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Apr 27th

Minecraft: A new gaming era

By Vetle Wroldsen


About: Minecraft is the game you easily may become addicted to, it's by far the most entertaining sandbox game i ever seen and the co-op of the year.
The idea is simple: Put a man or several players on a deserted island. Give him all the elements, the ability to gather and create. Sit down and watch!

A sandbox game is a type of game that let the players deside what happends next and how to play the game. There is no specific rules or goal. From this players actualy develop new things whitin the game that the creators of the game never tought even were possible.




History: Minecraft is a java-based game created by Markus "Notch" Persson from sweden over about 1,5 years. It's still in Beta but you may pre-purchase and play while the game is developing. It's not expencive at all and never had any public marketing, however to this day Notch earned around
33,000,000 dollars.
Alpha version were given out 2009, Beta 2010 and it will come for Mac and Android 2011. You may play Classic version online on their website, however this just gives you the basics of singleplayer.
If you buy the Beta you may play in your browser or use the client to join or create single or multiplayer worlds.




Gameplay: Everything you see in the game have their own "rules" and use. Dirt will get wet close to water, sand will fall to the bottom of the ocean if dropet at water, fire will burn your wooden house down. Materials will also function diffrent placed on or close to eachother.

From hacking down a tree you may create items like pickaxe, with your pickaxe you could mine for coal. With coal and wood you make torches; and so on.
You will have to farm for food and figure out how to cook to gain health.

But, when the sun goes down monsters will appear so building a small cave or house fast is a good idea. Stay inside mining at night , expand your land outside by day.

  The graphics is for first viewers a bit wierd and "blocky". But i couldent have it any other way. Its crucial for a game that want every single spot to interact with eachother. And when you fall in love with the game like me, you do not see these blocks no more.

  Also the not often played ingame music, weather effects and real 3D(need glases) will make you melt into the seat half sleeping while watching the sun set. Iv'e seen huge castles in hell, Titanic in the ocean and even the whole planet itself in "lego-style". Minecraft is beautifull!




More: A good idea to learn about this game is reading upon their webside, keep yourself updated on the forum, watch youtube video's and use minecraftwiki. You will not figure out this game by yourself.
I will post pictures from both my singlerplayer and my multiplayer world at a later time in this article. Keep yourself updated!

Minecraft Offical
Minecraft Wiki
Mar 19th

Libya: Summary

By Vetle Wroldsen


Libya: Oppsummering


"Til vår sønn, hans eksellense, president Barack Hussein Obama. Jeg har sagt før at hvis Libya og USA skulle gå til krig mot hverandre, må Gud forby, vil du alltid være en sønn for meg. Vi kjemper mot al-Qaida. Hva ville du gjort, Obama, om al-Qaida kriget i deres byer? Fortell meg, så jeg kan få råd om hva jeg bør gjøre." 



  Verden har siden mennesker kom til denne planeten alltid sett gærninger styre folk og land. Hvorfor i all verden lærer ikke mennesket av sine feil? Hver gang lider folket i mangfoldige år, for så å gjøre opprør; et mangfold dør; FN, Europa og USA bryter inn så alt for sent, kjører over landet til grus og begynner en treg oppbygning..

Vi har sett det før med Saddam Hussein i Irak. Vi har sett noe lignende da Hitler fra Tyskland bestemte seg for å slakte halve verden eller da Taliban med røtter fra Pakistan begynner og eurobre Afghanistan, en terror aksjon i New York sparker USA i ræva som så hopper til Afghanistan for å bombe og plyndrer landet.
I alle slike hendelser forsvinner milliarder av verdier på mystiske vis.
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Feb 28th

Vestens forakt for Vesten (en meditasjon)

By Anduril Freeman
Jeg begynner her en blogg uten helt å ha oversikt over dens fremtidige størrelse. Spontant, så å si, skjønt jeg har tenkt over saken lenge. Som tittelen tilsier vil den behandle den vestlige verdens forakt (til tider hat) mot seg selv, sin sivilisasjon og sine institusjoner. Siden avgjørelsen om å blogge om det var såpass spontan bestemte jeg meg for å gå "in medias res" og ta utgangspunkt i noen sitater fra en kronikk i Morgenbladet:

http://morgenbladet.no/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110225/OAKTUELT/702259947

Artikkelen heter Forbrukets demoniske kraft og ser skrevet av
Marit K. Slotnæs, og vi aner allerede i tittelen den (noenlunde berettigede) kritikken av forbrukersamfunnet som ligger implisitt i teksten. Dette er spennende å se i en kronikk om den nye revolusjonsbølgen som har veltet over Midtøsten de siste ukene. At hun i forbindelse med revolusjonsbegrepet nevner den økonomiske veksten i Kina (med utgangspunkt i Shanghai) som eksempel på den nevnte demoniske kraften, er betegnende. Det er et tydelig eksempel på hvordan visse grupper i Norge er preget av exphil-Platon når det ideale arbeiderparadisets fall (altså
Mar 27th

The Lost City of Atlantis

By Vetle Wroldsen
The Lost City of Atlantis



    Few people say that the city of Atlantis was in the Caribbean, while others say it was located at the South Pole. There are even some people who say it never existed at all. The legend of the lost civilization came into light when Plato, a Greek philosopher and author, mentioned it in his dialogues, Timaeus and Critias. According to Plato's account, Atlantis was a naval power that conquered most of Europe. It was peaceful, prosperous and highly advanced in knowledge and governance. The legend says that after years of prosperity, Atlantis was destroyed by dreadful flooding and disappeared under the sea overnight...
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Apr 2nd

Area 51

By Vetle Wroldsen
DreamLand(R-4808N)
   
About 80-100 Miles(100-120km) North of Las Vegas, USA in the Navada desert you will find the most secret place known to exist by general on planet earth. Surrounded by mountains, cameras, signs, motion detecters and security guards with M16 and jeeps you find the US Air Force Military Base "Area 51".
A base you may not find in any official US map.


Untill recently US gverment and US military denied any existance of this base. They admit there were a base close to that area, but they claim this to be a left empty and shut down base. However noone may enter still and you can clearly see activities from the mountains not yet bought and closed by the goverment....
Feb 25th

Who You Are

By Vetle Wroldsen
"Who You Are"
Article by Vetle Wroldsen
2010


Human kind have since the birth of our race asked who we are, yet we do not know and the chances are, we never will.

This is because you cannot categorize yourself as one single thing.

However, some of the pieces have fallen at its place as other pieces have been made by ourself to fit. Some pieces even have been forced at place even though it still doesn't fit...

Mar 24th

21-12-12

By Vetle Wroldsen
What will happend?
The Mayan Prophecy or the Mayan Calendar ends at 21-12-12.
The Maya is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as for its art, architecture, and mathematical and astronomical systems. Initially established during the Pre-Classic period (c. 2000 BC to 250 AD)
(source: Wikipedia: Maya Civilization)

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Apr 29th

Computer Virus Types: What they do

By Vetle Wroldsen

What computer virus types mean and do to your computer



Have you ever had a program or your operating system telling you your computer is infected, and you have no idea what it does? Here's a short guide!
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May 4th

BeetleForum

By Vetle Wroldsen
    BeetleForum

Our Forum have room for more. If anyone would like to contribute with a subject please provide us with your information.

  It's already filled with intresting subjects to discusss and explore like documentaries about Meat,  Trafficing, The Most Hated Family in America, Virtual Adultery and Virtual Economy.

There is discussions going on about Cannabis, our Solarsytem, Darwin, Easter Island and much more like the Mayans, Area 51 etc.


Join in! Get your voice heard, keep the word open and read other peoples thoughts.
May 7th

New Serie: Spotlight

By Vetle Wroldsen

SocialBeetle is proud to present the new blog-series "SpotLight". Every episode will contain the biggest hits since last SpotLight. This may be Videos, Intresting Webpage's, Songs or anythign else out there on World Wide Web.

If it's worth millions of viewes or the subject travels the world in a day it's worth putting on SpotLight.

  Also when we come across some random epic internet treat's we will bring the case foreward with SpotLight! 

Bonus treat:


Classic Video with almost 30 million views on Youtube.
Several remakes, musicvideos and interviews followed.

(Warning: Translate will fuck up the text)

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