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Monday, March 14, 2011

Rainy Day

Today something happened. It was raining. Yup, it was raining. On 14th March 2011, it was raining on the evening somewhere around 4 o'clock.

And guess what happened during the rain.. I received a SMS from my girlfriend saying that..

ITS FUCKING RAINING ACID OUT THERE!!!

I was like, whaaat? Get out of here.. Acid rain? Here? In Malaysia? Thunderstorm in Kuala Lumpur, yeah, but acid rain? I believe April Fool is about 2-3 weeks away, this ain't April Fool yet.

Along with the message were also some advises saying that..

Acid rain is dangerous, mmkay?

Acid rain can cause loss of hair and skin cancer, mmkay?

Haha, sounds serious.. But still kinda weird. Apparently the cause of it was said originated from the nuclear reactor meltdown incident in Japan. Japan, the country got hit by an earthquake and tsunamis last Friday, remember? Yeah, the nuclear plant in Fukushima was hit and kinda having a 'technical difficulties'.

From what I heard the plant was supposed to be built to withstand such natural disaster but.. it was made to hold against 7.5-magnitude of earthquake. But last Friday the earthquake was at 8.9 Richter scale. Wooo..

Believe it or not, the quake was the fifth most powerful ever hit the world. It surpasses even the Great Kanto Quake in 1923, where it was at 7.9 Richter scale and killed over 140 thousands people in Tokyo area. So yeah, I'm worried. Why shouldn't I?

Anyway, hahaha, about the message. It turns out to be a hoax. I mean, yeah, acid rain could happened, when nuclear plant goes off, but so does mutation. For it to be raining acid in Malaysia after a nuclear plant meltdown in Japan.. nah. That's too good to be true. Quite impossible I might say. If it DOES bring acid rain, then I'd say it'll hit Philippine first, or China. Malaysia.. would be taking more than 12 hours for the acid rain to hit us. It was a quake, not a hurricane.

Another reason why I say the message was a hoax, because I heard the radio made the announcement, saying that, its a hoax. Thank you Mr. Radio. I just laughed at my girlfriend. Hahaha

Anyway thank you to my friends and others for sending me the message.

It was nice, it means that you care.

I'm really touched.

:. News on the nuclear plant meltdown. From Al Jazeera.

Saturday, March 12, 2011

[Games] Batman: Arkham Asylum

One of the best game in 2009. But I played in 2010 though because I didn't have an adequate, gaming system requirement. Coincidentally, by the time I got this game, I've already enjoyed The Batman Animated series and The Justice League. So, I was kinda fascinated with the Batman skills and gadgets after watching those. Wanna know how its feel to be a high-tech detective with fancy gadgets? This is THE game, just for you.

Ok, I must admit this game is a bit demanding. If you don't have GFX card of NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or ATI Radeon X1300 or higher, then no Batman for you. But what to do, this game sports uber graphics, scenery all that is fancy. The game however is far from not being buggy. From what I have read from the net before I acquire this game, there are lot of sound driver problems, non-compatible graphic card driver and so on. I myself encountered a problem with the graphic setting. It took me quite a while to figure out what to adjust, to turn on or off. I could still play the game but after 45 minutes to 1 hour it will shut down my computer. Finally, it turn out that all I have to do is turn off the PhysX apps.. I'm playing a game with high detailed graphic but PhysX must be off. What is the odd of that..

Anyway, thank God that all the troubles worth its while. The gameplay is completely superb. Just because the game focus mainly on being Mr. Detective doesn't mean you won't get a piece of action. There are shitloads of action in this game, different is you do it Batman style. That means no fire arm an no killing, AT ALL! That is what I like about this game. Batman's code of honor. Criminal kills, vigilante don't. The line every justice upholders should never cross.

Check out the graphic. And that, is without PhysX. For the gameplay, this game allows the player to tap into Batman's world. Player can enter the 'detective mode' that activates Batman's special visor in his cowl to detect anomalies, enemies position, object of interest, clues and more. Also it makes you see better in the dark. Now you know how Batman knew where you're hiding. Ha! For battling, there are multiple combat action you can take; attack, stun and counter. And you could combine all to make combos. You can also include some of Batman's gadget like Batarang and grappler gun to add into your combo. All of it to knock down your opponent. Remember, no killing.

One of this game features that I really like is the 'Predator' tactic. What you do is that, you make a silent takedown. To do that, you need to hide behind walls, or climb on the gargoyle statues. Then either you slide down, and kick their face or just snatch their feet with grappler gun and hung them from the gargoyle statues. Some of the new combos include of you slide down on a rope and snatch their neck until they out of air. The AI is also brilliantly programmed. They respond to lots of thing. For example, you snatch a guy and hung him from the gargoyle statue, then the guy screaming for help (before he went unconscious), then his friends would come to help out. Then BOOM! You blow up the wall behind them with a remote explosives and buried them all together. NICE!

The game story is straight forward and the map is pretty much in linear path. But that doesn't mean you couldn't explore the place. In fact, with the Riddler's riddles all around the places, encourage players to explore, extensively. Of course, it would be around Arkham Asylum only. But the reward for solving the riddles is very, very rewarding. you'll get a tape of some inmate interviews and character's bio. Which is very good. Why? Some of the tapes belong to the Killer Crocs, Scarecrow and even the Joker himself! So yeah, that ought to seduce me to completely complete the game. Hahaha.

This game is one of my most satisfying games of all time. With the preview of Batman Arkham City already leaked out and all over the Youtube, I'd say this game series is one of my most anticipated game in the coming years. For now, I'm enjoying Bulletstorm, which is also a great game, but thinking of Batman: Arkham City is about to be launched, I'm gonna jizz my pants. Serious shit!

Friday, March 4, 2011

Trolling Around

Last week, I came across a blog, or more like online journal of certain someone. I've been following the journal for quite some times since last week, and I just couldn't believe the blog content.

I admit that there are a tonne of stuff that I have seen and may yet to be seen in the internet. But I have never across this blog like any other. This blog was talking about me? Nah, even if it was, I wouldn't give a shit.

But what make this blog so fascinating is the fact that the blog is practically a honey pot for trolls. Wait.. what is trolling and troll means? Hurm.. trolling means doing something fun and trolls are the funny guys. Yep, seriously.. What does it mean by doing something fun you asked? It is like, you tripped your friend's foot and he fell on his ass, then everybody or just you, laugh at him. Yeah, it mean doing pranks and you the prankster.

Anyway, about this blog, the content was, and still, filled with alot of this guy dissatisfaction over, well practically everything. The funny part of it is that this guy lodged a police report on every single thing he feels discontent with. Imagine this, he feels discontent for having to wait his number to be called in a bank counter, he lodged a police report. Then he feels the police didn't take any action, he lodged a police report against the police. To my surprise, he DID make authentic police reports. Yeah, the police took his report and filed it. I have no idea why.. It's for real!

Then he claimed himself to be a powerful figure because he have never been caught, although he did get jailed for some time for some thing, but he thought of it as an agenda against him made by the government. And yes, he lodged a police report on that too. But then he claims that if he had done wrong in his blog, why he haven't been caught like Raja Petra? Well, one of the possibility is that you being crazy and no one seems to care what you think of. I'm just saying.

He also claimed himself to be a genius, pioneering on alot of the government financial policy. Which is something I doubt of. But then what he did was, yes, that's right, he lodged a police report against the government and the prime minister. Although the police did took his report but I don't think those guys give a rat's ass about it. Probably because the sheer absurdity of his claims. He said that the MEPS thing for the bank card, was his idea.. His proof was his own written blog entries..

He also have a tendencies of ridiculing, calling names, undermining, you-name-it, on other races. Nothing escapes from his wrath! He always thought that people around him are conspiring against him.. for some reason. The fact that after I went through almost all of his entries, I'm pretty sure that he HAD lodged police reports on everyone in his neighborhood and some from Facebook and Twitter! Damn, that is so not cool..

It doesn't take a genius to see that this guy is suffering from a bad case of Schizophrenia. He is.. delusional, paranoid, and worst of all, concocting weird conspiracies. At one point he thought of his slow IPMax internet connection is because of the government conspiracy against him, to steal his money and intellectual materials. Serious shit!

Anyway, I will not disclosed the guy identity nor the url of the blog because.. something had happened to him this past few days. Apparently he picked a fight (again) with another blogger in a Twitter, who happened to be quite an internet superstar. Thus, leading to this guy getting trolled. How did the trolls trolled on him? Well.. they just posted comments, saying that he is indeed a genius and only he can save us all from this 'conspiracies'. Haha. Anyway its a gruesome scene over there in his blog. So I wouldn't want contribute to an event of him getting pawned so hard that he'll commit suicide.

He is a sick guy. I mean, really, really sick.. In the brain, somewhere.. mentally.

True story,

:. Though I did had my share of trolling on him. LOL

Thursday, March 3, 2011

[Games] Divinity II: Dragon Knight Saga

Wow, 3 weeks since my last post.. And I had been busy. I've played like 3 new games and read 6 more new books. And I'm about to get another new book from the Horus Heresy series. Anyway, another game that I've played recently is Divinity II: Flame of Vengeance. Tired of waiting for the standalone expansion to be made or present itself, I've decided to bought the Divinity II: Dragon Knight Saga. The one that contain both Ego Draconis and Flames of Vengeance.

Duh.. now I ended up with 1 DVD of Ego Draconis, and another DVD that have both Ego Draconis and Flames of Vengeance.. I hate it when I have multiple game installer just to have the latest expansion.. This is just like the Company of Heroes. where I bought the the first game, second expansion, and the third one have the whole set.. Damn..

The good part of it is that the new DVD contain the refine version of Divinity 2. And I have to say, they did a very good job out of it. In fact, the game becomes one of my most bug-free games of all time. Seriously. I installed it for the first time and play it through to the end without any hassle at all.

I believe I have covered the first part of Divinity II called Ego Draconis, so now I'm going to review the second part, the expansion, the conclusion of the game, Flames of Vengeance. The expansion game was made into a small map, in fact, it only revolves around the city of Aleroth and its dungeons. The city is then divided into several sections and there are a few abandoned caves or sewers for the player to go.

Differently from the first game, the monsters in Flames of Vengeance seems to be re-spawned back whenever the player re-enter the dungeons. Probably to help the player to level up because you know.. you can't get out the city at all. Player can however, get back to the dragon tower in Sentinel Island, but that is as far as the dragon knight can go. Sentinel Island is still off limit so, the player could only roam around the tower. Another thing in Flames of Vengeance is that, player cannot and will not be able to transform into a dragon in the vicinity of the city or at the dragon tower. Player will however, finished the game in a dragon form, so to speak.

The story in this expansion continue where the last game stops. In the last game, the dragon slayer was changed into a dragon knight, and ultimately tricked into unleashing the most evil thing into the world of Rivellon, WOMEN! Nah, I'm just kidding. But seriously, it was a woman. And the hero, got stuck in a crystal in some beyond dimension. Thus brings us to next story, Flames of Vengeance. In the expansion story, the hero is brought back to Rivellon, to.. well, practically to clean up his own mess. The game is good, but not great. Why? Because the graphic was superb but the game story is anti-climax. No, nope, I'm not talking about the game's ending, but the FINAL mission.

In the final mission, the player will get to transform into a dragon to finish the game. The problem here is that, how would you feel after spending hours of playing the game collecting nice items for you character and leveling him up, only to finish it with an ESCORT mission to deliver the final blow? Not the kind that makes me wanna play the game again..

Well, at least there is this uber skill called Wrath of the Patriach. Wipe out a portion of enemies and towers.

But still, the game is not entirely bad. Improvement have been made and the game could really keep the player occupied for some time, until the next game come out. For me, I was waiting for the Bulletstorm. Now this game can end up as one of my collection on the shelf.

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