Magicka Review

"Magicka is an action-adventure game set in the fantasy world of Midgård, where elemental magic rules the land, goblins and trolls are perfectly harmless – well, perhaps not entirely, and all the villagers are wise-cracking smartalecks."

"In your travels you will fight your way through 13 levels, each more fiendish than the last. You shall draw upon the aid of magickal spells, freely combined from the eight elements. As you progress, you will learn the delicate art of annihilating your enemies with the awesome powers of ancient Magicks. As if that’s not enough, you can also test your skills in the various challenge modes, and duel your friends (or enemies) in player vs player battle mode.
But enough talk! Time to get your robe on!"

These are the beginning words for an adventure full of fun and bloody messes!
You get a quick tutorial (10 minutes long) and you'll know how to play this freaking hilarious game. At first you'll acknowledge 8 different elements are good to go. "8 elements? Not much if you'll ask me." Wrong! You can combine each of these elements with the other, there are restrictions but not too many. You have 5 slots for your next cast and you can combine the elements in these slots, your decision will alter the next cast.

Some combinations are really powerful and you'll have to find them through your adventure. Every spell has 3-4 different actions if you use another button-combination (mouse left click, mouse right click, shift, control etc.). You can play with up to four of your friends at the same time, in the adventure mode, challenge mode or PvP. An important thing to know is, that you can hurt yourself with your own casts, if used wrong. More player, more danger, more fun :)

The adventure mode lasts 4-7 hours and has a great replayability if you do it with your friends, you can hunt for achievements, secrets and new spellcasts. This game costs 9,99€ and is worth every cent of it :)

Magicka

My first review will be about Magicka, an interesting game about 4 Wizards with great power! Combine your magic skills and devastate your enemies :)

This game will unlock on Steam in about 2 hours and after I played it with some friends, I will review this fantastic looking masterpiece :)

Eating well on $1 a day!

You should read this story about a guy, a pc and $31 for food. He made a bet that he would survive a month, eat healthy and will only spend $1 a day! Maybe you want see what meals he got, you'll be astonished what little masterpieces he has eaten =)

Eating well!

This is the background story:

I was talking with my sister and explaining to her that with couponing, I think that I could live on $1 a day for food and have plenty to eat. She looked at me skeptically thinking that I was exaggerating.
“No, really, I could live on $1 a day and not be hungry,” I said.
“All you would eat is cereal and junk food,” she countered. That is not a healthy diet for a month.
“I think I could have a fairly healthy diet on $1 a day,” I replied. “At least a lot healthier than you think.”
“Including fruits and veggies?” she asked, the skepticism in her voice coming through again.
“Including fruits and veggies,” I said.
“You couldn’t last a month,” she said sure of herself.
Thus the “Eating Well on $1 A Day” challenge was born with the following rules in place:
1. I will begin on May 1 and will have no accumulated food of any kind. I have $31 to spend ($1 for each day of the month). I can start buying food on May 1 and can not exceed the $31. I must document the cost of the food with receipts.
2. I can only use 2 computers to print coupons. Although I have access to more which would make this challenge much easier, we agreed that not everyone will have access to a lot of computers. However, we also agreed that anyone reading this has access to at least one computer and should be able get access to another one using a bit of creativity.
3. I can only use 2 inserts from the Sunday paper each week. Although I have access to many more than this (I usually pick up anywhere from 3 to 5 copies for free from the local coffee shop alone each week), we decided that not everyone would have access to dozens of inserts. We agreed that anyone could get the coupon inserts from at least 2 Sunday papers with a bit of creativity. I am allowed to use up to 2 of previous week’s coupon inserts that I already happen to have.
4. I can use as many coupons as I want that I can get in the grocery store where they are available to everyone.
5. I can only buy food from retail outlets (grocery stores, drug stores, food markets, etc). I can’t supplement what I buy at the store with free food from trees, dumpster diving, friends, food banks, donations, growing my own, etc.
6. I can only use deals that anyone else would have access to getting.

It should be an interesting challenge and I will have my work cut out for me, but I think that it will be possible. If nothing else, it will certainly be a food event that will bring some surprises and humor…

Daft Punk

Maybe one of you know the band "Daft Punk" and maybe you want to play some of their songs by yourself! =)

Daft Punk Generator

I need some extra time to prepare some new posts :)

But I'll try my best to post a thing or two beforehand

Decisions to make

Im thinking what my blog should be mainly about, I want to make reviews of games, but my english sucks when I look at my german writing. Hmm, maybe some of you have a thought or two for me :)

Look at the sidebar for "What do you want to see on my blog?" and vote if you like.

PS: Some music I like :)

I think it's a must read!

Best of craigslist "What happened to all the nice guys?"

"What Happened to All the Nice Guys?"

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Date: 2007-11-19, 3:52AM PST

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I see this question posted with some regularity in the personals section, so I thought I'd take a minute to explain things to the ladies out there that haven't figured it out.


What happened to all the nice guys?


The answer is simple: you did.


See, if you think back, really hard, you might vaguely remember a Platonic guy pal who always seemed to want to spend time with you. He'd tag along with you when you went shopping, stop by your place for a movie when you were lonely but didn't feel like going out, or even sit there and hold you while you sobbed and told him about how horribly the (other) guy that you were fucking treated you.


At the time, you probably joked with your girlfriends about how he was a little puppy dog, always following you around, trying to do things to get you to pay attention to him. They probably teased you because they thought he had a crush on you. Given that his behavior was, admittedly, a little pathetic, you vehemently denied having any romantic feelings for him, and buttressed your position by claiming that you were "just friends." Besides, he totally wasn't your type. I mean, he was a little too short, or too bald, or too fat, or too poor, or didn't know how to dress himself, or basically be or do any of the things that your tall, good-looking, fit, rich, stylish boyfriend at the time pulled off with such ease.


Eventually, your Platonic buddy drifted away, as your relationship with the boyfriend got more serious and spending time with this other guy was, admittedly, a little weird, if you werent dating him. More time passed, and the boyfriend eventually cheated on you, or became boring, or you realized that the things that attracted you to him weren't the kinds of things that make for a good, long-term relationship. So, now, you're single again, and after having tried the bar scene for several months having only encountered players and douche bags, you wonder, "What happened to all the nice guys?"


Well, once again, you did.


You ignored the nice guy. You used him for emotional intimacy without reciprocating, in kind, with physical intimacy. You laughed at his consideration and resented his devotion. You valued the aloof boyfriend more than the attentive "just-a-" friend. Eventually, he took the hint and moved on with his life. He probably came to realize, one day, that women aren't really attracted to guys who hold doors open; or make dinners just because; or buy you a Christmas gift that you mentioned, in passing, that you really wanted five months ago; or listen when you're upset; or hold you when you cry. He came to realize that, if he wanted a woman like you, he'd have to act more like the boyfriend that you had. He probably cleaned up his look, started making some money, and generally acted like more of an asshole than he ever wanted to be.


Fact is, now, he's probably getting laid, and in a way, your ultimate rejection of him is to thank for that. And I'm sorry that it took the complete absence of "nice guys" in your life for you to realize that you missed them and wanted them. Most women will only have a handful of nice guys stumble into their lives, if that.


So, if you're looking for a nice guy, here's what you do:


1.) Build a time machine.
2.) Go back a few years and pull your head out of your ass.
3.) Take a look at what's right in front of you and grab ahold of it.


I suppose the other possibility is that you STILL don't really want a nice guy, but you feel the social pressure to at least appear to have matured beyond your infantile taste in men. In which case, you might be in luck, because the nice guy you claim to want has, in reality, shed his nice guy mantle and is out there looking to unleash his cynicism and resentment onto someone just like you.


If you were five years younger.


So, please: either stop misrepresenting what you want, or own up to the fact that you've fucked yourself over. You're getting older, after all. It's time to excise the bullshit and deal with reality. You didn't want a nice guy then, and he certainly doesn't fucking want you, now.


Sincerely,


A Recovering Nice Guy

Mario Paint + Music = Win

In my childhood I played a lot of the old Mario Games and failed miserably at Mario Paint. Here's a good example of the possibilities :) Have fun!

Castlevania wooh!