Damn, not long after getting to work today instantly had one of my “admirers” hanging about. He was even asking my co-workers if I was married or not….
Bleh… When I get back at least there will be only two hours to go.
Valve proves once again how awesome they are.
There has been quite a bit of controversy regarding the Tux item released to people who use Linux distros. People have been “faking” linux installs to get the item and Valve is paying attention.
Well I didn’t personally but, this is something that I was curious about and, a friend just confirmed it. I offered him the use of my Linux machine via Teamviewer to get his Linux Penguin. He said he was uneasy about doing that and, said he was gonna look and, see if there was another way on Youtube.
Okay, whatever, it’s no skin of my nose. He came upon a video about changing what TF2 reads as your OS and, I guess he did it because I later saw that his name changed to I cheated for a tux. I thought he did it himself so I didn’t press the issue but, we started talking about the penguin like 30 minutes ago and, he mentioned that Steam changed his name on it’s own.
I wondered why and, then it hit me. It had to have been because he didn’t get it through the correct means and, the outcome made me laugh. I did a search for the name “I cheated for a tux” and, this is what I saw “Showing 1 – 50 of 3,884” amazing, huh.
That is hilariously awesome.
No one likes playing FPS games on a mouse and a keyboard (according to Bungie)
They say that you might as well sell your computer….
“We did a bunch of ambitious things on Halo deliberately to reach out to people,” Jones told us. “We limited players to two weapons, we gave them recharging health, we automatically saved and restored the game — almost heretical things to first-person shooters at the time. We made the game run without a mouse and keyboard. And now nobody plays shooters the way they used to play them before Halo ’cause nobody wants to.”
Yes, sell your PC and buy a console so you can buy their games! :O That’s not slanted at all!
Early Morning Open Thread
Been having one of those sleepy days today. Pretty much just played around in Ubuntu seeing what I could install via synaptic. I decided to install DOSBox since I know I’ll have multiple uses for it. Then I installed a game called OpenArena which is Open Sourced Quake 3 basically. I think I’ll actually install it under Windows and see how it works. It ran fine under Linux other than for whatever reason it wasn’t recognizing any of my sound devices.
Now I’m looking into downloading a screen capturing program similar to FRAPS called glc, which is basically video capture via a command line. If I can get that up and running I’ll see how well I can capture and encode TF2 videos (or any other Linux testing I decide to capture).
But for now I think I’ll grab a pot of tea and head off to sleep.
Oh, and on another note I preordered the new Tomb Raider. Had some extra money so figured why not. 😛
Getting my penguin on some more.
Been kicking it with Linux a bit more since I’ve gotten my DAC working perfectly. Last night’s stress test was Serious Sam 3, which was pretty laggy in some places compared to my Windows 7 install of it. TF2 was more optimized but still had a bit of trouble on 2Fort near the water ONLY if other people were nearby, after awhile it would subside at least.
Also got my mp3 player working under this. I did find out why I wasn’t getting any sound under World Of Goo. I noticed I had the same problem under other programs like VLC Media Player. Turns out they were stuck on the audio codec for my Sound Blaster XFi and they weren’t using the USB Dual Pre. Changed that and it worked perfectly. So now I’m gaming, blogging, reading and listening to 80’s death metal under Ubuntu with KDE workspace.
After Work Open Thread
Work has been pretty swamped lately due to our epic sale. Unfortunately we’re still hurting due to the fact that we’re short(er) on people. There was one point tonight where I had to run the entire departments myself since everyone had gone. Not fun at all.
Also I had my stalker confront me today. What’s creepy was that I had bought a green coffee before work, saw him nearby, walked to the time clock and sat down with my laptop to ignore him (and I had time anyway), and I saw him wandering back and forth with his cart out the corner of my eye. This went on for about 6 minutes. Finally when I put my laptop away and punched in for work he shows up right in front of me with some flowers (for a garden) and says “Heeeeeey check out my..” and before I let him finish I looked him in the eye, pointed to the nearest exit and told him to go away. Then he did so. Then I let my bosses in on what happened.
I can only wonder what will happen next.
Open Thread
Found some complications with some models I was using regarding my next YCDTOXB, which means I’ll have to put the project on hold and move onto another one. Oh well.
I’ll try to focus on that as soon as my wisdom teeth stop being dicks. They’re still growing after all these years and it hurts like fuck.
Adobe 1.0 is now free…?
Awhile back Adobe “accidentally” released their CS2 products for free then got rid of it. That changes now! Well sort of… They’re at least releasing Phooshop… The first one… That requires old style macs to run it.
Heh, how useful.
Sunday Morning Open Thread
Decided to unwind with a bit of CS:GO and SFM. Also tried a new Italian recipe: Pasta shells with tuna lemon caper sauce. It was nom. I ended up eating the whole thing. I don’t feel too bad about it since I normally eat once a day anyway.