I’ve been Simpsonized. Fun little program to turn yourself into a Simpsons character. They start with a recommended profile based on a picture, then you can customize it.

Saw the Simpsons movie this weekend. Wasn’t overly impressed. There were some funny parts, but in general I didn’t find it very funny. I suppose after many years, it’s hard to come up with new plot lines and jokes.

hat tip to Derek Tags: simpsonize, simpsons, simpsons movie

It’s a simple game you can play against the computer or with others online. The goal is to build your castle to 100 first or destroy your opponent’s castle. You are dealt cards for building, war, or sorcery and must play them according to your points. Good time waster of a game.

Tags: online games, castle wars, games

Take Word Association Test

I think "issues" depend on your time to respond to the words. These ones I had the biggest delay on, and I can understand why.

What are yours?

Via Maryam ; Tags: issues, test, personality, fun

Tags: heinz, label, designr

This is a video clip from our wedding. In many Dutch weddings, at least those in my family, there is a ‘game’ portion to the reception. We chose to do the ’shoe game’, which is basically a game where someone (here my mom) asks a series of questions, all of which can be answered by "Ianiv" or "Arieanna", and we have to answer by holding up the corresponding shoe.

Questions included "Who made the first move?", "Who was the cutest baby?", "Who’s the better cook?" and quite a few more.

We watched the video for the first time this week and practically fell over laughing. Whether you know us well or not, it’s a really funny look at married life ;)

Tags: arieanna, ianiv, wedding, game, shoe game, blogaholicswed

Here is her start of Ianiv & Arieanna Sims, from our engagement photos as inspiration:

Not our best photo from the 300 engagement shots, however ;)

What do you think? Do we make good Sims?

If you like us, you can even download our Sim characters.

Thanks Leora!!

It is an interactive advertising for the Gap where you get to create an avatar (male or female), change it’s appearance, choose an outfit and then watch the avatar perform a striptease and then change into the outfit you selected.

The 3D animation is really well made and fun to watch. I don’t know if it will make me buy more clothes, but it certainly is really fun to play with. Below you can see one of the avatars at various points of (un)dress.

Tags: the gap, striptease, advertising, marketing, game, clothing, changing

Eager for a game of Monopoly, but don’t have a few hours handy? Pick up the Monopoly Card Game and get your land-baron fix in under an hour. Game play is fast and fun. Try to build up a color set of properties and lay down your hand first with as many houses, hotels, and other beneficial cards as possible. You’ll need to exchange cards with other players to win, which adds new levels of strategy and recalls the wheeling and dealing of the board game. Keep score after each hand with Monopoly money; make it to $10,000, and you’re the big winner!

We haven’t tried it yet, but will soon.

Tags: monopoly, monopoly+card+game, game, games, cards, card+game

This article talks about companies who make money by charging people to play for them in the early stages of a game. In many games it takes many hours of running around killing monsters in order to advance to levels where things get more interesting. Some people don’t want to have to go through all that and prefer to pay someone to do it for them, and when their character reaches a certain level they take over again.

Because some of this games have a virtual economy that can be converted into real cash these companies can also make money but finding gold and other valuable in-game items.

The people working at this clandestine locale are “gold farmers.” Every day, in 12-hour shifts, they “play” computer games by killing onscreen monsters and winning battles, harvesting artificial gold coins and other virtual goods as rewards that, as it turns out, can be transformed into real cash.

it is not all fun and games. These workers have strict quotas and are supervised by bosses who equip them with computers, software and Internet connections to thrash online trolls, gnomes and ogres.