Interesting web finds
 

Recently finding something interesting, and thinking that we could use a place for posting interesting things on the web, I made this thread.

http://www.livejournal.com/community/crossing_lostrp/

It's a Lost (tv show; only seen a little) crossover/multiple author story. See, each author contributes up to three characters from other fictional universes...Completly serious, not a spoof. Shaping up very well, with good writting all around.

OOC: Over here: http://www.livejournal.com/community/crossinglostooc

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The Japanese really have nothing to do...

http://www.devilducky.com/media/37630/

The real truth about those chinese restaraunts...

http://www.flashplayer.com/music/chickenchowmein.html

Ever wanted to be a virus? Check this out...

http://www.flashplayer.com/games/inf...verepeat..html

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OK that virus thingy is adictive. I made it to level 8 and then there were just too many of those white cloud thingies.

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The virus game is very addictive. I too have never made it past level eight but I keep going back to try again. There must be some sort of subliminal hypnotic message in the music.........................

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There must be, since I made it to level 14 with no problem, and then lost because apparently I didn't understand what I needed to do - it told me "you went out of time"... I thought the levels were ending because the time was running out anyway... not sure what I was supposed to do differently - I'll need to check the rules.

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I also made it to about 14 or so, then ran out of time http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

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You've gotta kill X number of cells before the time runs out.

The viruses are pretty lame, what with the complete inability to infect things without your direct intervention.
I have no idea why that's not one of the available upgrades, even if it were just a tiny percentage chance like the immunity.

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The biohazard powerup causes that. But it just lets you kill cells, the infected cell doesn't release new viruses. So its a poor simulation of virus action. But anyway, its just a "catch the falling object" game, played upwards instead of downwards, with moving obstacles.

A tip I've heard, but haven't really exploited, is to wait with one rbc left, to see if you can score more powerups. Upgrades become very expensive after 4 level.

I'm gonna go play now. This game is addictive.

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Addictive...or infectious?!? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/redface.gif

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I figured out I needed to clear the rbc tally before the time ran out on my third game, where I got to level 16 and scored 40685, almost enough for a site high score.

The game ended the same way though, running out of time, even though I killed practically every RBC that arrived, and got the only time-add powerup that arrived. I even most of the invisible RBC's that were inside the anitbody clouds too.

I have suspicions that:

* The game is easier on a slow machine. I've been playing on a slow machine choking on XP http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif , and with a moderate amount of stuff on-screen, it slows way down. I almost never felt at risk of actually losing all my virus spores, or of missing more than a very few RBCs, mostly the invisible ones.

* Some levels may become impossible by chance.

The two combined make it sort of a tedious endurance/stubbornness test. I don't think there was much if anything I could do better, unless there is some trick to get more RBC's or time extension powerups to show up before the time runs out. Maybe on a faster computer, there are always enough RBC's and/or it gets more challenging to keep the spores alive and catch all the RBC's.

PvK

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This virus game must have been bankrolled by some doctor who makes his living treating carpal tunnel patients. Ouch. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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Yeah, I noticed that the levels become unbeatable unless you either get a time extension or have had a lot of free latency upgrades (more than you could possibly afford)...

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Even so, latency dosen't help you get more cells onto the screen. Even if you don't miss any, you can still lose.

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You need the latency so that your viruses expand immediately and it takes less time to clear the RBCs, especially when the clock in getting close to the end. I always lose with just 2-4 RBCs left to infect, where one more level of latency would have let me get those infections a few seconds earlier. For this situation, reproduction is only helpful to a point, since there can end up being way more viruses on the screen than you can possibly use.

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Yeah, but more viruses, with more damage ability, all clumped together and ignored by you, can kill the white blood cells sooner, before they become a problem. If they also survive the antibiotic cloud, and you get the biohazard powerup, you can get more of those invisible rbc's. Those guys with the high score (and all the high scores are by the same few guys) have probably latched onto some pretty good formula. And of course, luck figures into it as well.

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The biohazard is entirely luck dependent as well, which is what I was getting at.

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A fun platoform mini game: http://game.demiononline.nl/robobug.php?domain_id=11

A list of free multiplayer games: http://play-free-online-games.com/games/games_all.html

This is one reason why I visit Nodwick.

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Cool high-tech thingy: http://labs.systemone.at/retrievr/
Finds pictures that look like what your draw. Fairly accurate - Or it could simply be my bad art skills.

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Oh dear... what if you draw hentai in there??? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif

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I'd imagine the same thing that if you typed it in a search engine. Anything that matches will be shown.

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I tried the virus game. Fun! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif The first couple of times I started I died immediately because I didn't understand what I'm supposed to do. I think I infected a cell that was too close to the bottom of the screen and then it dropped off the edge. Then the third game I "went out of time" at level 5. I'll have to try again!

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fascinating....

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Try this other one by the same guy called QuarRkZ {clicky}. A pretty fun game against the computer, and you can play head to head, even with small kids.

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Thanks! That Quark game is fun too. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif I find that on the easy and medium difficulty levels, it's easy to beat the computer. But the hard difficulty is really hard! The computer cleverly uses those explosions to win and you really have to concentrate and think ahead. So far I have always lost under the hard difficulty. Gotta keep trying.

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I tried this site. Fun! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif Most of the pictures it returns are nothing like what I drew, but occasionally it's very good. Here's two examples where it worked quite well.
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...-retriever.JPG

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Hey... someone should go and find the source for that thing - it would be REALLY handy for use with the ImageMod! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif