Savage 2

I recently discovered a stream on Justin.tv which streams a game called Savage 2. I've had contact with the game many time ago when it came on a gaming magazine that I buy every month but at the time the game had a monthly fee and I hate to pay monthly fees so I just played a bit and then uninstalled the game.
The game is a mix of FPS, RPG, RTS and third person fighting, you can find more about it in the website.

When I was on the stream one of the producers told me that the game was no longer monthly paid and it was now 100% free ( you can get a prime account to have some extra feature but they're not necessary at all to experience the game at it's best ). So, of course I had to try it... again.
I liked the game a lot and now I play it a while every single day to improve my score and level, I may even get a prime account, eventually...

Anyway, I was in the Savage 2 Forums and a post named "Savage 2 Community Involvement Program 2.0!!!" called my attention and I decided to give it a look.
They were "hiring" players to do some community service to improve the game and the website like map development, graphic design, web design, customer support and translations.

Of course I had to apply for the translations!!!!!!
And now I'm to translate the website/game to Portuguese and then provide support to portuguese people and I will, maybe, organize tournaments and events.
Now I am in Skype in their chat room discussing and giving ideas and also just having some fun!

I believe this game has future, mainly because it's free. Give it a shot, you'll may like it!

Show GIT branch on the Terminal

I ( like many people ) don't like the default themes on the MAC terminal and I don't have the time or skill to make a new shell code to make a nice colored theme.
Then I remembered that in some videos I've seen that the developers have a nice red and blue theme that also shows the GIT branch that you're in, which is pretty awesome.

I eventually found it here ( thank you to the developer for making it ) and the code is the following:

function proml {
local BLUE="\[\033[0;34m\]"
local RED="\[\033[0;31m\]"
local LIGHT_RED="\[\033[1;31m\]"
local GREEN="\[\033[0;32m\]"
local LIGHT_GREEN="\[\033[1;32m\]"
local WHITE="\[\033[1;37m\]"
local LIGHT_GRAY="\[\033[0;37m\]"
case $TERM in
xterm*)
TITLEBAR='\[\033]0;\u@\h:\w\007\]'
;;
*)
TITLEBAR=""
;;
esac

PS1="${TITLEBAR}\
$BLUE[$RED\$(date +%H:%M)$BLUE]\
$BLUE[$RED\u@\h:\w$GREEN\$(parse_git_branch)$BLUE]\
$GREEN\$ "
PS2='> '
PS4='+ '
}
proml

You just have to edit .bash_profile in your home folder and paste that code in any part of the file ( don't delete the other text there!!!! ).

The theme is very nice and it even has a clock and a nice dollar sign for "waiting for command" ( did that make sense? ) and I said before I love the colors.
Hope you like it as well.

Hack or not to hack, that is the question...

I decided to buy an X360 for 2 reasons:
- Because of the exclusive games that it has ( like Halo and Gears of War )
- Because it can be hacked to run backups

As you probably know, there isn't a good and safe way to flash the PS3, yet. But there is a very easy, good and safe way to flash ( or hack ) the Xbox 360 and it's hard to resist not doing it with so many games coming out at very, very high prices and ,of course, the global crisis.

The process consists in changing the cd/dvd driver's flash key ( in my case it's a Lite-On driver ) in a way that it allows you to run game backups and not only originals.
After that's done you have to scan the games that you have before burning them into the dvd to see if they possess a stealth plugin to blind Microsoft eyes :) and there are programs that do that.
There are also another important things but we'll stop here.

I said that the process is easy, and it is, but it involves much patient and you have to be very careful not to ruin your Xbox that's why I'm not going to do it, I'll pay someone to do it ( I look like a mob talking ).

Anyway, this is not a tutorial and if you think that I'm giving away illegal information go ahead and sew me :D
Just Google it, there are lot's of posts about this.

I need to get ideas to make blog posts. Not much time to make them though.