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| Jesus Christ |
Posted by
Bongo
on 02.07. at 15:46
Right now, behind me, the testing supervisor is engaging my ultra-religious co-worker in a debate over whether God can be proven to exist.
In five minutes, he's going to walk out and go back to his office. I HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE OFFENDED ZEALOTRY HE STIRS UP ALL FUCKING DAY.
Why can't they just talk about Michael Jackson, like everyone else in the hospital?
Bongo
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| Plants vs Zombies |
Posted by
Gawain
on 17.06. at 18:55
I have a new minor addiction.
This unusual little game is available from Steam - yes, Bongo, I know they are the AntiChrist - including a free one hour trial.
I dare you to try it and not get hooked.
If you do, it will set you back US$10 to buy the full game.
The title of the game says it all really; your house is being attacked by zombies and you have to defend it with plants - yes, you heard me, plants!
It is a straighforward tower game where the zombies approach along lanes and you have to defend each lane to stop the zombies reaching the house and eating your brains.
You have a range of plants that might be agressive (e.g. peas shooters), defensive (e.g. wallnuts) or suportive (e.g. sunflowers)
The game play comes from knowing which plants to choose for each level and when and where to place them.
It starts very easy and becomes quite challenging.
Anyway, give it a shot and tell me what you think.
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| Duck and Chicken |
Posted by
Psygnal
on 14.06. at 23:45
The duck is standing at a zebra crossing, waiting for the traffic to clear, about to cross the road.
The chicken walks up to him and says "I wouldn't bother, Mate. You'll never hear the end of it."
You can blame Wolf for telling me this one. I must've told it 5 times today, all with the same groan in response.
Psyg'
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| Why EVE is different? |
Posted by
Gawain
on 08.06. at 01:36
If you have a spare couple of hours to read this massive thread:
http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1084534
it looks to partly explain the difference between EVE and other games when it comes to actions and consequences.
Also makes me wish I was a little bit more skilled/geared so I could join the fun.
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| eBook. |
Posted by
Psygnal
on 06.06. at 11:01
This is a Casiopeia E-125 palmtop. It's ancient by modern standards, and is to modern palmtops what the brick is to modern cellphones. However, it has a few advantages... the most notable of which being that it is the perfect size and weight, and has a button in precisely the right spot, for holding and reading like a book.
It's not much under the width of a standard paperback. It's about 2/3 the height of a standard paperback, and it has a nice big bright screen and a very long battery life. There's a thumb switch on the side that you can flick up and down.
I used to use this to organise meetings and keep notes. I still do. However, I'm now mainly using it for reading.
One of the great things about my (currently very slow) internet connection is that it can find me huge amounts of reading material online. Everything from the works of Cicero, Homer, Satre and L. Ron Hubbard to the heady adventure yarns of Burroughs, Twain, W.E Johns, Doyle and JD Salinger... all can be found in .LIT "Microsoft Reader" format for the Pocket PC.
What impresses me most is that, unlike trying to read a book on a computer monitor or a laptop screen, the palmtop actually feels natural. It's genuinely so close to reading paper that it's not unusual to forget that the page in front of you is digital rather than bits of dead foliage.
I've got 30mb of Out-of-Copyright literature (occasionally using the term quite loosely indeed) just waiting to be read... that's about 85 full-length books in all... and can fit them all quite comfortably into a pocket.
I would have downloaded more... there are tens of thousands of potentially eligible tales on the Project Gutenberg website... were it not for the fact that my E-125 is ancient and I've never got around to upgrading my CompactFlash card.
For those of you who wonder why the future of the 1960's isn't here, and bemoan the fact that we should all be riding around on rocket-cycles whilst wearing silver tracksuits... I hereby wave my single handful of 85 books at you, and sneer derisively.
Psyg'
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