Oldish, but very funny!
Okay okay, I "borrowed" the NTSC version of Mad World for Wii just because I couldn't wait to try it. I've pre-ordered it locally, but it won't come out until somewhere next week I believe.
Anyway, the intro movie is pretty nice, very comic like. Then you'll meet XIII (not the one from the famous european comic book by the way) and he'll teach you how to do some basic fight moves. You start in a small area where the baddies are coming at you and you have to kill them using your own hands, and chainsaw of course. When you've succeeded then you can jump over the cars to the next level, where you'll be in an open area with lots of baddies. First you start with extended fighting skills like throws and types of finishes.. bwhaha all of them very hilarious and sadistic. After a while you'll be teached how to use the environment for fights, like tires, streetsigns, etc. It's all very fast paced and very well drawn.
Like said in official reviews, the camera work needs some improvement, but it's ok.
Once you finished the intro stages the real fights begin and you are thrown into a gang of uglies which you have to throw into the "turbinator"... with hilariously splatteriffic results, and even "Just Jack" needs to shield himself for the splatter.
And you'll be set lose in the city, the game feels like a free environment where you can walk about whereever you want. Not sure if that's true for the whole game, I only played for 56 minutes.. just before the first major boss character.. a bull with a dual chainsaw... eeek!
There are the oh-so necessary powerups to be found on slain baddies, and other items are available as well. One thing though: there's no in-between save? I guess it's all auto-save, but I'm not so sure.
I can't wait to receive my official version! just a week waiting...
More info and hilarious videoclips: http://www.madworldtv.com
edit 13/03: well, it seems I played a bit longer than I thought, according to the daily Wii progress message I played 56 minutes Mad World! See, time flies when you're having splatter fun!
Today, the Nambu Network released a much needed update to their native Mac OS X Twitter client Nambu.
A lot of sophisticated twitter clients are written in Adobe AIR. This has the advantage that that client can run on multiple platforms, but also has certain disadvantages like that the UI isn't like a real Mac (or Windows) program, and the behaviour of the application can be different than a native app.
So, after trying Twhirl, TweetDeck I ended up installing and running Nambu, and haven't looked back since.
The new update includes a new UI, which allows for multi-column view. You can add or remove columns at will and you can also re-order them. The UI is nice and clean, and easily readable, in contrast to TweetDeck for instance, which makes my eyes hurt trying to read it.
Another new addition is the use of friend groups. Here you can create groups of twitter friends so you can follow only those specific tweet updates.
The application also has a lot a bugfixes and seems faster too.
However, there are still some things missing, but the developers seem to be keen to listen to people and implement desired (if useful) functionality pretty soon.
Personally I'd like to have a threaded discussion view, or at least a way of going through replies in an organised way.
Also, you cannot put your friend groups in the column view.
What can I say, if you want to use a nice and native Twitter client on OSX, Nambu is a good step in the right direction. It's not fully grown up yet, but it has a lot of potential.
Na de reclame stunt van de creationismen zijn de atheïsten ook met een offensief begonnen.
Met hun slogan "Er is waarschijnlijk geen God, durf zelf te denken en geniet van dit leven!" hebben ze langs de A4 flinke aandacht kunnen trekken, sinds gisteren staat daar een gigantisch reclamebord met deze slogan en de URL naar hun website.
Via hun website kan je stickers bestellen met dezelfde slogan.
Op 30 mei organiseren ze nog eens een Atheïsmedag in Utrecht. En iets eerder, op 28 maart organiseert de Vereniging de Vrije Gedachten een seminar over Atheïsme en Politiek in Rotterdam.
Meer info is te vinden op hun site www.atheismecampagne.nl
Ik zou zeggen, doe mee, bestel die stickers en plak ze waar je maar kan! :-)
(opmerking over de website.. die kan best wat beter.. vind het een beetje slordige indruk en ik mis banners voor op sites te zetten)
I found a pretty fun iPhone application called "QuadCamera" (iTunes link).
The results look quite similar to the 4-lens lomo fun cameras, except that of course the iPhone doesn't have 4 lenses. So it's created by taking 4 shots in rapid succession. Not too rapid though, so you can actually change between shots. The timing is also adjustable and the application has quite a few effects.
See below for a stupid example (some effect has been added by using iPhoto - decolorized a bit)
