Disclaimer: Yes, this is an overly simplification of how a real situation would occur. But it is still a bit more advanced than the pro-guns "Gun = Protection". Not that any of this really matters at all, I live in Norway, not the States. Let them kill each other over there if they really want to…

Who didn't hum along when playing Darth Vader in the tutorial mission of The Force Unleashed? I haven't played this game myself, but i spent a few hours watching my friends playing.

Single player

The least we expect from any sequel is that it is equally great as its predecessor. In that regard, Modern Warfare 2 fails by a few points. With an equally well-done story and marginally better graphics than CoD4: Modern Warfare, MW2 have taken a marginally step backwards in game play. The big word is action! Too much action! Almost every level is big levels where enemies constantly rush at you from all sides, while your teammates are virtually useless at hitting a barn door from two feet. The result is that you are constantly running around with a red screen (your screen turn bloody red when you are close to death) hoping to find a place to hide from the bullets, only to die in melee with an enemy as the four teammates surrounding you is unable to shoot him down. Seriously, I've seen four teammates shooting in the general direction of an enemy charging over an open field and not hitting him a single time. Random spraying should have higher probability of hitting!

A related pet peeve of mine is the removal of leaning. Without this I find the game a lot more difficult, as instead of revealing only about 10% of my body around the corner, I have to make 50% of my body a living target. And increasing the chance of the enemy spotting me before I spot them by 100%...

Multiplayer

If you enjoyed the last game's multiplayer, then you will probably enjoy this one as well. New levels, more perks and customizable stuff, and some useless graphical name-tag stuff. So far I love this part of the game, except all the 10 seconds game-freezes every time the game changes host.

Hvor stor mengde verdier har jeg med meg når jeg vandrer rundt i nabolaget? Et interessant spørsmål stilt på ForkasteligTV forum. Etter litt utregning har jeg kommet fram til at jeg er verdt følgende sum:

• T-skjorte: 250 kr.
• Sko: 800 kr.
• Bukse: 300 kr. Godt slitt innen nå så burde kanskje regne dens egentlige pris til ca 40 kroner. Noen som vil kjøpe den for en 50 lapp?
• Genser: 400 kr
• Sokker: 30 kr
• Mobiltelefon: 500 kr.
• Datamaskin på ryggen: 14.000 kr.
• Min fars gamle skinnjakke: Ukjent. La oss si 1000 kr.

3280 kr uten laptopen.
17.280 kr med laptopen. Går ikke langs Akerselva med den på ryggen, nei.

This is a test where i use Microsoft Word to post to Drupal. β
Jay, it works!

Let us also do it with a picture:

Did it work? And bold, or italic, or both!

I have done a lot more testing. Press the "Read more" link to see it all.

No wonder Norwegian public transportation is going downhill when their philosophy is “let us get as many people as possibly into the smallest space possible”. All I ask for, as a person of 191 cm, is 70 cm space from ass to knees. Without that, I am forced to sit with my knees crushed up against the plastic back of the seat in front of me. For an HOUR! This was on an airplane, but is also usual on busses, the metro and many of the newer railways. This is making Norwegian public transportation something of my own personal hell. Any other tall persons in this country probably agree with me.

Most people don't believe it, but a man can change his ways. But how much can a man change without losing his sanity? Rajin has the answer. He consider himself a living proof that a man can change from a ruthless and unscrupulous excuse for a human, to a man whom charity knew no boundary. Rajin was the man who was given a second chance...

Washed upon a shore after a great storm, Rajin was rescued by a group of priests of Mitra. Nearly half dead and with the smell of the sea almost grown into his skin, the priests did what they do best, and did not ask for anything back. Not that he could give them anything, as all he owned was the rags he had on him when he drifted ashore. Not even his own memory could he share, for the sea had taken it all. He was a man without a name.

I've been reading a book. If you really want to know, I've been reading Terry Pratchett's The Truth. Not that anyone probably care, as it seems I have quite a 'nerdy' taste in books.

I've been reading a book. Read the last half part of it in about 2.5 hours, in which I have neither been aware of my surroundings or the time. Probably a year since I last read a book, and even longer since I achieved 'flow' while reading, a state of mind 'in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus' according to Wikipedia.

And the result is that my brain is now racing along, feeling as if I just had the best night sleep money can't buy.

I really ought to read more books.

The road to the big achievement is built upon many small achievements.
- me

And here is one of my small achievements, a small script for my code-editor of choice, PS-Pad. It searches trough the selected text and replaces the necessary characters with HTML ISO-8859-1 character encoding. Thereby making characters like 'å' to become 'å'. This is going to save me a lot of work when working with pure html-code. The plugin is avaible for download at the bottom of this page.

The end of the chase, the players have to face the orc patrol with the danger of falling a far way down behind them.

With this map i tried out the blur function of Fractal Mapper.