Feliz Natal

E muitas prendas!

Duke Nukem Drama

"On the last day, they gathered for a group photo. They were videogame programmers, artists, level builders, artificial-intelligence experts. Their team was — finally — giving up, declaring defeat, and disbanding. So they headed down to the lobby of their building in Garland, Texas, to smile for the camera. They arranged themselves on top of their logo: a 10-foot-wide nuclear-radiation sign, inlaid in the marble floor."

Desde 1997 que estavam a fazer o Duke Nukem Forever. 13 anos... Parece que é desta que desistiram. Anyway, o artigo conta a história do porquê do falhanço do jogo. É uma boa lição para quem tem ideias de iniciar um projecto.

Natal na Nova Zelândia

"The controversial billboard, erected by St Matthew-in-the-City Church in Auckland, shows a dejected-looking Joseph under bedcovers beside a sad Mary. Underneath the image, a caption reads: "Poor Joseph. God is a hard act to follow."
(...)
The billboard has so far drawn the ire of the Catholic Church in New Zealand, which called it "inappropriate" and "disrespectful." It was also condemned as offensive by family values group Family First."

E sabem porque é que eles se estão a queixar? Porque estão muito perto da Austrália.
P.S: I lol'd.

Microsoft Hates Fat People

"An avatar generator for a virtual environment reflects a physiological characteristic of the user, injecting a degree of reality into the capabilities or appearance. Thereby, many of the incentives of the real world are replicated in a virtual environment. Physiological data that reflect a degree of health of the real person can be linked to rewards of capabilities of a gaming avatar, an amount of time budgeted to play, or a visible indication. Thereby, people are encouraged to exercise."

Resumindo, a Microsoft tem uma patente para incluirem nas aplicações um avatar que reflicta o aspecto fisico da pessoa. Ou seja, se forem gordos, o avatar é gordo e vice-versa se forem magros. Tal como está descrito na patente, isto não se limita a jogos: "People seeking to meet and become acquainted with particular types of people are not thwarted by the artificiality of avatars".
Se são daqueles que fogem para a internet porque a vida real é má para vocês... Think again...

Clash of The Titans

Só ontem é que soube que este filme existe! Must see!
E já agora, fica aqui esta música porque foi a primeira coisa que me veio à cabeça quando me disseram o titulo:

Australians Censor Internet

"The Federal Government has announced it will proceed with controversial plans to censor the internet after Government-commissioned trials found filtering a blacklist of banned sites was accurate and would not slow down the internet."

No more internet kangaroo porn for you, aussie.

Bad joke is bad

Uma das desvantagens de estudar essa bela arte que é a informática, é ser capaz de perceber piadas destas.
P.S: Acho que depois deste post posso continuar a fazer posts "normais".

Internet Police

"The United States has begun talks with Russia and a United Nations arms control committee about strengthening Internet security and limiting military use of cyberspace."

The Internet pooooolice!!!

Lego wallet

E como não pudia de ser, o meu contributo aqui é sobre... Lego!

Having this said, onde é que arranjo uma coisa destas até dia 24?

Aqui.

Avatar (2009)

Já sei que não vou com ela ver isto. E, sinceramente, também não achei que a história fosse interessante. "Mas é a 3D!". Sim, faz lembrar o A.I. ... Yawn...

This quote makes me sad

"If you want a girlfriend, avoid working in the computer games industry like the plague. If you work seven days a week, 15 hours a day for almost two years, with barely enough time for a pint, you have no time whatsoever for relationships. Plus computer-games makers are regarded as being about as hip and cool as abattoir workers."
--Toby Gard

Então e agora? (como se eu alguma vez fosse trabalhar num jogo)

Coding Practices

"I should explain that clever is not always a good thing in programming. A clever solution often solves a problem in a manner that no one has before utilized. Sometimes a clever solution will get the job done in fewer lines (sometimes referred to as elegance) than another less clever solution. Many times, clever programmers fail to properly comment clever solutions, making them impossible to figure out unless you know the original programmer or spend some quality time with the code and a debugger. My first point, with regard to coding standards, is that if you want to be clever, you had better document what you did for the poor schmuck that follows after you."

É daqueles artigos que só são interessantes para nerds. Mas pronto, como ontem disse que não voltava a fazer posts sobre programação, fiz um!

Aliens vs Predator (2010)

"The game contains first-person perspective, close-up depictions of human characters being subjected to various types of violence, including explicit decapitation and dismemberment as well as locational damage such as stabbing through the chest, mouth, throat, or eyes."

Então e foram banir o jogo da Austrália só por causa disto? Será que também baniram filmes com decapitações, lápis nos olhos ou desmembramentos? Pois, parece-me que não. Meninas pah...