raging with questions like “how the hell will trading work” ? Question is very simple – we will leave it up to you, players.
When you will login for the first time, you will be asked to pick one of civilian hulls (which if you don’t like, you can trade later on for other civilian boat). Those will be pre-fitted with some basic stuff (one may be for mining, other for npcing, other for yarring and so on). These boats will be nothing but piece of crap compared to thing that can be discovered and built. Beside civilian ships, npc’s will also sell stuff that will let you build “the right” stuff (civilian one is really crappy compared even to worst player-built stuff). In term of ships those will be Basic ship hulls (IE. Basic frigate hull) with which you can do couple interesting things.
First you can just build a frigate off it, all you will need is some ship components (which can be build and will require minerals + a manufacturing slot) from which you can assemble a ship. When ship is assembled it’s pretty much ready to go, now you simply need to load it with modules (which are built in similar way to ships) and take it for a spin. Eventually, you may just set it up on market for sale. How exactly stuff will be built is yet to be finalized, but we are going to make it into something more than pressing “build”, we want manufacturing to be entire profession – together with trading, not just everyone and their mother will do.
The other thing you can do with Basic hull is to try to invent something of it (which will require something that may be found by exploring) and if your attempt is successful you may wind up with something new – may be improved frigate hull, may be totally broken hull, may be something totally mysterious (including something funny like cockroach hull with some luck). Then you may want to either sell it (on market you will be able to sell literally anything in-game) or try to build some actual ships out of it. Eventually if the result of invention is worse than actual basic hull – you may want to reprocess it to get at least some materials back from it.
But back to building we go, from invented hull you can try to build multiple ships (how many exactly will be put to careful balancing during beta) and chance of success is based on how greedy you are (if you try to build 1 copy, you are pretty much guaranteed to success, but this chance will drop with every additional copy) so you will have to wage risk vs reward (depending on how good the hull is). With attempt to build you are of course jeopardizing the hull and minerals required to build these ships (although when production fails, you will be able to salvage some of the materials back, but hull is good as gone).
Minerals will come from either reprocessing modules (be it somewhat damaged from other ships wrecks or just bought below current mineral values) or mining (asteroids, comets, moons and much more) and then you can either keep em to build you some stuff, or sell them to someone who is into building. As result of that, there is no artificial trading in Upfire – but the need for traders will be quite pretty much unable to fulfill (smart trader who knows the market and how to not get killed will be able to milk it for nice money).
Also just as a tease for upcoming economical entries, there will be no “default” currency in Upfire, instead we will let players to create their own currency (and shares, and stock markets). But this is a lot bigger topic, so we will look further into it in upcoming entries.
Destiny Online, a cartoon-style real time strategy MMORPG, in a world where players help each other. You will find a wonderland, NPC and monsters are very cute. It offers you the possibility to change your appearance easily and even disguise yourself as a pet, jumping here and there in the street to attract attention.This is the latest Destiny Online Patch. Download
If you play World of Warcraft, you will know a fact that WoW gold is important in World of Warcraft. With WoW gold, you will be able to purchase items for your character that will make them stronger, which is essential in leveling up. Gold is also used to pay for training and learning special skills that your character can do. Gold is one of the most important commodities in World of Warcraft and it can really let you ease your way throughout the game. every player knows that he or she can earn WoW gold for his or her character through questing and farming. But, a lot of players are asking if this really is the best and safe way to earn WoW gold.
There are plenty of ways to earn gold for your character.You have to remember that each character in World of Warcraft are unique and have different special skills. Each unique character has advantages and disadvantages, which is why you need to learn where to find gold and how to make it at a fast rate.By being aware of your character, you will know which mob you should fight and also how to fight it. If you chose the Mage Class character, then you will want to go for multiple mobs as the Mage Class character offer area of effect damage that is comparable to no other characters in the World of Warcraft. Although the Mage Class character is not really suited for single combat, it fares really well on multiple enemies.You may also want to learn about the Auction House in the World of Warcraft. Playing the Auction House is like playing the Stock Market. You will need to buy low and sell high. The Auction House in World of Warcraft is basically capitalism at its finest.Learning what’s in demand and what sells at a very high price is essential in order for you to make plenty of cheap wow gold. There are several strategies that you can learn in order to play the Auction House successfully, such as buying an entire stock of a particular rare item in order to monopolize the market and set a high price.
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Talking recently. News report making horror in the quiet of the fireside and invoking wordstreams. A man you never woulda thought actually did. A concealed erection for the horrific and making abjection out of neighbours and friends. Glinting hammer to the head eyes.
She- why do they act surprised, shocked, horrified?
Me- because the symmetry unsettles and makes for grim admission of the lurking things inside.
She- no. because appearance was played like an expert. no fool wants to his error rubbed in his face; each thinks they pierce the veil when in fact they are snared in its ripples and folds.
Thinking on. Bus sitting movement out of the city and out of a life. It came up creepy, all epiphenomenal epiphany, a shadow’s reflection in an insects wing: we know, constantly, that we are being deluded, tricked, lied to, played like a string section all wires frayed, given grubs and told they are steaks and swallowing them down with a wink and a nod to the schism we desire most. And when the murderer is caught, when the politician’s lie is caught out, when the bureaucrat admits a mistake, when the person we thought we were slips away, or a friend disappoints- yes the anger is at them, yes of course. And yes it is right to be angered at all this as that is the game, that is what the Code demands, it is the pulse of history and all movement that we dub, in another favourite delusion, progress.
But more. This anger. This shock. This physiologic seizure and Dostoyevskian thirst for hangmen and revolution. Another point. We are angered that they have dropped the pretension. That they have let all the Code hang in the air like so many midgets to swatted away with a careless hand. We are angry because in ceasing to pretend they reveal that all our reality is thus. All the world is a stage, is it? The murderer on the radio, that we listened about and discussed, he reveals it starkly; what happens when you ignore the Code…. when you go off Script.
The Big Other is just that. A nexus of swarming Scripts. A Scriptwork. An encoding and a directing. A handing over of postures and lines. Correct reasons, correct responses, correct glances. Its all there. Except the question, become so inane a joke for the past decades, of ‘what’s my motivation?’ And there are motivations, there is a galore, a spree, a Carnival Bass-bin, Valve System roar, denial system of motivations. And yet, there is no motivation. They are all of the Scriptwork. And we want this Scriptwork to tell us what to do. It speaks nothing that we have not written for ourselves and we know it and yet still desire it. There used to be a name. Voluntary Servitude.
But there is no way out of the Scriptwork. This is not to say there is nothing outside of Scripts and Scripting. No. None of that. Things are. The Real is. The world, life, things, they can do without us. Only we cling stubbornly and heroically and beautifully to ourselves. Only we want to become more than we are. This is another Script that operates on us all. Be More. Be Better. Be Good. Loose that weight. Write that book. Get that job. Have a good time! Don’t go too far!
A multiplicity of ever dividing and mutating scripts, neither a chaos nor a complexity. They, it seems, always come reducible in pairs. The schizoid demands of own actions and our own longing to believe in the source of those actions, the shoring up and holding static of something that is entirely accidental, without any final necessity. PARTY/DRINK RESPONSIBLY. EXPRESS YOURSELF/BE POLITE. FUCK/SETTLE DOWN. LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR/HATE THEY NEIGHBOUR’S DARKNESS. Even down to the person you think you are, that your friends think you are, that a stranger doesn’t think about at all.
And our daily activity is just this same Scriptwork. Let’s not pretend that we aren’t weaving constantly a pretending. Its quite real, its got its reality, this phantasmic sluicing non-sense. Labour is man’s activity. Labour is his life. Yes. Of course. But Labour is also the production and the reproduction of the Script. Hence; Scriptwork.
‘”But how will they know its a re-enactment and not an actual hold-up?”
“They won’t!” I said. “But it doesn’t matter…”‘
-Tom McCarthy, Remainder
This is what ideology is. What the big Other is. It is a realm of direction. To an extent it is a complex of direction and self-direction. It is an emergent system that we call living, in the existential-situationist sort of sense. Man is a social animal means, first and foremost, that man is an animal that play-act. Man simulates himself. Does this contradict earlier things I have written about culture and/or technology and nature collapsing into an ontological monism? I don’t know and I don’t care.
The central mistake of Baudrillard, under the most conventional of readings, is to believe that the ‘Real’ ever existed (and for Baudrillard we are only ever talking about the Real as an anthropocentric real…so let us forget about the rest of it, what is really real). This error is an inheritance. It goes back to the last great revolutionary Guy Debord. Under the pavement the beach; behind the Spectacle, undistorted and virginal reality.
Now I’m not denying that we can know things about reality or that we can touch or feel the Real via knowledge and gnosis (I prefer the idea of a phenomenological shock) but it is wholly wrong for us to believe that we can ever get outside of the Scriptwork. The Promethean responses such as communism, anarchism, various forms of existential-mysticism are all movements I am drawn to. As long as they can recognise their own simulated nature and the simulated nature of the world about them. I have a feeling, that I can’t really back up, that even the Real, the really real, is itself and always has been a kind of simulation.
This is a gnosticism without any Other Realm. This is an empty eschatology. This is a messianism without hope. Does the world-as-simulation or the more extreme real-as-simulation mean that we give up ethical concerns, or that we give up revolutionary desires? No. I don’t think so. I think it merely means that we have to recognise that the is no ground to be sought except in the empty. Finally it means transforming Beckett slightly, although of course retaining the individuated form as well:
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Over the long weekend I was contemplating cuckholdry, that fate worse than butt rape. Various other blogger have discussed cuckholdry and the rate being roughly 10% (or somewhere between 2% and 30%). That’s all well and fine, but I was contemplating what the odds were for the average Renfield with no game and multiple children. It’s not just simply an additive, ie 10% chance for the first child, 20% of being cuckholded at least once with 2 children, etc, etc. Alternatively, if the guy ends up with 10 children, there’s not a 100% guaranteed that at least one child is not his.
I pulled out some reference material and found the following.
P{C of one child} = 0.10 ie 10% then,
P{C1 with multiple children} = 1 – (1-0.10)^n, where n = # of children.
Using this formula I computed the following probabilities and odds of being cuckholded.
2 children = 19% or 4.3:1 odds
3 children = 27% or 2.7:1 odds
4 children = 34% or 1.9:1 odds
5 children = 41% or 1.4:1 odds
6 children = 47% or 1.1: odds
7 children = 52% or 0.9:1 odds
8 children = 57% or 0.7:1 odds
9 children = 61% or 0.6:1 odds
10 children = 65% or 0.5:1 odds
When I was playing poker, if the pot was the right size, I take all of those odds knowing I’d win in the long run. I don’t think I’d take those odds with a typical American woman. Of course these computations assume that all women have the same chance of cuckholding, but I’m sure there are good women out there.
platinum Games,developers of Bayonetta,have just began a countdown clock on their website (click here for website)
It is counting down to the 4th of February,but to what game it is counting down to remains a mystery.
Out of the company’s latest deal with Sega, 4 games were announced with one left unannounced: the project currently in developement by Resident Evil creator,Shinji Mikami.
Whether this is the subject of the countdown,or a new project by platinum Games is unclear.
Jojo’s Fashion Show World Tour (213 MB download)
From Japan to Barcelona, racks full of vibrant clothes and lifelike new male and female models await in Jojo’s Fashion Show World Tour! Mother and daughter designers, Jojo and Rosalind Cruz, have finally earned a name in the fashion world. Now Ros is leaving the nest to pursue her own dreams and Jojo must find a reliable replacement. As backstage drama unravels, Jojo quickly discovers that fair-weather friends and ruthless enemies are closer than she ever suspected!
Game Parampaa! merupakan salah satu game yang konyol. Game ini bagus buat mengukur logika berpikir. Game parampaa dibuat oleh mustova yang terinspirasi dan diadaptasi dari The Impossible Quiz bikinan Mr Glenn Rhodes Splapp-me-do.Game ini di develop menggunakan Flash.
Pertama kali tau game ini dari temen-temen yang lagi demam game ini… wach, setelah melihat mereka ngegame, aku tertarik juga untuk ikut nge-Game. ternyata game-nya asyik….
Game ini berupa game quiz yang terdiri dari beberapa pertanyaan yang harus dijawab.
ini screenshot game PARAMPAA
klo ada yang tertarik dan ikutan ngegame… Klik di http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/12/26/2703107/quiz.swf.
Game URL : http://games.yb88.org/Arcade/Frosty-Freakout.html
Game description :
Build multi-scoop sundaes in this summer chillin’ game. Pay attention to the sundae appearing at the window and try to recreate them by choosing from 8 different ingredients starting from bottom to top with the toppings. When you’re done, just click done button. Earn points by giving the correct orders. Have fun!
Everyone loves debating whether the iPhone and iPod Touch can be considered true gaming platforms. On one side of the argument, why shouldn’t they be? Not only do the top-tier titles like The Sims 3, Peggle, Assassins Creed, Rock Band, and Madden 10 run nicely, but they also have many groundbreaking original games including the now famous Tap Tap Revenge and Pocket God. On the other hand though, it doesn’t have buttons. The touch only controls can be extremely clunky with some games and some gamers argue that if it doesn’t have buttons or any type of control besides tapping and sliding, can it possibly be considered a gaming console?
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FOR ONCE! We get something decent that the US doesn’t lol)
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