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GT has published their review on ME.
Overall result: 9.6

Link: GT review

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November 23

On November 23, Europe gets closer to the perfect video game.

I mean, just look at it. We've really evolved since pong.

interlude

the truth is here.

Updates

Intro for 'Project Decisions' (Draft) on Kalliope

Updates

Review on "Tenacious D and the pick of Destiny"on Melpomene + Thalia

Μελπομένη + Θάλεια updated, Προμηθεύς updated

-Sorry on Μελπομένη + Θάλεια

-Pic by me concerning Project Decisions on Προμηθεύς ( I suggest you click on the pic to see the whole version. Gotta change that stupid design one of those days.)

News

• Pic on Kalliope

• Post on Prometheus (read the Disclaimer!)

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THIS BLOG HAS NOW ANOTHER PURPOSE.
It will show news about the other projects.

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Thanx.

I'm Back!

Haaaa.... FINALLY!
I'm home!!! That's sooooo good!! you don't know what you're missing unless you have it back again!:)

During the flight I almost died out of fear, and I certainly lost 10 pounds sweating my brains out. We had turbulences, I sat in the back, and I honestly believed the plane would break. Luckily I survived... And I think I merited the beautiful view out of the window in the morning, with the clouds slowly revealing the strangely familiar yet alien european, German landscape around Francfort:)
The internet is lame here, by the way:)

Funstuff

Some Funstuff.
Here we go:
GAMES^^STUFF:


Nice. But this here also:



REAL LIFE STUFF:
Sad, but funny...attention, long transcript:
Verizon can't count

Going Postal

Other news? Sure. The last round of the quiz is beeing prepared, and then...this blog is perhaps going to evolve. Let's see.

The 'REVENANT'

Hy---IAAAAA!
(Means 'hello' to normal and semi-normal people, probably like you...but then again, would you be reading this blog?)

Ok, I'll make this short and as less painful as possible:
Your menue for this Blog-Post consists of:

-The solution for the quiz round 5, yup I didn't forget it;-)
-A movie review
-and various other stupid stuff wrapped in a smart-hull to make you all excited about it until it's too late and you have read it all.Har.

So, the solution for the last question ('Explain the hat of the pope')is pretty simple.
Of course the pope has several hats, but I was referring to the double-horned mitre.
Actually that's a remembrance to the worship of the ancient mesopotamian (though not limited to this region)'Fish-god' Dagon. (H.P.Lovecraft derived his 'Dagon' creature from that one...Yup, I know that Milton also had influence in that)
Anyway, the priests of the Dagon apparently used to wear outfits which made them ressemble fish, and when christianity arrived, they just took over that fashion.

(Can be seen on TV today.)

Here's a link to Dagon.
And here's one to that hat stuff.
And here are some pics;-)
Let's start with Dagon;-)
And here's the pope, and some bishops. I think that that makes my point pretty clear...

So...I think that the guy below is pretty ubiquitous. Period.


Next time up on this blog: who got the really right answer. If you can't wait, scroll down to the comments of Sami and Stephan, and read who was right. By the way, I'm open for suggestions concerning the amount of points to give.



That said...I give 10 out of 10 radioactively glowing Desert Eagle .50AE rounds to the movie

CRANK.

My goodness, that's the action movie of the year!
When writing this I realized that less enthusiastic people might just foolishly ask as to why in fact that hard-boiled sonofab**** of a flick was so darn good.
So read on, to witness the core components of a damn good action flick.

1.) Jason Statham. This guy has a face you will remember, and he delivers the credibility needed for most of the roles he assumed until now, especially in that movie where he is hitman who got poisoned in his sleep. This man delivers the pack and the punch the script was asking for. In this movie he is the perfect cast for a maniac lunatic on a trip through L.A.

2.) Action that kicks balls. No CGI or wires were apparently used for that movie (I wonder how they shot the last scene, though...) and the very violent scenes which are underlined by a heavy kick-ass soundtrack are shot in a really rough way, and one can really feel the testosterone rushing...which is exactly what such flicks should do.

3.) Lots of innocent bystanders. That makes the scenery more lush:-) (as well as the well placed DEagles in combination with the innocent bystanders...)

4.) Hilariously funny sequences...(If you never saw a half-naked guy in a hospital trench driving down a highway on a stolen police motorbike waving his unshaved ass at every corner, that movie's for you:-) )

and all that sums up to a wonderful tour de force through L.A., shown by a sick hitman out for a vengeance. That movie is truly "manly, Magnum-size".
Here are some links, with trailers and stuff. Enjoy, and do yourself a favor and watch this.
MYspace
Official site

Yay, the best things here:
A short scene from the beginning of the movie (17 secs) which shows IMHO very well the style of it all, and another short clip, which just might spoil you a bit. So the second one is only recommended if you are really still not sure you want to see it.

ONE

TWO

Cya soon. The stupid stuff? Well, its somewhere up there.

So you like Wii, huh?

I know you like the Wii.
I like the Wii too...but....maybe the phenomenal success this chubby/funky little machine got is also due to the wisdom of Nintendos superiors to drop the following gameconcepts. Muahaha:-)

First...

Snow... (which can be actually called snow, some days before, it was more like icy rain.)

Meine kleine süße!

Meine kleine süße Maus,

ich schreibe Dir diesen blogeintrag, da mir klargeworden ist, daß wir nicht zueinander passen. Unsere Beziehung war kurz, das gebe ich gerne zu, aber äußerst intensiv und leider, das musst Du zugeben, von Mißverständnissen geprägt.
Weiterhin trugen Deine offensichtliche Taubheit und auch Deine Dir unter Umständen noch nicht aufgefallene, an Blindheit grenzende Kurzsichtigkeit nicht zur Klärung unserer Differenzen bei.
Auch bin ich eine Person, die ein Mindestmaß an Privatsphäre für sich beansprucht und nicht sonderlich gut mit mangelnder Toleranz umgehen kann. Diesbezüglich war ich Dir ja schon weit entgegengekommen: Deine penetranten Geräusche des Nachts, Deine rituellen Grabearbeiten sowie Dein ungewöhnlicher Tag-Nachtrythmus störten mich eigentlich schon, nur brachte ich dies nie zum Ausdruck.

Heute hingegen, als Du des Morgens meinem Kleiderschrank entstiegst, meine empörten Zurückweisungen tapfer ignoriertest und statt dessen unerschrocken anfingst, mein Zimmer zu erschnuppern, hast Du eine Grenze überschritten, die Du besser nie betreten hättest.

Deine fantastischen Sprung-und Kletterfähigkeiten hast Du hervorragend unter Beweis gestellt, wie auch Deine offensichtliche Niedlichkeit.
Jedoch,
es schmerzt mich dies zu sagen,
Ich ekle mich ein wenig vor Dir.
Du stinkst!!! Ich weiss, Du kannst nichts dafür, aber wir passen nun einmal nicht zusammen.
Bedenke auch den enormen Grössenunterschied!
Ausserdem hattest du bei Wikipedia angegeben, daß Du lichtscheu währst, eine Aussage, die Du im Blitzlicht meines Fotoapparates effizient wiederlegtest.

(Mal ganz abgesehen davon, daß einige behaupten, Du würdest Krankheiten übertragen.)
In Anbetracht all dieser Widrigkeiten, scheint es mir das beste, unsere Beziehung so schnell wie möglich für immer zu beenden.

Hasta la Vista, Baby!


Und hier noch eins, weil's so schön war:

Why I love TM, TMS, TMN and TMSE.

Ok. Why do I like games? Because they give me extraordinary emotions. That said, I love Nadeo.
Why do I love Nadeo?
Simple, they made Trackmania. And Trackmania Sunrise. And Trackmania Nations. And Trackmania Sunrise Exxxtreme. And soon, they are going to sell Trackmania United.
That said, I love Trackmania.
Why do I love Trackmania?
Simple, it's one of the best games ever. It pushes creativity. It's very well done in technical terms.
It's special. The community is extremely nice, but you'll find that soon out for yourself. Since pictures can tell more than words, watch. Just some things to explain: The guys driving in the movies are very skilled, the car models are mostly custom made, and the music as well. Ah and yes, I don't like the copy protection. Have fun.

Look. That's awesome...

Round 5. Solutions, and a break.

Good evening! So, round 4 is over. To make a long story short, this time, more people then ever (...well..some people more) took part.
You'll find their names in the comment section of the previous post.

The correct answer was:

The world is ours. (!?...marks at the end as you like)

Simple, eh?

Apparently, the question for the site was difficult for some, but I accept every answer that included a sceptic view of things. The correct answer, which I had in mind, was www.skepdic.com, a very cool site! The answer to question number three was entropy. And the best overall performance was shown by Sami.
Anyway, I had a request for doing a quiz about music...and I think I'll do it...and furthermore, I had also the correct answers by ICQ by an old friend of mine, who goes by the name of Enigma, but he doesn't take part in the competition. I thought I'd just mention him here in case he continues reading this blog.
So....Congratulations to all participants!! I hope you had some fun! Let's move over to the point awarding sequence.

Markus: +5 for participation, +3 for some correct answers

Antoine: +5 for participation, +2 for some correct answers, but with less explanation and reading fun

Sami: +10 for the exact (nearly:-) ) answer and exhaustive explanation.

Jade: +5 for some correct letters and suggesting a musique-quiz

Stephan: +9 for the exact answer (nearly:-) ) but less explanation.

Giancarlo: +0 for ...what the heck is that? This is so weird, I decided to take it in. It's no one that I would recognize, anyway.

Let's see who has how many points:
Sami: 30 Pts.
Stephan: 26 Pts.
Jade: 12 Pts.
Markus: 8 Pts.
Antoine: 7 Pts.
thePumba: 1 Pts.
Manu: 1 Pts.
Christine: 1 Pts.

A very special ~+9 Pts. award goes out to Mr. Snakes.
Please note: I'm not very good at calculating stuff, so if you see a mistake, just go ahead and tell me. Right now, everyone still has the chance to win! Even people who are starting now to take part. With that in mind, I think that all of you merited a break and a bit of motivation.
In case you were wondering what the prizes you are working so hard for are, here you go:

1. A DVD! The DVD will be selected by me according to whom has won the quiz.
2. A CD! The CD will be selected as well by me according to whom has won the tournament.
Prizes 3 to 5 are the equivalent of a Mokkacino or another beverage which comes out from our 'coffee'-machine.

Okay! Ready for Round 5?
here it is, only one question, simple to answer, no more hints will be given away:

Explain the hat of the pope.

*hehe...you didn't expect that, right?*
(I'm pretty sure that I might burn in one of the nine hells for asking that, and thinking that the answer is funny.)

Ah yes...I was working very hard on a very huge project for a very long time, so I excuse myself for not updating this blog. Today I went to the biodome, and I took some pictures too...which I will upload soon:-)
Have Fun! (and be wild.)

Round 4 - The ongoing challenge continues!

Heya folks! It's been quite a while, but now I have a new thinky-pinky task for you.
This time, it's gonna be more or less simple, answering might just take some time.

This time I'm asking for a phrase. This phrase has four words (punctuation not included), and 14 letters, without the spaces. For every letter, there's a hint.
Of course the letters are not going to be mixed up, but anyway, the phrase is in English (no need to use that old greek-schoolbook of yours again) and so it should be quite easy-piecey lemon sqeezy.

1) The First Letter of the main/most famous work of Laurence Sterne (The common name, not the whole title)

2)The Egyptian hieroglyph 'fence' became that letter

3)The second law of thermodynamics treats a nice word which has caused quite some trouble to some scientifics, well the first letter of the laws subject

4)Famous Movie - title includes fish and a girls name...first letter of the girls name

5)The 'law of silence', believed to be particularly respected in Sicily...First letter

6)A kind of hair color (poetic), also the english non-scientific name of a bird...First letter

7)Famous TV-station based in Quatar with a significant logo. Means translated to english 'The Island'...2nd letter of the first word.

8)The stupidest man of the year 2006...First letter of his First name.

9) The Picture on the right shows a detail of a gate-------->
...the First letter of the name of the gate (Happy hunting:-) )

10)The probably most famous epic movie trilogy which now has 6 parts and the biggest merchandise probably ever plus some of the weirdest, nicest, and most fanatic/frantic fans ever seen...First letter.
Nearly done!!!

11)'cDc' is short for a famous group...2 letter of the last word

12)Introversion did a computer game (great, by the way)...first letter of the name of the game

13)The logo of the enterprise Hoyt is an apple. Incidentally, the stuff hoyt makes (at least one model) was used in a movie which is very famous (and believed to be very violent)...The name of the movie is as well one sort of apples...so pick your poison, first letter of the movie(s) or the apples.

14) Finally!!! The name of the site where you can find informations ( I mean: INFORMATION) about UFOs, Rael and the Raelians, Sasquatch, scapulimancy and lots of other weird stuff...also featuring a professor and quite often, the famous Randi...and it's not the wikipedia! First letter of the name of the site (after the www.)

So, you're done! Please post the correct answer sentence as well as your individual solutions:-) Tell me how you liked it. Have fun and cya soon!

Solutions

Good Morning!
Quizz round three is over! Cool, eh?
So, what was all that about?
First, the question was to decipher. Then, to find the link between the hints, and then, to find the correct answer.

Ok, the patterns used for the question were:
According to some study, it doesn't matter where you put the letters of a word in spelling a word, so I messed up the position of the letters. Example: 'Easy' would have become 'Syea'.
I looked at the result and decided it was too easy. So I used a second pattern: I substituted some letters with numbers and or signs. 'Easy' would have become 'Sy3@'.

But it was still too easy, so I played a bit with duplicating randomly letters, and writing some in uppercase and others in lowercase. So finally 'Easy' might have read something like '5Y3@'.
This was enough pseudo-coding for the question.
Here's the complete translation of my question: (in good english, I made some spelling mistakes as well:-)...on purpose, of course)

Actually, this time I decided to crypt the question.
So, the question asks for a language in way of exxxtinction (read extinction):-):
HINT: Also the name of people, also menaced by extinction.
Easy hints: The first is so distinctive, it's so exclusive, you can't miss it!
Once you got that, it's easy to get the 2nd...think desert.

Still with me? Fine. So lets resume the stuff:
-Language in way of extinction
-Language name = People's name in way of extinction
-Something with a desert. And lot's of funny exclamation marks.
-Something very exclusive.

Ok...to make a long story short: the desert and the exclamation marks were probably the best hints. A short search on google along with a bit of....creative thinking...should have gotten you to a point, where you know that there are a lot of endangered languages and people on this world,
but the right solution(s) are:
The people of the !Kung, !Khoi, !khoikhoi!, San and !Khoisan. And their language...which has basically the same name.
Those people have in common that they were all refered to as 'bushmen' , live in and next to the Kalahari, and that their languages (which differ from !kung, which uses a grammar similar to Bantu, to !Khoisan, which uses an aglutinating grammar) have in common that they include
'Click-sounds'. Those Click-sounds are described in phonetics with the help of exclamation marks, points, and --.
So here are the 'rewards' for the participants:
-Jade +3 for participating
-Stephan +7 for the right solution after the additional hint
-Sami +3 for 'nearly' the right solution before the additional hint, and
-Sami +7 for the right solution after the additional hint and beeing the first to correctly decipher the question. Sami also was not saying that it was too hard, that pays:-)
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I have to go to work now...But this post isn't finished yet. there are some links to come, the red/green scheme for better understanding and much of my knowledge about the San (which was used in a pejorative way, but lacking better descriptions...well..check back tomorrow morning, when the 'News' should be up.
cya:-)

To keep you bisy: Kwiss #3

Aktua77y, dis mite I cideded 70 KRYPT da kwestion.

50, 7eh noqutie5 5@K s rof a gu7@NaG3 1N awy fo 3XXXtcoitnN:

HINT: olsa 7h3 mena f0 P307pe, sloa M3n@C3D yb nxtoin3C7.

3asY nhits: 'The first is so distinctive, it's so exclusive, you !K a!.N!t !.m--.! it!
Once you got that, it's easy to teg het 2nd...NthIK Desert.

have fun and happy posting:-)