Money can't buy life.

Apparently, it can. I did this review for my school website. Its not perfect, but its my first story done for the website. I am actually a semi-decent writer, but I make a lot of mistakes.

Spore: Build A Species Workshop

Spore, a relatively new game released by MAXIS, is both a technological achievement, and a fun game. Though it isn't as good as was expected, it still manages to create a game that will provide many hours of entertainment and should be at least tried by most gamers.

The game doesn't center on any sort of game genre, but attempts to bring in many types of games into one. The player starts out controlling a cell, and slowly evolves until the player gets their creature to blast off into space. This is done by using 5 different types of gameplay, from a flOw-like cell stage to a Real Time Strategy civilization stage.

The game allows you to create your own creatures using an in-game editor, and then it uses procedural generation to make those creatures move and live, no matter how weird you create them. There is also a procedural music creator that generates the background music based on the parts you put on your creature. A national anthem generator allows you to make your own music once you get to the civilization stage of the game.

The game sells for about $50 to $80, depending on whether you get the original or the special edition, named the "Galactic Edition." Also, there is a DS version called "spore creatures" and a cell-phone/iPhone version called "Spore Origins." The former being a stylized version of the creature stage, and the latter being a copy as the cell stage.

Reviews are greatly mixed. It got 2,567 one star reviews on amazon.com, (Mainly for digital rights management issues with the game.) but pulled off a decent 85 out of 100 on Metacritic.com.

Personally, I love this game. I like how open ended the space stage of the game is, and the creation of creatures is quite fun.

But how the devil do you think this could harm me?.

I have had this uncovered fan going in my room for a few months now. Every once in a while, I will get to staring at it, and want to stick my hand in it...

Well, today, I ended up doing just that...

I was vacuuming my room, as it was dirty. I passed the vacuum too close to the fan, and the fan went into my hand like a saw... Gashed it up real good.

I went downstairs to go get some Band-Aids, and after talking to my mom, I fainted from the shock of the fan hitting the bone of my hand. I remember starting to turn around to go upstars... When I woke up, there was screaming, and a huge hole in the wall behind me, and I couldn't feel any pain left.

I am really starting to wonder what my pain tolerance actually is. I don't think it was the pain that I fainted from, but the sight of the gash, or the feeling of vibrating bone...

On a totally unrelated note, I transferred over a good amount of the music to my desktop, which now has nothing but Chrome, a single indie game, and 7 gigs of music. I think I'm just going to use it like a big stationary iPod, with a subwoofer.  ^_^

Bah.

I keep starting blogs, but I never actually can get around to finish them. I've got a nice juicy spore review I did for school, I am going to post it once I get it to this computer.

For today's lulz, I have posted a picture of a bunch of TF2 characters rocking out. I'll have to find the start wars one that this was probably based on.

Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est.

This sickness, probably no more than a common cold, plagues me with annoyance. I was not able to go to school, as I was shooed home by both my girlfriend, and my teacher...

Spending a day at home, with a horrible cough, and a slightly spinning head is no fun...

I ended up playing a space rpg/shooter game for most of the time... I need to find a good game that doesn't get old quickly... or... an alternative to the computer that I can actually stick to...

Digital Media Project

For Digital Media, we had to make a project consisting of three layers. A shadow layer, a background layer, and a layer of 18 1"x1" squares, colorized to a palate of our choosing. I originally just chose colors from a picture of the Joker, but eventually, I felt I had to have him in the picture. The Joker was by far the best character in the new batman movie.

There is a Facebook group dedicated to the late Heath Ledger.

PS: Should I add any sort of text to the image I made? If so, what should I add?

Test Post

Downloaded Windows Live Writer, testing it out.

Floyd founder Wright dies at 65

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7617363.stm

Pink Floyd keyboard player and founder member Richard Wright has died aged 65 from cancer.

Wright appeared on the group's first album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, in 1967 alongside lead guitarist Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and Nick Mason.

Dave Gilmour joined the band at the start of 1968 while Barrett left the group shortly afterwards.

Gilmour said: "He was such a lovely, gentle, genuine man and will be missed terribly by so many who loved him."

Writing on his website, he added: "And that's a lot of people. Did he not get the loudest, longest round of applause at the end of every show in 2006?"

I'm tired

I don't feel so good, so I'm going to bed

BAI

Here is a meme for your trouble.

Life, the Universe, and Random Lulz

Yea, I used Lulz in the titles two times in a row. Sue me.

This picture is one of my favorite wallpapers. Inherently, its almost oppressive, as its a picture of riot gear laying on the wall of an old brick building. But just as a picture, it feels warm and fuzzy, a feeling that just makes you happy. Also, if you look close enough, the furthest riot shield is smiling at you. ^_^

Life is perfect when it can throw ironies like this one at you. Even better when they come in widescreen. View the full version here.

For the lulz

Its been a week since my last post...

Ive been messing with my computer skin, as I hate the look of vista...

I found this shell replacement, and although it is a little plain, it looks really good, and is quite easy to use. And with the addition of vista sidebar gadgets, I have all the information I need.

On another note, AP Physics is fun.

Tweet, tweet, twitter.

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.

Alex Dorman and I both now have twitter accounts.

Mine,

His.

Twitter is fun, and, I can even post when not anywhere near the computer.

New Microsoft product to be like cake?

Gates and Seinfeld have teamed up for what appears to be either an ad for Shoe Circus or Windows 7.

All we know at this point is that it will be delicious.

Dumb luck, or divine intervention...

...of the fast food god.

My mom and sister, running late from soccer practice today, decided to pick up Taco Bell for us today. They had ordered a small meal for each of us, but end up being loaded down with 15 or so tacos, 6 chalupas, a bean burrito, and nachos...
They even made a point to point it out to the people working in the building, but were still given all that food...

Looks like we will have leftovers for a week...

Time to get back to homework...