NEW SUPERCAT DEMO

After many hours toiling at the forge of awesome, I've made a new Supercat demo!
Hop on over to my game dev blog for more details-
http://rastercastermaster.blogspot.com/2011/04/new-supercat-demo.html

This is awesome and you should read it

http://www.badassoftheweek.com/voytek.html

Err... I should probably also put some of my own work into this post rather than just linking to pictures and shit.

ORIGINAL CONTENT:
The Polish are awesome.

HOW TO: Be Ambitious

Step 1: Examine your activities and list the verb words.
Step 2: Everyone is a "<verb>-er" of some kind, they have some particular activity they take part in to be described by it. Pick the verb X from your list that would make you happiest as it's X-er. (Bake becomes Baker, Bike becomes Biker, Design becomes Designer, Bullshit becomes Bullshitter, etc.)
Step 3: If the resulting label does not already apply to you, increase the frequency and consistency with which you do the related activity. Eventually the label will apply.
Step 4: Take on lots of interesting and difficult tasks within that activity. Get better at that activity.
Step 5: Pursue any opportunities to be in a better position to perform your chosen activity or to increase the satisfaction you may derive.
Step 6: Actually just keep doing steps 4 and 5. The goal is to be the best "<verb>er" that no one ever was.

GO NOW AND QUEST FOR GLORY. KICK LOGIC OUT AND DO THE IMPOSSIBLE.
BE A HERO. PUNCH THE SUN IN THE FACE.

You know what's pretty scary?

When you're exploring on some random rooftop and a couple of your friends go scout ahead while you're wrapping up your grappling hook, and then you hear from not too far away the "WEEEOOEEEOOEEEOOEEOOEEEOOOEEOO" sound that means GTFO time and your friend's girlfriend who decided she didn't want to climb some weird random ladder is like "what's that noise?" and I'm like "ITS THE ALARM. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU BUT IMMA PEACE" and then I got out of there.

This is no longer a blog

This is your livelihood; not in the sense that it earns you your wages but in the sense that if you don't check in every so often you will wither away and become a puddle. That's right, my very existence is your addiction. Just like you need air, water, and food, you need my hilarious and insightful commentary.

To give you this, I'm about to sum up all of the news items the media have been blabbering about, because they can't get to the point:

• Egypt: Maybe under new management, but the customer service still sucks!
• Wisconsin: If they were a cellular provider, they'd actually be worse than AT&T.
• Charlie Sheen: Not much to say but "Sorry, Charlie... I'm pretty sure my Zeus DNA beat's your Adonis."

Now that's out of the way, it's time to point out things that actually matter:

• Entry level keytars are around $300. The Rock Band 3 keytar is $60, but also has much of the same functionality as a "real" keytar. Harmonix isn't just toying with the rules of economics, they've become the invisible hand! 
• K-V Pharmaceutical Co. has gotten exclusive rights to sell the same birth-delaying drug pharmacies have been mixing up in-house for $20; but K-V plans to make mothers pay out the nose to keep their babies from being premature. $1500 per dose is quite a large increase from $20. That's more than my brother's college tuition. http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-premature-drug-03092011,0,4847507.story 
• More patent trolling: LG and Sony are squabbling about patents on trivial features of their products, and now there's a 10-day import ban on PS3's into the European Union. Now seems like a good time to get into the smuggling business.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-1260737
• I'm in your house, watching you read this. That also matters, even though its not news.

Woke up this morning

and it was AWESOME. I went to check my Reader for the AWESOME feeds I subscribe to, and found two particularly AWESOME pieces of news:

• The Comics Code Authority is dead! Archie Comics, the last major publisher to announce that they are no longer participating with the CCA... has announced they are no longer participating with the CCA. Take that, government censorship!
• Sodium thiopental, the chemical used to institutionally kill people because an eye for an eye is what America is all about, is subject to a shortage. The only producer in the US essentially gave up because it's illegal in Italy and they'd like to continue their operations in Italy and certainly not because they have souls. Pharmaceutical companies have a lot of things, but not souls.
• Of course, this is very not awesome for people who need it for medical treatment. Not that we could trust the government to have it around until murder is illegal even for the man.
• This wasn't on my news feeds, but cool nonetheless: I remembered a bunch of Spanish all of a sudden. My Spanish is still awful, but now I can say things like ¡hace tres dias que lavarme, fue muy sucio! without having to use Google Translate!

Surely, this will set the tone for the rest of the day being FREAKIN SWEET.

creo que mi dia sera muy bien

Until next post,

Tengo un perro,

GO AWESOME IT UP!!!

¡taquitos!

Reader Returns!

Google is putting the Reader link back on the GMail screen!  No doubt this is a direct result of my vocal opposition to the move, of course.

Fear not: Whether you be casual fan or a stark-raving-mad stalker, I will ALWAYS be there to protect the RSS reader through which you get your daily recommended dosage of my awesome awesomeness.

ENJOY THE RSS FEEDS, AND MERRY CHRISTMAS

Google Reader moved?

Anybody else notice that Google has moved Reader into the "more" menu at the top of the GMail screen?

Something I've noticed after a few years of using the internet: Everything becomes exponentially more of a pain to access for each click it takes to reach it. You could even call it rule #1 of Clyde's Awesome Rulebook of Interface Design Rules and Guidelines That Should Be Taken As Seriously As Rules.

Two other noteworthy things that were/became a pain to access:

• Google Wave: You had two choices here, dig through a menu to find it or type in "wave.google.com"
• This resulted in significantly fewer people even knowing about the service.
• Google then ceased development on a service because nobody was using it, which was because Google was essentially hiding it.
• Facebook's logout button
• Seriously, Facebook. What brilliant person thought it was a good idea to hide the logout button in a menu? The whole idea of having a drop-down menu is so you can hide some features and make the space less cluttered so you can find more important things quicker. Important things such as the logout button. Good job promoting account security there, Facebook.

Moral of the story: Drop-down menus are a shitty artifact of when computer screens had shitty resolution, and should be used sparingly. By sparingly, I mean about as sparingly as you should spread arsenic on a piece of toast.

New games section!

Hello screaming adoring fans who have no doubt been waiting on the very edge of your seats for me to utter another awesome word!

I have added a new section devoted to my game development activities. It's actually a separate blog, because all this excellence is too much for one domain name. The Games link at the top of this blog will take you to the Secret Games Lair. There I'll be posting all things game-developy.