The strangely addicting Desktop Tower Defense has provided us with several hours of distraction, strategy pondering, and joy. The egg and I have been fiercely battling for the highest score. While I was the first to beat normal difficulty, the Mascot’s edged me out in score…but he hasn’t had the GUTS to try Hard!
If you want to boast of your ability, submit your score and enter “Liquid Egg” (without quotes) for the group name when it asks.
I was showing the Mascot this video and we agreed that it would be awesome to make a game as good as this.
Thanks to one of my good college friends (who occasionally uses the moniker “Construction Bob”) for introducing me to this fine game.
“Remember kids, don’t try this at home even if you have a bottomless pit in your backyard”!
Some people mention problems. Some eggs find solutions.
What happened is that this: Reassembler blabbed about how righties could play Guitar Hero left-handed to stimulate their brains, or some such nonsense. Which lead to a whole bunch of lefties stumbling onto his site looking for left-hand Guitar Hero controllers. Of course, they can’t find what they’re looking for.
Then Donnie recommended Derek create a post that tells everyone where to find one of those lefty controllers. So of course, Derek sloughs the work off on Donnie, who’s probably too lazy to do it.
That means it’s up to me. And based on extensive research I’ve found…
…you’re out of luck. If you want to spend a weekend soldering and stuff, you can make your own, or there’s a lefty option in the game but I dunno how much that helps. It’s too bad you weren’t born normal.
EDIT: Derek, you now have your infinite loop.
A couple games from notdoppler.com that I found particularly engaging, and serve as nice, quick diversions if you’re looking for a break or change in tempo or something:
A bunch of “bloons” float from the beginning to end of the path. Your job? To set up dart-throwing monkeys, cannons, and other towers to try pop all the bloons before they reach the other side. The real nice thing is that the game pauses after each of the 50 levels, so you can play for a minute, then go back to doing other stuff. Although, with apologies to Lay’s potato chips, bet you can’t play just one.
Tower defense of a different sort. You and a computer opponent have a headquarters to defend, and you must train various soldiers and/or build turrets to protect your base while mauling the computer’s. Furthermore, as you fight you gain experience, which lets your military “evolve” to the next age (Stone Age -> Medieval, etc.) A quirk is that you get more experience when your own soldier dies than killing the computers, so you have some more motivation to not just sit on defense.
The computer’s advantages are that it doesn’t actually use money to buy soldiers, and (above normal difficulty) their soldiers are tougher than yours. Your advantage is a special attack usable occasionally which hits enemies over the entire field (EDIT: one age’s special is health regeneration, not an attack).
This game is not pausable, so you need 15-20 minutes to play it through, unless there’s a pause command I didn’t see.
I haven’t invested enough time in either of these games to beat them on their highest difficulty setting. This is probably a good thing.
I’d heard about this kind of stuff happening. To see it in progress is something else…
This is priceless. You CANNOT bring banners, signs, and noisemakers to a Starcraft competition and not get the “N” label attached to you for life. (Some would argue for the Loser Hall of Fame, but the concept isn’t much different than rooting for any sort of competitive person/team. Although it would certainly seem out of place at a chess tournament.)
Another reason to keep your gaming sessions under 35 hours at a time: a guy died in an internet bar after playing online games for 3 days straight. This mode of death seems to be getting more and more popular in China and Korea.
Although the game was not specified, it was more than likely 50K Racewalker or StrongBadZone. You could play those forever! (C’mon, you sissy, click on the links and try them!)
Companies are starting to release more natural juice type stuff products. It’s really sad that the labels have to remind us that natural juices settle, and they don’t necessarily taste the same exact way each time due to natural variation. We’re so used to fruit drinks as solutions, we’ve forgotten fruit juices are actually suspensions.*
Found out what Panel De Pon is (aka Tetris Attack). A couple of friends are crazy good at it, and have to give me about a four level difficulty handicap to make things semi-competitive, even considering my experience in video game-fu.
Another buddy has started getting into Go, and he went to a club in his area for the first time when I visited him. We played a game that weekend, which I won. I’m gloating now, because that will likely be the last game that’s competitive. Next time around, it’s likely that some sort of handicap will start looking mighty good.
Whither online relationships? This article discusses some of the issues, such as inside a virtual world like Second Life.
If someone already has a real life relationship, I don’t see how this isn’t cheating. If someone feels s/he has to hide the relationship from the significant other, that should be a friggin’ huge red flag.
Although I have no personal experience, some people have approached me in WoW (my main is female). People will tell me from time to time that my character is sexy and/or try to flirt. One guy even tried to “get it on” in an auction house with scores of other people in the room. I didn’t respond. (Being somewhat kid-friendly, WoW does not have any mechanisms for nudity or sexual actions. But you can’t stop words and emotes.)
Only one guy has ever bothered to ask whether I were female in real life. He actually seemed very nice, and I felt a little bad for dashing his hopes. Yes, technically, it’s an assumption that he was male in real life.
Two thumbs up to PETA for Super Chick Sisters.
That’s because it has a cartoon of Pamela Anderson in bondage it’s an amusing spoof of Super Mario Brothers, where your objective is to open a can of whoopy on Colonel Sanders (even though he’s been dead for 26 years, so it seems redundant. It’s fun anyway.) Minor “spoiler” at the end of the post.
As an aside, one of my friends directed me to PETA’s error page. It’s a little over the top for a mere error page, but I wouldn’t expect any less from them.
I even made the recent high scores list:
The “secret” code to play as Pamela Anderson instead of one of the Chick Sisters is GOPAM!
I will leave you to make your own judgment on this one…
(All the pics link to the same page: a trailer for the game Bibleman: A Fight for Faith)
