The people have spoken and Valve has delivered. People will be able to play Black Mesa Source through Steam in the near future!
Early Morning Open Thread
So far the Logitech G500 has been working out for me. I played some TF2 tonight with and without the weights. The reviews I read by people said they were difficult to insert into the mouse, of course I didn’t have a problem. Proving that most people are total morons. Anywho I played as a heavy tonight and felt immersed. I even spawned pumpkins out of it. :3
Won’t be bringing my laptop to work tomorrow as I won’t be getting a lunch. It’ll be a short shift due to an excessive cut of hours… Lovely stuff.
Steam’s Big Picture Mode: Aka AntiMetro
In case you haven’t heard (and you probably have) steam has a “big picture mode” for people using TV’s to game on.
So far it’s been very easy to understand. Unlike metro, it isn’t shoved in your face upon launch. Also the interface is pretty straight forward even for a beta. You can even type to your friends using a controller!
Not something I would use everyday (I game on a regular large monitor) but still a very nice option.
Overdue Open Tech Thread
So I’ve kinda been slacking off with my blogging because 1: Last night when I was in the mood I was drinking and got distracted, 2: Portal 2, 3: I had nothing to post about.
But today I do! I’ve been playing with my new Logitech G500 gaming mouse.
I’ve been playing with it a bit. Feels very comfortable. It has weights you can add to it but so far the mouse feels fine without the weights. I’m thinking of playing with the profiles later (make it so I can spawn supertanks with the press of a button.
The scrolling on the G500 is nice. You can go between smooth and classic “click in place” for web surfing. All in all I’ve been enjoying it.
On one final note, I completely topped out the RAM in my laptop. Now my portable gaming machine is fully maxed out.
Saturday Morning Open Thread
Today at work I managed to get plugged into power during my lunch break, so I was able to stick around a little longer. I chatted with one of my friends in mumble for awhile and even did some slight BSing on Steam.
Did some TF2 tonight but wasn’t really feeling up to it. I’ve been coming home exhausted just about everynight. Nothing to complain about, I put in a hard days night. It was extremely busy due to weekend traffic and women destroying fitting rooms.
Fun shit.
So the wireless connection at work is active!
Otherwise I wouldn’t be posting this from my laptop. 😛 It’s a bit slow but not nearly as bad as I thought it would be.
I’m enjoying a nice chicken sandvich. So far the battery has been tolerable. It lasts for about an hour (long enough for my lunch break) just surfing the web. I even updated the wordpress version! Thankfully nothing royally fucked up.
But anyway… Back to surfing. 😉
Early Morning Open Thread.
Well, it was nice to have a 3 day weekend right after my vacation. I didn’t even have to go in on Geriatric Tuesday! On another note I have taken note that on Sunny days during my days off I constantly wake up at 4:20pm…
One of the things I did last night out of insane boredom was reorganize some of my clothes so I can have an easier time picking things for work or for leisure days. Oddly enough I have more leisure stuff and slightly less work stuff. Still, it’s plenty and with that said. I don’t think I’ll be buying tops or pants for a loooong while.
One of the nerd projects I gave myself today was setting up MOTD’s for the L4D1 and L4D2 servers, followed by even more fucking around with the Steam Community interface.
And finally I have my lunchbox and laptop ready for tomorrow (later today). Maybe if I’m lucky I can get a good wifi reception from the cafe (or pirate off of someone else).
Some changes to my fanclub.
Forums have been added. http://steamcommunity.com/groups/tomalafanclub/discussions
I’ll also be syndicating some of my blog posts over there as well as some other stuff (as you can see by the forum titles).
The Overlord has spoken!
Oh, and SNews has some new discussion areas as well. http://steamcommunity.com/groups/slackernews
Also too.
Communication just became easier.
With the new Steam community having been rolled out. I have decided to polish up the SNews usergroup a bit with some forums. Each show will get their own section, official authors will get their own section. We even have one for the community called Community Contributions. Details can be found in this thread.
As stated in the thread this IS a public group, anyone can join and post contributions.