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Friday 10 September 2010

Buy your own super villain lair online now!

Have you been dreaming of becoming a super villain? Is the only think holding you back the fact that you don’t have a kickass stronghold?  
If you are going to demand that world governments bow before you and you are doing it from your mom’s basement, they are just going to laugh at you.  
What you need is one of these ultra modern real-life super villain lairs.



These innocuous looking buildings are actually nuclear missile bases in disguise! Above ground they don’t look like anything spectacular but below ground it is a different story. They consist of reinforced concrete structures that continues deep under ground where they used to house nuclear missiles.


The US army does not need these bases anymore and are selling them to the public. Misslebases.com has several of these old nuclear bases for sale. They go for anything from $200 000 to $2 million.  

Ultra luxurious on the inside, you can now send your demands to world governments in style!

Thursday 12 August 2010

Bono teams up with Spiderman

Bono teams up with Spiderman

 
A Spiderman stage production with music written by Bono? Now, I have officially seen everything.
 
 
 

Tuesday 29 June 2010

How to steal designs - a beginners guide

How to steal designs - a beginners guide


I recently needed to steal the look and feel from somebody else’s design, wait, I meant, I admired the look and feel and wondered what font they were using.

To find out what font they are using I found a tool on the website: http://www.identifont.com/
To identify the font they start by asking you various questions about the font, they also display images to help you understand the questions better.


After asking the questions they recommend fonts that are similar to the one you are looking at.

It is a quick and easy way to find that font you are looking for.

Thursday 24 June 2010

A tale of two New York cities

A tale of two New York cities


I imagine that the people of New York live their lives in absolute fear. They spend their lives running from cover to cover because at any given moment there is some monster mercilessly hunting them down. 

Alone in the Dark and Prototype are both set in the city of New York. In both games you wake up after being experimented on. In both games the experiment goes wrong and the citizens of New York get butchered. 
In part one of this article, I will review Alone in the Dark. Next week in part two, I will take a look at Prototype.

Alone in the Dark



I obtained a copy of Alone in the Dark and immediately regretted it. To be fair… I think the game was really designed for the X-Box / PS3 controller and not the PC keyboard.
To control your character is just impossible. Literally every key on the keyboard is assigned some action. Think I am kidding? Even the print screen button does something. Some of the actions are useless, for example x blinks your eyes (what!?).  Trying to hit all the keys you look like Jerry Lee Lewis playing piano. (Previous sentence might contain hyperbole)
The first level you play has you jumping from rock to rock like a Super Mario Brother and with the keyboard; it is just not possible to control your character. I kept falling over stuff and off stuff and soon just gave up.

Maybe the game gets better later on and maybe if I tried for 125 more hours to learn how to control my fall-down-drunk character the game could have been fun, but I simply don’t have the patience.

 

 

Friday 11 June 2010

Alone in the dark still sucks.


Remember when I reviewed Alone in the Dark (AITD) and called it a piece of shit? The game really sucks but I gave it some benefit of the doubt, I played it on a PC but the game seemed to be designed specifically for a console.

Well, I played it on an Xbox and the game is still a piece of shit.

A hallmark of horror / survival games is the fact that the controls are hard to use. The developers purposely make you feel clumsy, you feel out of control, if that monster attacks now you won’t be able to escape, you will be doomed. This mechanic heightens your sense of fear, but the AITD developers confused fear with annoyance and mind numbing boredom. The controls for this game are so clunky doing the smallest of tasks is a chore.

Then for some reason the developers felt that it was necessary to spontaneously change the camera angle for no reason while you are walking. Walking along minding your own business and BAM suddenly you are staring straight up the dude’s backside. Or at his legs, or his forehead, etc, etc. it really sucks. This game sucks. Don’t bother spending your valuable resources on it. Don’t bother wasting your valuable bandwidth pirating it. Avoid!

Monday 10 May 2010

Tell the whole world what you are doing

Tell the whole world what you are doing

 
Xbox Live Logo.

I am new to Xbox Live. Only got it last week. Keep that info in the back of your mind when you read this.  

I was playing Pac-man on my Xbox when I received a text message – “Dude you suck”. Puzzled, I strike back with this clever reply – “huh?” In return I got, “Pac-man is for losers”. Shit. Apparently other people can see what you are doing on your Xbox, I did not know that. If only I was doing something manly like watching porn or something, but I got caught red handed playing Pac-man. Embarrassing. 

Turns out, Xbox Live is even more intrusive than Facebook. You can fine tune your privacy settings but by default people can see everything. They can see what games you have been playing and they can actually see how you are faring with the game.  

From now on only manly hard-core games like Gears of War and Batman for me! 


Stupid Boom Boom Rockets
Gonna miss you Boom Boom Rockets!

Thursday 18 February 2010

Apple is watching you...

Apple is watching you...


Apple patents software that will punish you if you do not watch their advertisements...

I don’t like watching TV. Too many advertisements. It is none stop, but I can understand that. The money the advertisers spend, gives me the opportunity to watch the program for free. (Kind of free, anyway).

 
So the deal is, I watch advertisements and in return, I don’t have to pay every time I watch South Park. So I think it is fair to say that when I pay to watch something I don’t have to watch advertisements or at least get the option to not skip the adds.
 
The other day I bought the Sin City dvd. I have seen the movie years ago and really loved it so now I want to see it again. Problem is when you play the dvd, it starts out with about 20 minutes of unskippable advertisements. Clicking the menu buttons does nothing, you shall watch all 20 minutes of uninteresting shit.
 
Luckily, I can decide that in 20 minutes from now, I might feel like watching Sin City so I can put the dvd in, go make some popcorn, come back later and enjoy the movie.
 
Of course, somewhere in the world, someone is sitting, thinking that shit is unacceptable. How dare they not watch the things they don’t want to watch! I shall MAKE them watch. (Reminds me of a scene in Sin City).
 
The person is not Lex Luther but Steve Jobs from Apple. He has filed a patent for a program that measures your response to an advertisement and if your response is not what Steve wanted, that program will shut down your device till you respond.
 
The idea is, until you watch their ad, you can’t listen to music on your iPod or make calls from your iPhone.

Thursday 11 February 2010

Wow, are we behind or what?


Google, the number one company on the internet, might one day become the internet.
They are aiming to create a 1-gigabit-per-second network. This network will be a 100 times faster than any other network in the USA.
 
The plans are still hazy and more of a dream than a reality but Google intends to construct a test network for 50 000 to 500 000 users.
 
If this goes from dream to reality, anybody in South Africa with a website that hoped to compete internationally can kiss their dreams goodbye.
 
Now would be a really great time for Telkom to wake the hell up or soon we are going to be so far behind that catching up will be a nightmare.
 

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