Ancient Dynasty plus Hergè

For the last two weeks, I've been drawn to ancient timeline, building deserted towns. Designed housing for 2,000 people with their prick needs, ruling it to be one of the finest place to live in. Then moved on to other towns, tried to make a path for my career to be the greatest emperor of all time. Hehehe... No, it's only literally. I've been playing Emperor: The Rise of Middle Kingdom. It's basically a city building game, where you are given an area that where you can build things like housing, mill, farming area, brothel etc. It's a bit like Sim City Series but this time with goals which you have to fulfil to continue your journey as a dynasty ruler.

The game looks good, for me it's the best so far. Has more details than the rest of the games in the same genre, such as Pharaoh, Zeus, Caesar III, etc. The funny thing was, that one day when I was playing it, our housemate, Irwan saw it and he wanted to install and play it in his laptop. Then off he went. For the next four days or so, he locked himself up in his room. God knows how many hours he had for sleeping or how many days he haven't seen sunlight :)

Anyway, if you like computer game and love playing city building game, Emperor is a must for you. It has a wide options such as invading other towns, paying homage for heroes aka gods, defining your tax, your alliance, etc, etc. The game has a good skin and coloring. It even has some funny animations. Talking about animations, recently I just bought myself a full series DVD collection of Tintin. I'm very sure that most of you that read this actually know who Tintin is.

I've been reading comics about Tintin since I was 7 or 8 y.o. It's one of my favorite comics. There are some distinctive characteristic in him. For me, Tintin has represented himself as the basic and primary of the most modern hero in our time. Of course Tintin is the simplest cartoon hero I've ever seen. I'm talking about those who are in human shape. Look at his face, only two dots for his eyes, cute little nose and funny hair. Tintin is James Bond minus the hot chics or sexy sidekicks. Tintin is James Bond minus the weird and kick-ass gadgets but Tintin is as brave and lucky as Bond. Tintin is Indiana Jones minus the whip :), Tintin is MacGyver minus his magic Swiss Army Knife. Tintin also Ethan Hunt minus the Impossible Mission Taskforce (IMF). And the list could go on and on. Tintin might be only a young journalist travelling with his wits dog, grumpy-short-temper Capt. Haddock (he has a quite broad ermm defining curse words), clumsy twin Thompson & Thomson, and almost-deaf scientist Cuthbert Calculus.

Tintin is not only smart (he spoke more than 3 languages perhaps), he also brave and honest. Of course in the movies, most of the time he is saved by his lucky angel. But hey, it's a comic. No difference from those James Bond and Indiana Jones' adventures tho. Anyway, I gotta finish this off. I'm at uni atm, and the Internet is freaking bad. I'm sure some f*ckwits are downloading sh*ts from the net. At this times, the lab sometimes full of people who wouldn't bother to turn their mobile off or at least put it on silent mode. And they like to talk loud. It's a lab for God's sake, you should keep your voice down. *sigh* Oh well.. Take care, everyone.

Here's the picture of Tintin & friends:


The picture is © Herge Moulinsart.
(Click here to enlarge)

Oh, if you claim yourself as a hardcore and die-hard fans of Tintin, here is a good trivia quiz about Tintin and everything that relates to him. Good luck!