… and a cartoon character! Cool!


What were you in a past life?

Help! Get it off!

I’m sure everyone on the net has seen this already, but I haven’t… it made me laugh, and was the most interesting use of flash animation I’d seen since the Stick Fu sequence…

Meet the rabbit!!!

Speaking of such things, can anyone name the source for my new LJ icon? (Except raininva, who, being able to read my mind, is automagically disqualified.)

Ready to LAN Par-tay

Blizzard Entertainment announced their OS X 1.0.9d patches for both Diablo II and the Lord of Destruction expansion pack. The carbonized patch allows gamers to play the Classic Mac OS version of Diablo II in X and introduce their Barbarians and Necromancers to the world outside Classic.

Half-Life: what most computer gamers are lucky to have

I finally finished Deus Ex last night. It’s a computer game set in a cyberpunk near-future world where civilisation is completely dependent on a futuristic Internet, and a mysterious plague is ravaging humanity – though it seems to leave the rich and powerful untouched. You begin the game playing a technologically enhanced special agent for the UN Anti-Terrorist Organization, but by the end, your loyalties have shifted multiple times as you learn more about what’s really going on and who you really are.

At the end of the game, I had three choices (each of which would require some difficult gameplay):

1) Join myself to the master computer controlling and monitoring the Internet (as the bad guy had intended to), and help it rule the world, hopefully with compassion and ethics…

2) Shut down the computer and help the Illuminati (who aided me through the latter half of the game) to return to secretly manipulating humanity from behind the scenes – with myself as one of the new puppeteers…

3) Destroy the computer in a manner that would wipe out the future Internet and give the world the chance to choose its own path out of the mini-Dark Age which would follow.

In the end, I chose option 1. But boy did they leave themselves plot threads for Deus Ex 2, now in pre-production…

And of course, the week I finially get Deus Ex out of the way, Ambrosia Software releases Escape Velocity: Nova. If one owns a Macintosh, the Escape Velocity games are the kind of games where you sit down to play 30 minutes and come out of your hypnosis 6 hours later; this one’s the newest, prettiest, and plays under OS X…

…what’s that, Blizzard? You say you expect the OS X version of Diablo 2 to be ready in about 15 days? Nooooo….

Geek Moment!

So, I’m playing the 3D cyberpunk video game “Deus Ex” yesterday… I find a note that an engineer has left for his superior, alerting him that the new root password for the local computer system is “reindeerflotilla.”

I sit there and think, “That sounds so familiar… why is that familiar to me?”

Turns out it’s the internal level 6 password to the Emcon mainframe that Jeff Bridges uses in the movie “Tron.”

Why does my brain only store this stuff? Why can’t I remember anything useful?

Pre-lunchtime thoughts

The Macintosh SE gathering dust in my office is currently worth about $15 bucks on the open market. It was a $3700 system when it came out (thank Ghu I didn’t pay that.)

To prove my geek credentials, I got the Tron 20th Anniversary DVD a couple weeks ago. If that movie had nothing else (and many would say that it did have nothing else), it had great visuals that drew you in when the ‘story’ and ‘acting’ couldn’t. The art director for the film makes an interesting comment on the DVD, claiming “If we’d had the technology then to produce the realistic effects we can now, I’m not sure that the visual style would have been as memorable.”

Sometimes artistic beauty springs from limitations.

I’m also amused that the Light Cycle contest, a sequence took weeks of pre-rendering at the time, can now be rendered on the fly as a playable game by any competent desktop computer.

glTron screenshot

Ahhh… the technology curve.

I have been chosen to serve the MCP…

I really tried to resist posting yet another test result here… and, as you see, I failed miserably.

What Video Game Character Are You? I am a Light Cycle. I am a Light Cycle.

I drive fast, I turn fast, I do everything fast. I even breakfast. I tend to confuse people with my sudden changes of heart. Sometimes I even confuse myself, which tends to cause problems. What Video Game Character Are You?

I can’t say I think this one really got me right… I think Kong is closer. But hey, it’s an online test. 🙂

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