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Chills up your spine

By Zukzuk 21 Comments

Good music is like a good steak. It doesn’t matter how many times you consume it, it keeps its original delicious munchiness… so to speak. Also, most really good music is made by really unstable people (artists for short). I guess they connect their weird inside world to ours in such a way that we get a glimpse of how impossibly deep the rabithole in their imagination goes. And what wonder lies at the other end! Now, I probably sound a little melodramatic, but that’s just because I was listening to one of those artists. I was swept off to distant possibilities and feelings that aren’t actually mine and captured by a whiff of the drug induced melancholy that is the life of this artist.

Everybody listen to Pete Doherty’s album Grace/Wastelands. It’s brilliant.

Lovely


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43,252,003,274,489,856,000

By Zukzuk 41 Comments

Rubik’s Cube, the nerd equivalent of pumping iron. And we all know that that’s what all the ladies secretly like. So what’s the deal with the thing and why does it melt your brain every time you actually try one? Well, for starters, a normal 3×3x3 cube has a total of 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 different states it can be in. I’m not even going to guess how to pronounce that number, but I imagine it’s pretty close to, or as close as something will ever get to, a google.

Well, this one actually gets closer...

Also, it lets you be nerdy without being laughed at. You can pop off fancy words like ‘algorithms’ and stuff like ‘possible states of a system’ to further impress your possibly female entourage. But! To do all this you actually have to know how to solve the damn thing. Luckily there is this thing called the internets.

Most importantly, you can simply cheat. Or videotape a solved Rubiks Cube, juggle it intil it’s a mess and play the tape backwards to your friends. But the best way to do it is to actually learn how. Check out these two tutorials and you will be a pro like this, this and this guy in no time. Remember, the official world record stands at a impressive 7 seconds and 8 hundreds.

Good luck!

By the way, some people are just nuts:

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E3 is here!

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Let’s see…

3D galaxy plumbing action. Check.
Mad mutation apocalypse. Check.
Other wordly apperations. Check.
Puking Jack Black. Check.
Detailed medevil city building. Check.
Pubescent adventure shenenigans. Check.
Lord of the R  High fantasy RPG. Check.
Demons and Angels fighting out their petty fights on our turf. Check.
Weird masonry conspiracy sneakfest. Check.
Stealthy revenge crawling. Check.
Dirty racetracks. Check.
Pirate swashbuckling. Check.
Bermuda triangle disapearance. Check.
Scifi AWESOMENESS. Check.
Lightsabers, lots and lots of lightsabers. Check and doublecheck.

It’s good to be a gamer. Definately. I must have missed some. What are you most excited about?


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Terminated

By Zukzuk 32 Comments

As we all know, The Terminator is the pinnacle of all action flicks. Period. Let me refresh your memory:

Awesome!

and…

...a dozen times AWESOME.

There you have it. This movie franchise should have a long and prosperous life ahead of it.

It has Schwarzenegger, it has robots with crazy red cyborg eyes, it has a liquid robot, it has time-traveling, it has nucleur annihilation and a post-apocalyptic future. It has pistols, lasers, gatling guns, machineguns, shotguns, teargas, bombs and explosions. It has car chases, motorcycle chases and truck chases. It has time traveler sex, therefor it has a kid (John Conner) who is technically older than his father, it has Schwarzenegger as a robot on a Harley reloading his shotgun with one hand. It has the coolest mom ever concieved in a movie and, oh yeah, it has Schwarzenegger…as a freaking robot!

Granted, the third one wasn’t the glorious return I had hoped for, but at least it was bearable. This time they just screwed it up. How? I’ll tell you how:
You replace the bad-ass stereotipical general that Conner should have become with some college kid rasping his voice like he’s still playing Batman, you paste in some autobots, you make a lousy cop-out game to squeeze some more money out of the whole draconian disaster and you pretty much doomed the whole series to the inner circles of Dante’s Inferno.

What is this? Megatron? What? Morons! If I ever get my hands on these people, I will crush them. Now just let me stare at the following picture for an hour to remember again what real bad-ass-ness looks like…

...awesome


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Eidos picking up steam!

By Zukzuk 2 Comments

The good people at Eidos finally seem to be crawling out of the abyss. After some less than impressive games like Deus Ex 2, Kane & Lynch, Denied Ops, several Hitman episodes and a metric tonne of Tomb Raider iterations they finally found their ace in the hole. Or aces: Deus Ex 3, Thief 4 and good old Batman:

Why so serious?

The game looks pretty sweet, especially the fluid combat catches everyone by surprise, me included. Hopefully they have more up their sleeves coming E3!

About Deus Ex by the way, for anyone who wants to jump back into the most excellent original game, I also recommend trying the total conversion by the folks at ‘The Nameless Mod’. They worked 7 freaking years on it, so go download and play this monster, it’s awesome!

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Conan has stamina

By Zukzuk 5 Comments

It was a bit of a shame to see Age of Conan - Hyborian Adventures go down like it did. Especially because I did buy into the hype of it delivering a ‘mature online gaming experience’. It certainly looked like it could be alright.

But alas, after a promising start, it imploded because of lack of content and general buggy-ness. Predictable developers drama ensued.

I had forgotten about this game altogether, but just now stumbled upon this little gem of an 1 year anniversary movie.

It’s made, like all great MMO movies, by a user. It seems there are still people in the dark lands of Hyboria and it seems they can make sweet ingame content movies!
From the reactions on the forum it looks like the content is now pretty solid and most of the bugs are ironed out. I was pleasantly surprised to see gamers stick with the game and putting some much needed love back into promoting this beautifully crafted digital world. I’ll be watching the boss kills from the sideline with an appreciative smile, for I’m still recouping from my WoW years…

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iHack ‘n iSlash

By Zukzuk 1 Comments

Hack and Slash Role Playing Games. Diablo, Dungeon Siege, Titan Quest. Clickety-clickety-click.

Why are these carpal tunnel syndrome inducing clickfests so much fun you ask? Because of the treasure of course! The lingering hope for that slightly sharper longsword. The unending dream of bulkier and spikier armor. The hypnotizing knowledge that the next kill could reward you with even more dragonslaying magic jewels.

Chasing that carrot on a stick is mad fun!

Phat lewt!

All that deliciousness can now be enjoyed on your iPhone. Just go and download Underworlds from the App store! It’s simple, it’s fun, it looks great, and after the latest content patch it even controls decently.

I’m currently at level 7 and am having a great time. I put most of my Stat points in Strength and Constitution, because the game started out just a little bit difficult.
Be prepared to blow most of your first pennies on health potions, because they hardly drop (for me anyway). You can always use a teleport rune to go to the shop and buy/sell stuff.
It pays off to upgrade the Berserk Feat (attack multiple targets) as soon as possible, because fighting multiple enemies at once is the thing that will get you killed in the beginning. The problem is that you will register a lot of misses until, say, level 5. And with multiple reanimated pixel corpses punching you in the medievil face, that’s not very helpful. After the last content patch it also pays off to put extra points in Dexterity to increase your hit rating.

I’ll keep you updated on the higher levels, meanwhile, check out these screens!


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US is shifting generals

By Zukzuk 3 Comments

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates gave this press briefing to elaborate on the issue. Well, he wasn’t doing a lot of elaborating, he looked more like an aircraft carrier who tries to dodge a salvo of torpedoes.

Stern! Steeeernnn! No! Bow! Boooow!

Hey Robert, just say you fired the damn guy ok!

He was more direct and to the point in this budget briefing. It deals with the proposed budget shift for the defense department. Robert wants to spent more on ‘irregular warfare’ and ‘dual purpose capability’ (don’t you just love that pantagon slang). It should make the US army more capable in fighting guerrilla forces. That means less money for conventional warfare. You know, like the ones the US isn’t involved in right now. Unfortunately he will catch quite the shitstorm in Congress. Half of the elderly there are mortally afraid of the future communists from Russia and China. And space.

Oh, by the way, they are going to spend 36 billion dollars more than last year, so those commies might still be unsuccessful their plan for world domination.

In the end of his statement Robert puts it well I think:

… Some will say I’m too focused on the war we are in and not enough on future threats. The alocation of dollars in this budget definitively belies that claim. But it is important to remember that every defense dollar spent to over insure against a remote or diminishing risk, or in effect to run up the score on a capability where the United States is already dominant, is a dollar not available to take care of our people …

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