So a mate of mine found an interesting site where you can apparently download RAM.
Yes, someone actually came up with a site to “Download” RAM.
Just looking at the company’s address you can tell the site’s dodgy, downloading this “RAM” will probably install a Trojan or something of the like into your computer.
Sneaky way of trying to scam computer illiterate people though.
So on my usual romp on the internet I stumbled upon this interesting piece of news.
A pilot apparently stole a Cessna 172 light aircraft from the Confederation College in Thunder Bay, Ontario in Canada.
According to Confederation College vice president Judi Maundrell this man requisited his aircraft by scaling a fence, simply jumped into a plane and took off, the keys were already inside as students were using the planes. The aircraft was apparently fully fueled with enough to fly for about 7-8 hours according to two difference sources.
After acquiring this ill gotten gains this man proceeded to fly his aircraft south, over the US border attracting the attention of NORAD which dispatched F-16s from the Wisconsin Air National Guard to intercept the flying felon, who led the fighter pilots on a seven hour, 1,261 kilometer wild goose chase.
The F-16 pilots claim that the pilot did not obey non-verbal instructions to follow them back to their base but did acknowledge their presence, the pilot later put his plane down on a road near Piedmont, Missouri only to escape on foot.
He was later taken into custody, by local police.
A day later a police officer stated on “Good Moring America” that the reason this man stole the plane was to commit suicide, unfortunately he did not have it in him to do it himself: so he decided to steal a plane, fly it over the US border and hope that a fighter would shoot him down.
Flying Balloon heads... O_o
So on my usual trawl of Sankaku Complex I stumbled upon an interesting Homebrew game for the Nintendo DS: a recreation of the renowned Touhou manic shooters.
In its current version (as of this post) Touhou DS 0.8 is made up of four stages in the demo level, with most of the fancy text still very much under construction. According to the developer’s site you can muck around with the in-game files letting you adjust the amount of bombs and lifes your character has.
Reimu! Reimu! :3
So how does it play? Well to put it simply it’s quite fun to play when you’re on break or just want to kill a few minutes.
The game currently has a selection of 5 characters from the Touhou games for you to choose all with different bullet patterns, unique bombs, and movement speeds. All make for an interesting play through.
IMA FIRIN' MAH LAZAH!!!!!!!!!!111!!!ONEONE
Controls are relatively simple with the D-pad controlling movement, while ‘X,Y,B,A,L & R’ can be configured for Shoot, Focus (concentrating your bullets but sacrificing speed), Bomb, holding down focus and then hitting your bomb button will use your unique Bomb attack.
Its Raining Men Hallelouya... Oh wait...
The boss battles get progressively harder with each boss at each stage gaining more lives forcing you to kill them many times over before defeating them, enemies are relatively easy to kill but again get harder to kill as the stages progress and the bullet patterns get crazier and more interesting as you get to the higher stages.
Collecting drops from enemies makes your attacks not only stronger but changes your shots adding more firepower or better coverage (spread shot) dieing results in you losing your powerup one rank at a time until you only have your weakest attack with barely any coverage and poor power.
A word of warning, for those who have not played Touhou will find themselves dieing a lot as a single hit will kill you, but luckily it does offer you a chance to restart the current stage instead of having to start over from the beginning.
The graphics as a whole are quite good for a DS game, the interface is still relatively rough but workable allowing you to easily navigate the menus, and the soundtrack is brilliant in all its sorta-midi greatness.
Overall I’ve found the game very amusing, fun and a good time killer.
Can’t wait for the next version to come out.
I’d highly recommend this game to those looking for something to kill time on their DS, so long as you have an R4 or similar cartridge.
Link to developer’s Site
Sankaku Complex Article Link
From the looks of it ‘Weeaboo’ the developer is also developing a DS port for other games the one that draws most of my attention is the awesome Fate/Stay Night visual novel which I am currently in the process of downloading, I’ll report back on here when I’ve given it a spin.
In other news Atomic Magazine reports that the Australian Board of Classification website was hacked by aliens.
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So I was browsing the OCAU (Overclockers Australia) shop and swap section and just so happen on to this funny vending thread.
Here are some quotes from the thread with many expressing their interest in buying a fellows’ sister.
The Ad
My Sister
*****(Yes I blanked name out)
16
occasional needs feeding
$100 o.n.o
“Ill give her $10 to wash my car thoroughly and then clean my place…btw she any good at IT… maybe she could build a flash site for school for me
rofl nice try buddie
“lay buy? 4 years should cover it ““Exactly how often is ‘occasionally’?..
Also, how much would postage be?..
Does she come with the crackers?.. If so, instant plus postage.”
“will take at instant
how soon can i pickup?”“how much is delivered to melbourne?
an airplane ticket ?seriously, this is the best sale thread i’ve ever seen.
my sister for sale.
oh no, crackers is gone !“
“sweet…maybe a rock paper scissors to see who gets her first?”
“Will you offer DOA for sister? If so, instant pp.”
“do you have all receipts for your sister? warranty?
“
Now to all those that are reading this and are thinking “ZOMG PEDO” this was just a joke someone who got bored put into their otherwise serious trade tread.
