Updated the kernal on Fedora because I heard it has great performance improvements. Ran the updates, restarted, all current and previous versions of the kernal give me either a black screen or a graphically glitched screen when X starts. I think it might have something to do with the video driver. I’ll have to futz around with that tomorrow after getting off work… if I’m up for it.
I also went on a nostalgic MSDOS abandonware hunt earlier and found a few games. One of them being the original tetris. I’ve found that music + tetris = ever lasting distraction.
Oh well, time to dream for awhile before I begin the vampire shift.
We want Obduction to be distributed through Steam. As the first step in that direction, we have officially submitted the Obduction concept to Steam Greenlight. Greenlight is not just about getting Obduction approved on Steam, but it also helps more people find out about Obduction. But we need your help with this. To get the word out and show your support, head over to Greenlight and rate or favorite Obduction.
They also plan on selling their new IP through GOG and Humble Bundle. Also it will be DRM free, so no hassles. 😀
So work has gotten back into the habit of cutting my hours extremely short then calling me in at the last minute. Two days in a row now they have been trying to call me in early and I get the message too late because I’m either sleeping off an all niter or I’ve just been real busy. Today I came in two hours early, but not at the time they wanted me. Why can’t they just give me a proper schedule? Oh right, it interferes with profit…
I don’t work for Wal-Mart, but fuck then for inventing the Just In Time Scheduling routine and fuck any company that believes it’s a brilliant idea.
Lets face it. Most of us who have played the original portal know all of the memes attached to the game and the series in general. “The Cake is a lie” being one of the oldest jokes in the book at this point. Not these S.P.O.O.K’s in Oklahoma though! Local news station KJRH has a special report that will probably make you laugh a bit if you’ve played the game.
Of course, at this point the video has gone viral (if you can’t tell by looking at the comments) and the criticism of the entire internet has reached their eyes. They responded on their facebook page with this:
In a response to our story on KJRH, we’ve been labeled ” clueless ghost hunters” by Jason Joe Wayne Blevins …personally, I take no offense, as he is focused only on one thing, the chalk board. At NO TIME did I or any member of my team make any claims as to a paranormal cause, only that the time and placement of this phrase on the chalk board were unusual. It’s sad, that these few individuals that throw their negative comments about my team around do not do the countless hours of evidence review, research, and time spent on sites. If this individual can do it better, or anyone else can do it better, get out there and DO IT.
It gets better! They also claim that the chalk board message was written two years before the release of Portal. Clearly it’s the ghost of GabeN that is at fault for all of these lulz.
“Yes, we’re familiar with both the game and the phrase… our question’s about the chalkboard are : why was it written there? What did they mean by it? And the fact that it was written 2 years before the game ” Portal” was released is interesting as well,”
Oh well… It’s a good way to publicize your service at least! I imagine GLaDOS is having a good laugh about this.
For the last few years I’ve realy been addicted to the TF2 Halloween event. Especially with all the swag I manage to find when I go trick or treating on other servers. My inventory has expanded quite a bit since starting. I have all the way until the 11th and I’ve been taking breaks in between. Something tells me my hours on TF2 will go up tremendously.
I also worked on my server a bit. I added some plugins that interested me. Such as disabling any team killing until a boss monster has been defeated, the option to become a skeleton if you’re a sniper, the option to move to other teams which I still need to play with a bit when I’m alone on the server, and I can’t remember what else. I have the server currently setup as a Halloween themed server on quickplay, hopefully I’ll get enough traffic so that people can get gifts. I’m getting sick of landing on servers where people try to kill each other during boss fights. Hopefully if anyone lands on my server they like the no pinion, no premium options that I have too.
Last night while I was in costume I went out to get some v8 juice and some iced tea (I was pretty warm), and finally found a nice place to sit at in one of the parks so I could grab a sip of tea and this kid starts talking to me. I’d wager that he was about 14 or so. He asked me how my trick or treating was going… Told him that I went to some weird house where they were giving out big v8 bottles. What was weird was that he wanted me to give him directions. So I pointed at one of the local churches where I saw 3 people (one of them being a pastor) and said “That dude is handing them out”. Then I left. Wouldn’t want him to come find me afterwards.
Another weird thing was that someone actually recognized my costume. There were some high schoolers dressed in homestuck troll garb and one of them rode a bike up to me because they saw my horns. Needless to say I was surprised people in this small town even know what homestuck is.
