Comments on: I Am Here https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/ We're back on a default theme because comments broke on my custom one and I don't have the energy to figure out why Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:34:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Cartho https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46764 Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:59:18 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46764 Man that breakfast looks extremely good!

]]> By: Jason L https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46762 Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:11:26 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46762 Note: That was posted despite being fully aware of the previous post about the Twitter being unrelated to the trip. Speaking of divisions between hemispheres…

]]> By: Jason L https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46761 Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:53:19 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46761 That was my immediate thought too, though he’d be off the developer’s location by roughly .8 terrestrial hemispheres. Maybe the publisher’s based in SF.

]]> By: westyfield https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46759 Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:16:18 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46759 Is ‘Something Versus Something’ the strategy game ‘Stalin Vs. Martians’? And does that title make you want the game to be released, now?

(Click the name for more info)

]]> By: MartinJ https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46755 Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:39:15 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46755 Heh.

I thought that was lunch.

]]> By: Chijts https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46753 Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:01:18 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46753 That’s a nice camera you are using there to take your piccies. Who would want that much salad for their brekky though?

]]> By: spuzman00 https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46748 Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:46:38 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46748 That seems very interesting indeed. I wonder if KEEP would be able to provide support for, say, decade-old MMOs whose developers stopped providing servers years ago.

]]> By: Pentadact https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46745 Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:06:40 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46745 Jebus: interesting stuff.

Lack: interesting stuff.

]]> By: Lack_26 https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46741 Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:50:53 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46741 This is un-related, but Pentadact might find this interesting (as would some others). It’s about project KEEP, which is being done by the European Union, to make sure that all our old software (games, etc) can be protected against the march of time. More in the article (just click my name for the link).

]]> By: Jebus https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46734 Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:53:21 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46734 Pentadact, I’m guessing the lamp you mentioned clicks 3 times before it turns on because it is designed to be used with 3 way light bulbs. The ones that are like 50 watts, 100 watts, and 150 watts. Each click activates the next wattage and the fourth turns it back off. The hotel probably just put in regular light bulbs so the first two clicks don’t do anything. Sorry if this was already answered, I only skimmed the comments.

]]> By: ZomBuster https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46732 Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:16:39 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46732 Ah too bad, that would have been a lot cooler to figure out.

]]> By: Bobsy https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46730 Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:20:25 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46730 Maggie vs. Hesletine: the ROCKENING

Only in San Francisco, huh? Huh?

]]> By: Pentadact https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46727 Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:54:55 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46727 Heh. The San Francisco trip wasn’t related to the something vs something game. That would be a tie-in, anyway.

]]> By: The_B https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46717 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:02:19 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46717 Tom Francis vs Creepy Stalkers. They’re armed with The Internet, Tom is armed with an incredibly sharp pair of chopsticks. It’s an ARG. They just didn’t tell Tom yet…

]]> By: ZomBuster https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46716 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:42:17 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46716 Game studios located in San Francisco:

Double Fine
2D Boy
SEGA
Lucas Arts
Eidos interactive
Popcap games

My bet is on Bookworm vs Peggle where you need to shoot pegs with letters on them in the right combination.

]]> By: Little Green Man https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46712 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:12:49 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46712 Also is this Something versus Something completely new then? A completely new ip?

]]> By: Little Green Man https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46711 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:10:59 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46711 STALK-SQUAD. GOOOOOO!!!!!!!

]]> By: Pentadact https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46710 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:02:45 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46710 Right about Kabuki, creepily, wrong about something vs something. It’s not a sequel or tie-in.

]]> By: Blaahah https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46708 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:38:02 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46708 Definately Alien versus Predator.

http://kotaku.com/5151456/aliens-fight-predators-again-in-2010

]]> By: ZomBuster https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46707 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:32:38 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46707 I agree with Ian here, why would someone do that? It’s horrible!

]]> By: J-Man https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46705 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:51:59 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46705 Tom! Be careful! Zombuster is sending the ninjas!

]]> By: Iain "DDude" Dawson https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46699 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:02:08 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46699 Well isn’t this fun? You throw a few holiday snaps on the internet, and we prove our stalking abilities are well honed, and then, instead of complimenting a wonderful choice of hat (I want one!) we go straight to assassination.

]]> By: Formerly Cpt.Muffin https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46698 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:00:35 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46698 How much of an international following does Tom have exactly? Feels like he could pop into Alaska and a commenter would turn up saying “Hey you’re in my neck of the woods!”. Guess it’s one of the perks that come with being a respected journo. Or an international man of mystery. I’ll let you decide.

Plus, I regret looking like a tit and jumping to the Japan conclusion before Tom put up those two other photos.

In effort to correct my suggestions, try driving around the sunny hills in a Green Mustang as part of a car chase with a Dodge? I’m not sure what else there is in San Francisco to do than get on trams and bump into Latino gangs. Pick up a hooker? Visit a pleasant neighbourhood? Secretly replace the lamps in your hotel?

]]> By: Jazmeister https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46678 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:09:46 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46678 My lamps are like that.

And ZomBuster, that’s not big, but it is clever.

]]> By: Mahlen https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46677 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:59:48 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46677 In San Francisco, that church is known informally as “Our Lady of the Maytag”, due to its resemblance to a washing machine agitator.

Hope you get time to see other neighborhoods.

mahlen

]]> By: spuzman00 https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46672 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:05:07 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46672 San Francisco! Right in my neighborhood!

Don’t worry if you see some guy following you around. I won’t hurt you (as long as you don’t try anything).

]]> By: ZomBuster https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46671 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:29:46 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46671 That church is the Saint Mary Cathedral, and using the latest of highly classified software (google maps) I find out your hotel is Hotel Kabuki.

Oh I love doing this, give me a random picture and a vague location and I can find anything.

]]> By: Kazill https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46670 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:11:10 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46670 Which Olympus model is that guy holding? It looks like my SLR.

]]> By: Roadrunner https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46667 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:04:21 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46667 One Word. Belgium.

If I’m right i’ll look cool, if i’m wrong it’s okay because i’ve put this last sentence here.

]]> By: Pixel Knight https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46666 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:45:36 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46666 Yeah, well I call shotgun!

]]> By: MartinJ https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46664 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:19:04 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46664 Gentlemen, prepare to board our airplanes, we’re flying to San Francisco. And assassinating Mr. Francis on his couch.

(dibs on it)

]]> By: Lack_26 https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46661 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:30:14 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46661 He is in San Francisco,
Quote from Twitter: “Found breakfast this morning by Googling ‘best breakfast in San Francisco’ and taking a cab. Zazie in Haight Ashbury, and it probably is.’

unless this is a devious form of mis-direction.

]]> By: The_B https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46658 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:26:02 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46658 My assumptions are from data procured from what I assume was Mr Francis looking at my site from his dashboard. Unless someone else knows his password.

SHIT, TOM – THE NINJAS HAVE YOUR PASSWORD!

]]> By: skizelo https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46656 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:57:12 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46656 Why is that building wearing a hat? Who would do such a thing? What’s the point?

]]> By: MartinJ https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46655 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:37:13 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46655 I think they have these “special” lamps for “special” guests like you. If you know what I’m suggesting.

]]> By: Pentadact https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46654 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:24:06 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46654 What is up with hotel lamps? Am I right, men? I’m assuming the reason hotels never have main lights in the ceiling is to simplify the wiring, but why do the lamps they provide have to be activated by the most arcane and awkward means? These ones you have to reach inside the shade and twizzle a tiny black dial until it clicks three times past a mysterious threshold. Is there something wrong with the humble button that I’m not aware of?

]]> By: MartinJ https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46653 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:19:30 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46653 Those are hotel bed sheets and lamps if I’ve ever seen any.
The rest of it, though, doesn’t seem so hotel-ish.

]]> By: Pentadact https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46652 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:12:34 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46652 This is the bed:

location2

]]> By: Jazmeister https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46644 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:37:06 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46644 lulz@Bret.

I think he is sleeping in a tiny, dwarf-sized bed. Maybe this is a first person shot? Would explain the flash-light thing.

So this also explains why he could update; that computer is like the typewriters in resident evil.

Maybe he’s in the Matrix.

]]> By: Bret https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46635 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 04:06:21 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46635 No.

He’s in…
Sealand!

Or something.

]]> By: Cmdt_Carpenter https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46633 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:19:00 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46633 The_B: Where else would there be such decorations? England? I scoff at the very idea.

Scoff.

]]> By: The_B https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46630 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:41:33 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46630 I don’t think he is in Japan. Or indeed the east, assuming my awesome stalking powers are correct.

]]> By: Chris R https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46629 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:07:06 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46629 Ninja Gaiden…. 3?

It really does look like a CGI shot though.

]]> By: Roadrunner https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46626 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:06:30 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46626 It’s either a horrific tourist dump, or Kyoto.
Atleast your bed has a pillow. You beat me there.

]]> By: MartinJ https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46625 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:56:11 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46625 I’m pretty sure it’s just a resting couch; and also the reason of Tom’s absence.

He keeps resting.

]]> By: Cmdt_Carpenter https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46624 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:54:29 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46624 So if you’re in Japan (One can only assume you are) this is hindering your internet capabilities somehow?

]]> By: CloakRaider https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46623 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:18:52 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46623 So let’s get this straight. Just how many ninja’s are you fighting?

]]> By: Iain "DDude" Dawson https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46619 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:10:40 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46619 OK, so now I am confuddled. Is that an uncomfortable looking, very small bed as I assumed with the support of Chijts, or a couch as MartinJ says?

Or, third option, a Haggunenon, half-way between the two?

]]> By: ZomBuster https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46618 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:25:12 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46618 Mysterious..

]]> By: MartinJ https://www.pentadact.com/2009-02-09-i-am-here/#comment-46615 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:58:07 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=584#comment-46615 Aw, man. I want that couch in my room.

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