Well I haven’t blogged in a while, but then I haven’t had that much to blog about recently - life has trundled along and been generally uneventful… so I’ve decided to do a quick blog about loads of things I’ve been up to (that aren’t necessarily important).
Secondly, I’ve started using a website called Plurk in the past week… and I’m completely addicted to it already! The site is basically a microblogging site verymuch like Twitter, but with threaded conversations based around your “plurks” (twitter would call them “tweets”).
I have to say I’m loving it - there’s much more of a community feel to the site, and its great for sharing media like Youtube videos and photos etc. I’d highly recommend it, especially over Twitter what with its continuing downtime. You can check out my Plurk widget at the top right corner of my blog. :)
And lastly, I found a great image manipulation website that adds a cartoon-style to any uploaded photo… which makes it look a lot like the filming style in A Scanner Darkly… gotta say I love it, and have been fiddling with a few photos of me… take a look:
To get the desired effects as above, use the sketch feature first (set the brightness fairly low - it makes the sketch lines darker)… then click on the colour option and set it at medium/low.
Anyway thats all from me for the moment… I’ve got some more reviewing to do, but cashflow issues aren’t allowing me to do much yet. :( There will be a review of Ninja Gaiden 2 soon though… so keep your eyes peeled for it. :)
Long time videogame violence crusader, and general moron Jack Thompson has finally had his arse kicked after leaving his court hearing in Florida yesterday - this prompted a recommendation of ”Enhanced Disbarrment”.
The recommendation means Thompson would be disbarred and prohibited from applying to practice law again for ten years, according to 11th Judicial Circuit of Florida spokesperson Eunice Sigler. [Source: Kotaku]
Good news for any videogame developers that create games for Adult-orientated markets like GTA IV for example… but then I’d say good news for the videogame industry in general. Its about time that games, and gamers were cut some slack in my opinion.
To read more (a hell of a lot more - including Thompson’s 14-page objection letter he read out in court!), check out the story on Kotaku here.
I have to say I’m enjoying getting my mind working in the process - its elating to actually have to think, and especially about something I genuinely enjoy. :)
Anyway I thought I’d post and give you the skinny on some more GoD goodness that I’ve done recently…
My first bit this week was just a little press release given to me by GoD editor Eve of Doom aka Empress Eve, detailing the news that GTA IV had broken 3 guinness world records… and that story also got Dugg, and became stupidly popular… :) Thats literally the first time anything I’ve actually written has been dugg properly… and at the time of writing its on 2194 diggs… and I was advised yesterday the story hit over 100,000 page views. Mental!
Ok I decided to start doing a video blog every now & again, just as a change to some of the normal stuff I do - after all variety is the spice of life and all that crap!
Anyway this is just a test to see how it turns out - I’ll do a proper video blog in a week or so with actual content, and I’ll edit the video appropriately too. Please comment and let me know if you have any suggestions or if you want to see more etc… I’d like them to improve as well obviously!
For those of you that actually know me, you may take the piss - I’m expecting you to. :P
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