It has been awhile since anything has been posted on Geekronicity, our little geeky experiment. We still have to get our first podcast up and then record our second. Should get it up quick as I think that some of the topics are now outdated. Anyway, I have been busy lately. Started a new job and I am still getting my feet wet. I'm also in charge of maintaining another site for a local non-profit community organization in which I am one of the Vice Presidents, so that is taking some of my time. I just love to make up excuses. I suppose I should talk about the title of this article...
I started using the site Goozex.com to trade games since December and so far it has been absolutely great. I was very skeptical of it at first but now I wish I would have stumbled across it a lot sooner. Because Goozex has a loyal following they have a "fan site" called GoozerNation.com. I just wanted to say that I submitted a bad attempt at writing an article to them. We'll see if it gets posted. It's a review on the PS3 game, White Knight Chronicles. Until some other time, I am out. Hopefully we'll get that podcast up soon enough.
UPDATE: My review did get posted to their site. You can check it out here.
Just reading some articles this evening and stumbled upon this gem. Seems like something that belongs in The Onion. Enjoy, and feel free to leave your comments below.
We discussed this during our first podcast. Jimbag was correct that Duck Hunt does not work on an LCD. This Penny Arcade forum posting provides a reasonable explanation as to why this is.
"Duck hunt and other light gun games don't work on progressive scan devices. The reason is how the game is designed to work. Here comes some science. When you pull the trigger in duck hunt the ducks are redrawn as white boxes on a black background. If the white box is seen by the light sensor, you score a hit. Now in order to tell which duck you hit the CRT aspect comes into play. A CRT works by drawing in Pixels starting at the top of the screen moving from left to right. When you pull the trigger the NES also takes note where in the clock cycle of drawing on the screen it is. This lets it calculate how many lines have been filled in and where on the screen the white box the gun saw is. So it should work if you have only one duck and sufficient contrast, but two ducks will screw with it, you'll get strange effects like shooting both ducks at once (or just missing depending on how the game is coded)."
For more on how Duck Hunt works, check out this article. Oh, and watch the below Youtube video and let us know if you believe that this person is actually playing on an LCD.
Our very first podcast has been recorded. It happens to be in a couple different pieces right now and is in need of some editing. Chief wants to have a Friday release but we will see if that happens. If anyone actually goes to this site, I'll give you a tidbit of some of the topics that came up...
Today is Christmas. And if you are Christian or just like getting presents, you are probably going to get some presents today. Get some presents...spend some time with family...eat figgy pudding and what not...then what? Play a game? Maybe. Go out to the bar? If it's open. Go see a movie? If it's not sold out. Watch a Christmas classic? Could be. So without further adieu, I present to you a couple of battles that relate to Christmas Classics. Some very dear to my heart and others that are not so much. Enjoy.
