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I love me some scoble blogo-drama

proj — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 20:17:08 +0000

For whatever reason I love lurking in on some blogo-drama or usenet intraflamefest and must share little tidbits when I come across them. Like this scoble vs valleywag business which I find totally hilarious. The article is not really the center piece of the entertainment, scroll down to the comments. I don’t have any problem with scoble per-se except that he is a complete corporate shill. I’m sure he realizes that though right?

uNF Dell uNF

proj — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 05:22:44 +0000

Still waiting for my laptop to come back from Dell. If you ever have to go through ‘out of warranty’ service you’ll know the pain I’m in. I had to pay almost $600 for a diagnostic, new motherboard and other little stuff like USB ports. You can almost buy a new laptop with that kinda money these days. So then they send it back and it boots but there is a periodic static sound coming out of the speakers. And the sound grows strong when the GPU is humming.. lovely. So I send it back (It’s under 90 day repair warranty luckily) and I get it back the next morning in the mail. Manifest says that they replaced CPU fan and heatsink. Makes sense but they didn’t spend the time to test this out. It’s like going to see the doctor and having him take out your spleen and send you home without even giving you a customary pat down! Problem persists so they have it again. Once I get it back I hope to have some stuff fixed and running.

If you buy a Dell laptop expect it to break just after your 1yr warranty expires. Murphy’s Law right? Is it actually possible to engineer that principle into a timer device and install it laptops?

I’ve picked up some new games as of late: Dragon Quest Heros: Rocket Slime This game is really cute, my daughter loved this one so much she deleted my adventure log. Tank battles are fun, you can make your own ammo using a synthing system to improve the damage of your tank. It’s cute real-time old school type feel is a great fit for the DS.

Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2 I liked the last one on GBA much better, you actually controlled a very agile Mario and the toys followed him. Too much janky pen action in this one Hasn’t really grabbed my attention yet.

Bubble Bobble Revolution Do not buy this game for the revolution. Only buy this if you’re willing to spend 30 bux for the old school version. What was codemasters thinking? They screwed up something that could have been really great.. Like New Super Mario Bro’s great.

N3 I picked this up for $25. A pretty good deal I think. I like mindless beat-em-ups and this one seems to have a much more developed fighting system over Dynasty Warriors. Like all games of this type they are 100x funner with a friend. I’m not sure if it supports online co-op.

And speaking of co-op, Gears is just around the corner.

Jeff Minter Gets His Llama Print Undies in a Bunch

proj — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 05:15:00 +0000

So it’s been picked up on the indie gaming sites and beyond that Jeff Minter is working on a new game. I thought this was interesting in as much as the guy is an interesting character and I respect his seniority and work in the industry. Also, talking with some some other programmers around the office I heard some strange rumors when he was submitting early builds of neon to our group.

Rumor #1: There were some llamas that popped up and we made him take them out. Rumor #2: There are still llama shapped buffers/backplanes used in the visualizer.

So tonight I followed a jump to his blog where he posted some test particle screenshots. These shots came out before the vids that clearly show he’s doing a very tempest-like game. Now if you go and read the comments a fellow going by the name alanc5 asks him if he’s just doing another tempest clone and Jeff flies off the handle. Alan has posted some retorts on his blog. I feel that Minter could have handled this much better than he did. Luckily nobody knows or cares about any of the stuff I’m working on so I will likely not have to prove that out

Jeff is doing another tempest-y type thing which is boring but fine really yet he never did admit the guy called him out on it before he even showed off the game play. Alan might apparently have a history of goating Minter but at least he doesn’t back down even when the whole yakyak forums come crashing down on him. I feel kinda bad for the guy.

Funny Quotes From IRC

proj — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:04:00 +0000

There are a bunch of great IRC quotes on this bash.org. This one had me in stiches:

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Rabidplaybunny87: Okay, so my neighbors officially hate me GarbageStan23: why? Rabidplaybunny87: Well, me, david and andrew were having a bonfire in the backyard, and we were making s’mores and all… and suddenly we here sirens, and see a firetruck turn into the street in front of us. Rabidplaybunny87: So we all went running to see what was up, and our neigbor’s house was on fire! GarbageStan23: oh shit! Rabidplaybunny87: Yeah, and when we got there, the wife was crying into her husbands arms, and we were just kinda standing there, and then she saw us, and then like for 10 seconds, gave us the dirtiest look ever Rabidplaybunny87: Turns out, we were still holding our sticks with marshmallows on it, watching the fire…. Rabidplaybunny87: talk about bad timing…