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- "Sounds like a tugboat to me."
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Michael Angelis (UK)
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The Fogman is the sixth episode of the sixth season.
Misty Valley lies along a branch line, and is often very misty. This is why Cyril, a friendly fogman who lives in Misty Valley, earns his keep by putting detonators on the rails to warn the engines of fog and landslides. Thomas enjoys seeing Cyril, and puffing over the blasting caps due to that they make his axles tingle. But one evening, the Fat Controller visits the engines to tell them that he has acquired an electric foghorn. He also says that Cyril won't be needed anymore, and will be given a much needed rest. Thomas is very disappointed to hear this. The foghorn is put on the hillside in Misty Valley.
Ironically, the vibrations from the foghorn create a landslide, which sweeps onto the track and destroys the horn. Thomas comes along, and as the horn isn't working, Thomas has no idea about the landslide and derails. Then, Toby and Henrietta come along. There is no way of stopping them, until Cyril comes to the rescue. He puts down a cap to warn them, just in the nick of time. Once the mess is cleared up, Cyril is reinstated as Misty Valley's fogman.
- Thomas
- Gordon
- James
- Percy
- Toby
- Sir Topham Hatt
- Cyril the Fogman
- Annie and Clarabel (do not speak)
- Henrietta (does not speak)
- Henry (cameo)
- Terence (cameo)
- Cranky (cameo)
- Mirrored stock footage from James and the Trouble with Trees is used.
- The sound used for the foghorn is the same as Derek's horn sound.
- In the close-up of Percy at Misty Valley, the tracks in the background lead to the bushes. In the same shot, a wire can be seen in Percy's right-front window. He also is not pulling any trucks in the surrounding shots.
- At the beginning of the episode, Thomas' driver has blond hair; after the crash, he has brown hair.
- When Thomas runs over the detonator, Annie is facing the wrong way.
- Thomas' eyes are wonky after he crashes into the rubble, and when he asks the Fat Controller what Cyril will do.
- Alec Baldwin doesn't say "The" at the beginning of the line "The foghorn had been so loud..."
- In the UK narration, James has Gordon's voice when he says "Too loud!"
- In the US narration, when James and Gordon say "Too loud!" and "Sounds like a tugboat to me." Alec Baldwin uses his normal voice for both lines.
In Other Languages
|The Fogman
|Fog Horn
|Y Niwl
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1991 GMC Syclone pickup. Photo courtesy GM Media Archives.
Meteorologists are predicting a cooler-than-average summer for the Northeast, but there's a 100 percent chance of Syclones and Typhoons at this year's August Carlisle Truck Nationals. GMC's limited-production hot-rod pickup and SUV will take center stage in Building Y (and the adjacent field) as the Syclone and Typhoon (SyTy, for short) community honors these high-output haulers.
Based upon a concept shown at the 1989 North American International Auto Show, the GMC Syclone (deliberately misspelled, as Mercury retained the rights to the Cyclone name) debuted for the 1991 model year, though few new-car shoppers knew what to make of it. Equipped with all-wheel drive that sent 65 percent of the torque to the rear wheels, the Syclone's reduced ride height and aerodynamic body cladding eliminated any off-road usage. Though it wore a conventional pickup bed, the Syclone wasn't rated for towing and could only haul a maximum load of 500 pounds, excluding passengers. But it could still nevertheless haul.
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Marlboro Syclone, one of 10 built. Photo by Jeff Koch.
Records show that 2,995 Syclones were built for 1991, all of them painted black with a black interior. Plans were made to offer the truck in other colors for the 1992 model year, but slow sales forced GM to change its mind after only a handful of 1992 models were constructed. As a pickup, the Syclone fell too short on utility for most buyers, and as a sports car, it looked a bit too much like a conventional GMC Sonoma pickup. Its $25,970 base price (more than double that of any other Sonoma model) didn't win it many fans, either, even when Car and Driver illustrated the $96,210 cost savings versus the Ferrari.
Marlboro Syclones also featured a T-top roof. Photo by Jeff Koch.
Introduced for the 1992 model year, the GMC Typhoon applied the same hot rod utility vehicle concept to the GMC Jimmy SUV, and like the Syclone, was built for GMC by Production Automotive Services in Troy, Michigan. Where the Syclone was Spartan, the Typhoon was luxurious, offering amenities like a broad choice of colors (including shades like Bright Teal and Raspberry Metallic), leather upholstery and a premium audio system. Like the Syclone, the Typhoon's reduced ride height (even with its self-leveling rear air suspension, a feature not found on the pickup) and body cladding made it a poor choice for any kind of off-roading, even with the same all-wheel-drive system employed by its pickup cousin. Also like the Syclone, the Typhoon was not rated for towing, but it could haul four adults in reasonable comfort at velocities best described as "astonishing for an SUV," particularly in 1992.
1992 GMC Typhoon. Photo courtesy GM Media Archives.
Power for the Typhoon came from the exact same turbocharged and intercooled Vortec V-6 used in the Syclone, and once again, a four-speed automatic was the sole transmission choice. Weighing in at 3,800 pounds, the Typhoon was a bit slower than the pickup, with most sources reporting 0-60 MPH times above six seconds. Once at speed, however, its ability to gain momentum was truly impressive, and far beyond the reach of any other SUV on the market at the time.
Perhaps it was the Typhoon's passenger and cargo hauling capability that won it fans, but GMC produced 4,697 Typhoons in the two years the uber-SUV was on the market. Its starting price of $29,470 was still high, but perhaps the improved functionality made this more justifiable in the minds of shoppers; in any case, it wasn't double the price of a GMC Jimmy (particularly a well-equipped one), which likely tore down a psychological barrier for prospective buyers.
Photo courtesy GM Media Archives.
GMC's experiment with ultra-high-performance pickups and SUVs ended following the 1993 model year, but Syclones and Typhoons still enjoy a loyal following and an active support network. The Carlisle Truck Nationals will feature both stock and "full custom" examples of both, and it's likely the display will include at least one (of 10 built) Marlboro Syclones, the grand prize in a 1992 contest sponsored by the cigarette manufacturer. In addition to the familiar red and white livery, the Larry Shinoda-designed Marlboro Syclones included leather Recaro seats with five-point harnesses; a Momo steering wheel; a targa roof and sliding rear window; a Sony audio system; custom wheels and high-performance Goodyear tires; a reduced ride height; a Borla exhaust and a retuned ECU for added performance.
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The End of Ivan and Andy
Andy Murray and Ivan Lendl are splitting up. If you follow tennis closely, chances are you're already deep in the grief cycle; if you're only a casual fan, I'm sorry to have to type words that will knock the bottom out of your day. Either way, though, it's happening. The current world no. 6, Great Britain's lone champion of the gentlemen's division at Wimbledon since Stanley Baldwin was prime minister, and his coach, the taciturn eight-time major winner from the '80s and early '90s, announced their breakup on Murray's blog this morning. The language is amicable, with a lot of asides about eternal gratitude and fantastic experiences and lessons learned. Lendl says he will "always be in Andy's corner," which is probably true, except that literally he will not be in Andy's corner anymore.
Murray and Lendl have been working together only since 2012. It's strange to remember that, like discovering that peanut butter and jelly were first combined 18 months ago. Their two-year partnership seems older partly because it's been, by far, the most successful phase of Murray's career — a Wimbledon final in 2012, Olympic gold a few weeks later, then a U.S. Open title, and the 2013 Wimbledon crown. But it also seems older because Murray and Lendl made such a classic and natural duo. Dizzy Gillespie used to say that Charlie Parker was "the other half of my heartbeat." It was like that, if you pretend that Lendl has a heartbeat.
Lendl understood Murray, the thinking goes, because early in his career he'd shared the younger player's tendency to die just short of the finish line. (Murray and Lendl are the only two players in the Open Era to lose their first four Grand Slam finals.) Murray was a brilliantly talented player, but psychologically he was an unstable reactor core. Lendl's gloom-shrouded presence in the player's box — you often got the feeling that only a desire not to be seen as demonstrative kept him from unfurling giant bat's wings — seemed to give Murray a kind of psychic anchor that kept him stable in big matches. If you are depressive and skittish, pick a best friend who is actually made out of lead.
I don't know why they're splitting. You can read a lot into the statement on both sides. Lendl has exhibitions to play and academies to set up; Murray has had a down-ish several months, though that's partly due to injury. You could see why they'd both want a change. All I know is that in an era of phenomenal entourages — think of Mirka texting on match point in Federer's box, Uncle Toni in his Iberostar hat in Nadal's, Jelena double-fist-pumping in Djokovic's — we just lost one of the seminal reaction shots in tennis.
It's a hard world, you guys. You can't count on player-coach relationships to cheer you up. The only thing you can count on is yourself.
Wait, could that be what Murray and Lendl are trying to tell us here? Could … could Ivan Lendl now be coaching us all?
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Soup dumplings
Ok second question about upcoming first trip to NYC in August.
From what Ive been reading soup dumplings are a must try. Im near Chicago so they must have them somewhere but in any case---
have penciled in Joe's Shanghai but--there must be other places that have equally as good ones? And if I;m reading a menu that says dumplings, are those soup dumplings, or are they more like pot stickers or gyoza?
Check the link below, there are a few places that are equally good as Joe's Shanghai
re: jza1218
I think you are confused. Soup dumplings are a shanghai thing, pork or pork and crab dumplings that have hot broth in them...
re: prunefeet
Oh, I know what they are. I'm Chinese and have them at home all the time.
Just thought that Stanton Social's variation on it was worth trying as well.
re: jza1218
Oh really? So they are really soup dumplings?? That sounds really interesting. Very jealous that you have soup dumplings at hoem all the time!!! Lucky!!
re: jza1218
Where do you get the soup dumplings? If you get them in the market, what's the brand name, etc? My husband loves soup dumplings! It's a little harder for us to get them because we live in the suburbs.
re: wench31
My mom makes em :)
re: jza1218
Wow, you are lucky! Are they hard to make? I imagine that they must be very time-consuming. I tried once w/a recipe that called for putting cubes of cold aspic in the dumpling to make the soup. They kept melting and making a mess!
re: chowmeow
No clue. I don't bother her when she's making them. She HATES that :p
I just assume that it all comes natural after making it for a while
re: julesj66
I personally prefer Joe's Shanghai to New Green Bo. Joe's soup dumpllings have thinner skins and less "doughy" texture, and the juice tastes more fresh. The thicker skin of New Green Bo's soup dumplings, particularly at the top (where the skin folded together), is not to my liking.
That said, there are plenty of supporters for New Green Bo in the Manhattan board, so you will see people responding to this and disagree ^_^"
Unfortunately, Chinese food in NYC is really not too exciting. You get much better Chinese food in West Coast or up north in Toronto. Sad but true.
re: kobetobiko
You should check out Flushing's chinatown. I think you might find some of it more exciting!
re: prunefeet
Ditto to Flushing's Chinatown!
re: mnairne
The Shanghainese restaurant on Bayard at the corner of Mulberry has wonderful soup dumplings.
re: mnairne
i second that... shanghai cafe is great
re: jza1218
Thanks but because this will be a short trip (3 1/2 days), I don't think we will get out of Manhattan. Unfortunately I don't even think we will get to see much on the UE or UW Sides...
On a Joe's tiny sidenote: any real difference between the Joes Shanghai and Joes Ginger?? They seem near each other and similar??
re: aviva1
I could be wrong, but I think Joe's Ginger simply took the name so that they could attract business from people THINKING that they were affiliated with Joe's Shanghai.
re: jza1218
You are wrong. Same owner for both. Joe's Ginger makes sense because of the crowds at the original location.
HELLO! *wink* Joe's Ginger & Joe's Shanghai is owned by the same folks! This is in NYC's Chinatown aka Manhattan.
I've been told the one in Flushing Queens is good - but I prefer the one on Pell St in The City. I think they opened Joes Ginger cos Joe's Shanghai is often PACKED to the gills! Down the street at JG you can also get the soup dumplings (hands down the best!) - again cos they're the same folks so the recipe etc is the same.
Service kinda sucks - but the dumplings are awesome!
Caveat - the soup inside the dumplings is VERY hot - but don't let them cool off 1st cos they get sticky and hard to handle without breaking the delicate dough-skin.
re: savina
It wouldn't make sense to serve on a dim sum cart as part of the allure is that the soup is boiling inside the dumpling and the only way to get it is have them freshly steamed.
re: aimeezing1
I first heard of soup dumplings from a friend who had them as part of a dim sum meal in Hong Kong. She's coming to town this weekend, and I thought she might want to replicate that experience. Maybe they do it differently there.
re: savina
Hi savina, not to sound too negative, but the soup dumplings in Hong Kong are FARRRR superior to the ones here. In fact I would consider soup dumplings in Hong Kong probably the best in Asia (even better than the ones in Shanghai IMO). Therefore I would not recommend bringing your friend from Hong Kong to try out the soup dumplings. Joe's shanghai does do it similar to the ones Hong Kong, it is just not as good. I think she may feel disappointed.
re: thievery
I've never had soup dumplings and all this talk has gotten me very interested!
Now for the stupid question...do the dumplings come with a bowl of soup or are they ordered à la carte (with soup inside the dumplings)?
re: TipsyMcStagger
They are a shanghai specialty - steamed dumplings filled with boiling soup and, at Joe's Shanghai, either pork or a mix of pork and crabmeat (don't actually know anyone who eats the crabmeat version). They come to the table in a steaming basket - and are totally addictive. I went recently with 10 people and we ordered 10 orders (80 dumplings) and had to get some more.
re: aimeezing1
Thanks for the info! Funny thing is, I'm in Shanghai quite often and have not seen soup dumplings. Obviously, I'm not looking in the right places!
I'll go over the the Asia board and see if I can get some recommendations on where to go near the PVG Hilton.
re: aimeezing1
I LOVE the pork and crab version!
re: aimeezing1
I'm with you, aimeezing1. To me, the crab is subtraction by addition. Plain pork all the way.
re: TipsyMcStagger
Hi TIpsyMcStagger,
You can visit Joe's Shanghai website as they have a good description and pictures of what soup dumplings are:
I just ate at Joe's Shanghai at 56th street tonight. After an unfortunate incident at Grand Schizuan in Hell's Kitchen, I have not been able to return. I have been missing their spicey fresh chicken dishes, the green parrot side spinach, and of course, their soup dumplings! IMO, the soup dumplings at Joe's were excellent...bigger in size than GS and the pork filling was more solid....GS's filling sometimes is too mushy. The JS downside on 56th street are the very high prices and subpar quality on everything. On a budget, we just ordered a "spicy" chicken entree. Not at all spicy and overcooked chicken. Next time, we'll order 2 soup dumplings!
The real question is: where can I find legit, Taiwanese style Xiao Long Bao?
I had such delicous xaio long bao in taiwan. Man Joe's shanghai is a joke compared to this. The meat should be more like an emulsion in the "soup". And to call it a dumpling is crazy!
Where is this good stuff in manhattan?! It must be somewhere!
re: aviva1
Actually, oddly enough, one often doesn't. Often, it's a great thing just to go for a couple of steamer baskets of soup buns and a couple of bottles of Chinese beer... I have had some of their other things, but they have never been as memorably delicious as the food I love best at Grand Sichuan (i think they put something addictive in the au zhou chicken...). Try walking around to see what other diners eat. That sometimes produces good results.
re: linengirl
Second linengirl - Joe's is really only good for the soup dumplings...if you're looking for more variety/a bigger meal, though, I'd try New Green Bo. I prefer their soup dumplings, and they have a fairly reliable menu too.
re: aviva1
Oh yeah, I think Joe's other dishes are very good. I love their "kung pao chicken" and "sauteed dried string beans" if you are a noodle person, their Shanghai noodles are very good too. One order of dumplings can be considered an appetizer for 2 or 3.
I normally go with my friend and we share an order of dumplings then get 2 other dishes...we leave with a little doggie bag. I agree w/ an above poster that the Flushing branch is tastier but the Pell one is still good, imo.
re: aviva1
I recently had the Crispy Yellow Fish Fingers with Dry Seaweed, a side order of sauteed baby bok choy and another of sauteed pea shoots to share with another person (as well as soup dumplings!) and thought it was very tasty. The fish was very fresh and well prepared...and the portion enormous.
re: fosh
Oh man ... I'm disappointed no one has responded to you about Taiwanese-style soup dumplings yet, fosh. I don't know that they're necessarily a different style than the Shanghai-style (in fact, I have no idea), but I went to high school in Taipei and there was a great place next to our apartment that I used to frequent ... man, oh man, do I miss that place. Would love to find some that replicated that taste. I seem to remember the skin being more delicate and the broth less aggressively flavored.
For something a bit unusual - You should try out Annisa (In the W Vill) where they have fois gras stuffed soup dumplings. It's pricier and not as stuffed with broth as the Joe Shanghai variety, but they are quite tasty. Then again, fois gras on a door knob would be tasty as well.


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I switched to synth in my tranny when new. I use redline specifically made for Chrysler tranny's. I have had no problems for 46,000+ miles. The trans is smooth as well during shifting. No complaints and all is well. I own a Durango 2000 4.7l. The truck is fully synthed all the way to the diff's. Smooth performance and no major issue's.
I have found the the newer fluid types (synthetic and synthetic blends), give much better shift characteristics, and are easier on the transmission and drive train, when it's cold due to their more constant viscosity re. temp. (I have Mobil 1 in a 90 Maxima and Valvoline MaxLife in a Mystique).
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Aside from Honda and older Fords, the new Infinity Q45 and Hyundai's use unique fluids.
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I also have a Merc. Mystique that has this in the tranny, no filter on that one though. Redline markets a different ATF for Fords Mercon and one for the Dexron goup and Chrysler as well.
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Amsoil ATF, almost universally acceptable for Dexron III and Mercon V and Chrysler ATF+3
I have used it for years on multiple cars and manufactuirers.
Gear oil I agree about RedLine. However, watch the GL-ratings a GL-5 cannot normally be used where a GL-4 is recommended.MT-90 is a GL-4 as is MTL.
I suspect that ATF +4 is at least partially synthetic. This is one of the differences between Mercon and Mercon V. The only way to meet the newer fluid spces is with synthetics.
re: Amsoil ATF
I have no idea how one ATF can meet Dexron/Mercon and Chrysler specs. The friction characteristics for the two types of fluid are different, which is why there are different fluids. Nobody else claims that their ATF can be used in both applications. I suspect Amsoil is fine in Dexron applications, but wouldn't use it in a Chrysler trans.
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Aaaaaand I'm done.
It's 11:30 pm here, so it'll be too late to do any more work on this thing by the time I wake up (that, and I have a day job).
The final version of the game can be played at:
Disclaimer: The above cartoon does not actually appear in the game. Also, I'm kind of a bad person for posting it.
Dinner and progress.
Just got back from dinner.
I'm not sure it's really in the LD spirit to do photos of restaurant dinners, but this was with my grandparents so hopefully that's enough of an excuse Pictured above is a bamboo clam (AKA razor clam) steamed with garlic soy sauce and glass noodles. There was more food, but I didn't have the time to shoot the other stuff.
That, and I have a near-final prototype!
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It's probably a good sign that I got distracted into playing a whole round when I should have been finishing this post.
I just need to put in the audio and do some minor tweaks to the visuals, and I should be done. The audio files are already done (thanks to the iOS port of sfxr, I did them on the way to dinner) and ready for use.
I might add difficulty levels if I have time.
Balancing done!
I think the gene-expression system is more or less where I want it now.
I added some code to favour enemies with more dangerous bullet patterns. Also, the enemies now spawn with tails, rather than having to evolve them, thus changing their default movement pattern.
Everything from here on out is gravy: explosions, a better title screen, sound effects, and so on. I might also add in the "mutant" feature which I've been wanting to put in for awhile.
But first, I need to improve the intermission screen. I'm hoping to put in something which will show which aliens the player killed and which survived.
Done for the day, too!
Whew, I managed to finish all the things I wanted to do today!
Even the genetic system.
Hurrah for biodiversity!
Only thing is, dynamics-wise I'm not quite feeling it right now. Around stage 10 or 11 it gets frantic and enjoyable, but the more tactical aspects of (mis)guiding the aliens' evolution aren't really coming through.
For tomorrow, I'll be mulling over some possible gameplay changes:
(1) Adjust the mutation rate. Currently each new alien will always be based on a genome from the survivors of the previous generation, with one of its 34 genes "flipped" (mutated). I might want to introduce the possibility of a double mutation, or no mutation (to counterbalance).
(2) Adjust the spawn pattern. The aliens currently have a tendency to spawn in vertical columns. This makes them sitting ducks for the player's straight-firing vulcan. To make matters worse, the last alien in the column often gets to escape regardless of the merits or demerits of its genome, simply because its siblings happened to go first and act as bullet absorbers.
(3) Implement recombinant DNA. I really don't want to do this because it's a pain in the behind, but it might help. In particular, if the most successful alien in each generation became the "king" or "queen" and bred with all the other aliens, it might yield interesting results. Currently all survivors have an equal chance to pass their DNA on, resulting in a very diverse but somewhat characterless environment.
(4) Possibly in combination with (3), give advantages to specific aliens in passing their DNA on. I'm thinking along these lines:
– Aliens who manage to shoot the player down get a chance to pass their DNA on, regardless of whether they end up dying. (This will be horribly tough to track. Currently the bullets don't have their shooter's name on them.)
– When an alien survives, its chance to reproduce is directly tied to the number of bullets it managed to shoot (okay, that sounds REALLY wrong) during the level.
Well, time to go sleep (it's 11:30 here). Will continue tomorrow.
Status report 2
Finally, gameplay! I finished the gene-expression system.
I tweaked the code to randomize the basic genome for the above screenshot, so you can see what it looks like with an enemy that isn't the default, un-evolved grunt.
Currently it seems to me that there are a lot of evolutionary dead-ends which kind of make the enemies a bit gimped, like if they get all the defensive genes and none of the offensive ones. But that's kind of a gameplay feature, seeing as the player is well served to try and cull the more dangerous enemies, thus forcing them down an undesirable path and prolonging the game.
That, and if one of those nigh-indestructible enemies suddenly develops a dangerous mutation like "attack cooldown decreased by 30%" or "attack type changed to shotgun" (both real), the player is in a bit of a pickle…
Next up: do the wave/level system.
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As I'm in a different time zone, these reports may be coming in at odd times.
I just came back from doing a bit of running – partly to clear my head, mostly because I need to lose weight.
So my design, as seen in the previous post, is a Flash-based bullet-hell shmup. Each wave or level will be very short (30-50 enemies?). After each wave, the surviving aliens (those who managed to flee the player's wrath!) will reproduce; their genes will be recombined (plus a couple of mutations) and form the basis for the next wave of enemies.
The first thing I did was to sequence the genetic code of the aliens, to figure out how their genes translated into movement patterns, stats, visuals and so on. Currently I'm looking at a 34-bit genetic code which describes everything about each alien creature. I also finished some of the basic shmup building blocks – player, player shots, the level manager, and so on. My next step (the hardest part) is to code the gene expression – basically how each alien object takes its genetic code and turns it into an alien with the specified properties.
I'm hoping to finish the gene expression, the evolution mechanic and the level structure by tonight (that means I have about 4 hours left to do that), then spend tomorrow on polishing. No screenshot until I'm done with gene expression at least.
Spritework done for now
As for the theme…
Doesn't evolution imply that the evolving critter has to reproduce and presumably die, and the changes only appear in its offspring?
If the critter doesn't die and just gets stronger, it seems like that's growth rather than evolution.
…Maybe that's why this theme is not popular
I may regret this…
…seeing as I've been a bit unwell over the past week, and am a bit busy over the compo period…
…but I'll give it a shot anyway.
Tools to use: Flixel (my dev skills are rusty so the easier the better)
Finally got around to uploading source code.
Now that I think about it, I actually messed around with the source after the compo – the aliens were commented out in preparation for improvements to the strategy side of the gameplay. It shouldn't be too hard to uncomment the relevant lines.
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Bah, out of time – had to submit a crappy unbalanced version.
In the end I turned it into a gratuitous battle in space – basically RTS meets 4X. Managed to squeeze it in just in time – the ZIP was up just a minute before the deadline, and the screenshots/description came after.
I might have added too many alien ships…
It might look as though the graphics took up a lot of time, but really those were easy. The tough bit was the ship AI, UI and fine details – things like how the ships bank when they turn. I tend to get hung up on crap like that.
– It controls almost exactly like your standard 3D RTS – mousewheel to zoom, mouse on screen borders to pan, click, drag or double-click to select, right-click to move or attack.
– Spacebar pauses; you can issue orders while paused.
– To colonize planets, you need to build a colony ship, move it to the little circle above the target planet, and then click the colonize button (lower left). The button only appears when you have only the colony ship, and nothing else, selected. It takes awhile to colonize the planet.
– You can build ships from planets, provided you have enough money. The other 3 resources, sadly, do nothing – I forgot to put special-resource costs in the ship data. Sorry, no build queue.
– The aliens should show up before too long, or you can go look for them if you are so inclined.
– Yes, the framerate is awful in big battles. Didn't have time to optimize it, plus I added too many missiles, explosions and other stuff.
– There is no end. Close the window when you're done.
– Edit: Lol, I tested it and found a couple of major bugs. One, the alien "attack" results in the aliens doing a happy dance (working as intended!). Two, under certain circumstances you can see the aliens even when they're very far away. But, for the most part, it works (apart from the framerate issues).
I have no time and I must scream.
Since there's no more time and I just managed to get combat working, I shall attempt to turn the game into the mother of all gratuitous battles in space and go for the theme "Unwinnable War" as a bonus.
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Surrounded by lush, tropical vegetation and tall pine trees sits this gulf front complex located off of East Gulf Drive. Coquina Beach offers a heated swimming pool, tennis court, BBQ grills, and private pathway leading directly to the beach.
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Autonomy ex-moneyman: 'Visionary' Léo would have made HP merger work
Autonomy - is it a technology someone wants today?
Among all legal and accounting controversies, what about Autonomy software technology? Is there any sales success from HP? User base growth? Innovations? Register could better report on that too.
Cheer up, Nokia fans. It can start making mobes again in 18 months
Nokia Reborn
Blend an iphone-sized touch-screen display with Nokia E-series ergonomic QWERTY keyboard. Whoever will do it, will rewrite the smart-phone devices history again. A bit longer device in one piece, yet so much more productive for business people. Longer amps for battery too. So anti-Jobsian thing, that perhaps only Finns can figure it out and pull it off again.
Google adds 'data protection' WARNING to Euro search results
Class action for evading the court decision?
Suppose you have a nasty divorce process in the family with small kids, where one of the parties foolishly used local news site to accuse the other party for crimes that never happened. Divorce ends as usual with split families and divided property, the only common responsibility both parties share are kids. The local news site does not run a global search engine. After 5 years this private family case is forgotten but in Google. Kids are in their teens and are using Google for everything. Imagine a traumatic experience of kids when searching for their parent names, when top ranked results of some local news sites, always high on Google page rank, depict both parents as criminals, with anonymous comments that ruin both parents reputation forever indexed. Think this evil could not happen to your family or kids? Think again!
Oracle vs Google redux: Appeals court says APIs CAN TOO be copyrighted
Copyrights protection for real code vs patents of trivial ideas - what is more evil?
Focus on bashing the copyright protection ruling by the court is unprofessional and a communist ideology. Books, artworks and software code are best protected by copyrights to prevent stealing without compensating authors for months and years of their work. It's also unethical propoganda Russian style, kind of 'we would take what others own en masse'. In contrast, all those coments about software copyrights as evil principle are purely delusional about the true evil - software patents based only on trivial ideas and no copyrighted code substantiating those patent claims. The truly difficult part of the software invention is a working code vs paperwork ideas that multibillion companies lawyers can patent in droves. Google's position that software patents matter, not real code, is orders of magnitudes more evil that most of comentators realize. A time when Google will become a real patent troll and extorter of money for their thousands of patented 'ideas' will come sooner than most of us think. In fact, I believe they will try to kill both open source and copyrights with their patents, if their ads revenue one day will start diminishing. That's inevitable logic for a publicly traded giant company. I see no other reason to spend billions on buying patent-rich companies. It's insurance policy, their pension plan when their company starts getting into serious financial troubles.
Nokia decrypts browser traffic, assures public not to worry
Caveat Emptor
European Union flag-ship technology company just follows EU directives for spying on its citizens, in my opinion. You know, a lot of talking about protection of privacy, while actually doing the opposite. They should better keep silent about privacy when caught red-handed.
New lightest-ever material: Ideal power for electric car
Germans will save us?
If that is true, we are saved and free from dirty oil! Sounds too good to be true.
Kenyan startup claims Google 'scalped' its data after staging a STING
Business directories are killed by Google everywhere in similar manner
Blame yourself. Nearly all business directories did open their databases for Goggle trawlers, to get more traffic from Google to their web sites. Now it's payback time - Google knows exactly who their customers are - those with paid listings, and it seems GoogleKong aims for killing, this time the whole compeeting industry sector. Same practice in other countries as far as I know: Germany, France, UK. Bye, bye old Yellow Pages!
Facebook 'HipHop VM' juices PHP speed pill
True compiler?
If the tool is only 1.6x faster at executing compiled byte code, it is just another interpreting language concept like Java, not a true compiler for transforming code to C++. By replacing all object oriented programming in their PHP source code with simple plain old function calls, they would get about the same 1.6x performance increase.
Cash-bloated startup takes on data protection giants
Cloud backup not for everyone
It is all about trust and security. Enterprise customers with a lot to loose probably would prefer not to share their data on the cloud. Big enterprises are touting cloud to small and mid-size businesses, but always are creating and running their own cloud. In fact, some of them are looking not for cloud customers, but for customers of their cloud customers. So better beware merchants. Safety of information, including backup of your data, can only be guaranteed by fully owning of all backups of that data and controlling physical access to backup media. Don't be fooled by illusions that somebody will do better than you. Most of the time probably outsourced backup will not harm the business. In emergency nobody knows what business priorities your backup provider will honor first.
NoSQL hopeful cozies up to Hadoop data-muncher
For a true scalability you need to return to basics
NoSQL software still does not have a truly scalable high performance code base. A lot of Java, Erlang etc., but for both scalability and speed you need to use C/C++ platform. It is a major software engineering effort required to develop a stable, fast and scalable database platform in C. Building a Lego house where bricks are manufactured by different vendors seldom works.
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Updated: 12/13/2012 - Officials say the home near the Yeatsville community of Beaufort County is a total loss.
Updated: 12/13/2012 - Officials say the home near the Yeatsville community of Beaufort County is a total loss.
Updated: 12/12/2012 - The Shop-N-Go at the intersection of Highway 171 and Market Street Extension outside of Washington was robbed around 9:15 p.m.
Posted: 12/12/2012 - The search continues for a break-in suspect today, while his alleged partner in crime is behind bars.
Updated: 12/11/2012 - Some people in Wade's Point in Beaufort County say they're dealing with an eyesore caused by Hurricane Irene in the fall of 2011, and the county needs to move the home quickly.
Updated: 12/12/2012 - An annual pilgrimage for a Washington church had drivers and the highway patrol taking extra precautions Tuesday night.
Posted: 12/07/2012 - Sarah Waller of Washington was originally charged with simple assault and resisting arrest Monday evening.
Posted: 12/07/2012 - A Beaufort County man is the winner of the North Carolina education Lottery's Cash 5 drawing.
Posted: 12/06/2012 - A storage building just behind a Beaufort County home burned to the ground Thursday afternoon.
Updated: 12/05/2012 - It happened at the intersection of Hackney Avenue and Fowle Drive shortly after 8:30 a.m.
Updated: 12/05/2012 - State alcohol agents have charged a man for making moonshine.
Updated: 12/04/2012 - Sergeant Daniel Dejong of Beaufort County has been named Marine of the Year for the United States Marine Corps 3rd Division.
Updated: 12/03/2012 - An avid hiker from Beaufort County who had to be rescued from the Appalachian Trial November second because of snowdrifts up to 5 feet high left by Superstorm Sandy, has now completed the entire trail.
Updated: 12/02/2012 - The Washington Golden Corral will be closing its doors for the next few days to a week, according to the store owner.
Updated: 11/30/2012 - Saturday is World Aids Day, and a Greenville church was already getting involved Friday night with an interfaith service.
Updated: 11/30/2012 - The Highway Patrol responded to a car that went off the road and reportedly flipped on Highway 33 in Pitt County about 7:30 p.m. Friday.
Posted: 11/30/2012 - State troopers say Alison Fields was driving a van when she crossed the center line after coming out of a curve and hit a fertilizer spreader truck.
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Updated: 11/29/2012 - Warning: a local hospital is dealing with an information security breach for some of their patients.
Updated: 11/29/2012 - Crews in Beaufort County responded to a camper fire late Wednesday night.
Updated: 11/28/2012 - A bear that spent much of the day up a tree in Washington has come down and ran off into the woods.
Updated: 11/27/2012 - Less food is being provided to families in Beaufort county as demand has increased about 60 percent since last year.
Posted: 11/27/2012 - Deputies in Beaufort County said they arrested 22-year-old Austin Taylor earlier this month for thefts from August of this year.
Posted: 11/26/2012 - Two people from Maryland have been arrested here in the east and charged with trafficking opium.
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Updated: 11/26/2012 - The largest hospital system in Eastern Carolina reported a $112 million profit in fiscal 2012, compared to $90 million last year.


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With Arizona State football coach Dirk Koetter on hand to present the trophy, it was only fitting that Chaparral High standout Kyle Williams was the recipient.
The ASU-bound tailback topped Westwood quarterback Brice Wilkins, 1,900-yard rusher Marcus Richmond of Dobson, Phoenix North Canyon linebacker/tight end Anthony Llanos and Phoenix North fullback/linebacker Cody Dowd to win the Ed Doherty Award Friday at the Arizona Country Club in Scottsdale.
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Williams ran for 1,089 yards and 19 touchdowns, hauled in 30 receptions for 525 yards and six scores and returned 24 punts and kicks for 670 yards and five touchdowns for the 11-2 Firebirds in 2005.
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In this powerful book, Keith B. Richburg takes the reader on an extraordinary journey that sweeps from Somalia to Rwanda to Zaire and finally to South Africa. He shows how he came to terms with the divide within himself: between his African racial heritage and his American cultural identity. (Continent of focus: Africa) Read more about Eclectic Book Club: Out of America
Set in Kerala, India, in 1969, The God Of Small Things is the story of seven-year-old twins Rahel and Estha, born of a wealthy family and literally joined at the soul. Rahel and Estha are cared for by a host of compelling characters: their beautiful mother, Ammu, who has left a violent husband; their Marxist uncle, Chacko, still pining for his English wife and daughter who left him; their prickly grandaunt, Baby Kochamma, pickling in her virginity; and the volatile Veluth, a member of the Untouchable caste. When Chacko's ex-wife, Margaret, and lovely daughter, Sophie, unexpectedly return, the household is thrown into disarray. Tragedy strikes in the form of an accident (that may not have been accidental) and a terrifying murder. (Country of focus: India) Read more about Eclectic Book Club: God of Small Things
The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. It is a rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the noble, ridiculous, beautiful, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. (Country of focus: Columbia) Read more about Eclectic Book Club: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Ria lived on Tara Road in Dublin with her dashing husband, Danny, and their two children. She fully believed she was happily married, right up until the day Danny told her he was leaving her to be with his young, pregnant girlfriend. By a chance phone call, Ria meets Marilyn, a woman from New England unable to come to terms with her only son's death and now separated from her husband. The two women exchange houses for the summer with extraordinary consequences, each learning that the other has a deep secret that can never be revealed. (Country of focus: Ireland) Read more about Eclectic Book Club: Tara Road
Guy Montag is a book-burning fireman undergoing a crisis of faith. His wife spends all day with her television "family," imploring Montag to work harder so that they can afford a fourth TV wall. Their dull, empty life sharply contrasts with that of his next-door neighbor Clarisse, a young girl thrilled by the ideas in books, and more interested in what she can see in the world around her than in the mindless chatter of the tube. When Clarisse disappears mysteriously, Montag is moved to make some changes, and starts hiding books in his home. Eventually, his wife turns him in, and he must answer the call to burn his secret cache of books. After fleeing to avoid arrest, Montag winds up joining an outlaw band of scholars who keep the contents of books in their heads, waiting for the time society will once again need the wisdom of literature. Read more about Eclectic Book Club: Fahrenheit 451
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Updike's 17th novel opens in 1910, just as Theodore Wilmot's father, a Presbyterian minister, suddenly loses his faith. His loss is visceral, and no amount of intellectualizing can deter him from his realization that he must leave the pulpit if he is to remain true to himself. Eighty years later, Theodore's grandson, a lost soul in the post-Vietnam War era who has found strange comfort in a radical religious cult, experiences his own catharsis, as the flames literally rage around him. In the intervening years, we follow the lives of Theodore himself, a good man who has no outward faith and little ambition, and his daughter, Esther, who becomes a modern-day sort of goddess--a movie star. Read more about Eclectic Book Club: In the Beauty of the Lilies
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Springtime isn't the right time for Joe Nathan. So says the man himself.During each of the two spring camps he spent with the Texas Rangers, Nathan cautioned that he is typically not good during exhibition games and usually not all that sharp at the beginning of the season.He needs a little time to get his velocity up and to sharpen his command.It was a subtle warning to media and fans, but often his efforts backed him up.But Nathan usually figured out a way to get the final three outs of the game without surrendering a Rangers lead. The key was to not walk many batters, something that has been a Nathan calling card throughout his All-Star career.So, when a lack of control caused him to start coughing up leads in his first season with the Detroit Tigers, the right-hander knew something other than just his early-season woes was the culprit.His mechanics had failed, an issue that coincided with the Tigers kissing away their hot start and getting caught and passed atop the American League Central.As all players in this game say, June is way too early to be worried about the standings. But the Tigers received a jolt when Kansas City passed them two weeks ago for first place, and now the Tigers are back where they, and everyone else, expected them to be, and Nathan believes that he has righted his wrongs going forward."Obviously we would want to be 20 games up, but that's not always reality," Nathan said. "Kansas City started playing great baseball, and we weren't. No big deal. It is June, but we just want to get back to playing consistent baseball."You still need to stay in the race, so it was nice to give up the lead and give up first place and two days later we're back in first place."The Tigers led the Central by a season-high seven games May 18, when they lost the first in a three-game sweep at Cleveland and then came home to Comerica Park and lost three of four to the Rangers."Things just kept snowballing from there," Nathan said.It didn't stop until after the Royals went to Comerica Park and won the first three in a four-game series, vaulting into first place by 1 1/2 games.The Tigers hadn't lost again until Houston beat them Friday.Their seven-game winning streak, including three straight last week against the hapless Rangers at Globe Life Park, allowed them to gain six games in the standings and move 4 1/2 games up in the Central. It was 3 1/2 games entering Saturday.There's that mid-June jolt."It's getting better," Nathan said. "We're getting more consistent. We're scoring some runs. We're pitching better and staying in a lot of ballgames and have the chance to win a lot of ballgames. That's all you can ask."The Tigers' offense is starting to separate itself from the rest of the division, and the rest of the league. The Tigers lead in batting average and slugging percentage, though their 353 runs were only fourth best and just one ahead of division foe Cleveland.But none of the other Central lineups create the same amount of fear, and none has a 1-2 punch like Miguel Cabrera and Victor Martinez. And what's up with J.D. Martinez, who was cast aside last season by the 111-loss Astros?The Tigers' issues are on the mound, where Justin Verlander sits at an ineffective 6-7 with a 4.80 ERA. Opponents are hitting .275 against him as his velocity has dipped to a career-low 92.6 mph.He had allowed at least five runs in six of eight starts before issuing three Friday, and Max Scherzer, the reigning Cy Young winner, had allowed at least four runs in five of seven starts entering Saturday. That includes a 10-spot June 17 against the Royals.Then, there's Nathan, who has blown five saves. His ERA hit a hat-sized 7.04 at one point and was at 6.28 after allowing a run while saving an 8-6 win Wednesday against the Rangers.Age has caught up with the 39-year-old, said the Twitter and Internet machine, though Nathan is a fit as anyone in the game.Nathan scoffed at that notion. As the free passes, 13 in 28 2/3 innings, suggested, his delivery just needed some fine-tuning. He hadn't walked a batter the past five times out."It was just tweaking a few things mechanically," he said. "I don't know where I picked them up, but I picked up some bad habits along the way. I just had to go back and tweak things."The last three or four for me have been really good. As far as sharpness, velocity and command, everything has been as of old. It was nice to at least be able to figure something out."Maybe a June jolt from Kansas City helped, too. Yeah, it's only June, but the Tigers have responded and once again are the class of the AL Central.
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