Cosine's Corner

I posted a picture over on my Facebook page of my Kindle with a screensaver of the Vaultec boy and my friends really wanted to know how to do it on their Kindles. It's pretty easy and takes just a couple minutes to do!

Portal 2 is probably one of the most anticipated games of the year. It did not fail to deliver on that anticipation. It brought what the first game had and upped the ante at least ten fold. I got to play with three different kinds of gels, a gravity funnel, ramps, and all the usual daredevil antics you get while flying through the air shooting portals. I have to admit, some of the later levels were some very well thought out brain teasers. However, while they would take a few minutes to think about and play around with the mechanics the level gives you, they were fairly short levels once figured out. I remember some of the test chambers in Portal taking me quite a while to figure out at times since they were multi-faceted puzzles. Granted, that could be from the AI controlling the test chamber creation at that point in the game. That isn't to say it wasn't fun. Oh god, this was a fun game.

I haven't posted a damn thing since the 3DS review. I kind of suck, right? Well, I recently started going to the gym to lose this beer gut and moobs. It hasn't been as distracting as one might think. I've been a bad boy and haven't really been playing anything on my list but I also haven't been playing anything not on my list. Except Portal 2, but I couldn't resist that! I'm actually typing up a review for that. I just need to do some co-op play on it and write up everything after the intro/tl;dr portion. Until then!

So, probably against my better judgement I picked up a Nintendo 3DS. I've been deliberating on picking one up ever since I got a DSi XL back in September '10. I've read reviews, messed around with a floor model at GameStop, and yammered with the GameStop manager about it. I didn't pre-order since I was so on-the-fence about it. So today came and I impulsively decided to get one. I didn't pick up any games with it because the launch games really don't pique my interest. I'm mainly waiting for the re-releases of Ocarina of Time (4th purchase of the title, le sigh) and Starfox 64. I'm not going to bother with an unboxing video or anything of it since I find those videos really boring and flat-out stupid. But, I will do a kind of "first impressions" post complete with pics from my cell phone since I have no other camera.

I have a serious case of game collection-itis. I have so many games I'm in the middle of and so many games that I own but haven't even so much as touched since I bought them. I even have plenty that I started but got distracted by some other game and forget where exactly I am in the game and should start over instead of picking up where I was just sitting there in utter confusion. I think the biggest bane of my gaming existence is Steam and its wondrous, glorious holiday/weekly sales. I'm intervening with myself. I've made a decision that will, hopefully, get me writing again as well as end up saving myself some money in the long run. I'm going to stop buying games simply because I want to own them. I'm going to finish every single game I have to completion as much as I can stand (at least the console games, my PC list is downright frightening me) and not buy anymore games until I've knocked a good chunk out of this list (again, the console games), this go

Android rooting is largely beneficial to the user because it unlocks the phone to the consumer so that they can freely modify the software on it in its entirety. Android already allows a user to install software not on the market already (Settings > Applications > "Install Third Party Software" checkbox), unlike the iPhone. Many Android users that root often flash a custom ROM like CyanogenMod or some kind of modified ROM of the stock ROM of their phone to increase performance, tweak it how they want, or simply use a system that promotes the open source software philosophy. Other uses for rooting are backing up installed applications, backing up data (wifi spots, mail, texts, MMSes, etc.), over/underclocking your phones CPU, hacking the Android OS, flashing a kernel that provides performance/battery life benefits, and a myriad of other uses depending on person. According to law, it is no longer illegal to jailbreak/root your devices but it does still void the warranty o