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02 August 2003: "Diversions"
Blogging has been a little sporadic, considering there's plenty happening in the world right now. Part of the reason is that my wife took a tumble on the new stretch of the Chehalis-Western Trail Thursday night when an unleashed dog ran under the front wheel of her bicycle. Nothing broken, fortunately, but she's got some nasty abrasions which need tending. Another part of the reason is that I've been messing about with the HeroMachine on UGO.com, which is seriously fun. If you're into that sort of thing, that is. The HeroMachine is probably a very handy tool for role-playing gamers such as myself to knock out a character portrait in short order, if you can't be bothered to draw one yourself or pester a talented friend to do one for you.
Sure, you're essentially drawing on a template with a limited number of options, but they're working on the v2.0 which will add a lot more options. But gaming is not the only application I can think of.
I was inspired by the flavour text on the opening page: In 1967, the United States embarked on an initiative to create the world's first artificial being. To aid their efforts, a device was invented which could generate millions of possible combinations. Now, for the first time since the creation of David Hasselhoff, you can indulge your own Dr. Moreau-esque fantasies. We bring you, the HeroMachine. Well, why should the Americans have sole use of such technology? Picture this (and imagine this as being read by one of those Hollywood action movie trailer voice-over people) :
Conceived in the back rooms of Brussels... Bred to be the ultimate faceless bureaucrat... The one project the EEC managed to keep hidden... At last, he is ready to be unleashed on an unsuspecting continent... "Is that a curved banana, citizen?" Ruthlessly implementing the edicts of Brussels, Eurocrat blazes the trail towards "ever closer union"! His opponents find themselves hopelessly ensnarled in his twin reels of red tape! And after he's done with putting the jackboot into Silvio Berlusconi, he's got ten new member states to deal with...
Eurocrat, coming soon to a constitutional convention... near you!
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