Blow sh*t up.

I was checking the database for some shooters. It had the usual meh games. It also had two games of a BattleBlade series, which were good, and a great game called Hyperwars (I like its Gameboy-style graphics and it's even a bit funny).

When I saw Ray-hound in the list, though, I forgot about those three fast.

Hikoza.T.Ohkubo ("Hikware") made a game before Ray-hound, called Warning Forever, which I love for the gradually-tougher-bosses battles. Ray-hound is immensely different from that. There are increasingly difficult levels here, yes, but that's where the similarities end. You can't shoot, but you can use the left mouse button to slingshot dangerous rays of light back at cannons that launch them, or "flick" the mouse to boost the ship and reflect those rays. It's different from many games I've played, and while it does feel very different and weird at first, it's extremely fun, and even the deadly rays are a nice sight for sore eyes (though the other graphics are above-average at best).

No joystick is needed for the mouse-only, Windows-only game. It doesn't seem to have sound, instant-replay, or many options yet, but this also seems to be the first public version of it, and like wine, Windows, or anything else (except maybe Sony), it will certainly mature and age gracefully. I'll definitely be watching Ray-hound closely—I love it.

Superstar!

I and other YTMNDers took a survey. The "little surprise" we got (edited for a nice transparent background by me)...

...and what's a post called "Superstar!" without someone else's funny Slashdot reply?

Oh, and IE7 RC1 is up. Note the visibility of the provider's name in the search box, not unlike Opera and Firefox.

All it would really need now to match them there is the icon...and maybe some other stuff I don't care about.

Neave TV.

Sure, Neave has jumped on the Firefox-shill bandwagon. Sure, he's taken down his extremely awesome blog, and Namco made him similarly withdraw his absolutely incredible version of Pac-Man. Sure, I wish he would have both the Pinwheel and its replacement, the Strobe, at once. Sure, Adverb will certainly never like his artsy Flash stuff and his Britishness (though for that I pity him more than I agree with him).

His Neave.tv, however, lets me forgive him for all of those faults (especially considering "Bush for Peace" and "Massive Viral Outbreak"). Well, all except for the Firefox shilling.

"It's your pet, the freakin' head-humper!"

I thought this comment, while obvious, was still hilarious—especially after finally ending the game in question yesterday.

It does have an "abysmal ending". (I love it though.)

One Side, One Edge

Really, abroerman's "One Side, One Edge" is perhaps the most beautiful thing I've seen. Even when counting Lohan.

Umbilic torii, to me, are like chocolate bars.

Eviludy does it again.

I liked the original Elf Sim Date RPG so I was pleased to see a sequel on Newgrounds' front page.

Fantine is utter hotness there, as before.

Competing to achieve maximum suck.

My favorite comment to this Slashdot story is this lovely one, by someone who wishes to remain nameless.