Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five

Alone with the Internet

Today I worked from home and it was a pretty busy day. First off, I checked out Tiny Barbarian DX, watched a few videos, tried to find out when it's coming to the OUYA and then finally decided its far too awesome and I must have it now. So I bought it on Steam - and found it to be awesome.

I also popped onto twitter and found an announcement for not only this : 

but also Telltale has a Game of Thrones game in store. Oh my good news indeed - unless you're my wife, who doesn't care about anything but another chapter of "The Wolf Among Us" and constantly bugs me about it as if I can speed things up somehow.

I was also blown away by the "No Man's Sky" trailer I saw today....

Now you are too right?

"Ustwo" has put out a trailer for their upcoming iPad game : "Monument Valley" which looks every bit as good as the screenshots they previously put out implied. 

Plus all the other little indie games things I read about today, and saved bookmarks to play - Hotline Trail on Gamejolt - reading about the NESJAM .... 

All in all a busy day in gaming & news today.

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.