WSJ Taxes, Antbuster, Halo

April 1, 2024 Lehan Edirisinghe

A gaming page about WSJ Taxes, Antbuster, and Halo.

Tax Credits and Five-Year Tax Plans With CFOs

5:30 a.m. (b)

We're just collecting pre-targeted tax thresholds, we're giving tax credits or going for 5 year tax plans with the CFOs of companies to help them

We prize and prefer longer-term sustainability

The image is a frame from a YouTube live stream video titled "$270 ALL-STARS FFA | Marakar vs SiZe $25 | 40k Special" on the channel DoMiNaToR. This appears to be a match in a real-time strategy game, possibly involving military tactics. The setting shows a desert terrain with dusty roads, small buildings, and scattered vegetation. Several military tanks and an aircraft are visible, indicating active gameplay.
The on-screen text includes details of the players, showing "Marakar" and "SiZe" competing, with scores and availability of funds visible. "Marakar" has $3845 and "SiZe" has $6650, suggesting resource management is a part of the game. The text at the top highlights the current match score, with "MARAKAR 3 : 1 BIG SIZE (BO9)" indicating a series of battles. Viewer donations are mentioned with "STEAMYBIT DONATIONS" showing a significant amount raised.
The visual composition includes a map overlay at the bottom left, aiding strategic planning for players. The overall tone is intense and engaging, characteristic of competitive gaming streams.

Realistic Plane Altitudes and Radar Blips in RTS Games

6:30 a.m.

In rts games, these planes, should have realistic altitudes. It is a game breaker. Realism involves politics of sedition, which is hard to factor in. I guess, radar, should be, to have little blips, or something. It works better.

Saying It Looks Good

6:45 a.m.

Looks good

Offering Xi Jinping Vote Lehan for Free

8:00 a.m.

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School Lunch Menus With Fast Food and Rice Complaints

8:00 a.m. (b)

School Lunch Menus with Lee Han:

1. Monday:

McDonald's

* Guess, who stole the McDonald's franchisee rights?! *

* No, just kidding. *

McDonald's, I'm Lovin' it.

The best restaurant ever.

I could eat McDonald's every single day for ever

I wouldn't want to eat Chinese food. I hate Indian food. I hate Sri Lankan food too. I hate Spanish food, it tastes disgusting. Yuck. I often would throw entire dishes by the tray, of Spanish food, in the trash. They suck. But Mexican ones are good.

2. Tuesday:

TacoBell.

I like the beef burrito. The only rice dish in my menu. I like the enchiladas.

3. Wednesday:

PizzaHut.

I like the pepperoni pizza, but with additional jalapenos.

4. Thursday:

KFC.

5. Friday:

Pastamania.

So we'll be getting a lot of root vegetables like potatoes.

I dunno. We have to study it. I dunno, if rice was such a good idea. Because irrigation, so much water, is expensive. There is so much land dedicated to farming and cultivating rice in those wet marsh paddy fields. ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████. A lot of people give Ranil a hard time for eating pizza with a fork, and yes, that is stupid. ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

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Pokémon and Gotta Catch ’Em All

9:15 a.m.

Pokémon!

Gotta catch 'em all!

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The image shows a screenshot from a YouTube video titled "Wargame: Red Dragon is a 'Modern' Military Wargame." The channel name is Rimmy Downunder. The video frame displays part of a strategic map from the game "Wargame: Red Dragon." In the foreground, there is a section of coastline with a highlighted area marked by an orange line, suggesting a boundary or strategic zone. In the center of this area, a label "BARAK II" is displayed, indicating a unit or asset within the game. The label includes icons, possibly representing the type of unit or its capabilities. The map features terrain details such as roads, fields, and water, providing a strategic overview typical of military strategy games. The interface elements are clearly designed to convey tactical information to the player. The interface and map design are crucial in illustrating the game's focus on military strategy and planning.

Preferring Simple Games Like Snake, Ant Buster and Halo 3

10:45 a.m. (c)

Hehe

Barak

This is also somewhat cool

I guess, I am a stickler for simplicity

I like Snake, the game

I like Marcel Stein's Ant Buster

Love it

I like Halo 3, as it's simple

I feel like, too much customization

It ruins it for me

Too much complication, ruins it for me

I'm more of a

Trumpclass super star destroyer

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## Section 2
This image is a screenshot from the website Armor Games, displaying a game called "Antbuster." The game belongs to the classic, defense, tower defense, and flash categories. The main area of the screenshot features a grassy field where a game interface is overlaid. There is a visible path with a group of ants approaching a picnic area, and various towers are placed strategically to defend against the ants.
The interface displays details about a selected tower called "Heavy Cannon X2," with stats including frequency, speed, range, and basic damage. In the lower part of the interface, the player's points, money, and level (Lv 22) are shown. The game has recorded over three and a half million plays, with over seven thousand ratings and two thousand favorites. It was published on January 5, 2008.
The page design is typical of a gaming website, with options to share, favorite, or flag the game. The bright colors and simple graphics reflect the aesthetic of early flash games.

Rushing the Missile Launcher Early

10:45 a.m. (d)

You gotta rush the missile launcher early

The image is a screenshot from the game "Antbuster" on the Armor Games website. The game is categorized as a classic tower defense game and is built using Flash. The main focus of the screenshot is the gameplay interface, which shows a grassy field where players must defend a piece of cake from ants using various weapons. The screen displays a "Missile Launcher 1," with details about its frequency, shots per second, range, and basic damage. A small segment of a picnic blanket with a cake is visible at the bottom right, indicating the player's objective to protect it from ants.
The interface includes options for upgrading or interacting with the weapons, and there are indicators for "Potato" and "Money," suggesting in-game resources. The game has been played over 3.6 million times, with 7,454 ratings and 2,701 favorites. It was published on January 5, 2008. The layout is user-friendly with a green background representing the ground, and the graphics are typical of Flash games from the era, with simple, colorful designs and straightforward mechanics.
- Title: "Antbuster"
- Site / app: "Armor Games"

Missile Launchers Making the Game Easier

10:45 a.m. (e)

When you get the missile launcher, it's easier

This image is a screenshot from the website armorgames.com, featuring the game "Antbuster," a classic tower defense game. The game screen is prominently displayed within a browser interface, specifically in Google Chrome, as evidenced by the tabs and URL bar visible at the top. The game itself depicts a green field with a few scattered components, including turrets strategically placed on the grass to defend against ants approaching from different directions. The turrets are shown firing at the ants, with some projectiles visibly in motion.
The interface includes control buttons and statistics such as frequency, speed, range, and damage of the weapons, along with player's points, money, and level details. The page also shows gameplay statistics including over 3 million plays, over 7,000 ratings, and a publication date of January 5, 2008. The layout is typical of a Flash-based browser game from that era, with bright colors and a straightforward, engaging interface. The site offers options to favorite, share, or flag the game, indicating user interactivity and feedback mechanisms common to online gaming platforms.

Building More Missile Launchers in Antbuster

11:00 a.m.

When in doubt, just build more missile launchers in Antbuster

And two slows on the sides

The image is a screenshot from the website Armor Games featuring the game "Antbuster." The page displays gameplay of this classic tower defense flash game, where the objective is to prevent ants from reaching a picnic area by deploying various types of defensive turrets. The game interface includes a green grassy field, with visible turrets placed strategically to shoot at the ants. In the center of the screen, a missile launcher turret is highlighted, with a descriptive box detailing its specifications, such as price, frequency of shots, speed, range, and damage. The turret's range is visually depicted with a circular boundary around it.
The game's interface includes elements like a toolbar at the bottom with options for weapon upgrades and other controls. The background shows a picnic blanket in the lower right corner, indicating the area that the player must defend. The page also shows statistics related to the game, such as the number of plays, ratings, and favorites, along with the publishing date of January 5, 2008. This adds to the nostalgic value of the game, being one of the classic flash games popular in the late 2000s. The overall mood is strategic and engaging, inviting players to use tactics to protect their virtual picnic from the advancing ants.

Upgrading the Snow Cannon in Antbuster

11:00 a.m. (b)

I then try to upgrade the snow cannon, to slow them faster

The movement speed, slows to 1/3 for longer

I dunno

I think snow cannon mark 1 is 2/3 slowed speed

But cannon mark 2 is 1/3 slowed speed or something

It seems to work better

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The image is a screenshot from the Armor Games website, showing a game titled "Antbuster." The game falls under the categories of classic, defense, tower defense, and flash games. The main gameplay screen is visible, featuring a grassy area with multiple missile launchers targeting ants that are approaching a picnic blanket with a pie. The interface includes options and statistics such as frequency, shots per second, range, and basic damage of the missile launcher. In the bottom section, there are statistics showing the game's plays, ratings, and favorites, along with the publication date, January 5, 2008. The website interface includes navigation tabs at the top and social interaction options like share and flag at the bottom.

An NDB Ant Advertisement and a Magnifying Glass Joke

11:00 a.m. (c)

NDB bank, made some advertisement in SL, about how some kid helped an ant to survive or across a pond

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This image is a frame from a gameplay video titled "How a Solo with 9,873 Hours Plays Official Rust...". The game being played is "Rust". The perspective is in first-person, showing an arm holding a bow, aimed at a distant character in a grassy field. The scene is set in an outdoor environment with a clear blue sky, dotted with a few clouds. In the distance, there are several tall structures resembling electrical towers, and rocky hills are scattered around the landscape. The player's health and inventory status are visible on the bottom right corner, showing green, blue, and orange bars. The bow is intricately designed with blue and gold patterns, suggesting a customized or unique weapon. The lush field is covered with wildflowers, adding color to the scene. The visual style is realistic, typical of the survival game genre. The on-screen text at the bottom shows the video progress as "2:11 / 1:01:05".

Saying This Is Pretty Cool

11:30 a.m. (d)

This is pretty cool

School Air Conditioning Costs, Subsidies and Classroom Size

1:30 p.m.

Fans don't do anything.

They use wind to wipe off the moisture on your body

Giving you a cooling sensation

This is perspiration

It's how your body stays cool

The fan helps with circulating air

But doesn't cool the room

You need air conditioning

What we could do, is we could either:

1. Free market:

Where kids with money, will pay for air conditioning

And

2. Friendly free market:

We use the sales tax

This is reduced by income or family income tier

So then, if it's $10 bucks, for the air conditioning

It's just easier for poor kids to afford it

We just add a mark-up of 50% to account for it

I guess, 5,000,000 kids / 10,000 schools =

500 kids per school

And like 20 kids per classroom

I am undecided, we'll have to talk about it

I am also unsure about 190 days of school

I also will need to check if extra saturdays work

It can mess up our scheduling

So we will have to study it, then decide

Rebecca is the new first education minister

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Hehe

I guess, 20 is a good size

190 days works

38 weeks per year

I guess, if it's 35 weeks like me

It's then

Gah, I suck at math

Did you know I failed my A Level maths?

I did it again, I tried it again

I still failed hehehe

Give me all your taxpayer money!!

Moolala, yayo

Yayo!

I guess, smarter kids, will do 4 days or 3 days

While dumb ones like me, ████████████████, will do 6 or 7

While there are special ed schools

If it's 20 students

Then air conditioning it, is like $100 bucks maybe

This is per month

And so, with some modest subsidy, as an investment

And $100 / 20 = $5 bucks per month, yes

If otherwise, we want, we can bundle in bigger rooms

So 25 or 50 kids, and then divvy $100 = $4 or $2 bucks

Which is quite a low cost as food costs so much more

And there is the transport fees as well and school fees

The teachers do earn a lot as it's a private school system

3. Scholarship system:

So kids with good grades, as a reward

Get to go in the cool rooms, with air conditioning

So if they get As, then yes

But this creates problems, for us

As kids don't mingle, there's elitism

So you have issues, even with stopping uniforms

Or the mixed gender schools thing

We will still see, best to combine these approaches

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Yes, when I saw the financials

We can afford it

I think we're just better trained managers

So we can make it happen

Helicopter Rides as a Pokémon-Style Kill Streak Reward

8:30 p.m. (b)

Beautiful helicopter

Pokémon

Gotta catch 'em all

If someone is a good shot

And gets the best score

They can go on a ride on the cobras

These vipers* are pretty cool too

It's a pretty cool

"Kill streak reward"

A Violent Pokémon-Style Lyric Parody About Traitors

8:30 p.m. (c)

I will travel

Across the land

Searching

Far and wide

These traitors

Hehehhe

Bla bla bla

See their insides

The image is a screenshot from a YouTube video titled "Halo Combat Evolved Multiplayer Gameplay," uploaded by the channel "Cyboman Gaming." The game depicted is "Halo 1," a classic first-person shooter. The scene shows a multiplayer match in a sci-fi outdoor setting, characterized by rocky terrain and a clear sky with a large celestial body in the background.
In the foreground, a first-person view shows a yellow gun aiming at a player in blue armor. Other players in red and blue armor are visible, engaging in combat. A futuristic structure with a ramp and multiple doorways is situated in the mid-ground, and various HUD elements are displayed, including health bars and team scores.
The image captures the dynamic and competitive atmosphere typical of "Halo 1" multiplayer matches, with detailed textures and vibrant colors enhancing the sci-fi theme. On-screen text in the game displays player actions, such as kills and deaths, adding to the competitive feel of the gameplay. The interface of the YouTube video showcases common options like like, share, and download, highlighting interactivity and engagement.

Playing Halo With Palith and Star Wars Battlefront With Pauline

11:00 p.m.

I played this Halo 1 with my dad Palith. I shot and killed him. I have this competitive, killer instinct. I just shoot. It's either me or him, or anyone else.

He also didn't know how to play or use the controller. But I shot him down.

Bang bang, my baby shot me down.

I played that Star Wars Battlefront with Pauline. I helped her shoot and kill one of those Sith drones.

I dunno about that Chef Gustav in Rat a tat tat tat

But I do know, that everyone is a killer

"Anyone can kill"

The image is a screenshot from YouTube featuring gameplay of "Halo Combat Evolved Multiplayer." The video is hosted on the channel "Cyboman Gaming." The scene captures an outdoor gaming environment typical of the Halo series, with expansive landscapes and rocky terrain. A player navigates a vehicle, likely a "Ghost," over grassy and dusty pathways. The word "HILLTOP" is prominently written in purple at the top of the image, with a circle and arrow pointing to a specific location on the hillside, indicating a strategic point or glitch area. The on-screen interface shows the typical Halo heads-up display with health bars and other gameplay indicators. The visual composition includes a foreground of a reddish vehicle against a backdrop of green grass and tan mountains under a bright sky, conveying a vibrant, adventurous atmosphere. The video seems to illustrate strategies or unique aspects of the game, adding an element of discovery and exploration for players.

Split-Screen Halo, Hilltop Sniping and Screen-Looking Accusations

11:00 p.m. (b)

Me and Chadu (my cousin), we would always take the two top box screens, as player 1 and 2 (if I was in his house), and force Milan (my brother) and Chathula (his brother) to play on the bottom 2x2 screens in "split-screen mode". As a status thing.

One day, I realized, we can use the banshee (plane) to go up here. To this specific location. Which I called, "Hilltop". As though, I planted a flag, and copyrighted it. We would then, get like a sniper rifle (considered a power weapon). With like 8 rounds of bullets. We would fly to the other base, then steal their sniper rifle. And also the rocket launcher in the middle. And then, go up there, to hilltop. Then snipe them.

But then, if they tried to attack or kill us. We would claim, they have "screen picked" or "screen looked" as our top screens above their screens. And then force them to jump off or die. It was quite cruel.

I remember, I was trailing Milan with a shotgun. He jumped around, shot me. And yes, he could argue he had "motion sensor". But I insisted he had screen picked me, and then forced him to jump off the game's map ledge. So I would get a point or he would repair and pay for what he had done.

A Halo Glitch Route to Hilltop With a Ghost

11:00 p.m. (c)

There were bugs or glitches in the game. In one of them, and they redid this particular map. With the ghost (bike), you can follow this path, upwards, to get to Hilltop, on the wall of the hill. But you gotta angle it just right.