April 21, 2015

XYplorer Lifetime License Pro on Sale at BitsDuJour

To put it bluntly, the "file manager" that comes with Windows is useless and it’s been that way for decades. Here we are in 2015 and viewing files is about as primitive as can be. Microsoft thinks they’re giving you features by offering a List View, Details or Thumbnails. Oh my goodness, the power at my disposal. Yeah right. While there are dozens of file manager replacements on the market, most aren’t any better than what you already have and if the y do have a few nice features, they hold you hostage with an outrageous price. There’s a choice, useless built-in software or highway robbery. Can I have a punch in the head on the side? However, there is a glimmer of light in this dreary file manager world – XYPlorer. It is a fantastic piece of software that gives you useful basic features and useable advanced features. Things start off easy with multiple tabs for viewing files, color […]

April 20, 2015

Humanity devolves back to Neanderthals in Plague – Like that’s a stretch

It’s time for the Frozen Virus in Plague Inc, the long dormant virus strain that must rebuild itself and send humanity back to the dark ages. At our current rate of progress it’s not actually that big of a stretch, but let’s focus on the game. An 30,000 year old virus has been discovered in Russia and must be pieced back to together in order to infect humanity. It’s a pretty weak strain and won’t survive in warmer climates. So, you have to start off in Russia, which is a new one for me since all my outbreaks are launched from India. Second, this relies almost exclusively on animals as a Transmission source.  Third, the Symptoms are related to bone structure such as stronger jaws and a change to the cranial structure – thus Neanderthal. Pretty cool scenario actually as you have to go through the Abilities tree and repair all the DNA sequences so you can get Symptoms and […]

April 19, 2015

Teleportation and Artificial Organs can’t stop me in Plague Inc

So I’m starting to get my pestilence spreading rhythm back as I smash through both the Teleportation and Artificial Organ Scenarios in Plague Inc. It’s not that I just got them done in my usual lackluster style of achieving 1 biohazard as the rank, I managed to get 3 biohazards for my effort. Even with the ability for people to run away and hide using their teleporters, I was able to send my fastest ships full of contagion and deliver a care package right to their door. Lots of people chose Greenland as their safe haven which is fine for the short term, but once I get ya, you’re doomed! Which is exactly what happened. I was able to get the Transmission and Symptom vectors going so quickly that the disease spread and killed everyone off before the Cure efforts could even got off the ground. I managed to end the game with 0% Cure. I also accumulated so many […]

April 16, 2015

I Am Black Death – Plague Inc

So, this Scenario took me longer to complete than I thought mainly because Greenland, New Zealand, Madagascar and a couple other fringe countries wouldn’t play nice and bow down to my whim. But, with a little perseverance I managed to get the Black Plague to spread across the globe, even into these far off nooks and crannies and bring humanity to it’s knees and then put it face down in the dirt. Normally a bacteria level is fairly easy to complete, but Black Death has a couple of tricks. First, you need to unlock Symptoms and Transmissions evolving the Pneumonic Plague and Septemic Plague. Without these you really won’t get far and that also threw me off the first round. Once those are unlocked you really need to work on Transmission and in my opinion Water. This bacteria spreads fast so airports shut down early on, but boat ports remain open. I doubled up on the Water Transmission and threw […]

April 14, 2015

Spreading Holiday Cheer Far and Near with the Neurax Worm in Plague Inc

You don’t have to live in Whoville to be the Holiday Cheermeister, you can spread love and joy using the Neurax Worm! Since I’m doing so poorly with the Simian virus, I thought I would check out the Scenarios and see what sort of damage I could cause. The first scenario is to spread holiday cheer using mind control. Oh, this could be fun! Well now, the Transmission, Symptoms and Abilities screen certainly look different don’t they? There is no bleeding from the eyes, or leaking from naughty places, it’s been replaced with the ability to sing songs and spread the joy through selfies. It was actually a little disorienting, I wasn’t sure what to do. I guess I’ll start spreading the cheer through snowballs and see how it goes. I have to say, it was pretty damn amusing. The goal was to get the borders back open and get people all full of joy so they wouldn’t want a […]

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