please bare with me as i am typing this blog with 1 hand right now. and im no journalist so most of this will seem like gibberish. and i am not concerned about capitalization or correct punctuation right now, so grammar Nazis please just ignore it if you can.

i know. i really dont write blogs, mainly because i dont have much to say. i tend to just play my games and thats about it. ive been here for years now and most people know me as that milk fetus guy. the ocasional snide comment dropper.

im an older gamer of 32. i started gaming at my grandmas house playing the Odyssey 2 at the age of 4. ive been around and seen tons of changes in the industry. but like i said, i just keep on playing the games i like.

as of lately my gaming hobby has fallen off due to the ever greediness of the industry. i do not like any of the recent practices of gouging its consumers for no real reason. you dont really see any other industries doing the same thing. it only seems to be video games. as far as i can tell.

but to get more to the point of this blog. i was recently in a car accident last tuesday and broke my radius and ulna on my left forearm. i now have plates and pins holding them together.
car is totaled,3 rims cracked,along with axle, trunk in back seat, drivers seat cracked in half. etc etc. im going to miss my 06 wrx dearly. and yes its the same car thats in my header image :(




i thought i was going to die seconds before slamming into one of CTs many rock faces on the sides of our highways. lucky it was only a broken arm. my shoes came off in the car, lost my hat and glasses through the shattered back windshield.



this angers me greatly because it happened a few days after i got batman:AC, and now thats just sitting in my ps3 unplayable at this time. i was really looking forward to it because i was a huge fan of AA. but now i have a temp split on my arm larger than Jim Sterlings thighs. lets just say, i cant even put on a long sleeve shirt right now.



and now the game i have been waiting a long time for, Saints row the third, is about to be released. and depending on the type of hard cast i get this tuesday will determine if i will be able to play one of my all time favorite series for a good 6-8 weeks. at least i can let my room mates play it and it could be worse, at least i dont have to use one of these.



im hoping that using a controller will actually be good physical therapy for my hands and fingers. see how my orthopedist feels about that. but god damn, i need this game ASAP! i need to throw people off buildings and into trains! i wasnt to impressed with the initiation station. personally i would have rather had the clothing layers of sr2 over dynamically animated flowing cloth etc. i mean are you even going to see that with all the shit going on onscreen? its not a deal breaker, just seems to be less options this time around as far as clothing goes.

i also havnt seen much in the way of the activities available, i know some of the good ones are back(insurance fraud, personal fav) but what else have they shown? all i seem to see is videos of the dildo slugger. like its the only weapons in the game? what about the guns? any other new melee weapons? swords, tear gas? shock paddles? pimp cane shotgun? guess ill just have to wait and see.

but one thing im not looking forward to is all the DLC, i just get this feeling like the 40 weeks of dlc will be shit they should have just left in the game for release. more weapons, nah, we will make you pay for them, more vehicles? fuck you, pay us. more activities, screw you pay us.
now unless they offer up some free stuff im not about to pay 100$ for a game with less stuff than its prequel. i know i know, the game will be fun anyway. i just dont like these practices as of lately.

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one of the other disappointments right now for me is i am an urban explorer photographer and had just picked up my new Canon 7D the day before the crash.



so now thats 1600$ worth of equipment just sitting around waiting till i get better so i can get back out there shooting. thank jimmyx it was my left hand and not my right hand. or else i would be screwed.

and i recently had entered 3 prints to an art show about a month ago. missed the first reception due to the oct snow storm, which got pushed to the fri i was still in the hospital, so i missed it again. i wonder if anyone offered to buy them? these are the prints i submitted, but they are matted and framed.





if anyone wants to check out my photography website, feel free, its a great way to get to know me and what i like to do.
Newkirk Photography

thanks for reading, now its time for some pain meds and shitty daytime tv. maybe if i get bored enough ill throw up my tripod and take pics of my video game collection for another blog. since i have the free time. im glad to be part of this community and i knew i could share with you people about my situation.

at least i still have my puppy Milo to keep me company/warm while im home all day!





fetusmilk - end transmission.

holy crap a machinima mode included in Uncharted 2. you have to see this. not sure if someone posted it yet. you can actually talk through your blue tooth head set and drakes mouth moves in sync. also green screen modes. you can record matches in
multiplayer and edit them as well as upload and share them with others.

here is a link to the video. wasnt sure about embedding videos.
http://www.machinima.com:80/film/view&id=40176

i was bored at work today and i was just starting to sketch a little and came out with this some what video game influenced picture. i was gonna do some sorta wizards and warriors thing. but i wasnt sure what else to do so i just filled the screen with a cave monster hiding in his cave.

i rarely draw much anymore and thought it came out ok.. i usually use pen or just pencil. i seem to dig the 3 color pen the most.just red,blue,, and black.

im not a big fan of scanning and then digitally editing my pictures and adding color.if anyone wants to try and add some real colors feel free, just post the result in the comments.


also why does it auto re-size pics to 620 pixels when the actual width of the blog is 550 pixels? FIX THAT CRAP PLEASE! or is there something i can do?
or just check the full sized one below.

this is from another site.
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/03/drag_and_drop_super_mario.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890

a friend who is a programmer found this and sent it to me. and i have to say this is one of the coolest hacks ever.
Drag and drop Super Mario


NES emulator hacker Xkeeper has been working on a Lua script that allows you to manipulate Super Mario Bros. game objects right in the middle of game play:

FCEUX is a NES emulator. It has Lua scripting support, and in the latest versions, a feature that allows you to grab input from the mouse and keyboard, outside of the "game input".

The script allows you to see the byte values of tiles by mousing over them and you can grab enemies (including things like lifts or projectiles) and move them around with your mouse. This particular Lua script hasn't been released on the FCEUX site yet, but it should be soon and there are several other Lua demos available in the luapack archive.

The Lua add-on to FCEUX allows you to cobble in your own code that will execute before each frame draw in the emulator, giving you an opportunity to manipulate things while the game is running. I've never coded in Lua, but the demo source code is easy to grok, and you may get some fun ideas for another game hack.



heres another example of a lua script in super mario bros

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DESTRUCTOID !

i figured everyone was doing a happy birthday destructoid blog. i thought i would make it a little interesting and drop some simple history knowledge.

things in history that happened on the day of March 16th.

1190 - The Crusaders began the massacre of Jews in York, England.

1521 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines. He was killed the next month by natives.

1527 - The Emperor Babur defeated the Rajputs at the Battle of Kanvaha in India.

1621 - Samoset walked into the settlement of Plymouth Colony, later Plymouth, MA. Samoset was a native from the Monhegan tribe in Maine who spoke English. He greeted the Pilgrims by saying, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."

1802 - The U.S. Congress established the West Point Military Academy in New York.

1836 - The Republic of Texas approved a constitution.

1850 - The novel "The Scarlet Letter," by Nathaniel Hawthorne, was published for the first time.

1871 - The State of Delaware enacted the first fertilizer law.

1882 - The U.S. Senate approved a treaty allowing the United States to join the Red Cross.

1883 - Susan Hayhurst graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. She was the first woman pharmacy graduate.

1907 - The world's largest cruiser, the British Invincible was completed at Glasgow.

1908 - China released the Japanese steamship Tatsu Maru.

1909 - Cuba suffered its first revolt only six weeks after the inauguration of Gomez.

1913 - The 15,000-ton battleship Pennsylvania was launched at Newport News, VA.

1915 - The Federal Trade Commission began operation.

1917 - Russian Czar Nicholas II abdicated his throne.

1918 - Tallulah Bankhead made her New York acting debut with a role in "The Squab Farm."

1926 - Physicist Robert H. Goddard launched the first liquid-fuel rocket.

1928 - The U.S. planned to send 1,000 more Marines to Nicaragua.

1935 - Adolf Hitler ordered a German rearmament and violated the Versailles Treaty.

1939 - Germany occupied the rest of Czechoslovakia.

1945 - Iwo Jima was declared secure by the Allies. However, small pockets of Japanese resistance still existed.

1946 - Algerian nationalist leader Ferhat Abbas was freed after spending a year in jail.

1946 - India called British Premier Attlee's independence off contradictory and a propaganda move.

1947 - Martial law was withdrawn in Tel Aviv.

1950 - Congress voted to remove federal taxes on oleomargarine.

1964 - Paul Hornung and Alex Karras were reinstated to the NFL after an 11-month suspension for betting on football games.

1964 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson submitted a $1 billion war on poverty program to Congress.

1968 - U.S. troops in Vietnam destroyed a village consisting mostly of women and children. The event is known as the My-Lai massacre.

1978 - Italian politician Aldo Moro was kidnapped by left-wing urban guerrillas. Moro was later murdered by the group

1984 - Mozambique and South Africa signed a pact banning the support for one another's internal enemies.

1984 - William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, was kidnapped by gunmen. He died while in captivity.

1985 - "A Chorus Line" played its 4,000 performance.

1985 - Terry Anderson, an Associated Press newsman, was taken hostage in Beirut. He was released in December 4, 1991.

1987 - "Bostonia" magazine printed an English translation of Albert Einstein’s last high school report card.

1988 - Indictments were issued for Lt. Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter of the National Security Council for their involvement in the Iran-Contra affair.

1988 - Mickey Thompson and his wife Trudy were shot to death in their driveway. Thompson, known as the "Speed King," set nearly 500 auto speed endurance records including being the first person to travel more than 400 mph on land.

1989 - In the U.S.S.R., the Central Committee approved Gorbachev's agrarian reform plan.

1989 - The Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee approved large-scale agricultural reforms and elected the party's 100 members to the Congress of People's Deputies.

1993 - In France, ostrich meat was officially declared fit for human consumption.

1994 - Tonya Harding plead guilty in Portland, OR, to conspiracy to hinder prosecution for covering up the attack on her skating rival Nancy Kerrigan. She was fined $100,000. She was also banned from amateur figure skating.

1994 - Russia agreed to phase out production of weapons-grade plutonium.

1995 - NASA astronaut Norman Thagard became the first American to visit the Russian space station Mir.

1998 - Rwanda began mass trials for 1994 genocide with 125,000 suspects for 500,000 murders.

1999 - The 20 members of the European Union's European Commission announced their resignations amid allegations of corruption and financial mismanagement.

2003 - Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American college student, was killed when she was run over by a bulldozer while trying to block Israeli troops from demolishing a Palestinian home in Gaza.

2005 - A judge in Redwood City, Calif., sent Scott Peterson to death row for the slaying of his pregnant wife, Laci.

2005 - A jury in Los Angeles acquitted actor Robert Blake of murder in the shooting death of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley. (A civil court jury later ordered Blake to pay $30 million to Bakley's four children.)

2006 - The Destructoid Army was formed.

ok so i just started getting into editing the files for puzzle quest : galactrix. and i was thinking of something to make it look different while playing the game as normal. so i changed the different color tiles into the dtoid logo. i also changed my players in game battle picture as you can see. i took a couple of screen grabs as i was playing to prove it wasnt a simple photoshop.



or if you have this game and want these files let me know i can get them to you some how. now if you want to do this stuff yourself its very easy. all you need to do is up zip the assets.zip file and find the things you want to change. you can change what items, ships, tiles, backgrounds. anything.



just use a graphic editor , i used The GIMP http://www.gimp.org to edit the PNG files in the different asset folders.and then make sure you rezip the file back up. but make sure you only zip the 2 folders assets and English into a file called assets.zip