The game with no players and why ea games should also hated by linux people

MR POO we presume

Bananas in the Falklands (who is an ape) does not play video games – on account that we run linux and I am not doing technical support just to get x working in emulation and then find that is cheating by say steam.  Anyhow occasionally  I subscribe for a month of a indie game and find that it has no players above a count of ten.

It is a large and souless place with the odd human with the one greifer, a couple of veterans go and then sound totally bored with the game and newbies whom dont or cant read.  Recent developments of the game go to one place full of people whom have no charm in game or i assume out of it.

This is a game i can run without wine, and works on phones in a fashion, all it needs is players then again its not an ea game.  It would be nice if those ea haters tried it along with other games not made by ea instead of whinging about ea games and how it works.

I also have no intention to support ea games linux attempt. Why well if windows idiots hate ea why should i like them.    However at least i try to support independents.  Humans …..

The updated theme story

OK i finally found the recipe (my blog) on the second attempt on looking at a new theme for here and felt good enough to feel it was worth replacing the old banana smoothie which was beginning to show it age (i was also getting bored with that one shake) with orphans in the widgets and so forth.  Its a widget thing  rather than ‘coded’ as html/css.

yeah you bum looks big

A blog that you both read and eat too so not one for anorexics (hello to those fatties my blog) i think.

Still like banana smoothie though.  Enough of this waffle. Now enjoy the new shake* and the usual stuff will return tomorrow,

* anorexics must drink at least ten of these before puking

Revealed the indian who broke Natwest

related to Kkaran Bahree indian uk bank id thief

There have been some very funny articles about the natwest cockup, its affects are not so funny, but Bananas can reveal that the indian it expert responsible was this person who rang us once (my blog).

Somehow with me knowing that the idiots at rbs (my blog) run natwest, and with my experiences (my blog) with them puts a lot of the extensive regional branding ot natwest at great risk.

Habibi, Craig Thompson

isbn: 9780571241323, was picked up on reading the blog of the book night circus (my blog).

Probably not something that can be read in arab nations.  5/5 bananas

The Microsoft oems (most of them) who are not cool, and an ibm related tale.

So Novatech (my blog) your not cool, along with a lot of other oems and Microsoft hate you and didums you did not get my money as well boo hoo.

That brings me to ibm who a few years ago decided that instant messaging (im) was the NEXT BIG THING.  it needed ibm licensing and oddly nobody else seemed to agree with ibm management about this was at an event with many others.  It felt management ordered (with us or against us) and look at im now its not big.

What the zoo did was drop ibm, no fees to them and we went open source.  So oems – microsoft hates you get over it, you dont need those losers who go with the big players.  Novatech and the many other victims might just remember that linux can pay but teach your staff about it rather than considering voodoo like.

If Novatech are just a windows license tax collector then clearly Microsoft has the higher ground, i have an alternative supplier and would rather not pay any tax to microsoft via a third party like novatech who look capable but ask and the microsoft fud bias comes screaming out.

I rest my case

Gardens of the sun, Paul McAuley

isbn: 9780575084483 is book 2 of the quiet war (my blog) and if i am honest i struggled to remember who half the people where especially li zei. Anyhow there be a a lot of copy and paste rehash about every moving and this is where the book series as a concept fail.

So if you know who li zei is your doing better than me.  Still an interesting read.

It loses marks for li zei 2/5 bananas.

the hdmi cable tale

A digital tv box of seven years died, surprisingly this staple item seems to be a rare beast to replace.  Anyhow we get one for (cinderella) and it works.  It uses scart for ‘low’ resolution and hdmi for ‘high’.  In a momement of madness i borrow what is claimed to be a hd tv with a hdmi cable and plug it into the tv.

Personally i cant see much point in hdmi as yes the computer graphics wherre sharper but the broadcast signal look the same.  Maybe the tv i used was not really 1080p ready but you wonder is the this ‘hidef’ tv thing a marketing scam

Granted this was the hdmi cable that came with the thing and was not gold plated or redefines the laws of physics that hi fi freaks love.

Avatar [not the airbender type]

imdb: tt0499549 (and not last airbender version) has been seen in 2d.  I saw the ‘original’ version so i have not seen the sex scene.   Nor do i care that i have not seen smurfs having sex, Im sure if Cameron ever wants to do a rerun of ‘han shot first’ he has thirty years or so still to do a George Lucas here, or the really really yes that definitive version of blade runner*.

So with several films using the same name out close together must also have pissed somebody off. I find the right film, and sit down.  Being the original version of how bad things our is more verbal than visual, and then its off to smurf land, and once there is looks very much like the technology of now.

Our hero is there only because he matches (cue ‘genotype’ buzz word) of his dead brother, and after reading a manual he becomes a athletic large smurf despite being wheelchair bound in three seconds. Then with no smurfing language its off with Ripley to the jungle to wrestle what you and i would call a dinosaur.  Palour tricks ensue and our hero (henceforth Tarzan) gets lost and faces to smurf world alone.  He meets a girl (Jane as you do) who nearly shoots him – love at first sight.

famous hollywood chimp who worked with Tarzan

That’s the clue for getting to know papa smurf, and the chance to be a alpha smurf. Tarzan is also a bit thick ,  and its up to the humans to wreck the party.  Cue battle scenes and carnage which Tarzan reigns supreme. Thank you Tarzan.

The film is more technical orientated*** than plot driven, and I would argue that too many of the smurfs dont really have much of a depth.  Its up to a few actors in human mode [Weaver/the Helicopter person] to save the story from the party pieces of smurfdom.

Our  modern day Tarzan and Jane story has moments of good acting from the stars but i think most of there work is reduced by too much special effects and hollering which i think is overcompensating for not seeing**.

Pandora here i come

Its and interesting look at remaking Tarzan in the year 2000, somehow David Attenborough and friends seems to have made the earths biosphere boring.

1/5 bananas  – go muse on that.

* coming soon on pinkray (a long standing blog joke) ** an infilm production and dialogue  joke i think. *** The longer versions just about fit on a non digital film projector if you read up.

Royals and rubbish [a tale of management]

Professor told us apes in the zoo about how he suffered* through the jubilee celebrations [it rained with a vengeance if you live in a cave] with friends in the country and it came out that there household waste is collected every two weeks.  This is a cost cutting measure*** utilizing less staff but what happens with continuous days off – the bin people did not have a celebration otherwise the schedule goes kaputt.

While in a way perhaps these workers had the better deal perhaps the flaw in this saving money trick is that a detriment in health and the rule of accountants who get paid big bucks to do badly what was done better before with weekly collections.

That is the bad management, the Royals on the other hand have seemed to kept the uk going completely tits up despite some weird pr branding as a hollywood family** so perhaps not all is bad since Elisabeth version 2 knows her shit.

The choice to respect her on that rather than the wedding factor (my blog) makes Elizabeth a safe pair of hands.  Hopefully the next royal will be as wise behind the scenes.

As to accountants well…

* in a north korea way. ** prince andrew is a bit camp *** eg you still pay mor

Papricka, Yasutaka Tsutsui

isbn: 9781846880773 is set in a japanese madhouse who it appears have none of the loony issues of the west being that both staff and mad people alike are suffering.  Perhaps a little overlong this book switches from dream to reality in the name of office politics and ambition.

clever but 3/5 bananas.