Just a note – this file is large (>2MB) so you school kids with slow connections will need to practice your patience. Anyways, check this game out, and be sure to head over to Crazy Monkey Games and show them some love, too.

Similarly to the Squares2 game, you have to move you character to avoid “bad” things and hit “good” things. In this game you are a fish… and you must eat smaller fish while avoiding bigger ones. You will get larger as you eat more fish, enabling you to eat larger fish… and so on.

Anyways… the idea of Starmonger is to populate planets and build ships faster than your opponent. Take over enemy planets while defending friendly ones. The style of gameplay brings back memories of Netrek… a StarTrek-influenced multi-player Internet geekfest-of-a-game before anyone knew what the Internet even was (circa 1992). We would play it on UNIX workstations for endless hours. Ahhh… *sighs* …the good’ole days.

Every time someone comes to a website their browser downloads all the little pieces that make up a site… text, graphics, stylesheets, and other objects (like Flash games). These all add up. I usually have plenty of my quota left at the end of the month, but my traffic has steadily increased over the last year and I get thousands and thousands of visitors every month. So this month I am pretty close to my limit.

I know that refraining from posting is a lame attempt to avoid additional traffic and interest in a website (indeed, isn’t that the purpose of the site?), but that’s all I can muster. Maybe tomorrow I’ll have a better excuse. In the mean time, know that I will post much more soon.

I know it’s been a long while since I threw up some Flash love here, so I hope this is worth it. I found this little beauty over at What A Savage. This game is called Air Toss (at least in English) and it’s made by StickyTV. You’ll learn how to play quickly… but to master it will take a lifetime (or just several hours). My high score is 22580. My wife’s is 46740.

Anyways, this is one of the craziest, most over-stimulating Flash games I’ve ever played… but thoroughly fun. And it’s a biggie (~2MB) for some of you on the slow connections might need to wait for it. So enjoy, and don’t forget to check out Newgrounds.

I have to just say that February was a very good month for Negative99. For whatever reason my web traffic shot up… I had thousands of visitors… and even my piddly excuse for a few Google ads have almost made my site self-sustaining (i.e. paying for the hosting costs). So whoever you are… thanks! In the coming months I’ll be putting up more wallpapers and Flash games. And more WordPress themes are on the way. And I’ll ensure reading my blog makes you look healthy and more vibrant… and thinner… and younger…

As promised above, and in the wake of my post yesterday – Islam is a blast!, I have gathered some political cartoon goodies from Daryl Cagle’s website of professional political cartoonists. These are some good reflections of my own thoughts on this matter (especially the third one). Enjoy!

Click to view my whole political cartoon gallery.

Future additions to this site: Books currently reading, music currently listening, games currently playing, movies currently watching, recommended lists of music – books – games – movies, Amazon.com wishlist, photo gallery and media gallery (music – flash games – programming examples – etc). I may even eventually add some limited advertising on here… not because I’m looking to turn a dime on this, but because websites with advertising – for whatever reason – look more professional.

I appreciate feedback of all types so give me a shout if you get the chance.