Earlier this month, I had an article about Progress Quest.  For viewing pleasure, here is the link!

http://blog.sillica.com/2007/12/10/review-of-progressquest/

In that month, I had the rise, and fall, and rise again of my character Koopa.  It started out all fun and exciting, building up my character in the #videogames guild, and having him become all godly.  But then, it happened!  My computer rebooted and I lost the save file for my character!  Koopa fell to the reboot.  Tragedy swept through the lands and the streets mourned without their hero.  But then, it was a christmas miracle, I found the autosave file! 

And just like that, Koopa is born again.  I am now able to execute a Baluchitmeriums with stride and happiness.  I can slay that Gordon like the best of them!  Girlscouts, beware, you are next on the list!  The rampage can begin again!

After having the game run through a good couple of weeks, it still does not get old.  It is slightly disappointing that my poor character has fallen behind the rest of the guild but he will catch up!  I have faith in the Koopa and his abilities to kick ass!

The sillican Files is in an expansion phase…so lets get expanding!  With that said, I would like to welcome GreenLightning to the collective!  I have known him for several years so be nice…with that said, give a warm welcome to the GreenLighting!

Merry christmas!  In NJ, nothing to see

Merry christmas Eve!  If I’m lucky, I’ll be able to put some posts up but the holiday schedule is driving me crazy

Regardless, Merry Christmas Eve!

I know that it is corny, but I thought that this forwarded email was funny.  Without further ado… 

Police are warning all men who frequent clubs, parties & local pubs to be alert and stay cautious when offered a drink from any woman.

Many females use a date rape drug on the market called ‘Beer.’
The drug is found in liquid form and is available anywhere. It comes in bottles, cans, or from taps and in large ‘kegs’. Beer is used by female sexual predators at parties and bars to persuade their male victims to go home and sleep with them.

A woman needs only to get a guy to consume a few units of Beer and then simply ask him home for no strings attached s * x.
 

Men are rendered helpless against this approach. After several beers, men will often succumb to the desires to sleep with horrific looking women to whom they would normally not be attracted.
After drinking beer, men often awaken with only hazy memories of exactly what happened to them the night before, often with just a vague feeling that ‘something bad’ has occurred.

At other times these unfortunate men are swindled out of their life’s savings, in a familiar scam known as ‘a relationship.’
In extreme cases, the female may even be shrewd enough to entrap the unsuspecting male into a longer term form of servitude and punishment referred to as ‘marriage.’ Men are much more susceptible to this scam after beer is administered and s #  x is offered by the predatory females.
If you fall victim to this ‘Beer’ scam and the women administering it, there are male support groups where you can discuss the details of your shocking encounter with similarly victimized men.
For the support group nearest you, just look up ‘Golf Courses’ in the phone book.

Whats the deal with Santa games?  Well I suppose it is that time of the season…lets pick up a sniper and take out those scrooges in Santa Sniper!

http://www.ugoplayer.com/games/santasniper.html

Now first off, I normally love sniper games.  There is nothing more rewarding than finding your target and pulling the trigger.  This game, however, SUCKS!  I think santa had WAAAAYYYYY too much eggnog for me.  The sniper gun is flaring all over the place and makes it virtually impossible to hit the target.  Secondly, you have 3 lives to kill 10 targets but drunk santa barely takes out 5 before he loses.  The game is too over the top ot be fun!

Well sorry, I had to get that out of the way.  The game is simple, you are santa and you want to save Christmas!  You sit on top of a roof and wait for the bad guy to emerge.  Then you take him out with your trusty sniper weapon (I think Santa was bad this christmas…) before they make it to the chimney.  Get it?  Got it?  Good.

The initial gameplay is a 3 and replay value is a 5.  I came close a few times of getting past round 1 but it just never happened.  If you want to frustrate yourself silly, give this game a whirl….

I do web site consulting from time to time and my buddy wants to start an ecommerce site.  I had to find some shopping cart software and I am currently looking into Ashop!  For ease, feel free to click the link below…

shopping cart

The first reason why I chose my buddy to look into ashop is security.  You need to have the shopping cart software secure and this uses 128 bit SSL.  You cannot have shopping cart without security! 

The second reason I like ashop is the technical support is pleasant to deal with!  They work with you to make sure that your issues are resolved!

A very big point is that it is easy to use.  My former company that I worked for would design their own shopping carts.  The process is very clumsy and confusing to do.  Ashop takes the complication out of it and takes out all of the headaches.

Finally, it is cheap!  Ashop only charges a small monthly fee.  This works well for my friend’s company since he does not have a lot of capital to invest into the shopping cart.

I would reconmend giving ashop a try since they give you a 10 day trial offer.  If you don’t like it, you can always cancel and try something else.  No risk at all!

ZOMBIE SHEEP

As I was driving to work this morning, I heard the report.  I was flabbergasted.  It started like this “There is a report that there is a sheep eating grass off of 95.  Expect curiosity delays.” Now how does one get to the zombie part?  Oh let me explain.  There is no official report that it is a zombie but I think after reading this article, we will all agree, it is a zombie and we should load up the shotguns.

1. As you watch all zombie movies, most times the disease is spread through the testing of animals.  Generally it is a monkey, but why use monkeys when you have sheep?  I mean, sheep are easier to get than monkeys, therefore it is the only logical choice.  Take these zombie movies as an example.

• “Pet Cemetery” – Could someone of buried their beloved sheep in the tainted lands of a voodoo Pet cemetery?  The sheep comes back from the grave and runs rampant on 95?  Oh it could happen…those poor people who just moved from Kansas and lost their sheep to a big rig.  If only the father did not want to tell his daughter.  This all could of been avoided!
• “Resident Evil” – Could a evil empire corporation be doing experiments on sheep? What if one was ejected by the virus and turned.  Then it took out all of the scientists and broke free.  We are on a verge of a epidemic!
• 28 Days Later – It only takes one drop of blood to turn you.  Could the sheep of been grazing along and then POOF, hello zombie sheep?  The poor sheep, it just wanted to eat, sleep, and grow fur!

2. What is a sheep doing in Connecticut in the first place?  They belong in other areas that have more suitable farmland.  For fun, I did look up how many sheep farms CT has.  The list is about 50 farms, but none are in Westport, where the sitting has occurred.  Could a zombie sheep hoof it to Westport?  I think so!  A regular sheep?  Not a chance!

3. With the rampant disregard for cloning, it is due for some zombie sheep to come our way.  We need to stop the scientific advancement of zombies!  If we are not careful, we will see our great nation fall to the zombie movement!

4.  You be the judge.  I will have my shotgun ready with lemonade waiting for the end while you are busy sitting at work reading about this article.  Good luck…its time for the zombie sheep invasion!

So I know that I declared this week tower defence week….but there is a really cool game I want to slip in here as well.  What could it be?  Gansta Bean!!!

http://www.addictinggames.com/gangstabean.html

First lets get the controls out of the way:

Arrow keys to move
Spacebar to shoot
g = grenade
1 = primary weapon
2 = Glock
3 = knife
4 = MAC 10
5 = shotgun
6 = AK47
p = pause
z,x,c,v = assists

With that said, the game is about an evil villain turning good foods bad.  Who can stop them?  Gansta BEAN!!! This game is kinda a super mario meets rotten food kinda deal. It is a side scrolling platform and you gotta jump around and kill bad guys.  Who doesn’t like that?

So far I’ve only played the first level but I am very pleased so far!  I give the initial gameplay a 8, good controls and smooth playing and replay value is a 7.  I’m sure it will be like all other side scrollers, once you beat it, your done.  Time will tell…wish me luck

And the next game on the block for Tower Defenses is…… TURRENT WARS TOWER DEFENCE!  YEAY!!!!

http://www.towerdefence.net/games-3-Turret_Wars.php

What is nice about this game is that it is simple.  You have a board and then you have the ability to build towers.  Where ever you build towers, enemies cannot walk across (unless they fly) so you can make a maze to block your enemy to making it to the end of the board.  The only thing I don’t like about these types of games is, I would rather a set path the enemy comes down.  Making them come from everywhere makes my head spin

My strategy for this game is to put up a maze of the cheapest unit (cannons) and then use the slower down piece (shock tower) to cause the enemy to slow down the pace.  Then I can put other stronger towers in the maze to cause more damage.  On the later levels, you certainly have quite the maze built up!

The one thing I don’t like about this game is it is not unique…it is just like all the other tower defence games out there.  There is nothing in this game that sticks out for me.  With that said, I will give the game a 8 for initial gameplay.  Addicting as ever, replay value is a definite 10!

Good luck and happy killing!