Friday 30 March 2012

Minecraft -> Minecrgay?

I typo'd really bad, turning Minecraft into Minecrgay. I then looked at my keyboard and worked out how. Here it is:
  • I typed normally up to 'Minecr'
  • I then accidently press the F key before the A key. 
  • But I don't press the F key, I accidently hit the G key which is next to F. This gives me 'Minecrg'
  • I then press the A key. This gives me 'Minecrga'
  • I then try to press the T key, but press the Y key which is next to T.
  • 'Minecrgay'!
--Thomas

Wednesday 28 March 2012

My New Tetraspace Page

I'm making a page on Tetraspace for my blog. It's not up yet, but it will be soon.

In other news, I came up with a way to make anything sound alien-ic (bad sci-fi style, where the aliens are named after their planet).

We'll do an example: Make Thomas sound Waterbien. Let's go!
First, I remove all letters up to the first vowel of Thomas, leaving us with Omas. We than put all the letters up to the first vowel of Waterbe on, giving us Womas.
Now, we chop off the end letters up to the last vowel (ignoring any ending vowels), giving us Woma. We then add the ending of 'Waterbe' to it, giving us a total of Womarbe!
So my waterbien name is Womarbe.
Some more sample names:
  • Joe makes Worbe.
  • Patrick makes Watrirbe.
  • Cameron makes Wamerorbe
and so on. This could be used for any two words, e.g. Thomas+Joe = Jomajoe (this is now my middle name) and Atheism+Nerdiness = Neiss.

You can request more combinations from either the comments section or my facebook (if you know me irl)
--Thomas

Friday 2 March 2012

Stalkerbien Science

I'm going to do !!SCIENCE!!, to find out what happens if you drop a Stalkerbe 4 stories into magma. Here's the description of our "volunteer":

Stalkerbe 4
A robotic soldier built by the ancients to kill people.
He is gigantic. His metal armour plates are rust with flecks of grey.

So he looks pretty old. I'd put him at about mid-200s-ish. Now, to drop him!

...

Nothing happened. Looks like the metal plates are magma proof. Now to the control "volunteer", who is dropped an equivalent distance onto stone.

Stalkerbe 5
A robotic soldier build by the ancients to kill people.
He is gigantic. His metal armour plates are rust mixed with grey.

Now to drop him!

...

His left hand is gone. His right hand is gone.

Seems like those are some pretty bad wounds. Now to repeat the experiment with females to avoid gender bias. Enter subjects 6 & 7!

Stalkerbe 6
A robotic soldier built by the ancients to kill people.
Her metal armour plates are rust.

Stalkerbe 7
A robotic soldier built by the ancients to kill people.
She is gigantic. Her metal armour plates are rust with flecks of grey.


Now, we drop them.


...


Neither Stalkerbe was wounded! I drop another female onto stone, and the same happens. Another female, and still no injuries! I then drop two males (TS 10 and 11). 10 has no injuries but 11 lost his tail. Seems like female stalkerbe are more resistant to fall damage.


Let's do some large-scale testing. 10 females (test subjects 32 to 41) and 10 males (test subjects 42 to 51). Drop them


...


And we get the following wounds (inc. past tests):
Females: 7 missing parts
Males: 13 missing parts

So females aren't invincible, as I first thought, but they are twice as resistant as males. Now for some combat tests! After sealing off an area to stop others from interfering, I pit 10 females (subjects 76-85) against 20 males (subjects 86-95).

The casualties:
Females: 5 deaths, 39 missing parts, 34 major wounds
Males: 10 deaths

It looks like the female stalkerbe are the most powerful. Next step: finding out why.

--Thomas