So I was just speaking to my good friend Sam Gower about the new 360.
Sam Gower:
nothing sony does interests me
in the slightest
Charlie.:
I’m a “mature gamer” according to sony. One that doesn’t like games.
THEY WANT A MULTIMEDIA EXPERIENCE! SHIT!
AND LIKE, FREE WIFI AND COFFEE!
HEY MAN CAN WE BUILD A COFFEE MACHINE INTO THAT?
Sam Gower:
i would totally buy a console/coffee machine
Charlie.: Sony’s will make better coffee, with less types of coffee to choose from. Microsoft’s will allow you to make frappachino and has 7 kinds of sugar to choose from, as well as biscotti. but you’ll have to pay a recurring fee for 3 of the extra kinds of sugar and the biscotti.
and you can’t drink Nintendo unless you throw it around around.
Okay, so I’ve finally got around to writing this. I’m going to cover all the announcements and stuff that I’m really excited about, possibly in a satiric tone, it depends on how things go. Okay, so first up – The possibly best thing to come out of E3 this year.
Dark Millennium
Thats right, they’ve finally named the Warhammer 40k MMO.
Words cannot describe how excited I am for this game. The graphics look fantastic, Click here for some swedish site for screen shots. We’ve got lots more news and information still to be released however the game is scheduled for release in 2012. I for one cannot wait.
Metal Gear Rising.
Since day one the entire world has been waiting to be able to play as Grey Fox, and Sons of Liberty did stem that desire with it’s final boss battle, for a time. But after seeing Raiden in action in Sons of the Patriots, the best way to explain how bad ass we all thought he was is as such: A dude with a beard riding in a convertible T-Rex transformer though space, to choke god to death with his bare hands. That is essentially Raiden’s role in Sons of the Patriots.
Now from this trailer I have deduced that they are probably going to try and integrate Playstation Move into the PS3 version, I kinda hope they don’t. If I have to move my fucking controller around to select the direction I want to slice someone in half, I’m just going to rage, and look for the keys to my T-Rex.
Star Wars: The Old Republic
It would be wrong of me not to touch on this game, even though I have denounced it as my savior. FOR THE EMPEROR!
I must say, this trailer is fantastic, although I am not particularly happy of the change of tech from Knights of the Old Republic.
Okay sure, Swords vs Lightsabers was kinda stupid, but it was awesome.
The fact that now we’re moving a bit closer to the clone wars, and we’ve already got soldiers in Clone Trooper armour is just kinda gash. The old republic was always good because it was so separate from the main Star Wars lore, and they could pretty much do anything within the constraints of the universe.
It still looks epic, and I am still planning on giving it a try, even if all the Sith players are 13.
Republic, it’s the new Horde.
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine
What more can you want from a warhammer game? Orks, Space Marines, Blood + Gore.
If only they had chosen a chapter with some actual background. Bloody Smurf Marines are the worst of all.
I Don’t have much else to say on this matter, except that I’m still buying it, and I’m still going to mash thousands of orks into a bloody pulp with my powerfist.
I’ll probably add some more to this entry later, but I’m pretty happy with this so far.
Explanation time!
I’ve been hideously addicted to World of Warcraft since I last posted here. I started a guild called Internet Protocool with a few friends, and it kinda snowballed from there to being a full 25man raiding guild, leaving me with no time to do anything except play Warcraft, eat, and occasionally sleep.
I don’t regret spending so much time playing, I had a good time and met alot of really nice people; Shane, Jim, Gav, Kim, Hans & Susanne you will be missed.
Anyway, I thought I’d do a quick update on everything that has been happening recently.
PPUK
I recently joined PPUK, and decided to get interested in politics, and I’ve picked Pirate Party UK to invest my time in, as their stance on copyright reform and surveillance is in line with my beliefs.
I’ve been following the party since they registered last year, and only decided to join now they are taking donations.
They’ve got 10 candidates running in the general election on the 6th of May, so if you’re in any of these constituencies, please get involved and support your candidates.
The party is also currently fund-raising and taking donations to support our candidates so if you can spare some money, and feel strongly about the issues involved go here and either donate, or become a member. At the time of writing we’ve raised £4000/£10000
It’s in your best interest to do so!
I guess I better finish off those posters from last year.
University
If you haven’t already guessed I turned down my place at UACB I was offered last year, due to it not being a particularly interesting course and having to pay for it.
I applied at several universities this year for degree courses, and got accepted onto Web Design at UWE and Digital Media at Portsmouth University.
So if all goes well I’ll be heading off to one of those soon.
Music
Uh, I reached 86,000 plays on last.fm recently I guess that’s cool. Coheed and Cambria‘s new album leaked recently – I got the opportunity to hear it, and it sounds like it’s shaping up to be an awesome record. The levels on this release are not great, the vocals don’t seem as defined as in other albums but I bet it’ll be fixed for when it’s released officially.
Below is track 2 of the album, which I assume is the single. It’s pretty cool.
I might as well plug Chris Watts’ new musical endeavour, a solo acoustic project. Ex-Son of a Fox vocalist has fun with guitars and his brothers.
Pre Introduction: I realised that after promising to post this, I never did – I also checked my rating on google, and my blog post about this essay is rated highly when searching for “photo manipulation essay” So I thought I better put this up.
Introduction
Photo manipulation often goes unnoticed today. The ability to create and digitally alter an image has become an invaluable tool to the media, photographers and digital artists around the world. It allows the photographer access to tools that can be used on digital images, as counterparts for techniques in the darkroom.
The darkroom allowed photographers to create compositions of multiple negatives, by cutting them up. Another technique was to use ink or paint to draw in the missing elements, or remove the parts of the photo that was unneeded. One of the earliest recorded photo manipulations was by Matthew Brady. The image created was a composition of Abraham Lincoln’s head, with the body of a lesser politician, John Calhoun’s body in 1860. A few years after another of his images was edited to add a missing officer to a photo of all of General Sherman’s officers.
As time passed and digital photography gradually replaced traditional photography as the main media, new tools had to be developed to allow the same kind of techniques for photographers as those found in the darkroom. Read more »
Last night for me and today for America, Google realieased a new set of search tools to allow you to find what you want more easily, without having to open a thousand tabs.
You can find the new tools on your search page.
The best feature I’ve found is the “Wonderwheel” I’ll let you watch Google’s video to find out how it works.
as people get more sophisticated at search they are coming to us to solve more complex problems. Google Blog
