Saturday, November 15, 2008

BEWARE OF WHEN RECEIVING MSN PMs!

Was listening to music from my computer when an msn pm arrive from someone in my contact list. Hmmm she rarely MSN me b4. So I decided to have a look at the pm.

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Looks like a message from her. But something just isn't right. I know her not that well but I suspect something is not right coz:-
1) I heard she dun like to go clubbing, so its odd for her to have party photos (from her blog somemore she is working her socks off)
2) Even then she is not the type to share photos
3) We are not VERY close friends, not even in her click
4) Why is her photo account using my MSN nick ljm16? Shouldn't it be her msn account?
5) Some really unknown website, unlike photobucket/flicker/imageshack
6) Plus she is offline

I really felt something is not right with this message. This is not the first type of message coming from her account. Previously alot of other similar type of message coming from her, but maybe just the usual spam.

So I decided to click the link mentioned and see what the website show. I was expecting some porn website, since it has such a suggestive message.

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You will come to a page asking for your msn nick and password. Which to me is weird coz PHOTOS SITES such as Photobucket/Flicker WILL NEVER ASK FOR YOU MSN account or password to VIEW the stuff. Unless the user set a password, which is 100% not tied to your msn account.

True enough, a simple google of "cefcell.com" reveals this page.

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SO please, if you receive any MSN from me, or anyone from that matter, PLS BE ALERT. My MSN nick is quite common and worth alot (ljm16), so there could easily be alot of impostors out there. ALWAYS SPY-CHECK! (like in Team Fortress2)

Friday, November 14, 2008

Red Alert 3

Been playing the newest Red Alert recently, Red Alert 3. Graphically it is wayy more superior than the previous versions. Since they added more naval warfare into this game, they made the water effects extremely nice to look at, with reflections of the units on the water.

The story is wayy over the top this time around. Red Alert 1has a more serious tone to the units and story took a slightly more realistic path with units based on their real-life counterparts. Red Alert 2 was slightly wacky, with its expansion going wayy over the top with flying saucers, giant brain on treads and mind controlling botak fellas.

Red Alert 3 throws everything out of the window. Its so over the top that EA decided to make it more like Boob/Playboy Alert 3 with the more female characters and cleavage. The hero for Allies, Tanya, is now a blond, which unfortunately as expected from a blond, isn't that very good in the game. Previous Tanyas from RA1 and RA2 can mow down infantry like a giant lawnmover. This Tanya lacks range to kill infantry and can be killed by even a big group of conscripts. Last time Tanya range is wayy more than normal infantry range, hence can mow down infantry which is what she excels at.

Other than that, the units are also bizarre or copied from elsewhere. The developers really took their imagination way ahead than any sane designer would do. The most ridiculous is the Japanese Hero unit which is a ..... school girl. NO JOKE!!! Geezz you think they would think of a more crazier unit.

Anyway:-
Mecha tengu = Macross veritech with gerwalk and jet mode
King Oni = Giant Gundam
Athena cannon = Take the Hammer of Dawn from Gears of War and make it a giant trailer
Mirage Tank = Mirage tank and prism tank in one, but with less range.
Dolphins = Like in RA2
War Bears = War Bears that can attack ppl

Ok, there is alot of units, but if you think EA did a QC check before shipping the game, you are wrong. The game is buggy out of the box. Luckily mine is ori so can patch it up and now it is running ok.

The problem when you play it for the 1st time is that the game will try to access the EA site to check for updates, hence freezing up the main menu. I solve the problem by literally pulling my LAN cable out of my pc, to stop it from connecting to the internet. Makes you think if they did it on purpose....

Anyway the game is quite simply, WHY SO SERIOUS?

Unlike other serious game like World in Conflict, which other game got gerwalks? Might be cartoony to some ppl though, hence it is sometimes called Toy Alert 3.