I would just like to announce… you guessed it, another android app i made (in a very loose sense of the word), using AppsGeyser. It’s just a simple app that takes you to the Computer Exchange (CEX) website. CEX is a technology store that buys and sells games and gadgets.
If you want to download the app, click click here or scan the QR code below
Don’t worry, this post isn’t about me getting abducted by aliens. that’s for another post. Today (well, tonight), my hot missus Tracey is coming over for a few nights. I have the weekend off and i have today (Friday) and Monday booked off work so she can stay longer.
It’ll be the usual hot passionate sex and gaming and fun and frolics and whatnot. She’s currently at Dublin Airport waiting for her plane and i have to go get her soon. I’m watching Scrubs to pass the time.
Oh, I did buy her a TV but they delivered it to me instead of her again. Probably my fault again. It;s a bit big to take with her on the plane though and I’ve only just got paid so I’ll send it when she’s left. It’s going to cost a bit. I got her one because she has a retro CRT TV and i got her an HD one. I’m sure she’ll find it quite a lot better. I’ve seen how bad her TV is. It’s pretty bad.
Shush now, Big Bang Theory is on
Now you may know how much i support open source and indie programs and such. So let me tell you about something else i use. There’s a gaming platform (like Steam) for Linux (and Winblows). It’s free to download of course, and you are able to download some free and buyable games (is buyable a word?). There are quite a few games available for it, some of which i have (mainly free ones of course). My desura profile is micolps3.
Also, you may have also heard of a set of indie games called the Humble Indie Bundle. It’s a set of multi platform games where you get to choose how much you pay for them. You can pay anything from 5c to probably infinity. The average is about $5.30 if I remember right. I paid about $7.50. There’s some really brilliant and weird games included. I’d tell you, but I want you to find out for yourself.
I believe the website for that is Humble Indie Bundle.
On a not very related side note, I did a cool thing with my android phone. I changed the pixels per inch of the screen and increased the resolution of it, so I can fit more on. I could make it a lot more detailed, but at higher resolutions, the status bar goes dodgy. But it’s at a nice decent resolution now. Naturally your phone would need to be rooted for that.
So that’s enough nonsense for today. Oh, and happy new year. Toodles
Here’s what annoys me. There’s people, usually politicians and other such “powerful” people, who like to accuse games of making people go on violent rampages. A recent one was some guy going around Virginia Tech and shot and killed a cop then shot himself, which i hadn’t heard of until today.
I saw it posted on a Facebook fan page of Grand Theft Auto V (https://www.facebook.com/GrandTheftAutoV5). And today, it posted a link to it’s blog: http://grandtheftautov5.blogspot.com/2011/12/stupid-website-claims-mw3-bf3-and-gta–v.html, which is a post about GTA 5, MW3, and Battlefield 3 being accused by some website called myona.com of influencing the 22 year old dude that shot this cop.
Firstly, Modern Warfare 3 wasn’t even out at the time, and GTA 5 isn’t out now, and won’t be for a while. So apparently Battlefield 3 influenced him. So what he did was strategically and stealthily, go around the school, or whatever Virginia Tech is, and silently take out the cop. You know, like in a lot of modern games. He didn’t? Oh, so what it said was a load of old crap then? Yep.
In fact games VERY VERY rarely influence people in a negative way. How many copies of MW3 were sold? 6.5 million in the UK and US. In one day. So there’s millions of people who have played MW3 going around shooting people? No. There isn’t. Actually it’s more likely that games like that relive stress and let their violence out without harming anyone. Apart from camping cunts. So clearly, they don’t know what they’re talking about.
It also says on that website that the shooter’s “style of the killing is similar to the upcoming Rockstar’s title Grand Theft Auto V”. So apparently they’ve played the game. Because I’m pretty sure there’s only been one trailer out and it doesn’t show any gameplay. Even if they referred to GTA IV, there isn’t any point in the game, or MW3 of BF3, where anyone goes around a school and shoots a cop. although in GTA there is a lot of cop shooting. Maybe next time it should be a myona.com writer. OOH SCANDAL. Now I’ve just influenced people and they;ll go around killing news website writers.
Clearly whoever wrote that article (a Mr. Amir Ariff) was just after internet traffic (just like i am with this blog post). It has 363 comments on it. the next highest amount of comments on an article on that website is… 7. Most of the commenters are probably people from that GTA 5 blog page though.
It says in that article that the guy was “quiet”. In other words, he just kept it quiet that he was going to go crazy. He must have some mental illness. All i know is that it wasn’t the game. I’ve been playing games since i can remember and i turned out relatively OK. I’ve never shot anyone (that I’ve been caught for). Kidding.
So myona.com, you might want to think about what you put next time. And that’s the nice way of saying it.
On a lighter note, I was going to play DC Universe Online on PS3 since it became free to play. So i start it up, update. I expected that. What i didn’t expect was after the update it has to download data. 12GB of it. So far it’s been going for 50 minutes. and it’s done 15%. It’s going to take over 4 hours. So i’ll do something else. Maybe play some OnLive. Actually i recorded Jumper last night so i might watch that. Oh crap, i recorded it on my PS3, and my PS3 is kinda busy downloading 12GB of data for 4 hours. OK, different plan.
Oh yeah, and i’m also growing a beard. Anyway, i need to poo. Ciao!
Ok, so for those of you that haven’t read my profile, here are a few things about me.
I… am Michael. Shocking right? I’m 26, I live in Birmingham, England. i do have the accent. I have a girlfriend. Her name is Tracey, she’s 31, from Ireland. I’ll tell you more about her in another post.
I currently work part time in a call centre in Birmingham city centre. It pays decent, but i want to work somewhere i actually enjoy. It’s not a bad place, but the work is quite repetitive.
I’m a geek. I like lots of computer and technology related things. You know i’m a geek when i’m the person people go to when they have problems with their computer. I’m also a linux user. I’m against Apple and Microsoft and i only use them when i have to. Like at work. I prefer to use free, open source software as opposed to buying stuff. No point if you can get it for free, right?
I’m also a gamer. Not just modern games. But old ones. I have some pretty old games consoles, the oldest is an Amiga 500. I also have an Amiga 1200, a Super Nintendo, Sega Saturn, Sega Dreamcast. And dome more modern ones like PS3, PSP… that’s all 😀
I also have 2 Android phones. a HTC Hero and a Google Nexus S. I also have an Android tablet, An Asus Transformer. With the dock. It’s awesome. They all are. Except the Hero.
anyway that’s enough geekiness from me. Have any questions, ask. Follow my blog. All that shiznit. I don’t remember if i told you my youtube account. I think so, but just in case i didn’t it’s http://www.youtube.com/user/micol19 and my Facebook is https://www.facebook.com/micol25.
That’s enough blabbering from me, see ya next time.
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