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nice day for a walk…

Wednesday, April 20th, 2011

…and I’m so happy it’s 70 deg. and bright at 7:00 again. Way back, I played this game called Regnum Online, but left due to the fact that I don’t play the same thing much, and friends and clan members who did were getting too far ahead of me. I was disappointed to get rid [...]

The Burrito Sniper

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

Check out this wacked out story. perfect score 1550 It’ll probably be something which will have little-to-absolutely-nothing to do with the actual Civil War and instead involve the trademark drug-like randomness I’m known for. Maybe more like that ZZT “Where is Biff” thing I was working on, which later became a web-based IF game, neither [...]

“Virtual Goods” a $1.6 billion/year industry

Friday, October 8th, 2010

Diane Medved at TownHall writes: Help me here. What is it about “virtual goods”–imaginary own-ables in online community or commercial fake-world games–that leads Americans to shell out a projected $1.6 billion this year in our jobless economy? Facebook hosts and profits from the virtual barnyard antics of FarmVille (75 million monthly active users) and a [...]

New quizzes from Blogthings

Saturday, May 22nd, 2010

    Your Late Bedtime Says You’re an Oddball You like to do your own thing, even if you have to make sacrifices for your lifestyle. You are extremely creative and inspired. It’s easy for you to lose time in your projects. You tend to live hard and not take as good of care of [...]

Blogger Code

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

I remembered something from a long time ago called “Blogger Code“, apparently it was updated since then with more and modern features. Here is the older version, a single line, no picture: B4 d t+ k+ s u– f- i- o x e- l+ c+ Here is the updated version: B4 D T+ K+ S [...]

Two new games added to “Download Library”

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

I have added two freeware games to the Download Library section above, ScopaFree (an implementation of the Italian card game Scopa) and TrackWords (a Boggle-style game). The developer’s home page was hosted on Geocities and the files were hosted on Winsite, both of which have shut down. Go to the “Download Library” tab above and [...]

Mattel Telekinesis Toy Modified Into Electric Shock Machine

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

I just came across this children’s toy called “Mattel Mindflex”, which floats a ball depending on your amount of concentration:   Mattel Mindflex Commercial   These guys turned it into the “Most Painful Toy Hack Ever” Electric Shock Machine On a related note, it has come to my attention that YouTube messed with the dimensions [...]

Nostalgia Gone Wrong

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

Sometimes people listen to music because it reminds them of something. Except (in my case) it has come to a point where I feel miserable, either because I’m not there anymore, or that it came from a more hopeful time. Right now, it’s this game I used to play – the game demands constant play [...]

Disappointed in an effort that could have been…

Friday, February 19th, 2010

For the past several weeks I was working on something – mentioned here before, an attempt at a calculator RPG which doesn’t use excessive amounts of memory, unlike other programs which would freeze up at the very beginning of the game. After weeks of being up at night listening to my favorite night talk radio [...]

New UrbanTerror Server Up

Friday, November 13th, 2009

I am now running a server for the game UrbanTerror! See the tab above for more information. This server will run for at least three months.