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monster_urby11 years ago2012-10-24 17:05:10 UTC 13 comments
My audio input just assaulted my audio output. :(
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monster_urby11 years ago2012-10-18 08:12:21 UTC 14 comments
Crappy birthday to me,
crappy birthday to me,
now I'm off to the office,
crappy birthday to me...

(Overslept too...)
monster_urby11 years ago2012-10-15 12:29:23 UTC 14 comments
Just took a call from a guy in Houston, Texas who seemed a bit up himself. Can any of the yanks in the local area just pop in and sort him out. Cheers.
monster_urby11 years ago2012-10-06 08:40:58 UTC 5 comments
I already posted a link in the Gaming thread but here is just a little explanation. If you've ever read the Living in Oblivion blog by Chris Livingston (author of the Concerned HL2 comic) you should get the grasp of this fairly quickly.

I have started out in the world of Skyrim, completely avoiding the main questline or any other adventurous outing and instead I am looking to make my fortune in other ways. Ways such as alchemy, hunting, fishing etc. If I need to travel I will do so on foot, no fast travelling and no cart hiring. This makes things incredibly dangerous for a man with no weapons, dressed in rags. Day one was pretty successful but has left me with few options for day two, meaning I will most likely have to travel further into the wilderness. This terrifies me.

You can read the blog here

You don't need to sign up to wordpress to post a comment so please do if you enjoy reading it or even if you don't. It would be most appreciated.
monster_urby11 years ago2012-09-24 23:09:26 UTC 5 comments
Bit of an SnC classic here, packed with YouTube video and pop culture references from around the time it was created. It is also totally mental and everybody dies.

Sleep is Death SnC flipbook #6

Enjoy.
monster_urby11 years ago2012-09-21 11:38:12 UTC 19 comments
So, with BF3 currently down in price will any other TWHL members be joining in the fun? The TWHL platoon on Battlelog only has a lowly 10 members? Just think, you could be a part of that AND you get to shoot people in the face.
monster_urby11 years ago2012-09-13 16:15:37 UTC 29 comments
As of writing, there are now less than 24 hours before Black Mesa is released. After losing and regaining interest a couple of times during it's development, I am now pretty psyched to think it will be available in less than a days time.

BLACK MESA

Do you have any plans? Are you just going to sit and power through it in a single session or play a bit at a time, savoring every moment. Are you having a day off work or school to play it? Are you going to record a let's play, or are you planning to review it?

Personally, I will be going to work as normal since the countdown ends at 15:45 for me. Little point in skipping work to wait around all day. What I will do however is give my wife a call in order to start the download as soon as she can. :P

As for playing it, I will no doubt play through it in large chunks, maybe 3 sittings, and I plan on recording gameplay in order to do either a "Gentleman plays" series of 10 minute vids or 3 or 4 short highlights videos with captions and whatnot.

So... do tell...
monster_urby11 years ago2012-08-23 08:52:43 UTC 8 comments
An open taunt to Archie:

Got your tags. Mwua ha ha ha ha.

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Remember that time I totally knifed you in the back? That's when I got your tags. Now they're my tags.

Tags.
monster_urby11 years ago2012-08-16 10:41:34 UTC 5 comments
A couple of people have been asking about where the Scotch and Coffee website had gone too and when it was coming back.

Welp, last night I finally got around to finishing a little something I've been working on and you can check it out here: SnC Homepage

It's pretty basic in terms of design and functionality, although there is a little box on the right which features some highlights from our SVN log. Actually, it's mostly Archie getting his hair off over GoldSource. Still, fun.

There is also a forum which you can sign up to if you like. :P
monster_urby11 years ago2012-08-08 19:48:23 UTC 9 comments
Nearly ten years ago, I remember watching these videos and shitting an entire estate's worth of bricks.
monster_urby11 years ago2012-08-04 12:49:53 UTC 8 comments
Imagine if Battlefield 3 had been produced with a much lower audio budget. It might have gone something like this...

Linky
monster_urby11 years ago2012-08-01 13:26:03 UTC 13 comments
Urby sits dutifully at his desk, bashing out code, ignoring the clock and just trying to get through the day. He typed for what felt like forever, on into the night. Night turned to day, which in turn, turned to night again. Spring turned to summer, summer to autumn, autumn to winter.

...and then it was 5 minutes later.

God knows webdev isn't the best activity for making the time fly by. :(
monster_urby11 years ago2012-07-27 11:01:14 UTC 17 comments
Sooo... when is the TWHL community going to start a full on singleplayer Source development?

I'm sick off all these BETA and horror themed mods that n00b mappers are farting out.
monster_urby11 years ago2012-07-23 12:59:49 UTC 7 comments
Anyone ever experience one of those random strings of pure terrible luck? Well, last night the world was against me something rotten.

I suffer from hay fever and yesterday I was really suffering. I'm also allergic to dust so I decided that hoovering the house would really sweeten the deal. (I didn't think that but it needed to be done)

Later in the evening, my nose was sore, my throat hurt from sneezing, my senses of smell and taste were gone and my head was pounding. I decided I would clear my head by soaking in a nice hot bath. Now, it was getting pretty late so the sun had gone down. Flicked the switch for the bathroom light and POP, lightbulb dies quite a violent death.

"Awww, for f-"

Unscrewed the light globe and tipped the shards into the bin. Go back downstairs, reach down to open the cupboard to get a new bulb, grab the box and as soon as I stand up straight the bottom of the box falls out and the last spare lightbulb in the house falls onto the tiled kitchen floor.

I should mention at this point, that I was barefoot...
monster_urby11 years ago2012-07-20 07:34:34 UTC 3 comments
I was recording a couple of lines last night and while I was at it I decided to do another reel. Rather than mimicking existing characters like my last reel I decided to make things up on the spot.

I'd love to hear your thoughts :D