Another quick update, also conveniently Starcraft based. Back when i was active on battle.net, there were these awesome maps called Tower Defense. You built a maze trying to keep the constant wave of baddies from going to the other side of the map. Well, I was pointed to the this fantastic flash game called Desktop Tower Defense.

Same concept as the Starcraft maps, you build a maze with different types of towers that try to kill off all of the bad guys before they reach the end.  To understand how popular this game is, check out it’s news page, the stats are showing at least 2000 individual players each hour, plus over 5 billion bad guys destroyed each hour.

See what others in the blogosphere are saying, and also check this hilarious post on why you shouldn’t play this game.

Cya later,

/Nat

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So this is pretty awesome, IGN, and the general internet, has shown me the light. On May 19th Blizzard announced Starcraft 2. I suggest you go check out the above sites, just because they give great pictures of both gameplay and concept art.

Most of the units have been retooled and things look cleaner and it sounds as though choices were made to make the three races better. The issue that i am noticing is that right now the game seems to have the same interface. The game basically looks the same.  I am really hoping that they make some significant changes because right now, i dont see why people would want to spend the money. I understand that the game is not yet finalized, but seriously, would you pay $50 for  a retooled version of an old game?

Well I’m hopeful. Blizzard has done a lot right with their Warcraft series, now if we are lucky they might make up for Starcraft: Ghost.

/Nat

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I am currently taking a class called Engl 149, or Tech Writing for engineers. This class has, for the most part, been interesting. It has gone over how to properly present materials depending on audience and content. I feel that I have learned a few things, and overall had a good experience with the class.

But the one thing that really hit home was while showing my teacher a resume cover letter. My letter had a list of three websites, she said she would look at this one. No reason given, she just said she would look “at that pseudoweb one” which gave me mixed feelings. For one, I’m glad that this isn’t two years ago where this website was full of bad jokes and angry statements towards my school’s administration, but it also signals a stage which I think many of my generation are coming to, and it is biting them in the ass. (more…)

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