Starcraft 2 Teamplaying

by Sander Tams 31. July 2010 02:26

Since I don't really use this page for very serious blogging-things anymore, I might as well just tell you that I have been up to a lot of Starcraft II gaming. I've been a big fan of the first Starcraft but kind of stopped playing it when it grew really old. Besides I was never that much of a tactical genius. Now that Starcraft II is out I'm a happy collectors edition owner. Not that there's barely a difference between collectors edition and a normal one but at least I've pre-ordered it all right.

Beat the single player part already (today) and have been playing a lot with my friends. We held a release party even. One day after the release, lol.

Anyway, maybe I'll write a little about the game sometime if I feel Blizzard isn't getting too damn much attention already. Will depend very much on how busy I will be with the game though.

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See? We are the number ones in our division! Wicked.

In a few days, or with a bit of luck, tomorrow, I should write something on boonbot.com too. Something with a little more content. Seems traffic there has pretty much died out, I guess it needs some serious SEO that website. But anyway, see you. And drop a line if you're playing Starcraft 2 as well.

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Do you think that you can love me?

by Sander Tams 12. June 2010 07:23

Got some slightly unexpected responses from two of my friends from posting this video on facebook, so I'll just share it here as well. It's really good.

It's E.D.I.T. by Capsule, one of my new fave Japanese bands. If you liked that music video, here's another great one from the same band:

Anyway. Yesterday I signed up for Plurk. If anyone is familiar with Plurk and has an account there, go ahead and Add me. Or at least just say hi or whatever. If you don't know what plurk is, it's a Taiwan based website a la something in between Twitter and Facebook.

I also wrote more stuff on Boonbot.com. Please check out my:
Post on the products exhibited at Computex 2010.

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I'm still alive

by Sander Tams 7. June 2010 11:53

I've noticed that traffic for this site went down a lot since I stopped posting often. Actually I've moved to another site where I do the main blogging, but it doesn't get the same amount of traffic as this site just yet. Actually traffic to this site fell more than it increased on the other one. I'm kind of sad. :(

Anyway, I've been writing about Computex 2010 that I went to recently. It was a really great show and makes me think if I might have a future in technology. Can't rule out the possibility that I will be supplying schools with all sorts of cheaper and improved alternatives to all the expensive stuff they already buy. Also think it could be fun to see if I can open up a webshop and sell eReaders or other gadgets, but I didn't have any related education in those kind of things except for Marketing and I have no money to start out with. Maybe I'll start an import webshop later in my life if I find some costumer interest in Denmark later in my life.

Anyway, have a look at my post on Computex Booth Designs:

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Taipei Game Show 2010

by Sander Tams 5. February 2010 21:53

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Went to the annual Taipei Game Show today. It's on from Friday 2/6 to Tuesday 2/9, so I just reached it on it's first day. A bit late though. It's open from 10 am to 6 pm. As with the book exhibition last week, I arrived at 4 pm. Too late to try stuff. But still plenty of time to locate all the booths and take pictures of loads of stuff. Took 148 photos while there, which is almost half of what my camera can contain. And that's in just 2 hours. (I make it save a raw together with a JPEG, so total size per shot is usually about 22-23 megabyte. I could cut it down to 2-3 per shot by not saving raws, should I have to snap more when I'm going back.)

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In this place there's many booths and several stages for different kinds of performance. Some of them they have turnaments. At others, you can just jump up on and get a brief instruction like this guy above is, and you're in a competition of some sort, competing for freebies.

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A day that end in a totally different place than it started

by Sander Tams 9. January 2010 19:24

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I went to shop cameras today. It's not that I bought any, but perhaps I have a better idea of what's out there now.

Went to Guanghua again, as they have not only computers, but a lot of camera stores too. Now, I am not very good with cameras, actually. I can look at a photo and tell if it's good or not, or if it's just too damn blurry to see a thing, but I don't really know much about why it's so important to stick a wide array of overly expensive lenses into those DSLR's to make them take the best photo for the occasions.

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Outside of the Guanhua New Digital Plaza, robots were rampaging the streets. A bunch of kids were running around and hitting the robotic baloons so that they almost fell over and the people who keep an eye over them had to ask the kids to behave.

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Appareantly, Intel had some promotional going on about you being able to win a trip to russia, to fly military airplanes and fire missiles at poor farmers, should you decide to buy a computer with an Intel processor inside during these promotional days.

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Inside, people are, of course, playing world of warcraft to promote some 'gaming' stationaries with lots of colored lights inside.

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Like this. I mean... It's really cool and all that it looks like some spaceship or whatever on the inside, but how is this going to be usefull to anyone? Oh, and that brick in the middle with cooler master written on it has a processor inside that outputs 2.74 gHz according to the screen to the left.

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Well, there's not much camera shopping over this, but that tauren druid totally just shapeshifted. Fuck I miss this game.

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Of course they had girls dressed up. Even some of the food courts have that kind of thing around here. A lot of guys with expensive cameras kept taking pictures of them over and over, so I decided to take pictures of those guys taking pictures instead.

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Look at that. Perhaps I should've just asked them what they use of cameras and I could've finished the day having a 90k NT$ camera in my hand smiling.

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If you walk a little off from all that digital craze, you can get to an arts exhibit with cat women and stuffs. I just walked past.

Right next to that place there's a spot where you can walk along the highways on grass. Nothing's currently build there, and even though you are almost in the absolute middle of Taipei City, there's actually space for you. It's a lovely place that I'd love to get back to soon.

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Right under this spot, theres a highspeed railway line for one of those trains that goes up to 400km/h. Amazing.

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There's also these old tracks for normal trains, but it's closed now. And here's some very rare exposure to Taiwanese graffiti. You know it already: I am in the land of video games and there's nothing you can do about that jealousy growing in you.

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After taking those pictures, I headed to another house in the rotary/rotaract-network. Maxine had some friends there, and of course, those friends were also members of rotaract and had parents that were members of rotary.

Well, I'll about how many people are, are related to, or know someone in rotary in another article. Ending up here was because some of the people there had tasted my rice pudding I made for The Christmas Party that was held at my house the 24th December. They wanted to learn how to make it and, obviously, craved it.

To make long stories short, the rice pudding didn't go well, partly because of wrong ingredients, mostly because of bad cooking. Not that we tried hard though. We played monopoly so much, that we decided to just do it another time.

Now, that was a day of events that went completely unforeseeable, eh?

I love this place.

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