GeekDump #15: 11 May 2009

Nearly a month since the Geek last Dumped, but I've been saving up some goodies for you all.

GeekDump #14: 19 April 2011

It's been a short while since I last posted, and longer since the Geek Dumped. If you haven't been watching the news, the area I live in was slammed by tornadoes. Luckily, there was no damage, fatalities, or injuries to my neighborhood (though my ex-wife had a close call).
The post after the fold will have several images, so slow connections beware.

GeekDump #4: 23 Feb, 2011

• If you liked Freddie Wong (mentioned in GD#2), then you'll probably enjoy Cardboard Warfare and Cardboard Warfare 1.5.
• Have you seen the trailer for Dead Island? A Minecrafter made a spoof.
• One of the oddities I picked up from Portal was a strange fascination with cake. Not cake in general, mind you, but I like seeing video game-themed cakes. Some fo them are so cool it makes me jealous that my beloved mother stuck to either plain white and chocolate mixes or bought them from the grocery store bakery. For example, this Angry Birds cake comes with a slingshot and little frosting birds to shoot. The fact that I'm not much a fan of the game (it's just a cartoony rip-off of good catapult games like Crush the Castle) doesn't make the cake less awesome.
• While I'm not exactly a huge champion for indie games, I do have a sizable collection of links for flash games I can play at work (take that, stupid taxpayers!). One of my favorite sites is Armor Games, and especially the works of jmtb02 (This Is The Only Level, This Is The Only Level Too, Achievement Unlocked, Achievement Unlocked 2 all have an elephant as the main character). The latest, Elephant Quest is a type of RPG-shooter that is much larger and a lot of fun.
• Wikipedia humor: WikiProject Antarctica Highways. If you didn't know, WikiProjects are collaborations of editors to improve articles within a certain scope, some more narrow than others.

GeekDump #3: 21 Feb, 2011

• The Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device as made by a fan... I would pay good money for this. I'm such a Portal fan that I bought the plushy Weighted Companion Cube a few years ago:



2008 was a heady year for me. "Your Weighted Compainion Cube cannot accompany you in the next test chamber and must be euthanized." :'(

• College Humor explains why Valentine's Day sucks without using the words "consumerism" "corporation" or "artificial", which is refreshing.
• My cat sometimes stands uprights on his hinds legs like this, which I call "meercatting", but he doesn't know how to use a sword and lacks the accompanying mariachi music.
• The infamous All Your Base meme... everyone who has ever been on the internet knows about it, but it seems to me that it should be older than ten years... Well, the Engrish game (Zero Wing) is older than that, but the video by Bad_CRC is just over a decade old.
• If you haven't heard, the Guitar Hero franchise is officially dead. This Nerf Now requiem is bittersweet... I'm very sad to see a fine game go.
• Anybody play the original Final Fantasy Legend on GameBoy? Remember the final boss? Comedienne Jackie Kashian reminisces this.

GeekDump #2: 19 Feb, 2011

• Manufactoria: assembly-line puzzle game where you have to read, sort, and write programming for robots going through the line. It gets tough pretty quick, unless you have a knack for systems engineering.
• Do you play Minecraft? If so, you'll probably enjoy this video.
• Freddie Wong is a Youtube celebrity who posts videos (usually action videos) that he's edited and done stunts for himself. They are a lot of fun, and he maintains a second channel for the tutorials and behind the scenes stuff.
• A Portal speed run. Whoa. I don't normally watch these, because then I get hyper-jealous, but I'm impressed.
• This photo isn't so much geeky as it is just plain cool (unless you're a tactical geek).