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Unibroue double shot and the Watchmen

TheGiant — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:49:02 +0000

No beer yesterday, didn’t feel like it, today on the other hand, well, I think I could use two. So I pulled out two (not in the dark this time) with foil over the caps, both were brewed in Canada. The first one was Ephemere Apple flavored Ale (apparently they also have Raspberry). You can smell the green apple flavor when you open the bottle, and it’s kind of light, but it has some sweetness to it which is nice. The other one was Blanche De Chambly, the bottle says “White beer on lees”, there is something different about it I can’t quite figure out how to describe, I also quite liked this one too.

I also watched Watchmen, hot dang, some of the violence was a bit much for my taste, but over all pretty darn awesome movie. I needed an escape after some weird crap today. I’m going to run this one back to the Redbox before I forget. I have two other movies to watch this week.

Imagine if you will….

TheGiant — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:23:29 +0000

A social reality game. Imagine being able to play a “Hug Someone!” Card you printed out on a co-worker at work and actually getting points for it. This game is Akoha! The tagline is “Play it Forward” I did just that today, played the “Hug Someone!” member created card on a co-worker. You can see the mission here. When I had told her about Akoha a week ago after I heard about it on net@nite episode #85, she thought it was pretty cool too! Imagine haveing an excuse to do something nice for someone, even something as simple as giving them a compact flourescent lightbulb, yes, there’s a card for that.

It’s not officially launched yet, so you either have to have someone play a card on you, or buy a deck of your own, which is cheap, they’re only charging shipping just so they can get the cards circulating.

More on Second Life

TheGiant — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:14:52 +0000

I just switched to using the Cool viewer for Second Life, which is just a drop-in replacement for the official viewer. The Hippo viewer was crashing on me everytime I tried to open a web link from within Second Life which was just causing me frustration. I like that the Cool viewer is just a drop in, so it works mostly like the official one, but it has better support for OpenSim. I want to give OpenLife Grid another look, I’ve checked it out before, but didn’t spend enough time there to really figure it out much.

Second Life & MMORPGs Part 2

TheGiant — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:34:46 +0000

I think I was upset about a purchase for some free to play game when I made my original post. I still don’t quite get Second Life, but it doesn’t mean I haven’t tried, and am trying again. I wanted to see what SellaBand Island was all about. So I jerry rigged Firefox to send Secondlife:// links to the Hippo OpenSim Viewer. Hippo OpenSim Viewer is a modified version of the official Second Life client for use with OpenSim servers. OpenSim is essentially an Open Source version of Second Life. I figured, since Hippo is merely a modified verion of the official client, maybe it could open SURLS (Secondlife:// links) Sure enough, it can. How I did it, was simple. When you setup a protocol handler in Firefox, Firefox will ask you what application you want to use. In this case I had Second Life create the protocol handler, but told Firefox to send it to Hippo instead. It’s really very easy especially if you have the Second Life client already installed, and have not yet made it the default to open SURLS.

When I said I would NEVER playe MMORPGS, I hadn’t considered how cheap Dungeon Runners is. I have it now, problem is, I discovered I had to get a new video card to play it.

MMORPGs and Second Life, I don’t get it.

TheGiant — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:47:02 +0000

I will never play a game that costs me monthly to play, sorry, but I don’t play games that consistently for it to be worth it to me. I put things aside, I just can not be that dedicated. I don’t understand the motivation behind wanting to buy a game, and then pay for it, and pay for it, and pay for it. Now I do like some of the free to play games, but I think that it is throwing money away, to buy a new head, that only lasts a year, or a gun that only has 20 uses. Again, what’s the point? Why do people feel motivated to just throw away money like that. It is such a waste!

I like in Second Life when you buy something, it’s yours, but at the same time, I don’t get what people see in that either, my first life gets boring enough, sorry but flying or walking around doing nothing isn’t exactly what I call fun. I guess i just don’t get it.

Steam Powered, Impulse Driven

TheGiant — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:02:52 +0000

Funny how Valve and Stardock fit together like that. Brad Wardell of Stardock even said “You would have to pry Steam out of my cold dead hands.” Good to know, and I agree.

Steam in my opinion isn’t perfect, but it does it’s job well, with Steam, for the most part, I don’t have to burn gas going to the store, sure I can’t resell anything on there right now, but honestly I could care less. Being the kid who’s mom made him get rid of Doom and Doom 2 because they gave him nightmares, and regretted it ever since, I have atleast two licenses for each game now, one of which is on Steam, just for the convienience of download and install without thinking about it.

Impulse does that too, like Stardock Central did, it includes everything Object Desktop, Thinkdesk, and Total Gaming, but they are opening it up, imagine one click download and install even Firefox when you switch to a new PC or reinstall Windows, they plan on it! I especially like the fact that Impulse doesn’t have to open itself everytime you open an app I downloaded on it, will I dump Steam? No, never, I’d still probably buy a game on Steam first if it was on both, mostly that’s just habit. I still call Steam a “steaming pile”, but I like the convienence nonetheless.

the biggest advantage Impulse will have, that tempts me, is the possibility of REFUNDS!

Most stores carry crap for PC games now. So many don’t even make it to stores.

My 360 experience so far…

TheGiant — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:00:00 +0000

It’s still hard to say if I am a real gamer or not, I like to play sure, but as my current experience shows, at some single player games, I am just not that good. Don’t get me wrong, Portal (part of The Orange Box) is an interesting concept, but to be honest, since I’m just not that good, I made it to like test 15 or whatever and am having all kinds of trouble, walkthrough’s confuse me. The stress it is causing me is just way too much. Kameo is also fun, but I’ve gotten to a boss battle where I have to use Deep Blue, Deep Blue is just too hard for me to control in the water. Can’t I just have a simple fun mindless game that I can actually win? Even Spyglass board games is driving me up the wall, I can play Reversi, Checkers and Mancala, but I’m not even good enough to beet the AI. Chess, don’t even go there, no idea how to play Chess.

My Gamer Names

TheGiant — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:47:13 +0000

I thought I’d post this today, so people will know it’s me when they see me.

PC Games: TheGiant or [1MIND] Giant.
Xbox Live: GiantFromJax
MSN Games: JaxGiant (Already had GiantFromJax tied to another account)

On IGN sites I am TheGiant & JaxGiant.

If you don’t care, sorry, part of why I posted this is for search engines.

People keep asking me…

TheGiant — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:21:14 +0000

Why did I want an Xbox 360?

Simple, three local friends, a brother, and a friend from back in the day that moved away, all but one are on Xbox Live, one will be when he moves in a few months. He’s talking to my brother and another friend about buying a house. That’s the friend that was in the Army that went to nursing school. He’s not on Live yet, but the rest of them are. This way I have opponents I know, and games I can even borrow occasionally though I will still rent. In fact I plan on renting a few next week just to try them out before I buy, if I buy.

Oh and I am still at work, an hour and a half after I was supposed to be off, I carpooled and my brother took off with the keys.