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!

Mr. Freeman is going to relive the nightmare he had in 1998 with better graphics. Here’s the teaser of BLλCK MESA, the Half Life remake with source. It will be completely free, like very other HL2 mod if you already own Half Life 2. Looks like it will actually hit our HDDs on 2009 (not December 31, I hope) and will keep our salivation steady until the release of Half Life 2: episode 3.

It’s a holidays here in Italy today, but also in the rest of the world because tomorrow will be the second GIC anniversary! To commemorate the event I finished  the requested pic!

Also, I’ve been playing Garry’s mod lately, after a friend of mine gave it to me as a present on steam. Enjoy a little randomness!

The first pic had a working radio from the EasyEngine Pack broadcasting this tune. The second had a litte customisation in Photoshop. The third stars the guy who gave me Gmod. He ragdolled himself before leaving for dinner and found himself in there when he got back (I detonated the whole thing as soon as he un-reagdolled himself). The last one is a 5-minutes work with LoZ models from Fluxmage.

Apart from that, I also got  Half Life 2 Deathmatch because I didn’t know I could get it free here if i got a NVIDIA (look on the right). If you don’t like to get stuff for free (who am I kidding?) you can purchase it on steam this weekend because everything Half Life is 66% off. You can get the whole Half Life pack for 12 bucks!

Lastly, Valve also released a new update for Team Fortress 2 featuring a “new” game mode, new maps and 18 new random-dropping hats. And they didn’t convince me at all to come back and play it. I’ll stick to L4D and Gmod. Also, if the ridiculous drop rates weren’t enough, the developers handed out 11,111 small medals for soldiers with an easter egg on the hidden pages of the update. What drives me mad is that they did the whole thing at 2am GMT. Sounded very like “Fuck you Europe” again, after the 1$ = 1€ bullshit. I know we’re like the third world of gaming but we pay for the same things americans and asians get, so, why can’t we get a little consideration?

Good news first: i was roaming in the supermarket yesterday pitying the average-man distribution they have when my eye fell inside a new bargain bin. Among the countless, unsold, copies of Supreme Commander and PES4 this was lying in anxious waiting of being picked up.

I bought it for €3,90. I already like the year 2010, really.

The bad news come now. I’m starting to wonder if it’s even worth to do anything objectionable. You can do your best for everything you do but it won’t ever be enough because there’s always someone better than you. Furthermore, critics never seem to appreciate original/revolutionary entries. I wrote this introduction to explain why I am  now posting my entries for the propaganda contest on TF2. Winners were announced on December 2009 but Valve never revealed the other 25 runner-ups. I wanted to show you my works after that be considering the may have forgotten…

The other reason I was complaining about critics is because I feel that it’ll be hard to see something nifty come out from the contribution page on the TF2 website. I already have ideas for 3 Engineer weapons and 1 hat but I can’t do anything with them because I can’t model in 3d at all and the contribution page doesn’t accept concept art. If I learn Maya or 3DMax in the near future I’ll probably make up a fake update with them. If you want a clue they’re named “The Stickmen”, “The Metal Jammer” and “The Tools of the Trade”.