Snack tip: Pringles + vanillla ice cream = yum.

Well, as long as this isn’t just the usual bullshit from politicians, I know who I’m voting for the next term.

I’ve got a new favorite game (well besides Elma obviously), and its name is DROD — short for Deadly Rooms of Death. I have to give a big thank you to axxu who requested this game from yoosef, who then uploaded it to my ftp so axxu could download it from there. I was curious about what it was, so I installed it and checked it out. I pretty much instantly fell in love with the game.

You can read more about the game here. In short, it’s a puzzle, hack’n’slash, turn based RPG all rolled into one. I’ve been playing it for quite a few months now, and it’s just as addictive as Elma is. You can even download “externals” made by other players or create your own, it’s immensely fun.

Why I decided to write about this now however, is that a week ago there was a new version released! I thought it was awesome enough from before, but now it’s even more amazing. The page for the game is pretty messy, so it can be hard to get around what version is the newest and what the differences are, but I’ll explain it in Elma terms, perhaps it’ll make sense. DROD: King Dugan’s Dungeon is pretty much the equivalent to Across. Then you have DROD: Journey to Rooted Hold, which is like Elma. In other words, the game’s core is updated, while you keep the backwards compatability of the levels, just like you can play Across levels in Elma.

The new version is called DROD: The City Beneath, which in context is like getting Elma 2. As soon as I saw it was available I bought it. I’m pretty much a pirate when it comes to games, music and movies, but when I have something which I like and use constantly, I will buy it. Or perhaps I just wanted to play the game straight away and not have to wait for a pirated version to surface somewhere, who knows. Either way I purchased it.

I highly suggest you give the demo of this new version a try and see what you have been missing all this time.

insguy joins us, yeha!

As you might know, I watch a lot of movies — or movi…ez as Ramzi of thebroken fame would say (while you’re at the revision3 site, you should watch my favorite show to geek out to as well: diggnation).

Ugh, where was I? Movies, right. For my birthday last month I got this book from my cousin and uncle, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. It’s a wonderful and thick hardcover book filled with a list of great movies, all in chronological order and with lots of details about each and every one. I wanted to find an easy way to check how many of these movies I had seen, so after searching on google for a bit I ran into this site where you can easily check your progress on various “best of” lists, like let’s say the infamous IMDb Top 250 for instance. I’ve previously used twofifty.org for this task, but the site is a bit bland and not updated very much anymore it seems. So when I found listsofbests.com (yea, not the greatest name), I quickly changed to that instead since you not only can check the Top 250, but it has a whole bunch of various lists, like the one I originally searched for, plus you can create your own as well. Granted, the site seems to be very buggy at the moment, going down pretty much all the time, but it gets the job done, and easily at that.

I have some gripes about it however. First off, everything links to an Amazon product detail page instead of a movie’s IMDb details (if you’re a frequent IMDb user you know how annoying it is not being able to check a movie’s details quickly). Obviously, they want to make money by Amazon referrals, but geez, a second accessible link to IMDb wouldn’t hurt. Then there’s the various issues with its perhaps ambitious, but poorly done AJAX scripting. It’s buggy as hell. You can only check off one movie at a time, and if you try for more the site will implode on itself so to speak, and the other movies you tried to check off will just stall and nothing happens, so you won’t be able to check off those movies again before you reload the page.

Pros and cons aside, it finally gave me a chance to make a list I’ve always wanted to do, but which I’ve failed at repeatedly — namely a list of my favorite movies, and in a somewhat ranked order at that. Please don’t take it too seriously, but for the first page or two it’s a pretty accurate list. Once I ended up adding the 200th movie or something, ranking every single one meticulously and precisely didn’t seem like the most important thing in the world, but again, they’re not random that’s for sure. So without further ado, my favorite movies, in ranking order (to some degree anyway).

As for those 1001 movies, I have currently seen 37% of them. Let’s hope I won’t die in the near future so I can finish the rest.

I so have to see Black Sheep when it comes out.

Endless amount of interesting reading material on Wikipedia’s Unusual Articles page. Thanks j-sim :*

I saw this thread in a forum, and I thought it was a bit amusing, if not a bit silly. But I like silly things so… If you had a dinner party, and could invite 5 guests of your choice, dead or alive, language barriers not being an issue, who would you choose? For the conversation or perhaps just the entertainment.

My choices:

• Humphrey Bogart
• Bruce Springsteen
• Jostein Gaarder (Norwegian writer and philosopher)
• Kim Peek (”The real life Rain Man”)
• Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard (Norwegian astrophysicist)

How about yours? (Trying Abula tactics)

So while sleeping last night I was woken up by two loud explosions, but I figured it had just been a dream (like the ones where you wake up suddenly and sit straight up in bed). I look out the window today and see there’s two burnt cars right outside my window. Nothing about it in the newspapers or anything, so I have no idea what happened.

Exciting! Nothing ever happens around here.