Tesla's Dream -- Free Energy For All

I was trying to find this game earlier and just now found it. It's a great puzzle game where in each level, you have to get the energy from the power supply to the target. Great fun.

Why Don't You Step Down From That Ledge, My Friend....

I'm going back through my StumbleUpon online games favorites and replaying some of them that I really like.
Here's one called Suicide Salaryman. In it, you are a business man and in each level, your goal is to kill yourself. It's not always as straightforward as it sounds. This is a puzzle game.

The Cake is a Lie...

So, I have this Public Speaking class in which I have to do an informative speech. I chose the Rubik's cube -- specifically, some of its important rudimentary principles. In creating the PowerPoint presentation for this assignment, I googled pictures of Rubik's Cubes to improve the presentation.

All that to say, I found a pretty interesting site where this guy Maarten Steurbaut created a functional but challenged Rubik's Cube out of Legos. Here is the link to that: Lego Rubik's Cube.

After he had made this version of the cube, he found out that another AFOL (adult fan of Legos) had built a better cube out of Legos. This inspired him and he took another crack at it, but I'm not going to focus on that. What interests me is the other guys cube.

Martin Howard is his name, and here is the direct link to the Lego Rubik's Cube that he built: click me, I'm Irish.

After checking that out, you might want to look around the rest of his site for even more interesting Lego creations that he's made. Here is a link to the Lego section of his website: Lego my Ego.

Happy surfing.

Let There Be Light

A long, long time ago I played this awesome game called Lightbot. The goal was to program a robot to turn on all the lights on each level. It was challenging and fun. But now, I have discovered the holy grail of online games: Lightbot 2.

Where to start? They've added conditionals, recursions, a system clock (speed) and now you can make your own levels. What's not to like? [ <-- rhetorical question ]

Oh, by the way, if you don't know what a recursion is, that's ok. The game explains it for you, so don't let that stop you from playing.

I've already wasted a few hours on this game, and I'm not even done yet. I have only beaten 15 out of 24 levels so far. Oh, joyous day!

The Sky Is Falling!

I don't have a whole lot to say about this; but here is First Person Tetris. The camera follows the piece and when you turn the piece, the whole camera turns with it. I thought that it was interesting enough to share.

Play That Funky Music, White Boy

Look at me -- posting again! I thought that would never happen. Wanna know why it did?

Answer:
Mixes and Mashups.

They shove all these awesome songs together in amazing ways.

Here's one: Mashup Uno

And Mashup Dos, which is heavily infused with Adele's Rolling in the Deep. Also, here is a guitar version of that same song that is done in the style of Dragonforce. Surely you remember them from Guitar Hero III where they had the final song that was super hard (even on medium).

Anyway, if you don't want to listen to music right now, I guess you could always look through some awesome nature photos or maybe just some funny "picture sayings" as I call them. I like the one about facebook.... hehe. Actually, a couple of those used to be my computer wallpaper.

Have a great day! :D

Bring Me to Life

Many of you have probably already played various versions of Tower Defense games on the internet. I consider the original and also the best version of this game to be Desktop Tower Defense.

Me, my brother, and a friend modified this game to be played with groups of actual people. We call it Live Action Tower Defense (LATD). One team plays the Defenders, which consists of two positions: Towers and Runners. Towers must remain stationary and are the only players who can throw the balls. Their goal is to hit each member of the invading team before they can make it to the end zone. The Runners retrieve the balls and bring them to the Towers. The offensive team are the Creeps. The Creeps must follow the set path and try to make it to the end to add a tally to the total number of successful invaders. If a Creep is hit with a ball, they must go back to the beginning and try again. The Creeps win if they reach the goal of successful invaders and the Defenders win if the time runs out without the Creeps winning.

Those are the basic rules -- there are a few more detailed rules than that and it can be modified in many different ways to make it more or less challenging for a certain team in order to pursue equal opportunity for victory.

We were honestly suprised that we were able to turn this beloved internet classic into a sport.

It's great fun.

When You Wish Upon A Star....

I just found this amazing game where a penguin tries to fly. It is hilarious, addicting, entertaining, and altogether a good game. It has achievements in different forms along with various styles of upgrades. It also features three different modes to keep the fun rolling.

You know a game is good when you beat it completely -- every nook and cranny, every achievement, every challenge and upgrade. I had a shirt once that had a picture of an expectant penguin with the caption, "I wish I could fly." That being said: enjoy the game.

Learn 2 Fly

Waking Up

So, I know that I haven't posted anything in a while. In apologetic form, I will share with you a few things that I found to be interesting lately.

Firstly, a puzzle game where each cursor color you use plays on top of the other ones, making some interesting little puzzles. Not that hard, not super great, but just a little entertaining.
Pigs Can Fly

Next up, we have an interesting little animation about a little glowing man in a crossing walk signal.
Check out some sweet dance moves.

And lastly, a list of some interesting pranks: Enjoy.

Beware Of Pig

Hambo

In honor of Memorial Day, here is a game about a 'Nam veteran pig. Each level consists of destroying all of the enemies while keeping yourself alive. Your tools are explosive arrows, pistols, machine guns, grenades, timed explosives, and Hambo knives. You can also be awarded a gold medal if you complete the level in a skillful amount of shots.

Review - Source Code

So, I just watched the movie Source Code. Not bad. It's not a great movie, but it is entertaining. The only thing that hindered my enjoyment at all was the fact that it was a lot like Deja Vu - but without Denzel Washington.

One thing that I didn't like about the movie was that it involved time travel. The inventor of "source code" tried to assure the main character that everything that he did didn't matter because he wasn't actually traveling through time, he was just living out the last 8 minutes of somebody's life.

This doesn't make a lot of sense, however, because if it were just memory, then how could he get different results? How could the dead person's memory contain the alternate dialogues and actions that never happened? How could he experience what he has not seen because it was not what he had observed? OK, that sentence sounded confusing, but here's what I'm saying. If Sean Temptress, or whatever his name was, was sitting in his seat flirting with the girl for the last eight minutes, then how could someone living through his memory explore the next cab over, the gun-containing closet, outside the train, or inside the white van?

So, the explanation for this, I guess, is that he was actually going back in time and changing something which caused them to be in an alternate reality from what they had begun with. This led to him at the end of the movie laying in his box with the head scientist guy saying that some day they will be able to use the main character to prevent something. This means that he had successfully prevented the terrorist attack, but how?

Also, anyone that has ever thought about time travel at all can tell you that changing something in the past will mess up way too much for it to just be okay for this guy to keep doing it.

The movie does have some fallacies, but so does every other time-travel movie since Back to the Future and Flintstones meet the Jetsons.

One of the good things about the movie was that it was clean and funny, and it was entertaining. You wanted to know what happened next, while enjoying what is happening now.

Overall, it was worth watching for the entertainment value and the thought-provoking nature of the plot. But you'll probably still breath in one second and breath out the next even if you don't watch Source Code.

Pixie Genocide Achievement Award

Icy Gifts

This is a fun game that is basically like Boomshine - the game where you click and all these little pixies explode like kamikazes, taking other martyr-ous pixies with them.

It's better, however, because it has upgrades AND achievements. Awesome, right?

A Long, Long, Time Ago....

Online Music Box

A long time ago, I stumbled upon this online music box that played Flight of the Conchords music. They are hilarious. Almost every song on the first side is worth listening to (especially Robots) and if you click on I TOLD YOU I WAS FREAKY you can flip the tape over to uncover more songs.

Foreign Diplomatic Policy: Canned Food

Abduction

Found another fun flash game tonight. In this one, you are an alien that abducts humans to sell as canned food. The game has a basic upgrade system and different levels which are unlocked by certain described achievements on the previously conquered levels.
Pretty fun, this one is.

Are You Not Entertained?!

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/8FKBVu/armorgames.com/play/4720/skyfyre

Here is a fun game that I found through StumbleUpon, wherein you are a dragon-rider. It is a side scrolling flying shooter with upgrades and levels. It should amuse for a good chunk of time.

To Each His Own

http://www.addictinggames.com/super-wicked-awesome-game.html

I found this fun little WASD, aim and shoot game that was amusing for a little bit. It has different weapons you can pick up, some of which aren't nearly as cool as some of the other ones. Worth a play, I'd say. It may not be everyone's cup of tea, but it entertained me for several minutes, so Bravo!

Review - Inception

I thought that Inception was a really good movie. It made me think and it made me dream. That is what a movie should do.

If you have not seen the movie yet, stop reading.

So, you've seen the movie, have you? What did you like about it?
I enjoyed how they incorporated the fact that dreams are much longer than sleep and used that in an amplified way when traveling deeper into the levels of dream states.

The movie made me think: If I could have another life in a dream, then wake up to reality, would I do it? Would I live another life? Would I be able to handle real life after that?

There are actually other things that deal with that idea. On Dragon Ball Z, they had this training chamber where you go train for weeks and it's actually only 5 minutes. I probably have the times wrong, but the concept is the same.
Also, there was an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where Picard lived another life and then woke up to find that he was on the Enterprise again. It was thought-provoking as well.

Would you live many different lives? Maybe you would just wake up.

Let Them Play Games

http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/zethman/tag/online-games/

Go there. Mhmm. That's how to know me better.

Or, you could just go there to check out the online games. I've found some good ones and they're all in there.

Right now, the coolest thing I've discovered on the internet is rottentortugas.com
Some of it is more offensive (like an online gamer dealing with actual people) and there is cussing on the website, although the youtube account censors it. Personally, I think that the censoring can be more annoying and detrimental than just hearing the words. Who knows?

Enjoy.

Dawn of a New Day

I'm excited. My sister is moving here from where she lived with our parents. I have a job lined up for her where the people will take care of her, I have a place where she can live rent free until she gets on her feet. And very best of all -- She knows how to play Legos! There are only four people that I know of that can play Legos the right way: me, my roommate, my sister, and my roommate's brother.

The power of three. It will be good for two people that can focus on the Imperium a little more than I can to be present.

I recently received a heavier, more intensive workload at work, and at church I am also being challenged. Because of this, it's hard for me and my roommate to play since we aren't focusing on all the people or remembering well what's going on.

How hard it would be to convey all that the empire is in a simple wall of text. If you have any questions about anything in my life or your life, this is my personal e-mail. I'd like to find an e-mail buddy if possible. Anyway, here's hoping:

paprplatemessiah@aim.com