Innovation is fine if it is an improvement over and above an existing technology. But Heavy Rain would have benefited from some conventional game mechanics, that work. The proprietary control scheme feels wonky. Instead of button presses to make moves or a dedicated action button, you’ll have to screw around with the control sticks flipping them uselessly when you could be accomplishing what you need to do more efficiently.-
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Mar
5
Heavy Rain PS3 Review
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Innovation is fine if it is an improvement over and above an existing technology. But Heavy Rain would have benefited from some conventional game mechanics, that work. The proprietary control scheme feels wonky. Instead of button presses to make moves or a dedicated action button, you’ll have to screw around with the control sticks flipping them uselessly when you could be accomplishing what you need to do more efficiently.Heavy Rain is a dramatic and morose ode to fatherhood. Perhaps the intent was to involve the sought after demographic with a story that relates to male experience. You’ll play schizophrenically as four different characters throughout this weird offering. You begin as a hen-pecked husband who manages only to make his woman miserable. Who is this ‘game’ meant for? Aging divorced males who want to have a good cry over their lost family life? The subject matter itself is indeed heavy. This software, that I hesitate to call a game, truly bridges the gap between an interactive visual novel and something… else. It is no fun so I can’t exactly define it as a game, maybe it’s a dramatic experience. You may in fact want to dramatically rip your hair out from playing it.
Mar
1
This morning Gamasutra is reporting that there is a widespread PlayStation 3 outage. Users have been experiencing a bug that began last night. This morning Sony has responded saying that the problem has been located in the system’s clock functionality, affecting all models other than the newer slim PS3. The consoles nick named the ”fat” 60 and 80 GB are unable to connect to the PlayStation Network. There are also reports of some offline games having issues due to trophy functionality being down. This does not bode well for troubled Sony who has been trying to figure out how to convert the lack luster network to paid subscriptions. While the question remains “For what” since the PSN has been trailing far behind the XBL’s thriving, lucrative social network.
Heavy Rain seems to be one of the games having problems due to the bug. Which just figures, because I have the review half done and the the game is sitting in the 80G fat… Read more
Feb
27
Quake Watch and 3D Sun Apps
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I have been using these two Apps for monitoring seismic activity since January 12. 3D Sun gives the solar weather and it’s a Free App. It is this distant influx of particles that have electromagnetic effects on our planet and our weather. The month of February according to 3D Sun has had sunspots everyday. They also mention that NOAA forecasters are expecting a 20% increase of polar geomagnetic activity from today until Monday. Geomagnetic storms are one of the theories of earthquake prediction. As an amateur it seems pretty convincing to me.
Quake Watch is a 99 cent App that allows you to enter your location with GPS and also add other locations so that you can monitor quakes. There have been small quakes going on in Hati, Southern California, Baja, Mexico and off the shore of South America that I have noticed pretty much constantly since I started checking it last month. These two Apps along with Iris and the USGS Volcano Hazards page bookmarked on your iPod touch or iPhone will help you track extreme weather.
Feb
17
Ellen Reads Geek Woman’s Tweet on the Ellen App!
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Ellen Degeneres read my Tweet about Sake on the Ellen App! Go inside the Ellen App on your iPhone or iTouch. In the video titled “The votes are in day 16 or day 2″ Mary brings my Tweet to Ellen’s attention and they read it out. Or look at it online at the Ellen Show archives. See what she says! I recently downloaded the Free Ellen App from the App store and I have been enjoying Ellen’s Tweets and other little clips on there. The App is updated so that when I have insomnia here on the East Coast, there is something new on there to look at. I responded to to a Tweet that the Ellen show put out there about Ellen’s sugar cleanse. She and her assistant were talking about going off the wagon on Valentines. Ellen had Wine, and Sake was mentioned. As far as I know Sake doesn’t have sugar.Ever since the age of sobriety at twenty – one I became aware that I could not enjoy alcohol the same way other people do. One or two sips of anything fermented and I come down in true geek fashion with something akin to Bell’s palsy. I have been told that it is a “sugar problem” without much more explanation. Wine has been especially near death deadly for me. I’m 48 and I’ve never been drunk!
Eventually I discovered that I could drink a little bit of Sake. Since it is served in thimble – like cups I could manage the equivalent of a shot of the brew. Sake is made from rice. No
sugar is added and the amount of natural sugar in rice is next to nothing. The making of Sake is a sacred process handed down among family members. The water used in making Sake is also considered to be sacred and pure.
sugar is added and the amount of natural sugar in rice is next to nothing. The making of Sake is a sacred process handed down among family members. The water used in making Sake is also considered to be sacred and pure.According to Wikipedia Wine an 8 ounce glass of red wine contains about a gram of sugar, or up to 3 carbs. (About a half full glass of Wine has a Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz), Carbohydrates 2.6 g, Sugars 0.6 g, Alcohol 10.6 g, 100 g wine is approximately 100 ml (3.4 fl oz.), Sugar and alcohol content can vary Source: USDA Nutrient database.)
Results I found online were confusing. Sake may have no sugar, but more carbs? Sake apparently is free from sulfites. It is also reputedly free of hangover-causing congeners. Premium sake is usually without additives and preservatives. According to Caloriecounter.net the same 100g of Sake or 3.5oz has a Carbohydrate content of 5 (grams per 100g) and the Sugar content of 0 (grams per 100g). Types of Wine and Sake vary so much that it really depends on the individual variables. Either way both beat sodas in terms of how little sugar they have. I’m sure no expert. I give the Ellen App 10 bottles of Snow Maiden out of 10.
beware. The worst of those were Valentines Sex Game and Valentines Dice. Many of them are just baloney entirely and are advertising not really a game.
Number 3 Valentines Chocolate match is a perfect remedy for all the over marketing of chocolate right now. My teeth hurt from watching TV. If I open my email there are more dancing chocolates, and Aphrodite help me if I open the grocery flyer. It is a simple match 3 game. As you progress in levels the puzzles become slightly more difficult. This bon – bon match game and a chocolate candle will do the trick for a low cal holiday and it’s free. 
