Facebook – Change your language to “Pirate”

This isn’t really too new, but not that many people know about it…

Facebook has a option to change the language setting to be in Pirate slang.

All you have to do is scroll all the way down to where it shows the copyright and right by it: “English (US)”, or whatever your language is set to, then click on that and a window will show with different language options. One of which is “English (Pirate)”, and just click that.

Play like a Pirate

Today Telltales game is celebrating Talk Like a Pirate Day by giving out the first chapter of Tales of Monkey Island for FREE.

This is a pretty awesome game, it doesn’t matter if you played the originals or not, you just need to get this game if your a awesome gamer wanting a awesome game.

SO GET IT NOW

Marvel possibly to be bought by Disney

With a $4 Billion dollar deal Marvel might be owned by Disney.

Marvel Shareholders and government (Anti-trust act) must agree to actually make it official.

If all goes right, the deal will be done by the end of this year.

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Blizzcon Summary

Note: This probably isn’t up to date with all of the stuff from Blizzcon as its not over yet, but come back later and you can probably expect more information.

My my my, that time of year again when droves of people come together to worship a single deity, of course I’m talking about Blizzard.

Lets start with their most popular game…..

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm

You can watch the official trailer here.

-Deathwing is back
-Cataclysm has changed most places in the game (Part of Barrens has regrown with life, along with Desolace, “Charred Vale even got more charred”)
-Level up to 85
-Major Cities redesigned
-5 New zones for the new higher levels
-Two new races, Worgen for the Alliance and Goblins for the Horde
-Flying Mounts in Azeroth
-New Race/Class Combinations
-Many New Dungeons/Raids including, Heroic Deadmines and Shadowfang Keep
-Uldum unlocked, land like Egypt which has a super weapon of some kind, with 2 more dungeons
-New Secondary Skill, Archaeology
-Guild Leveling System and Achievements
-New Character Progression: Path of the Titans

And not too much else thus far from Blizzcon….

Starcraft 2

-Starting game is familiar to WoW’s Launcher with news
-Improved Replays with more features
-Online avatar/decals which you can unlock
-Can play your campaigns and such on other computers as long as you login to your Battle.net account
-Can compete in leagues of different people at your rank
-Friends list, even while in singleplayer/campaign
-Play in a party
-Achievements/Statistics like WoW

Diablo 3

-Monk class, melee with holy magic, supposed to be kind of like a fighting game character and has combos and has speed over toughness

There has also been talk about another MMO/Game they’ve been working on

The madness that is known as Scribblenauts

Clearly this is going to be a beautiful creation for the DS.

Word Filters: A Bane of the Internet

Word filters are usually pretty useful in games, I mean, its good to have less kids run around cussing.

But word filters are just getting out of hand and seem to be made by kids themselves.

For example, you might not be able to say words such as “hell” or “jew”, which just seems plain silly, especially when in the game your “blow”ing (blow is also censored) up the enemy into pieces with your ak-47 or whatever is your weapon of choice.

The most worst censorship I have seen so far online would have to be in Combat Arms, you can’t say the above mentioned words and such like “suck” and “hole” you can’t even say “sniper” in it without censoring the “nip” part in it, and a lot of other stuff.

The best filter I know of, which people will probably no doubt complain to me about, is in RuneScape, in it you can say “damn”, “hell”, “suck” and other stuff, while still censoring the other words such as the f-bomb.

The sad part is how the big fps games have such a kid-esque filter, while a game such as RuneScape, which has a big kid base of players, doesn’t have such a strong filter for it, but still filters words that try and get around it, unlike others.

Pandora – Handheld Linux Console

Pandora is pretty much a hand held console that runs Linux (or any other distribution of it), they claim it can emulate stuff PlayStation 1 and older (although there isn’t really a n64 emulator out yet for it), and as you can see it can run Quake at least at a solid 60fps.

The price is at $330 and it is slightly larger then a DS (as you can see above), it has a qwerty keyboard, two analogy sticks, a D-Pad, microphone and touchscreen.

It also has built in wifi and bluetooth, you can see the full specs here.

Its still pretty much being in production, you can checkout the website here.

The Conficker Virus – April 1st

You can read up about this virus here.

Pretty much its a virus that has been spreading around which will run on April 1st, and you should make sure your protected by checking out that above link.

So far it has supposedly affected up to 9 million to 15 million people, and Microsoft is even offering a $250,000 reward for the person who created it.

You can read about it more here.

This is not a April Fools joke.

The Next Legend of Zelda Game (For the DS)

Today it was announced at the Game Developers Conference Game Developers Conference by Satoru Iwata that Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks will be the next Zelda game for the DS.

So far it seems like Phantom Hourglass, except on land and with a train.

Ironically I always thought of a Zelda game after Wind Waker that would include a large expanse of land (for the “new” Hyrule).

Lets just hope this does better then Phantom Hourglass.

Vandalism

It would appear that over the weekend someone (or more like a few someones) broke into my school.

They opened up a bunch of the lockers and threw peoples stuff into the hallway into piles.

One teacher they took her personal books and ripped pages, and took her iPod. These people even put salsa and spread it on the ground in another one of the teachers room, and even put a bunch in her microwave.

One teacher they took his candy bars and ate them, and carelessly threw the wrappers in the garbage can in his room.

And such vandalism has been at my school ever since I’ve been here last year. Last year someone broke in and threw paint at a bunch of the lockers (which it took like a week for them to repaint, and had the students not able to use their lockers), and another time a opposing school painted a mans….private part into the grass right outside the entrance of our school (and they didn’t remove it until right before the gradulations).

Its not the vandalism itself thats the problem, but what the school does, they don’t do anything about it. Unlike the middle school (which like never even had vandalism before), the high school doesn’t have cameras. Not to mention they haven’t done really anything to even try and protect the highschool school from break ins at all.