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Izwalito

As I'm often considered as a space alien, I've chosen Izwalito as a nickname. The name Izwalito has been inspired to me by a game I played on my Atari ST: Captain Blood. This game is a space adventure where you meet some alien species among which are the Izwals. The suffix "-ito" comes from the spanish language and means "son of", "little" or "baby". Izwalito is the portmanteau made from Izwal and the suffix "-ito". The following excerpt from the Atari ST version Captain Blood manual and describes the Izwals as "Peaceful and generous beings that looks almost human. Very cultured. Masters of science."

About the Captain Blood trilogy

Captain Blood is a unique videogame due to its particularly immersive athmosphere, and creativity. Directly related to science fiction, Captain blood is the first game of a trilogy which includes Captain Blood (1988), Commander Blood (1994) and "Big Bang" Bug: The Return of Commander Blood (1996).

External links

Captain Blood Manual (PDF)
Sam Jeffreys' Captain Blood page
Captain Blood Series on www.mobygames.com
Captain Blood and the bluddian language, listen to the bluddian language spoken by an Izwal.
Captain Blood Walkthrough

Despair Inc

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Business As Usual

Apathy [1] : If We Don't Take Care of the Customer, Maybe They'll Stop Bugging Us.
Consulting [2] : If You're Not a Part of the Solution, There's Good Money to be Made in Prolonging the Problem.
Demotivation [3] : Sometimes the Best Solution to Morale Problems Is Just to Fire all of the Unhappy People.
Discovery [4] : A Company That Will Go to the Ends of the Earth for its People Will Find It Can Hire Them for about 10% os the Cost of Americans.
Disservice [5] : It Takes Months to Find a Customer, but Only Seconds to Lose One... The Good News is that We SHould Run Out of them In No Time.
Flattery [6] : If You Want to Get to the Top, Prepare to Kiss a Lot of the Bottom.
Get to Work [7] : You Are'nt Being Paid to Believe in the Power of your Dreams.
Meetings [8] : None Of Us Is As Dumb As All Of Us.
Nepotism [9] : We Promote Family Values Here Almost as Often as we Promote Family Members.
Retirement [10] : Because You've Given so Much of Yourself to the Company that You Don't Have Anything Left We Can Use.

Entropic Expressions

Adversity [11] : That which Does Not Kill Me Pospones the Inevitable.
Change [12] : When the Winds of Change Blow Hard Enough, The Most Trivial of Things can turn into Deadly Projectiles.
Despair [13] : It's Always Darkest just Before it goes Pitch Black.
Hazards [14] : There Is an Island of Opportunity in the Middle of Every Difficulty. Miss That, Though, and You're Pretty Much Doomed.
Misfortune [15] : While Good Fortune Often Eludes You, This Kind Never Misses.
Mistakes [16] : It Could Be that the Purpose of Your Life Is Only to Serve as a Warning to Others.
Problems [17] : No Matter how Great and Destructive your Problems May Seem Now, Remember, You've Probably only Seen the Tip of Them.
Regret [18] : It Hurts to Admit When You Make Mistakes But When They're Big Enough, the Pain Only Lasts a Second.
Trouble [19] : Luck Can't Last a Lifetime Unless You Die Young.

Failure to Succeed

Defeat [20] : For Every Winner, There Are Dozens of Losers. Odds Are You're One of Them.
Failure [21] : When Your Best Isn't Good Enough.
Futility [22] : You'll Always Miss 100% of the Shots You Don't Take, And, Statiscally Speaking, 99% of the SHots You Do.
Humiliation [23] : The Harder You Try, the Dumber You Look.
Ineptitude [24] : If You Can't Learn to Do Something Well, Learn to Enjoy Doing It Poorly.
Losing [25] : If at First You Don't Succeed, FAilure May Be Your Style.
Risks [26] : If You Never Try Anything New, You'll Miss Out on Many of Life's Great Disappointments.
Stupidity [27] : Quitters Never Win, Winners Never Quit, But Those Who Never Win AND Never Quit Are Idiots.

Idiotic Insights

Cluelessness [28] : There Are No Stupid Questions, But There Are A LOT Of Inquisitive Idiots.
Delusions [29] : There is no Greater Joy than Soaring High on the Wings of Your Dreams, Except Maybe the Joy of Watching a Dreamer who has Nowhere to Land But in the Ocean of Reality.
Dreams [30] : Dreams Are Like Rainbows. Only Idiots Chase Them.
Dysfunction [31] : The Only Consistent Feature of All of Your Dissastifying Relationships is You.
Idiocy [32] : Never Underestimate the Power of Stupid People in Large Groups.
Incompetence [33] : When You Earnestly Believe You Can Compensate For A Lack Of Skill By Doubling Your Efforts, There's No End To What You Can't Do.
Insanity [34] : It's Difficult to Comprehend How Insane Some People Can Be. Especially When You're insane.

Megalomaniacal Maxims

Arrogance [35] : The Best Leaders Inspire By Example. When That's Not An Option, Brute Intimidation Works Pretty Well, Too.
Elitism [36] : It's Lonely At The Top. But It's Comforting To Look Down Upon Everyone At The Bottom.
Goals [37] : It's Best to Avoid Standing Directly Between a Competitive Jerk and his Goals.
Intimidation [38] : No One Can Make You Feel Inferior without your Consent, But You'd be a Fool to Withhold That from your Superiors.
Overconfidence [39] : Before You Attempt to Beat the Odds, Be Sure You Could Survive the Odds Beating You.
Power [40] : Power Corrupts. Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely. But it Rocks Absolutely, Too.
Pretension [41] : The Downside of Being Better than Everyone Else is that People Tend to Assume You're Pretentious.

Pessimistic Visions

Agony [42] : Not All Pain Is Gain.
Bitterness [43] : Never be Afraid to Share your Dreams with the World, Because There's Nothing the World Loves More Than the Taste of Really Sweet Dreams.
Change [44] : It's a Short Trip from Riding the Waves of Change to Being Torn Apart by the Jaws of Defeat.
Doubt [45] : In the Battle between You and the World Bet on the World.
Fear [46] : Until You Have the Courage to Lose Sight of the Shore, You Will Not Know the Terror of Being Forever Lost at Sea.
Individuality [47] : Always Remember that You Are Unique. Just Like Everybody Else
Loneliness [48] : If You Find Yourself Struggling with Loneliness, You're Not Alone. And Yet You Are Alone. So Very Alone
Pessimism [49] : Every Dark Cloud has a Silver Lining, But Lightning Kills Hundred of Peopls Each Year Who Are Trying to Find It.
Strife [50] : As Long as We Have Each Other, We'll Never Run Out of Problems.

Teambreakers

Blame [51] : The Secret Of Success Is To Know Who To Blame For Your Failures.
Burnout [52] : Attitudes Are Contagious. Mine Might Kill You.
Dare to slack [53] : When Birds Fly in the Right Formation, They Need only Exert Half the Effort. Even in Nature, Teamwork Results in collective Laziness.
Disloyalty [54] : There Comes a Time When Every Team Must Learn to Make Individual Sacrifices
Ignorance [55] : It's Amazing How Much Easier it is for a Team to Work Together When No One Has Any Idea Where They're Going.
Irresponsibility [56] : No Single Raindrop Believes it is to Blame for the Flood
Planning [57] : Much Work Remains to be Done before We Can Announce Our Total Failure to Make Any Progress
Sacrifice [58] : Your Role may be Thankless, but if You're Willing to Give it Your All, You Just might Bring Success to Those Who Outlast You.

Underachievers

Conformity [59] : When People are Free to Do as They Please, They Usually Imitate Each Other
Indifference [60] : It Takes 43 Muscles to Frown and 19 to Smile, but it Doesn't take Any to Just Sit There with a Dumb Look on Your Face
Laziness [61] : Sucess is a Journey, Not a Destination. So Stop Running.
Limitations [62] : Until you spread your wings, You'll have no idea how far you can walk.
Mediocrity [63] : It Takes a Lot Less Time and Most People Won't Notice the Difference Until It's Too Late.
Procrastination [64] : Hard Work Often Pays Off After Time, but Laziness Always Pays Off Now.
Underachievement [65] : The Tallest Blade of Grass is the First to be Cut be the Lawnmower.

Positive Negations

Achievement [66]: You Can Do Anything You Set Your Mind to When You Have Vision, Determination, and an Endless Supply of Expendable Labor.
Ambition [67] :The Journey of a Thousand Miles Sometimes Ends Very, Very Badly.
Leaders [68] : Leaders Are Like Eagles, We Don't have Either of them Here.
Motivation [69] : If A Pretty Poster And A Cute Saying Are All It Takes To Motivate You, You Probably Have A Very Easy Job. The Kind Robots Will Be Doing Soon.
Persistence [70] : It's Over Man, Let Her Go.
Potential [71] : Not Everyone Gets To Be An Astronaut When They Grow Up.
Success [72] : Some People Dream of Success, While Other People Live to Crush those Dreams.
Teamwork [73] : A Few Harmless Flakes Working Together Can Unleash An Avalanche Of Destruction.

My contributions

some of these are very small contributions (though not all of my small contributions), but fixing typos and adding internal links does not appear in this list.

french wikipedia

I used to contribute on the french version of wikipedia till a french very motivated wikipedian decided to prove himself worthy of giving me a lesson of french attitude. As others I just quit contributing there.

videogames

Emulation

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