There’s a store called Half Price Books near my work that carries used media, including a small games section. I found a copy of “Magix Music Maker” for PS2, and at $7 I figured I could just write it off if it sucked.
It doesn’t - from an hour’s work last night I have the skeleton of a damn catchy tune. (I’ll be spamming everyone with a link once it’s polished enough.)
My success there inspired me to see what the MTV Music Generator franchise had been up to lately - another $7.50 on Amazon got me a used Music Generator 3 for XBox. I’m still pretty proud of at least one of the pieces I put together on the Playstation original, so we’ll see what can be done two versions later.
Read more...There Is Only One Way To Do It
Ruby on Rails (http://www.rubyonrails.org/) lets you create a skeletal Web application with a few simple commands. How? By making the author give up some power of choice in how the application is constructed.
This is not, in my opinion, a bad thing. Choices made by a single developer (especially newbies) rarely reflect best practices.
Now comes Maven (http://maven.apache.org/) which seems to do the same thing for Java apps. Could this be the start of a trend?
Read more...Spore...
Wow. Was browsing the new Top 100 on Google Video, and they had a gameplay video of Will Wright’s Spore. I’d heard it mentioned on the 1UP podcast, so I checked it out - this is amazing. I’m not even going to spoil the video for you, except to say that this is probably the deepest game in existence.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8372603330420559198&q=spore
You can share your creations with other players, so I hope all of you will get it, too.
Read more...> Nintendo E3 Press Conference Report news from 1UP.com > “Wii Connect 24 is what the Wii goes into in standby mode, > allowing the machine to operate key functions and remain > connected to the Internet, yet it only uses the power of a > mini-light bulb. The idea is that gamers can leave the > machine on standby, yet other gamers can even still > interact with your hardware. In Animal Crossing, someone > could visit your village while you’re asleep!
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3150566
That addresses a major gripe with the DS Animal Crossing - we had to be logged on for others to visit our town. We even went so far as to leave the system powered on overnight, but given how crash-prone the connection was, it wasn’t at all practical. I found myself wishing for a PC app that would continue to “serve” our town while the DS was off. This may be the next-best thing.
Read more...E3 time...
Here’s the stuff that piques my interest right away:
XBox 360 -F.E.A.R. PS3 -Virtua Tennis 3 -Virtua Fighter 5 Wii -The Legend of Zelda -Metroid Prime 3 -WarioWare -Sonic the Hedgehog -Metal Slug Anthology PS2 -King of Fighters 2006 -Lumines Plus -God of War II -Final Fantasy XII PC -Reservoir Dogs -Unreal Tournament 2007 PSP -Lumines 2
Need to research: -Army of Two -Ridge Racer 7 -Tekken 6 -Rainbow Six: Vegas -Super Monkey Ball titles -Red Steel -Battlefield 2142 -Dead Rising -Lost Planet -Medal of Honor Airborne
And while I don’t really care about it, “Throne of Agony” for PSP sounds more like a case of constipation than a game.
Anything else I should give a damn about? All others shall be ignored with extreme prejudice.
Read more...Buzz Aldrin was at a benefit for the Arizona Kidney Foundation (where Lenny’s grandmother works), and she managed to get him an autographed copy of his book (an illustrated autobiography for kids). We’ve been reading it every night before bed.
It never occurred to me that actual footage of the landing might be online, but here it is: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1416393771637021814&q=moon+landing
It blows my mind that they would actually take a rover up there. Guess the message was “in your face, Russia!”
Read more...Ye gods, what a crappy day. The following individuals are now on my shit list:
-David Korn -The creators of md5sum -Sun Microsystems (why does your “cd” spit out the directory name?!) -The guy who decided that using shell scripts to work around one of Ant’s shortcomings was a good idea
Read more...Old code is like a zombie. It doesn’t die. It walks the earth forever, devouring the brains of programmers who would maintain it.
Read more...I thought the yoga place Diana found yesterday was a little hokey… They had her participate in a tea ceremony, and then they used sensors and some PC software to “read her aura”. Well, whatever, I thought. She likes yoga better than a gym membership. I decided not to say anything.
But apparently Diana thought it was a little hokey too, because she Googled them today. What was the first headline that came up? “Critics Compare Dahn Yoga to Cult.” Evidently one of their members died during a training exercise on a mountain in Sedona.
At least Diana caught on before they conned her out of $1000 for a one-year membership.
Read more...I bow down to God of War...
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Yaaaay, toys!,
originally uploaded by gefyn. </div>Many thanks to the individual who recommended the PS2 games to Diana. They are amazing.
Add that to the games I picked up on clearance a while back (that were in storage waiting for a system to play them on), and I have enough to keep me busy for months!