Music games
Written on 4 September 2008 by NebsI am so done with them… At this point they are all the same and I could not be more un-interested. It was fun for a bit, but now I am stuck with a huge pile of stupid looking plastic instruments. There is only so long I can click a button when something hits something else.
More Poker Smash Stuff
Written on 3 September 2008 by NebsA set of Gamerpics and two more Tables came out last night. This was a little out of the blue for us… Not much warning… Harumph.
PS3 Grand Opening
Written on 2 September 2008 by NebsOpening up your PS3 for the first time is a terrible terrible experience.
I finally broke down and bought a PS3. Then I promptly forgot I had it and it sat dormant in the closet for a week or two. Then one fine day I decided to purchase a BlueRay movie and watch it on my new PS3. Finally a use for this thing! Anyway I crack open the box. Talk about underwhelming there was a little bag with an Av cable in it, a power cord, and the PS3 wedged between two pieces of cardbord. This is the most annemic electronics opening I have ever witnessed. I guess when you spend 400 dollars on a shiny black sandwich maker you expect a little bit more of an experience. Anyways getting past the inital dissapointment I went about hooking it up… Then it dawned on me. Hey there is no HDMI cable here. Ok I guess thats ok I can still watch in 720p with the included component cables. Then I notice… HOLY SHIT!!! The cable it comes with is an RCA ye olde style yellow connector for video and a white and red for two chanel audio!!!! This $400 piece of shit does not even come with a way to see HD out of the box!! This is the kind of shit I would have expected to see from the Wii. Screw you Sony this is just too much. So the piece of crap is still sitting there half setup. What a load of shit.
Damn fishmouth
Written on 2 September 2008 by NebsI have a terrible habit of sometimes leaving my mouth slack-jawed… and it seems to always end up on camera. Damnit.
HD and TV safe
Written on 29 August 2008 by NebsOne thing I have noticed about allot of the HD channels now is that people stopped caring about TV safe margins on their shit… So many times I will see a comercial and the words at the bottom of the screen will be cutoff by the edge of the TV. WTF! This is so damn sloppy and it makes your crappy-ass ad even more crappy-ass. And it’s not just comercials doing it. Lots of the shows do it too. Was there some uprising against TV safe that I did not hear about? Did I miss the revolution? I guess it wasn’t televised. My theroy is that because of the prevalance of cheap editing and camera equipment people have gotten sloppy. Tho the fact that we even had to have TV safe in the first place was absolutly stupid. Thats what happens when giant companies can’t agree on a simple standard, the rest of us get screwed.
Physics Game Obbsessed
Written on 27 August 2008 by NebsThis is one of my more creative machines… It totally does not beat the level but its pretty funny anyways.
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=922284
Physics Game
Written on 27 August 2008 by NebsThis game is awesome… Spent many hours building crazy machines instead of working on our demo.
http://fantasticcontraption.com/
New Bike
Written on 27 August 2008 by NebsI just got this… It’s great!
More plane footage
Written on 17 August 2008 by NebsUnfortunately the camera was not attached well and bounced the whole time… Still kinda neat looking tho.
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Canada from Hearts Pass
Written on 17 August 2008 by NebsWhen I was a child my family took a two week trip from Hearts Pass to Canada. We took the Pacific Crest trail all the way to the border, stopping at the many lakes along the way. If you ever get a chance to do this trip you must seize it. It’s some pretty amazing country.
Looking tword Canada
motorcycle
Written on 8 August 2008 by NebsRiding the motorcycle is a very mortal experience for me. As you travel your senses are assulted by the world around you. The smells of life from the trees mix with the smells of death from the creatures dead along the side of the road. The clean smell of rain mixes with the oils from the roadway. You are very aware of how exposed you are and at any moment it could go wrong. It’s fantastic.
$15 pricepoint
Written on 8 August 2008 by NebsSo Braid has come out on XBLA. It’s a great game. It also appears to be stirring up some controversy over its price (1200 p). The fact that people are bent out of shape over $15 dollars makes me ill. Here is why. This is entertainment, pure and simple. People act like it’s a crime against them personally. This is not food or shelter people, it’s just for fun. And besides in a world where its $12 for a one-time movie viewing or a large coffee that costs 5 bucks you have no base to argue that $15 dollars is too much to pay for a quality piece of gaming. Seriously eat some fucking leftovers for a night and you have probably saved yourself enough money to purchase it.
Ultimately this is Microsoft’s fault. Before XBLA came along the price point for smaller games was around $20 on the PC. What they did with XBLA is undercut the market and on top of that they trained us all to expect quality entertainment for $5. On the surface this may seem like a win for the consumer. But it is a complete disaster because that price point is not maintainable. Once XBLA got popular Microsoft went… Oh! This is a nice surprise but now that it is up and running we have to take a bigger cut of the pie because we are not making any profit. This of course damages small developers immensely and the only recourse is to raise the price of the game. Microsoft giveth and taketh away. So they set themselves up for the backlash from the gaming community. Which really points out the fact that they were taken by surprise by the success of XBLA. They will be forever picking up the pieces. Meanwhile gamers will be getting angry cause their faucet of ultra cheap gaming is being closed off and developers are upset because they have to do that in order to survive. No-one wants to alienate the gamer base.
But then again it’s mostly the 2,000 people who spent all day bitching on forums that post this stuff. And it sends a false image of what the populace actually thinks.
Anyways braid is worth every dollar. And don’t be surprised to see more and more games costing that much and more in the future.
Hearts Pass
Written on 2 August 2008 by NebsI took a quick trip up to Hearts Pass and Slate Peak. It’s the highest point you can drive to in Washington State at roughly 7400 ft. The road getting up there is pretty crazy. It’s one lane and for a 1/2 mile stretch is edged by an 800 ft sheer cliff. Passing people going the opposite way is pretty interesting there.
This is called Dead Horse Point. Supposedly because back when it was nothing more than a trail an entire pack-train was lost when one horse fell off and dragged the rest with him.
Xbox Towel Trick
Written on 30 July 2008 by NebsSo my dev-kit red-ringed last nite… It was totally gone. So in a desparate attempt to keep it working I wrapped it in my comforter and let it run for about 30 minutes… It got very very hot of course. I let it cool and tried to fire it up. Holey Crap! It worked, and it’s still working. I can’t believe that actually works. Unbelieveable.
30k
Written on 28 July 2008 by NebsWhooooooo 30,000 + gamerpoints… Civ. Revolutions got the honor of pushing me past.
Vacation
Written on 27 July 2008 by NebsI spent 5 days up Lake Chelan at the Flick Creek Cabin. It was a fantastic place to spend a week. I wish I could live there.
Drone
Written on 25 July 2008 by NebsI got a tiny camera today and I attached it to my remote controlled plane… Besides the quality not being very nice it worked pretty good. Click for .WMV
Hike
Written on 8 July 2008 by NebsWe decided to go on a hike last weekend and settled on a peak near Washington Pass in the Cascades. There was no trail so it was a bit of an adventure getting there. We started at around 5,000 ft and probably ended up between 8,000 and 9,000 ft. I forgot my GPS so that is a guess, but I think it’s pretty accurate.
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blech
Written on 4 July 2008 by NebsI am overwhelmed with the sense that I’m close to finding the answers I seek. But try as I might they elude me. Just beyond my reach. I fear that there is nothing more to life. Searching for answers that can never be found, then succumbing to time just as everything does. Wanting and needing to be special but in the end just like all before, becoming a pile of dirt to be swept away. Nothing I do is important.
Lightning…
Written on 3 July 2008 by NebsI managed to catch a few lightning shots… unfortunately it was very very dark and the digital camera adds a ton of noise…
