Most Tendinites don't know this but there is a supernatural meaning to each of my closing tought of the day signatures. So I thought each week I might explain each one.

Thought #1 Explained: Question of the day.....
Do You Have A JC Penny's In Your Mental Mansion?

I friend of mine who shall remain nameless was probed by a psycic <-- For give the spelling. Anyway, my friends mind is represented like a house (ie mental mansion), with each room representing a part of his mind. Anyway long storie short the person probing him was shocked to find a JC Penny's in my frends mental mansion (ie. head)!

There really expanding their stores!

*pokes head in at lazy's request*

*goes to Planet Gamecube and reads this:*
http://www.planetgamecube.com/specials.c...ile&id=547

*wonders why he rolled out of bed this AM as to this being nothing new and is glad he owns most of the game consoled under the sun*

*goes back to bed*

I have contacted SiteTurn Enterprises in regards to this site, since they are the ones who host it, and I have requested that they delete the site within 48 hours, and under the threat of legal action, they acquiesed. A query into the United States Copyright Office will show that the name Tendo City and its related properties belong to me, and I will not have my copyrights infringed. I do not care that the concept is unimportant to me, it is merely the idea that I am not making money on something I own.

I suggest finding a new home, after all, what's a home when you have each other, right? I believe that is what you all told me long ago. Make sure you change the name this time, Mr. Usher, lest you again find yourself with a subpoena.

Yours,
Jeffrey Yuwono

(sorry I'm late!)

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~coates/video/Red...Video).mpg




So retarded.

Looks cool, but from the guys that made Mario pinball? That game got really bad reviews...

PacPix review

http://www.ntsc-uk.com/review.php?platfo...ame=PacPix

Electroplankton

http://forums.gaming-age.com/showthread....010&page=1

Quote: hoot. I'm back. Played it a bunch last night before drifting off into dreamland.

So actually, I highly recommend you go to the official Electroplankton website and click on the first bubble at the top-left ("donna soft?" for those of you who can read Japanese).　It actually takes you through all 10 plankton, which is basically the entire game. (I know it's not a game, but for lack of a better word, I'm going to refer to it as one.)

Each plankton is like a different mini-game, I guess, with its own unique way of making music. I'll give you a brief rundown of the first five, but be warned -- I HAVE NOT YET READ THE MANUAL, and the game itself gives very little detail as to what you can do with each plankton, so these descriptions are going to be pretty simplistic. :p

01 Tracy -- Each of the seven plankton can be dragged anywhere on the screen to create its own line of sound. First you draw a line (it can be pretty long, actually), and then the plankton will follow it over and over. It even repeats the speed that you draw -- so for example, if you draw the first part reeeeeeeally slow and then the next part super quick, it'll follow the line in the same manner. You can make some pretty cool music (well, with me it was more like noise) when you have all seven going at once...

02 Hanenbow -- This one's kinda neat. One leaf at the bottom shoots a plankton up in the air, and when it hits things (namely other leaves), it makes a noise. The point is to try and rearrange the leaves in such a way that you can keep the plankton bouncing around and making tunes before falling off the screen (you can even press A to display the specific angles of each leaf, i.e. 45 degrees, 83 degrees, etc.). If you press "up" on the d-pad, you can shoot out more plankton manually in addition to the one that comes out every few seconds automatically. Also, if you keep hitting the same leaves over and over, they turn red. I haven't managed to get all leaves red at the same time (they fade back to green if you stop hitting them), but perhaps it might trigger some kind of reaction. BTW, you can also press "Select" to change the leaf layout -- there seems to be four different layouts in all.

03 Luminaria -- I like this one, too. There's a grid with 36 arrows on it, and you start out with a plankton in each of the four corners. Once you touch one, it starts traveling the path of the arrows (which you can change on the fly, of course), making music as it goes. Each plankton has its own speed, too. So you basically make music by sending them around the grid in whatever direction you please. If you keep an arrow pressed for a few seconds, it starts spinning, meaning the direction the plankton goes when it crosses it will be totally random.

04 Sun-Animalcule -- Haven't messed with this one too much, but basically you just draw dots wherever you like on the screen (little suns), which make different tones based on where they are, and as the music loops, it replays the same rhythm over and over. The cool part is, if you leave them alone, the suns will get bigger and bigger each time around until it eventually gets dark and then they turn into little moons. The type of music you can make changes between sun and moon, and if you time it properly, you can have both types going at the same time.

05 Rec-Rec -- This one rocks. It's the one Bill Trinen showed off at GDC, with the four lines of fish that scroll from right-to-left along to a beat (there's a few different beats you can choose, BTW). You record a sample to each one using the mic, and then they all play together as it loops. You can make some pretty funky music with this one.

I gotta get going now; I'll do more later if I have time, but I probably won't, so here's hoping someone else (cough, Jonny) might be able to pop in and offer up some thoughts on the remaining five. It seems pretty cool so far; if you like tinkering around with sound, then you'll probably enjoy it. I'm not sure if it's worth the price of admission ($45 seems a bit steep to me), but maybe that's why they threw in the free earphones. ;p

Later!

Quote:I'm stopping playing now because I need to work Smile. It's lovely, and just as expected - no game, just ten musical toys with charming graphics Smile.. I'll be fiddling with this a fair bit over the weekend, and I'll take it down the pub tonight to see what Elaine makes of it (and the little girl down the pub if she's in, which she often is on a Friday) Smile.

It reminds me how much fun I had with my experimental version of Trip-a-Tron in which you could use KML to drive an external MIDI synth, and roll your own light-to-music stuff Smile. I'd like to revisit that one day with my new lightsynth tech, that'd be lovely Smile.

Gentle, utterly charming, Elektroplankton is a beautiful little chilltoy Smile. Huge respect to Ninty fro bringing such a thing to market Smile.

For those who don't yet know that is the name of the next Xbox. It's not yet official but that's what everyone "in the know" says it's going to be called.

Here's the reason it won't be called Xbox 2:

Quote:The next Xbox will be called Xbox 360. "3" so it doesn't sound inferior to the Playstation 3 and "360" for a full revolution, since Nintendo's system is called the "Revolution". This is almost 100% guaranteed. My source has told us new marketing slogans have already been passed around the game industry with the name "Xbox 360", such as.... "Xbox 360.... the real revolution"

Quote:If you could look into the future what would you see? Reality reset on entertainment? Human energy amplified? A personalized gaming experience that revolves around you?

This is awesome. It's a half hour long Flash of the ending to Final Fantasy VI... with all the characters replaced with videogame consoles, and all the text redone (yes, it is in english.). Watch it now! (dialup-unfriendly, as it's 15mb) I won't put the flash here so as to not steal too much bandwidth.

http://www.hcn.zaq.ne.jp/cabic508/rsf/frame1.html

Yep this little pecker needs to be picked up in Warwick New York at the breeder , I will be also going to NY,NY to see the sites given thats only 40 minutes away I may has well anyways ,I may see ground Zero perhaps as well.

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