Viewing the data from Bitcoin Charts, one can see that during the first few months Bitcoin was released, the price was a mere $3/btc. Just last year, the price was averging $5-10/btc.
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| Chart taken from BitcoinCharts.com |
Thursday, 14 March 2013
Bitcoin Prices Rocket Sky High
Among recent news, the value of Bitcoin has reached record highs. As of March 14, 2013, the price on Mt.Gox is USD $47/btc. Now, the question is, should you sell now?
Viewing the data from Bitcoin Charts, one can see that during the first few months Bitcoin was released, the price was a mere $3/btc. Just last year, the price was averging $5-10/btc.
With the steep upwards slope at the right side of the graph, there's a good chance of a steep downwards slope sometime in the future. But who knows, maybe the steep upwards slope will continue.
Viewing the data from Bitcoin Charts, one can see that during the first few months Bitcoin was released, the price was a mere $3/btc. Just last year, the price was averging $5-10/btc.
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Tera is Now Free to Play
Tera: Rising, a fantasy MMORPG published by En Masse Entertainment has gone free to play, as of February 5, 2013.
The game features a unique battle system, which requires you to aim at your target with a reticle instead of simply clicking of them. Leveling up to the cap, 60, mostly consists of quest and dungeon grinding. Once 60, it becomes a gear grind. The game features entertaining boss battles, guild vs guild wars, and battlegrounds fights.
Play as 1 of 6 different races and 1 of 8 classes. Classes are Archer (ranged dps), Berserker (melee dps), Lancer (tank), Mystic (healer), Priest (healer), Sorcerer (ranged dps), Slayer (melee dps), and Warrior (melee dps/tank).
Aside from the 6 races pictured above, the game also features the controversial Elin race, a race visually comparable to little girls with animal ears and tail.
The game features a unique battle system, which requires you to aim at your target with a reticle instead of simply clicking of them. Leveling up to the cap, 60, mostly consists of quest and dungeon grinding. Once 60, it becomes a gear grind. The game features entertaining boss battles, guild vs guild wars, and battlegrounds fights.
Play as 1 of 6 different races and 1 of 8 classes. Classes are Archer (ranged dps), Berserker (melee dps), Lancer (tank), Mystic (healer), Priest (healer), Sorcerer (ranged dps), Slayer (melee dps), and Warrior (melee dps/tank).
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| Tera races from left to right: Castanic, Human, Aman, Popori, High elf, and Baraka. |
Aside from the 6 races pictured above, the game also features the controversial Elin race, a race visually comparable to little girls with animal ears and tail.
Tuesday, 21 August 2012
ArmA 2: Combined Operations - Free For All Dogfight Map
I've recently been playing ArmA 2: CO, and I thought, "hey, why not try to make my own map." Well it turns out, making a simple F-35B dogfight map is actually ridiculously complicated. Arma 2 uses SQF script, something that seems similar to PHP, but with an interesting event handler. If you play on a server that's slightly glitchy, don't blame them; I can tell you first hand it's complicated. In the end, however, my map was quite successful.
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Download Dogfight_F-35B_4P_FFA.Desert_E.pbo from my Dropbox
If you don't have a copy of ArmA 2, I invite you to try out ArmA 2: Free.
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Download Dogfight_F-35B_4P_FFA.Desert_E.pbo from my Dropbox
If you don't have a copy of ArmA 2, I invite you to try out ArmA 2: Free.
Saturday, 26 May 2012
Choosing a Username - A Quick Guide
So you're about to create a new account, and you see the box to input your username. What will you type? The most important thing to ask yourself is: What will this account be used for?
1. The Business/Formal Username
If this account will be used for business or school purposes, you'll want to use a formal username. A formal username typically consists of your full name, or your first initial and your last name. If the your name is common, the username will probably be taken. In this case, it is fine to add a period or underscore to split your first and last name. Or, you can add some numbers to the end of your name. Don't do anything with this account that you wouldn't want a prospective future employer to know about.
2. The In Game Name / Gamertag
This will generally be your alias for games and forums. To make a good and lasting gamertag, you'll want to create a unique username, one that nobody else has. You do not want to simply add numbers to the end of a username that has been taken. To make sure your username is unique, search it up on Google. If you get any hits that aren't yourself, pick another name. If you have trouble thinking up a username, search for lists of prefixes and suffixes, and just combine some of them.
When using this username, you generally do not want to give out any of your real personal information, except maybe your first name.
3. The Hacker-handle / Burn Account
This username is used for things your probably shouldn't be doing, things you don't want people to know about, or you're just creating a one-use email to sign up for another account. It really does not matter what you choose for your name in this case, even random numbers and letters is fine. Just make sure it doesn't contain your real name and is different from your gamertag. Make sure it isn't affiliated to your real identity in any way. You'll also probably never want to use this username ever again.
TLDR: Think ahead into the future and make sure you won't regret your choice of username.
1. The Business/Formal Username
If this account will be used for business or school purposes, you'll want to use a formal username. A formal username typically consists of your full name, or your first initial and your last name. If the your name is common, the username will probably be taken. In this case, it is fine to add a period or underscore to split your first and last name. Or, you can add some numbers to the end of your name. Don't do anything with this account that you wouldn't want a prospective future employer to know about.
2. The In Game Name / Gamertag
This will generally be your alias for games and forums. To make a good and lasting gamertag, you'll want to create a unique username, one that nobody else has. You do not want to simply add numbers to the end of a username that has been taken. To make sure your username is unique, search it up on Google. If you get any hits that aren't yourself, pick another name. If you have trouble thinking up a username, search for lists of prefixes and suffixes, and just combine some of them.
When using this username, you generally do not want to give out any of your real personal information, except maybe your first name.
3. The Hacker-handle / Burn Account
This username is used for things your probably shouldn't be doing, things you don't want people to know about, or you're just creating a one-use email to sign up for another account. It really does not matter what you choose for your name in this case, even random numbers and letters is fine. Just make sure it doesn't contain your real name and is different from your gamertag. Make sure it isn't affiliated to your real identity in any way. You'll also probably never want to use this username ever again.
TLDR: Think ahead into the future and make sure you won't regret your choice of username.
Friday, 20 April 2012
Minecraft Dota/Moba/LoL Map!
Zealock has created a pvp Minecraft map that emulates a Dota/LoL/Moba game in first person. Based on the League of Legends map, players on two teams take down the other team's towers and eventually their nexus to win. Complete with a redstone powered shop system.
It can be found here: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1161133-minecraft-dota/
Although a server can run the game barebones without any mods, as the map implements a large amount of redstone circuitry to run, I've created a bukkit plugin that will improve the gameplay, which can be found here. Details about it can be found on the BukkitDev page.
It can be found here: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1161133-minecraft-dota/
Although a server can run the game barebones without any mods, as the map implements a large amount of redstone circuitry to run, I've created a bukkit plugin that will improve the gameplay, which can be found here. Details about it can be found on the BukkitDev page.
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