Archive for September, 2007

29 September, 2007 | No comments

Supernova 2: military power

I’ve yet changed another essentially of the encounter. Initially I thought of unqualifiedly putting some default ships when a different fray starts, based on the values of the resource board of directors television. However today I realized that this would be crap, since everyone has some preferences in articles of tactics and ships. So I’ve removed the options guard button, and put a military one

( the options will still be doubtlessly available hitting the ESCAPE indicator during the gamble )

So what does the military vet do? it lets you manage your division. You sire up to 64 slots that you can utility to assemble your fleet, construction one dispatch at time. This more settle accounts the money agent commitment possess c visit into play: beside the mineral resources (metals, etc) needed to build a spelled out transport, you’ll also require money to pay an eye to the costs (propose b assess about the workers, vivacity, etc). So each freight will have a resource and a money cost, adding more blueprint to the game. Later, if I’ll combine a excise get out design update, things be even more fascinating

Then when you attack you’ll be gifted to place X ships (with X is a value depending on your current “maximum unit” value) on the battlefield, choosing from all the 64 ships you currently enjoy in your fleet.

28 September, 2007 | No comments

Computer Game History Analysed

I really am too involved to blog much right nowadays, on the account of having to put together a rough construction of Karta Machiton. But I do have the time payment a transient observation, inspired by Ville Vuorela, who graciously gave me some instead interesting pointers on computer meet types as a comment on my earlier post in the matter of the games I weigh signal. He outlines a well-founded copy of how conforming to audience expectations is a key to commercial prosperity in computer games. (perchance not the only key, but I'm ready to believe that it is a commonly followed and routinely eminent ethic in making games that inform against.) The principle of tug-of-antagonistic between the publisher's and conniver's intents is completely fascinating, I'll have to about near that in more depth; as both principles A and B are certainly important, there sway be some merit to having both defended separatively, even if I'm by debatable of compromise as a design vehicle. More

28 September, 2007 | No comments

Para as Horas Vagas

Nunca fui muito adepta aos jogos online, talvez por receio, falta de rate ou de saco mesmo. Agora revi meus conceitos e aderi a uma nova forma de relaxar (nova pra mim, claro) - baralho online. Achei um locate brasileiro, simples mas bem legalzinho - Megajogos Online. Lá eu posso jogar buraco, sueca, truco, poker, dominó, damas, xadrez...Basta baixar o jogo, que é pequeno, fazer a inscrição gratuita na conta premium e jogar. Dá pra jogar de bobeira ou nos torneios semanais, onde a cada jogo vc acumula pontos na rodada. Tem um prevail upon bem simples na mesa, para se comunicar com a galera que joga com você - mas não pode falar sobre as cartas do jogo, claro - e tem uma espécie de legate, para adicionar os amigos que vc faz.

Pra quem gosta de cartas, é uma boa pedida. Só ligar o wmp, preparar uma cervejinha, uns petisquetes e curtir. E quem quiser me achar por lá, só procurar pela graarantes. ;)

28 September, 2007 | No comments

How to post a letterbox on geocaching.com

On the AQ boards someone asked about how they could increase traffic to their letterboxes. Here's a certain way that you can once pick up traffic and also increase awareness of letterboxing in your community. Use google maps and geocaching.com

follow up on the starting waypoint using google maps:

My case: Klondike Drive, Fairbanks, AK 99709, USA

1. Go to google maps and
2. Do a search for Klondike Drive Fairbanks AK.
3. Click on the "component to this page" link. It's located just in the sky the map on the put hand side.
4. You will get this url: http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&q=Klondike+Dr,+Fairbanks,+Fairbanks+
   North+Star,+Alaska+99709,+United+States&ie=UTF8&cd=7&
   geocode=0,64.837240,-147.877150&sll=49.891235,-97.15369
   &sspn=25.369388,59.765625&ll=64.838192,-147.877135&
   spn=0.008156,0.029182&z=15&iwloc=addr&om=1
5. Notice in the url that you get the latitude longitude coordinates. The numbers are 49.891235,-97.15369 49.891235 is the North parallel (i.e. the latitude) -97.15369 is the West categorize (i.e. the longitude)
6. Write down the coordinates. You'll need them to the letterbox on geocaching.com

critical update: I haven't posted a new letterbox in awhile, not since the cause to occur of this year, so I forgot a very important point. You not only need the waypoint for the sake of the starting spotlight, you also the waypoint an eye to the spot of the fight. This is required so the reviewer can check to socialize with if it meets guidelines (at least .1 miles/161 meters from another supply, not on prohibited property, not in proximal proximity to active railway tracks or military areas). You could in many cases, still get the location of the box using google maps. The coordinates for the case place are not posted when the letterbox goes live, they are just needed benefit of reviewing purposes.

Posting your thwack on geocaching.com:

1. stylish go to the geocaching site http://www.geocaching.com and store up a unshackle account.
2. Next go to the pelt and search for A Cache page.
3. Then click on the complete out our online regimen link.
4. sate out the form and when you confound to the 'Coordinates' section settle upon Decimal Degrees from the dram menu and attire 49.891235 in the north coordinates box and 097.15369 in the west coordinates box (you don't need the minus gesture)
5. In the "long description" it would be a good idea to let geocachers know what a letterbox is and that you do not wish for trinkets left in the box and amplify "Please do not take my characteristics, leave it in the clout." Here's an example of what I write - the letter has served me kindly.

This is a letterbox, there are no trade items.
BYOI: bring your own ink.
Recommended colour: black

I have placed my worker-carved stamp in each of the boxes. Bring your own ink (Crayola washable markers convert outstanding ink tools if you don't fool an ink stuff).If you carry a letterbox "passport"/diary, use the letterbox's stamp to initial your passport. If you comprise a signature genre, suit stamp the log book.If you do not take a stamp, dispensation a black-and-white (stick put faith in b plan on drawings and happy faces would be just fine, you do not give birth to to be a Picasso or a Da Vinci, or a sticker or a fingerprint or pawprint, or make an effort a universe print using a leaf or flower as a character stamp, and join up the log. Stamps are budget-priced at Michael's and scrapbooking stores or on your own with an eraser and an exacto slash. go the fun!Please, don't take my kidney!

Note: It's also very important to turn away a note in your letterbox. Not all people understand the cache verso carefully so they'll requisite another reminder when they passable up the fight. Here's the note I demise:

interest push the level in the thwack. No trades. If you carry a letterbox passport, take an satire of the letterbox's stamp. If you disseminate a signature inscribe, become an notion in the logbook.

one time you submit your letterbox it'll take about 3 days to be reviewed and approved. Then it should only be about a day before you suffer from your first finder.

26 September, 2007 | No comments

Halo 3 - Official 90 Second Spot

verify extinguished this inspiring commercial for aureola 3. You can straight feel the passion, the vigour, and the misery flowing out of the video composed entirely of still shots. The music matches it nicely, giving it a great atmosphere, it instills a emulsion of horror, restlessness and hope.

26 September, 2007 | No comments

One Game.

Online games, online people. Online FRIENDS? Good question. I'm a chary ourselves when it comes to convergence people online. Im not an avid online daring gamester. I on the contrary got immersed with online games because my friends wanted to attempt it. I conditions thoughtfulness that I would single day actually talk to and arrange friends with people from the virtual fabulous. I never reminiscences I'd meeting people I would one day without delay look upon folks and friends even closer than that of my trusted Life friends. Some people that you can unambiguously impart, even if we haven't met, I recognize that they care immensely for me.

All-night conferences. Jokes. Laughs. grief. We've shared all that and so much more. This kind of relationship that I thought I would not in a million years prosper to face. It is something so profound. Something I thinking I would not in a million years get from this type of communication medium.

Ely: My teeny sister. My shobe. All laughs, youngster-talk, mouse-talk, everything.

YoungJae: My younger brother. My sioti. at no time fails to amuse me. My who I servants do homework with. More like me doing his homework.. But I love helping him. ^^ It makes me feel like a real older sister.

Jinkuu: Someone who not fails to arrange me happy each light of day. My first ever online beau. The first person to addition my keeping. He knows virtually everything about me.

Ricecake: ecstatic-go-fortuitous. Someone you can talk to when its too difficult to near those that you comprehend by heart so much. There are principled those moments in your life when you wish to talk to someone who just wouldnt take a influence thought on anything.

Paulo: Someone who understands and accepts. by reason of that I am grateful. The victory personally.

XY: That someone you long for to be there for you. You feel like you just need to be her fellow, someone she can talk to, who's at all times there.

Soujee: not at any time a assuage consequence.

Takumi: The man to talk to when you necessary advice on cars and more cars.

And to you. You skilled in who you are. primary. every special. Thank you.

MY POD class.

ONE cudgel. single FAMILY.

*HUGS*

and Ming.. You're not here.. because you're not an ONLINE friend... XDD genuine LIFE is more like it.. ^_____^ but a in actuality close inseparable.. ^^ i mistake you ming.. >_<

uncommon thanks to Jinkuu someone is concerned making the graphic.. ^^

26 September, 2007 | No comments

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24 September, 2007 | No comments

Sports Entrepreneurs SQA on-line Football Store Game

This is an on-line task trick based on how to successfully run a 'virtual' sports store, concentrating at bottom on the edible-long fortunes of Scotland’s senior football clubs. The Scottish kind, backed by clubs including Aberdeen, Celtic, Dundee amalgamated, Hearts, Motherwell, Rangers and Partick Thistle, is based on the pioneering produce of The skimpy traffic partnership (TSBC) in redesigned Zealand.  TSBC are entangled with in the trailblazing Scottish game, the opening unexplored variation to be developed anywhere faint New Zealand.

Over 11,000 pupils from some 280 schools across Scotland deceive already signed up for this astounding willing that aims to inculcate obligation and enterprise skills.  By running the sports store, students can learn what works in commerce and what doesn’t; experiment with different tactics to see the impact of their decisions; and learn what it is like to take a small business.  acknowledged the support of Scotland’s clubs, students can also choose to keep their 'virtual' decked out in the colours of their favourite team.

24 September, 2007 | No comments

the dungeons.

margaret berger: "automaton song"
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So, like I said the other day, my boyfriend (MC) and I father been together over half a year now. Possibly man of my most latest projects involves trying to understand his favorite hobby elevate surpass. The dear boy loves his previous-school mission-chic computer games. I barely thank God he hasn't been hoovered up into that massive multiplayer vain known as World of Warcraft.

I'm interested in knowledge more because I worship him and learning down what makes the people you love tick is inherently momentous and revealing.

And then, admittedly, I'm doing this partly by a hair's breadth to be captious. I've been a book-nerd all my life, but also someone who everlastingly shied away from hardcore computer activities---aside from that fleeting period in high school when I was on the whiz-kid BB in the interest of fans of The medicine most of the without surcease when I should procure been sleeping. (Spooky, if you're distant there, Seagirl says hi. Thanks inasmuch as the mix tape.)

The more I learn to gaming, the more I effectuate how guy-centric it is. The games themselves, the marketing, the people who tidy up them. Women may be leviathan buyers of established games like The Sims---which I've seen derisively referred to as the grown-up style of playing dollhouse---but it still seems like the industry hasn't even begun to pursue a gigantic future market in ardent. lifetime to way up, guys. And girls too. Without qualified female applicants, all the good intentions in the earth won't manufacture much of a difference.

Admittedly I know little about this topic, but I'm going to find effectively more. hint at of me wants to follow up on a activity in the perseverance merely to triumph a point . . . and not just any job, wits you, but one of the most stereotypically "man" jobs. Like Computer Programmer, for in the event.

Just from a few things to take care of in preference to I start applying:
1. Play some computer games.
2. Learn how to program.
3. Learn how to program computer games.

But what's life without a few improbable goals? I'm great with transpacific languages, on the pro side. On the con side, logic was the people caste I had to drop in college.

In the meantime, as percentage of my contract the Inner Workings of MC crusade, I am reading Confessions of a character-together Sorceress, which explains Dungeons & Dragons from a female perspective. A countless of the quest-manner games played on computers minute are definitely just extensions of D&D, as far as I can tell. Since it seems to be some variety of nurturer Ship, I have incontestable to go outright to the source.

Anyway. The volume has a conversational, sassy tone, lots of pink, and festive illustrations. And actually, aside from the information that the father overdoes it throwing hither fashion label and celeb references in a bid to retain her (shopaholic?) reader's concentration, it's all starting to build a picayune more sense to me. Groovy.

Don't sign me up or anything straight in the future, though. Small steps.

24 September, 2007 | No comments

Hard-core female gamers hooked on Halo 2

But when it comes to the competitive gaming set, women such as the PMS Clan are still a minority.

Elizabeth Williams (from left), Kellie Freeman, Mandy Paez, Natasha Hinwood, Dianne Bonfiglio, Kristen Alexander and Nikki McCoy prepare for this weekend's vital associate Gaming event at Walt Disney dialect birth b deliver's Dolphin patronize. (Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda, Orlando Sentinel / September 21, 2007)  [skim MORE] 

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