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Meer: Save the Internet - US Senators are Funny |
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| 2007-02-03 16:33:47
a blog entryFunny in a sad way. He sounds like he's drunk. Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) that is. Hear the MP3 of his speech against internet freedom (he thinks it's for internet freedom), or just read the important parts on Wired - even if they sound even more mazy there than in his stuttering speech.
Some funny quotes...
Ten of them streaming across that internet and what happens to your own personal internet?
I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?
Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially.
Yeah, I'm sure he has a clue what he's talking about. More fun...
They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck.
It's a series of tubes.
And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
Maybe he took Warriors of the Net a bit too literal?
Anyway, I didn't want to comment on this issue, there's enough news coverage, and Save the Internet.com has really good articles. Among it, the thing dear Mr. Stevens doubted anything has done, a definition of Net Neutrality. Maybe he should get his facts straight before the next session.
Oh, and in the implausible event that he actually reads this: I am a content provider. And I am a student, with virtually no income. An everyday internet user like millions of others. Please work out for yourself what monopolies (well, actually, oligopolies) mean for content like mine.
A techno remix, and Ted Steven's short version.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/haslo_en/~3/76638209/permalink_760~en
Meer: My Firefox Plugins |
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| 2007-02-03 16:33:43
a blog entryI wanted to make this post for some time, and it reminds me that I'll have to update my WoW Addons post too :P
Anyway, I have a few Firefox plugins that I really like, most of them for development of Ajax stuff (something's incoming here), others just for fun. Here's a list :)
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Description
DOM Inspector
This one also shows the structure of altered documents, unlike the "show source" command. So even when I change contents of a site with JavaScript I can have a look at the current structure. Really handy.
Web Developer Toolbar
A must-have. Toolbar for watching and exchanging cookie data, showing structural stuff on a site, having a look at CSS, and showing the generated source (similar to the DOM inspector, just not in a tree but in regular source display).
FasterFox
Did you read one or several of these "make your Firefox faster" posts and articles recently? Well, the devs of this mod do so too. Regularly, and they provide a UI for you to adapt it, or just take their various defaults.
Download Statusbar
This shows current downloads in a status bar at the bottom of the browser window - like this the download manager won't pop up every time, and you can always see your downloads while surfing.
Google Pagerank Status
This displays the page rank of the site you're viewing in the default status bar. Why? Well, why not? :P
Tamper Data
See header info sent back and forth, tamper it as much as you want, add new headers. Nice for developing stuff. Or for hacking I guess, although sites that are vulnerable to such trivial attacks wouldn't be interesting anyway and cracking is against my code of ethics...
HTML Validator
A client-side HTML validator, it tends to show me how many errors haslo.ch has all the time. *cries*
Reveal
This is for eye candy, mostly. It also allows you to navigate tabs and history way more efficient, once you've got its keybindings memorized, which I'm too lazy to do. I just know F2, and that's nice already :)
FormFox
This basically shows you where a form is being submitted to, a basic form of scam protection. I only use this for dodgy sites, and since I tend not to use forms for dodgy sites that means I use it nearly never, but still, it's nice to have...
UDTool
A plugin that makes Urban Dead a bit nicer to play - no other uses at all, but when I uninstalled it I missed the added functionality in that nice game almost immediately.
StumbleUpon
A toolbar for .. stumbling upon stuff. Click the button (after selecting your preferences the first time you use it ever, after this your data is stored) and randomly jump to new web Flash games (mostly - I discovered the nice ZWOK! with it), articles, blog posts, whatever. I have no clue what they do with the collected data (apart from their privacy section that is), but there goes boredom, never to be seen again.
Others have done this before me, recent ones in my bookmarks are BloggingTom and CERIAS, and there's huge compilations too, these are just the ones I found most useful :)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/haslo_en/~3/76558057/permalink_761~en
Meer: Imagine |
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| 2007-02-03 16:33:36
a blog entryImagine was always one of the songs that touched me most. It's so strong. So naive. So thought-provoking.
Now somebody has gone to lengths and made a clip with voice samples of Dubya.
America needs this, more than ever.
Yes I know the two links have little in common. Thanks growabrain.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/haslo_en/~3/76558056/permalink_762~en
Meer: Blog Closed :( |
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| 2006-11-16 16:08:07
a blog entryI haven't posted for like forever now. First there was the huge spam waves, then I shut down comments. For now I've removed all comments, maybe at some later date I'll clean them up and re-enable the ones that aren't spam (which is the minority), but I'm not sure I'll ever get to do that as it would mean I'd need a new interface for it :(
Thanks for sticking around with my blog for so long, if you have. Maybe I'll eventually get to make something new, so long my domain will keep all the current blog entries, if any of the huge traffic I still get aren't spam bots (which I doubt), I guess it could help.
Oh, and right now I'm busy slowly finishing Uni and having a new job anyway :-Phttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/haslo_en/~3/50108476/permalink_769~en
Meer: Web 2.0 Image Generator |
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| 2006-08-18 19:18:38
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Via The Lazy Genius, and make your own.
On a similar note, famous logos in web 2.0 format.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/haslo_en/~3/14157405/permalink_768~en
Meer: Comments work again |
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| 2006-08-06 15:46:32
a blog entryI'm really sorry. I had wondered why I didn't get any comments, not even the usual spam - it seems I was a bit over-cautious with my spam filter and accidentally filtered out everything. The offending piece of code:
if (ereg("...", $owner)) {
$spamcomment = true;
}
Silly, eh? It's properly "..." now. Thanks to Daniel, who notified me about this issue.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/haslo_en/~3/9528433/permalink_767~en
Meer: Wallpaper Image |
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| 2006-08-05 09:46:58
a blog entryI felt like sharing this picture, taken with my trusty handy (thus the bad quality, I had to do some blurring to make it bearable - although that blur in fact added another dimension to the picture). I took this picture in the RBS substation of Bern's main station.
I quite like the overexposure of the lights, trademark of the cheap camera chip the handy uses.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/haslo_en/~3/9222154/permalink_765~en
Meer: Hacking WoW |
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| 2006-08-05 09:46:57
a blog entryRemember how back when I wrote about the WoW spyware issue (here and here), I said that Greg Hoglund was biased and obviously a cheater, tagging people left and right as cheaters too while I was at it? While I was not right at all about the people left and right (sorry again), I was perfectly right about Greg Hoglund.
He just released slides of a hacker presentation about hacking WoW. "Because I like to have an unfair advantage." I hate and despise you, Greg :)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/haslo_en/~3/9348030/permalink_766~en
Meer: 20min and Criticism |
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| 2006-08-02 06:34:54
a blog entryWe have this little free newspaper here in Switzerland, 20 minuten (20 minutes) - the content is halfway accurate, although it is regularly interspersed with non-labelled commercials. Oh, and there you go already, I already set a link to the Pendlerblog, the one best meta-literature for 20min. Whenever they make up numbers or don't quite understand what they write, the Pendlerblog is there to the rescue.
Unfortunately, 20min never quite appreciated their research, although the Pendlerblog was one of the winners of this year's Swiss Blog Awards. Unlike other Blogs, who get angry mails from 20min's CEOs.
The newest development in this matter, and reason for my Blog post? As of right now, all links from the Pendlerblog to 20min are forwarded to an unrelated article in a foreign newspaper, which talks about how some businesses have Bloggers that write good news about them, without telling anybody they get money for that.
Well, this doesn't quite seem appropriate, since the Pendlerblog obviously writes bad (and funny) news only, and doesn't have any connections to nor commercials for other newspapers. Anyway, the Pendlerblog reacted, and the Blogosphere makes fun of them - and rightly so. Dear 20min (and JSVP), humour makes life a lot easier, maybe you should try it :)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/haslo_en/~3/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.haslo.ch%2Fpermalink_764%7Een
Meer: Ding - 60 again! |
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| 2006-07-22 14:01:01
a blog entryIt is in fact already a day or two ago, but I haven't gotten around to post this since it happened (no good screenies, no good profiles, yadda yadda). After Agnesha dinged pretty much exactly a year ago, I now levelled my second character to 60. In much less time played, and he has much better gear already too, but he has a long way to go till he's really grown up :)
In other news, with our guild Blotslauget going to the Molten Core again, together with the multi-game guild BSC (well, their european WoW arm anyway), Agnesha gathered some better gear already too - and after being a fury warrior for quite some time and dishing out damage, I respecced for MC to a protection build - she's a pure tank now. Grimling, by the way, is a PvP-Lock.
Enough of the game talk, let's see pictures!
Agnesha's profile
Grimling's profile
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Meer: Imagine |
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| 2006-07-03 11:06:09
a blog entryImagine was always one of the songs that touched me most. It's so strong. So naive. So thought-provoking.
Now somebody has gone to lengths and made a clip with voice samples of Dubya.
America needs this, more than ever.
Yes I know the two links have little in common. Thanks growabrain.http://feeds.feedburner.com/haslo_en?m=630
Meer: Save the Internet - US Senators are Funny |
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| 2006-07-03 02:19:02
a blog entryFunny in a sad way. He sounds like he's drunk. Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) that is. Hear the MP3 of his speech against internet freedom (he thinks it's for internet freedom), or just read the important parts on Wired - even if they sound even more mazy there than in his stuttering speech.
Some funny quotes...
Ten of them streaming across that internet and what happens to your own personal internet?
I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?
Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially.
Yeah, I'm sure he has a clue what he's talking about. More fun...
They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck.
It's a series of tubes.
And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
Maybe he took Warriors of the Net a bit too literal?
Anyway, I didn't want to comment on this issue, there's enough news coverage, and Save the Internet.com has really good articles. Among it, the thing dear Mr. Stevens doubted anything has done, a definition of Net Neutrality. Maybe he should get his facts straight before the next session.
Oh, and in the implausible event that he actually reads this: I am a content provider. And I am a student, with virtually no income. An everyday internet user like millions of others. Please work out for yourself what monopolies (well, actually, oligopolies) mean for content like mine.http://feeds.feedburner.com/haslo_en?m=628
Meer: My Firefox Plugins |
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| 2006-07-03 02:19:02
a blog entryI wanted to make this post for some time, and it reminds me that I'll have to update my WoW Addons post too :P
Anyway, I have a few Firefox plugins that I really like, most of them for development of Ajax stuff (something's incoming here), others just for fun. Here's a list :)
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Description
DOM Inspector
This one also shows the structure of altered documents, unlike the "show source" command. So even when I change contents of a site with JavaScript I can have a look at the current structure. Really handy.
Web Developer Toolbar
A must-have. Toolbar for watching and exchanging cookie data, showing structural stuff on a site, having a look at CSS, and showing the generated source (similar to the DOM inspector, just not in a tree but in regular source display).
FasterFox
Did you read one or several of these "make your Firefox faster" posts and articles recently? Well, the devs of this mod do so too. Regularly, and they provide a UI for you to adapt it, or just take their various defaults.
Download Statusbar
This shows current downloads in a status bar at the bottom of the browser window - like this the download manager won't pop up every time, and you can always see your downloads while surfing.
Google Pagerank Status
This displays the page rank of the site you're viewing in the default status bar. Why? Well, why not? :P
Tamper Data
See header info sent back and forth, tamper it as much as you want, add new headers. Nice for developing stuff. Or for hacking I guess, although sites that are vulnerable to such trivial attacks wouldn't be interesting anyway and cracking is against my code of ethics...
HTML Validator
A client-side HTML validator, it tends to show me how many errors haslo.ch has all the time. *cries*
Reveal
This is for eye candy, mostly. It also allows you to navigate tabs and history way more efficient, once you've got its keybindings memorized, which I'm too lazy to do. I just know F2, and that's nice already :)
FormFox
This basically shows you where a form is being submitted to, a basic form of scam protection. I only use this for dodgy sites, and since I tend not to use forms for dodgy sites that means I use it nearly never, but still, it's nice to have...
UDTool
A plugin that makes Urban Dead a bit nicer to play - no other uses at all, but when I uninstalled it I missed the added functionality in that nice game almost immediately.
StumbleUpon
A toolbar for .. stumbling upon stuff. Click the button (after selecting your preferences the first time you use it ever, after this your data is stored) and randomly jump to new web Flash games (mostly - I discovered the nice ZWOK! with it), articles, blog posts, whatever. I have no clue what they do with the collected data (apart from their privacy section that is), but there goes boredom, never to be seen again.
Others have done this before me, recent ones in my bookmarks are BloggingTom and CERIAS, and there's huge compilations too, these are just the ones I found most useful :)http://feeds.feedburner.com/haslo_en?m=629
Meer: German Ministers for Internal Affairs and Games |
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| 2006-06-24 17:33:39
a blog entryYou may know, germany has this institution called USK - it tests games, and decides for what age they're fit. Meaning that some will get a 16+ tag, some will get a 18+ tag, some will get one with 6+.
Now there's this minister for internal affairs in Niedersachsen, Mr. Schünemann, who comes, sees games with 18+ tags and thinks "oh noes, our youth is in danger!" - without considering the, you know, 18+ tag.
He also says "we shouldn't wait for spectacular isolated incidents, we should do something now". Well, you know, adults don't necessarily need protection of minors, since they're no longer minor, but adult.
The next argument he pulls out of his magic sleeves is "there aren't enough 18+ tags, that makes the USK untrustworthy" (with numbers he invented himself, of course). Without considering that not more 18+ tags could be necessary, and there are actually games that are less brutal and pornographic than your average afternoon TV program.
The USK had a comeback...
Man sei gern bereit, den Unions-Innenministern die rechtlichen Grundlagen der Einstufungen erneut zu erläutern. Zuständig für den Jugendschutz seien aber ohnehin Jugend-, nicht Innenminister.
d-frag.de has found a fitting title: Realsatire, and Chris also wrote a letter to Mr. Schünemann:
Sehr geehrter Herr Innenminister Schünemann,
ich habe meine Zweifel, ob Polizei und Justiz unseres Landes noch ordnungsgemäß funktionieren. Denn, wissen Sie, laut Strafvollzugsstatistik hatten 2004 von den knapp 60.000 in den Gefängnissen unseres Landes inhaftierten Erwachsenen nicht einmal 2.000 eine lebenslange Haftstrafe abzusitzen. Das ist doch viel zu wenig! Sie werden mir sicherlich zustimmen, dass sich unser Rechtssystem auf diese Weise unglaubwürdig macht. Vielleicht sollten Sie, als für die innere Sicherheit zuständiger Minister, gemeinsam mit dem Herrn Justizminister erwirken, dass in Zukunft mehr Menschen zu lebenslangen Haftstrafen verurteilt werden.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Chris
Also at robert|craven, and a must-see clip from Jon Stewart.http://feeds.feedburner.com/haslo_en?m=627
Meer: 1.11 is here! |
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| 2006-06-22 00:45:53
a blog entry...and I'm not there, despite haslo.ch having a new visitor record. I'm rather on the Gurten, grilling and enjoying midsummer.
Anyway, I am in fact looking forward to great changes, will post more later :)http://feeds.feedburner.com/haslo_en?m=626
Meer: Bush Comedy |
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| 2006-06-17 16:58:58
a blog entryHave a look at this video:
Comedian Stephen Colbert roasting George W. Bush - funny enough, at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, right next to the president himself...
It shows that actually, Americans are coming to reason. I really hope they won't let him wreak havoc in Iran as well.
Via Capitalist Pig vs. Socialist Swine.http://feeds.feedburner.com/haslo_en?m=616
Meer: Stop Tokio Hotel |
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| 2006-06-17 16:58:58
a blog entryYou know what I think about Tokio Hotel. Others think alike, and since a fansite for Tokio Hotel had 2 million visits...
Schickt diesen Link weiter, damit wir den Rekord brechen! Außerdem gewinnt der 500.000 User das neue Album der Red Hot Chili Peppers! Also schickt diese Seite weiter!
I agree :) Stop Tokio Hotel!http://feeds.feedburner.com/haslo_en?m=617
Meer: Sudoku of the Day |
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| 2006-06-17 16:58:58
a blog entryHere you go, a mini Sudoku of the day :)
Click Here! For a Sudoku!
Found it via my favourite Sudoku link depository. Oh, and the one I always use when I want a fresh Sudoku for printing or solving online (the latter of which happens really seldom, but Arzo just loves these...).http://feeds.feedburner.com/haslo_en?m=618
Meer: Shadowrun the Computer Game |
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| 2006-06-17 16:58:58
a blog entryNo, I'm not talking about Shadowrun Online, I honestly don't know how alive that fan project is, it seems pretty dead :(
I am talking about the new Microsoft-ish Shadowrun game for the XBox (which in itself is something I'd never buy) that will soon come out though, and what they did to the pen-and-paper RPG.
Imagine a game developer looking at a world, thinking something like this: "Nah, the whole cyberpunk thing with those pink mohawks, leather jackets and all, it's way too oldschool. And why would we need a matrix too, two levels of reality is way too complicated. And it's an RPG? Really? Bah, no need for character development, we'll make a shooter!"
Sounds silly? Well, brace yourself! It's the reality! Aye, it's what they do to this world, they totally abuse it, basically leaving a name, and make a game that doesn't fit the world in any way. And they have the guts to call it Shadowrun.
Some quotes I'd like to present...
They basically tossed out 90% of the Shadowrun intellectual property to make this."
Which begs the question... why bother? Why license a relatively obscure RPG property just to make a cyberpunk Battlefield 2?
From Kotaku, via cynx.
When we decided to do Shadowrun we realized there was a ton of baggage that came with it... there are magic spells, and shamanic spirit magic, and cybertech, and metahumans like elves, and dwarves and such, and astral space, and the Matrix...
Mitch Gitelman, Studio Manager. Yeah, I'm serious.
A hands-on from the recent E3 summarizes:
Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure this game will be a complete disaster. I'm sorry, that's not fair, it's not a complete disaster: it's actually a relatively decent Unreal Tournament mod. Everything about it absolutely screams average, from the very Halo-ish gunplay to the very-much-worse-than-Unreal-Championship melee combat to the absolutely mediocre magic system. Nothing about it is new or original in any way, and man, it really looks like Unreal.
What remains really is making fun of the developers. This is actually the most read-worthy link of them all :)
UPDATE: Some spin from MS, also on /., Xboxic (where I commented too) and GameSetWatch. I'm not impressed:
Backstory: Needs some work here. A bit of butchered Shadowrun. My advice to FASA: Cut it out. You don't need much backstory for a squad shooter!
... ... how exactly does that meet the criticism in this very post??
UPDATE: ProjectPerko speaks about how awesome a real Shadowrun-game could have been...http://feeds.feedburner.com/haslo_en?m=619
Meer: Wu Ji - The Promise |
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| 2006-06-17 16:58:58
a blog entryIt's funny how sometimes I absolutely love movies that other people hate...
Yesterday, Arzo and me meant to go watch X-Men 3 - we found that, for some reason unknown (and sucky), kitag doesn't have late-night performances on fridays in all their cinemas anymore. After going "WTF?" we looked for alternatives, and found Wu Ji.
Caution, spoilers ahead - although I don't write any story details, just a general overview.
It's an epic story about fate. About good and bad, and how they often mix. About a slave that becomes a hero. About a seemingly wicked almighty general that first turns out to be good after all, and then shows that he's just a playball of forces stronger than him. About a little girl that grows up to be a powerful yet lonely woman. About an evil overlord that commands merciless forces and has lost his soft side in his youth. About a dark assassin that has a strange relation to the hero. It's about a goddess that can change fate, and does so from the very beginning. And it's about love, and how little falling in love has to do with true love.
End of Spoilers.
Critics of this film claim that the story is incoherent, the storytelling is stuttery, the special effects are awful. Personally, I haven't seen any of these things in the movie. What I did see were a stunning scenery, beautiful image compositions, prophetic views of events to come, traumatic views of things that happened, deceit, mischief, lies and treachery, and loyalty. No stuttery storytelling, but breaks in the story to allow for thought, and a coherency that goes beyond timelines.
The acting is melodramatic, very fitting to the bright, almost overly naturalistic settings and colors. But, well, the special effects sometimes really are awful. But personally, I didn't even really notice how bad they are, while I watched a fantastic fairy tale with digressions into martial arts. Only afterwards the critics have made me think about that as well. And, as a reviewer on IMDb put it...
Much the way STAR WARS' dated special effects are ignored by it's fans now, THE PROMISE will be seen through a more forgiving lens in time. I think that if expectations are tweaked a bit, most people will be able to at least find it entertaining.
I'm relieved to see that I'm not the only one who loved the movie (well I'm not the only one anyway, since Arzo loved it just as much). It was destroyed by critics in China, it seems, so it was by many reviews on IMDb, while others loved it as much as me.
My recommendation? Go see it! Only you can find out whether you like it or not.
Oh, and I know that raving reviews tend to influence people's expectations, don't set yours too high. Personally, I expected something like "Hero", and it was :)http://feeds.feedburner.com/haslo_en?m=620
Meer: Guy Goma About to Be Deported? |
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| 2006-06-17 16:58:58
a blog entryGuy Goma, the guy that got into the wrong BBC interview (I'm sure you've seen the video), may be about to be deported from the UK.
Others wrote about this a few days back (be sure to check this link, the facial expression analyzation is priceless), and there were no updates on it, so it's somewhat unconfirmed. But that would be a real pity. Do you have any newer information?
By now there's an official fansite, and an online petition for giving Guy Goma the BBC job. And he's auctionning his lucky blue shirt for a good cause, at least he capitalizes a bit on his 15 minutes of fame :)http://feeds.feedburner.com/haslo_en?m=621
Meer: Flash Fight |
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| 2006-06-17 16:58:58
a blog entryEver thought Flash just tries to fight you, whatever you do? I worked with it once, my guestbook is written in Flash too, but still...
Quite hillarious, found at Der Leumund.
Oh, and seen the date? The end is near, it's 6.6.6 ... haha, this was funny!http://feeds.feedburner.com/haslo_en?m=622
Meer: World of Starcraft? |
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| 2006-06-17 16:58:58
a blog entryVivendi and Blizzard aren't as united as a distributor and a developer could be. In that they have completely different plans for their common future...
Vivendi Universal Games gave a presentation to Wall Street today. Too much to report on everything said, but the big one was:
"All Blizzard franchises will become MMOGs."
All. They claim they have a model now to develop an MMOG in 3 years for $50 million. WoW cost 50 million euros and took 4 1/2 years.
Original report by F13.net, reported after that by IGN and GameSpot. Funny enough, Blizzard was quick to deny:
Nothing in that rumor is true in regards to Blizzard. If I had to guess, there was some confusion between what Vivendi has planned for its its game division versus what Blizzard has planned. While Blizzard is owned by Vivendi, their game division operates seperately from Blizzard.
I smell the difference between a money-making company that knows nothing about games and a game-making company that would prefer making just enough money...
Via Azzor.
UPDATE: Meanwhile, Blizzard refined their statement a bit, according to Video Games Blogger (no source given):
We do not currently have any MMO development plans beyond the upcoming expansion for World of Warcraft, and furthermore, we don’t have any intentions to focus on only one genre or platform with our future games.
UPDATE: More and better info on Tobold's MMORPG Blog, and the slides from Vivendi's presentation are accessible too.http://feeds.feedburner.com/haslo_en?m=623
Meer: Fussball / Soccer / Football / Whatever |
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| 2006-06-17 16:58:58
a blog entryI have this to say:
From here, found there. Funny nevertheless:
Found at piece O plastic. Oh, and something about FIFA and how ethical their business practices are (german), at BloggingTom.http://feeds.feedburner.com/haslo_en?m=624
Meer: Urban Dead |
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| 2006-06-17 16:58:58
a blog entryQuite similar to World of Dungeons, which I still play, yet completely different - it's also a browser game, but you actually take turns real-time instead of just pre-selecting how your character acts inside the dungeon...
I'm talking about Urban Dead.
Have you seen Night of the Living Dead? Or Resident Evil? Then you know what this game is about :) - either you're a zombie or you're a survivor, both ways you struggle for survival. Well, if you don't survive as a zombie, you just stand up again, survivors become zombies (but can be revived too). Level up, find gear, communicate with others, struggle for your life. Oh, and it has a good documentation too, and there's even a map.
I only started playing a bit two days ago, but so far, it's great! If you meet Haslo (survivor) or Chew Chew (Zombie), that's me :)http://feeds.feedburner.com/haslo_en?m=625eerder | later
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