Author Archives: Snake

Being the master of all things that I am 😉 , I’ve done some graphics by heavily filtering/mixing the very colorful glue-swirl.jpg, seen here. It’s quite amazing how different hues totally change an image. You’re welcome to use them as wallpapers, but be warned that they lost some quality when going to the JPEG format.

The first image is a lot of mixing hues (HSL) with a textured block pattern over it. Looks really sweet, albeit a bit busy. The second image is a merged differance layer of glue-swirl and the first image. Simple, but a great effect. The final image is my favorite. It’s themed to Nine Inch Nails’ song, Downward Spiral. It’s mostly a hue mix of the second image (Biometric Distortion) with a veiny wrinkle-like texture; looks like a heap of dead/bruised flesh. Then, I started with some specific effects, the center is a luminance layer with light effects. Also on that layer were the parallel slivers, text, and the tiny little hole and fluids “spilling out of my head”. 😮

Gotta love NIN. Enjoy the wallpapers.

Starting Sunday night, Loog and I have been investigating the tricks to the MSN Messenger Protocol. Loogie came across a site called Mess with MSN Messenger and that’s pretty much all it is, everything from customizations to malicious secrets and even a list of blocked words for MSN display names. It doesn’t particularly matter that the name is blocked, though, because Heavy K’s Nick Changer can change it to anything you want. That’s right…impress your friends by logging on as “Fuck MSN Penis”. Or, confuse your friends and later fuck the hell outta them with “&#xxx;”. This mischievous string causes all sorts of problems to some users, but most notibly causes the person named &#xxx; to be unblockable.

Loogie turned himself into the unblockable superpower Sunday night. It really is a nightmare knowing that you can’t block him if needed; therefore, I was on the trail of a fix immediately. 😡 I found the needed commands to be able to remedy the problem at Heavy K’s, but no way to issue them. Then, I found two other sites that had the needed base source code and additional commands, here and here. I went about making a VB6 program just to battle this evil unblockable superpower, and the product of that can be found here. Screenage:

I’ve coded another CGI script for the top frame that pulls the three most recent reviews from the Demoboard database, which now makes posting News about new reviews unnecessary. Also, I have removed the auto-refresh from the top frame (temporarily?) and tweaked with other aspects that should improve load times for returning visitors. And…that’s it.

I scanned some of my old analog art, retouched it a little, and put it in my section of the Photo Album. There’s something for everyone in there, including a very old conceptual comic that I called “Grubo & Worm”. Enjoy here.

Jedi Knight 2 is amazing. The demo is available for download, so get it now! Or, you can read my review here if you need convincing. 😉

Just one quick review today, Shogun: Total War. Another one that’s good on the gameplay side, but lacks in style.

Also, Que has just informed me that he is the Mad Phat Playa. I think that’s newsworthy enough.