Archive for June, 2008

Shiny!

Summer has officially started. Clouds are tearing away, bus timetables changed and I’m mentally awake at 8:30. I’ll be on vacation from august 4 to august 22 but don’t expect me to stop drawing. Hell, no! Comics will be released regularly even if I die (I’ll possess AoA and make him draw realistic comics for me). Actually, I always though “what would I/he/she do if I/he/she die/dies”. I think it’s a bit paranoiac of me but i also realised that there are hundreds of ways we could die unexpectedly. I guess everybody should always act like it was his last day because regret can be really painful and besides, it’s better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven’t done (omg, am I turning emo?). Talking about multiple deaths and massacres i found this funny video.

Blah, blah, blah, Mr. Freeman.

Oh, yeah… Room #100 is scheduled for July 23! Yay!

Oh, I’m sorry, mate.

I really apologize for the mistake regarding the comic being published in the news category and thus not being showed properly but I couldn’t fix it properly until this morning. I’ve been away for two days and I’ve got another travel scheduled for tomorrow. I’ll still be able to finish the comic in time, anyway.

I really couldn’t play anything in the last few days but I’m definitely going to spend the whole week-end in TF2 to unlock every Pyro achievement. I’ll have my revenge on soldiers.

In the meantime you can enjoy the new “Meet the Sniper” video from Valve.

A word of wisdom for every achievement-hungry gamer out there: do not play the Pyro if you’re n00b at it. Pyros need lots of practice to master and you wouldn’t use the new weapons if the Pyro isn’t your class. Like I did with the medic, for example. The Ubersaw may look good, but I’m not a medic and now I don’t really need to unlock it (consider also that a medic swinging the ubersaw in close combat is ridiculous).

I’ve also been playing Mass Effect lately and I admit that it’s really a great rpg. Though the difficulty looks a bit unbalanced in some steps it’s really enjoyable and pushes role playing to its limit.

EDIT:

Valve’s Team fortress update notes extract: “Removed Soldier’s 40% damage reduction from his own rockets.”

*raises the middle finger in front of the attending soldiers*

Mind manipulation?

It looks like Valve’s got a great influence over TF2 players. They release “Meet the scout” and every server gets 3 or more scouts per match, they release the medic achievement pack and every team turns to a non-offensive, 1 to 5 Soldier-Medic ratio, ubercharge and bonesaw madness. You may have guessed what happened in the last week end after the Pyro pack and “Meet the Sniper” were released. For the first time since i started playing TF2 I sniped more Pyros than Heavies.

With the recent updates I also got a connection problem. My pc randomly loses the connection to the server I’m playing in. Sometimes it connects again, other times the 25 seconds pass and I’m forced out of the game. This pisses me out. Did somebody had my same issue?

Brawl’ll be out this Friday. At last. Freakin’ translations. I think I’ll unlock everything during my vacation in august. I don’t have much spare time lately, with mass effect and UT3 installed :D

Note to friends: I still have to buy two more Wiimotes. If you don’t want to play Brawl the classic way with NGC controllers just don’t expect to come to my home and play a 4-players free-for all.

Catman told me he wants to have a 12-hours Brawl marathon when I get it and Ganon and AoA will join for sure. You can expect a few pics of ourselves in shorts and undershirt in the next weeks.

Talking about world heating: did anybody invented a full-body heat screen? I don’t want to evolve to a white mirror-plated lizardman or something, though I would learn Cassandra’s moveset.

I noticed a strange resemblance between Computer Love by Kraftwerk (july 1981)and Talk by Coldplay (december 2005). Just listen to these videos, especially the first one. Somebody may shout “plagiarism” but I’d say “Coldplay did a good job”. Building a new song from 6-7 notes isn’t easy at all.