It sure is hot these days.

Part one of a series of ventrilo throwbacks. A collection of memorable moments captured forever in poor digital recordings. These are almost entirely inside jokes, but may have some insightful value to others.

You can’t stop the music…

The theme for this edition is… Music! Enjoy.

Pizza Nova

I can show you the world! - Johnny & Jordan

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Pangya is perhaps the greatest golf MMOG ever.

That could be because:

• It is the only golf MMO. or more likely because…
• It is very fun.

I’m currently playing on the EU servers under the guise Mikuso. Why not pester me for a game sometime?

I have uncovered some B-sides from Lily Allen’s most recent album It’s Not Me, It’s You. Well, they’re not B-sides of the album as such, but B-sides of the various singles accompanying it.

Anyway, I figure a lot of people will not have heard these, so in a similar fashion to what I did for Kate Nash’s B-sides, click away for some free music.

Kabul Shit

And here are two more:

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Hello Flamescape Cultists.

I have a nice and shiny new OpenTTD dedicated server. The server address is simply: flamescape.com

Here is a copy of the OpenTTD distro + addons which we play by: Download OpenTTD TiPP FSC (.zip 13.8mb)

• When noone is playing, the server will pause. (should make the games last longer)
• The games currently last 200 years, starting in 1950.
• After 200 years, the game will automatically restart itself and begin a new one.

You might also notice that there are live game statistics shown at the top of the page.

Any questions?

I can’t believe 2008 is over already.

I’ve been playing WoW a lot recently — so much so that I’ve neglected ALL other games.

So my apologies go out to: Far Cry 2, Fallout 3, Prince of Persia, GTA4 (PC version), Call of Duty: World at War and Left 4 Dead. I am sorry for not playing you yet - you are on my to-do list.

Anyway, back on to WoW — It really is a lot of fun. Among other things, I have just bought my TTM and I’m now saving for a CWH and a sweet hog.

So thank you WoW for such a great year. I hope the next one is just as fun. I leave you with this picture of my one minute at the top, when I achieved Realm First! Grand Master Angler

In other news — After hours and hours of patching the beta, I present to you a lovely screenshot of a death knight elf. See how the shadow is cast over her face? That’s something special right there.

I can also reveal that as a death knight, all races (except undead) can choose to either have a regular or undead appearance, which make for some interesting race hybrids.

Update: Here’s what I look like after three more hours of gameplay.

I came up with a new word — Coderamming.

It’s a hybrid of the words coding and programming, but it also has an extra meaning of its own…

Ramming, being another word for intercourse, makes coderamming sound like “sex with code” — which in itself is quite an accurate definition.

Here I shall use it in a sentence:

“I was coderamming all night long — my input device is exhausted.”

I am a coderammer. That is all.

At this time of year, I like to look back and remember our patriots that stood up against those filthy traitors in the late 18th century.

In July 1780, Benedict Arnold obtained command of West Point, New York. His scheme to surrender the base to us, the British, was detected when American forces captured British Major John Andr carrying papers that revealed Arnold’s plan.

Benedict Arnold avoided capture by sailing home via the Hudson River on the British gunship, Vulture.

Arnold received a commission as a Brigadier General in the British Army, a huge annual pension of £360 and a lump sum of £6,000.

What a hero!

Take a look at the screenshot above. Notice anything different or unusual? Really? You don’t?

Look again - it’s a red train in a green station!

You may be saying “OMG” right now, understandably so. Want to get in on the track-sharing goodness? I know you do.

Download OpenTTD TiPP FSC (.zip 13.8mb)

You don’t even need hamachi anymore.
The server address is: openttd.flamescape.com

Vent me up for a game and I’ll let you know the password.

Read more to see how track sharing works and other features.

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So I was listening to some of Kate’s B-sides. I had to hunt them down because I am such a huge fan of hers. There’s some pretty good stuff that she’s done that really should have made it to her album.

Here’s one of my favourites, Stitching Leggings.

Enjoy!

Hello friends.

Here’s something new and exciting (for British people only) which I have developed. The FilmFour Movie Database. It combines the nature of TV listings with the data from IMDB to create a powerful search tool.

It is currently hosted on my home machine, so it will be offline at night.

You can try it out now at ff.flamescape.com or READ ON for more details.

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Now, I like trains. I really do like trains - more than a normal person should be allowed to like them - but thankfully, not as much as those freaks in museums. I just want you to realise that this non-review is not skewed by my train-liking amount.

This game is boring. Mega boring.

I suppose that is a bit unfair, as this non-game was designed to simulate what some people do for a living. As a game concept though, it has failed.

There are two goals you can aim for with this game:

1. Do it right. Pick up passengers and drop them off.
2. Derail. Crash or roll it.

The game is almost playable just for the ability to derail — if only those very short moments of glee weren’t woven together with loading times akin to Postal 2 (back in the day).

If all of this hasn’t put you off already, here is one final very good reason not to install this game:

It really does take that long.

I do have a plan.

Want to hear read it? No? Fine, whatever.

Behold! A three step plan to my ultimate success in the games industry.

1. Get qualified
2. Get noticed
3. Get paid

Read on to learn of the intricacies….

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Looking back at the recent OpenTTD related goings on, I thought I should post some post-mortems on our empires.

It’s all here - from terraformed graffiti, retarded rail networks, huge cities and the effects of global warming.

To begin, let’s have a look at the four-player game of Miku, John + Adam (Finningbury Transport) and Mark (Mark Transport).

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