Movie Review- Iron Man    Iron Man is one of the best movies of 2008. It's got action, a decentplot, and a timeless tale of redemption. It starts out with thedecadent Tony Stark, a rich son of a weapons tycoon being hit by anambush. Once he realizes that the people ambushing him have his ownweapons, he turns from a decadent leisure-boy into a one-man army. It'sbasically an explosion-filled action flick with a moral lesson behindit. Five @'s, for pulling too muc...

    Movie Review- Prince Caspian    Yes, I get out of my house occasionally. For instance, yesterday I wentto see Prince Caspian. Two words: Epic Awesome. Seriously, I may enjoythe battle scenes too much, but they're good. However, thebook-accuracy is questionable, it's more of a theological work than CSLewis' work. Yes, a Disney movie has more theological depth than thework it's based on. I may be putting Lewis' work in the same air asTolkein here, and I'd need to...

    War    War is the closest thing to Hell mankind can imagine. So therefore Iwrite a poem on the wonderful perpetual motion machine we've madeourselves into. War ruins life it causes strife But all we can do is cause more it never changes, for it is war but can we change it without making ourselves be hit It seems like we have the ablity to change but we always seem to flange And become the doppleganger and the final destroyer destroy more and mor...

    Lex Romanorum Introduction    Lex Romanorum is a series of stories I will be writing in pseudo-Latin(It means "Law of the Romans"). It will be set in ~40 BC Rome,following a messenger in the Roman Army. It's a pseudo-historicalfiction. It'll be written realistically, but will throw out someaccuracy for plot reasons. It's gonna be written in English, withasides in Latin. One will not need to know Latin to read it. It willhelp with some of the understanding of th...

    Spam in the Middle of Nowhere    Ok, some of you know I'm the admin on the GearHead wiki. Now, we don'thave a chronic problem with spam. It's just a small part of maintence.Our problem is this: Why are there spammers on a wiki that sees tenpeople a day? Including spammers, lurkers, and myself (and the fellowadmin), we have a population of about 50, but we have little traffic(or so I estimate) off the main page. So why bother spamming if youdon't have a link to ...

    GearHead 2 .502 Released     GearHead 2 has a new version released on its Sourceforge page . Go try it. It's a blast. It adds depth to the gameplay, both ASCII and SDL.     Nevermind that I'm an admin on the wiki, it's a good game, simple to learn, hard to master. Try GH1 first, though, unless you want pure random, because GH2 isn't done yet!     Hulu.com Site Review    Hulu is a wonderful video service t...

    On Magic In Fiction    Now, I know this isn't the most controversial topic. I also know Iprobably have adressed it before, but I can't remember exactly where orwhen. I believe that all magic in real life comes from Satanic sources,not nature or God (for there will be more prophesies met before Godrestores power to His followers). I do believe, however, that infantastical works of literature, magic is a permissible inclusion. Forinstance, in Shadowrun or Lion...

    Just How Bad Is Cheating In Video Games?    Now, I'm a "pro" gamer. In so much as I'm probably in the better 25%. Ispend too much time at it, sure, but I am fairly decent. Sure I'm justbelow the Great Wall of Ownage, meaning that there are players who willdestroy me repeatedly (most Tribes players and some Tremulous playersfall into the upper category). However, I do pretty well, especially inMMO's. However, occasionally one will find the Dretch who lags so bad...

    Here's wishing a happy Mother's Day to everyone here. No Daily Feature today, I'm too busy between church and Morrowind. Funny, huh?     Anyways, happy Mother's Day! Don't eat too much like I just did!       Darn relatives always trying to kill me by feeding me.

    Don't Shoot the Fish    Now, I've got a question for ESRB (the darn games raters). Why is itthat for Uncharted: Drake's Fortune there is gratuitous bloodshed ofhuman life, but the fish cannot be killed? Why? Because you said itwould affect the rating. Is a totally realistic game M just because youcan kill anything that walks, or due to its actual content? Why is itthat anything goes so long as it's not so "insensitive", but a T gamecan have a body count of 10,0...

Do you know copy-pasting from Dreamweaver will not save tables unless you copy/paste the HTML code. I hate that.  Internet Browser Plugins Security Speed Customization/Looks Firefox 5 5 5 5 Safari 3 4 3 4 I.E. 3 1 3 1 Firefox wins! FPS Games Brains Reflexes Community Cost Halo 1 5 1 $60 Tremulous 4 5 3 Free ET:QW 3 4 5 <$20 Tremulous wins! Vector Graphics Software OS Ease Quality Cost Inkscape...

    On Desire for God    I believe that men are born with a desire for God that nothing else canfill. Granted, that's also Blaise Pascal's position, but ignore therelation between the guy my favorite programming language is namedafter and the article topic. I believe that when the world "gets usdown", it's due to this undiagnosed thirst. Yes, I do believe that Godis the answer to all our problems.     I alsobelieve that this refutes evolution nice...

    Now, I know Stardock has the blacklist feature for a reason, but seriously, when will you guys learn? If I don't blacklist you, why do you blacklist me? Do I have a tendendcy to spam comments? Do I have a tendency to be vulgar, profane, or crude? What is it about me that you really hate that actually warrants blacklisting me from your articles? Can you not stand my opinions? If so, tell me, argue with me. Heck, slander me for all I care, but blacklisting is a plain piece of cr...

    On Time               What is it?    Now, this is a mixed philosophy-religion article.  So give me someslack here. Nobody will agree with all of this. Or almost nobody.    Time is one-dimensional for us humans. In fact, we can only continueonwards, so it could be argued it's non-dimensional, merely aninfinitesmal blip on a timeline. This is how I believe we are not onlypredestined, but...

    On Raytracing        Raytracing refers to the process of using a computerto render an image, sometimes photorealistic, from an array of things.Raytracing is a very simple task, but eats up a fair deal of computerpower. It doesn't requre a terribly great computer, though, since itmerely runs lots of commands. This allows a raytracing engine to renderawesome sights on pretty much any computer. I'd recommend it for allpeople who need an image. &...