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.