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[Spoilers for 'The Walking Dead' season 2 episode 1 ahead]
So, I just finished watching the first episode of the new Walking Dead season. A brilliant episode all in all. I'm particularly interested in the direction the show is going in comparison to the comic. Although I haven't read the entire comic series up-to-date, I do know enough to see the variations in the stories of both the comic and TV show. The direction season two is taking is very much different, and I have to admit, much more interesting then the comic series. It'll be interesting to see how things develop now that the group has been split up as well as the fate of the two kids.
So, I just finished watching the first episode of the new Walking Dead season. A brilliant episode all in all. I'm particularly interested in the direction the show is going in comparison to the comic. Although I haven't read the entire comic series up-to-date, I do know enough to see the variations in the stories of both the comic and TV show. The direction season two is taking is very much different, and I have to admit, much more interesting then the comic series. It'll be interesting to see how things develop now that the group has been split up as well as the fate of the two kids.
Don't know which is better:
1. Walking 25km home on rain and high wind trough the woods because the bus driver of the last buss home (00:15) didnt give an F i was on the station. Took me 3 hours.
2. Getting "robed" for 0.3$ by 4 people and an APPLE pealing knife (seriously i laughed my ass off when they walked away) - They were all like: give us money or we will gut you and shit
3. Seeing the exact same driver of the bus that blew me off as i was approaching my home, 3 hours latter. I wanted to hit the driver in the face with a metal pipe.
But in the end i was happy, i took it like a man, and it felt good not to go down their level. Guess i learned a very important lesson today.
1. Walking 25km home on rain and high wind trough the woods because the bus driver of the last buss home (00:15) didnt give an F i was on the station. Took me 3 hours.
2. Getting "robed" for 0.3$ by 4 people and an APPLE pealing knife (seriously i laughed my ass off when they walked away) - They were all like: give us money or we will gut you and shit
3. Seeing the exact same driver of the bus that blew me off as i was approaching my home, 3 hours latter. I wanted to hit the driver in the face with a metal pipe.
But in the end i was happy, i took it like a man, and it felt good not to go down their level. Guess i learned a very important lesson today.
English is a crazy language:
I just watched a playthru of this weirdo japanese homebrew 2D earthbound/mother-like dream fantasy game. Name's yume nikki.
It's about this shut-in who goes to sleep and explore strange worlds all part of a dream. And these tend to get really disturbing. The game's essentially a scavenger hunt which could take a long time to finish, since the items are hidden in strange and inexplicably irrational ways. There's really no good way for me to describe how tripped up this game is unless you see for yourself. Since there are many a dream-curious people here, figured y'all might be interested.
As for the ending...
It's about this shut-in who goes to sleep and explore strange worlds all part of a dream. And these tend to get really disturbing. The game's essentially a scavenger hunt which could take a long time to finish, since the items are hidden in strange and inexplicably irrational ways. There's really no good way for me to describe how tripped up this game is unless you see for yourself. Since there are many a dream-curious people here, figured y'all might be interested.
As for the ending...
Apparently, the person who made Mistake( a HL1 mod), is the leader of a new project about to be released: Grey.
This time the mod is a Source mod, and again will be a total conversion.
Here's a teaser video.
I'm expecting a genuine horror mod.
This time the mod is a Source mod, and again will be a total conversion.
Here's a teaser video.
I'm expecting a genuine horror mod.
Happy birthday to me,
happy birthday to me,
something something something,
and the rest.
Yup, 25 today. Half way to 50, a third of the way to 75...
This makes no sense. Didn't I turn 21 like, a week ago? Stupid time. ¬_¬
happy birthday to me,
something something something,
and the rest.
Yup, 25 today. Half way to 50, a third of the way to 75...
This makes no sense. Didn't I turn 21 like, a week ago? Stupid time. ¬_¬
Apparently, there was a BBC documentary which revealed that the Catholic Church has been illegally trafficking newly-born babies. Why? Because they believed their mothers were unfit to have them. According to the documentary, they stole at least 300,000 of them and sold them on for profit via adoptions, no less.
The very fact that the Pope has not been struck by lighting over 9000 times and the Vatican swallowed whole by the Earth is proof that god doesn't exist, In my opinion.
The very fact that the Pope has not been struck by lighting over 9000 times and the Vatican swallowed whole by the Earth is proof that god doesn't exist, In my opinion.
Heh maybe this is old but it cracked me up. What a weird game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67tNwTtH0qE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67tNwTtH0qE
Don't think I'm really going to be in the partying mood for a LONG time..
Last night was a normal party with all my friends....
...and then one of my best friends got molested / raped.
Last night was a normal party with all my friends....
...and then one of my best friends got molested / raped.
I periodically visit the web sites I manage to make sure everything is going well. It's generally always the same and thus a rather boring activity. But yesterday I found one of them had been altered.
An <iframe> to an external site (something like aiowfuhewqifumalwieucfhnalwu.in/something.php) was planted in it. Not only on visible pages, also on test pages that were never linked to. The easiest way to fix them would be to reupload all the files again from my hard drive, so I started FileZilla, and found out a shitton of random asp pages (that linked to more spam) had been also uploaded.
Looked up the internet and the most likely cause was that my ftp password had been stolen. But... how? I've never given it to anyone.
Then I remembered. Assuming it had been this, it was safe to change the password and all would be good again.
Moral of the story: Change all passwords after all your internet traffic has been diverted through someone else's computer.
An <iframe> to an external site (something like aiowfuhewqifumalwieucfhnalwu.in/something.php) was planted in it. Not only on visible pages, also on test pages that were never linked to. The easiest way to fix them would be to reupload all the files again from my hard drive, so I started FileZilla, and found out a shitton of random asp pages (that linked to more spam) had been also uploaded.
Looked up the internet and the most likely cause was that my ftp password had been stolen. But... how? I've never given it to anyone.
Then I remembered. Assuming it had been this, it was safe to change the password and all would be good again.
Moral of the story: Change all passwords after all your internet traffic has been diverted through someone else's computer.
Just bought Half-Life:Blue Shit.
I enjoyed the game although it felt more boring than a free mod available on planetphillip. That, or maybe I'm just 10 years late...
The problem is that there are not a lot of interesting puzzles to solve other than some pushing of buttons. Sometimes it gets frustrating, and I got the impression that instead of putting more effort into the strategy/puzzle aspect, the designers preferred to just throw in hoards of marines...
All in all, I feel I just wasted the money I could have used to buy 10 breads, on a mod that I could've just read the story of on Wikipedia...
I also have to add that I think I'm going to give up getting involved in anything that's related to GoldSource. Even playing mods( well, not entirely, there are still some really good mods out there that still deserve to be played).
It's just that the engine is too old for today's standards, and I'm sick and tired too see the same old textures or low quality textures over and over again. Not mentioning that everything that has to resemble with a physical prop in motion has to be scripted.
Who knows, maybe we're going to be talking about source like this 5 years in the future too. Or maybe Valve will finally release a damn continuation to the half-life story, with an engine upgrade coming along.
I enjoyed the game although it felt more boring than a free mod available on planetphillip. That, or maybe I'm just 10 years late...
The problem is that there are not a lot of interesting puzzles to solve other than some pushing of buttons. Sometimes it gets frustrating, and I got the impression that instead of putting more effort into the strategy/puzzle aspect, the designers preferred to just throw in hoards of marines...
All in all, I feel I just wasted the money I could have used to buy 10 breads, on a mod that I could've just read the story of on Wikipedia...
I also have to add that I think I'm going to give up getting involved in anything that's related to GoldSource. Even playing mods( well, not entirely, there are still some really good mods out there that still deserve to be played).
It's just that the engine is too old for today's standards, and I'm sick and tired too see the same old textures or low quality textures over and over again. Not mentioning that everything that has to resemble with a physical prop in motion has to be scripted.
Who knows, maybe we're going to be talking about source like this 5 years in the future too. Or maybe Valve will finally release a damn continuation to the half-life story, with an engine upgrade coming along.
Some people may notice the new site icon in the sidebar:
invert-x is a little site that our good friend Ant and I have been working on. Basically, we choose one topic per week and each write a short article on it. It should be updated every Sunday (I hope!).
We started off with some opinions on the Battlefield 3 beta. Feel free to subscribe/like/whatever it is the kids are doing these days.
(Sorry for the advertisement, Ant will hurt me if I don't do it!)
invert-x is a little site that our good friend Ant and I have been working on. Basically, we choose one topic per week and each write a short article on it. It should be updated every Sunday (I hope!).
We started off with some opinions on the Battlefield 3 beta. Feel free to subscribe/like/whatever it is the kids are doing these days.
(Sorry for the advertisement, Ant will hurt me if I don't do it!)
So you may recall my journal post about how Cat + Coca-Cola = Duff Keyboard?
Well the day after that, already depressed due to my inability to game, my friend Digital_Ice bought me a copy of RAGE for my upcoming 25th Birthday. When I informed him that I couldn't play it because my keyboard was dying, he also lent me one for the weekend (getting a new one tomorrow)
Yeah, friends are awesome.
Well the day after that, already depressed due to my inability to game, my friend Digital_Ice bought me a copy of RAGE for my upcoming 25th Birthday. When I informed him that I couldn't play it because my keyboard was dying, he also lent me one for the weekend (getting a new one tomorrow)
Yeah, friends are awesome.
Well, today I got Rage. Although I am only a small bit into the game (about to start the sponsorship race) I gotta say, it's a bloody brilliant game. Story wise it seems more or less to be that of Fallout 3. Just replace Enclave with "The Authority" and Megaton with Wellspring. Oh, and no grand water purifying project (that I've yet to see).
What it lacks in story it more then makes up for in combat and animations. The enemies are fantastically done, challenging (assuming you put it at hard at the very least) and very smooth. In particular, the ducking, dodging and fast movements of bandits and mutants make for some very fun, sometimes intense battles. I'd say the vehicle combat is a little less entertaining then fighting on foot, but still great nonetheless.
My only real criticism so far is that the audio seems a little out of sync with the speaking animations of the characters ingame. Anyone else noticed that? Or is it just me?
What it lacks in story it more then makes up for in combat and animations. The enemies are fantastically done, challenging (assuming you put it at hard at the very least) and very smooth. In particular, the ducking, dodging and fast movements of bandits and mutants make for some very fun, sometimes intense battles. I'd say the vehicle combat is a little less entertaining then fighting on foot, but still great nonetheless.
My only real criticism so far is that the audio seems a little out of sync with the speaking animations of the characters ingame. Anyone else noticed that? Or is it just me?