Power Sucking Consoles

No response, Nov 20, 2008

Digg: Report: Want to be a green gamer? Turn off your console

The National Resources Defense Council has a released a report revealing that a) your game consoles can greatly increase your annual electricity bill, and b) there are some very simple steps one can take to avoid such costs.

read more | digg story

A nice little article which I think is worth a read.

As a home owner, I really notice the power that is being used up and so does my wallet. Mind you, owning an Xbox 360 can be conceived as efficient as it doubles as a heater!

Laters.

The iPhone will not accidentally email photos of your dick

No response, Nov 18, 2008

Digg: The iPhone will not accidentally email photos of your dick

Men, be careful with the lies your tell your wives.

read more | digg story

Funny post about a woman who’s husban told her that the phone was taking pictures of his crotch and then emailed it to random people. So she tries to help by posting the issue on a forum and finds out that there is no such bug!

Good for a quick laugh.

Laters.

Splatterhouse Trailer

No response, Oct 29, 2008

Just awesome! It’s a sneak preview trailer of the new Splatterhouse game!

I think this will be just awesome, even if it gets a 50% average in reviews, to me it will be awesome.

Used to play this game a lot (mainly watching) my bro at the pub and absolutely loved it. Got both the originals on Wii VC.

I all schoolgirl-esq now!

Laters.

Fallout Retrospective

No response, Oct 26, 2008

One of the main games I’m looking forward to playing this Fall/Winter season is Fallout 3. I’ve decided to get on the PS3 mainly due to the fact that I didn’t like Oblivion on the 360 due to thinking the controller was a bit clumsy for the game, so heres hoping that the PS3 performs better. 

But I’ve just finished watching a retrospective on Gametrailers.com and it’s really got me worked up to get it now and not wait around. But it has also got me wanting the original Fallout games! 

Here’s the video:

I know it says nothing on Fallout 3, but it does make you want it more!

P.S. I am annoyed that I haven’t got Dead Space yet, but I shall get it in the very near future for some night time gaming!

Laters

There is a reason if this is badly written…

No response, Oct 23, 2008

.. and it’s lesson in why you should always look after your vision! 

I’m normally one for writing blogs based on humor, and the humor being of a satire. But this time round, it’s more of a slapstick nature as to why I can read what I’m writing very well and why keeping my eyes open for longer than 30 seconds without heavy blinking… hurts. My only saving grace writing this is Safari’s spell checker putting a feint, blurry line below incorrect words and the girlie reading over my shoulder telling me it’s spell incorrectly - if you must know, she’s reading it right now!

So last night I’m sat there playing a new game, Mercenaries 2, on the PS3. Girlie had gone to bed which meant I could have some fun rather than get excited watching Lara Croft running around in something she picked up from Ann Summers…  *ahem*. So there I was taking out some army dudes when half the screen goes blurry; one of the lenses falls out of my glasses (those who know may not know that I do in fact wear glasses). It appears that glasses purchased for £18 in total from Asda aren’t meant to last for 4-5 years clearly. So I am left to do the obvious and play the rest of the mission with my contacts that my eyes are starting to reject being so late in the evening.

Fast forward to today. My eyes are kinda weary and I’d love to do nothing other but take my contacts out and wear glasses while playing some video games. But alas, as I said, Asda failed me. So I go ahead and play for a bit only to notice my eyes are, once again, starting to reject the contact (by this I mean I can’t focus correctly with them in as my eyes are getting tired). Pissed off I work out a way of keeping the lens in the glasses (not without texting a flat mate if the had some super-glue), and so I walk into the bath room and try to take out my contacts. Being an idiot I forgot I only but 45 minutes ago was cutting a chili to have in a spicy sandwich. So my eyes start to burn like hell and I’m in agony.

After many eye drops and stamping my feet, the chili wears off and I get to a point of just sitting down and letting my eyes settle. Go off to get my glasses, to my temp fix and start gaming again.

Friends turn up with some super-glue and I am most chuffed! 

Go back with dodgy glasses and play some more game before heading off to bed. So I think “Now would be a good time to sort out my glasses properly”. So I go ahead and get the girlie to help me put super-glue on, but there is a slight issue… the glue isn’t coming out. So thinking I’m not squeezing hard enough, so the girlie has a go. Passing it to her and rubbing my hands a bit I say to the girlie “do you hands feel funny?”
“Yeah… why?” she responds.
“May need to wash our hands!”

Turns out it was a new tube of super-glue and the top wasn’t peirced so it came out of the bottom! So before the glue sticks we wash it off and I have a final stab at the glasses…

[ now writing after work the next day ]

Well, I managed to get one of the chili contacts in and the other had to get thrown away due to the chili being intense, so I’ve now got 1 spare contact to last me for another month! But I’ve ordered some glasses now, and pretty cool ones.

Osiris 597

Osiris 597

 

Osiris 646

Osiris 646

Maybe a bit geeky looking, but that’s what I am really.

So that’s my little adventure into eye safety! Hope you learned and know to have a spare pair of glasses and never use a chili as a way of trying to fake a cold… what?

Later.

Toronto Zombie Walk 2008

No response, Oct 21, 2008

That time of year has passed again in Toronto; the Toronto Zombie Walk. 

I wanted to go this year after seeing pic from last year. Just one of those events that really appeals to me in that weird way. 

So here are my favorite pics from WVS‘ 2008 Toronto Zombie Walk set on flickr!

2008 Toronto Zombie Walk - http://tr.im/h6o

Patient Zombie

2008 Toronto Zombie Walk - http://tr.im/h6o

Grabbing Zombie

Bad Wedding Day Zombie Bride (from http://tr.im/h6o)

Bad Wedding Day Zombie Bride

Also worthy of a note: awesome pumpkin cravings!

Laters.

Too Many Games

No response, Oct 20, 2008

There was a point over the last couple of months that there wasn’t many games out that I really wanted, it kinda got stale to the point even Zero Punctuation’s Yahtzee noticed this a while back and it has stayed the same since.

But starting the end of this month (and already to be honest), some great games are coming out and quiet frankly, it’s pissing me off as I need to stay off a degree for x-mas and money… So let me round off what I want at the moment! (I’ve put the console that I would get it for just as a choice really)

  • Little Big Planet [PS3]
    - the girlie pre-ordered this for us so we are getting it, but still want it now (delayed till 3 of November now though…)
  • Fallout 3 [PS3]
    - looks awesome, and I want to get it for the PS3 just because I prefer the PS3 for RPG type games and I didn’t get along with Oblivion on the X360
  • Star Ocean: First Departure [PSP]
    - after spending an ungodly amount getting Star Ocean 2 for the PlayStation a few months ago, I’ve fallen back in love with the games, plus this will be the first official English language release of the game!
  • Silent Hill: Homecoming [PS3]
    - I love the Silent Hill games (and also the film) and this looks to be just as good as all the rest, but I still need to play Silent Hill 4: The Room still, and complete Origins (for the PSP)
  • Fable 2 [X360]
    - more for the girlie, but still looking very good; just wonder if they sorted out if you want to be up-front nice, then down-right dirty evil… I’m a middle of the road sort of guy.
  • Gears of War 2 [X360]
    - the first one was good fun, never got into the multiplayer, but this one is set to be really awesome 
  • Final Fantasy IV [DS]
    - it’s Final Fantasy, I may already have it but it’s a new version!
  • Final Fantasy Tactics A2 [DS]
    - again, Final Fantasy so I have to have it… haven’t played the first Tactics yet on the PSP after having it since release

So that’s about it, every system but the Wii… oh wait

  • Animal Crossing: Let’s Go To The City [Wii]
    - it’s cute and looks fun! Maybe should say too much on this on…

The girlie has pre-ordered Tomb Raider: Underworld for the PS3, which looks very good, not much a fan on the Tomb Raider but might give this one a go when it come.

Laters.

Who is Atom that MC Lars thinks is Awesome? [Trivia]

No response, Aug 28, 2008

Unless you heard MC Lars’ Radio Pet Fencing album (which you can download for free), you may not get this post much, but it may still be worth a read as I name drop a few good punk-style bands in this. If you.

So any way; on the Radio Pet Fencing album, there is a song called “Atom You’re Awesome” in that MC Lars sings about how he likes this guys “new wave synth-punk“. I never took in the lyrics or anything like that, I second-guessed it maybe a song about Atom Willard, but as second-guessing goes, that was no way near.

Any way, to take a side-note; I’m kinda a fan of the Australian Punk scene in that I am into bands such as 28 Days, The Living End and Frenzal Rhomb, and while do a bit of research on other Punk bands in Australia I came across an interesting one called Yidcore. These guys are a bunch of Jews that decided to use culture influences in their music; so there’s this distinct Yiddish Punk Rock sound out of them. Any way, I’m getting quiet into these guys listening to some of their songs on MySpace and start watching their YouTube videos.

One video of theirs I come across is called “Happy New Year Atom“. It’s about a dude who does this Geek Punk Rock thing with a synth called His Package… I click on a video called ”I’m Downright Amazed at What I Can Destroy With Just a Hammer” and I’m like Damn, this really sounds like MC Lars, and thusly the song “Atom Your Awesome” kicks into my head.

So who this Atom dude who MC Lars thinks is awesome is Atom and His Package (aka Adam Goren).

Reason I know it’s this dude in particular is just based off one line in the song

The package’s synth lines are up in my face.

And that’s how we know this is the dude! Good huh?

Unfortunately, Atom and his Package are now retired (since August 2003), and now playing for a band called Armalite. I’ll be talking more about him in another blog post (along with a post about Yidcore).

So that’s it, a little trivia about MC Lars and who this Atom guy is; as I see weird bits like this, I will be sure to post them, I know it’s short, but it gave you some insight into different bands and given me idea for other posts. So keep any eye out!

Laters.

Starting on Design

No response, Aug 18, 2008

I’ve started to make a move on designing something for two3Studio. I’ve also move the blog away from the subdomain to the main domain for two reasons.

1. For SEO reasons, it’s classed as a different site all-together, so I will loose PR. So I’ve made a move that links in with number two. (hat-tip Steve for that bit of info)

2. I’m going to use Wordpress as a CMS (Content Management System) to handle the site.

I keep thinking about possibly writing my own CMS from scratch, but then I kept on thinking about what I loose out in respect to the plugins and iPhone applications, the pings and just general handling of all the admin stuff. This way any who, I can just work on the design site of things that I’m really enjoying now and not worry about back-end worries that comes with creating a worrying back-end system… worryingly.

The general idea of the design is a cross on vector and grunge look. I won’t try and over do it, but I want something a bit special looking. Will post previews as the come though ;)

Laters.

Got Braid?

No response, Aug 13, 2008

It seems as if everybody is going nuts over Braid at the moment, and what can I say, after being told to get it, I got it. 

So basically, it’s a time-traveling style puzzle game, so you have to move time forwards and backwards to complete the puzzles.

It’s a little weird at first, but once you get the hang of it, you really start to think “out-side the box” (sorry for the corporate slang). It’s not that 2D either, in the sense of the puzzles, as some elements you are restricted by your time but are their own time element. For instances, one of the puzzles you need to stop time and start it again to make two objects crash into each other at the right time to pass through. 

It’s on Xbox Live at the moment, but it’s well worth a download and at only £12, it’s a nice and cheap for something this unique. But they are hoping to release it for the PS3 soon too; so no excuse then… unless you only have a Wii. PC gamers? Bah, that’s soon any way! As always…

Laters.