I happened across this the other day in my internet wanderings. Alice and Kev is an experiment in playing a homeless family in The Sims 3. The premise seems pretty basic on the face of it; Take the Sims 3, create a couple of characters (father/daughter in this case), set them up in a lot made up to look like an abandoned park, and see what happens, giving the odd nudge along the way. ...
I’ve had a reshuffle in layout terms, to coincide with the new revenue making ProjectWonderful ad boxes, and hopefully it’s as easy, or easier to navigate. The site zone’s that were on the left, are now in the bar above, and darken depending where you are, and a few boxes have moved. Oh and I bumped rslap up to v1.1, with a fix for comments and blank lines. Also EVE got a funky new trailer, which I’m slotting in here, simply because I can; ...
It’s moderately well known that Wordpress’ gallery code, is not as robust as it could be in some cases. These have a tendency to manifest in XHTML / multi-column CSS layouts. There are two main issues; It inserts inline CSS into the middle of the page, which under XHTML is not good The gallery layout can do unusual things, including odd line breaks which can create large gaps after the first row, kill the template or other odd things It’s been bugging me for a while now, so I decided to do a bit of research to find some solutions, and figured it would be useful to post the results. ...
So this got announced the other day too; The BONES, Casio Entertainment, Production I.G., Studio 4°C, and Toei Animation anime studios are animating Halo Legends, a DVD anthology of seven short films based on Microsoft Studios’ Halo game franchise. Microsoft’s creative staff is approving the visuals and storytelling. Three of the creative directors are Frank O’Connor of Microsoft’s 343 Industries, Shinji Aramaki (Appleseed), and Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell, The Sky Crawlers) ...
So if you haven’t heard, S2 Games, the company behind the Savage series, have a new game coming out, and what’s more is they’ve been doing Linux Closed Beta testing with the guys over at Phoronix, and the Linux Gaming community has responded, in a big way. Phoronix posts on the subject so far; Come Play This New Linux-Native Game With Us! Linux Gamers Are Excited For New Games Okay, Linux Gamers Are REALLY Excited! ...
So the site fell off the net. It’s not like anyone actually cares.. right? -Technical stuff follows- In case you were wondering, my hoster’s fell a foul of the VPS issue a while back, they’ve now fixed that, but it’s taken some time to figure out what’s gone and what’s recoverable. Seems like the SQL DB’s have gone, and I was stupid and missed backing up. But all is not lost, this old backup will suffice for now, and I have the source for the other pages thanks to Google Cache. ...
So I got bored the other day and went looking for something to randomly watch, and stumbled across this absolute gem of a machinima, “Freeman’s Mind”, in it’s own words; Follow the thoughts of Dr. Gordon Freeman, a 27 year old physicist and neurotic individual. I’ve not laughed so much at an online video for a long, long time. You can find the first video below, and the rest at http://www.machinima.com/series/view&id=187 http://civil-protection.blogspot.com (The author’s original work (worth a look) and current base for FM) || http://accursedfarms.com (Soon to be home for FM) ...
Okay, since the UT3 Titan pack expansion came out a couple weeks ago, interest has risen in UT3 once more, and so has my desire to carry on mapping in it. Hopefully, sometime soon, my interest will peak, and CTF-Orbital will see a flurry of activity and maybe even a release. Below are a few shots of how the map look currently. As it stands the layout is done, but the lighting is very basic ‘working’ lights. ...
So like every other techie pleb out there, I downloaded the Windows 7 Beta the other day. While I reserve final judgement over whether this is a decent release or not, there are a few nice things in 7 that are going elevate it to possible ‘XP killer’ Much smaller footprint, when up and running, and with ‘Aero’ turned off, Win7 only takes up ~488Mb of memory Mouse gestures, we’ve had them for years on *nix / Mac, now Windows has caught on The redesigned taskbar MS has been bragging about; it takes a little while to get accustamed to. They seem to have tried to make it as unobtrusive as possible, which it pulls off. The previews even have progress bars built into some of them, which is nice. More accessible / customisable backup manager. About time too. There is probably more merits, but I haven’t messed about it Win7 to say much else. Since the footprint of 7 has been reduced, it should be better for running games on, all that remains is that 7 gets some better drivers than Vista did. ...
I managed to salvage my old humour section from site backups, they mostly (read; entirely) consist of lists of stupid things, that are mildly amusing. Feel free to suggest additions via the comments