I upgraded my TF2 server for the halloween event and found out that something strange happened to the Monoculus monster.
Weekend Open Thread
Yesterday was a cold, boring day. I mostly played around with some Doom mods I found (one of them being Brutal Doom), and made some nice Italian sauces to go with some pasta. Oh, and the tedious task of organizing my recorded files and removing things that were no longer needed. I freed up almost an entire 1 TB hard drive so I think I’m headed in a good direction. 🙂
Hope everyone is having a nice weekend. I’m gonna sleep and prepare for my work adventures. I’ll at least have some fine food to go with my hour of entertainment.
I live another day.
Today proved to be one of those days where I was glad I charged my laptop before leaving today. All these people charging their lightweight tablets and netbooks with maybe one regular laptop. I surfed the web and decided to play a little Q3A. The rest of it was boring. I came home, played a bit of The Stanley Parable, then ate some burritos and decided to sew buttons back on to some pants and one coat while listening to some metal. Nothing like some HEAVY METAL SEWING!!!! OOOHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
Then I decided to kick it back in Linux for awhile since I didn’t really plan to do much else for the evening. I’m updating the laptop since almost every game on it is seriously out of date. That way tomorrow I’ll have larger selection of things to freak people out with in the cafe.
Oh, and TGIF!
You Can’t Do That On XBox! “TF2 Hallowen Special”
Halloween draws near, lets have a look at some fun selection of TF2 maps to really enjoy during this lovely season.
All maps in this episode:
http://forums.tf2maps.net/downloads.p…
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Boring day
Nothing much happened at work. Didn’t play anything during my lunch break or even when I got home. I mainly went into Fedora and installed video editing software to experiment, just to see how it works. If I have anything to work on under the Linux side I’d like to be ready at the very least. I’m already setup for podcasting in mumble. I shouldn’t have any issues editing the audio with Audacity. I’m finding myself in Linux more these days for the usual stuff like TF2, web surfing and a few other games, and going over to Windows to use other things that I don’t have access to under Linux yet. Like my creative suite, XFi, games that haven’t been ported yet, SFM etc.
I also customized my xfce desktop to my liking. Made it aero like (transparency). That was one nice thing I liked in Win 7 was aero. Muuuch better than it’s Vista counterpart. But yes, now I have transparency on all of the things. w00t!
I was going to release my video tonight, but I’ll wait until tomorrow night when I boot into Win 7.
Short blurb.
Ok, I finished that video project, had more smoothies and played a bit of TF2. I’ll probably publish the video tomorrow when I get home from work.
Also the Italian sushi never happened. I brought pizza to work. Oh snap! I could have had pizza WITH sushi on it! Classic New York cuisine…
Bringing forth another Open Thread
I went to work on my video project for Halloween and decided meh, too tired… So I decided to boot back to the Fedora side and test out some games. I tried to play Painkiller Hell and Damnation but didn’t get very far due to the program freezing the entire system. So I ended up playing psychonauts instead which ran smoothly.
I also recorded some stuff from a mumble discussion tonight. Sometime in the near future I’ll publicize a horrible fanfic reading. Each chapter will be it’s own episode. I’m thinking of hosting it on this blog and on my youtube channel. The fanfic is called “It’s My Life!” and it’s a Portal 2 fanfic that rivals My Immortal (although we pretty much agreed that it’s better than My Immortal or hell, even The Room!) and it’s full of all kinds of confusing details, grammar and well… I’ll save it for release.
Oh, and to wrap things up I got a smoothie, kicked back and went to town countertrolling some insufferable prick in one of the chats I’m a mod of. I’ve put it on my forum for those who are interested in reading it. Lets just say he was too easy…
Counter Strike Korea: You can win a pig!?
This is a cross post from a blog that I help co-author. To read it over there click this link, if not just read on.
Seriously. I found this to be all too strange. In the Korean version of Counter Strike called Counter Strike Online 2 (licensed by Valve and developed by Nexon Korea with Valve’s Source Engine) you can play in a new mode called Pig Mode. Which looks something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1zDNsTRdl8&feature=player_embedded#t=0
To promote this new gamemode, Nexon Korea is selecting five people at random who share the mode’s trailer on various social media websites. The five people who win will receive a pig. Not a pig model, but an actual live pig. O_o
Early Morning Open Thread. All of the things.
So, yesterday (Sunday) was my day off and they tried to get me to come in and work at the last minute because they didn’t schedule enough people. I laughed and declined because by the time I heard the news it was too late. I was up late anyway trying to figure out why Flash Player wasn’t working properly… it didn’t install even though I told it to. So I manually placed the files in the proper places, then added a symbolic link for so that it would work properly in Seamonkey… meh.
I didn’t really do much this afternoon aside from go on a total health binge. Made sushi, more fruit smoothies (with a little bit of matcha added), drank tomato and cranberry juices. I also prepared a nice lunch tomorrow with the leftover sushi rice, surimi and vegetables. I still have some leftover, I’ll probably fill my bento box with Italian sushi tomorrow (sounds weird… I’ll explain later).
On another note I decided to check out gzdoom tonight. I’ve been having fun with vavoom under Linux and liked the fact that I could strafe and look around like in a regular FPS. So I did some reading and found gzdoom under windows. Plays like a regular FPS while still having that classic feel to it. I might have to dig for my old collection of WADS from way back when. People still build them too from what I understand. Gotta love customization. 😀 Might have to do some filming with those. Nothing made me laugh like Barney the purple dinosaur gnawing you to death. Ah, fun memories from my childhood.
I seem to get the interesting neighbors
About a year or so ago I had a strange neighbor who lived next door to me. She kept getting drunk and banging herself against walls every now and again. To the point that her family fled the building and we ended up calling the cops on her. Now it’s a year later, new neighbors, but it’s a guy this time…
Normally he plays loud music way passed local curfew around here, but last night when I got home from work he had his music even louder than usual while yelling vulgarities, and something about “fucking up someones van”. Fortunately he passed out at some point. His girlfriend never came home either, wonder if something happened. Either way I don’t get a positive impression about the guy at all.