This blog will serve as a central hub to promational excursions by myself to any and all future/past connections to various facets to the internet and will mainly serve as a Locale to things I find interesting and worth talking about for the post
Remember the days before YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and all that jazz? I'll admit i'm not so out there that I remember before Myspace, but when Tom was the most popular guy on he internet and Newgrounds was the only awesome for people to share awesome.
How much of this can you recognize? There's still a bit missing too.
I mean Newgrounds got so big that a game was made compiling a few of the all stars in a flash brawler in the style of SSB. It's a bloody website where the tagline is "Everything by Everyone." SSB is a game compiled of dozens of franchises that have been developed over decades in a game that sold at a full $60 pricetag. and sure there is a lot more content in the SSB series but for a small project with a smaller scope Newgrounds has maintained its name and I hope it continues bringing together a talented interesting community.
So the guy above is Julius Richard Petri, he in vented the Petri dish.
While it may sound tasteful good old Julius was no chef, he was a bacteriologist from Germany.
Thus as you may imagine his discovery was involved with bacteria. The Petri dish is actually a small glass dish that is used to place bacteria and watch grow. Terrible description but consult a textbook and not the internet if you are interested in century old inventions for studying bacteria.
The Google of today goes from this (above)
To this (above)
But why are you here and not looking up your essay on Google brat. get gone already.
What you see is the Sims 2 UMD for the Play Station Portable, this proprietary piece of techy trash was probably the must useless, umimspired piece of DRM trash ever. Really Sony? how effective do you think that was? I know a guy that used to make a mint off seperating discs from that container with the UMD sticker on it, and selling the piece of plastic and charging to teach people why they bought it off him, because really he only needed one plastic disc box to act as a second case in order to run the games he kept or sold seperately. Honestly i'm glad they replaced it with online only downloads.
Oh wait...
The case probably cost more than the actual chip material wise.
So the year is 2013, the current generation of consoles is 7-8 years old, and Microsoft and Sony finally believe in next gen. Fin-a-f**king-ly. Let's compare the conferences, and other next-gen knowledge.
Let us begin with Sony's February conference: Games no console.
Xbox conference: TV, Tv, tV, Xbox is the new, well here;
Game-wise I think Ps4 has the PR in their infinite favour for now, hopefully Microsoft will actually impress at E3. Because honestly, innovation stopped with the whole terribly inneficient movement gimmick. wii fitness my arse. The kinect and the PSMove were never made into anything that brought more than dancing to the party anyway. and I'm fairly certain dancing was before all this e-jazz. sorry i-jazz.
I read this a good while back, and enjoyed all three volumes of Svetlana Chmakova's very interesting mystical magical graphic novel.
Really I don't want to spoil things but the synopsis for vol. 1 will be paraphrased,
Alex, weirn in the making, homeschooled since birth, has lost her sister and tutor to unknown forces and when everyone else loses memory of her sweet little Alex must rely on her own half-arsed skills, her cookie craving familiar, and her silky robe to save her from forces unknown.
To all you that have money, go to a bookstore and buy it. To all you cheapskates myself included, your local library probably has it in stock. :D
Star Trek Online, panned for all mmo aspects but dominates free to play ship battles in the awesome universe of... I've never watched Star Trek so really Spock dies is all my knowledge.
Anyway ST O is a fantastic f2p mmo based in the Star Trek universe where you as the player can now command your own ship with your own alien/human, both of which are of your own design, and do battle in small terrible ground fights to the most epic 50 ship battles for war that really gives you that feeling of simple epic elegance. A dance between colossus ships in the infinite void of space can occur for the most experienced Shipmaster to the little green upstart with the proportions of Gollum. I love every bit of the space battles, non-battle land zones, and even the in-depth character customization system.
This is also gameplay... unfortunate, terrible, gameplay.
Now the rather terribly presented, horribly executed, and somehow evident to the large amount of effort put in, the ground combat is the number one reason why this game is not worth the full twenty gb update. Sad really. But to be specific, environment wise, assets are reused over and over again with slight tweaks, corridors appear again and again, and if you don't get stuck on terrain, it is because you are on a flat plane of nothing. UI wise there are so many screens popping up everywhere that you can't see what you're shooting, and there is so much text that it is information ovcerload. Yet somehow SCE tried to make the game action based when there are just terrible hotkeys that stop all movement breaking the user from the experience entirely.
Now for all I've slammed the game on it's extremely weak ground combat, I can still give it a solid 7/10 for the fact that you only choose everything you do, past the tutorial you accept what missions, jobs, instances, war battles you involve yourself with. This game has the most enjoyable space combat ever, excluding maybe EVE Online, but that I'm to afraid to play with how life sucked my friend Eddie looked when he played for a week. So those of you who like Star Trek feel free to avoid this for everything but the unoverse. People who just like free to play I can heartily recommend this game and would invite you to view the enlistment trailer below:
