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Life on Earth just changed.
http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2010/09/14/life-on-this-earth-just-changed-the-north-atlantic-current-is-gone/
THe North Atlantic current is gone. Which means, it wont distribute hot water like it used to, which keept UK from freezing and Skandinavian lands from being too cold for living in.
Read more.
http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2010/09/14/life-on-this-earth-just-changed-the-north-atlantic-current-is-gone/
THe North Atlantic current is gone. Which means, it wont distribute hot water like it used to, which keept UK from freezing and Skandinavian lands from being too cold for living in.
Read more.
[edit] just finished it :(.
Stalker: Call of Pripyat.
This game is addicting! Just traveled across the underground tunnels to Pripyat( arrived single- the rest of my squad died). First mission in Pripyat, 3 left to kill from the ambush(while the stupid allied NPCs die) and I die.
Quitting because of this, after 5 hours of playing.
Stalker: Call of Pripyat.
This game is addicting! Just traveled across the underground tunnels to Pripyat( arrived single- the rest of my squad died). First mission in Pripyat, 3 left to kill from the ambush(while the stupid allied NPCs die) and I die.
Quitting because of this, after 5 hours of playing.
Today I decided to play thru good ol Vanilla HL1 again and I came up with an idea: We all share what moment defined Half-Life for you.
For Me it was During Surface Tension and it was when you were crawling through a small pipe and then at the end a Soldier threw a Satchel into the pipe. He then set it off and you had to Outrun the Fireball. That was the defining moment of the Half-Life series for me. Share what defined the series for you in the comments.
For Me it was During Surface Tension and it was when you were crawling through a small pipe and then at the end a Soldier threw a Satchel into the pipe. He then set it off and you had to Outrun the Fireball. That was the defining moment of the Half-Life series for me. Share what defined the series for you in the comments.
I just watched a Japanese (English subtitles) horror/comedy/something movie called House (know as Hausu in Japan) from 1977.
It
was
Fucking
Awesome.
If you take David Cronenberg plus David Lynch times Potatoes and take that to the power of Giygas then you'd probably get one of my dreams.
Oh yeah House was pretty weird too, and I like weird.
Its got a man eating piano (Super Mario 64?)
and its got a killer lampshade (TvTropes would be proud)
and a disembodied head biting a woman and smiling (... I got nothing)
See it now.
It
was
Fucking
Awesome.
If you take David Cronenberg plus David Lynch times Potatoes and take that to the power of Giygas then you'd probably get one of my dreams.
Oh yeah House was pretty weird too, and I like weird.
Its got a man eating piano (Super Mario 64?)
and its got a killer lampshade (TvTropes would be proud)
and a disembodied head biting a woman and smiling (... I got nothing)
See it now.
Sorry I haven't had a real blog in a while, I've been busy with a few personal things along with Bloodbath and self-related projects. So lets get down to business.
Streetlevel(Remake) was released on January 28 and has four ports. This map has really been a challenge, dealing with the crazy wpoly count and compile times(15,000+ vis!)I even did not continue work on the map after New Years, I was actually thinking of just canning the release altogether. Looking back I am so happy I didn't and was even able to create ports for Counter-Strike, Opposing Force, Scientist Hunt, and The Specialists. After four months of hard work I hope you enjoy! You can view the map here on TWHL: http://twhl.info/vault.php?map=5745 or you can see other links off my site.
The Scientist Hunt HD Map Pack has been out for over a month now, and I feel silly announcing it today in this post, but as I said before, life has gotten in the way. This release was really quite something, I got in contact with Rich Whitehouse and he eventually played a game with Joe and I. It was crazy that the man himself was playing our pack with us. I know Rich isn't a huge game developer(unfortunately), but this was on par of chatting with your favorite movie star, or for me it was. Rich even tweeted about the pack and some other updates on sites like Facebook. This then lead me to meet a man who went by the name of Vash back in the day. I originally contacted him about his older Scientist Hunt levels that seem to be missing. He has helped me get his maps together and with a few other authors I can release the last of the custom Scientist Hunt maps. There is only one map by the name of Scislay by [187]*SlaYeR*{GeN} I could not find sadly. Be sure to check out the pack here: http://twhl.info/vault.php?map=5722 and also check out Rich's site and games: http://www.richwhitehouse.com/ if you would.
Last but not least, we are getting the groove back with Overturn. The holidays and life have left us doing little to no work on the mod. I can assure you however that progress has returned and we are looking forward to a release this year.
That's it for this blog post, if you'd like to see more of my maps check out my personal site. Also be sure to check out the rest of the Bloodbath Software team, they're a great bunch of modders.
Also on: http://www.moddb.com/members/thecoolgman/blogs/streetlevel-sh-map-pack-and-updates and http://bloodba.th.tc/coolgman/
Streetlevel(Remake) was released on January 28 and has four ports. This map has really been a challenge, dealing with the crazy wpoly count and compile times(15,000+ vis!)I even did not continue work on the map after New Years, I was actually thinking of just canning the release altogether. Looking back I am so happy I didn't and was even able to create ports for Counter-Strike, Opposing Force, Scientist Hunt, and The Specialists. After four months of hard work I hope you enjoy! You can view the map here on TWHL: http://twhl.info/vault.php?map=5745 or you can see other links off my site.
The Scientist Hunt HD Map Pack has been out for over a month now, and I feel silly announcing it today in this post, but as I said before, life has gotten in the way. This release was really quite something, I got in contact with Rich Whitehouse and he eventually played a game with Joe and I. It was crazy that the man himself was playing our pack with us. I know Rich isn't a huge game developer(unfortunately), but this was on par of chatting with your favorite movie star, or for me it was. Rich even tweeted about the pack and some other updates on sites like Facebook. This then lead me to meet a man who went by the name of Vash back in the day. I originally contacted him about his older Scientist Hunt levels that seem to be missing. He has helped me get his maps together and with a few other authors I can release the last of the custom Scientist Hunt maps. There is only one map by the name of Scislay by [187]*SlaYeR*{GeN} I could not find sadly. Be sure to check out the pack here: http://twhl.info/vault.php?map=5722 and also check out Rich's site and games: http://www.richwhitehouse.com/ if you would.
Last but not least, we are getting the groove back with Overturn. The holidays and life have left us doing little to no work on the mod. I can assure you however that progress has returned and we are looking forward to a release this year.
That's it for this blog post, if you'd like to see more of my maps check out my personal site. Also be sure to check out the rest of the Bloodbath Software team, they're a great bunch of modders.
Also on: http://www.moddb.com/members/thecoolgman/blogs/streetlevel-sh-map-pack-and-updates and http://bloodba.th.tc/coolgman/
Movie Review: Chronicle
The scifi genre of movies has a knack for producing films that seem really interesting in the preview/trailers, but turn out to be just the worst utter shit imaginable.
Long as you are ok with losing 102 minutes of your life you will certainly NEVER get back, to a "film" following the format of jerky, first-person camera perspective popularized by this movie that SHALL NOT be named, then by all means go flush your money down the toilet on Chronicle.
Not only do i despise this type of film, i feel it is really poorly written and performed, and i honestly have no idea how it ever made it to the big screen.
1/5 stars. Extreme and utter poo, you'd be better served doing just about anything else than sitting down to watch this movie.
Long as you are ok with losing 102 minutes of your life you will certainly NEVER get back, to a "film" following the format of jerky, first-person camera perspective popularized by this movie that SHALL NOT be named, then by all means go flush your money down the toilet on Chronicle.
Not only do i despise this type of film, i feel it is really poorly written and performed, and i honestly have no idea how it ever made it to the big screen.
1/5 stars. Extreme and utter poo, you'd be better served doing just about anything else than sitting down to watch this movie.
Checked woot today. They're selling a basic HP computer with a dual core AMD processor in it. I didn't buy but i checked the benchmarks.
Turns out a $350 basic starter machine has a better processor than my 'gaming rig' (dubbed "The Beast")
Sad benchmark Revelation
Methinks i need another processor / Mobo.
Turns out a $350 basic starter machine has a better processor than my 'gaming rig' (dubbed "The Beast")
Sad benchmark Revelation
Methinks i need another processor / Mobo.
Today was exceptionally fun.
Done in just under 12 hrs, unlocked 27/33 achievements.
I had a weird dream last night. Or rather, the weird part was when I got up.
In the dream, my father and I took a bus and a train to Poland. Not much more than that. I tried to find good looking chicks in the train station but I couldn't see any
The weird part is when I woke up. On the dining room table there was this small paper with text in Polish that I had never seen before. I could barely make out what it said, something like a QA check from our oven - which is Polish made, but we've had it for years now and only now I saw that paper just sitting there unexplained. Must have fallen off it or something, but it still feels a bit strange that I had that dream last night and today I found that paper.
In the dream, my father and I took a bus and a train to Poland. Not much more than that. I tried to find good looking chicks in the train station but I couldn't see any
The weird part is when I woke up. On the dining room table there was this small paper with text in Polish that I had never seen before. I could barely make out what it said, something like a QA check from our oven - which is Polish made, but we've had it for years now and only now I saw that paper just sitting there unexplained. Must have fallen off it or something, but it still feels a bit strange that I had that dream last night and today I found that paper.
Oh hai thar.
I figured if the world is ending this year I may as well at least drop in and say hi.
But the world isn't ending this year, regardless.
Hi.
I figured if the world is ending this year I may as well at least drop in and say hi.
But the world isn't ending this year, regardless.
Hi.
I just took a glance through my games library, and it kinda made me think. The fact I've already pumped 123 hours into Terraria suprised me, since I only got it about a month ago. I wanted to compare it to something else I consider my many hours well-wasted on. I looked at Mount & Blade, and saw it only had 131 hours on it. This was kinda odd to me, seeing as I've had it for at least 2 years now. Yet it has felt like I've played Mount & Blade so much more, and Terraria so much less.
I looked through several other games that I thought I'd pumped quite a lot of time into (games like Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers and Burnout Paradise), and found they only came out to 45 and 38 hours, respectively. I honestly thought I would've played Burnout more than MtG, but I guess not.
Plants VS Zombies holds a rather honourable 161 hours, and that's because it's damn fun. I wasn't really suprised by this number, especially when other people have played it occationally. Puzzle Quest holds a whopping 224 hours, but if it were solely my hours, it'd be closer to 10, maybe.
I was kinda shocked to find it'd put 215 hours into Left 4 Dead. I guess I did used to play it every afternoon after school with a friend at one point.
I also looked at the achievements, and it's safe to say how many achievements you have is completely unindicitive of how much you play a game. In L4D (215 h), I've only gotten 61 of the 73 achievements. meanwhile in Portal (10 h), I've gotten them all. I'd probably have all of Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter's (24 h) if most of them weren't solely Multiplayer ones. I still hold that achievement are far from an indication of skill in a particular game, unless you get all of them, in which case it remains unindicitive of skill, and becomes an indication of how much time you have to blow.
Sorry for the paragraphs, especially if you read them. I just wanted to empty my brain.
tl;dr - I play 2 much video games.
Though I'm now curious. What games have you guys gotten all (or most) of the achievements in? Do you care about/like them? Do you go out of your way to get them, and if so, how hard do you try to get them all? (Little Rocket Man, anyone? =P) Or do you just wish they were gone?
You get the gist.
I looked through several other games that I thought I'd pumped quite a lot of time into (games like Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers and Burnout Paradise), and found they only came out to 45 and 38 hours, respectively. I honestly thought I would've played Burnout more than MtG, but I guess not.
Plants VS Zombies holds a rather honourable 161 hours, and that's because it's damn fun. I wasn't really suprised by this number, especially when other people have played it occationally. Puzzle Quest holds a whopping 224 hours, but if it were solely my hours, it'd be closer to 10, maybe.
I was kinda shocked to find it'd put 215 hours into Left 4 Dead. I guess I did used to play it every afternoon after school with a friend at one point.
I also looked at the achievements, and it's safe to say how many achievements you have is completely unindicitive of how much you play a game. In L4D (215 h), I've only gotten 61 of the 73 achievements. meanwhile in Portal (10 h), I've gotten them all. I'd probably have all of Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter's (24 h) if most of them weren't solely Multiplayer ones. I still hold that achievement are far from an indication of skill in a particular game, unless you get all of them, in which case it remains unindicitive of skill, and becomes an indication of how much time you have to blow.
Sorry for the paragraphs, especially if you read them. I just wanted to empty my brain.
tl;dr - I play 2 much video games.
Though I'm now curious. What games have you guys gotten all (or most) of the achievements in? Do you care about/like them? Do you go out of your way to get them, and if so, how hard do you try to get them all? (Little Rocket Man, anyone? =P) Or do you just wish they were gone?
You get the gist.
Okay guys, I know I haven't been playing much mods recently. I think it's because there aren't many new mods these days, not because of TF2 or anything like that.
Anyway Today I have a suitable mod for you guys. If you enjoyed MISSION MCPOKER, which is a masterpiece, by the way, then you will like this mod too, called Sector 6. The only downside that this mod suffers is that it's a czech mod and everything (including in game instructions) are made in czech. However, this shouldn't be a problem because we all know what 'bombe' means and players prolly won't get stuck at the part where you have to bombe the thingy to continue (I got stuck there, though, and used noclip)
Anyway take the trening[sic] level first, because it introduces you to how to fight without a suit, a skill which you will need for the first few levels of this mod.
I had no idea what the Czech intro wall of text said, but I'll make a guess. You're a member of the riot police sent to an underground scientific center to investigate an attack by terrorists from the Middle East. However your station ran out of kevlar armour for you so you have to go into battle with only your underwear and an assault rifle (ammo for which was also out of stock, your station must be on a tight budget.)
As soon as you land, the terrorists attack you. You won't have enough ammo to deal with them, so my advice is to run like a mofo to the Locked Entrance of the facility, where a badly designed transition will take you somewhere inside the scientific center.
Anyway there's a suit somewhere up ahead, but watch out for the invisible lazer that's next to the suit. Just grab it and GTFO. Make your way into the facility, and there is a terrorist guarding a crowbar and a gluon gun. I suppose those things fetch a high price on the black market, especially the crowbar. You have to take his C4 and bombe somewhere, but I have no idea where. This is where your years of Counter Strike experience come to the fore. Good luck.
So after that you do some superficial engagements with aliens and get into a vent, which will take you out to the Middle East, where terrorists are attempting to take down a Big Momma Crab. No, I don't know why, or how. Just do what you gotta do.
Anyway, walking around in the Middle East, you see your police buddies and get to the choppah. The End.
P.S. At least it's a good ending. The world is saved instead of in cripple. No one died on Xen.
Anyway Today I have a suitable mod for you guys. If you enjoyed MISSION MCPOKER, which is a masterpiece, by the way, then you will like this mod too, called Sector 6. The only downside that this mod suffers is that it's a czech mod and everything (including in game instructions) are made in czech. However, this shouldn't be a problem because we all know what 'bombe' means and players prolly won't get stuck at the part where you have to bombe the thingy to continue (I got stuck there, though, and used noclip)
Anyway take the trening[sic] level first, because it introduces you to how to fight without a suit, a skill which you will need for the first few levels of this mod.
I had no idea what the Czech intro wall of text said, but I'll make a guess. You're a member of the riot police sent to an underground scientific center to investigate an attack by terrorists from the Middle East. However your station ran out of kevlar armour for you so you have to go into battle with only your underwear and an assault rifle (ammo for which was also out of stock, your station must be on a tight budget.)
As soon as you land, the terrorists attack you. You won't have enough ammo to deal with them, so my advice is to run like a mofo to the Locked Entrance of the facility, where a badly designed transition will take you somewhere inside the scientific center.
Anyway there's a suit somewhere up ahead, but watch out for the invisible lazer that's next to the suit. Just grab it and GTFO. Make your way into the facility, and there is a terrorist guarding a crowbar and a gluon gun. I suppose those things fetch a high price on the black market, especially the crowbar. You have to take his C4 and bombe somewhere, but I have no idea where. This is where your years of Counter Strike experience come to the fore. Good luck.
So after that you do some superficial engagements with aliens and get into a vent, which will take you out to the Middle East, where terrorists are attempting to take down a Big Momma Crab. No, I don't know why, or how. Just do what you gotta do.
Anyway, walking around in the Middle East, you see your police buddies and get to the choppah. The End.
P.S. At least it's a good ending. The world is saved instead of in cripple. No one died on Xen.
Well, I've just bought myself a new hard drive. It should be arriving on Thursday. It's a Samsung SpinPoint M8, 1TB capacity, so maybe now I won't keep running out of disk space.
And I think I will try Linux for a while. Stojke said in his last journal that he managed to get Hammer working in Linux.
And I think I will try Linux for a while. Stojke said in his last journal that he managed to get Hammer working in Linux.