Aquarionics

So, what I actually want is this, designed by them integrated with this

This is a song called Code Monkey, by The Internet’s Jonathan Coulton

The MP3 is Here

This is Dungeon Runners a game I’ve been in the beta program for for… quite a while. It’s free to play, but to get access to higher level lewt you’ll need to shell out a couple of quid a month (Quoted at $5, but gold coins to doughnuts that won’t translate directly into pounds).

It’s a kind of un-serious diablo-style… er… dungeon running game (The odds?) cartoony and occasionally self-consciously zany. It’s not as deep, wide or time-sucking as something like Ultimaquest: City of Lord Runecraft: Galaxies’s Assault Call¹.

Plus: Free.

If you’re looking to try it out contact me somehow, because I’d quite like to see how well the teaming works.

[1] (Or Guildwars)

(Also, go Here [Warning, Flash] and type in “QUO”. It’s an annoying site for a game I’m likely to like, but it wants 122000 hits before it’ll tell anyone what it is)

Police send ‘spy drone’ into the skies
Britain’s first remote control police aircraft, dubbed the “spy drone”, took to the skies today.
The unmanned CCTV drone, which measures only a metre wide, is fitted with the latest in CCTV cameras and can record images from a height of 500m. (The Guardian)

Unmanned Police Spy Drone:

Sim City 2000 Alien Invasion:

First, I have decided to make an attempt to collate all my various social networking & communications media links and such into one place, and that place is called Walrus for reasons that are probably not as obvious in your brain as mine.

Second. Last night I went to bed at 1am, intending to get a restful nights sleep and wake up bright and breezy and ready for the day. I woke up at 2am, bright and breezy and ready for a day that wouldn’t start for hours. I then, in quick sucession, played computer games for a while, broke the hard-drive on my main desktop (losing a large amount of data), snapped a shoe-lace while trying to put my boots on, and – having finally got hold of a screen protector for my new XDA - discovered that Touchscreen + Screen Protector == Don’tTouchScreen. Grah.

I have for the past week or so been playing a bit of Lord of the Rings Online. It is a game straight from the World of Warcraft school of MMOs, which isn’t something I can strictly blame them for. Chronologically, it’s set around the time the fellowship are setting off (for the time being) and the general gameplay is very much drawn from WoW, only better. For example, the missions have NPCs who will have to rest every now and again, whilst showing you with backstory. Missions have triggers, which means it isn’t always go to place_X and find/kill number_Y of item_Z, though that is a large part of it.

Also, it is very pretty.

I haven’t really been able to delve too deeply into it yet – early days, plus I don’t really know anyone on there – but it’s not giving me the vision of endless evenings grinding that WoW was giving me. We shall see how it progresses. I am, incidentally, Jaschir, a Loremaster on Evernight.