Spacedmonkey

• Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.
• In the begining there was nothing, and it exploded.
• Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
• Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.

Gears of War For PC

Don’t miss understand me from the title of this post, I own Gears of War for the XBOX 360 and it was amazing. Gears of War on the Xbox 360 is one of te best games that I have ever played. That is why I was so disappointed when trying to play it the other day on a friend’s laptop.  I have already completed the game on the Xbox 360 and was in no real need to complete the game again, as I have better things to do with my time. A good friend of mine had got himself an extremely beefy new laptop and decided to buy the game to play on it. It had some problem installing it so I came over and got it working. As I had got it working, I was allowed the first “go” on it. A login my gamertag, Spacedmonkeyj, which took like a living age, much longer than normal. It took about 10 minutes to login, which already a bad sign. After it finally signed in, the menu was painfully slow and then tried to start the game. It took another 10 minutes to get into the game. When the game loaded, it was a very impressive slideshow but little else. Each frame was displayed second by second with little movement being showed. So I manage to exit the game and return to Windows desktop. Where I turned everything running in the background that might have taken processor speed including firewall. Then restarted the game, this time it only took 5 minutes to load. The game was choppy and horrible, the screen refreshed so slowly the bad guys could easy appear on the screen without me seeing them and kill me. The game was so unattractive and I couldn’t get it to do a reload correctly. It took over 45 minutes of playing, blind luck and shooting a few seconds before the bad appears on the screen to finish a level that should only take a matter of minutes to complete. Then the game appears to crash the desktop is displayed in 800×600. After a few second the game reappears and takes a few more minutes to load the video. So mad at this point, I wait until the next level loads and exited the game.

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• I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.
• Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.
• She got her looks from her father. He’s a plastic surgeon.

There are few times in my life that I see something and my breath is taken away. I am massive fan of art but like many of us, I don’t have the time to go to galleries enough. Luckier enough, while watching diggnation, I saw a video that simply was amazed. The video is truly impressive, as it is seven minutes long animation. The animation was made by painting an image on a wall, taking a picture, repainting the wall and taking another picture. Consudering that for each second of film there could be as many as 26 frames, that is a lot of pictures. Even if they painted only 13 images a second, that could be as many as 5460 painting.

The video was by a morden artist called blu. Blu it turns out is a big deal in the art world and is famous for coming his images on public spaces on walls. Looking at his blog, I found he also did a massive painting on the side of the tate modern. I really enjoyed this painting, I look forward to seeing more from this artist.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.

The one advantage of playing with fire…is that no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don’t know how to play with it who get burned up.