Posts tagged review
Jun 9th
Drawball is not just some paint program. Drawball is a massive canvas where anybody can add their own piece of art. Every user is given a set ink amount, and once it’s gone, it’s gone. Artists can choose any color they like, zoom into a specific part of “the ball,” do a little puzzle to make sure that you are really a human, and draw away for the world to see. You’re probably wondering what’s possible in Drawball, so here are some pictures to awe and amaze you. You can click on a picture to enlarge it.
These are just a few examples of the great art that you can find at Drawball, so head over there and see if you can be the next great artist.
Jun 9th
Overview of the Game:
The Super Smash Bros. series has gone though three games now, and the main question left to ask is, after a few months of playing, is Super Smash Bros. Brawl standing up to the legacy created by the original and Melee? Being a gamer, I have played the other games as well, and I have to say, the highlight of the series was Melee. It was one heck of a great game, with the least amount of flaws in the series. If you have played Brawl then you have probably asked yourself, “How many people do I truely see playing as characters such as Bowser, Princess Peach, Wario, Caption Falcon, or Jigglypuff?” The reasons behind people not playing as these characters is because of the lack of even game play between characters. More >
Jun 3rd
No Fear is an interesting beverage. Now the name in and of itself is pretty freaking awesome, and add that pointy-rific logo, and you have yourself a winning energy drink in the appearance department. It’s also got a pretty excellent can, though nowhere near the bottle standards of previous energy drinks.
Now, I am a huge Sobe fan, but No Fear is nowhere near Sobe’s generally extremely high standard of Energy Drink flavor. No Fear tastes, in a nutshell, like crap. I got the standard “Energy Drink Supplement” flavor, and it was thoroughly gross. Imagine a glass of orange soda, with some grape drink. Now, add in some salt water, urine, and Canadian bacon, and you’ve pretty much got what No Fear tastes like.
On a better note, I will say that it’s very effective as a pick-me-up drink. I had the energy to work through a three hour drum-line practice on 4 hours of sleep. With 174 mg of caffeine in a single can, its a heavy hitter when it comes to giving you the jitters. Not quite at NOS levels, but still pretty good.
The jury finds the defendant, No Fear, guilty on two counts of tasting crappy, as well as guilty on charges of extreme bursts of energy.
May 28th
Hello dear readers. I am Japanerd, and contrary to popular belief, I am not from Japan. I am a Missouri guy with a knack for speaking his mind when no one wants to hear it. So, I decided to move my opinion to the internet, where everyone is accepting and loves me (at least everyone who doesn’t post irrelevant criticisms about my posts. Your mother probably told you you “If you don’t have something nice to say don’t say anything at all”, that better apply to my posts). I enjoy reviewing stuff that people seemingly don’t care about, but thats never stopped me before, so it wont stop me now.
I’m on a mission. I have noticed, in my many late nights spent on the internet, that there is something missing. I am sure that many of you frequently use energy drinks. Thats fine and dandy, but the realm of Energy Drinks has become cluttered with the riff-raff of sub-par beverages, and there is little to help you defer from said riff-raff and the quality energizing beverages. Thats where I come in. I am going to begin reviewing energy drinks, but don’t think I’ll stop there. I may just feel like reviewing flash games, cool websites, or anything that strikes me as awesome. Thanks for your attention, and keep reading Pxl’s blog!
May 27th
I wanted to start things off with a bang, so I figured I’d try something a bit on the unusual side. I ingested a Hydrive for my reviewing pleasure.
Now, combining my two favorite things, water and energy, seemed like a good idea. I was wrong. I’m not going to lie to you, the best part about this drink is the bottle, which is arguably the coolest bottle I’ve ever used. I’m probably going to keep using it for a while, because its elongated leetness. But after the bottle, it kind of goes down hill.
Flavor-wise, it is severly lacking. I got the Citrus Burst flavor, and let me tell you, it didn’t taste anything remotely like the orangy goodness I was expecting. If you only drink energy drinks for flavor, I would highly encourage you right now to never get Hydrive. The so called “Citrus Burst” was more like water tinted slightly with orange and the water from a bowl of fruit loops left sitting in the sun for two months. Now, if thats your thing, then go for it, but otherwise, I would highly recommend staying away.
Energy-wise its debatable. The kind of energy i was looking for was more of the sudden burst oh my god whats going on why is the room spinning kind of energy. Hydrive has nothing of the kind, but it has something on a different level. Hydrive is more of a Gatorade substitute, in the sense that it rehydrates but tries to cut back on the sugar and whatnot, but made it instead just water. I didn’t go on a run with Hydrive, so I personally have insufficent knowledge to review it in that sense, but from a gaming/speed point of view, it fails.
So all in all, I would say Hydrive really depends on what you need the energy for. Late night gamers, stay away. Marathon runners, go for it, so long as you can get past the flavoring.
May 12th
Hello again everyone. I write with the news that I recently did a small touch-up on
the spy skin in Team Fortress 2 (an excellent online cartoon FPS made by Valve). The skin isn’t anything much, just a new camo tie that I thought was desperately needed (I mean, who wants a plain old striped tie anyways?). I tried to give a fancy beard too, but the game won’t show it for whatever reason even though it shows up in the redone skin. So, without further ado, I present to you the download for the skin (I hope you’ve looked at it on the right side by now to see if you’ll love it or just freak out in it’s pure awesomeness).
Mar 8th
Launchy 2 is simple; press Alt+Space, and an unobtrusive window comes up. Begin typing in what you are trying to find, be that a program, IE or Firefox bookmark, the square root of 625, or that one picture buried deep within 10 folders of organization. Launchy begins finding as you type, and you can limit it to only find certain files in certain folders (as is the default setting). After you hit Enter, the program goes back to playing your copy of Team Fortress 2 that it was having a good time with before you interrupted it. Version 2 of Launchy comes with a slew of skins (the skin in the picture is known as DefaultUbuntu, which is what I use), and their are box full of plugins that you can download and use. Please note, this program is for Windows only, and is freeware. Are you still reading this? Download it from Launchy.net!