Archive for the ‘Geek’ Category

Blogging on its way out?

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

While playing around with Wordpress and doing general house cleaning, I’ve found that out of my friends’ blogs, there are only a small handful that are still active.

Is it because it was a “fad” and that it’s no longer popular?

Did blogging get to a stage where everyone was just posting garbage and it was too much trouble to read them all?

Do people not have the time to write (at least) short paragraphs, and are resorting to updating their status on Facebook or Twitter?

Hats off to the few who have persevered, you deserve to be on my blogroll :)

Orange box! (and other things)

Monday, October 15th, 2007

The Orange Box has arrived.

Of course the biggest thing for me (and probably a lot of my high school friends) is the release of the long-long-long-long awaited TeamFortress 2.

I’ve already clocked up 10 hours of gameplay and have reinstalled mIRC to rejoin #oztf :) . Quite surprising that some of the regulars remember my nickname. I wonder if I’ll have the time to join a clan and play some matches.

Read on for a few observations about TF2 and how it’s different from TF: (more…)

Trigger happiness

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

This just goes to show how true the stereotype of Americans being too trigger happy is.

Some guy sees an unknown person in your basement at night. Instead of confirming their identity, he (a trained cop) decides to shoot first and ask questions later. Nice move!

Considering that they also invented the FPS genre of gaming, it’s hardly surprising.

Wii Game List

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

Ever since I got my modded Wii, I went into a frenzy trying to get all the games that I can, but I haven’t really found a game that I can stick to. Is the Wii overrated? Or is it just purely for party games?

Here’s a list of games that I’ve tried out:

  • Warioware: Smooth Moves
  • Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 2
  • Naruto
  • Super Monkey Ball
  • Super Paper Mario
  • Trauma Center: Second Opinion

I’ve found Trauma Center to be lots of fun, but I’m stuck on the same level as on the DS version.
Warioware was lots of fun but I finished it a bit too quickly, but this will be great as a party game.
Dragon Ball Z was just too hard to play. It’s actually more like Virtua On or Gundam than a normal fighting game. Maybe I just need to spend more time on it.
Naruto is fun only because I’m a fanboy, but it’s not technically very advanced. The controls are generic – all the characters are essentially identical in usage, except that the jutsus that they perform. The game is graphically amazing. The Naruto animators manage to use cell shading to its maximum potential (much like the anime).
I only had a brief session with Super Monkey Ball, and I only played a few of the mini games. Some of the games are really fun, but then some are totally “wtf?”.
Super Paper Mario is kinda fun too, but it’s too slow paced for me, because it plays kinda like an RPG. And the story element is just plain silly (which is to be expected I guess).

Here’s a list of games that I have but haven’t tried out yet:

  • Bleach
  • The Legend of Zelda: Twilight princess
  • Metal Slug Anthology
  • Need for Speed: Carbon
  • Pokemon Battle Revolution

Here are the games that I’m still downloading:

  • Red Steel
  • Super Bombermanland

I should show my students this if I go back to teaching tutorials at uni

Monday, April 16th, 2007

tabletop RPG