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Notes from last weekend’s farewell party
- Any party with the intent of getting rid of your alcohol will have the opposite result.
- Not everyone has facebook, but it’s events are still useful.
- At the end, there’s always someone who leaves and you think “Oh no, we hardly talked at all tonight”.
- Having a good collection of hearted songs on thesixtyone makes music selection a non-problem.
- At this time of the year, warm food = good.
- If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. Or let Oprah help you.
- You don’t have to buy chips. Everyone else will bring way too many.
- Instead, focus on making some good food.
- Make food you’ve made before. This is not the time to try out that polenta recipe.
- OTOH, making apple pie, even for the first time, is a winner.
- I’m going to miss my friends.
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If I had an iPhone, I’d be wasting spending my cash on things that are more portable than most of the ones I own and cannot bring with me to the states. My PS2 needs a new home.Hand graphic selection screen from Hudson’s World RPS, an online rock-paper-scissors game released on September 30
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The GSMA has been claiming that an A5/1 Rainbow Table will need the equivalent of a tower of books 20km high, which is about as useful as saying that such a table couldn’t be written on a fish.The Register on GSM security
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Link-O-Rama
- A Stick Figure Guide to AES
- The Hobbit, rewritten as a 419 Scam
- ASCII Portal has been released. And it’s fun!
- 50 Things I Never Need To Hear At Another Conference - the best thing I’ve seen coming from AGDC (or GDCA?) this year.
- Talk To Your Kids About Sex
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Games for which I want a Win Button
I wholeheartedly agree with this article in the Escapist: Give me a Win Button
I have a number of games that I absolutely love to bits, but I haven’t been able to finishe them simpl because I’m stuck at some boss or other thing and cannot bring myself do sit down again and try and beat it. And with every month I don’t do it, I forget how the comboes in the game work, and my chances of beating the game get worse. So I’m left halfway in the game, and I’ll never get my money’s worth of awesome.
This affects the following games:
- Starfox Adventures: I’m stuck about halfway at a railshooter-sequence, and I suck at rail shooters. Damnit, I bought Starfox Adventures because it was an adventure game, if I’d wanted a rail shooter, I would have gotten something else.
- Prince of Persia: Warrior Within. I am stuck at the fight against the gryphon boss, and as much as I would love to see the end of the story and the rest of the beautiful levels, I just cannot bring myself to try it again over and over. I just want to skip this and move on, please.
- Beyond Good and Evil: A fantastic game. I’m fighting the final boss, and I can do all the comboes except for the very final blow that kills it, which I screwed up so many times over the course of a week that I stopped playing. This was of course two years ago, I still haven’t seen the end of the game, and I don’t remember a single move, so I might as well watch the end on Youtube. That’s not fulfilling at all.
Game Designers: Please give me some cheat codes. I know I complained about them when I was a teenager, but I have changed my mind.
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