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Archive for August, 2009
Google Reader Starter Kit
Author: TimothyAug 31
Google Reader (the best piece of software you probably aren’t using) recently added the ability to share out the RSS feeds you have which makes it easy to give out the subscriptions a person has to their friends. As such I’ve generated a kit with a few of my feeds setup by the folders I have them organized into.
You should be able to just go visit those links, if you’re signed into your Google account hit subscribe and be done. I don’t know if it’s smart enough to add them into folders, but my suggestion is after you add each package, you immediately go into settings -> subscriptions and then create a folder for each bundle.
Links for August 30, 2009
Author: TimothyAug 30
From my Google Reader shares
- Diseases threaten to wipe out bananas in – East African: Noooooooo, what will I use to ripen my avocados?!
Blizzcon 2009: Starcraft 2 Impressions
Author: TimothyAug 30
Impressions
Starcraft 2 still plays great. I had a few matches where the games started lagging like crazy but I later found out that this was caused by the laptops overheating. The section we were playing at had all these Alienware laptops as opposed to the big bad Intel machines in the regular area (we were in the more or less unlimited play community tournament area where you could play DotA/WSG/Starcraft 2). Other than that, the game is actually faster than I remember it last year. Last year I think games played on Fast and now you had the options of Normal, Fast, Faster and I think you could even go to slow and slower, but normal was agonizingly slow. Read the rest of this entry
Blizzcon 2009: Diablo 3 Impressions
Author: TimothyAug 29
I’m going to split up the impressions of the games I played at Blizzcon so first up I’ll talk about the game I had the briefest amount of time playing, Diablo 3.
Last year left a pretty sour taste in my mouth. The game interface was (and still is) totally different from Diablo 2, the level of power for the class I played was far far weaker than I expected, and the game in general felt slow paced due to dumping out my mana on just one enemy. This year, I’m a little more prepared for what’s going to happen so the interface differences weren’t as jarring as they were last year. For the wizard, 1-3 were bound to non targettable spells (things like self buffs or aoe spells) and you had some health pots on 5 I think. The left mouse button was attack and the right one was your main nuke which you could press tab to swap out with a secondary nuke. The tab thing is really weird, but since I hadn’t played Diablo 2 recently, I wasn’t as annoyed as last year when I kept trying to open the minimap. Read the rest of this entry
Links for August 29, 2009
Author: TimothyAug 29
Links for August 28, 2009
Author: TimothyAug 28
From my Google Reader shares
- Saving the old world with wallpapers: This is cool, but you know what would be cooler? Using photosynth: http://photosynth.net/
- I’d Sleep Under That: Mega Man 2 Chain Mail:
- Bleach Chapter 371:
- Naruto Chapter 461:
Links for August 27, 2009
Author: TimothyAug 27
From my Google Reader shares
Blizzcon 2009: Part 3 The Finale
Author: TimothyAug 27
Saturday August 22nd
Remember all the junk I told you about in the bag? Well today was the day to pour through a lot of that stuff. We started by doing the fishing quest which starts you at Brady Games and gives you a small burlap bag and a map. You’re instructed to go through the convention center to various other booths and get 5 lures and then to come back for a sort of raffle prize. It was crazy how many people ended up doing this, the lines were so freaking long. They were the longest lines I stood in all convention but they still went by fairly quickly, no longer than 30 minutes max and some we went through in under 5 minutes. We got all the lures, but only Ashley and Jon actually went to the raffle later. I saw the line for it and it had to be as long as all 4 halls combined. They went when Ozzie was on or before that when the line was super short. For me, all I got was 5 lures and a burlap sack. Read the rest of this entry
Links for August 26, 2009
Author: TimothyAug 26
From my Google Reader shares
- Diablo III – BlizzCon 09: Monk Class Gameplay HD:
- Diablo III – BlizzCon 09: Monk Class Reveal Trailer HD:
- Amazon announces next wave of Frustration-Free Packaging:
- Mininova Ordered to Remove the Only Torrents People Actually Use Mininova For [Torrents]: Sad
- Report: Megan Fox Will Be the Next Ca… – FOXNews: This will not be good if true.
- Chrono Trigger ‘B.A.M.F. (Radio Edit)’: