04.28.06
Someone Doesn’t Understand NPOV.
Whitedust Security seems to think that Wal-Mart defeated Wikipedia. Nothing could be further from the truth.
04.27.06
The Revolution is Dead; Long Live the … Wii?
That’s right, it’s called the Wii now. Apparently Nintendo didn’t learn from Intel’s Viiv bungle; that’s pronounced “we,” not “why.” It’s supposed to be inviting, comfortable, and unifying, and to emphasize that everyone plays. Also it avoids acronymitudinalityhood.
How do you feel about the Revolution’s name change?
04.26.06
Eet Ees Beginning!
The DS WiFi Lib spurred by the DS WiFi Bounty is starting to bear fruit! Bronto has begun work on a functional, operating email client which uses pop3 and smtp in standard fashion. The results are surprisingly appealing.
I got mine.
Kevin Siembieda has generated some of the best RPG stuff on the market. Rifts was the second RPG I ever played, and I remember it to this day as the only modern dark horror setting I’ve ever seen that actually worked in gameplay.
Kevin has been screwed to the tune of a million dollars, at a time when he’s stretched thin on a bunch of exciting projects which suddenly he can’t float. There’s a decent chance Palladium is going under. However, there is hope.
Kevin’s handmaking a poster - a small, black and white pencilled 11×14″ affair, hand-numbered, featuring all the major characters of the Multiverse. Copies are a limited run, and each one is $50. This money will go to shouldering the company through a few rough months while it gets over the collossal screwing which someone on the inside dealt out (including the theft of a lot of irreplacable originals.) Assuming he survives (and he will, if you guys crack out the wallets - he only needs to sell 5-6k posters to make it through this) he will be printing a list of all the people who helped in the back of one of the major books. And, for you gluttons out there, those prints are going to spike on value something fierce. That’s a collectible like you only see once every 20 years.
So, I got mine. It’s time for you to get yours. Kevin has been remarkably good to the RPG crowd, keeping margins very small. If he’d been a little greedier he could probably weather this attack on his own.
He’s given us heroes for fifteen years. It’s time for us to give him a few back. Fifty bucks isn’t that much.
04.25.06
XMLHttpRequest - So Close and yet So Far
To be plain, I think the XMLHttpRequest object is quite wonderful. It’s a deeper realization than I’d had when I was talking about RFC2557+ some years ago; rather than binding people to URLs, it frees them to use sockets.
Or does it?
Zee Cross Platform Revolution, She Is Begun!
And it was homebrew that pulled it off (see also,) based on the stack I made happen for the DS. PS: I love taking credit for other people’s work and money based on nothing more than being a highly successful loudmouth. Word to Big Bird. PPS: PSP: your time is now. Make your peace.
Holy Crap, Sound Generation in Flash?
I didn’t know this was possible.
04.24.06
About Time - WiFi Lib Progress
Yay. SgStair’s library is coming along. DHCP and TCP support, DNS, and various other goodness (including less crashing!)
04.20.06
BigRedPimp Needs Your Gaming Help, Fools (and it’s *easy*)
Remember Lox: Monster’s Labyrinth? It’s a Sokoban for the GBA, made by BRP, with graphics by DayDream.
BRP needs new levels for E3. As such, he’s given out the tool he uses to make levels, and is requesting submissions. I will be making some for him. Anyone who doesn’t is a loser. A loser. You don’t want to be a loser, do you?
Make levels now, or I will personally punch you in the side of the head.
04.18.06
Women 25-34 Out-game Men
You read that right. In the 25-34 age bracket, largely due to the casual game market, more women play games than men.
Greenpeace Founder Finally Opens Eyes
I’ve long been an ardent supporter of nuclear power. The numbers are in its favor, and most of the arguments against it are either born from bad data or made to sound bad by acting like the alternatives don’t have their own side effects. It looks like one of the founders of Greenpeace, Patrick Moore, is finally waking up.
04.14.06
Diagonally Adjacent Killer Sudoku
I’m looking for beta participants for my PC client! See http://blog.sc.tri-bit.com/archives/151.
DJ Ape did something neat. I’m now running with the idea, but it’ll be a while before I’m done. So, for now, check out his diagonally-connected center diamond killer sudoku.
Surprise, Surprise. The PS3’s Making All of the PSP Mistakes.
Kotaku’s got the title dead on: PS3 to be Fat and Retarded. If they hadn’t already done this on the PSP I’d be skeptical. But … Jesus.
Training Games
Huhuhuh. Bumped into this thread on Neogaf while browsing around Wired blogs. Amusingly and amazingly, they managed to miss maybe the best training game, which is a shame, because Princess Peach looks like she’s just about ready for it in that picture.
04.13.06
BRP No DsDev Redesigned. Also: Jealousy.
Looks like Mike Parks over at BigRedPimp no DsDev has engaged in a skin replacement. In other news: I’m gonna too. Now. Huhuh.
Maybe it’s time for me to resurrect the old Tropics of Io skin I did for my sparked.net site years and years ago. Or, to generate something new which isn’t ugly. We’ll see.
Sorry I’ve Been Gone; Also Yay Blog Spam
Blog content’s gonna be thin over the next few weeks. E3’s coming up and I have work to do.
Sudoku Puzzle Types
I’m looking for beta participants for my PC client! See http://blog.sc.tri-bit.com/archives/151.
My new puzzle test and markup engine (5TH generation!) now supports quite a few types, and I’m going to be supporting more types later.
Sudoku Book Layout Generator is Almost Done
I’m looking for beta participants for my PC client! See http://blog.sc.tri-bit.com/archives/151.
So I’ve been writing a small app to eat my puzzles and spit out a preformatted book. That way I can just make puzzles, test them, dump them in a directory and have them automatically rolled into a book for me.