Once upon a time I bought a game called blue shift. It is a half life mod, but its retail status is as legitimate as Halo: Combat Evolved. I'll tell you about that another time. We are discussing blue shift right now.

Most of you who played this tiny little mod must be familiar with how tiny it was. I'm saying about five or six chapters tops. And you wonder if it was really worth your money. Because azure sheep is not only free, features new code and monsters, and weapons too, but much, much longer than blue shift. (Blue shift features no new content, some custom generic models, and offers a high definition pack in which the M9 has 17 bullets per clip and the colt M4 has 50 bullets per clip. If that makes sense at all.)

And this was the reason why I lent my blue shift CD to a taiwanese bakery owner's son (twenty or thirty years old) some 5 or 6 years ago. Then later I heard that they moved back to Taiwan. What. The. F.

So now, I can't ever play blue shift any more. Not that it wasn't that great to begin with, but it is kinda sad to lose one mod of the higher end of the half-life mod scale (needless to say, a good amount of mods are either not very good or not very long, but most are lacking in new content. Blue shift at least has custom sounds, models, etc.) But that was then.

Ever since 2muchvideogames played tf2 on steam for a few measly days, he figured that steam may have more to offer than lagginess. And he has definitely stopped using his old, 17GB computer that you all may be familiar with. So one day I stumbled across the old blue shift CD case and blah blah blah, you all know where this story is going.

Okay enough writing, time for 2muchvideogames to do his thing.

Don't know if you guys have already seen this (seeing as it's a tad old) but:

Ignis Solus

I doubt the author intended it to be sad, but I found it to be...

So I finished university two months ago and I got my results this morning. I am now the proud owner of:

Bachelor of Arts Honours Computer Games Design (Story Development) - First Class.

To those that don't know that's the highest mark available.

A little early for Halloween, but here comes Darth Vader.

Ha hammer 4 finally added Quick-Hide, Quick-Hide-Unselected, and Restore-hidden buttons, which were so very useful from hammer 3.x:So much easier to hide/and restore stuff without the stupid visgroup window
popping up everytime i need to get something out of view..

It is about time they added this... I'm just noticing it now, but anyone know when the update actually took place?

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Ok, so a couple of month back i started writing a book, but only got 3 chapters in, and so now I'm making it just a short story, well, i was able to get it published to this place, go over and read it! Tell me what you think!
It is based of WWII Paratroopers, because they are my favorite soldiers.

Here
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5548310/hard_landing.html?cat=44
(yes, i also put this in the shoutbox)

It's my eighteenth birthday tomorrow. Also, I won't be around to celebrate it, as tommorrow I'm leaving for a holiday to Mauritius, in Africa. I'll be gone for two or three weeks.

I had a dream last night in which I was Kevin Costner and I was sent back in time to 1997 with a time machine put together by a sound engineer. I was supposed to figure out why was I specifically thrown into 1997 and then find a way to return "home". I found myself bouncing between different years, solving ancient riddles (or even creating them in prehistoric ages for me to find and solve in a future year) and hiding my own instructions from the Nazis. But I couldn't figure it out because I woke up.

It's a shame, because it was very cinematic and I was thinking it would be an awesome movie.

mood: = )

And why is my mood happy you may ask? it's because if found a fix to a major problem i was having with my nvidia 9800gts gfx card.

My gpu would heat up to over 100?C when playing L4d on the LOWEST settings, regardless of resolution size. My vid card can more than handle the game, but fsr it would jack up immediately to untenable temperature minutes after stargint the game. Then i found an article about Underclocking your video card

Underclocking to these settings(in () are the original clock speeds):

Core Clock - 400 Mhz (600)
Memory Clock - 300Mhz (900)
Shader Clock - 800 Mhz (1500)

Now, i can run L4D at highest settings at a much more acceptable, breezy-cool 72?C with no noticeable decrease in performance!

Yay! = )

I made a tiny scratch on the (now almost) perfect body surface of my new camera, right on the card door. I can't stand it. I die a little inside every time things like this happen. I want to apologise to my beloved camera but its wound will be there forever, an eternal reminder that I'm never careful enough.

Why do these things happen to me?

I'm curios to know, how many people here are in Highschool. Or, for the un american bastards that roam this place, the equivlent to American Highschool.

Just bought Saints Row 2 and Audiosurf (finally). Epic deals on Steam nowadays.

It's my eighteenth cakeday today. My first present was a bike, not a super fancy one but as long as it works I'm happy.

[EDIT] Just saw 28 days later. One of the few films that first blows from the chair and then keeps you pumped.

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Well, I'm tired.
It's 3AM and I just finished my last article on my blog about global warming...
It's about Scientists Solutions to Global Warming

I know a lot of you disagree with the theory of Global Warming. I have my doubts too, especially that climate change is not something really provoked by humans. But pollution is, and that's affecting air quality and other environment related things. That's why there's this "green" revolution.
Besides that, it's a trend, and I think it's cool and funny to be a part of it :D.

This is the initial planning stage for my 2011 rig.

It'll have an SSD drive too, perhaps around 200 GB, and hopefully for less than $200.

The whole thing should cost less than $1,000 by 2011.