DayZ is the first game in a very long time that makes me wish I had a new Mac/PC to run it on.
It’s a concept mod for a game, but a concept that is proving so damn popular that it’s now getting more and more support. Not bad for an alfa mod.
These 2 articles were where I first heard of the game, and they really set the tone:
DayZ – Part One
DayZ – Part Two

In a nutshell, you land on a beach with some minimal kit, and you must survive. Survive fellow players roaming the land trying to kill you, survive zombies, and survive period. And when you die you lose everything and have to restart from scratch back on the beach. Now that adds pressure.

1. Whoops, a whole month gone by without any posts. My bad. Not that it matters because,
2. Whoops, the site was down for pretty much the entire past week without me or anyone else noticing. It was due to a corrupt db as this server is getting older and older and crashes more often. Upon fixing it I was greeted with the above screen…
3. Whoops, nearly 15000 spam comments in just a week or two?! To put it into context, Akismet has stopped about 114000 spam comments in the past 6 or so years that I’ve been using it. So 15000 is absurd much.

Here’s a pic I came across today with a huge list that someone compiled of worthwhile anime to watch.
I’ve seen quite a few of these and agree with most of them being included, so I’ll definitely be checking out the rest.
Feel free to add your own suggestions in the comments, I’m sure there’s a lot that could be added.

For those with a slow internet connection, the list is:
Akira, Azumanga Daioh, Baccano, Barefoot Gen, Berserk, The Big O, Black Lagoon, Claymore, Cowboy Bebop, Dennou Coil, Ergo, Proxy, Eve no Jikan, FLCL (never understood people’s fascination with this I must admit), Freedom, Gankutsuou, Genius Party + Beyond, Ghost in the Shell, The girl who leapt through time, Grave of the Fireflies, Gurren Lagann, Haibane Renmei, Hellsing Ultimate, Howl’s Moving Castle, Jin Roh, Kaiba, Katanagatari, Kemono no Souja Erin, Kemonozume, Kino’s Travels, Last Exile, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Maison Ikkoku, Memories, Millenium Actress, Mononoke, Monster, Mushi-shi, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Outlaw Star, Paprika, Paranoia Agent, Perfect Blue, The Place Promised in our Early Days, Planetes, Princess Mononoke, Read or Die, Real Drive, Samurai Champloo, Serial Experiments Lain, Shigurui, Spirited Away, Steamboy, Summer Wars, Tatami Galaxy, Tekkon Kinkreet, Texhnolyze, Tokyo Godfathers, Vampire Hunter D & Bloodlust, Welcome to the N.H.K., Wings of the Honneamise, Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, 5 Centimeters per Second.

Check out Screenshots of Despair, a new site with unintentionally funny screenshots, or as they put it “cataloguing online messages that evoke feelings of despair”.

“Thank you for playing. The servers supporting Light Cycle Multiplayer are no longer in service. This update removes the multiplayer option and optimizes the single player experience. We apologize for the inconvenience. The fight for the ultimate GRID Game champion continues. Good luck program.”

Oh the irony, thank you Disney for ditching all support for this game and turning it from multi player online into single player offline. And that for a game about a virtual world on a server that’s cut off from the web (until the very end of the film anyway).

Some nice synchronicity going on there.

Cool article by Josh Nimoy who worked on creating software for generating special effects in Tron: Legacy.

I take representing digital culture in film very seriously in lieu of having grown up in a world of very badly researched user interface greeble.

Nice read to see how much thought and attention to detail went into creating even the smallest effects.
I hope the sequel is coming along according to plan.

Probably not known by many until you discover all the projects this creative powerhouse was involved in,
Jean Giraud a.k.a. Moebius has passed away last weekend at the age of 73.