You might be wondering why I haven't been posting as many photos lately. Quite frankly, it's because there's nothing interesting to photograph this time of year. It's dark and gloomy, so it forces longer exposures and blurry images. Also with the constant rain and wind, I don't want to expose the camera to the elements.
Anyway, here's one of the last pictures I took... It was on November 3rd.
This is about the V.A.T.S. (Vault Assisted Targeting System) in Fallout 3. When you enter V.A.T.S the game pauses, zooms in on the enemy, and gives you your percent chance to hit specific parts of their body. This comic is showing what the real-life equivalent would be...
I've been playing Fallout 3. The game takes place in and around the Washington DC area in a post-apocalyptic Earth in the year 2277, 200 years after the Great War. Basically everything is a nuclear wasteland. As the story goes, tensions built up between countries as oil reserves and other natural resources were used up. Eventually it came to a head in 2077 and a nuclear war sparked between the US and China. It only lasted a few hours, but it was enough to destroy civilization.
There were some underground vaults built that could sustain some humans in the event of a nuclear holocaust, although not nearly enough for everyone. Basically this is how humanity survived. Some vaults opened as early as 10 years after the Great War. As I said, the game takes place 200 years after. My character lived in vault 101, and this vault was not suppose to re-open: ever. Well, my character's father escaped so I had to go out looking for him.
Now, I'm not sure what the world would look like 200 years after a nuclear holocaust. But it appears almost none of the flora has returned yet, and although you can generally walk around without being exposed to radiation, all the water and food is still contaminated. Of course, it wouldn't be a game without horribly mutated, hostile creatures running about. And zombies (well ok, they're called feral ghouls, not zombies. They're humans that were exposed to ungodly amounts of radiation and didn't die).
I'm playing as an evil character. Why? Because it's fun, why else? The two things I'm most proud of so far are detonating a left-over nuke, crazy people built a town around it. I don't think anyone will make that mistake again. The second thing is selling a child into slavery. Usually in games children are strangely absent, because being able to kill children would raise the age rating on the game. It's nice to see children sometimes, adds to the realism (and the deliciously evil fun).
This guy found proof that the world is not as old as scientists claim.
Here's a video instead of images this week. It was brought to my attention by one of my readers, thanks Rick. I'm sure many of you know the frustration that comes along with owning an inkjet printer.
Cat solves printer-problem(with subtitle)
Getting a bit too logical with logic puzzles.
Alt Text: Episode 15
Congratulations California on passing Prop 8
I was just finishing up with reading the various blogs I read every day in Google Reader, and the answer to that Qweb Riddle suddenly came to me. So I finished it. Funny how things can come to you when you're not even thinking about it.
Go to the Winners Page and look for the name Marf on 5th November 2008.
Barack Hussein Obama has been voted in as the 44th President of the United States. It was the outcome I wanted to see. It is also the outcome most of the rest of the world wanted to see.
Let me say, I have no racial or religious prejudices against him1. That being said, I can now share this picture with you...
There are of course, other choices. I'd vote for a Libertarian president in a heartbeat if I thought he had half a chance. But I'm afraid the write-ins for Mickey Mouse might outnumber his votes...
We have to face it, for whatever reason Americans hate both of the two major parties, but they keep voting for one or the other.
Why isn't the Libertarian party more popular? They're all about personal freedoms and less government intervention. Their goal is a more streamlined, smaller, less top-heavy, more efficient government.
I'm registered as nonpartisan, but I consider myself as Libertarian. Where does the Libertarian party sit in the left/right wing political map? Top center:
I shall not be one of the retards voting for them. I'll vote for Obama for president, and probably Libertarian for everyone else.
Reminder: For those of you who do, it's time to change your clocks for daylight savings time, if you haven't already. Set them back an hour... At least on this end of it, you'll be an hour early for an appointment if you forgot to change your clocks.
Featherlike, by Gregor Czaykowski. Click an image to view full.
Now there's a Halloween costume for you... It's the Flying Spaghetti Monster!
It's been gone for a while now, but for those of you wondering why the live blog activity widget is gone: it got glitched up. It started registering every visit as being on the Cruise Ship Watch: Serenade of the Seas post. So I got rid of it.
So I suppose I'm in the market for a new widget to take its place in the sidebar. Anyone know of any I should take a look at?
Qweb Online Riddle
I've seen something like this before. You have to think outside the box in order to figure out the address for the next level. I had a few hangups that took a bit to get past. But I'm dead stuck on the very last level: level 18.
Snipped from the source code of level 18's page:
<!-- X = image."3725" --><p>
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Congrat<!-- 1 -->
ulation<!-- 6 -->
s, you <!-- 7 -->
made it<!-- 3 -->
to the<!-- 5 -->
final <!-- 2 -->
level! <!-- 4 -->
</p>
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