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Wednesday, March 03

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Three Minutes And Fifty Three Seconds Of My Life That I'll Never Get Back

And for once I'm totally fine with that.



Click on it and go to YouTube for versions up to 1080p.

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Tuesday, February 16

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I Want One!

TI BlazeScrew the iPad.  This is the future.

On the one hand, it's a huge clunky thing.

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On the other hand, it's a development platform, not a consumer device; it has two 800x480 touchscreens, HDMI out, and a built-in DLP projector; it has two five-megapixel cameras at front and a twelve-megapixel camera at rear; a dual-core 1.2GHz Arm Cortex A9 (superscalar out-of-order SMP); accelerometer, compass, ambient light, proximity, barometric and temperature sensors; Wifi, Bluetooth, and GPS; and easy and open access to all the electronics, networking, and software.

Tech's slate (from the Accountancy story further down) isn't that much more advanced than this beastie.

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Free At Last!

EA have just earned themselves brownie points with millions of gamers by re-releasing three of the older Command and Conquer games - Red Alert, Tiberian Dawn, and Tiberian Sun - free.

Get downloading!

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Sunday, February 14

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Stuff



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Come to think of it, I need to redo them to insert Jy and Pi.  So there may be another colour shift coming.

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Tuesday, February 02

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Olazimir!*

Civilizations Wars is like a cross between Phage Wars (population and combat mechanics) and Gemcraft (main map, skill levels and unlockable game modes).  In itself, that's no bad thing: Phage Wars has a neat combat system and Gemcraft is a solid tower-defence game with a great campaign and skill structure around it.

But Civilizations Wars doesn't look like Phage Wars or Gemcraft.  It looks like this:

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Opening credits...  In a Flash game?

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Awesome opening credits at that.

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When three tribes go to war...

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Yay turtles!

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Replaying the first map, mopping up the last of the Roman-type tribe.  You can see a bunch of my Golems at left, being utterly ineffectual.

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My Egypt-type armies are on the move!

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It smells like...  victory!

It's a fun mini-4X game with some really cool artwork.  Definitely worth taking a look.

* Well, that's what it sounds like they're saying.

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Monday, February 01

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Little Ninja Pixy, Hopping Through The Forest

You search for ingredients, and find: The Right Stuff (2), Potion Base (3), Power Flower (17), Nightshade (9), Apple-y Goodness (3), Glowing Goo (4), Smokeblossom (7), Tasty Twig (17), Malted Pill (5), Twigpile (5), Powerpack (8), Ashen Film (8), Bitter Powder (4), Dayshade (2), Ebony Sand (2), Monochrome Flower (4), Milkshake (5), Stark Moonlight (5)! +110 Stamina

Only two Dayshades?

To explain: This is from Billy vs. Snakeman, that silly ninja game I mentioned a while back.  What you see here is the result of an unleashed Geothermal Acclimator, combined with a White Eye Sannin, a Forest Trail, a Zodiac Zoo, a Fruits Basket, a Quiet Glade, and a MegaTrail Mix. (I lucked out in the Arena and Dark Hour was active and I won 25 out of 28 battles, which put me just over the 10,000 Reputation I needed for the MegaTrail Mix.)  I think that's about the best one-shot ingredient-collecting combination you can get.

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Sunday, January 31

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Sold!

Ho hum, yet another game download service.  I already have Steam for the new stuff, GOG for the old stuff, and Impulse for the sprawling intergalactic battlefleet stuff.

Waitaminute.  They have A-Train 8!

But it's $30!

But it's A-Train 8!

But it's yet another download service I need to sign up on!

But it's A-Train 8!

But A-Train 9 is due out in a couple of weeks - in Japan anyway - and it looks freakin' awesome(Bandwidth warning!  Link takes you to a page full of 4-megapixel images of really cool toy cities!)

But it's A-Train...  You know, that does look pretty amazing.

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The Onion

Visionaries, or just stating the bleedin' obvious?

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Saturday, January 23

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More Pudding

Lots more pudding.

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Sunday, January 17

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Laugh While You Can, Monkey-Boy!





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Saturday, January 02

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Steaming

Today's offers on Steam: Mass Effect for $5 (excellent game, though it suffers from the usual Bioware Empty Universe Syndrome), and all 11 games in the recent Sam and Max series for $15.

I don't really need another copy of Mass Effect, but I'd been thinking of picking up the Sam and Max games, so I did.

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Friday, January 01

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And Again

I'm spending way too much money on Steam this holiday season, but since I didn't buy myself anything else for Christmas (apart from some triple-cream King Island Brie, and that was on special...  oh, and Ponyo, but that's a medical expense* and was also on special), and since the total amount is equal to maybe three new-release games at retail price, it's not a real problem.

Though I have now messed up four times and bought a game and then followed up by buying a pack that includes that game.  Which has cost me, let's see, $16.50.  (Actually one of those was buying a pack that was included in a larger pack...)

But then, to pick one example, for the cost of one new release game (US$75, where a new game typically costs A$80-100), I'm getting 9 games and expansion packs that I actually want, and a further 10 that could be interesting and generally received good reviews.  The most expensive single game so far has cost me $13.59; the cheapest $1.99.  (Well, $1.49, but that was one of the ones I ended up buying twice.)

When I will actually find time to play any of these is a different matter; I hardly have time right now for Bubble Tanks Tower Defense or Billy vs. Snakeman.  But I now have tactical and/or strategic wargames covering every epoch from ancient Greece and Rome through Medieval, Renaissance and Enlightenment Europe to WWII and WWIII (had the Cold War run hot), plus a whole slew of real-time and turn-based fantasy and science-fiction wargames, for a near limitless supply of virtual baddies to virtually dissassemble.**

No Crusades or Mongol Hordes, and no Civil War or WWI, though they seem to be the only major gaps post-Bronze-Age.

Mostly RTS or tactical, but also a scattering of RPG, a couple of FPS, and a selection of indie/casual games.

Now I just need to download them all.  Never mind playing them, it's going to take a week just to download them.

Update: Added them all up.  237GB.

* Ghibli films are cheap, keep me sane, and have few harmful side-effects. I really should be able to claim them on my insurance...

** What was the last major wargame I played?  C&C Generals maybe?  In that game you could play as America, China, or as the filthy terrorists.  I played mostly as America, occasionally as China.  I don't really see much appeal in playing as the terrorists, or as Nazi Germany, as at least three of my new purchases allow.  I want to squish the bad guys.

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Sunday, December 27

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Baldur's Gate 3

Little Warden Pixy, running through the Deep Roads,
Picking up the darkspawn and bopping them on the head!
When down came the demon godmother...

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Saturday, December 19

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Torchlit

If anyone is interested in a pretty neat Diablo clone by some of the original Diablo developers, Torchlight is only $10 on Steam this weekend.

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Tuesday, December 08

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Premakes

Awesome.



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Friday, December 04

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Getting The Important Things Right

Torchlight ticks a box - better equipment should look better.

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It's magic armour, okay?

...

Maybe it works by distraction.

P.S. Right-hand gun fires poison bullets, left-hand gun fires electrically charged ones, like a sort of non-non-lethal taser.

P.P.S.  I'm sure the aim of the game isn't just to collect items to make your character look cool.

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Pretty sure.

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Monday, November 30

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Image Samples

With a kitten.

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Sunday, November 29

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FilterFrog!

Forge.  I mean, Filter Forge.

For $49 (it's currently half price; I paid $99) you get 6702 Photoshop filters.

Not all of them are useful, but there's 6702 of them.  If I only find a use for 60 of them for my theme library, that's as many as Photoshop and the Alien Skin library combined.

Update: Playing some more with FilterFrog.  The filters range from humdrum to how did they do that?!  Many of the effects are both striking and attractive.  I'm tempted to upgrade to the Pro version, even though it doesn't really give me any features that I actually need.  (It does allow you to edit the filters and create your own, and work with very high resolutions, but with 6702 existing filters I don't really need the former, and for web work I don't really need the latter.)

Update: The Starter, Basic, and Standard versions support two cores; the Pro version supports as many as you have.  That does make it more tempting, because some of these filters aren't terribly fast.

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Together, They Fight Crime... Or Something

Meet Strawberry and Pocky.

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She's a crazy gun-wielding notary public.  He's an endangered Iberian Lynx on the run from the mob.

Together, they blow the crap out of monsters.

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Thursday, September 10

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Send Out The Turtle Signal!

Turtle Village needs ninjas!

If you want to play a silly online ninja game, why not play it at Turtle, the most testudinous, if not outright chelonian, of all ninja villages?

I'm a vice-leader of the village now, so if you want to play, let me know your character's name and I'll let you straight in to the village.

Also, if you click on my banner below (and end up playing the game) I get free shinies. smile

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Contents: Ninjas 45%, shinigami 15%, post-apocalyptic scavenger hunts 12%, fast food franchises 8%, catgirls 6%, giant monsters 5%, giant robots 5%, zombies 4%.  May contain traces of pirate.

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Sunday, July 19

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Congratulations, Rebecca & Sid

The latest episode of The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe:
This week's topics are:
Live Recording from TAM 7
News Items: Microbot Plummers, Archeological Dig, Sunspots Return, Blogs vs Journalists, Genie Sued
Science or Fiction
Live Questions
Rebecca's Wedding
Yep, live.

(Rebecca's site, skepchick.org, used to be hosted here at munu.)

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Friday, July 17

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SemiAutumnatic

Our latest project is nearly finished.  Possibly one more track, and some minor tweaking.  Then I'll be taking a break for a couple of weeks (from composing, anyway), before returning with Summer Theologica.

Our previous release was Winter Collection.


SemiAutumnatic

Side A - Cities

1. City of Light
2. City of Dreams
3. City of Shadows
4. City of Fire

Side B - Fashionable Nonsense

5. Bioarrhythmia
6. Signs & Portents
7. Unsure Thing

Side C - Life On Hold

8. Waiting Game
9. Empty Rooms
10. Lost Chances

Side D - Nonsensical Fashions

11. Crushed Velvet Underground
12. Deaf Leopardskin
13. Deep Mauve


Extras

Disk 2 Side A - Revolutionary Leaflets Everywhere

1. Geosynchronicity
2. Facts & Fallacies
3. Certainty Principle

Disk 2 Side B - Pet Crematorium (in production)

4. Hamster Love

more...

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Ninja'd

If anyone's interested in playing a silly online ninja game, Turtle Village needs you!

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Saturday, July 11

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Hmm, Maybe

I've been working with The Electric Ant Orchestra* (in between my fighting hackers, spammers, hardware failures, bosses who want every cool new feature in place today**, and random germs*** and their live shows at The Scythe) on a new album, a sort-of prequel to our recent Winter Collection.

Because we came up with a name that was too cool**** not to put something together and get it out there.

It's called SemiAutumnatic.

With any luck, the first section, Cities, should show up here this weekend.  I'm still tinkering with the mixes on two of the tracks, so we'll see how that goes.

* My friends Liz, Harri (never Harriet!) and Su.
** Yes, it's most often actually a cool feature, but today is not always practical.
*** Have come down with some coldy-fluey thing.  Entering the third day, and it's not too horrible so far, so probably just a nasty cold.
**** For... certain values of cool.

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Monday, June 22

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Oopsie

I'm tidying up all the files for Winter Collection, and I discovered that I hadn't saved the final version of the source file for the first track.  I had saved it, but then I'd done some more changes, and not saved those, and then produced the .mp3 I uploaded from that unsaved version.

Spent about 30 minutes fiddling with it trying to get it back the way it was, then realised that what I'd done was put an intensity hold on it, which is why that track sounds so mellow.  That done, I was able to reproduce it exactly.

I think.

I don't have a .wav output of the original either, so the best I can do is compare the original .mp3's waveforms with the new one.  Or do a blind test to see if I can tell the difference.

Update: Eyeballing the waveforms, it's very close up to the 1:57 mark, then it diverges.  Looks like some more tweaking is in order. neutral

Update: Eurgh.  Well, the sequence of notes is exactly right.  Now I just have to place - at most - 17 intensity markers at half-section intervals until each sub-section matches exactly.   Sigh.

Update: Aha!  Had it almost right except for the ending.  I couldn't persuade it to do an automatic fade and switch sections on cue; I could do one or the other, or I could switch sections and do a manual fade, but I knew I hadn't done a manual fade before, so it meant I was missing something.  And so I was.  Even when you manually place all your intensity cues, the composition parameter still affects the ending.  When I set it back from 1 to 4, I was able to match the original mix.

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