2008 September

2 Days Till Spore

Thursday, September 4th, 2008
by FoxSpellCaster

Thought I would get in the spirit for the Launch of Spore since I have the Galactic Edition pre-ordered.

USB Heating Gloves

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
by FoxSpellCaster

Where were these when I was younger? I used to stay up all night freezing my hands off playing video games till the sun began to rise and I had to go to bed. USB powered heated gloves, so wonderful and dangerous of an idea at the same time.

Over at Brando they have created such an invention. For $22 you can get your own pair of USB Heated Gloves. I am not so sure how this would work on most laptops as the power draw on top of the fact that each glove needs a USB port to be powered. But check out this list of features!

• Open-end design allows your fingers moving easily

• De-forsting your hands for gaming, typing and mouse controlling

• Glove made of wool and connects USB port individually

• 2 level heating controls

• Works under any device with USB port, e.g. PC, Mac, PlayStation 2 or Xbox360

• Each glove built-in 2 warming pad

• 5 minutes 10 degree rise

• Size : 19 cm x 10.5 cm

Sounds great to me!

Filter YouTube Shit Talk

Monday, September 1st, 2008
by FoxSpellCaster

YouTube is a great video hosting site but the comment system is a haven for stupid people. I don’t know why people think it is their job to post the most outrageous and sometimes offensive comments possible. This is captured perfectly in one of xkcd’s comics for those of you who have a sense of humor. Thankfully the YouTube Comment Snob plug-in for Firefox has this problem under control. I’ve been waiting for a plug-in like this, bummer it only works on YouTube,  cause the whole internet could use one of these.

Even here at FoxPunk we do not escape comments like you will find on YouTube. Here is one I filtered out a while ago.

your sole judgement of diablo is the art direction? Are u a #@$%#@$ #@$%#@ noob? Diablo has always been great because of its awsome gameplay not because of “art direction”. Also youve seen only a few minutes of the game and you already making judgements about art direction. Blizzard posted a response about the art direction. In the beginning of the game its not as dark, it gradually becomes darker to create a pychological effect…. So next time you get the bright idea of judging a game entirely over art direction, do us all a favor and shoot urself in the head. P.S. — Its not most of the diablo fans that want the art direction to change, its a few hundred addicted nerds with loud interent voices, trying to pretend like the majority of d2 fans want the art direction changed. Yeah you just got pwnt, now go #@$% urself!!! =)

emltg2000@yahoo.com

This was in response to “Diablo III Not Dark Enough?” in which I defend the art direction, show my support for Diablo III and suggest people to relax and just let the game be developed in its current direction. I removed this comment cause as you can see it was made by someone who didn’t read the original article and felt the need to spew his inner thoughts all over my blog. So I commend Christopher Finke and his goal to filter out the annoying and vulgar people on the internet!

YouTube Comment Snob hides badly spelled, profane, poorly capitalized YouTube comments - Boing Boing