Loose Tweets Sink Fleets
Loose Tweets Sink Fleets. Something to keep in mind before you sexweet.
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My knitting blog is now located at the Needle Exchange!
The Audacity of Chop
Axe Cop is a comic written by a 5-year-old and inked by a 29-year-old. It is a marvel of hilarity engineering.
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#Learn from my dream fail
Me: I had a nightmare 
I was in a prison and I tried to contact someone but my iPod didn’t find any wifi
so I was there for a few months and then on the day that I was going to leave I almost died
because there was another inmate who tried to drug us so he cold murder all of us
but then he was caught and I woke up
The Beau: you have such vivid dreams
Me: I do
The Beau: also you need to carry your cell phone more often in your dreams
Me: lol true
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Check it out, I’m reviewing iPod Apps #3: Battle of the Risk apps
I’ve downloaded a bunch of Risk-like apps, and here’s my top three.
1. Strategery Lite is less mappy, in that you are a bunch of hexagons and your hexagons fight each other. Army placement is automatic (and not very intelligent), and if you only have a few countries, it’s hard to fight your way back as there’s no way to move armies. There are a few neat details, though; you can shake the iPod to change army placement at the beginning, and there is a multi-player option. Overall, though, it’s a frustrating game that is a little too simple and not visually interesting enough to keep my attention. I left it on my iPod until today, but since trying out Lux Touch I’ve decided to delete it.
2. Lux Touch is outrageously awesome, although I still can’t figure out why the name is what it is. Its advantage over Conquest Lite is that it’s quite sleek visually, but its interface is not as usable. If you’re moving 100 armies, you have to tap 100 times. The app makes up for these problems with awesome explosions, however. Another down-side to the app is that you can’t save your state if you want to close the app. I wish I could save, but it’s a good way of encouraging folks to buy the paid version without cutting out features, so I’d rather that than something else. Another reason to buy the paid version: multiplayer, and an Iraq map! How current.
3. Conquest Lite is my favourite of the three. Games are saved when you close the app and open it again, and you can see stats on your behaviour. You can set the rules for the card bonus and how the armies are placed, and a pile of other options. You can also pan and zoom, which is something you can’t do with Lux Touch, and you can view it in portrait or landscape mode. Much like Lux Touch, there are satisfying explosions that accompany the mock battles, and when you’re up, Stephen Hawking tells you it’s Your Turn. It also gloriously trumpets when you turn in cards.
I think if I were going to buy an app, I would buy Lux’s. But as a free app, Conquest has more options and the saving ability is a big bonus. Both are equally fun and I’d recommend them both!
Top at my wishlist for the future is the option to play with two iPods bluetoothing each other. Hear that, app-makers?
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Auld Land Syne
I came across this list of The 100 Most Iconic Internet Videos on the Internet. One of the runner-ups was particularly popular on ShareScan when I was in first year (and something I would have argued for the top ten rather than an honourable mention). Surprisingly, it popped up in conversation just a few days ago, and now here it is again. And so I must post it, to kick off the reminiscing about the last decade. Oh 2000-2009, how I will miss thee! You brought both the birth and death of blogs, the birth and death of my years at Queen’s, and prolly some other things that were equally inspiring. Oh yeah, and I learned to knit. Big Times.
YATTA!
HOPE.
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