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Kalgar - Ramblings of a Geek: May 2011

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Kalgar - Ramblings of a Geek. Tuesday, May 31, 2011. This week I'm staying at Sarah's place, due to her mother being in Melbourne. This is awesome, but with one small problem - Internet connectivity. She has a computer, and a modem. No router, nothing. No phone reception, so that tethering access through a phone is also out. Why is this a problem? I mentioned this quandary to a colleague, who pointed out that I would be able to use ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) on her computer, and share it using a U...

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Kalgar - Ramblings of a Geek: June 2011

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Kalgar - Ramblings of a Geek. Tuesday, June 21, 2011. Oh noes, he lives! There's nothing to collect there! It is a functional game, with a beginning and an end. It didn't bug out on me, apart from one time the subtitles and all other on-screen text refused to show me the center of each letter, rendering it quite difficult to read. Annoying, but not game breaking – and all it took was a reload to fix (happily provided by a pipebomb to my face). Interaction with some world elements. It's Halo All Over Again.

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Kalgar - Ramblings of a Geek: March 2011

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Kalgar - Ramblings of a Geek. Thursday, March 31, 2011. Rapper vs helicopter. Rapper wins, apparently. 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand. I mentioned I bought (and was intending to play) this horrendous sounding game a couple of posts back. I did actually follow through on this - and the game was about as good as I expected. Actually, that's a lie. It was actually much better than I expected. I'm sorry Rena, please don't kill me! Bitch took my skull! Also, 50 Cent has gangsta powah. There is literally a gan...

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Kalgar - Ramblings of a Geek: Madboards Pathfinder: A Postmortem

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Kalgar - Ramblings of a Geek. Tuesday, July 12, 2011. Madboards Pathfinder: A Postmortem. Lesson #1: Pathfinder on a Forum is a Terrible Idea. Add to this the fact that the game is heavily based on number crunching, as well as player cooperation and discussion and you get a game that is a pain in the arse to run well on a forum. I found that the players, outside of a select few, rarely cooperated. The party didn't really form as a party, causing massive plotholes to form, which leads me to. This was comp...

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Kalgar - Ramblings of a Geek: Silent Hill: Homecoming

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Kalgar - Ramblings of a Geek. Wednesday, August 3, 2011. Development duties for Silent Hill 5 were handed over to an American company. While I question the wisdom of such a move, it did result in a Silent Hill game being made, so I suppose that's something. More details below. Despite the Americanism, its still Silent Hill. Although, admittedly, this one is much more linear than prior Silent Hill games! UFO Ending tradition remains strong. Dodge ability works only half the time. No, to dodge properly in ...

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Kalgar - Ramblings of a Geek: August 2011

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Kalgar - Ramblings of a Geek. Wednesday, August 10, 2011. Love is Over: Catherine. Catherine has been described as a “horror action puzzle game with social simulation elements”. What this equates to is an extremely odd, but enjoyable game. Upon finding Catherine in his bed, Vincent prepares to fire his laser. The plot itself is quite adult oriented, for a game. I mean this in the context that it is more complex than your typical “there are bad guys, shoot them” storyline. Nothing in t...The game is initi...

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Kalgar - Ramblings of a Geek: July 2011

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Kalgar - Ramblings of a Geek. Tuesday, July 26, 2011. Musings of the Day. No amazingly coherent topic today, so the following is a bunch of potentially speakworthy thoughts I've had in the last few days. Why did Amy Winehouse's death bump the Norwegian slaughter off the front page of the news? Smokers - I don't mind if you decide to slowly poison yourself with those contraptions. Really, its none of my business. What IS my business is that your stupidity forces me to endure massive stinky clouds ...I've ...

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Kalgar - Ramblings of a Geek: SMASH!

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Kalgar - Ramblings of a Geek. Monday, July 18, 2011. For those who didn't know, SMASH! Sydney Manga and Anime SHow) was held in the Sydney Convention Center in Darling Harbour last Saturday. This convention, unlike Supanova, is based entirely off anime, manga, and the occasional video game. Of course, I attended the con. Dressed as Suzaku again, no less (you expect me to not reuse the outfit after spending months worth of weekends working on it? I was killed by a woman who threw CDs at me. After the ches...

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Kalgar - Ramblings of a Geek: January 2011

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Kalgar - Ramblings of a Geek. Sunday, January 30, 2011. Well, it did, anyway. Last Friday was my girlfriend's birthday, and so we spent the weekend together doing random-but-already-somewhat-planned-by-her-mother stuff. Friday consisted of work, followed by giving her presents, then getting takeaway pasta from a nearby place. Luckily they were good on the gluten-free thing, so weren't killing me via foodiness. The massage did wonders for my fingers though, which I've annihilated with years of gaming.