Awesome Lamps & Lights

I had to do a little work in the internet today, googling "lamps" - strange but true.... check out some of these cool ones that I found...

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Zero Charisma - Trailer

Steam Controller Demonstation

Leave it to the guys at Valve to come out of nowhere with a console, an OS and now an innovative controller. I haven't read much about this controller but it will be interesting to see how it effects PC gaming in general, especially when you see them in this demo playing games that aren't typically games that can be played with a controller.

Bonus : they play PAPERS, PLEASE at the end of this video with the controller - I thought it was an interesting choice; love that game.

Neptune's Pride : Triton (Day 11)

Things are getting increasingly complicated and I am checking into the game 4-5 times a day. I have been rushing at the beginning of each cycle to buy lots of economy and industry to get the full use of each day, but because of that I haven't always had money by the end of the day. Lately I have been more cautious, and left a little cash to make transactions between players and also to build a much needed carrier late in the day to gather the growing amount of ships on my planets.

Unfortunately, after winning a battle (barely, darn defense bonus) my fleet continued on to the next planet, you can see in the bottom left, and is now flying to their deaths at that purple stronghold. My ally Dark Blue is really messing things up there for purple, and since I don't want to get pinched in again by him I have send another carrier out to attack yellow and give myself safe passage to the lower part of the galaxy. It will take a long time to get some more fleets down here, probably 2 days but when they arrive they will be quite large. Heopfully, Light Blue (as seen in the diagram as being the leader at the moment, as far as Stars are concerned) doesn't attack me, a double front would be my ruin at the moment.

Neptune's Pride : Triton (Day 10)

So, this is as far as I am going to push in for now, I am trying to put more effort into expanding my economy and trading for some technologies before all remaining players start fending for themselves. The Light Blue, despite being my ally has been moving large fleets right near stars that create our border, so I have that to worry about in the north, so I will try to calm things in the south and move a little slower, defend when I can, move in on Purple but  not too quickly, trying to get them to attack me so I get a defense bonus. Yellow is also moving in on the action so we have a 4 way conflict going on here, so I am trying to make it look like I am NOT a weak target.

Neptune's Pride 2: Triton (Day 9)

I am now fighting it out with the Green player, although I am sure he is in trouble (my fleet is quite large, he's being attacked by an opportunist Purple and probably also by my Dark Blue ally). I now have to be concerned less with Green and more with Purple - who is being controlled by the computer and (this being my first game) I have to play a catch-up with when it comes to tactics. I will try to reinforce my position on my secondary planets (just behind the front line) and leave more fleets behind on planets, instead of draining them of all ships every time and building a large fleet!

Neptune's Pride 2: Triton (Day 8)

It has begun and I have access to green now. This is the kind of situation you can get in because of the slow order resolution. My fleet has left the planet, I can't change their orders once they are in hyperspace and now I can see that by the time they will get there they are going to be dealing with a much larger fleet. Darnit.