This one completely slipped by me.

Randomly showed up in my feed on youtube. Apparently out for Switch and oc. Going to pick it up on the pc for now. Lots cute and loads of fun.

Smash Brothers Universe

Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD

The Division Gameplay

Ubisoft is really stepping it up...

Plants vs Zombies

Anything else worth highlighting?

So I was talking to johnny last night about playing some Left 4 Dead 2, He's game, and was even installing it when we finished chatting. Mentioned to Andy today in the chat and he's in, final person would be either Andre or maybe Eric. Andre is a little bit more flexible as Eric typically plays really late at night which won't work for most people.

As mentioned to Andy, I can;t play tonight or tomorrow, but Thursday should be good so I just wanted to remind everyone to get they're steam ready for some zombie night this week!

So Andy and I were talking yesterday about Minecraft and two things came up, Minecraft³ and bringing two maps together to have 1 server.
I'll tackle the Minecraft³ first.

Minecraft³

All the intormation and more can be found in the Reddit post in the Minecraft subreddit.
Minecraft³, or minecraft cubed as I like to call it, is a mod that pretty much turns the game on its head. It adds so much to the game that basically makes it a new game.
Almost dynamic weapons, new monsters, new biomes, variants of the different monsters that are already in the game, a new perk system, new leveling system, more loot, new dungeons, bosses in the dungeons and built in shops with currency from killing mobs.

Strictly speaking weapons and mobs now. Tools will have different levels and items will have different rarities. Weapons will be procedurally generated, that is to say that they weapon system will be more like Diablo's. Just an example of the different variants and different affects each weapon could potentially have, here's a couple of videos.

The biomes will also change a bit, they're working on adding content to the ocean biome so it's more interesting to play around and explore. On top of that they're adding a couple new biomes, only one has kind of been shown.

For the mobs, here's a perfect video of the different types of precedurally generated mobs you'll be able to find.

And here's an image of some other kind of new mobs.


There's so much more to this ambitious mod, I'm hoping it gets released.

Stitching or combining two minecraft servers together

Did a little research and it looks like it may be possible. Someone released a tool called MCmerge. Basically what it does is take the two maps and puts them side by side and then puts a river through the middle and smooths the edges so that it looks more natural.

Here's the tool.



and should end up looking something like this:

Andy, want to try it? I'm very curious to see how it'll turn out.

I just got this in the mail.

Where did "Piss Poor" come from?

Interesting History.

They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot and then once a day it was taken and sold to the tannery...

if you had to do this to survive you were "Piss Poor". But worse than that were the really poor folk who couldn't even afford to buy a pot...

They "didn't have a pot to piss in" and were the lowest of the low.

The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be.

Here are some facts about the 1500s

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and they still smelled pretty good by June. However, since they were starting to smell, brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the Bath water!"

Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath.It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Hence the saying, "It's raining cats and dogs." There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house.

This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection.That's how canopy beds came into existence. The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying, "Dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery

In the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance-way. Hence: a thresh hold.

(Getting quite an education, aren't you?)

In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot.They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day.Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme: Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old.

Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could, "bring home the bacon." They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit round and chew the fat.

Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.

Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the upper crust.

Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom; of holding a wake.

England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people.
So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to
a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift.) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be, saved by the bell or was considered a dead ringer.

Finally, after years of waiting, here's some dead island gamplay and it looks spectacular.

It's probably the most watched video on gametrailers right now.

I can not wait for this. it looks phenomenal.

Such a beautiful video, kinda artsy yet still very zombie like.

holy shit, what a dramatic trailer. makes me want to watch a zombie flick now...


can't get over how well done it is, and the music is just so suiting.

This is an awesome looking chibi-esque cross between zombies and pikmin for the ds. so far only in japan but hopefully will come stateside.

Thanks to Halloween and Left 4 Dead 2 I'm now on a zombie kick.

And the Lord has seen fit to provide us with a what would appear to be a serious looking Zombie movie, and it looks good!

Anyone up for some left for dead 2 tonight?

Andy i invited you yesterday, i think you shot me 3 times and then went idle. what happened?

I don't usually post stuff from facebook, and I heard it on CHOM yesterday on my way home so I guess that's kind of different.

the 3rd annual Montreal Zombie Walk is happening the week before Halloween this year. I definitely want to go check it out. maybe dress up as Ash or something.

this is roughly the route, though zombies are kinda unpredictable when brains are involved so it might diverge at some point.

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Some pictures of previous walks

This one is much more entertaining.