Hall of Heroes
infrequent delusions of grandeur
Trivia
Dec 2nd
This time I had two steaks. A bowl of chips costs exactly the same and I was still hungry, so why not?
They are still fast for trivia here but not fast enough for me to be there when our final score is read out. I think that The Devil Hates Kung-Fu did well. Maybe we even beat those pesky Well Hungarians. But does it really matter? Fun is the real winner.
So I Guess I Was Hacked
Nov 19th
Something a lot like this. It seems that the point of entry was TinyMCE. It serves me right for languishing on such an old version of WordPress for so long.
I don’t know exactly how this site was being exploited but I hope that nothing malicious happened to any of my two to three visitors. You’re all reading on RSS these days, right? Anyway, I blew away the installs and got latest versions which (fingers crossed) have these vulnerabilities closed. I’m still in the process of bringing the DB entries over. Turns out there’s been a few schema changes since 2.0.3. So there may be some weirdness in the mean time.
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The Simpsons Game
Nov 19th
I finished this on the PSP ages ago. I had planned to vent about how frustrating it was to play but then decided it was just another ordinary game where all the money was spent on the license. Why do publishers think that people will by something just because it contains characters from their favourite TV show/Movie/Comic book?
I was put in the mind of this again when playing Marvel Superhero Squad (also on PSP). A game should be challenging due to skills required to solve intentional parts of the gameplay like problem-solving and coordination. Not because the camera positioning is like a swooping eagle with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. This is something The Simpsons Game suffered from as well.
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