I'm telling you!

Check out this Starcraft Figure Auction. There are not that many things that increase in value as much as Starcraft figures have. Figures from 1998 are going for over double what they originally cost (at least in some stores) brand new. (around 12$ each)

 
(Source: http://ebay.com/)

Just a reminder to keep a look out for the effect Starcraft 2 has on the world. :-) No, I don't work for Blizzard, but I played the original Starcraft and expansion Starcraft Brood Wars games, which (though made before the second millennium,) are still among the most popular games today.¹

Starcraft 2 I assume, will be even more popular, however, computer upgrades will be necessary for many places most likely. And there is one big thing that a lot of people are not anticipating, which I think is a mistake. That thing, is balance. Only from countless hours of multiplayer gameplay can a game be known well enough for educated tweaking to make the game balanced, people will assume the gameplay is as good as Starcraft, well, the Starcraft Original gameplay was (and may still be) improved upon throughout the course of years. Blizzard has much more experience in balancing games now, however, the game released will not be perfect and people will complain, but rest assured, Blizzard will surely resolve the issues, and tweak the game to balance it. Blizzard is a master of game balancing. I'm sure there're multiple other companies out that which are great at balancing games, but Blizzard is who I've had the most experience with and seen great things from.

^{1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarCraft_professional_competition}

Starcraft 2 Video Collection:
http://cgandwd.blogspot.com/2007/07/starcraft-2-video-collection.html

XBOX vs Wii vs Playstation vs Football

If you add the popularity of just the XBOX, Wii, and Playstation console gaming systems and compare it to football, I think you may see where the popularity of gaming is going. Now, imagine if you factored in computer gaming.

playstation xbox wii football

Source (Google Trends)

This image further supports an article written on Chexed.com about Online Gaming Popularity. As you may tell, I'm interested in electronic sports.

Technorati Tags: online gaming, electronic sports, xbox, wii, playstation, football

New Sounds New Units Starcraft 2

One new unit released since I last checked the Blizzard web site, another Protoss unit. The WARP RAY. It's cool. I wonder if one would fit in my parking space.

They also added a bunch of new sounds for quite a few Protoss units.

Visit the official Starcraft 2 site which has been registered but sitting lonely for years, but now ACTIVE! or the Blizzard main site if you want, they're having some art/music competitions on there.

Technorati Tags: starcraft 2, starcraft ii, starcraft, blizzard, art, music

There's email, and then there's GMail.

There's email, and then there's GMail.

After reviewing choices of Yahoo E-Mail and Google G-Mail, I have come to an important finding. The finding is that when comparing the amounts of spam I get in my e-mail vs my Google e-mail, much more creeps through my Yahoo e-Mail.

If you notice, in many email clients, there is a button to report emails as SPAM, that reporting may give information to the email provider about what SPAM may look like, so they can then block it. Who knows how to identify SPAM the best? I have assumed that one major contributor to SPAM filters are techies.

One way that this can be taken advantage of timecost efficiently is by (*Sorry, you must contact me to view the rest of this paragraph, I must ensure that only one who is in charge of battling SPAM may view this.)

Because Google has been a leader in internet technology and techies often follow the newest technology (because advanced technology can increase ones abilities), SPAM filters are alerted by SPAM through SPAMS most powerful enemy, techies. That may be why the Google G-Mail seems to be working better for me.

Perhaps those who offer email services should take an extra note regarding getting internet techies (SPAM identifying pros) to use their email service. Now, how to entice the techies?

I consider myself a techie, and you could ask me for some ideas, but I know there's a lot more people out there who could suggest some great, low budget, useful and convenience making services :)

Dun Dun Dun,

Techie, The battler's of SPAM.

I'm having thoughts!

I just want to let you all know that the thought's section is up, which may include random thoughts, philosophy, opinions on psychology and more. I hope everyone has a great Independence Day! Hoorah!!!!!!!

To those of you who aren't from or live in USA, even if today isn't your countries independence day, most countries have one in some form or another, so happy independence day anyway!!!

God

My friend died today and came back to life today. I've spent probably around 12 hours in just the past two days helping my friend. I have not enough monthly income to pay for bills. Taking time away from work to help my friend may be costing my family and myself.

Please help my friend God.