I don’t know, they all seem pretty bad to me, to be honest. I guess that’s why Nintendo would be so resistant to making any movies out of this: the fans have really high expectations. Still, you’ve gotta applaud these folks for trying, at least.
via Kotaku
To be honest, I would’ve thought even more people couldn’t tell the difference. Of course, this isn’t a scientific study, it’s a phone survey, so it’s not necessarily completely accurate. I can’t say I’m surprised though. While my TV isn’t true HD (it’s 1080i instead of 1080p), I found it hard to tell the difference when it came to DVDs. Games I notice a big difference, but not movies.
A recent survey by the Leichtman Research Group (LRG) shows that 18 percent of HDTV owners think they’re watching high-definition shows, when in fact they’re viewing standard definition programming. The findings are based on a telephone survey of 1302 U.S. households.
via PC World
I’d say it’d be since Shell (the oil company) found this one (click for video!). Apparently scientists have known about this kind of squid before, just they’d never captured one on film. Sure sure, they’re hiding it from us. Before you know it, we’ll be attacked by giant walking squid that can shoot laser beams from their beaks, raining destruction down upon our defenseless cities!
A mile and a half (two and a half kilometers) underwater, a remote control submersible’s camera has captured an eerie surprise: an alien-like, long-armed, and—strangest of all—”elbowed” Magnapinna squid.
In a recent Jello mold competition, some of the entries were mighty interesting. This one won third place over all, it is a pumpkin pie and twinkie turkey. Can you say yummy?
Can you say, barf?
via Neatorama
Rather than the guns ‘n’ hos approach of the Grand Theft Auto franchise, 7 Million looks to be taking its cues from Ocean’s Eleven, Thief and Leverage - crime with style, in other words, with a refreshing lack of violence and emphasis on skill and planning.
Now this is an interesting concept for an MMO. While I can’t say it’ll be any good, I like it when companies try to break the mould. This one kind of strikes me as a similar sort of thing for MMOs as The Ship was for shooters. I’ve signed up for the beta (though the buttons are in German, it seemed simple enough), mainly cause I’m a beta whore. 
More via Kotaku and you can sign up for the beta here.
This is marketing… aparently. It’s basically an ad for a 1.5tb hard drive. I found it entertaining enough.
At the Macy’s parade, no less.
Hey folks, I decided to add Gravatar support to the site. What’s a Gravatar, you ask? Why, it’s a universal avatar not tied to any one particular site. It’s actually made by the people who made Wordpress, but once you set your avatar up, you’ll end up using it on any Gravatar-supporting site. Cool, eh?
Go here, register, set up your picture, and give it about 5-10min to take effect. It doesn’t quite integrate with this theme as much as I might like, but if I can find the time to, I’ll be making some changes to the theme to make it more my own and to integrate the avatars a bit better.
Let me know what you guys think!
Check out this awesome little animated short by Blur Studios, the company that does all those intros for games as well as the also-awesome Rockfish video from awhile back.
I finally have completed Lost Odyseey. I managed to complete this on sunday. To say the least the story is excellent however the end grind was kind of long. I got this special item called Nullify all Elements which to it’s name made me invulnerable to all spells of fire, earth, water, wind. This made the last boss really easy. In fact it was so easy that the pre-end boss was probably harder. Not sure why the difficulty skewed so much but hey a victory is a victory. The ending wrapped things up nicely too but was surprised at all the freaking load times and the annoyance of when watching a long cut scene if you leave your remote unattended pauses everything.
So now I started playing Condemed. Awesome game though kinda of misses the mark a bit. Like you have some CSI tools at your disposal but use them very infrequently and serve no tangible purpose. I also would have preferred more realistic CSI tools. Seem’s kind of Star Trekkie kind of stuff. Another thing which irritates the hell out of me is reused textures. Essentially all buildings / subways /anywhere on the planet looks like a slum. And on the grounds are the same freaking textures!! But it has great atmosphere though.
So basically playing a few quick games before jumping into another RPG game on massive scale. I think after Condemed might give the PS3 a whirl (Finally). I think more of less my 360 games are slowly up to date play wise. The ones I do have to play are more your epic length games so yeah, putting those on the back burner.
And aside from all that I painted the living room with my dad over the weekend. It’s now all orange and I am also in the process of putting the tree up. Go holidays! What is up with everyone else?
