World of Beercraft!

Another Brewfest has started in Azeroth, just out of Ironforge or Orgrimmar, as you are a loyal Ally or a damned Horde ;-)
I've enjoyed this holiday, trying to earn much more tokens possible! My wishlist comprehends the Pink Elekk, the "Brew of the month" Club Membership and...beh, everything that's available!
I've bought the Wolpertinger pet for 45 silver from Belbi Quikswitch, the token exchanger, because in the European realms the quests about Wolpertingers and Pink Elekks are not available (do you know that the Wolpertinger really exists? Check out here).
Waiting to try the Belbi's Eyesight Enhancing Romance Googles, I've made some shots at the fest.
See you in Azeroth! Hic!


Brewfest has started!


High Tinker Mekkatorque in his person tapping the keg! (buffing all the present with a +10% xp for 2 hours)


Everyone likes enjoying a beer. Even undead.


Nobody wants to play with me.


Instead of seeing the pink elephants, I've seen the armored mammoths.


No one likes a death knight dancing.


A Brewfest isn't a Brewfest without a good brawl.


Drunk and dangerous.

Ps. I've red "Ashbringer", the new 4-volumes comic about WoW. I've found it interesting, revealing the story of the Mograine family and the born of the Death Knights (known in WOTLK as "Knights of the Ebon Blade" and ruled by Darion Mograine, son of Alexandros, the first Ashbringer and first commander of death knights). I don't want to make spoilering, so...read it for yourself, it isn't bad (instead of the Sunwell trilogy...brrr).

Latest Flashgames that made me happy

In this week of intense studying, I've enjoyed several Flashgames during my breaks from Wittgenstein and some other people that didn't knew any Flashgame.
All those games can be found on Kongregate (as usual).
I've divided them in two categories: normal concept games and totally crazy development games.

In the first category we find:

Epic Battle Fantasy 2:

an FF-style RPG without surprises. Funny, but very short and easy, with an essential leveling system. I can provide two hints about this game: spawn the Slime Bunny (a summon from Natz) and click on Natz's boobs asap. LOL!

My Pet Protector:

another jap-style RPG, with wsc leveling system (work-study-combat) and 207 weeks of time-game playing, with at the end of them the continuous playing mode. The only thing I can suggest to you is to explore instead of working.
Based on the Protector game series.

Cube Colossus:

a spacecraft RPG with no scrolling and moderate difficult. Every level you earn money to upgrade your characteristics or buy a new weapon. Hint: use only the gatling until the end of the game. After that, spawn level 18 with the other weapons (to improve proficiency) and the level 19 or 20 with rockets, to earn money and upgrade all your characteristics to 100, in order to unlock a special weapon. To unlock SP weapons must beat Loki, after level 20. The best ship in game is Odin (earned after the final battle).
I can't find a way to unlock "Excalibur", if you success in it please comment here.

In the second, crazy category we find:

Robot Dinosaurs That Shoot Beams When They Roar:

one of the shortest sideshooter ever, with only one level, RDTSBWTR is a game which tells the story of two flying robot dinosaurs (TyrannosaurusX and Dinomite) that had reached the Earth to save humans from a non-specified space menace. With the beams that they shoot when they roar. Dino-tastic!
Note: the creator of this game nicked himself "I_smell". LOLx2.

Toss The Turtle:

another crazy game, with the purpose to launch as far as possible a turtle that seems enjoying it. You can help her shooting her with rifles and let her bouncing on the strange population of this world (such as Super Mario's Goombas and Bombs, pelicans, rabid dogs with uzis, a big guy with a chainsaw and a banana possessed by the spirit of Ryu, for example).
Hints? Upgrade asap guns and cannon, and keep her bouncing on people with WASD. Let her fall a bit before shoot, so the next jump will bring her more far.

Seed Of Destruction:

the last, totally insane game of this post is a game that misunderstand (or not?) the polirematic "seed of destruction". How? With a completely dumb cowboy riding a giant sperm (the seed).
His purpose is to kill people and destroy objects, reflecting to them their bullets and missiles with the sperm's tail.
Sense. This game ain't got one.
This game has won the badge "Hey! This game has cool music!", however.

Pirrrate's day!

Today's the International Talk-like-a-pirate-day, as intended in many countries of the world, but not in mine -which is famous to be a boring place.
So, because I love pirates, I've decided to enjoy this day in World of Warcraft.
Sailed to Booty Bay, taken up by the crew of the Dread Captain DeMeza (located on the roof of the city Bank), shared a drink with her and gained the "Dread Captain" buff (12h of pirate skin) and the relative Achievement.
Yarrr!


I'm a pirate! Yarrr!


The pirates conquers Stormwind!


Join pirates! We have girls now!

To fulfill your yarrring experience on Azeroth, download the Pirate Speak addon (remember to enable loading Out of date addons).

Storrric note.
The Talk-like-a-pirate-day was founded in 1995 by John Baur (Ol' Chumbucket) and Mark Summers (Cap'n Slappy, which is the name of the Captain DeMeza's parrot in WoW), and become International in 2002.
Now he's a part of the observances of the adept of the Church of Flying Spaghetti Monster (that is going to be my religion), which is based on the cult of pirates (the patron saint of this holiday is Robert Newman, aka Long John Silver in two Disney movies: Treasure Island in 1950 and Long John Silver in 1954).
I'll get some info about and become one of their priests. Love. I mean...Yarrr!

About weapons upgrading

Enjoyed my post about "Upgrade Complete!"? Here's a new shot for you:

Build seventh: The Roc.

The preferred build of Dwayne Douglas Johnson. It's a variation of the 10-lightings builds, with the weapons disposed around the coin collector in a birdie form, creating a mechanical Lightning Roc! So nostalgic for those who had loved "Heroes of Might & Magic III".

Talking about weapons, I've started watching the tv serial "Jericho". The end of the second episode is really impressive. Think for a moment about a situation like that: the biggest american cities destroyed by A-Bombs or H-Bombs. What can ever justify that destruction? Nothing can. War can never legitimate itself, it is its intrinsic limit. Do we need such tremendous weapons?
Before answering, see the video below. And, good day.

Enjoying "Upgrade complete!"

Instead of studying for my next exam ("Information and communication rights"), I was enjoying this little flashgame on Kongregate site, "Upgrade complete!" from Armor Games.
The objective of the game is simple: destroy enemy starships to earn cash for buying upgrades. What makes it funny is that you can upgrade ALL the game: graphics, menu buttons, ship equipments...so I spent 5255 seconds of my life trying various weapons combinations and enjoying watching enemy starships blowing up (I feel so bored before).
Not satisfied of that, I made some shots to post here. Are you happy? I hardly think that you're not.
If you wanna try my combinations then click here and play it from yourself.

spoiler alert: all my shots are taken with fully upgraded game graphics

Before of all, make point that all the builds are based on a fully upgraded Speed panel and Magnet.

First build: Zeus Ship

This ship weaponry is composed by 10 fully upgraded Lightnings, stacked on the main piece. The result is a not-so-efficient terrifying lightning shot.

Second build: UFO thing

A variation of the Zeus. Again 10 fully upgraded Lightnings, but this time disposed around the main piece, forming a circle. This build is good until you reach wave 14.

Third Build: Tenctacular!

10 Missiles fully upgraded and nothing can stop you. I've named this ship like that because with 10 Missiles stacked upon the main piece, it seems to have 2 giant tentacles slashing everything in their way.

Fourth Build: The Wall

Roger Water's preferred starship. 10 Guns fully upgraded disposed in an horizontal line having center on the main piece. This is probably the best ship possible: it makes a fire wall stopping all that comes to you, even viruses and trojans.

Fifth Build: Super Cannon

Second 10 Guns-based build, this time all stacked upon the main piece. It is not particularly efficient, but standing below a swarm of starships firing continuosly makes a fall of coins that remember me a golden shower. Oh yeah, I said it! (cit.)

Sixth Build: Classical Upgrade.

And then here it is! The classical 80's starship with only 2 cannons aside of main piece, fighting for mankind. Made with 10 fully upgraded Guns, stacked 5 to the right and 5 to the left of the main piece. So nostalgic ;-)

Democratic Panty

In these days, italian center-left larger party's having its traditional party...party, the well-known (at least in Italy) "Festa dell'Unità" (you can get it as "Unity Party"?) which celebrates the victory upon fascism in the second post-war period and the re-union of italian country with the fall of the Salò Republic (a small, last tentative of loser fascism to legitimate itself).
This party was traditionally organized by the Communist Party, evolved first in Left Democratic Party and then in Left Democratic, since the great fusion with other center-left parties in the "great" project of the Democratic Party.
And then we're arriving to the new biggest political party...party in Italy, the "Democratic Party". Yes, with an english name. I don't have nothing against English language, but my mind is blowing. For three simple reasons.

First: the attempt to use the assonance with the word "party" (used both as "political party" and "feast") is tremendously counter-productive. As a poor marketing strategy, it will move away people from identification with a party that have lost contact with territory and people.
Second: look at the slogan ("Stirred, not shaken"). It suggests me a couple of things. First, that they had finally recognized that they're only a dishomogeneous mixture of politicians that takes word and lead as they decide every morning. Second, that only James Bond can do something to save italian left parties.
Third: look at the photo. It's a barman. Which is the message? I see something like "If you believe in us, you better think to start drinking". Once again, the base party is going ahead from its top brasses.
Hic!

Ps. the original reason of the "Festa dell'Unità" was a noble reason. Actually, for what we're partying for?

From today you have a valid altenative

Finalmente, dopo oltre due anni di gestazione, esce dalle stampe "L'ippopotamo semantico", sempre edito da Insieme con Il Treno.
L'Ippopotamo è una raccolta di racconti che ha come unico filone conduttore l'assurdo, vissuto quotidianamente come quello di Kimala66 o di Seymandi, sul filo della Rete come Mieleruvido o biblicamente come Valedio, con un pizzico di satira come il mio o con l'estro creativo e "metamaterico" di Oidualc.
Apre le danze con un'ottima introduzione il caro Zop, che presta al libro anche il suo "Ubu blog", dramma in quattro atti dettatogli postumo direttamente dal fantasma di Alfred Jarry.
Insomma per chi ama l'assurdo ed il delirio ce n'è per tutti i gusti, dalla poesia alle filastrocche, fino alle piéce teatrali ed agli esercizi di scrittura automatica ereditati da Queneau.
Chiudono il volume, di 150 pagine (b/n e con foto a colori), stralci di conversazioni telematiche fra gli autori, a testimonianza che l'assurdo è, anzitutto, una way of life.
Per richiedere il volume inviare una mail a Il Treno, il prezzo è di 10€/copia. Tutto il ricavato sarà devoluto in beneficenza alla Onlus Oltreconfine.
L'Ippopotamo è qui. Adesso avete una valida alternativa.

Finally, after over two years of gestation, "L'ippopotamo semantico" ("The semantic Hippopotamus") has been published, always from Insieme con Il Treno. The Hippopotamus is a pick of short stories with unique leitmotif to be absurd, as it daily lived such as it from Kimala66 or Seymandi, on the Web's edge such as Mieleruvido's or biblically such as Valedio's, with a pinch of satire from mine or with the "metamateric" talent of Oidualc. Opens the dancing an introduction from Zop, who lends to the book his "Ubu blog", a 4-acts drama dictated to him from the spirit of Alfred Jarry himself. In short for the absurd lovers we have all that they needs, from poetry to the exercises of automatic writing inherited from Queneau. Ends the book (150 pages in b/n with colour photos) some extract from telematic conversation between the authors, as a testimony that the absurd is, first of all, a way of life. To receive the book contact via e-mail Il Treno, the price is of 10€/copy. All the proceeds will be donated for charity to the Onlus Oltreconfine.
The Hippopotamus is here. Now you have a valid alternative.

Introducing Curriculum Vitae

Finalmente il primo post di questo blog, col quale lo inauguro.
Le premesse non sono necessarie, in quanto le trovate riassunte nel menu a destra, anche se in inglese. Brevemente posso qui dire che questo blog mi servirà per tenere traccia delle mie attività e delle mie idee, e lo rendo pubblico perché credo che solo la condivisione delle idee, anche piccole, possa permettere una crescita personale. Quindi, visto mai mi capitasse un buon consiglio fra le mani!
Altrettanto brevemente spiego il perché di un blog bilingue: un pò per avere una palestra linguistica fatta in casa, un pò per rendere il contenuto del blog più diffondibile ed aumentare il numero di lettori con cui confrontarmi.
L'interfaccia del blog è abbastanza intuitiva, pertanto basta spendere due righe per introdurla: a lato trovate la presentazione, il mio profilo generico dal quale potete contattarmi via mail, i miei personalissimi link, una galleria di foto pescate dal mio account su Flickr nonché gli immancabili Feed e Followers.
Il post di oggi ha lo scopo di introdurre il blog ed un mio breve curriculum che trovate qui sotto, sia in italiano che in inglese.
Benvenuti a tutti!

Finally the first blog's post, which will inaugurate it.
The introduction isn't needed, because it is in the right menu. Also, the reasons why this blog is both in Italian and English are in the right menu too.
The blog's interface is intuitive enough, so let me spent just a couple of words about it. In the right menu you'll find the introduction to the blog, a brief profile of mine and the link to contact me via mail, my personal links, a gallery of photos by my Flickr account and the unfailing Feeds and Followers.
Today's post has the purpose of introducing blog and a brief curriculum of mine that you'll find downward, both in English and Italian language.
You are welcome!


Modello europeo di curriculum vitae in italiano

European format for curriculum vitae in English