tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77371097450882633352024-03-13T23:36:35.091-07:00Finchley CentralYou Have Lost The Gamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02833035420228375267noreply@blogger.comBlogger448125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7737109745088263335.post-28019498161425847502010-01-19T02:26:00.000-08:002010-01-19T02:31:45.095-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZyhxbbqsolneEKEWEwMJBwNd3A6ZWl-FKoGH3OEZgv92ZbOMPQpGgahFeC44gStO3JwEqXFUjt1tKvTzITNQ43wMR8tdDW_jzZQ5nFYtQPY7PZYj3H4VfQbqj8faES7Jw7MkUup-bqEY/s1600-h/hemlock03.PNG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 311px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZyhxbbqsolneEKEWEwMJBwNd3A6ZWl-FKoGH3OEZgv92ZbOMPQpGgahFeC44gStO3JwEqXFUjt1tKvTzITNQ43wMR8tdDW_jzZQ5nFYtQPY7PZYj3H4VfQbqj8faES7Jw7MkUup-bqEY/s400/hemlock03.PNG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428396676048112306" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglIaXt3y_HYV1UclhKCfwuVIm4s846_jmGpR4g0VnB_yGDuF2ur5b_OYsc8iYGX3huqvtgxVjrjT_A2PBQFBsqligPWAkrluocrCY2fY2-OnFy-CjnngF1AHF26RBFpG5_pJOMyYLRySg/s1600-h/hemlock02.PNG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; 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float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0IG0NgTQ-FLTkoYXvFuVrslpCv4TapfjkQPenND7M3Wpt2ctwHgQgy9L7neB6zDyLHfkg8z6ptRaBD2-c1A1_BtgN6xoKpYRegcFnQTa8X2WeurqY4oktvgHpGx8JrVRs6SEDSDywCV0/s400/skullcraigscreenshot01.PNG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427311328094097394" border="0" /></a>You Have Lost The Gamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02833035420228375267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7737109745088263335.post-71436663164440696802009-09-18T05:22:00.000-07:002009-09-18T05:26:41.514-07:00LAST MAN ON EARTH ANIMATEDSnazzy website on the way for the new animated film, which is generating nice interest. I think it deserves it, but I don't deserve any credit. When working with source material as truly visionary and amazing as Last Man on Earth, one is working with the pop culture equivalent of an early Shakespeare play. Thus, it is a question of not ruining it too badly in translation rather than taking credit when standing on the shoulders of giants. :)<br /><br />Anyway, website soon! <br /><br />Remain in light,<br /><br />JYou Have Lost The Gamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02833035420228375267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7737109745088263335.post-87281973974072861782009-09-18T05:17:00.000-07:002009-09-18T05:21:43.169-07:00460 Message to my brotherI am in the dark literally, and receiving but not sending at present due to a ridiculously tough 10 HD monster and getting robbed on the treasure type. The guidance offered earlier today was heartening and this weekend will see me exploring my local library. The flags will be flying, albeit at half mast, but next week sees an entirely different configuration of stars. As soon as that new horoscope is fulfilled packed lunches are in order as part of my new health kick!<br /><br />I can't really recommend 4th edition D&D, too long and boring. The good book is still 2nd edition imo. :)<br /><br />45 67 81 19 45 108 17 23 27<br /><br />The lucky numbers that aren't, dib dabbers wishful thinking.You Have Lost The Gamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02833035420228375267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7737109745088263335.post-49156877451590050852009-09-14T20:48:00.000-07:002009-09-14T20:52:07.498-07:00HORROR VAULTDepartments of Shits and Giggles:<br /><br />Because it's a cool thing to do, because it's fun and because I can, a short film set in the continuity of LAST MAN ON EARTH ANIMATED will appear in an upcoming volume of HORROR VAULT, an unrated horror series coming out of Denmark.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.thehorrorvault.net/">HORROR VAULT</a><br /><br />My addition to the series is called SPLITSVILLE and depicts somewhat graphically a sad episode in the past life of Robert Morgan.<br /><br />People who grab this as well as the full version of LAST MAN ON EARTH ANIMATED can put them in the same storyline, people into the more psychological and poetic stuff in the feature don't have to, people who like gore etc. may only ever see the featureshort in HORROR VAULT.<br /><br />But at least now you know. And as we know...<br /><br />Knowing's half the battle.<br /><br />The other half being red and blue lasers.<br /><br />Word.You Have Lost The Gamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02833035420228375267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7737109745088263335.post-42302577089335671192009-09-11T20:45:00.000-07:002009-09-11T20:58:56.498-07:00Why LAST MAN ON EARTH ANIMATED?<object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/v-7svdA8PQM&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/v-7svdA8PQM&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object><br /><br />Well why DO this? Why take a public domain film, whether one likes it or not, and in some respects cannibalise it?<br /><br />How to answer this question. Simply is best I think.<br /><br />I personally have always loved LAST MAN ON EARTH, and have resented it being ignored by both critics and consumers in favour of later more colourful performances. This love for LAST MAN has often led me back to it for inspiration, and sometimes I watched my copy of it purely to enjoy the performance of Vincent Price in what I feel is his finest rendition. His acting in LAST MAN is wonderful to watch. Certainly since he shares the screen with no one for long stretches it is a little of the dream of all screen actors, and probably all actors of every stripe, to go solo and let it rip.<br /><br />My desire to experiment with machinima and related media led me to want to reimagine certain stories, which I thought could be well translated into the 3d graphics world. I was delighted to find small but active machinima communities online and then very disappointed when I saw how much copout was going on- people were doing short and not very good parodies, rather than push the envelope. I guess the approach of the amateur and professional is going to be different in most cases, but that was honestly a disappointent to me. And I began to think in opposite terms. Rather than adding to a growing smear of substandard parodies why not go for melodrama?<br /><br />There are original scripts on the slate, to be sure, and adaptations of novellas and my own past novels. However I also wanted to see if the disgusting craze for unnecessary remakes that the studios are indulging in could be diverted, even if only in mockbuster terms, to something more valid, more entertaining and fundamentally more satisfying.<br /><br />Thus: SPACEMEN and particularly- LAST MAN ON EARTH ANIMATED.You Have Lost The Gamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02833035420228375267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7737109745088263335.post-56881952291532880122009-09-11T17:48:00.000-07:002009-09-11T17:50:40.209-07:00FORTUNATE SONS<a href="http://www.indieflix.com/FilmDetail.aspx?tid=22187">FORTUNATE SONS - the award-winning film on 9/11</a><br /><br />"Scholars and professionals with various kinds of expertise---including architects, engineers, firefighters, intelligence officers, lawyers, medical professionals, military officers, philosophers, religious leaders, physical scientists, and pilots---have spoken out about radical discrepancies between the official account of the 9/11 attacks and what they, as independent researchers, have learned. They have established beyond any reasonable doubt that the official account of 9/11 is false and that, therefore, the official "investigations" have really been cover-up operations. Thus far, however, there has been no response from political leaders in Washington or, for that matter, in other capitals around the world. Our organization, Political Leaders for 9/11 Truth, has been formed to help bring about such a response. We believe that the truth about 9/11 needs to be exposed now---not in 50 years as a footnote in the history books---so the policies that have been based on the Bush-Cheney administration’s interpretation of the 9/11 attacks can be changed. We are, therefore, calling for a new, independent investigation of 9/11 that takes account of evidence that has been documented by independent researchers but thus far ignored by governments and the mainstream media."<br /><br />Rep. Peter H. Allen, PhDYou Have Lost The Gamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02833035420228375267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7737109745088263335.post-86557480486255173732009-09-11T03:57:00.001-07:002009-09-11T03:57:41.707-07:00LAST MAN ON EARTH ANIMATED trailer<object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/v-7svdA8PQM&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/v-7svdA8PQM&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>You Have Lost The Gamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02833035420228375267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7737109745088263335.post-78045669728374301752009-09-10T20:02:00.000-07:002009-09-10T20:12:13.346-07:00Of ambition and giant amoebae: Fear of a literate planetSo began something I wrote nigh on twenty years ago, borrowing from the title of an issue of one of my favourite comicbooks, The Defenders, by Marvel Comics.<br /><br />Marvel has come a long way since then, making a lot of money from movies, and cutting the heart and soul out of the engine room, the comics, in the process. However, that is not the point of this essay.<br /><br />The point of this essay is quite different.<br /><br />The Left, and the Right, are two sides of the same coin. This has never been clearer than now, at the end of a siecle in western history, and the beginning of a new wave of civil unrest, world war, and defining global movements that will soon clash head to head.<br /><br />In the Jazz Age so-called, the 1920s through early 1930s, Jazz was associated with its negro and somewhat New Orleans-centric roots. It was a racial and subcultural phenomenon.<br /><br />It was elevated when it was adopted as a form of social warfare by socialists desiring to revolutionise American and more broadly western culture. It was a means of attacking the fundamental decency of a free society by appealing to its venality and its sexuality. Because the word, "jazz" was originally a synonym for, to put it crudely, as it was meant to be put, "fucking". "Jazz" music was not romance music. It was fucking music. Likewise the "protest" music of the 1960s. This was not music and soft lights and romance. It was sexuality. Adolescence. Overconfidence. Blindness.<br /><br />Which leads us to the here and now, and giant amoebae. A giant amoeba is an amorphous monster, akin to The Blob, which sucks things in an slowly dissolves them. People, ideas and cultures don't immediately suffer magical annihilation. They slowly dissoluate before our eyes in gory horrifying detail, losing coherence, losing the majestic spark of life and intellectual promise with which we are born and which our groupings, at their highest, represent.<br /><br />So to rap music. It is a sad indictment on the once-great NAACP that now it is left with its rump constituency of professional victims, protestors and relict activists, loud when unnecessary and yet paradoxically silent over the latest socialist and manipulative export of black culture- rap music.<br /><br />Rap music does not elevate. Rap music does not make a protest that is valid, heartfelt or particularly effective. It is the latest in a long line of music tropes intended purely to cater to the lowest common denominator. And as is the case all too often, it is also another example of black people being their own worst enemy. Black music such as rap music is not shall we say soul music. Nor does it espouse a valid culture. It is socialist manipulation using capitalist ideation against itself, whilst allowing the total exploitation of black men and the uncaring and relentless subordination and exploitation of black women. By promoting pseudo-rebellion and ghetto radicalism it also promulgates the worst stereotypes imaginable on all the races that exist today in western culture.<br /><br />It is also, and not accidentally, preparing the ground for the embrace by first black culture and then the wider culture, of Islam.<br /><br />This must stop. And only the black American culture can stop it.You Have Lost The Gamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02833035420228375267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7737109745088263335.post-86575392581086309772009-09-09T16:17:00.001-07:002009-09-09T16:17:32.957-07:00"Kade Out" by Kent Osborne...<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/17jqmJkhFsw&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/17jqmJkhFsw&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>You Have Lost The Gamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02833035420228375267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7737109745088263335.post-45896968471945554492009-09-09T06:42:00.000-07:002009-09-09T06:43:18.914-07:00LAST MAN ON EARTH ANIMATED -=- trailer #1<object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KxhmFep0L_I&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KxhmFep0L_I&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>You Have Lost The Gamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02833035420228375267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7737109745088263335.post-60529047956556667442009-09-08T19:27:00.000-07:002009-09-08T19:28:04.434-07:00451: Ray BarrettAustralian actor Ray Barrett dies at 82<br /><br />(AP) – 1 hour ago<br /><br />BRISBANE, Australia — Veteran Australian actor Ray Barrett, who became a star of British television in the 1960s, has died, his agent said Wednesday. He was 82.<br /><br />Barrett's last film role was as the character Ramsden in director Baz Luhrmann's movie "Australia," released last year.<br /><br />His Sydney agent Jane Cameron said Barrett died in hospital Tuesday after a fall at his home at Gold Coast city in Queensland state.<br /><br />"He was an extraordinarily good actor who loved doing it," Cameron said. "He was such a skilled actor that he was always a very solid presence on the screen."<br /><br />Raymond Charles Barrett was born in the Queensland capital Brisbane on May 2, 1927. He moved to England in the late 1950s and starred in the long-running British television series "The Troubleshooters" in the 1960s.<br /><br />Cameron said Barrett did a wide range of acting work in the United Kingdom for almost 20 years, including voices for the iconic puppet television series "Thunderbirds," before he returned to Australia in the mid-1970s.<br /><br />In Australia, he became a prominent player in a rejuvenated Australian film industry. He received one of Australia's greatest acting accolades, an Australian Film Industry Award for Best Supporting Actor, for his role in director Fred Schepisi's 1978 film "The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith."<br /><br />Barrett is survived by his third wife, Gaye, a daughter from his first marriage, Suellen, and two sons from his second marriage, Reg and John.<br /><br />Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.You Have Lost The Gamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02833035420228375267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7737109745088263335.post-89153635355818857282009-09-07T20:57:00.001-07:002009-09-07T20:57:38.681-07:00Don't Blame. Achieve.<object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Q3xuPNvUeL8&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Q3xuPNvUeL8&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>You Have Lost The Gamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02833035420228375267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7737109745088263335.post-44352463137918434762009-09-07T06:15:00.000-07:002009-09-07T06:16:11.810-07:00Totally Sweet Ninjas.<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WtR2m20C2YM&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/WtR2m20C2YM&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>You Have Lost The Gamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02833035420228375267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7737109745088263335.post-32975069980252463682009-09-07T02:09:00.000-07:002009-09-07T02:14:56.681-07:00Cognitive Dissonance is no accidentSomewhere between the engineering of consent and some people's innate intellectual laziness is a broad agenda not just to dumb people down- small enough effort required there, on average- but also lower expectations.<br /><br />In the real estate sales game they call it conditioning the seller. Their client, the seller, wants to sell their house, and get as much for it as possible. Contrary to this, most real estate firms want nothing more than to milk the sucker seller for money until there isn't any more then sell the house for whatever they can get. The commission doesn't vary too much whether the house sells at a premium or not.<br /><br />But all that is a different story. What matters for the purposes of this little dialectic tract is that the real estate crooks con their own client, in the same way educational outlets and the media con their audience. They move people emotionally, exploit their vulnerability... In short, they condition their audience. Not really controversial news any more. Although the mere fact that all these truths have to run a gauntlet in the media and from the half educated doyens of what is left of the educational system tells you something.<br /><br />For fifty or more years the catchcry has been, "those who can, do; those who can't, teach." And it is very true. As a result the least intellectually fit have prospered in classrooms and universities at the expense of the bright all rounders who used to drag the rest of society along kicking and screaming into an increasingly bright future.<br /><br />Conditioning is not only turning out a bottomless hellpit of Homer Simpsons of both sexes in the civilised world, it's also lowering expectations for the future. Reducing people's ambitions to base consumerism and animalism is the credo at work here.<br /><br />It must be stopped. Which means WE all have to try and stop it.<br /><br />Best of luck, wish me the same.You Have Lost The Gamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02833035420228375267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7737109745088263335.post-49110606534711261582009-09-06T09:45:00.000-07:002009-09-06T09:46:17.060-07:00LAST MAN ON EARTH ANIMATED<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CDJnhrnd7-8&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CDJnhrnd7-8&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>You Have Lost The Gamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02833035420228375267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7737109745088263335.post-63940103952001524812009-09-06T05:29:00.000-07:002009-09-06T05:30:44.314-07:00Scrabble on Facebook: if you are a retard or an ignoramus, this is the game for you.Disgusting, stupid and embarassing Game. If your name is Homer Simpson or Peter Griffin, this is the word game for you- a game where being able to speak read and write English counts against you.<br /><br />It allows countless gibberish words like ud, mun, zo, ae, aa, ai, ab, al, boh, shope, and on and on- whilst disallowing known normal albeit educated words. It is a disgrace.<br /><br />It doesn't allow challenge of these pathetic non-words, it lags or freezes constantly, and its stupid system of scoring prevents its constant errors and failure to adhere to the English language to be reflected in scoring.<br /><br />If you are re tarded, lacking in self respect, horribly badly educated or just a typical unintellectual member of the underclass- this is the game for you.<br /><br />If you play this game, see it for the disgrace it is to our language and culture and play it anyway, you are a pathetic sheep and deserve what the future will most certainly bring you and your class of society. OBEY SLEEP NO IMAGINATIVE THOUGHT.<br /><br />A word game where wrong words are allowed. If that doesn't sum up modern life, nothing does.<br /><br />cue the Simpsons theme.<br /><br />I am forced to give it at least one star- facebook admins - I do so under duress, this game deserves NOTHING and doesn't even work well enough to be playable by the sheeple who like it.<br /><br />When trying to post this review, I was told some of its content was reported as abusive by facebook users- interesting since it hadn't been posted yet. Fascist much?You Have Lost The Gamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02833035420228375267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7737109745088263335.post-8826522144759413572009-09-05T00:33:00.000-07:002009-09-05T00:43:48.342-07:00Synchromysticism: Stuck in neutral because...Synchromysticism is stuck in neutral because it is a process, towards an end. But all too often the process is being used inappropriately, by uneducated, not especially clever and frequently not all there people to make random connections through a combination of seeing what one wants to see and using "near enough is good enough" rather than scrupulous accuracy.<br /><br />For example.<br /><br />There are many real and documented "coincidences" in the <a href="http://alienbodies.wikidot.com/charles-milles-manson">Charles Manson</a> cases. There is the occurrence of the date <a href="http://alienbodies.wikidot.com/october-12">October 12</a>. There is the crossover with the <a href="http://alienbodies.wikidot.com/church-of-scientology">Church of Scientology</a>. The presence in the same prison, sometimes the same cell, at the same time as Manson of a variety of other <a href="http://alienbodies.wikidot.com/1960s">60s</a> figures. The references made by Manson to <a href="http://alienbodies.wikidot.com/search:site/q/beatles">the Beatles</a>, who possibly met him and certainly stayed within walking distance of him. The crossover with the <a href="http://alienbodies.wikidot.com/four-pi-movement">Four Pi Movement</a>. The crossover with the <a href="http://alienbodies.wikidot.com/helter-skelter">underground bases mythos</a> (and its underlying reality). And much more.<br /><br />This is totally different from the frequent use by uncritical and rather silly people calling themselves synchromystics (a profession not requiring qualification, handily enough*) who pick a given date, then use events that fall ANYWHERE WITHIN A MONTH of that date as "hits" to correlate. That kind of howlingly stupid imprecision discredits the very real significance of certain dates, the genuinely odd repetitions in the lives and deaths of public figures, the fact that there really have been <a href="http://alienbodies.wikidot.com/system:page-tags/tag/tavistock">sinister groups</a> linking many an alleged "lone assassin" or "serial killer" and so on.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />*and thus on the level of many an Arts and Computing graduateYou Have Lost The Gamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02833035420228375267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7737109745088263335.post-20369692828593848992009-08-31T16:58:00.000-07:002009-08-31T16:59:03.432-07:00444: Disney to buy Marvel for $4 billion<strong><a href="http://links.mkt1462.com/ctt?kn=56&m=33957835&r=MTI2MzkxNTg0MAS2&b=0&j=NTc0MTgyNjES1&mt=1&rt=0" target="_blank" name="Top story 1x">Disney to buy Marvel for $4 billion<br /></a></strong>Disney is purchasing Marvel for $4 billion. Disney said Monday that it will acquire the superhero factory in a cash and stock transaction that values each share of Marvel at $50, a 29% premium to where the stock closed Friday.You Have Lost The Gamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02833035420228375267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7737109745088263335.post-38377483673864351112009-08-31T09:07:00.000-07:002009-08-31T09:17:16.794-07:00Kleeshae Caverns<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.hottestontv.com.au/loop"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX2gki_uJFn6-lTCOS4_YS42wUAdJX6_HLmk1pWJdQysP7AgMSU_I80uNZ4Irs6yIAmmhiCnzcl0gdJtZxE5w_jOTk_arw62Mmz8A0lEMN8kp4BFDPdwiYeLYENVAMXGadu__2G4kfuCQ/s400/banner200x200.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>One of the things I really appreciate about the coding that went into LOGD 0.9.7 is the way it provides classic old BBS-style tracking of all your visitors.<br /><br />Not only is it extremely well written, it is also a great security feature to protect your normal users and visitors from sleazeballs just trying to log on to cause trouble.<br /><br />The iteration I used to write Kleeshae Caverns is quite old now but it's interesting to think how much more sophisticated the tracking must be for eg Facebook, let alone some of these sites where there is a forum, particularly one where people are encouraged to behave inappropriately, but where their every move is tracked and logged. Just imagine if such a forum was actually run by a criminal enterprise or even a debt collection company! Just think of all the harm that would be being done by the creepy people running it in secret.<br /><br />Anyway, I just wanted to leave a note saying thank you to all the great writers and designers of Green Dragon, and also of course shout out to Seth Able Robinson, who, a long long time ago, wrote a "door game" called Legend of the Red Dragon aka LoRD or LORD. Back then the Internet still very much had a capital 'I' and BBSes connected users to the wider online world. Graphical user interfaces were very much a thing of the future (albeit having first been conceived of in the 1920s and actually put into practice in the 1960s) and LORD was one of those transitional experiences for a lot of BBS users. The game was simple in approach but sophisticated in effect. Village <-> Forest <-> Training <-> Shops <-> Healing...<br /><br />Writing modules or addons for LORD became a cottage industry and directly led to the current LOGD community.<br /><br />My version of LOGD is based on an older version because the newer version is becoming a bit too confining for me. I wanted to turn an essentially textual game into a graphical game, but keep a storybook approach so that the pictures enhance the text rather than replace it as in most MMORPGs.<br /><br />Hopefully the players are enjoying Kleeshae Caverns although I know the first little area is quite dull. I sort of wanted it to be as I have found in the past that dropping people right in the deep end is alienating. Also not so many people are used to actually reading and understanding especially when playing a game so I wanted to scale up the experience in that sense too.<br /><br />On! On!<br /><br />-JonathanYou Have Lost The Gamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02833035420228375267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7737109745088263335.post-15674118718737539842009-08-30T07:48:00.000-07:002009-08-30T07:56:14.709-07:00Kleeshae Caverns has opened for business...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX2gki_uJFn6-lTCOS4_YS42wUAdJX6_HLmk1pWJdQysP7AgMSU_I80uNZ4Irs6yIAmmhiCnzcl0gdJtZxE5w_jOTk_arw62Mmz8A0lEMN8kp4BFDPdwiYeLYENVAMXGadu__2G4kfuCQ/s1600-h/banner200x200.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX2gki_uJFn6-lTCOS4_YS42wUAdJX6_HLmk1pWJdQysP7AgMSU_I80uNZ4Irs6yIAmmhiCnzcl0gdJtZxE5w_jOTk_arw62Mmz8A0lEMN8kp4BFDPdwiYeLYENVAMXGadu__2G4kfuCQ/s400/banner200x200.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375770766565698034" border="0" /></a><br />Kleeshae Caverns, our new multiplayer online adventure game, has opened for business. New players have started venturing through the cave system, but none of them have as yet passed the first 25 locations. :) Very early days! First few hours of a new world... very exciting!<br /><br />Facebook as suffered a crazy and quite massive glitch so one of the main promotional tools is currently down... Once it's back up the player numbers will certainly spike.You Have Lost The Gamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02833035420228375267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7737109745088263335.post-54497077316139921602009-08-29T23:56:00.000-07:002009-08-30T00:01:56.912-07:00I would like to publicly give thanks to the Creator of All for all the blessings and burdens conferred upon me in my life to this point.<br /><br />I formally thank the One Above All and ask for my feet to be set on the Blessing Way for the next part of my journey through life.<br /><br />And I ask for strength, mercy, wealth, health, and vengeance in blood.You Have Lost The Gamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02833035420228375267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7737109745088263335.post-29876642749248543812009-08-29T23:39:00.001-07:002009-08-29T23:40:09.999-07:00Kleeshae Caverns<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.hottestontv.com.au/loop/"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQNdJHbsJ-Bf4MciW4yG714B-1-DRwoqFcG1f-WtIxDBGtouAFkL1lj_FQIArz3B19YJDMTkwUabMqhAo7GVIml8Fr11VgwLzkaLq9P6arE-gJSleluqUVbrBvOBZfOjSzMmWHJKWULig/s400/banner200x200.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375642908590016754" border="0" /></a>You Have Lost The Gamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02833035420228375267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7737109745088263335.post-69545980819047287692009-08-29T23:20:00.000-07:002009-08-29T23:32:39.286-07:00Kleeshae Caverns<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.hottestontv.com.au/loop/"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 58px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4is5E5VEuJkwdT9O9VakkA1xYuaSa4jRZ07Sx-Qb9hJEDAy0LkRZev4xtX1AffJJLvNZjaXNKb0j3BeuxaEo3jmZhf-ABtVp7lQ9JzCYt0j8T29UIBDIOLOs71j4c3HreXa4yzfxDt8s/s400/banner468x68.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375640949595934306" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />Kleeshae Caverns... With a few hours to kill and nothing but semi-sentient bread to eat, I decided to rewrite some earlier game stuff and make a new, somewhat more coherent game out of them, plus put my favourite overarching adventure game trope- the cave system- as the umbrella beneath which the game play shelters.<br /><br />Kleeshae (as in cliche) Caverns incorporates all the old favourites, chestnuts and horrors of adventure games, although it is NOT possible to become hopelessly stuck. So in that respect at least it varies wildly from a lot of the "classic" adventure games. It's also graphical, although not usually animated. I actually could embed video and flash etc. but I thought nah, not for this. Seemed like too much effort even when killing time.<br /><br />Anyway, it's live, it's got over a thousand locations and thousands upon thousands more to come, and I will basically put an hour a day into it from now on.<br /><br />If you want to register, by all means do so, it actually does enhance gameplay. On the other hand, playing for free is certainly a very workable option. :)<br /><br />Anyhoo- Kleeshae Caverns. :)You Have Lost The Gamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02833035420228375267noreply@blogger.com0