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I love TF2

Last Saturday, 3/5/08, was the dedicated TDB LAN party. If you’ve never heard of a LAN Party, its basically a group of folks who get together with their PC’s and network them in a hall and play games, share files, drink beer and eat pizza [or in Saturday's case, Subway and kabab]

TDB is the clan the LAN Party is run by. Lead members being: Elric, Fizz, Foo, Oli and a few others. And as of Saturday I am half a member. My 1st task was a game-off with another potential for TDB. Normally its a case of I chose a game, and the clan choose an opponent. Or I choose my opponent and they choose the game.
However as there were two tryouts, Myself and Jojo – They decided we’d have a deathmatch and they choose the game.
The game? …Soldat!
Never heard of Soldat? Think of Worms. Then think real time and real weapons and physics but still 2D.
20min game with a 30kill fraglimit. To start off it was difficult since I hadn’t played the game since its early days back when I was a Liero fanatic. And Jojo hadn’t played before ever I think. Either way, neither of us knew the keys or maps or anything. Somehow I managed to loose my weapon at the start and chose my secondary which was a chainsaw. So untill I figured out my keys, I was running around trying not to get shot at untill I got the chainsaw out and cut him up twice!
After that I got killed and got my gun back and we tore shreds out of each other as best we could.
In the end, although very close, I pulled ahead and with my Spas Shotgun, blew jojo to pieces just as the timer hit 20min.

A Bloody intense fight requiring quick reactions and deep concentration. Both of us were shaking with the adrenalin and my hand had actually cramped up a bit on the WASD keys. Lol!

But various other games were played, namely Unreal Tournament 3, Crysis, COD4 and Track Mania United Forever (*the free one*)  [Track mania being another game where I kick ass ]

Anyways, as for the holiday – I’m trying to make this a quick post…

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What a fucking shit hole! the place is cursed and I hate it.
The music – if you can call it – that is absolutely pants! Its the usualy chart, thump thump music that the so called “DJ” destroys even more but attempting to “mix”. e.g. Phase shift, slow down and whatever default effects are programmed into the cheap ass desk he/she/it has.

Other than that, I actually had a good time. I was dancing alot (alcohol induced) and my “date” and I enjoyed the daggers we were getting from an old friend. t’was funny! But we left in the end because there is only so much childish behavior one can take.

Well, that was my weekend reaslly. Didn’t actually think it was that bad tbh.
Sunday, I’ll spend taking out my frustration on whichever computer game I can be arsed playing knowing I can pwn ass against bots/online – whilst listening to:
Reel Big Fish – Suckers
and
Weezer – Only In Dreams

Thank you, and good night!

« Morning after (Well…Afternoon…) »

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Been playing this highly addictive paper aeroplane game at work recently. We’ve been constantly challenging each other to get the best score.
Nicki was first to get over 100m
Then Andrew had a few goes and wiped us all out with around 104m
Yesterday Nicki then managed 114.566 – pwning us all… I hadn’t managed over 98m at this point.
Finally after much practice and when everyone had gone home, I achived 114.573 taking pole position and no-one has beaten it yet!

Wanna try?

Flight Sim X

Still no internet at home – Still no content. Sorry guys. I only have limited access to stuff at work so theres not much I can do to administer this site.

However, there are some wee things I can do at the moment. Please enjoy this little flash rendition of Valve’s ‘Portal’ Game. Its kept me busy at work. lol!

Flash Portal.swf