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City of Twinkers
Before I start in on today's post I should probably give an update on yesterday's post... In all honesty I couldn't even taste the difference between a regular rice crispy square and one filled with mealworms. Although I doubt that the rest of western culture is ready for it, I think it would be great to start producing low cost foods made out of insect. I mean, would anyone even notice if we started making donair cylinders out of bugs? I doubt it. And hot dogs? God only knows what goes into them now, you could probably switch the 75% of the hot dog that is currently made up of rats and pig assholes for bugs and you would get a healthier hot dog that cost only a little more to produce.
ANyway, today I noticed that City of Heroes has gone into beta testing, and if you pre-order the game now at certain retailers you are automatically entered into the beta. The thing that I find pretty cool is that the makers have announced that subscribers to the game will also receive a monthly comic book based on the MMORPG world. Apparently the comic even is set to feature events and characters from the evolving storyline in the game. Now, I realize that this is purely a marketing gimmick, but it still sounds pretty frikken cool to me. And lets face it, a lot of players will be spending a lot of hours trying to be the one who is featured in next month's edition. The game is starting to look pretty cool, so maybe I'll pre-order and check it out.
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High in Protien
My fiancee volunteers at the Provincial Museum here and over the next couple of days they are having their "Creature Convention". During this time you can go down to the museum and check out the bugs and, if you are so inclined, even eat some bugs. I am pretty stoked about this! I am always up for trying something new so Care has agreed to bring me a couple Rice Crispie squares with meal worms baked right into them.
The way I look at it you have mad cow disease, chicken flu, and of course the things that are described to me in the zillion spam e-mails I get a day seem to indicate that many farm animals may, in fact, be carrying STD's. Insects are pretty much the one pure source of protien we have left, so I better start learning to like it now. Although Fear Factor makes it seem like eating insects is something really scary, in fact they are a viable food source and by the looks of it would make a great addition to the Atkins Diet. I'll let you know how it tasted tomorrow!
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Chic Greek Geeks Up the Creek
Hands down this is the worst title I have ever come up with for a post, I have to give myself a little pat on the back for that. The issue for this post is far more serious, anbd even more unbelievable. For those of you who haven't heard there is currently a ban on public gaming in Greece. The law, as it stands, disallows public gaming by electronic or mechanical means. In theory this means that if you and a friend were sitting in the park playing linked Gameboys the police could beat you into submission with batons and riot shields. They haven't passed a bill yet which also allows them to kill everyone you know and spike your goldfish water with cyanide, but I imagine that it's only because the bill hasn't passed yet.
Now, I realize that they only passed this law in the first place to try to control the somewhat rampant illegal gambling in the country, but it just seems like raiding internet cafes just isn't the solution. First of all, if the people of your country want to gamble that badly, you need to find a way to accomodate that. I'm not saying that Canada has the greatest solution, but it's something. What we do here is the government controls most of the gambling, and the money that is gathered from that goes right back into trying to stop gambling. Hmmm... When I say it like that, it sounds pretty messed up actually.
It's amazing what a fine line a government has to walk with issues like this. People tend to want to fuck themselves up in any way possible, the government has the unenviable task of allowing people to get just fucked up enough that they are happy, but not so fucked up that they are harming each other. Alcohol, drugs, music, movies, and now videogames, all face this issue. And every time the government is called upon for a solution it invariably goes too far in one direction or the other, because we only elect people with strong beliefs in a democracy. If you only feel somewhat strongly about something then people think you have no opinion at all, or are undecisive. But that isn't the case at all. I love video games, but I also realize that they have the potential to set some people off in nasty ways. I recognize that it is important for people to be allowed to express themselves, but I don't really like people to be spreading hatred. I'd never be elected if I ran for office. People want their politicians to be crusaders to some degree.
Well, here's hoping the Geeks find a way to overcome this, because even nerds will eventually get tired of being stomped on.
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Mmmmmm..... Toasty!
I just pulled my clothes from the dryer and put them on hot, and now I don't want to do anything else for the rest of the day. The warmth from the dryer has completely sapped my ambition and made me wish I was right back in bed, all curled up with my fiancee. But I guess I can muster the strength if I need to...
I just wanted to log in and put up a quick post about my sketches. Last night I scanned a bunch of my old sketches and posted them to a little flash gallery. I fully admit that I am not much of an artist, but the gallery in flash works pretty well... Anyway have a look an feel free to comment at the bottom of this post to tell me what you think!
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Global Ambition
Well, we all knew it had to happen at some point. The military has teamed up with the makers of There to build a full sized virtual copy of the planet earth. Using real world terrain data they are mapping the entire planet. Let me just run that by you one more time for effect..... The WHOLE FRIKKEN PLANET. And they hope to have it done by September. Of course, so far all they have modeled is a bit of Kuwait, but I'm sure that once the military finishes formatting all the data they have into something that is easy for the techs at There to import, I think they will really start cruising along with it. The whole idea is both cool and a little scary, like most technological advances, and I'm curious to see if they can actually finish it. If you want more information, check out the article at BBC News.
I am making excellent progress with Xenotrader. Over the weekend I managed to make the playfield much larger, as well as build in a mini map. Today I received word from my web host that the mySql database and the ElectroServer are both online, which means soon I should be able to start testing with multiple users! This should be an exciting week... You know, in a totally geeky sort of way.
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