IGN announces best games of 2008
[ December 30th, 2008 ] Posted in » Otakuism, Video games

Seeing as I only care about the PS3, here they are:

Metal Gear Solid 4 has won a number of awards: Best action, Best Graphics and it was named PS3 game of the year.

LittleBigPlanet won a few too: Best platform, Best artistic design and many others.

Best fighting: Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
Best music: Rock Band 2
Echochrome
Burn out Paradise
Best RPG: Fallout 3
Best shooter: Resistance 2
Best RPG: Valkyria Chronicles
Best original score: Eternal Sonata

I’m not exactly a fan of Resistance - played multi player at a friend’s house many moons ago, but I didn’t find it all too impressive. Also, I’m not a fan of Eternal Sonata - played the demo, but didn’t find it all too interesting.

Do wish they a reward for “Most exciting,” which of course would go to EndWar. Seeing my infantry trying to fire back at the enemy while tank shells raining down on them is too much to ignore. Definitely not the best strategy (Rock-Paper-Scissors type combat), but most certainly deserves something. Maybe it’s in another list?

Btw, Persona 4 won best PS2 game of ‘08 - w00t!

Can view the rest here. Do you agree with the list?

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Adult yuri figure

Just found this figure at Guybooru. Not sure who these two girls are, but it’s a fairly detailed figure. Do think that the sweat sort of ruins the whole concept, however. Will get?

Here’s the adult version.

November 30th, 2008 | 3 Comments

Holy mackerel, Batman!

I think this post has the most comments in my history of blogging. They still continue to cum! Well, the linkbacks anyway. I guess (Facebook + gas prices + solutions + rant) = ultimate optimization, eh? ^^ The post.

Picture of Hatsune Miku. Click for full-res. ^^

November 30th, 2008 | 1 Comment

Beethoven fifth Symphony (first movement)

Magnificent, is it not? First time I heard this song was while watching Bugs Bunny.

November 26th, 2008 | 3 Comments

Obama asks for help from the Federal Reserve

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — President-elect Barack Obama named key members of his administration’s economic team Monday, including New York Federal Reserve President Timothy Geithner as his Treasury Secretary nominee and former Harvard President Lawrence Summers as the director of the National Economic Council.

“I’ve sought leaders who could offer both sound judgment and fresh thinking, both a depth of experience and a wealth of bold, new ideas, and most of all who share my fundamental belief that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street without a thriving Main Street,” Obama said at a press conference Monday in Chicago.

[...]

Mission No. 1 over the next few weeks for Obama’s economic team will be hammering out the details of what the president-elect described this weekend as a two-year economic recovery plan intended to create 2.5 million jobs.

[...]

Estimates for how much might be spent on a multi-year stimulus package range as high as $500 billion to $700 billion.

[...]

America pretty much shot itself in the ass. Hilarious. Americans can be pretty stupid sometimes. I wonder how much of that $500 billion to $700 billion bill will cost the employed? Create 2.5 million jobs, while the employed, their child and their grandchildren have to take the tax burden? People can lose their jobs, Obama. You’re policies and “plans” are laughable.

George W. Bush: throw money at Iraq to solve the problem

Barack Obama: throw money at the economy and poor people to solve the problem, raise taxes for people making TOO MUCH money

Ron Paul: lower taxes, get rid of the Federal Reserve, bring ALL troops in ALL 130 countries back into US borders, non interventionism, increase benefits for war veterans, less regulation and less government intervention into the economy, strict following of the United States Constitution.

Ron Paul 2012.

November 25th, 2008 | 2 Comments

Captain Picard sings the alphabet

November 15th, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Advanced maxlength JavaScript

function getlength(id)
{
	return document.getElementById(id).value.length;
}

function getcurrenttxt(id, max)
{
	if(getlength(id) >= max)
		return document.getElementById(id).value.substr(0, max);
}

function usertyping(id, max, notice)
{
	var ID = document.getElementById(id);
	var Notice = document.getElementById(notice);
	if(ID && Notice)
	{
		Notice.innerHTML = '<span>' + (getlength(id) == (max+1) ? max : getlength(id)) + '</span>/' + max;
		if(getlength(id) >= max) {
			ID.value = getcurrenttxt(id, max);
		}
	}
}

What this does is, it checks the character length in a textarea (or whatever you want), and if that length exceeds max, it won’t let the user type anymore (it actually does something else, but that’s the effect). Also, it lists the character limit of the textarea that specify and also the max. It’s fairly simple to just list the amount the user has left,

function usertyping(id, max, notice)
{
	var ID = document.getElementById(id);
	var Notice = document.getElementById(notice);
	if(ID && Notice)
	{
		Notice.innerHTML = '' + (max - getlength(id)) + '';
		if(getlength(id) >= max) {
			ID.value = getcurrenttxt(id, max);
		}
	}
}

Of course, I prefer the first method.

If you like the script to onload (load when the page does), then here’s a function I wrote just for that:

function body_onload()
{
	var limits = new Array();
	limits[0] = new Array('bm_text', 255, 'char_limit');

	for(var i = 0; i < limits.length; i++)
		usertyping(limits[i][0], limits[i][1], limits[i][2]);
}

Just list the textareas and the information in the limits array, and then call it when the body loads. Of course, even if the specified textareas don’t exist, it won’t cause trouble - the script checks if the appropriate elements exist before doing anything.

November 12th, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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