Misc: [more]

Breaking with the tradition of franchising popular comics by producing their video games, Capcom and D.C. Comics are teaming up to do the reverse.

The titles set to be immortalized in ink and paper are the best selling series': Resident Evil, and Devil May Cry.

We're quite used to seeing comic and graphic novel heroes and protagonists make their way onto our entertainment systems, but it's not so common to see our jumping, dodging, fighting and shooting entertainments break free of the console. Console to film transitions have been made with mixed successes. Some examples are Resident Evil, Street Fighter, and Mortal Kombat. Console to legitimate comic? I can't think of any (fan fiction doesn't count here, sorry).

Gentoo: [more]I became curious about an ASCII Dungeon Keeper - like game called Dwarf Fortress, on the weekend. From forum discussions, and the games website, it looks quite complex and quirky. I had to try it out. I'm running it under wine, on my Gentoo box. Turns out we need OpenGL support in wine for this to work...

My first roadblock was that there's no source (that I could see), and just Windows and Mac binaries. Of course, I expect Wine to come to the rescue.

I was quite surprised, then, when I found that it needed opengl, despite (from the screenshots) being text-graphic based.

gbrainy is a fun little iq tester / set of brainteasers.

Puzzles are classified as calculation, memory, puzzle or logic, and range from simple to challenging.

Which figure completes the sequence? What is the missing number?

Good practice for IQ tests too :)

I spent way too much time this afternoon solving these micro-nerd-puzzles.

Post your scores in the comments (no cheating please :) ).

gbrainy on Gentoo

Getting gbrainy working on gentoo was a chore, but wasn't difficult.