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Satori :: Koiban

Author: Aasemoon

13 Aug

Time for another ASM2010 favourite! =) I was previously informed that Satori was going to have a new demo for ASM, and I was waiting in anticipation to see it. When finally the demo showed up on the ASM TV stream, me and a bunch of friend, as expected, went “Whooohooohooow…. haaaaaaa….. aaaaaaaa…. woooooooo …. wooooohooooooooowwwwww …. hoooooo ….. waaaaaaaaa….” =D

I’m not going to say anything more. In fact I can’t, even if I want to. It’s completely impossible to describe something like this in words. So if you haven’t had a chance to see this super fantastic awesome demo yet, here it is. Check it out! =)

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Filed under: Amazing, Art, Demoscene, Digital Art, Kool, Music, Satori, Weeee =D

Happiness is Around the Bend

Author: Aasemoon

8 Aug

Oh yes, it certainly is! =)

It’s been yet another silent period due to my extreme lack of time, and what better reason to break this silence than to… well, LETS TALK ASD! =D The new ASD demo by the name “Happiness is Around the Bend” was released yesterday at the Assembly 2010 demo party. And early this morning I got the happy news that the demo has in fact won 1st place! =D YAAAAAAAAAAY!

I’ve been experiencing a bit of a mental struggle over which one of the ASD demos is my favourite, and it’s a tie between Life Force and Happiness. I finally decided to leave it at that. It’s just a tie. I can’t like either one of the 2 more than the other, and that’s just the way it’s going to be. =D Where Life Force made my heart explode out of my chest and brought tears to my eyes, Happiness made me jump around and throw my fists in the air. On one hand I think the 2 demos are too different to be able to make a comparison, on the other hand they’re too connected to make a comparison! It’s like they’re the 2 sides of the same coin… So, watch the new demo and decide for yourself. Winking smile

Oh, and… ehmmm…. well…. I just have got to say this since Soren mentioned something to me… [fair warning: brash opinionated remark following], in case you’ve been reading Pouet threads… don’t let certain comments about the music bias your opinion. aMUSiC and Leviathan have done an otherworldly beautiful job with the music. Big Kudos to them both. <3 <3 =)

Of course there were a few more demos in ASM this year that really took my breath away. I will post about them next…..

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Filed under: Amazing, Art, ASD, Beautiful, Coding, Demoscene, Digital Art, Graphics, Music, Weeee =D

Toronto Quake. Yes. Really.

Author: Aasemoon

8 Jul

Well this is somewhat funny. It’s been 2 weeks since a 5.5 magnitude [5.0 according to some sources] quake shook Toronto and a number of other cities, and I’m still receiving messages saying things like “Oh… uh… wait… what? But I thought you were joking!! Since when does it quake in Toronto?”. Or “OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD are you alive? Are you ok? I just figured out that there REALLY was a pretty serious quake in Toronto!!!!”. =P

Yes. There really was a quake in Toronto on June 23rd. Neither me, nor any of those major news agencies that wrote about it, made the whole 5.5 magnitude of it up. I was at home at the time of the quake, having lunch, or trying to. As I’m sure you all already know, I live on the 23rd [top] floor of a not terribly new building, and I can assure you that you wouldn’t possibly doubt the reality of the quake, would you have been here with me, enjoying the very very real swings of this giant rollercoaster. 😉 And even if that wouldn’t convince you, I’m sure when stuff on the walls and shelves started dropping down on your head, you’d be sold.

I could hear the walls cracking and see small particles coming off the ceiling. I was about to move the coffee table to the balcony… My neighbours were completely freaked. Shouting, screaming, crying…. High-rise buildings are still being inspected for structural damage. Apparently the quake shook Toronto, Quebec [worst damage apparently], and parts of the USA. This wasn’t the 1st quake I’ve experienced in my life, but it was the 1st in Canada and it was definitely one of the scarier ones. But anyway, I’m alive! =P

P.S.: Yes, if it would have come down to it, I would have jumped off the balcony.

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Filed under: Aasemoon, Canada, Life

World Cup Goodies! =)

Author: Aasemoon

5 Jul

Here’s a couple of really nice wallpapers that a good German friend of mine recently sent me. Like them so much, decided to share! Thanks René! =)

Love this! Made it my WLM theme too! =D <3 <3

I don’t think I need to tell you which team we’re cheering for! 😉

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Filed under: Football, Graphics, Sports, Wallpapers, World Cup

World Cup 2010, So Far!

Author: Aasemoon

19 Jun

Here it is again, not being able to get any work done [at least in any decent manner!], due to “The Beautiful Game” being OOON. Gosh I luv the World Cup. =D It seems like everyone loses a big piece of their logic and sanity, and give themselves away to the frenzy that takes over the entire globe for an unfortunately not very long period of time. Everyone’s talking about the same thing… everyone’s screaming… everyone’s cheering… everyone’s looking for ways to get out of work/class to watch the games. =D So here’s my confession, that even when I’m working / studying, I have the games running on my notebook / iPAQ screen, and at least half of my mind is there. And I’m not ashamed to say that I feel that so far, it’s been worth it. =P I mean look at this… the year of miracles so far! I’m totally loving it! =D And here’s my favourite games so far. [Oh ummm… yes, please keep in mind that this is the football opinions of a fencer, so don’t ever make the terrible mistake of taking them seriously. ;D]

– The Switzerland – Spain match. God I loved that! =D Switzerland simply managed to create a miracle. They came to the field with a certain game plan, and they did a perfect job executing it. Spain made the mistake of not taking Switzerland seriously, and they paid for it. And hey, it looks to me like Switzerland quite possibly has the best goal keeper in the world at the moment. 😉

– The Germany – Australia match. Wow, this was a beautiful game, specially on the German side. I’ve always liked the German team, but this is the first time I REALLY REALLY liked them! Everyone says Germany plays too calculated and too boring. Well, in this game Germany was anything but boring. They were a ball of fire, and even though Australia also played very well, but they simply couldn’t do anything against the kind of game Germans were playing! [Makes it even a bigger shame that Germany messed up their 2nd game… =/]

– The France – Mexico game. Go Mexico! Surprise surprise! They managed to beat France 2-0! =D Loved Mexico’s performance and hope to see them keeping it up!

I also have to mention that I was extremely disappointed at Italy’s performance in the game against Paraguay. They simply didn’t play. =P I hope they’re going to do a MUCH better job tomorrow. Another disappointment was of course Germany’s 2nd game against Serbia. I don’t know how or why this happened, but they seemed like they were extremely nervous the entire time and losing 1 player really left a hole in their wall. Ah well, I hope they can fixe whatever’s wrong for the next game. =P

On another note, is it just me thinking this or is something severely wrong with at least half of the referees of this world cup?? I mean, red card for the South African goal keeper? Or the USA goal that was dismissed for no reason? Or another unjustified red card to the German player? There seem to be too many questionable decisions being made at this world cup. Anybody has any ideas why??

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Filed under: Football, Fun, Sports

Lord Of Ultima

Author: Aasemoon

11 Jun

For about a month now, I’ve been playing this online multiplayer game called Lord of Ultima. And I think I really like it, so I’m going to recommend it for any of you who like me, 1 – Like games, 2 – Like to play with your friends, 3 – Like civilization style games, 4 – Hardly ever find the time to play anything at all. =)

Lord of Ultima is a strategy / civilization style game that’s fully browser based, and runs quite smoothly on most any browser / system. So it requires no installation of any kind. You sign up for an account, choose a server, and start building cities and armies. You can choose to go to war with other players, or focus on building your empire. You can invite your friends to join in an alliance with you, and you can support each other. And the nicest part of all of this from the point of view of someone like me, is that it “can” take very small amount of time to play. Even though people do get obsessed and spend hours just staring at their monitors as stuff get built [or so I’m told], but that’s not something you have to do. 😉 Personally I play this game for 30 seconds each time, in between working or studying… and just that.

I currently play on Server 6 EU, where me and friends have an alliance called Ariadne. If you’re by any chance tempted to join the game and play with us, you can check out a brief profile of our alliance @ Ariadne.Aasemoon.com. Feel free to drop me a line if you like to join. =)

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Filed under: Friends, Fun, Games, Internet

Robin Hood

Author: Aasemoon

2 Jun

Today a friend said to me “you should really see the Robin Hood movie, it’s right up your alley!”. And I said, “oh it totally is, and I’ve already seen it!”. And he said “but… but… but… but… but there’s nothing about it on your bloooooooooggggg!!!!”. Well, you can imagine the utter SHAME I felt at that moment! =P Oh my GOD, how did I manage to not write anything about my all time favourite version of Robin Hood?? So let me fix that now…

Yes, a couple of weeks a go we went to see Robin Hood. And I’m glad that despite a few discouraging comments that I heard / read about the movie here and there, I did go to see it. I have to say I don’t understand what’s not to like! In fact I enjoyed watching the movie IMMENSELY! =) The small but important modifications made to the plot felt like they were exactly what Robin Hood always needed to turn into a most interesting story. Since I know many of you haven’t seen it yet, I’m not going to say much more… but I just have to say that everything about this movie was very impressive. The cast were the best possible, and the the whole mood and feel of the movie really worked for me. So don’t listen to anyone who says otherwise…. and go see the movie for yourself. =)

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Filed under: Entertainment, Kool, Motion Picture, Movies

ByeBye Lost!

Author: Aasemoon

30 May

Hmmmmmm. Nope. I’m not very happy. =/

Lost was one of my favourite series. Aside from the fact that I’m going to miss it, I also feel that it didn’t quite… well…. finish! And I think the main reasons I feel this way is because the season finale did not do such a fine job of closing the circle. It simply wasn’t enough. I was expecting something much more fascinating! I get the feeling that the story got sooo big, that the producers sort of lost control of the complexity of it and as a result they just cut things off. So many unanswered questions, so much unfinished business!

Also, it seems like a lot of people aren’t quite sure about what happened. For instance, there’s a common confusion about whether the characters of the story were dead the entire time. Nope, they weren’t! Everything that happened actually did happen… The after death “limbo” universe which was introduced in season 6, is the only part of the story line in which they’re dead, as Christian Sheppard clarifies. Also, I’m as much disappointed as everyone else that they didn’t bring back Michael and Walt into the story, but hey, it makes sense! I mean Walt didn’t exactly spend so much time with the team for him to show up in their made up universe, and Kevin… well Kevin would not be able to “move on”. He killed a couple of people, and turned into some sort of a stuck spirit on the island.

And, YES, Hurley could be in the limbo even though he wasn’t dead when the series was finished. Because he would eventually die, right? And there’s no real concept of time in the limbo universe. As you may have noticed he said to Ben “you were a great number 2”. So it could be that they were number 1 and number 2 for thousands of years before they died and went to the limbo. But eventually, they would show up.

I guess what was most disappointing for me about the finale, was that I was hoping for a completely different ending for the “Man in Black”. I mean come to think of it, when he was alive, he was a much better person than Jacob. He was intelligent, courageous and in fact much more honest and interested in the facts than Jacob. But he was betrayed… by pretty much everyone. Can you blame him for turning into some vengeful spirit thang? Jacob was the real b****d in all of this. Unfair ending for the “Man in Black”…. how reality like!

Anyhow, I think that so many questions about the nature of the island and other things remained unanswered… and as I said, I don’t find limbo a very convincing ending for such an amazing story. I wonder if the series writers might do something like Joss Whedon did with Buffy… continuing the story as comic books. Well, I don’t really think that’s going to happen… but it would be nice to have Lost comics, eh? 😉

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Filed under: Entertainment, Motion Picture, Sci-Fi, TV

Pacman, 30th Anniversary!

Author: Aasemoon

21 May

Happy anniversary Pacman, and thanks for all the fun! =D I have to say, I totally love Google’s interactive Pacman doodle. Way to go, very cute! =) I also like this embeddable flash Pacman…. =P

Check out the official Pacman 30th anniversary website here.

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Filed under: Fun, Games