Showing posts with label web. Show all posts
Showing posts with label web. Show all posts
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
F@CK 4kids
A while back 4kids raped Once Piece and changed it into well....crap, and they continue to do this with other Anime every day. Finally the guys over at Yugioh the abridged series have taken on the stupidity of 4kids. ^_^
For those of you that dont (O_o How can you not know.) know what I am talking about: Editing and localization of anime or Encyclopediadramatica (Mature content warning).
For those of you that dont (O_o How can you not know.) know what I am talking about: Editing and localization of anime or Encyclopediadramatica (Mature content warning).
Monday, May 24, 2010
Who ever said that Google is not the little syster (Not a spelling error it's a sister system. :P ) of Skynet is a moron!!
https://chrome.google.com/webstore
During Google’s I/O conference, the company announced the Chrome Web Store. The Web Store is actually quite similar to many of the existing app stores for various mobile platforms. However, the one big distinction is that all of the apps can be run on your personal computer within the browser.
As reported, Google’s Chrome Web Store will be relying heavily on HTML5 to drive many of the apps that will be available for the store. The company demonstrated that with HTML5 even full blown 3D video games can be run via the browser. Google demonstrated Quake 2 running on HTML5. The game was shown running via the Chrome Web browser as it utilized the computer’s graphics video card.
Sundar Pichai VP of Product Management for Google stated that one of the most difficult things to do on the Web today is to find a good application. As an example, he stated that it is difficult to find a good chess game on the Web. The reason is because a search will return many hits with no clear indication as to which one is the best.
However, Pichai stated that this search is much easier to do on a mobile platform due to the application store front. According to Pichai this ease of usability is what Google wants to bring to the home computer.
This approach may also solve the problem many developers face when trying to market Web apps. Since consumers are so used to purchasing software off-the-shelf, many are still cautious of buying software off the Internet. There is a certain level of hassle involved with installing software onto the hard drive while worrying about requirements.
With off-the-shelf software there is always the guarantee that the consumer can go back to the store to get someone there to help them. However, this is not always the case for software purchased online.
Google is aiming to solve this issue by aggressively pushing cloud based applications, where the software lives on the could servers and can work instantly without hassle. Consumers can purchase and use an application without having to “install” anything onto the hard drive.
As demonstrated by Pichai during the I/O conference, consumers will be able to purchase an app and start using it immediately without a lengthy install or configuration. If Google is able to successfully deliver this solution, consumers may finally be able to take the plunge from off-the-shelf apps to Web apps.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore
During Google’s I/O conference, the company announced the Chrome Web Store. The Web Store is actually quite similar to many of the existing app stores for various mobile platforms. However, the one big distinction is that all of the apps can be run on your personal computer within the browser.
As reported, Google’s Chrome Web Store will be relying heavily on HTML5 to drive many of the apps that will be available for the store. The company demonstrated that with HTML5 even full blown 3D video games can be run via the browser. Google demonstrated Quake 2 running on HTML5. The game was shown running via the Chrome Web browser as it utilized the computer’s graphics video card.
Sundar Pichai VP of Product Management for Google stated that one of the most difficult things to do on the Web today is to find a good application. As an example, he stated that it is difficult to find a good chess game on the Web. The reason is because a search will return many hits with no clear indication as to which one is the best.
However, Pichai stated that this search is much easier to do on a mobile platform due to the application store front. According to Pichai this ease of usability is what Google wants to bring to the home computer.
This approach may also solve the problem many developers face when trying to market Web apps. Since consumers are so used to purchasing software off-the-shelf, many are still cautious of buying software off the Internet. There is a certain level of hassle involved with installing software onto the hard drive while worrying about requirements.
With off-the-shelf software there is always the guarantee that the consumer can go back to the store to get someone there to help them. However, this is not always the case for software purchased online.
Google is aiming to solve this issue by aggressively pushing cloud based applications, where the software lives on the could servers and can work instantly without hassle. Consumers can purchase and use an application without having to “install” anything onto the hard drive.
As demonstrated by Pichai during the I/O conference, consumers will be able to purchase an app and start using it immediately without a lengthy install or configuration. If Google is able to successfully deliver this solution, consumers may finally be able to take the plunge from off-the-shelf apps to Web apps.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
The Secret mission of the Terminator?
"We know things can get pretty hairy in the war between man and machine. Even in times of peace a foul-mouthed forum troll slagging off your favorite consumer electronics company can be too much to bear. But violence is never the answer. Yes, we're looking at you Mr. Down-on-his-luck series 800." - www.engadget.com
Watch the Leon Wang created story unfold below:
Mac's can go suck it!!
Watch the Leon Wang created story unfold below:
Mac's can go suck it!!
Monday, May 3, 2010
Dead Space 2
If you are a Dead Space fan like me this DS 2 should be on top of your DO WANT list!!
Pop over to deadspace.ea.com for some awesome goodies...or watch and download them below. ^_^ Please note I do not have all of the wallpapers posted here only the ones I am using. For all the real games out there: PC
Trailer:
"Engineer Isaac Clarke returns for another blood-curdling adventure in the sequel to the critically acclaimed Dead Space™. After waking from a coma on a massive space city known as "The Sprawl", the lone survivor of a horrific alien infestation finds
himself confronting a catastrophic new nightmare. Battling dementia, hunted by the government, and haunted by visions of his dead girlfriend, Isaac will do whatever it takes to save himself and dominate the gruesome onslaught. With an arsenal of tools
to dismember Necromorphs and new determination, an engineer will bring the terror to space."
Wallpapers:
Lastly for all those poor Facebook addicts: http://www.facebook.com/deadspace?v=app_4949752878
Pop over to deadspace.ea.com for some awesome goodies...or watch and download them below. ^_^ Please note I do not have all of the wallpapers posted here only the ones I am using. For all the real games out there: PC
Trailer:
"Engineer Isaac Clarke returns for another blood-curdling adventure in the sequel to the critically acclaimed Dead Space™. After waking from a coma on a massive space city known as "The Sprawl", the lone survivor of a horrific alien infestation finds
himself confronting a catastrophic new nightmare. Battling dementia, hunted by the government, and haunted by visions of his dead girlfriend, Isaac will do whatever it takes to save himself and dominate the gruesome onslaught. With an arsenal of tools
to dismember Necromorphs and new determination, an engineer will bring the terror to space."
Wallpapers:
Lastly for all those poor Facebook addicts: http://www.facebook.com/deadspace?v=app_4949752878
Friday, April 30, 2010
Max Lamb
Hexagonal Pewter Stool from Max Lamb on Vimeo.
GG For more Visit : http://maxlamb.org/ and use the dropdown on the left to navigate. ^_^
Thursday, April 22, 2010
What Polyhedral Die Are You?
You are a d4: You are bright, perceptive, and driven. You would be considered a blessing to mankind, if you didn't insist on using your powers for evil. You are devious, deceitful, doubtful, and downright dangerous. Assassins can learn a lot from you. If your fellow party members knew how rotten you were, they'd go over and join the bad guys. Justified or not, you are meticulous in your ways: A poison for every person, and a dagger for every back. Much of your day is spent scheming or plotting. The rest of your time is spent trying to convince others that you're simply misunderstood.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
Make your own Pocky!!!
Woot Finally!!
Pocky sticks are one of Asia's most popular snacks, and thanks to Bandai's DIY home Pocky machine you won't have to go to the store to get 'em.
Pocky, for those unfamiliar, are slim cookie sticks from Japan which have been dipped in a variety of different candy or confection coatings... and by "variety", I mean just about every flavoring one can imagine. Seriously, Pocky gives Kit Kat a run for their money when it comes to putting out new tasty flavors.
Slim, bite-sized and delicious, Pocky is just about the ideal snack but like everything, there's always room for improvement. Or so Bandai thought when brainstorming up the Pan de Quick-Roll Pocky-like Bread Snack Machine.
Get past the name, which is something of a mouthful, and you get everything you need to design and create your own custom Pocky sticks that most definitely ARE a mouthful.
The kit, which is available for 3,200 yen (about R255) from Tokyo's Strapya World, comes with a bread cutter, display stand, pallet, chocolate pot, chocolate pocket, roller, and a pair of decoration sticks.
Just follow the handy illustrated instructions and in no time you'll be enjoying homemade Pocky snacks. Rolling your own never tasted so good!
Pocky sticks are one of Asia's most popular snacks, and thanks to Bandai's DIY home Pocky machine you won't have to go to the store to get 'em.
Pocky, for those unfamiliar, are slim cookie sticks from Japan which have been dipped in a variety of different candy or confection coatings... and by "variety", I mean just about every flavoring one can imagine. Seriously, Pocky gives Kit Kat a run for their money when it comes to putting out new tasty flavors.
Slim, bite-sized and delicious, Pocky is just about the ideal snack but like everything, there's always room for improvement. Or so Bandai thought when brainstorming up the Pan de Quick-Roll Pocky-like Bread Snack Machine.
Get past the name, which is something of a mouthful, and you get everything you need to design and create your own custom Pocky sticks that most definitely ARE a mouthful.
The kit, which is available for 3,200 yen (about R255) from Tokyo's Strapya World, comes with a bread cutter, display stand, pallet, chocolate pot, chocolate pocket, roller, and a pair of decoration sticks.
Just follow the handy illustrated instructions and in no time you'll be enjoying homemade Pocky snacks. Rolling your own never tasted so good!
Friday, April 16, 2010
The Other Guys!
This looks awesome!!!
Columbia Pictures has brought online the teaser trailer for Adam McKay's action comedy The Other Guys, starring Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes, Michael Keaton, Steve Coogan, Ray Stevenson, Samuel L. Jackson and Dwayne Johnson.
Opening on August 6, The Other Guys follows Detective Allen Gamble (Ferrell), a forensic accountant who's more interested in paperwork than hitting the streets, and Detective Terry Hoitz (Wahlberg), who has been stuck with Allen as his partner ever since an embarrassing public incident with his quick trigger finger. Allen and Terry idolize the city's top cops, Danson and Manzetti (Johnson and Jackson), but when an opportunity arises for the Other Guys to step up, things don't quite go as planned.
Source: Yahoo! Movies
Columbia Pictures has brought online the teaser trailer for Adam McKay's action comedy The Other Guys, starring Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes, Michael Keaton, Steve Coogan, Ray Stevenson, Samuel L. Jackson and Dwayne Johnson.
Opening on August 6, The Other Guys follows Detective Allen Gamble (Ferrell), a forensic accountant who's more interested in paperwork than hitting the streets, and Detective Terry Hoitz (Wahlberg), who has been stuck with Allen as his partner ever since an embarrassing public incident with his quick trigger finger. Allen and Terry idolize the city's top cops, Danson and Manzetti (Johnson and Jackson), but when an opportunity arises for the Other Guys to step up, things don't quite go as planned.
Source: Yahoo! Movies
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Fun, Sex & ......... RPGs
I have been following Cassey Toi on twitter for some time now and its always a good way to start the day with a "HAPPY "what ever day it might be" ^_^ but I have recently started to read some of the stuff on her Wordpress. I just have to share this one. ^_^
Original Link: http://tenletter.wordpress.com/2008/09/21/fun-sex-rpgs/
21 September 2008
Fun, Sex & RPGs
Filed under: anime, gaming lifestyle, rpg — Tags: besm, romance, sexy — trashcondor @ 2:17 am
As j has pointed out on prior occasions; I tend to be on the more perverted side of life. This is great for me, but can on occasion be a bit much for player groups. In my opinion, however, there is a level of fun sexuality that is accessible to mostly everyone and that can also be appreciated by mostly everybody.
So allow me to illuminate what I mean by example. And to do so I’ll have to cover a bit of background. The epic City of the Gods campaign that we’ve been discussing in recent posts is great ofcoz – but there have been a great number of other campaigns that we’ve had. One specific campaign took place in the rule-space of BESM (third edition, I think).
To those not familiar to it: BESM – Big Eyes Small Mouth – is an anime-style role-playing rule set. The rules are very open-ended with respect to genre; so anything from sci-fi undead mecha, to historic samurai, high-school love romance or just plain slice-of-life is readily implementable in BESM.
The particular BESM campaign I have in mind was a lot of fun – and, similar to the City of Gods, the sessions were run by a different GM each time (often the DM would be determined by a twist of fate, such as throwing a dice at the end of one session). The setting was (mostly) modern normal, with a twist. (If any of you have seen Excel Saga… that could more-or-less be it.) But the genre varied a bit, or a lot, with each DM/session. So one session might be a harem-anime, the next a cyber-crime investigation – just the characters were a constant.
Which made for great role-playing diversity; since often a character would be completely ill-built for the particular genre of session that was being played.
But I digress a bit much… to get back on track. Since we were doing a fun modern anime style environment, and we kind of thought of the sessions as “episodes”, and naturally anime tends to be a bit formulaic, so it was obvious to me that I had to DM the Beach Episode: the entire point of the session was the characters having an off-day at the beach. Some minor plot detail was thrown in as well, but 70% of the session was designed to merely be frolicking about.
This is also where the healthy fun sexy bits come in. (J, be thankful, I think that sentence will make the blog skyrocket on the Google searches.)
A lot of the fun was in creating stereotypical events on the beach that would have the typical anime hero get gushing nose bleeds. I believe it was pb that ended up changing into a good dozen or so different swimming costumes/bikinis in the course of the session (as each set would somehow be rendered unusable – and each new set was described in exquisite and loving and sexy detail by pb). Throw in the odd ballgames, watermelon hunting, ice scream and the other usual details and you got yourself a meaningless but very fun day at the beach.
Not to mention – put a bunch of erratic weird anime characters (with vastly differing personalities and abilities) on a beach, and it doesn’t take long for them to come up with a myriad of ways to entertain themselves and give the whole event a spin that is unique.
I think this kind of environment (the beach) is a perfect setting to instill a sense of sex in players, as the characters are confronted with their gender realities when everybody is running around in skin-generous beachwear. Sure, this isn’t romance – but that isn’t what it is about: sexyness is a momentary, fleeting aspect of RPGing; whereas romance has the benefit of slow, gradual unfolding over the course of a campaign.
Where eroticism can be readily instilled at mostly any time – romance is something that blossoms independent of any input. Possibly between player characters, or maybe between players and NPCs. I guess it is fine to fabricate a romance between two NPCs, but this is primarily a plot device or background story – when romance happens naturally between player characters (and possibly a NPC) then there is a sense of reality and a measure of severity that gives a subtle sense of gravitas to the gaming sessions. Or at least a bit of a soap opera.
…uhm… guess it’s time to finish the post :P – until next time, remember that succubi aren’t merely something to slay.
Original Link: http://tenletter.wordpress.com/2008/09/21/fun-sex-rpgs/
21 September 2008
Fun, Sex & RPGs
Filed under: anime, gaming lifestyle, rpg — Tags: besm, romance, sexy — trashcondor @ 2:17 am
As j has pointed out on prior occasions; I tend to be on the more perverted side of life. This is great for me, but can on occasion be a bit much for player groups. In my opinion, however, there is a level of fun sexuality that is accessible to mostly everyone and that can also be appreciated by mostly everybody.
So allow me to illuminate what I mean by example. And to do so I’ll have to cover a bit of background. The epic City of the Gods campaign that we’ve been discussing in recent posts is great ofcoz – but there have been a great number of other campaigns that we’ve had. One specific campaign took place in the rule-space of BESM (third edition, I think).
To those not familiar to it: BESM – Big Eyes Small Mouth – is an anime-style role-playing rule set. The rules are very open-ended with respect to genre; so anything from sci-fi undead mecha, to historic samurai, high-school love romance or just plain slice-of-life is readily implementable in BESM.
The particular BESM campaign I have in mind was a lot of fun – and, similar to the City of Gods, the sessions were run by a different GM each time (often the DM would be determined by a twist of fate, such as throwing a dice at the end of one session). The setting was (mostly) modern normal, with a twist. (If any of you have seen Excel Saga… that could more-or-less be it.) But the genre varied a bit, or a lot, with each DM/session. So one session might be a harem-anime, the next a cyber-crime investigation – just the characters were a constant.
Which made for great role-playing diversity; since often a character would be completely ill-built for the particular genre of session that was being played.
But I digress a bit much… to get back on track. Since we were doing a fun modern anime style environment, and we kind of thought of the sessions as “episodes”, and naturally anime tends to be a bit formulaic, so it was obvious to me that I had to DM the Beach Episode: the entire point of the session was the characters having an off-day at the beach. Some minor plot detail was thrown in as well, but 70% of the session was designed to merely be frolicking about.
This is also where the healthy fun sexy bits come in. (J, be thankful, I think that sentence will make the blog skyrocket on the Google searches.)
A lot of the fun was in creating stereotypical events on the beach that would have the typical anime hero get gushing nose bleeds. I believe it was pb that ended up changing into a good dozen or so different swimming costumes/bikinis in the course of the session (as each set would somehow be rendered unusable – and each new set was described in exquisite and loving and sexy detail by pb). Throw in the odd ballgames, watermelon hunting, ice scream and the other usual details and you got yourself a meaningless but very fun day at the beach.
Not to mention – put a bunch of erratic weird anime characters (with vastly differing personalities and abilities) on a beach, and it doesn’t take long for them to come up with a myriad of ways to entertain themselves and give the whole event a spin that is unique.
I think this kind of environment (the beach) is a perfect setting to instill a sense of sex in players, as the characters are confronted with their gender realities when everybody is running around in skin-generous beachwear. Sure, this isn’t romance – but that isn’t what it is about: sexyness is a momentary, fleeting aspect of RPGing; whereas romance has the benefit of slow, gradual unfolding over the course of a campaign.
Where eroticism can be readily instilled at mostly any time – romance is something that blossoms independent of any input. Possibly between player characters, or maybe between players and NPCs. I guess it is fine to fabricate a romance between two NPCs, but this is primarily a plot device or background story – when romance happens naturally between player characters (and possibly a NPC) then there is a sense of reality and a measure of severity that gives a subtle sense of gravitas to the gaming sessions. Or at least a bit of a soap opera.
…uhm… guess it’s time to finish the post :P – until next time, remember that succubi aren’t merely something to slay.
Monday, April 12, 2010
twitterfeed.com
Right I had a few people ask me to set up some sort of twitter / blog link thingy.
So I am testing out twitterfeed.com for now.
So......test test keep an eye on twitter for all those that follow me on twitter. ^_^
I set the thing up to update every half an hour so will see if the link pops up on twitter in half an hours time.
Your welcome Alison. :P
So I am testing out twitterfeed.com for now.
So......test test keep an eye on twitter for all those that follow me on twitter. ^_^
I set the thing up to update every half an hour so will see if the link pops up on twitter in half an hours time.
Your welcome Alison. :P
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