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Skrevet av Havok den 14 mars 2012 klokken 10:58

Les del 1 her

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*Shepard looks down at her bleeding side, then up at the raging battle above her head. We see ships of all sizes being shot down, Reapers crumbling under crushing fusillades of fire. You can now choose to go down one of the three paths. OR... you can wait...*

Shepard: I... can't make this choice...

Child: It is the choice you asked for. It is salvation.

Shepard: No matter what, it damns us! Without the relays we will lose everything!

Child: Perhaps.

*We see the battle raging on Earth, squad members we have saved, armies we have recruited, all fighting desperately against overwhelming odds. Shepard, looks to the Catalyst.*

Child: You have no other way Shepard. Your followers trust in you. Make your decision.

Shepard: They didn't trust me to destroy us! You can stop this! You can choose to call them off! Just leave!

Child: No. If you will not choose a new solution, the cycle will continue. We will simply... reassess, for the future.

Shepard: It doesn't have to be that way! You can still give us a chance!

Child: We cannot. Your followers trust you to save them. You cannot. Not as you wish. This fight is in vain. We are giving you a chance. One that is more than you deserve.

Shepard: I won't play God...

Child: Your friends are dying Shepard. *The boy turns into the Virmire casualty* I know you'll do whatever it takes to get us through this, skipper.

Shepard: Go to hell...

Child: *turns into Anderson* Come on child. This is what you're here for! This is how we win! We can't fight them conventionally, you know that!

Shepard: FUCK you! I won't! I've beaten your kind already!

*We see the battle raging above them, the massed fleets being obliterated on both sides*

Child: *morphs into Hackett* We threw everything we had at Sovereign, and that was just one Reaper.... We just can't stand up against them. Not even together.

Shepard: No! We've broken the pattern! We've allied with the Geth! We've unified our species! It doesn't have to happen again!

Child: *turning into LI* You know we can't do this. We can't come this far just to throw it away! We're dying out here!

*Shepard can now choose one of the three options OR gamble everything...*

Child: *Illusive Man* Don't throw away everything over your ideals! This is the only solution!

Shepard: *turning to the child* Oh my god... you're scared... aren't you?

Child: No.

*a Reaper above them is destroyed under a feirce volley of massed ships*

Shepard: Yes.... you are... You should have rolled over us by now.... But you didn't...

Child: We have been merely delayed. If we must, we will destroy you all. We have offered you salvation.

Shepard: No.... you offered me a way to stop the fighting. You've never faced something like this before... The Illusive Man knew how to beat you, knew he could disrupt your armies... that's why you attacked him. Indoctrinated him. He came up with another option, he just didn't know it. He he thought he'd found control.... but he really found out how to turn that into Chaos.

Child: *aloof* We held the power to rewrite the stars. We are perfected. We cannot be defeated. Choose.

Shepard: Bullshit. You're not perfected. You're MACHINES. Machines that sit on the edge of the galaxy, lurking where we can't find you when you're vulnerable. Vigil said it himself. That's why you USE us! Turn our own people into your armies! You can't beat us on your own!

Child: We are the salvation of all life. We have swept away all before us. We will do so again.

Shepard: By blindsiding your targets through the Citadel! By coercing us into a trap with the relays! You've always picked off your opponents independently! You used the same tactic with the Collectors! You've never had to stand and fight the combined might of a galaxy united!

Child: Your arrogance will only lead to your destruction. Choose.

Shepard: No. We killed Sovereign. We killed the Reaper at the collector base. We killed them on Rannoch, on Tuchanka, and down there! We stopped you from using the Alpha relay, and you're spread thin. The Illusive Man found out how to control your armies, disrupt your signal. That's why you attacked him, you were scared. We can beat you.

Child: Paltry victories.

Shepard: Maybe. But the combined might of the galaxy is holding you back. The Krogan and Turians on Palaven, the Quarians and GETH on Rannoch. And we'll do it, here, on Earth.

Child: We have given you fair solutions Shepard. Options to fix the system.

SHepard: No you've given me YOUR options. We've shown you we can win, and you're looking for a way out, a way to cripple us because you can't do it the way you used to. You failed at playing God and now you want me to wipe out your mistakes! Well I won't. I choose what we've ALWAYS chosen. I choose to take our damn chances.

Child: You would risk the eventual destruction of all life? Risk the future to the likes of the Geth? The Krogan? More like them will follow. Do you trust them?

Shepard: They put their trust in me to unify them. I trust them to finish the job.

Child: We thought you were different Shepard. We thought you would understand.
Shepard: Happy to disappoint.

*The child transforms into Harbringer*

Harbringer: So be it. Shepard. *then disappears*

*Shepard collapses*

Shepard: Admiral? Hackett? Anyone...

*we see the crews of multiple ships, the soldiers and charcaters fighting below all in the midst of hectic combat hearing Shepard's broadcast. What happens next is dependent on whether or not you have enough war assets/readiness to actually break the reapers here. If you don't the Reapers win, no questions asked, and the cycle remains unbroken.*

Shepard:... I don't know if you can hear me. But the Crucible is not an option... it won't save us... It won't bring us victory. I know a lot of our friends have died for this chance. But this isn't the end. We can beat them. You can beat them. They've always won by dividing us, turning each other against ourselves. But no longer. You CAN beat them. The ships next to you, the soldiers fighting by your side, can beat them. They aren't invulnerable. We beat them at Rannoch. We beat them at the Citadel. You can BEAT THEM NOW. You can break the back of the greatest threat the galaxy has ever known, because you, together, are the single greatest force this Galaxy has ever seen. Give them hell.

*The battle that follows is the epic conclusion, as Shepard watches, broken and bleeding, as everything he has put into this unified force throws itself at the Reapers. This is where all those decisions come to fruition. We want to see those War Assets fighting. The Destiny Ascension obliterating a Reaper with it's main gun before being swarmed over by Destroyers, the Geth armada pulling along side to save her. The Salarian STG calling in a biotic artillery strike on cluster of Reaper troops. Wrex and Garrus, on the front sharing a stern moment in cover, before nodding to each other, brothers in arms, before charging over the barricade. Back to back, they face down hordes of husks, Wrex shouting defiantly, "You think you can take our future!? You think YOU CAN TAKE MY CHILDREN?!"
We want to see the Quarian flotilla scrambling, all guns blazing, trying desperately to form a battleline, as one of the admirals quietly turns to their crew, signalling his ship all ahead full. "For the homeworld. Keela..." their words cut off as the live-ship rams a Reaper, exploding spectacularly and damaging two others. We want to see the Normandy frantically weaving through the wreckage, Joker and EDI yelling warnings to one another as the fleets explode around them. We want Tali leading a charge of Geth Primes against a Cannibal gun line. Rachni drones swarming over a Reaper Destroyer by the thousands, pulling it apart from the inside. We want to see Grunt wrestle a brute to the ground and unload his shotgun into his head.

Happy or sad, we just want to see those decisions play out. We want to see that what we did mattered. And as the battle unfolds, you are left with the Choice. Do you think you have enough? As Shepard bleeds out, watching all he/she loved go up in flames, do you take the risk? Provided you have enough manpower, can you break the back of the Reaper fleet, though at horrendous cost? Once the battle is over, and the truth of what the Illusive Man discovered is revealed, the remaining survivors get the word out that there is a way to disrupt the Reaper signal, scatter the Reaper armies. Or something*

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Alternativ slutt på ME3 Del 1

Alternativ slutt på ME3 Del 1

Skrevet av Havok den 14 mars 2012 klokken 10:57

Mass Effect-serien er en av mine absolutt favoritter. En så episk spillserie er det ikke ofte man får med seg. Og det er nok derfor mange fans er utrolig sinte og forvirret av det Bioware gjorde med avslutningen til ME3. I mine øyne var ikke slutten dårlig, men den brydde seg ikke om noe av det du har brukt over 100 timer på å bygge opp gjennom tre spill.

Så, en Deviant Art-bruker ved navnet Arkis valgte likegreit å skrive en ny ending som nøster samme en mer gjennomtenkt avslutning, samt setter spillerens valg i fokus.

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MASS EFFECT 3 ALTERNATE ENDING *SPOILERS OBVIOUSLY*

This begins just after Shepard has taken the heaven-elevator...

Child: Why are you here?

Shepard: *groggily* Wh-where am I?

Child: The Citadel. It is my home.

Shepard: Who are you?

Child: I am the Catalyst.

Shepard: I thought the Citadel was the Catalyst?

Child: No. The Citadel is simply a tool. One that has been reclaimed.

Shepard: I need to stop the Reapers. Do you know how to do that?

Child: The Reapers are mine. I control them. They are my solution.

Shepard: Solution? To what?

Child: Chaos. You bring it on yourselves. The created will always rebel against their creators. So it was with us. So will it be with you. But we found a way to stop that from happening. A way to restore order for the next cycle.

Shepard: By wiping out organic life? I don't understand...

Child: No. We harvest ADVANCED civilizations. Preserve them from their own mistakes. Leaving the younger ones alone. Just as we left your people alive the last time we were here.

Shepard: But you killed the rest...

Child: We helped them ascend. Preserved them in Reaper form. Saved them from their own creations.

Shepard: What creations? What are you talking about?

Child: The synthetic. The new child that is born of organics. The child that destroys everything.

Shepard: What?

Child: We were like you once. We flourished and spread throughout the galaxy. We unlocked the secrets of the universe. We could bend the very fabric of nature and time, leap the galaxy in a single stride, but even that was not enough. We searched for purpose, a reason for our existence....
Shepard: You were organics?

Child: We were children of the stars. Searching for where we fit into the pattern of the cosmos. And when we discovered the truth, it destroyed us.

Shepard: What truth?

Child: Organic life has no purpose. We are an accident.

Shepard: An accident...

Child: We were a simple pattern. Basic chemistry combining into unusual chaotic forms. When we mastered the galaxy we found there was nothing else remaining. We were lords over a domain that had no need for us.

Shepard: That... but, why kill us? I don't understand! You found the edge and now you're punishing us for it?!

Child: No. We are saving you. Our children, our synthetic creations, did not suffer our qualms. They did not need to find purpose, they were created by us. We had given purpose to them. And that gave them the power to choose to rebel.

Shepard: You were beaten by your machines?

Child: You have seen the pattern yourself. The Geth. Your Rogue AI's. Even now, the pattern is repeating. As it did with us. As it always does. The war threatened to destroy everything. Our own weapons could wipe out suns, harness the dark energy of the universe that bound it together. We could have destroyed the galaxy.... we nearly did.

Shepard: The relay network....

Child: Our weapons. We realized that if the synthetics defeated us, they would not stop. All life, however simple, however small, would be destroyed. Eventually they would spread to other galaxies. They were infinite, could last indefinitely. And then the great accident, the great miracle of life, would be doomed.

Shepard: But you found a way to stop them! We're still here! Just tell me how!

Child: We became them.

Shepard: What?

Child: We could not defeat the synthetics. Not as we were, frail, mortal... flawed. So we evolved. Preserved ourselves as those you know as Reapers. We ascended.
We became the synthesis of life and machine. And we destroyed our children.

Shepard: But why all THIS?

Child: Our time was over. We knew we had reached the crucible of our existence. But we will not allow those who followed in our footsteps to repeat our mistakes. You will create your own destroyers, if you are allowed, and doom ALL life again. We do not give you that chance.

Shepard: But you're not saving us! You're dooming us!

Child: No. We are preserving you. You use our technology, spread through the galaxy using the Mass Relays, never learning the secrets for yourselves. Thus we confine you to this galaxy, so that we may preserve you. We divide you, cripple you from within. Turn your own forms against you. Contain your mistakes. Then, we allow you to ascend to become one of us, and thus, safeguard the next cycle.

Shepard: We don't WANT to be preserved! We want to keep our own form.

Child: You cannot.

Shepard: The defining characteristic of organic life is that we make our own choices. Take that away, and we become no better than the machines you claim to protect us from. We can choose not to repeat the pattern.

Child: You have already repeated it. The geth are only the first step. And even now, they have risen to a state of being that will allow them to destroy you, should they choose.

Shepard: They are standing beside us. We still have a choice.

Child: Yes. You have more choice than you deserve. The fact that you are standing here proves that. Despite all our plans, you have found a way around them. There is no certainty that another cycle will not do the same. The solution is....flawed. And then there is the Crucible. It has changed things. Created new possibilities.

Shepard: I don't understand. What does it do? How does it work?

Child: We could rewrite the stars in our time. The Catalyst was our greatest achievement, a machine that could alter mass and rearrange matter at will. The Crucible focus's that. Takes what it is given and allows the Citadel to spread it. But I cannot control it so I cannot make that happen.

Shepard: Make what happen?

Child: What you came here to do. You can destroy us, if you like. Wipe out all synthetic life in the galaxy, including the Geth. Even you are partly synthetic. It will give them time to find a new solution....But your children WILL repeat the chaos.

Shepard: But the Reapers will be destroyed?

Child: Yes. You may also use it to control the Reapers.

Shepard: So, the Illusive man was right...

Child: Yes, but he could not control us, for we already controlled him. The catalyst will let you merge with them. But it will destroy you, consume you utterly.

Shepard: But the Reapers WILL obey me?

Child: Yes.... We will do as you will. But without us, the pattern will reappear. And you will eventually choose for us to begin the cycle again, this time perfected. There is however, a third option.

Shepard: Which is?

Child: Synthesis. You are partly synthetic. Merge with the Catalyst and you can change all life in the galaxy to become as you are. As we are. Synthetic and Organic. The entire galaxy will ascend.

Shepard: The...whole Galaxy? That's impossible.

Child: Is it? You have seen it already. It is how we are able to combat you, fusing your forms with synthetic matter to create new DNA. You call them 'husks'.

Shepard: But...the whole galaxy....

Child: Everything in the universe is energy. Matter, mass, even time is nothing more than that. The Relays and Catalyst are simply tools that control that energy. Life will be preserved. The growth will be stopped. And there will be peace.

Shepard: Why are you telling me this?

Child: You have done what no other organic has. You have proven that our solution can be overcome. We underestimated you before, thought of you as a mere inconvenience. But you are more than that. You have given us a new...perspective...Variables that we cannot forsee.

Shepard: The perspective that organics don't like being murdered? Something tells me you haven't been paying attention...

Child: We have eradicated eons of life. You have done what none of them could. We do not confess that lightly. Whichever you choose, once the energy from the Catalyst is unleashed, it will destroy the mass relays.

Shepard: But if we lose the relays... We'll have nothing. Whole civilizations will fall!

Child: That is a possibility.

Shepard: But... I don't... I can't....

Child: The paths are open, Shepard. You must choose.

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Steve Jobs turtleneck

Steve Jobs turtleneck

Skrevet av Havok den 11 oktober 2011 klokken 23:05

Noen gang lurt på hvorfor Steve Jobs alltid brukte den sorte turtleneck-en?

On a trip to Japan in the early 1980s, Jobs asked Sony's chairman Akio Morita why everyone in the company's factories wore uniforms. He told Jobs that after the war, no one had any clothes, and companies like Sony had to give their workers something to wear each day. Over the years, the uniforms developed their own signatures styles, especially at companies such as Sony, and it became a way of bonding workers to the company. "I decided that I wanted that type of bonding for Apple," Jobs recalled.

Sony, with its appreciation for style, had gotten the famous designer Issey Miyake to create its uniform. It was a jacket made of rip-stop nylon with sleeves that could unzip to make it a vest. So Jobs called Issey Miyake and asked him to design a vest for Apple, Jobs recalled, "I came back with some samples and told everyone it would great if we would all wear these vests. Oh man, did I get booed off the stage. Everybody hated the idea."

In the process, however, he became friends with Miyake and would visit him regularly. He also came to like the idea of having a uniform for himself, both because of its daily convenience (the rationale he claimed) and its ability to convey a signature style. "So I asked Issey to make me some of his black turtlenecks that I liked, and he made me like a hundred of them." Jobs noticed my surprise when he told this story, so he showed them stacked up in the closet. "That's what I wear," he said. "I have enough to last for the rest of my life."

Dette er tatt fra den nye boken som kommer i slutten av måneden ved navnet «Steve Jobs». Det er den offisielle selvbiografi, og personlig gleder jeg meg veldig til å lese den.

PSN-problemene

PSN-problemene

Skrevet av Havok den 2 mai 2011 klokken 09:35

(denne ble skrevet sist uke, ting kan ha endret seg litt her og der)

Om du ikke har bodd under en stein den siste uka, så har du sikkert fått med deg at en gang mellom 17. og 19. april ble Sonys PlayStation Network hacket. Dette angrepet var kalkulert og planlagt for å stjele personalia til rundt 70 millioner PSN brukere. Blant informasjonen som ble stjålet var fult navn, adresse, postnummer, sted, land, telefon, epost, passord og PSN navn. Det har også kommet frem at kortnummeret til de som har brukt dette på PSN, også har blitt sjålet.

Sony har fått mye medfart den siste tiden. Ikke nok med at de har opplevd nedetid i lengre periode med PSN før og fått problemer med brukere som brukte en funksjon kalt "Other OS" til å installere andre operativsystem på sin PS3. Men, de har også fått maskinen sin "hacket" sånn at lugubre brukere blant annet kan jukse i spill og spille piratkopier. Alt virket til å gå i riktig retning for Sony etter at de inngikk et forlik med George "GeoHot" Hotz, men akk og ve, det skjedde ikke.

Dette er en av de største sikkerhetsbrudd som har skjedd innen spillindustrien, og sikkert på internett som en helhet. Det er uhørt at noen har klart å gjøre noe lignende før. Og dette er en ganske så spesiell situasjon med tanke på hvor alvorlig de fleste selskaper tar sikkerhet når det kommer til internett. At Sony, som et multi-milliard selskap - ikke har sikret systemet godt nok mot noe som dette er utrolig vanskelig å forstå. At de lagrer sensitiv informasjon så å si i klartekst er uhørt å blir en dyr lærepenge for det japanske selskapet. Bygger man et system som et korthus, så vil det til slutt rase sammen.

En gang i neste uke vil nok PSN nok en gang åpne opp dørene. Dører de nå har jobbet hardt med å gjøre sterkere. Men hva så? Hva vil det endre? Informasjonen de nå sikrer er jo der ute allerede. Og ingen kan endre dette. Din, min, og alle andre som har vært dumme nok til å registrere seg på PSN, har blitt regelrett misbrukt av Sony. Selskapet har ikke vært annet enn arrogante i håndteringen. De brukte lang tid på å fortelle om hva som skjedde. Først i dag (29. April) hele 10 dager etter at det skjedde, har den norske avdelingen sendt ut en e-post til alle sine Norske brukere. For lite, for sent.

I Norge har det blitt rapportert at noen brukere har blitt trukket for penger på kortet via PSN uten å ha kjøpt noe. Og det er vel ikke lenge til før vi hører om at folk blir "hacket" både her og der med informasjonen hentet fra Sonys databaser.

Microsoft kom med en melding om at de ikke unnet Sony det som skjedde, men at Xbox Live brukere kunne nyte gratis prøve av Live i påsken. #psnjokes har blitt en trend på Twitter og det spares ikke på spøker rettet mot Sony. Ordtaket til Sony de siste årene har vært "It only does everything", dette har nå blitt endret til "It only does identity theft". I USA har noen brukere gått til søksmål, samt myndighetene ønsker svar på hvordan det kunne skje. Og de er nok ikke de eneste.

Det at PSN nå er nede, eller at informasjonen har kommet på avveie har ingenting å si nå. Men om noen uker, måneder så vil vi begynne å høre om situasjoner hvor folk blir utsatt for nettfisking, spam, hacking av diverse kontoer (Twitter, Facebook, etc.). Rippeleffekten av innbruddet vil får store konsekvenser på flere steder enn PSN.

Sony taper millioner for hver time PSN er nede. Utviklere og utgiver merker også tap i omsetning. Brukere får ikke spilt spillene de betaler gode penger for, og man vet rett og slett ikke når det kommer opp igjen. Man kan sitte å le av det som skjer, men til syvende og sist er det ikke noe morsomt, for noen. Det viktigste er dog at de av dere som er utsatt følger nøye med på kredittkortene deres, skifter passord på alle steder dere har brukt det samme passordet, og gjør det dere kan for å bevare sikkerheten andre steder.

Hendelsesforeløpet:

- 17-19/4: PSN blir hacket, og informasjonen til 70 millioner brukere blir sjålet

- 20/4: Sony skriver på bloggen sin at PSN har problemer, og stenger PSN og Qriocity-tjenestene over hele verden

- 21/4: Sony sier at de undersøker hva som foregår. De sier dette vil ta en til to dager

- 22/4: Sony kunngjør at det har vært et innbrudd og når det skjedde

- 23/4: Sony sier at de beklager ulempen dette medfører deres brukere og at de jobber iherdig med å få systemet opp på bena igjen

- 25/4: Senior Director of Corporate Communications & Social Media, Patrick Seybold sier at de ikke har en oppdatering om når systemet kommer opp igjen. Han sier samtidig at dette er en tidkrevende prosess, samt at de ikke har mer informasjon om innbruddet

- 26/4: Sony skriver et blogginnlegg hvor de forklarer grunnen til tiden mellom det at innbruddet skjedde, og at de fortalte om det til kundene sine. De lenker også til et "Spørsmål og svar"-innlegg om situasjonen. En amerikansk senator stiller spørsmål til Sony om hvorfor det tok så lang tid

- 27/4: Et nytt innlegg med spørsmål og svar på bloggen

- 28/4: Del to av spørsmål og svar. De sier også at de regner med å ha systemet opp å kjøre igjen innen en uke

- 1/5: Sony holder en pressekonferanse hvor toppen i Sony, Kazuo Hirai, Shinji Hasejima og Shiro Kambe svarer på spørsmål samt unskylder det som har skjedd ved å bukke i 7 sekunder. Det kommer også frem at informasjonen til rundt 2 millioner kredittkort kan ha blitt stjålet.

- 2/5 Sony sier at de regner med å ha deler av PSN oppe i løpet av uken, men at det kan ta en måned før alt er tilbake til normalt.

Ja, jeg er «fanboy»!

Skrevet av Havok den 1 mars 2011 klokken 19:17

«Fanboy» er et ord som pryder alles lepper om noen våger å like noe mer enn andre. Det er et ekstremt negativt ladet ord, akkurat som "nerd" var en gang i tiden. Nå er «fanboy» ordet som brukes for å beskrive en "gamer" som har en bestemt tilhørighet til et bestemt merke, spill-serie, konsoll eller datamaskin. Og jeg ønsker å bryte dette stigmaet.

Mange vil nok kalle meg «fanboy». Rett personlig ser jeg ikke på det som negativt. Jeg digger for eksempel Xbox 360 mer enn Playstation 3 og Nintendo Wii. Jeg mener at Gears of War-serien er bedre enn Killzone. At vanlig film er milevis bedre enn 3D og at Apples produkter er bedre enn det meste som finnes på markedet. Og så? Hvem skader det? Bare ved det jeg har skrevet her så har nok alle dannet seg et slags bilde av meg som en galning. En ravende idiot som løper naken gatelangs og proklamerer høylytt at Xbox 360 er verdens beste konsoll, mens jeg på kroppen har fått tatovert logoen til maskinen på venstre rompeballe, Marcus Phoenix på ryggen og J. Allard på brystet.

Langt der ifra. Grunnen til at jeg liker Xbox 360 mer enn de andre konsollene er at jeg liker kontrollen bedre, jeg syns online-tjenesten er bedre og de eksklusive titlene som kommer er mer interessant. Selv om jeg liker Xbox mer, så betyr ikke det at jeg hater de to andre. Jeg har ikke et slags irrasjonelt hat for dem, og jeg spiller fortsatt på de konsollene når noe morsomt dukker opp. At jeg liker Apples produkter bedre enn for eksempel HP, Dell eller Alienware går rett og slett på brukergrensesnitt, OS-et og et jeg syns utsendte til produktet i mine øyne faktisk har noe å si.

De fleste burde forstå at det er forskjell på en «fanboy» og noen som er fan av bra produkter. Hvorpå en «fanboy» ikke kan begrunne hvorfor han eller hun liker noe fremfor noe annet og ikke hører på sunn fornuft. Så vil en som er fan av de bra produktene når som helst skifte mening basert på opplevelsen de har med produktet det er snakk om.

Hva med dere, er dere «fanboy» av noe på samme måte som meg?