There's a Reason We Love Computer Games

Video computer games have become as much a pillar of our entertainment universe as books and movies. Why is it that so many of us are drawn to the computer monitor or TV screen like flies? A bit of history might help explain the phenomenon.Originally computers were all work and no play, being outrageously expensive to build and operate. But computer engineers and designers, being overgrown kids after all, soon began, Computer, to get comfortable with their big room-filling machines. In their idle hours it occurred to them that it might be kind of cool to have the computer show some spaceships and planets cruising around the galaxy. , Computer, An in the 1960s a group of fun-loving computer, Computer, geniuses created SpaceWar, the father of the famous arcade game Astroids.These games were well, Computer, received by geniuses and regular folks alike, which motivated the geniuses to design some more fun stuff. They could have used the computers for a lot of diversions, but somehow the visual element of the games activated the imagination. Over time we got Pong, PacMan and a continually evolving string of games, including software that eventually could beat chess masters at their own game.By the late 1980s computer games software was getting quite sophisticated, with the invention, Computer, of Sim City. This product expanded on what was going on through all the previous games; the players were being drawn into an imaginary world. Not, Computer, unlike books and movies, these video games were very satisfying mentally. Sim City actually allowed the user to create, Computer, amazing cities and, Computer, even worlds.Also, Computer, in the 1980s, a group of computer programmers began creating software that would show moving images all generated by computer. The images started out very simple, almost like stick figures but they could dance in time to a music track. No skin, no facial features but it was very exciting to think what might come with more powerful computers. The computing power grew exponentially and, over 20 years, we now have not only some fabulout computer generated movie effects and whole characters, but the realism of video games has taken a quantum leap forward.A good video game will draw you in to another world and, unlike a book or movie, a computer game will offer an interactive experience. In fact, at least one computer, Computer, game has become sufficiently popular to become an action movie; think Mario, Computer, Brothers. But it’s funny that sometimes a simple game can be as entertaining as a much more sophisticated game. Some of the most beloved games of all are Tetris (stack those blocks), Pac Man and, Computer, Pong.A modern computer will still do a great job of playing state-of-the-art video games. There are hundreds of options, including many that pit you online against other players. Then there are the specialty consoles like PlayStation, Nintendo and XBox360. With tricked-out controllers, guitars and wands, you can really, Computer, develop some hand-eye coordination by playing many of the current titles.One of the most fun educational games is Roller Coaster Tycoon, where you build your own amusement park and then operate it with “real” guests making decisions about which rides to take. If a guest loses their lunch on a roller coaster you’d better have a custodian, Computer, clean it up or the guests will stay away. You must watch income and expenses and save money to build more attractions, Computer, . This is a great game.But the bottom line as to why we’re so enamored with computer games software is that it captures our imagination in a variety of interactive ways. Our games are prized possessions and it is wise, Computer, to treat them carefully to make them last.

Penguin Diner

Diner Game adalah jenis game yang sangat populer, dimulai dengan seri Diner Dash, kemudian diikuti banyak varian yang ‘mengekor” kepopulerannya seperti Spongebob Dash dan lain lain.
Kali ini saya posting sebuah varian Dash Game dalam format flash, namanya Penguin Dash. Karena dikemas dalam format flash game, maka ukuran filenya kecil saja, hanya 1,6Mb, sehingga tak perlu menunggu lama-2 untuk men downloadnya.
Thanks to Wendysforum for the exciting and enjoyable game.

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Cake Mania: Back to the Bakery: Help Jill renovate her grandparents bakery!

Cake Mania: Back to the Bakery (13 MB download)
In this all new adventure, Jill has decided to renovate her grandparents’ bakery in the hopes of winning them a deluxe grand prize – an all-expense-paid Hawaiian luxury cruise. With an all-new bakery to renovate, hilarious new characters, an all-new storyline and 36 levels of fast-paced baking, fans of Cake Mania can enjoy another great baking adventure!

Atenção ao Sábado

Acho que sábado é a rosa da semana; sábado de tarde a casa é feita de cortinas ao vento, e alguém despeja um balde de água no terraço; sábado ao vento é a rosa da semana; sábado de manhã, a abelha no quintal, e o vento: uma picada, o rosto inchado, sangue e mel, aguilhão em mim perdido: outras abelhas farejarão e no outro sábado de manhã vou ver se o quintal vai estar cheio de abelhas.

No sábado é que as formigas subiam pela pedra.

Foi num sábado que vi um homem sentado na sombra da calçada comendo de uma cuia de carne-seca e pirão; nós já tínhamos tomado banho.

De tarde a campainha inaugurava ao vento a matinê de cinema: ao vento sábado era a rosa de nossa semana.

Se chovia só eu sabia que era sábado; uma rosa molhada, não é?

No Rio de Janeiro, quando se pensa que a semana vai morrer, com grande esforço metálico a semana se abre em rosa: o carro freia de súbito e, antes do vento espantado poder recomeçar, vejo que é sábado de tarde.

Tem sido sábado, mas já não me perguntam mais.

Mas já peguei as minhas coisas e fui para domingo de manhã.

Domingo de manhã também é a rosa da semana.

Não é propriamente rosa que eu quero dizer.

. Clarice Lispector (do livro “Para não Esquecer”)

Samsung LN46B750 46-Inch 1080p 240Hz LCD HDTV with Charcoal Grey Touch of Color Review

As others have said, this TV is excellent. Forget the marketing talk of 150,000:1 contrast ratio etc. All you need to know is that as of August, 2009, there are very few TVs that beat this set in terms of black level. (local dimming LED LCD TVs, and a few high-end plasmas to be precise, and even then – only just!).

I’m going to focus more on what the issues are with this TV, bearing in mind that I think this is an excellent set.

1.) Gaming lag. For those that say there isn’t any – your standards may not be high enough. With Game Mode set to OFF, Call of Duty, Rock Band, Hot Shots Golf etc are simply unplayable. With Game Mode set to ON, these games are quite playable. How acceptable is very dependent on the person. I have no trouble, personally, with Game Mode ON, but Game Mode off was a nightmare. You lose the benefits of 240hz AMP with Game Mode ON, but this is a VERY acceptable trade-off, and I have no trouble playing games in an essential 60hz mode.

2.) Viewing angles. They’re NOT very good. At a little less than 10 feet away from my 46″ B750, the left side of my TV washes out if I scoot a little to the right, and the right side washes out if I scoot a little to the left of the TV. This is a definite issue, and is worse than my last year’s Samsung LN46A650. At Best Buy etc you will NOT see these defects as the ambient light overpowers any viewing angle discrepancies. At home, in a dimly-lit movie room, or showing darker material, these problems will become more apparent – glaring in fact.

3.) Clouding/flashlighting: This has been an issue for several generations of Samsung LCDs, and 2009 is no exception. Again, this is not something you’ll notice in a storefront because the lighting overpowers the problem, but at home, back in that very same dimly-lit room, especially showing darker material, you’ll notice the splotches of lighter colored areas on the screen. Some are worse than others. If you never watch TV in a darker environment with dark material, chances are you’ll never notice the problem. If your TV was delivered, like most people’s sets are, during the day, you will NOT see this issue until night closes in.

4.) While the see-through TV stand stalk is very pretty and gives the impression of a “floating” TV, it makes hiding the power cable and video/audio cables impossible, as they are normally hidden by a solid stalk. So yes, very pretty, but non-functional, as you can see the cables trailing down behind the see-through stem. A little annoying!

I know this sounds like doom and gloom, but it really isn’t. This is an excellent set. I love mine. Definitely the best CCFL LCD Samsung has put out to date, but still in need of a bit of work on their quality control. I simply won’t defend something just because I bought it – this is a great TV, but it does have some problems that Samsung should work hard to overcome.

Chris Brown's Making Headlines ... and Not in the Papers

Chris Brown hasn’t done much performing since the February “incident” in which he assaulted his then-girlfriend, Rihanna. Besides filling in for up-and-comer Drake (BET’s Rookie of the Year?) at a tour stop in Virginia, Brown has kept a low profile.

That could change very soon as he may headline a concert. Given that Doublemint gum distanced itself from the R&B crooner, is it surprising that a radio station, specifically New York’s Power 105, would give him top billing in a high-profile show?

The Power 105 Powerhouse concert is set for October 27, and Brown shares stage duties with the likes of Mario, Ginuwine and Trey Songz. There’s no doubting that Brown is one of today’s most engaging performers, who may have an added appeal given his ability to channel Michael Jackson, but will the show go on — with him as a part of the act? 70% of voting Predicto Mobile members predict that Breezy will pack the arena from wall to wall and will perform at Powerhouse.

“I hope this brings him back. It just shows that we are all human!” says member “qpln6511.”

“He is very talented and learning a lesson,” says “ftnv2476.”

“They need to leave Chris Brown alone!” says “npiw8493.”

Have Chris’ apologies appealed to the public to give him another change? (If they haven’t, perhaps this bow-tie did the trick.) If so, he just might feel comfortable enough to take the stage.

Want to find out what happens? Visit Predicto.com to sign up for the text message-based mobile game that has everyone predicting the outcome of sports, pop culture, news and entertainment events. Along with voting (and you can vote on this survey, too), you’ll also receive text updates when the answer is revealed. What better way to stay up to date and have fun?

Battlefield: Bad Company - Review (PS3)

Battlefield: Bad Company is one of those games that got lost upon release – one I started and then never got round to playing again (mainly due to the fact that my brother and Dad had it off me for so long – yes Jonny I’m looking at you ).

Basically your character, Preston Marlowe, gets sent to Bad Company – a rag tag army squad of misfits that are sent in as cannon fodder in military operations.

This game was a near perfect playthrough after the desolate, lonely (yet amazing) story of Fallout 3. Here you’re accompanied by your three squad mates at all times – except for the obligatory ‘you’re on your own for a bit mission’ late in the game.

Chock full of explosions and with some really impressive destruction of buildings etc, Battlefield is like a huge big budget Hollywood blockbuster.

The missions themselves were quite lengthy, around 45 minutes to an hour each, so you really felt immersed in the world.

Graphically the game was good, with some great textures and a believable world. One of the few issues I had though was that all the bad guy goons only had about three character skins between them.

Gameplay wise it was business as usual for FPS action. Take out everyone and get to various markers/blow stuff up. There were a few vehicle sections that were quite cool.

I did dip into the online but I think it’s pretty much only the hardcore left playing it and so I died plenty of times as enemies waited at the spawn point to shoot you on sight

Overall Battlefield: Bad Company is a great, mindless blast of a game. Add some memorable characters into the mix and you’ve got yourself a very enjoyable, and playable, package.

Rating: 7/10

FarmVille - Seja um Fazendeiro Virtual Você Também!

O título do post é ridículo mas é assim que você se sente ao jogar e se viciar em FarmVille, aplicativo da Zynga para o Facebook que te coloca no lugar de um fazendeiro pobre com o objetivo de se tornar um fazendeiro rico e se mostrar para seus vizinhos. Oi? O objetivo não é esse? Enfim… Não se sinta assim, há um monte de gente que joga e se você estiver no Twitter dê uma checada na tag #FarmVille e se surpreenda com a quantidade de adeptos!

Você tem uma enorme diversidade de árvores, frutos, vegetais, grãos e legumes para plantar e animais para comprar, todos com um determinado tempo para serem colhidos. Casas e itens de decoração que desbloqueiam para compra conforme você evolui no jogo. Além do que você pode convidar seus amigos (cuidado com o spam, por favor ) e ajudá-los a cuidar de suas fazendas, limpando folhas secas, espantando corvos, retirando ervas daninhas. Calma, nada disso demanda muito tempo, é só clicar e pronto, tá feito.

No momento minha meta é a casa chinesa que custa 38 dinheiros. Como vai demorar porque dinheiro só se recebe 1 a cada nível, eu estou juntando moedas para comprar uma log cabin, de 250,000 moedas. É difícil mas eu chego lá!

Então clica aí na foto acima, que por acaso tirei hoje da minha fazenda, e me adiciona lá no Facebook para sermos como vizinhos =D

Dicas para enriquecer:

- Adicione o máximo de pessoas. Você pode mandar presentes para seus vizinhos uma vez por dia. Se você mandar, com certeza receberá de volta =)

- No início não ligue muito para a decoração. Use todo o espaço para plantar.

- Assim que a abóbora liberar abuse dela! Só 8 horas para ficar pronta para colher a 68 moedas, e a semente só custa 30! Depois é abusar do arroz, que faz 96 moedas a 45, uma pechincha!

- Se liga nos ribbons, prêmios que você ganha após cumprir certos requisitos, como tirar fotos da fazenda de seus vizinhos ou ter todas as árvores do jogo. Divulgue e seus vizinhos também ganham moedas. Fique atento a sua timeline, você também pode pegar essa graninha. Isso é comunidade, galerë!

- Compre os veículos, economizam um tempão na hora de plantar!

E quais são suas dicas? Deixe nos comentários =)

Online Video Game Design Degree

The economy is stabilizing, that’s what they say anyway. But why take chances? Why not pursue a degree in a field that’s only going to continue to grow? Video gaming is one of those fields. Pursuing your Online Video Game Design Degree is one way to keep your head in the game – literally – have fun and earn an awesome salary, up to $61,000 a year! At Westwood College, students can pursue degrees that prepare them for an exciting career in gaming as a game programmer, designer or game builder. The college offers bachelor’s degrees in game art, game software development and digital animation – all online! A degree in any of these specialties can help you make your ideas into reality. Because the field is competitive, it’s often difficult to land a position in game programming right out of high school, so getting a post-secondary degree is important to your success.

Turning Point Fall of Liberty

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Nel 1931, Winston Churchill è stato investito da un taxi a New York. Nel mondo reale è sopravvissuto, e continuò a guidare il popolo inglese nella battaglia contro il Nazismo. Ma se fosse andata in maniera diversa?
E’ da questa premessa che Fall of Liberty sviluppa la sua trama – senza la guida di Churchill, l’Europa e l’Inghilterra furono travolte dalla furia delle truppe di Hitler. Nel 1951, facendo leva sulla superiorità tecnologica, gli stati uniti vennero invasi e sconfitti dal Terzo Reich.

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Disco Virtual alternativo

Parece que apareceu mais uma grande alternativa no já “concorrido” mercado de hospedagem online sem cadastro, onde Rapidshare, Megaupload, etc, lutam por mais e mais espaço.

divShare oferece algumas coisas bem interessantes, vejam só:

• Upload de um número ilimitado de arquivos (tanto no tamanho dos arquivos, quanto na quantidade)
• Disponha ilimitados downloads
• Arquivos ficarão online para sempre
• Sem propagandas via pop-up ou spams
• Servidores incrivelmente rápidos e confiáveis

Estas palavras não são minhas, mas sim do site.

Kachbo eWall

Original games from my site, the eWall series: 1, 2, 3

The series is quite popular in countries like Italy, France and England.

The game is simple. You need to move the mouse along the path from start to end, without touching the walls.

It is a good practice game for people new to using mouse, especially kids.

Hope you enjoy this game.

Chao.

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Game Review: Halo 3 - ODST

There comes a time, with anything, when you have to say, “Enough is enough.” At dinner, you must push away from the table when you are full. Eventually, you do need to stop drinking. At some point, every beard needs a trim. I have reached the point where I can take no more with the Halo franchise, to my surprise.

Today I bought Halo: ODST, a “stand-alone expansion pack.” Yes, they are saying they are selling a complete game that really isn’t a complete game. I actually disagree with them there, the campaign, on normal, was around as long as Halo 3. Of course, maybe that’s just because Halo 3 wasn’t a complete game… but you know.

The game play in ODST is smooth and familiar. Really, really familiar. A lot was made about the fact that you don’t have shields. Instead you have “stamina”, which is a way to say shields without having to change existing game canon. Your health restores really slowly, on its own. Or, like many games, you can walk over a heal-all med kit and get all better. And like in most games, the damn things are laying around everywhere. (In Bungie Studio’s version of the future, Obama’s health care plan gets passed for real). Also, despite being a dude in normal clothes, none of the iconic master chief’s armor or genetic and cyborg enhancements, you can still flip a vehicle bare handed. Yep.

ODST does deliver in bringing you all the things you wanted out of Halo that they hadn’t already done. This list, while not very long, is filled out well. The real game here is a series of missions framed within an awkward, and sometimes frustrating, campaign of wandering around between groups of ambushing covenant and then searching wildly for whatever item will bring up a flash-back mission, where you play as one of the other three members of your ODST squad.

These flashback missions are, almost always, very fun. You do some extremely cool and crazy stuff in these missions. There are a number of “hold the point” missions, and vehicles are all over the place. You fly, you drive a tank, you do all kinds of great stuff. But then you go back to being this lone guy wandering through a city. A city full of jackals with sniper rifles waiting for you to turn a corner and smoke half your health bar away.

The nice thing is, that after one play through, you don’t ever have to do the framing campaign again. You can choose to play individual missions. The individual missions are incredibly fun. I’ve only played the new FIREFIGHT game type by myself, but it looks to have a lot of potential. (I’ve always wanted the achievement voice dude to growl out “triple kill” during campaign, this is as close as it gets to that!) I’m sure I’ll edit this write up after playing it with other human beings.

Over all, Halo: ODST is a fun and familiar game. The story telling element they are wrapping the fun missions in doesn’t mesh well with the feel of the other missions, but it’s not THAT bad. The flash-back missions are total blast, and I’ve had some of my favorite Halo moments with them. However, I don’t know if the game is worth the $55 (after employee discount) I paid for it. Then again, we were all saying the same thing about Halo 3. And we still bought the next one.

In case you’re wondering? That’s why they’ll never stop making Halo games.

Quick Hits from Monday's Game

A few points of interest from yesterday’s game against San Jose:

- Monday’s game gave Ducks fans a glimpse of what they can expect from the team this season. Coach Randy Carlyle played a lineup that was close to what the opening night lineup will be, minus Ryan Getzlaf and Jonas Hiller. Other spare parts are interchangeable on the third and fourth lines, but I liked what I saw from the forward group yesterday.

- The Ducks did a very good job to stay out of the box last night, which obviously contributed to the win. The Sharks’ only goal came on the powerplay but didn’t have many opportunities after that. That being said, there is still one Ducks player that hasn’t learned to stay out of the box: Evgeny Artyukhin. He again took two minor penalties last night, to add to who knows how many others he’s received in the last few games. If Artyukhin doesn’t clean up his game, he’ll start finding the bench a lot more often during the regular season.

- Goalie J.S. Giguere had a very impressive game last night. With the exception of the goal at the end of the game, Giguere was solid throughout the night. The only other goal he gave up was when he was left alone with a wide open Benn Ferriero on a powerplay goal in the final second of the first period. After Giguere’s last performance I wrote that Hiller was leading the competition for starting goalie, by that race seems to be in a dead heat now.

- Bobby Ryan decided to stand up for teammate Corey Perry by starting a fight with Jaime McGinn. He must not remember a guy named Derick Brassard, who was well on his way to winning the rookie scoring title last year before he similarly started a fight to stick up for a teammate. The result was a season-ending shoulder injury to Brassard. While Ryan didn’t end up getting hurt, he could have. The Ducks’ fighters should stick up for teammates, not skill players, especially in a preseason game.

- Saku Koivu is getting more comfortable every time he steps on the ice. In the first period he feathered a backhand pass to Scott Niedermayer for a good scoring chance and later set up Teemu Selanne for a goal. Let’s hope we see that combination on the board more and more as the season progresses.

- Defenceman Luca Sbisa did not get very much ice time as the game progressed. Sbisa played under 14 minutes, while Brendan Mikkelson played over 20. Let’s all hope that Carlyle was just trying to send the young defenceman a message rather than preparing to send him down to the minors.

Gemini Lost: Follow the stars to find your way home!

Gemini Lost (46 MB download)
A strange light leads your group to an ancient astrological site that suddenly transports you all to an unfamiliar world! You must take the lead and build a new community, while you search for a way back home. Gather necessary resources and food, build structures, conduct useful scientific research and increase your population by creating happy couples based on their astrological signs. Can you complete the tasks and puzzles needed to find the lost keys to the teleporter and get your people home safely?

Australian television

While going through some of my recent posts I realised that I’ve been obsessively writing only about shoes. I mean, yes I love shoes but there are other things I love too. For example, this morning I am loving Australia Network…

I work with a news channel and in my office we have TV sets showing various channels so that we can monitor news from around the world. My favourite is Australia Network maybe because the channel does not just focus on news. They have some pretty awesome shows. Like for example their shows for children are outstanding. One really fun show is:

Needless to say, it is super cute and super fun. As the name suggests it’s about two banana’s wearing pyjamas and having fun with their friends.

The other shows on the channel that I enjoy are:

Which talks about the Australian wilderness. Then I enjoy:

Which tells you everything about  the finest Australian wines…(this is an awesoem show!)

And then of course the fun footy games:

Now you might be tempted to think that all I do ehre is watch TV. But really it’s good fun and the channel is bang in front of me! And with content so good, it’s kinda difficult not to watch!

I'm a (Ringo) Star(r)

Net zoals ik redelijk kan inschatten wat Zus leuk vindt, kan zij dat andersom ook erg goed voor mij. Ik ontving namelijk via de post (ik hartje pakjes in de post!!) onlangs een verjaardagscadeau van haar. Zus en ik houden allebei wel van een spelletje. Vroeger al zeurden we onze ouders aan hun kop om een spelletje mee te spelen. “Potje Yathzee?” vroeg ik dan. “Of Pictionary!” riep Zus dan. “Sequence misschien?” stelde ik voor. “Of Pictionary!” riep Zus dan. “Monopoly?” probeerde ik. “Of Pictionary!” riep Zus dan. “Vooruit, ik doe wel een potje Yathzee mee,” verzuchtte Mam dan (Pap was niet zo te porren voor spelletjes). “Geen Pictionary?” vroeg Zus dan beteuterd. U kunt wel raden wat haar favoriet was.

De ‘gewone’ spelletjes zijn zeker nog niet van het toneel verdwenen, maar minstens evenveel aandacht wordt tegenwoordig besteed aan computergames. Neejneej en ik begonnen met Singstar en Guitar Hero en raakten helemaal verslaafd. We konden onze lol niet op toen Rockband werd geïntroduceerd en we ook konden gaan drummen. Ik koos ervoor bij Guitar Hero te blijven maar gelukkig kwam ook die game met de World Tour versie met een eigen (en beter) drumstel. Intussen staan er in mijn kamer dus vier gitaren (waarvan één echte), een drumstel en drie microfoons. En ik vind het nog steeds leuk! De Jonge Hond stelde voor een professionele Guitar Hero band te beginnen en daar zit met name Neejneej nu met smart op te wachten.

Maar nu is voor mij het moment aangebroken om mijn loyaliteit aan Guitar Hero even te laten varen en de overstap te maken naar Rockband. Het pakketje dat ik van Zus ontving bevatte namelijk *tromgeroffel* The Beatles: Rockband!! Ik kan nu dus in de huid gaan kruipen van John, Paul, George of Ringo! Woehoe! Even was ik bang dat ik dus nóg een drumstel, microfoon en twee gitaren moest gaan aanschaffen (ervan uitgaande dat de instrumenten van de concurrerende games niet compatible zouden zijn) maar dat blijkt gelukkig overbodig. (Oftewel: hij doet het Zus!) Anders zou het hier wel érg vol worden. Dus.. mocht u me de komende tijd missen, dan loop ik de Ringo uit te hangen. Het is maar dat u het weet.

The future of the sexual marketplace

We all know what’s happening in the West right now, but what’s going to happen in the next decade or so in regard to the sexual marketplace? More importantly, how can a man plan for the changes that are coming? Fear not, my readers, for I am here to bring you in from the freezing cold of ignorance and fear into the fire-lit cabin of knowledge. Here are my prognostications for the coming years, based on current trends.

1) Increasing prevalence of polyamory, with moves to legalize polygamy. Not only has the “mancession” thrown a LOT of guys out of work, but with women making up the majority of college undergrads and graduates, the number of men being shut out from the middle class is increasing at a rapid clip. With women genetically hardwired to seek men that are higher in status, the depopulation of dudes from the professional classes is shrinking the number of men they are capable of being attracted to. As a result, the number of men who cut the mustard status-wise will be able to form their own harems. The West’s hypergamous purgatory is already coming into existence – for instance, John Edwards (hat tip: Roissy) is openly keeping his mistress in his house:

John Edwards will move the mother of his love child into his North Carolina neighborhood so he can help raise their 18-month-old baby, the National Enquirer reported Wednesday.

The Enquirer also reported that Elizabeth Edwards, who is stricken with cancer, was furious when her husband told her of his parenting plans.

I fully expect the nattering nabobs of negativism feminism to make a push for legalized polygamy. They’re already clamoring for polyamory, as shown (hat tip: Mark Richardson) in this Feministing post:

I’m currently in a relationship with a man I love dearly, and I have been for nearly 3 years. It’s going well, he’s marvelous, we get on great. There’s just one thing – this is a polyamorous relationship. He also has another girlfriend, who he’s been with for a long time. That in itself isn’t a problem. I knew about her before I entered into the relationship and I’ve never had a problem with polyamory, it suits me fine, we take suitable precautions in our sex lives and we’re always open and honest with each other about everything. The problem is in explaining this to my parents. My mother noticed that my boyfriend was listed as in a relationship with the other lady on a social networking site, and has the notion that she must be his ex and he just hasn’t changed his status. She keeps asking me why he’s still listed as being with her, I keep changing the subject but I want to be honest with her. I’m not sure if she’s ever come across the concept of polyamory and I really don’t know what her reaction will be at all. I want to convey that this relationship is every bit as committed as a monogamous one and just as loving. How do you go about explaining this kind of thing with no knowledge of the response you’ll get? What if the response is negative? Please help.

Answer their questions with patience. I also caution that words like polyamory may not work for the first conversation. Keep it simple. “Mom, I know you keep asking me about the woman who says she is in a relationship with Jack. They are in a relationship. I’ve always known about it. Jack and I are serious and committed and we see other people. We are open and honest with each other and this works really well for both of us.”

If she denigrates the relationship, I would point out ways that he has been great in the past. When he has been at family functions, when he has helped your family, how happy you are together.

And then, and this may be the most difficult part, let it go. It will take time for your mother to understand and accept this (just ask the majority of queer folks who eventually have accepting parents). Keep answering their questions, but also set boundaries. If either of them are rude to your boyfriend or questions his love for you, you can call a stop to that. Your relationship and partner deserves respect.

This is the last and most important part – prove them wrong by actions. Show them that for all of their preconceived notions of what a “real” relationship is, you and your man are happy and love each other. It takes time, but this will be the greatest convincer of all.

From Mr. Richardson’s post:

It also hints at the real preferences of the more serious feminists. The sexuality of men and women operates at different levels. At one level, male sexuality is naturally promiscuous and female sexuality is hypergamous (meaning that women have an instinct to be with the most dominant male). If human nature only operated at this level then monogamy would be exceptionally rare.

I wonder if there are serious feminists who have rejected the traditional family as patriarchal (or as an impediment to female autonomy) and who therefore seek to “liberate” female sexuality – which really means liberating the female instinct to hypergamy.

The family form which corresponds best to hypergamy is, of course, polygamy – as this gives the most women access to the small number of socially dominant men.

When the first high court declares polygamy legal, we can officially pound that last nail into civilization’s coffin.

2) The collapse of marriage. As a general rule, people don’t get married unless they can afford to. For example, marriage rates and birthrates tumbled during the Great Depression but exploded after the economy recovered following World War II. Men, already being dissuaded from marriage due to the feminist legal system, will definitely not bite once they’ve been economically devastated. Expect the rate of marriage to take a HUGE drop. Divorce will also fall, as marriage will be confined almost exclusively to the genteel upper classes.

3) Sex-motivated rage killings will continue unabated, at the rate of one every other year at the least. Young women will continued to be killed by their sociopathic lovers at the same rate.

4) The death of nightlife. It’s a given, in both mainstream culture and PUA circles, that bars and nightclubs are the primary venues in which men meet women and (hopefully) make sweet reproductive music. The problem is two-fold. One, bar-hopping and clubbing are money-intensive activities. If you’ve unemployed or have otherwise seen your income collapse, the nightlife budget is the first to go. As Roosh wrote a year ago:

I predict that in the next two years meeting girls in the cities hardest hit by the economy will be even more difficult for the average guy. With less disposable income girls are going to stay home more instead of going out. Empty bars and clubs mean guys will be more reliant on meeting girls through friends, family, Myspace, and work. There will be less pump and dumps as guys will want to keep what they managed to get, as they themselves are strapped for cash and meeting girls does cost money. The only guys immune will be those in college, who will graduate to a barren landscape—in more ways than one.

Swap “guys” with “girls” and you have, in a peanutshell, what’s happening.

The other point pertains to clubs only – namely, seducing a club girl is nearly impossible if you aren’t an apex alpha or close to it. The atmosphere of nightclubs, depending on flash and looks, is something most guys can’t play to. You need to have a certain look, style, and attitude to pull consistently or even occasionally in clubs, and even if they have good game elsewhere, the club is a gigantic stumbling block that most dudes can’t overcome.

Combine this with the priciness of nightclubs and the recession, and you have a recipe for total market collapse. I predict that the number of nightclubs in cities will fall by half at the least, as the long lines of betas standing in line for an hour and plunking down their dollars for cover charges all so they can dance to shitty music, drink obscenely overpriced liquor, and hit on girls who do not wanted to be fucked by them vanish. Bars will also be hit, but not as severely, as they cost less and appeal to a wider market.

5) An explosion of interest in day game. The advantages of day game are so obvious it’s a surprise no one’s pounced on it. When you pick up girls during the daytime, you don’t have to deal with their bitch shields on at full blast, their cockblocking friends (as many girls are alone), gameless idiots hitting on them and giving them unwarranted boosts to their self-esteem, and the general jackassery of nightlife. Not only that, but approaching girls during the day is way cheaper then going to a bar or club. And yet, googling “day game” turns up no worthwhile information from seduction community websites – they are exclusively oriented around nightlife.

Going hand in hand with the coming collapse of the nightlife industry, I predict that guys interested in getting their knobs polished will focus their efforts on swooping girls while the sun is shining. The guru who writes a complete handbook on day game will be laughing all the way to the bank, laughing so hard he’ll shit himself, as his recalcitrant competitors recede into the darkness of irrelevance.

So knowing all of this, how can you, the humble reader, put yourself in a position of power? I have but one tip: LEARN GAME. If you are interested in having a sex life at all, you MUST have game. If you want to get married and possibly make babies, you MUST have game. If you want to do anything aside from have a five-fingered pants party, you MUST have game. Game is more important than getting a promotion at your job, your college education, or ANYTHING else in this regard. As the Fifth Horseman says here:

Moderate competence in Game is easily worth about the same SMV as having a net worth of $2 million. This is a rough estimate. Furthermore, no one can tax your Game, swindle you out of Game, or steal your Game in divorce court (as long as you don’t let this sap your confidence as a human being).

I define moderate competence in Game as the following 5 steps :

***1) Regular, consistent, and somewhat effortless ability to do approaches to women who are 8s or higher. This is the most important point of all, as without approaches, you will not create the opportunities to practice ANY other part of Game. This is also the filter that blocks most novices from ever progressing.

2) Ability to qualify the woman, as well as identify and pass her own tests easily. Be the first to end the phonecall, always be leaving, other time constraints, etc. The ability to use the occasional well-placed neg is valuable too.

3) Ability to run comfort and rapport for the requisite 6-8 hours. Have a lot of interesting stories, games, and other things to run on her.

***4) Ability to bridge from Day 1 to Day 2, and minimize flakes. This is important as flakes are frustrating, demoralizing, and discouraging. A lot of guys are very close to the brass ring, but this derails them in their quest for Game.

5) Ability to run competent seduction Game, after you get her alone. This is where Ross Jeffries NLP can be extremely useful (but not mandatory by any means).

1) and 4) cause the biggest frustration, paralysis, and ‘giving up’, hence the asterisks. But a man who becomes pretty good at these 5 points is ahead of 98% of all men, and is on par with a Beta who has $2 million in net worth (and is ahead of such a Beta if that Beta has no game and is suckered easily by feminine manipulation).

The copulation arms race is at DEFCON 2, my friends. Learn game or be wiped out in the ensuing nuclear fires.

Dasar Game Hacking

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Banyak orang yang nanya kucing untuk pencerahan,cara pemakaian cheat engine (MLE,KIKI,Revo,CE)
nah kucing akan share cara2 dasar hacking, jadi untuk kamu yang mau menemukan cheat baru karya kamu sendiri dalam cheat engine, sebelumnya baca dulu.
mungkin sangkin banyaknya bisa bikin kamu bete, tapi asal ada niat + usaha pasti sekali baca ngerti deh :Ｄ ,ok?
ingat kalau kamu udah nemuin cheat karya kamu, lebih baik buat sendiri aja, ngakk usah di share … daripada di patch lagi sama publishernya, ya kan?
tapi pada akhirnya semua terserah anda :Ｄ

Credit to Senior N3

~miaw
-salam kucing-

Trine is out! Review

So it’s out on PS3! Trine has been around a while, on PC that is. But now it has moved to the console (will be out on Xbox 360 next month).

Trine is an adventure/puzzle/RPG/platform game. It sounds too good to be true? well, it is here! The graphic is beautiful. The level is very well made and very clever. You have 3 types of character that you can switch between, an archer, a wizard and a knight. up to 3 player can join and play as one of the characters.

The reason that I’m so excited about this game is the co-op playability. Sure, on PC you can play with friends on-line, but on the console, playing together on the sofa in the living room makes much more sense with this game. I know that this sounds good and all, there are also some bad things to keep in mind. Firstly, the control is a bit lose, and with a game that require skills and precision when jumping, it’s a bit floaty. Secondly, the camera when playing co-operatively, it is difficult to go forward if there’s another player that is lagging behind. Therefore, the programmer decided that the camera should follow the wizard. Lastly, the game is slightly short but it is not normally a bad thing as almost all good games should leave you feeling wanting more. And with the price the game is selling, I can’t really complain.

Well, rather than reading this article, you should go and try it out yourself. The game is available to download from PSN for £16.99 and it only takes up about 350MB of your hard disk, guaranteed at least 4-5 hours of fun and awe!.

Watch the gameplay after the break..

You've been Sentenced! has "Got the Knack"

Many thanks to Stephanie Dickison at http://gottheknack.blogspot.com for the fabulous review! An excerpt from the piece is below, but you can read the full review at http://gottheknack.blogspot.com/2009/09/change-it-up-and-do-something-fun-this.html

In addition to Got the Knack, Stephanie boasts extensive writing experience including a new book on her career as pop culture, book, music and restaurant critic  – The 30-Second Commute: A Non-Fiction Comedy About Writing & Working From Home. 

Change It Up And Do Something Fun This Weekend! By Stephanie Dickison Got the Knack, http://gottheknack.blogspot.com

Because I’m a freelance writer, my deadlines can fall on a Saturday or Sunday and often while most people are out shopping and brunching, I am hunched over my little rolltop desk working.

I know the importance of taking time off, but I find it extremely difficult and sometimes even feel guilty for not working (my desk is at the end of our bed, so that doesn’t help matters. I can see my piles of working awaiting me).

So I have come up with some activities that not only take me away from my looming work, but are fun and original and can be done at anytime.

You’ve Been Sentenced!

After a long day of writing to deadline (my television screenwriter fella and me, a magazine writer), you’d think the last thing we’d want to do is craft sentences.

That’s what we thought, until we actually tried You’ve Been Sentenced!, an award-winning board game.

The way it works is you get 10 cards. Each card has a number of words on it. You can choose any word on the card and use between 2 to 10 cards to form a sentence. Then your read out your sentence and your opponents get to choose whether it is passable or not.

The fun begins when you pick out your 10 cards and realize you have no articles. It is extremely difficult to form a sentence without as, a, the, but it’s kind of a fun challenge at the same time!

The ante is upped when the first person who finishes their sentence turns over the timer. This means you’ve only got until the sand runs out to complete your sentence. The pressure! The drama! The crazy sentences!

We played 2 rounds our first time because it was so much fun! And thanks to YBS Add-On Decks, you not only have more cards to choose from, but the categories add a whole new layer of enjoyment. I love the Pop Culture Deck with Ashlee Simpson, Tom Cruise and words like Wii and email. I like the challenge of the Sci-Fi & Fantasy Deck, because other than Battlestar Galactica and Darth Vader, I don’t know what any of it is. I of course can’t get enough of the Gourmet Cuisine Deck.

We had so much fun that we’re having a game night at our place in September with our friends and neighbours, so they can try out You’ve Been Sentenced! too.

It’s such a fun way to spend the night!

From Financial Capital to Human Capital

The new corporation differs from the old in both goals and basic assumptions. In the industrial era, when the strategic resource was capital, the goal of the corporation could only have been profits. In the information era, however, the strategic resource is information, knowledge, creativity. There is only one way a corporation can gain access to these valuable commodities—that is, through the people in whom these resources reside.

So the basic assumption of a re-invented company is that people—human capital—are its most important resource. What used to be one of the radicals’ favorite slogans, “People before Profits,” is finding its way into the boardroom and being transformed into a more businesslike but equally humanistic “People and Profits.”

In an information age society, human resources are any organization’s competitive edge.

One expression of the importance of human capital is the new corporate preoccupation with health and fitness. Corporations are treating their human assets with new concern, encouraging their people to stop smoking, lose weight, exercise, and learn to manage stress. What might have been considered an intrusion into one’s personal life in the past is fair game when people are a company’s strategic resource.

The new re-invernted corporations stress inordinate regard for the two most important types of people in an enterprise: employees and customers.

They have discovered that by being both pro-people and pro-profits, a company can earn more than it it had targeted profits as its only goal.

It is not a question of being nice to people. It is simply a recognition that human beings will make or break a company.

My Consultancy–Asif J. Mir - Management Consultant–transforms organizations where people have the freedom to be creative, a place that brings out the best in everybody–an open, fair place where people have a sense that what they do matters. For details please visit www.asifjmir.com, Lectures, Line of Sight

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First Impressions: WET

Tarantino, Tarantino, Tarantino, Tarantino, Tarantino, Tarantino, Tarantino, Tarantino…(This is all the review is going to contain)…

Tarantino, Tarantino, Tarantino, Tarantino Tarantino, Tarantino, Tarantino, Tarantino…

Okay, I’ll stop now.

With crossovers a-plenty and a borderline obscene amount of movie tie-ins is it any wonder that contemporary games are trying their utmost to be more captivating and engaging by utilising filmic methods and techniques? WET, however, seems to take this about three steps further by seemingly attempting to be a film, trying to be a game, trying to be a film.

It’s not based on a film (though there are veiled allusions to certain genres – homages if you will) but one could easily mistake the notion that it does relate to some kind of cinematic counterpart. You can even imagine a Guy Ricthie style trailer for it. Maybe that’s just the fault of the gaming industry for releasing so many tie-ins that it’s just automatic to think that way.

WET (or at least the demo anyway) smacks of 1970’s nostalgia with a grainy filter to give it that crackly, worn look that accompanies old films, complete with an equally retro soundtrack that has caused many afros over the years.

Rubi: "Fuck you Uma Thurman!"

The protagonist, Rubi, is what you expect a female game character to be like in a culture ruled by patriarchal values. So no doubt words like “sassy”, “independent”, “Lara Croft” and “bad ass” are currently working their way through your grey matter right now. Although having said that, the term “bad ass” generally applies to both genders.

The Lone Ranger-style hero has been a staple of third and first-person games for years so Rubi’s individual stance as a trigger-happy, sword-carrying, wall-jumping assassin-for-hire doesn’t really come as a surprise. As a character who begins her mornings by running up walls and shooting drug barons in the face before she sits down to her Shredded Wheat it just seems to be the norm to have her “bad ass”.

I mean, even Gordon Freeman (of Half-Life fame) developed an uncanny ability to fire military and alien weapons despite his background as a mere scientist.

Rubi seems to encompass a sort of melding of Eastern and Western styles of violence and action. Her two pistols, which she keeps in holsters on each side of her hip, is an obvious reference to the Old West era of cowboys and sheriffs and what-have-you (with a particular nod towards spaghetti Westerns films). While her Japanese sword (and equally oriental tattoos on her arm) represents more Eastern-styles of fighting.

And with her twin pistols technique, and acrobatic skill there is perhaps something of a cross between Tomb Raider’s Lara Croft (a Western icon) and Mirror’s Edge’s Faith (a character designed to look more Asian) in there as well.

Anyway, enough of all this pretentious look-at-me-I-know-about-stuff bollocks and let’s have a look at the demo.

It begins with a drug deal that goes awry. Don’t they always! Why can’t dealers and gangsters conduct their business transactions in a more neutral manner? Haven’t they heard of Fed-Ex?

When the situation gets out of hand (i.e. people die), guess who’s job it is to intervene and stop the bad guy from escaping via means of a bloody shoot-out? No, not Spiderman. Why would you even say that?

Like a lot of games of this style and complexity the opening sequences feature in-game tutorials to help the player become acquainted with the controls and techniques. You can’t help but feel a little sorry for the goons that get sent out in these sections. They are basically cannon-fodder that serve to make your first few kills as effortless as possible.

The game has chosen to include bullet-time, not merely as a novelty feature like in Max Payne but as something of a necessity (read: pain in the arse). Running and shooting just doesn’t cut it now so the game has developed a technique that allows you to jump and fire at enemies using both guns to aim at two different targets. A neat feature that no doubt becomes a little easier as the game progresses but it seems a little sloppy from the outset.

To add variation to fight sequences Rubi can also fire while sliding along her knees like some ecstatic footballer in a Jet Li film. And she can run along walls. And hang upside from ladders. As many high brow publications would say: “Bitch got moves, yo.” Each jump/slide motion automatically triggers the bullet-time giving a much easier chance of successfully slaughtering villains.

It makes me wonder why the need to be able to shoot both guns individually arose in the first place. Maybe all will be revealed in later levels but from my experience enemies can be disposed of quite easily when in slow-motion so this technique – killing off two enemies at the same time, handy though it may be – just seems to look cool and slick.

I’m going to go ahead and say this: but there’s something Freudian going on here. Rubi disposes of her enemies by “penetrating” them with bullets from “both barrels” of her guns. And on close combat can “penetrate” them further with her large “sword”. I know I’m reading too much into that but fuck you I’m after more word count.

Oh and guess what: quick-time events. During the second part of the demo a car chase takes place. Only you’re on top of the cars, leaping from one roof to another firing at passing enemies in what is quite possibly the most fast-paced sequences I’ve ever played in any game.

The unrealistic feats of acrobatics that Rubi possesses borders on silly but it enables for some rather interesting-looking stunts and death-defying leaps. If Rubi was a bloke, she’d be Jason Statham. Unfortunately the transition from one car to another can only be obtained by quick-time events in which you must press a button with immediate accuracy before a bullet sets up home in your eye socket.

As annoying as this gets when inevitable repetition occurs because the vast majority of the population do not possess clairvoyant capabilities, it is exacerbated further by having to concentrate on these quick-time events whilst keeping yourself free of enemy bullets.

It’s a level of concentration and the desire to not blink for several minutes that does put you on the edge of your seat but also becomes annoying when inevitable repetition occurs (I purposefully repeated that phrase just to illustrate how irritating repetition can be).

RAGE MODE

I’ve given this aspect of the game its own sub-title. Don’t ask why. I wrote it in. It’s been established. Let’s move on with our lives shall we?

What WET also features is something that…crap…there really is no other way of getting around this Quentin Tarantino reference. I’m sorry, it positively reeks of Kill Bill. It even has a siren-esque battle music.

During these sequences Rubi becomes enraged (in this instance, it seems, because she shot a guy and his blood covered her best outfit) and the screen ditches intricate and detailed graphics for three basic colours: red, black and white. The decal of the room becomes a strong red and Rubi and enemies become silhouetted as she rampages in rapid-fire mode, literally exploding bad guys with her anger and bullets.

The problem with having rooms with no features is it makes seeing your next destination a little difficult. I circled a room several times looking for doors and/or switches before I realised there was a corridor leading to another room in one corner. I’m supposed to be a slick, eagle-eyed assassin and here I am flailing around an empty room (save for some splatter and puddles of testosterone) like I’ve just discovered a repressed fear of legs.

Oh and white is the colour of blood in these bits.

Do not let us say to our children

A study conducted by the British Association of Science has established the children can improve memory and intelligence play video games.

Not all video games, of course, but particularly those designated as training to train the brain and not playing something like eighteen hours a day, of course, but half an hour a day,but nine out of ten children or men undergoing an experimental program of this type by Dr. Tracy Alloway, co-author of the research have made “substantial progress” from the point of view and from that of mnemonic IQ.

The researcher is convinced that even play Sudoku, do jigsaw puzzles and even spend time on social networking site Facebook will help the memory and the ability intellittive. All this I read about the London newspaper Daily Telegraph.If they understand our children, who distracts them from most computer and Playstation? Fortunately, they do not read newspapers. Are too busy playing video games.

"Video games are the future in education"

National Public Radio recently posted an interview between Will Wright and Dr. E. O. Wilson.

Wilson is professor emeritus at Harvard University and biologist, is a two-time Pulitzer-winning ant expert who helped develop theories of island biogeography, chemical ecology, and sociobiology. A leader in the modern environmental movement, Wilson has devoted his life to understanding how all forms of life are connected.

Wright is famous for creating The Sims, the best selling video game in history and Spore, a recent game incorporating many science themes. One of Wright’s first games, SimAnt, is based partially on the work of Wilson.

During the conversation, the first question Wright asked was if Wilson saw a role for games in the educational process.

I’ll go to an even more radical position,” Wilson said. I think games are the future in education. We’re going through a rapid transition now. We’re about to leave print and textbooks behind.

Wilson elaborated further:

. . . for the most part, we are teaching children the wrong way. When children went out in Paleolithic times, they went with adults and they learned everything they needed to learn by participating in the process. That’s the way the human mind is programmed to learn.

Wilson also suggested that virtual reality “can be a steppingstone to the real world.”

This is nothing new. More experts are saying the same thing about the power of games and simulations as learning engines.

But what I enjoyed was the ability of both men to have a conversation that integrated science into a variety of other fields. I don’t think we do this enough in our classrooms. Too often, our conversations and work is focused on a narrow range – names, dates, places, people – without giving kids a chance to explore the relationships between our content and literature, for example.

Listening to the conversation was a good reminder about how important it is for kids to see history as a story connected to a much bigger world.

Image sources – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._O._Wilson, www.flickr.com/photos/sketch22/420745216

Will Miss Piggy Denounce Lady GaGa for Stealing Kermie?

Oh no she didn’t! Lady GaGa may have had one of the biggest nights in MTV Video Music Award history with her big wins and hot performance, but is she about to become the other woman in a scandalous love triangle?

You see, when GaGa went to the VMAs, she was seen smooching with none other than Kermit the Frog. Kermie is dedicated to one Miss Piggy, the diva of all divas.

It’s common knowledge that our favorite sow is pretty much obsessed with Kermit, whether he accepts this or not. She can’t be pleased with GaGa smooching up on her man.

Predicto wondered: Will Piggy denounce Lady Gaga for strutting around the hottest event in music with her frog by 10/1? 67% of voting members say yes!

“That’s Ms. Piggy’s man. I would be upset, too,” says member “orwf9157.”

“Miss Piggy owns Kermit. She is probably kickin’ his @$$ now,” says “johnel.”

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“Maybe Lady GaGa and Miss Piggy should do collaboration,” says “rqhx7049.”

It could be called “Porker Face.” OK, bad joke.

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PS3 Slim με σκληρό 250GB (!) καθοδόν στην αγορά

PS3 Slim με σκληρό 250GB (!) καθοδόν στην αγορά | Game 2.0

Αν σκέφτεστε να τσιμπήσετε το PS3 Slim, ίσως είναι καλύτερα να περιμένετε μέχρι τον άλλο μήνα. Σύμφωνα με αναφορές, η Sony σκοπεύει να κυκλοφορήσει ένα νέο μοντέλο του PS3 Slim, με σκληρό δίσκο χωρητικότητας 250GB (!).[next]

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Pasti pernah dengar game salah satu ini bagi yang punya PS2, PSONE… PSP… NDS GUILTY GEAR…

game fighting genre yang grafiknya mantaph..

dengar – dengar hampir semua karakternya gambar tangan dan sangat detail ketika saya mainkan di nintendo DS apalagi sekarang ini sudah keluar untuk versi – versi game konsol detail karakternya di buat full pixel yang saya lihat untuk gerakan – gerakan dan combonya semua rapih…

Saya cukup kagum dengan game fighting satu ini di banding game fighting lain.. Selain itu nuansa game ini agak rock…dengan lagu backgroundnya berbau metal..

beberapa waktu lalu saya dapat link untuk karakter game ini seri XX Reload yang keluar pada konsol PS2..Seseorang telah meng-HACK grafik game itu.. dan hasilnya lengkap banget sprite game yang di dapat dan bisa di download di web ini.

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O Bomberman επιστρέφει δριμύτερος στα XBLA, PSN και WiiWare

O Bomberman επιστρέφει δριμύτερος στα XBLA, PSN και WiiWare | Game 2.0

O Bomberman επιστρέφει δριμύτερος φέτος, με το Bomberman Live: Battlefest, το οποίο ανακοίνωσε η Hudson για Xbox Live Arcade, PSN και WiiWare. To παιχνίδι διαθέτει μάχες μεταξύ ομάδων, νέα modes (VIP, Capture the Flag, Capture the Crown, Bankroll), νέα power-ups, νέους χαρακτήρες, νέες αρένες και υποστήριξη των Avatars στην έκδοση για το 360.[next]

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Tetris is still in fashion

Stress exposure could be a significant problem for folk. Exposure to violence thru war, terrorism, rape or domestic violence can leave your psyche damaged and haunt you for years ahead. The prevalence of world conflict and our cognizance of it due to instant media access are causing therapists to seek excellent remedies for stress exposure to attenuate the harm.

a recent study looked at the probability of reducing post-traumatic stress disorder using the computer game, Tetris. While this might seem wonderful at first sight, we’ll take a better look at their reasoning and their findings.

traumatic experiences are often remembered in some visual and spatial way. The images of the event are reconstructed later by your brain as ‘flashbacks’ that may be triggered by some similar environment, a noise, a smell, or occasionally nothing in any way. However [*COMMA] these pictures aren’t bought by your brain right away. There appears to be about a 6 hour time window following the event when the memories are consolidated and stored.

This is the first fact that researchers and clinicians can possibly exploit. If you can somehow disrupt those memories from forming in the 6 hour window, you might be ready to moisten any long term harm, or even forestall it. In fact, strategies have been used to do this, regularly using drugs that temporarily interfere with the brain’s chemistry and prevent memory formation.

The difficulty with this approach is that it can make all memories of the event unreliable. Sometimes having such memory can be of use. First, it can help forestall exposure to such events in the future. Second, you may need those memories to aid the prosecution in a criminal case. So what other approaches could researchers try?

Enter Free Tetris. Tetris is a visual-spatial game so uses the some of the same brain resources used to encode memories of a dire event. This was the reasoning behind trying to use it as way to meddle with traumatic memory consolidation. So did it work?

researchers took 2 groups of healthy adults and showed them real videos of violence and death, which is the standard mental tool to mimic exposure to injury. After the videos, 1/2 of the participants did nothing, while the other half played Tetris for 10 mins. Then across the next week participants were asked to maintain a tally of any flashbacks they’d relating to the violent and annoying video exposure.

The Tetris player group had less than 1/2 of the flashbacks of the non-player group, suggesting that playing Tetris meddled with their capability to consolidate the traumatic memories. But here’s the cool part. There was no difference between the groups in their capability to remember things about the videos. This suggests that the emotional impact of the experience was dampened, but the power to recall facts about the experience wasn’t.

Now, this study isn’t claiming that they can cure post-traumatic stress disorder by having infantrymen or victims of violence play a little Tetris after a traumatic experience, while it may help a little bit. However [*COMMA] the study opens up the ability to develop new methods for helping victims of violence better cope in their future.

Current techniques, including debriefing, can sometimes amplify the experience and really make it even worse, so psychologists are on the lookout for new tools and this research may help lead to them.

In the short term, perhaps you should encourage your children to wind down with a little Tetris after a hard battle playing Call of Duty.

I play eRepublik

It is a free online mmorpg game, browser based, so you don’t need to install anything in your PC. Play it directly from your browser.

The game play is ultra slow paced. After registering, setting up the profile, i look for the company who gives the highest salary. Work to gain money and train to build strength. Oh, and go to market for some food so my character not starved to death.

This is the third day i play it. I’m still on level 4 now. They said after few advanced level i can build my own company and hire other player as a worker.

The economy and politic seems quite complicated. There are news about peace, treaty, war and even elections. It looks like they tried to copy the real world.

I wonder how the banking works. Can i borrow money to build a company? Is there any “Federal Reserve” who control the world? Do they incite war and conflicts to gain profit? And, since we can build weapon factory… ah. That’s why i join the game. If it real simulated politic, maybe we could learn something, maybe we could find some solution for the “real” world.

That is all what i can say for now.

What the press said about the game:

“eRepublik offers a real second life” – guardian.co.uk

“eRepublik creates multiplayer global strategy game” – The New York Times

“Love, loss and the world wide web” – BBC

If you interested to try it, please register via my referal >> Join eRepublik << or click at the widget on the right. If you like the game an play it after level 6, i will get some rewards, maybe it can help me to build my own eCompany

Thank You.

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A Glowing Chess Board Set

The best thing about Chess is that anyone can play the game, and depending on the players, it can be a very short game or a game that lasts longer. Many people in the world are fascinated by this game, so this LED Chess set would make a great gift for some.

Chess lovers should definitely own this Glow Chess Board, designed by Adam Craft. This Chess Board lights up whenever a piece is moved and placed in a different square it lights up. This game has been designed as a travel friendly game package.

Glow Chess board would be a perfect travel game for those who love to play chess, and whose games last for hours into the night.

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Hangaroo helps exercise your brain

A classic game we all played as kids – Hang Man – has undergone a major face lift with NCBuy’s slick HangARoo. The object is simple … Guess the phrases by selecting letters from the alphabet to fill in the slots. Fortunately , even if you do send the ‘roo to the outback in the sky, you won’t feel too guilty. His quick wit and smart tongue will often have you begging to kill him off.

Clear away the extra promotional icons and HangARoo makes a welcome desktop addition. The Flash version of hangman features a sass-talking kangaroo who, thank the Lord, does not attempt an Australian accent. He stands on a scaffold with a noose around his neck, critiquing your letter choices till you either guess the word or phrase–or send him to heaven. You can pick 4 incorrect letters before you lose the game. To choose letters, you can push the letter buttons or use the keyboard. The audio works nicely, and you can adjust the volume on a slider. The interface shows an eFlash ticker at the bottom, and the program adds additional icons to your desktop and links to your Start menu folder. Still, hangman fans might find some icons a little price to pay for a free game as fun as HangARoo.

Hangaroo a game that allow guess the phrases by choosing letters to fill in the slots. If you make too many errors, you know what occurs next : the cute kangaroo will be earning his wings. Fortunately , even if you do send the hangaroo he outback in the sky, you will not feel too guilty. His quick wit and smart tongue will have you begging to kill him off. Version 2.052 may include vague updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

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Puzzle 29 (Corral)

This is a Corral puzzle.

Puzzle 29

Unless I’m not looking in the right places, this type of puzzle seems to be very rare outside of Japan (I have no idea about inside). That’s better than like Country Road though, which I’ve never seen. All the more reason to make them and post them. I would give a rough difficulty estimate, but I have no idea what the common techniques for this puzzle are. I always seem to solve these in completely different ways. I do not think this one is easy though.

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