Aug 31

List Ten Things I Hate about Modern Warfare 2

Don’t get me wrong, this game can be fun. How­ever, the many poor deci­sions made in regard to core game­play fea­tures makes hav­ing fun hard, at times.

  1. 1IWNetUnre­li­able hosts, ter­ri­ble latency, mod­ded lobbies…
  2. 2$15 DLCOver­priced, much?
  3. 3Grenade Launch­ersTHUNK! … INSTA-KILL!
  4. 4ProFagsThey take video games too seriously.
  5. 5Spawn Loca­tionsEne­mies spawn right next to you.
  6. 6Lack of Pub­lic Game Con­trolNo vote­kick or report­ing of cheaters? Deal with it.
  7. 7Too Many Redun­dant TitlesEarn five vari­a­tions of the same title!
  8. 8No Machin­ima Sup­portWe’d like to make some qual­ity machin­ima, IW.
  9. 9Heart­beat Sen­sorsJust like in real life! Oh, wait…
  10. 10Inabil­ity to Block Chat Mes­sagesStu­pid­ity isn’t lim­ited to voice chat.
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Aug 30

Minecraft: Pixel Crack

Like most of the inter­net, I have been obsessed with a quirky lit­tle game called Minecraft. I have lost count­less hours to this game build­ing shel­ters, explor­ing cave sys­tems, and fight­ing against the mon­sters that come out at night. It’s truly a remark­able game that deserves a lot more praise.

Here are the Cliffnotes. Minecraft is…

  • A sand­box game which allows play­ers to build con­struc­tions out of tex­tured cubes in a 3D world
  • Set in an infi­nitely large world
  • A world that allows you to build the most intri­cate struc­tures you can imag­ine out of sim­ple blocks
  • Updated almost every week by its cre­ator Notch (Markus Persson)
  • Both sin­gle­player and multiplayer
  • Pro­foundly addictive

That’s all nice and dandy, but I think the best way to let you get a taste of a game is through a short game­play video… Con­tinue read­ing

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Sep 05

How to Create a Letterpress Effect, the Easy Way

LetterpressMany peo­ple are adopt­ing a new design trend where the let­ters are seem­ingly pressed into the back­ground, bet­ter known as a let­ter­press effect. In this short tuto­r­ial, I’ll show you a quick, easy, and non-destructive way to achieve this effect. I’ll be using Pho­to­shop here, but you may be able to adapt the tech­niques for use in any other image manip­u­la­tor once you under­stand the two things that are required for a let­ter­press effect.

There are a few ways of doing this, but this way is by far my favourite because it’s so easy to mod­ify the effect later on if needed.

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Sep 03

10 Unique Album Covers

iTunes Album ArtThe art on the cover of an album reflects the style of the artist and what their music sounds like. I don’t know if it’s coin­ci­dence, but I find that a lot of really great songs are accom­pa­nied by some equally great album art. Per­haps that’s because I’m totally anal about my album art (I can’t stand hav­ing place­holder cov­ers in my library). Any­way, I just thought I’d share a few that always seem to pop out when­ever I’m scrub­bing through my library. Who knows, some of these might give you some ideas for a cre­ative project.

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Aug 24

Did more painting today and my black…

Did more paint­ing today and my black ear­buds are cov­ered in white primer.

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Aug 23

10 Shows You Should Have Seen

Kings CastPrime time tele­vi­sion is a cruel place. If a show scores below two mil­lion views con­sis­tently, you can expect it to be cut by the exec­u­tives. Some­times that hap­pens to truly great shows that just hap­pen to be com­pet­ing with other already pop­u­lar pro­grams like Amer­i­can Idol or even the Super­bowl. Nonethe­less, while every­one else is watch­ing Simon Cow­ell in his ill-fitting shirts, there are still those one mil­lion loyal view­ers wait­ing to see what hap­pens in their favourite (albeit unpop­u­lar) series.

Today, I’ll be shar­ing some of those shows that had great poten­tial, but a bad time slot. With all the garbage on TV these days, it might be good to shed some light on some shows that were unique, well pro­duced, or ahead of their time.

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Aug 21

Redirect WordPress Posts from an Old Domain

Simple Code

Recently I had a prob­lem when I moved my blog from blog.fantikerz.com to fantikerz.com. I had far too many links on other sites that still looked like http://blog.fantikerz.com/?p=261, and wouldn’t redi­rect to the new blog’s loca­tion. I wouldn’t even know where to start if I had to change all of those.

Instead, I threw together a sim­ple redi­rec­tion script that I thought I’d just share in case any­one needed it. It’s noth­ing fancy at all, and stu­pid easy to set up. There are many ways of doing this, and in my opin­ion, this is the easiest.

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Aug 14

Saw Funny People today. Not really what…

Saw Funny Peo­ple today. Not really what I was expect­ing — long, and unfunny. Found it very unin­ter­est­ing. 2/5 #moviereview

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