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[tamakun]

Oh Geezus... Firefox doesn't boot up correctly one time and you lose your Linkdump. :( Well, I'll go through my history and see what I can recover and remember...

I apologize if I've gone over these before. I'm cleaning out my e-mails and this time, I'm deleting them once I get through all the links in said e-mail.

- This is not what I ever expected to find. Hugh Laurie's House and Osamu Tezuka's BlackJack, together on the same poster.
Also, I'm starting to realize that I'm not visiting Kotaku and Anime News Network as much as I would like to, and I *want* them to be added to my Twitter Feed so that I don't have to visit their sites directly. Yikes, and at one point I actually didn't want to join Twitter! (Thankfully, I Googled "Anime News Network Twitter" and found this, then found Kotaku's the same way.)

- Let's start with this: Eromanga Island has disappeared. I had no idea that there was even an island called that!
- Family discovers hidden church. This is kinda fascinating; you have to wonder how many secrets are still hidden in the world if prayer areas are still hidden under houses.
- The Mandelbulb is an odd 3D render project, but some of the results from the renders are kinda neat to look at.
- Anyone want to buy a 10-Megabyte Hard Drive? This must've been one of the very first hard drives...
- Polynomial looks really pretty, but I wonder how it plays...
- Guy Robot. At one point I was thinking about making little robots and robo-pets out of scrap electronics. Never did go anywhere with it, though... but I still have a box of scrap parts. Maybe someday!
- Speaking of which, while encoding yesterday, I looked at my "list" and saw "We Are All Meat-Filled Lies" and "Baby Bok Choy" which were pulled from various discussions in the past. I sketched out a simple image for both of them… might not be anything but I might try to put them into a Threadless design just to see if they'll float.
- Look at the size of the Professor Layton Box Set that the UK gets in a couple of months! Blimey, that's awesome. :D I should probably watch the Professor Layton movie, since a fansub group has already done so... the boxset is tempting but I wouldn't be able to watch it, I'd just be able to hold it. (And rip the DVDs to Region-1)
- Worried that your e-mail might be misconstrued? ToneCheck sees if your writing might be. Interesting, but I don't want to install Outlook for this ability. ^^
- From wingywoof: WATSON, IBM's latest "Deep Blue" which can understand human parsed language and respond in appropriate responses. I love how they test their systems - they put WATSON on Jeopardy. I'm excited to see where they can go with this program.
- Frozen North Production's New Wii game is on Nintendo World Report, and they talk about how the game "learns" your resting state so that it can determine what direction you mean when you rotate the controller. This is interesting to know. I think I'll pick this up for two reasons: that I like the "quirk" mechanic, and they're a local game developer (Toronto). I want to know what other games they've made, though! It's hard to find out! (In an unrelated note, I think if I ever develop a piece of software, I'm going to find a way to call it QUIRK, like SCUMM.)
- Speaking of Quirk Mechanics, Fractured Soul looks like it will break my brain. I have enough trouble keeping my eye on two screens at once. Seeing that this game uses both screens in tandem, I may get lost really easily...
- Alan Cross went to a concert in Europe a few weeks ago. He wrote about it in 9 parts starting here. It is a very entertaining read. I feel bad for the amount of money he spent but the story is worth it. :D
- Extremely slow-motion shot of lightning. It's something like 2 seconds spread across 90 seconds. It's really cool to see the lightning developing!
- One more link: This game, The Dream Machine, is being rendered in clay and cardboard, not polygons and pixels. It's a standard point-and-click adventure game but the clay feel is just so refreshing. The first chapter is up right now (in Beta) but it's free. :D

That's all for now... more later! Please don't kill me! :D

Comments

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

Okay, the Mandelbulb is freaking me out in the best way possible. :)

I have Polynomial! It plays pretty boring, but it's so pretty that you won't mind for a couple of hours. :D Get the demo!

Did you ever play The Neverhood?

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

I never actually owned The Neverhood, but I found it on The Underdogs quite a while ago. Now that was an impressive piece of work. I wish more games used clay as their environment. (I also picked up SkullMonkeys for the PS1 since it was a plot continuation but wasn't 100% clay - maybe closer to 60-75%.)

Actually, it got me interested in Doug TenNapel as a writer, and Terry Scott Taylor as a musician. I have Doug's Creature Tech graphic novel that he was just releasing around the time I was playing The Neverhood, and I've bbeen meaning to buy a copy of Terry's Imaginarium for quite some time now. How he managed to make the songs sound like clay is just beyond me. :D

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

BTW, speaking of Doug TenNapel! http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_GS13/

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

Wow, Axe Cop is much bigger than I thought it was. XD

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

Also, I never thought about those songs as 'sounding like clay', but that's a great way to put it!

[spunkywulf.livejournal.com]

I want that Layton box set soooooo bad. But I can't play UK Blu-rays on a US PS3 :( *cry*

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

I'd actually need a Blu-Ray player, period...!

Well, here's a little hope for us - it's being released in the UK by Anchor Bay Entertainment, and it appears that there is a North American wing of that company, too.

Actually, come to think of it, I know that Anchor Bay is going to be at FanExpo in a couple of weeks... if I remember, I'll try to swing by their booth and harass them about it. ^^