More philosophical quotes

"Imagine an infant lying in it's cradle and the window is open. Into the room comes something marvelous, mysterious, glittering, shedding light of many colors, movement, sound, a transformative  heirophamy of integrated perception. The child is enthralled by it's beauty and then the mother comes in and she says to the child, "That's a bird baby, a bird"."

"If there's a Demon inside the human nature, there is surely an Angel of equal power."

"If no fruit flies died for six months, the earth would spin out of it's orbit due to the weight of fruit flies."

"Ideology always paves the way to Atrocity."

"A certain level of alienation is the cost of sanity in this society."

"If you don't contradict yourself, your position isn't complex enough."

"We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to get up across the room to check the thermostat."

Tall Painting

Guitar Hero finally dead!

  Did you hear that? It's the fat lady, singing her heart out.


Activision released a bombshell today during their latest earnings report by announcing that the once-vaunted Guitar Hero franchise will be unceremoniously put to rest for the forseeable future.
"Due to continued declines in the music genre, the company will disband Activision Publishing's Guitar Hero business unit and discontinue development on its Guitar Hero game for 2011," the company said in a statement.
It's just the latest bad news to hit the ailing music game genre. The most recent Guitar Hero game, Warriors of Rock, failed to ignite the sales charts, and in December of 2010, media giant Viacom sold off Rock Band developer Harmonix. Just last week, longtime Rock Band publisher MTV Games was officially shut down.
In addition to Guitar Hero, Activision has halted development on its True Crime: Hong Kong action game.
"These decisions are based on the desire to focus on the greatest opportunities that the company currently has to create the world's best interactive entertainment experiences," they explained.
In a conference call, Activision said about 500 employees -- roughly 7% of its work force -- will be laid off by the cancellations.
It's not all doom and gloom, however, as Activision also revealed plans to support its Call of Duty franchise by forming a new internal studio. Dubbed "Beachhead," the team is tasked with creating a "best-in-class online community, exclusive content, and a suite of services" for the best-selling shooter series. The company will also be investing in a new online multiplayer game from World of WarCraft makers Blizzard.
First released on 2005 for the Playstation 2, Guitar Hero ushered in a lucrative era of music gaming. According to Activision, its 2007 iteration, Guitar Hero III, set an industry record by being the first video game to earn over $1 billion in retail sales. It's all been downhill from there, however, as the one-two punch of an economic downturn and an oversaturated music game market resulted in stagnant sales and dwindling consumer interest in the franchise.

Duel Terminal 4, The easiest way to make money in the game of Yugioh.

 


To anyone playing Yugioh. If you want to make a quick buck, visit your local hobby/card/comic shop and pop a couple of dollars into their Yugioh Duel Terminal! (If they have one)

Here's how it works;

You put money into the machine in $1,$5,$10 and $20 increments. For each dollar, the machine spits out a random "Duel Terminal" card. These cards can be of any rarity, from Common, Rare, Super Rare and Ultra Rare. Obviously, the higher the rarity of the card, the more money it's worth.

In the newest Duel Terminal set (known as DT04 "Duel Terminal 4") there is a very illusive card. This card is so rare and so sought after that it's selling on Ebay for upwards of $170-$200 a piece. Incase your wondering, this card is called "Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier". The chances of getting this card are 1 out of every 300 cards. That means you would need to sit there and put at least $300 into one of these machines in order to get even a single copy. Some people get lucky however, spending minuscule amounts (as low as a single dollar) to receive this treasure. The card you receive per dollar is random, after all.

This isn't the only card in DT04 that's worth more than a dollar. Other common/foil cards range from $5 to $25 a piece. Many of the cards in the set (most of which are common in rarity) aren't worth the cardboard they're printed on.

So far, I've dropped around $80 into a few different Duel Terminal machines. I've been lucky enough to get 2 "Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier" along with a handful of other cards worth over $5 a piece. Easily worth the time invested into getting these cards.

So if you play Yugioh and have a local shop that has one of these Duel Terminals, I suggest calling them up asking if they have Duel Terminal Set 4. If they do, It would be a good idea to go and pop a couple of dollars into the machine. Maybe you'll get lucky and get a Trishula!

Good luck bloggers.

The Hang Drum

 Like a 1950s flying saucer, the Hang's sound is out of this world !

Hang (pronounced Hong) Drum

Hang means "hand" in the Bernese language, and is pronounced "hung or hong". The Hang was developed in Switzerland. It was the result of many years of research on the steelpan and the study of the diverse collection of instruments from around the world, such as Gongs, Gamelan, Ghatam, drums, bells, etc. The instrument is played with the hands. Udu-like sounds are produced with the air resonance, the sounds of the clamped shallow shells sound like bells or harmonically tuned steelpans. The inner note on the bottom dome is the bass note, and when played in a dampened way allows change in pitch like a talking drum. Seven to nine notes are tuned harmonically around a central deep note. The hemispheres are hardened by a process known as gas-nitriding. This is a thermal treatment process in which nascient hydrogen atoms diffuse into the steel and form nitride compounds with many of the alloys in the steel. Look up video's on Youtube, the music is beautiful.

The Many Wisdoms of Terrence Mckenna;

"Whats so progressive about the media? It spreads darkness at the speed of light."

"What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult is our lack of awareness of our ignorance."

"Western Civilization is a gun pointed at the head of the planet."

"We must stop this consumption of culture and start creating it."

"We're told No, we're unimportant, we're peripheral. "Get a degree, get a this, get a that." And then your a player. You don't even want to play in that game. Reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dieing world."

"The world we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world."

"The reason we all feel alienated is because our society is infantile, trivial and stupid."