Gaming

Meanwhile, in the digital realm.

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Well, the good news is that the server updates weren’t the problem (regarding the dedicated servers randomly dying). It turns out to be one of the network cards in the server itself. Luckily we had a spare in there or we’d be up shit creek without a paddle. Will be looking into getting a spare in the meantime.

Still on the topic of dedicated servers I’m also looking into webhosting so that I can mirror TF2 mp3’s (among other things) to make logging into the server faster for everyone. Ever since I installed the endround music mod I’ve noticed that we have been chewing up a healthy amount of bandwidth.

Oh, and tonight I finally finished my review of “The Woods”. This episode will be even shorter than the last one. But don’t worry, it won’t be boring…

Looks like I got to do neither

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Came home only to discover that after the latest TF2 server update the servers will do a mega crash. For some reason the latest TF2/HL2DM update randomly kills the network card on the server. I’m not sure why it is doing this but I know it didn’t before the update.

Right now I’m only leaving the L4D1 server up since I know that had no updates. If the network card hasn’t been killed by the time I wake up later I’ll do some TF2 testing.

What a great way to start my 3 day weekend…

Slackers Fortress Server Mods

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Roll the dice mod: Simply type !rtd and get a surprise!
Quake Mod: Sounds and text from Quake. Added for nostalgia.
End match music: Custom victory music is played at the end of each round. Will be adding more as needed.
End of round slaughtering: At the end of each round all the dead people on the losing team will be revived just to be killed over and over again until the next round starts.

At the Source of the fun.

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Had fun in TF2 tonight. Added some new mods to the server. Quake sounds and ending songs for the end of each round. Will be adding more music as I cross it.

Afterwards I decided to play a community campaign. I’m not going to give away my thoughts on it just yet… There is too much comic gold in this one. I just hope I get the review done in time by Friday. If not I might have to come up with another plan.

Early Morning Open Thread

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Today was nice. I decided to do some cooking then go for a walk. Played a little bit of TF2 with the family. We all swapped items with each other and I even helped one of them craft something for the first time. Played on the vent server with Yutra for a bit, then Bong and DG joined in for a bit too. Will have to ask Bong why his computer hates listening to me…

Games of the night

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BAD stopped by today in irc, so Adam, Yut, him and I played some L4D2. Then after we were done I decided to play a bit of Serious Sam Second Encounter, THEN as an added bonus I treated myself to some of the duke nukem demo. That is just balls to the wall awesome. Much more nudity, explosions and epicness than the originals. Especially the first ever MSDOS version if you remember the 2D sidescroller. I haven’t decided if I should do a review on it or not for SNews.