I watched Cameron’s Avatar today and it is without a doubt the most visually pleasing film ever to have graced the big screen. The actors filled their roles well but the cigar goes to the visual studios responsible for conceiving the hyper-realistic imagining of Pandora; I guess the effects had to be great, considering every 240th of a second took 50 hours to produce, totalling into that (estimated) budget of $300-500m. It has achieved what special effects are meant to do, to immerse you and to be unintrusive and not emphasise the effects, just as in District 9. Although I’m not too fond of the poorly-implemented concept of 3D viewing, I unfortunately didn’t get to see it in 3D as the technology has improved (so I’ve heard) from the vision destroying red/green glasses of yesteryear. Now they make you wear photophobia inducing spectacles. Nice
Not that Infinity Ward or their publisher does support the idea, but:
1) Pin/hold SEMTEX whilst holding Javelin
2) Switch back to Javelin, holding SEMTEX; then release RB/R1
3) Get shot
4) Explode
5) ?????
And I’m sure you know the rest of the meme.
Now isn’t that in some rhetorical way supporting the notion of suicide bombing? I mean, you strap an explosive to yourself (sort of) and then wait to be killed, causing the deaths of others. This is a good way of getting kills, so I hear, but the bottom line is: Modern Warfare 2 is subliminally recruiting suicide bombers. Shock! Also, you get banned…
I couldn’t be bothered to have 200 or so balls flying about my server only to have to manually track and eat them up. So, I made a script…
Continue reading ‘Garry’s Mod Achievement – “Ball Eater”’
In my quest to complete all of the Garry’s Mod Achievements I came across the “Menu User” achievement. Naturally, I couldn’t be bothered to sit around and tap the Q key 100,000 times. So, I made a script…
Continue reading ‘Garry’s Mod Achievement – “Menu User”.’
I’ll let the pictures do the talking…
Headshot
Continue reading ‘You’ll be needin’ another use for that neck!’
Ever seen those beautiful screenshots of GNOME desktops with all the GTK2 elements modified? Well, if you haven’t, here’s some to give you an idea. Note how shiny the desktop has become compared to the drab, default GNOME desktop however also note that quite a few of those screenshots are taken from some *buntu or some other distro.
Continue reading ‘Installing ‘Murrine’ GTK2 Engine on OpenSuSE’
Well, it’s finally here; I have received my Suse-Sutdio invite after waiting for over two or so months. My account is set up and I am currently creating an appliance. I’m thinking of creating a JeOS suitable for network testing and monitoring which also includes wireless cracking packages for (ahem) home and personal use. I’ll post the results when it’s done.
