Joined: Tue Aug 15 2006, 06:16AM Location: The Wolf Clan Posts: 108
The "New thaaang" on the interwebs nowadays. And I just happen to have one.
Originally I started these as a sorta public-diary, like my devjournal.
Let me get this straight, my devjournal explains things in detail and hopefully shows people how I work. My blogs talk about random things that come to my head at the point of typing to pass time, ok, got that? Good.
Originally posted on miydai.com and Xfire.
This might look like a mega-killsorryIMeanPost. But it makes it easier.
NOTICE: These blogs were designed on a different website and have just been copy and pasted over. Due to this, some of the code doesn't function correctly. To view this in the original context please refer to this [link]
Joined: Tue Aug 15 2006, 06:16AM Location: The Wolf Clan Posts: 108
"No survivors? So where do the stories come from then?"
One word.
Typo.
The most stupid thing to correct, what can you compare it to? Accent? I don't go round correcting people's accent because they sound Irish, Dutch, or slightly South Korean, so therefore I should not correct some silly little typyinng mistake or finger drag. So for you scriptkiddies with your google search bar to act as a dictionary, to try to appear smart, mehness.
Actually, I'm wrong, the most stupid thing to correct is something that is already correct, rendering the whole purpose and idea as stupid, so don't try to correct me, even if I am wrong, I stand by my words like Nintendo stands by Wii.
Camping...
Camping sucks, everybody loves camping...everybody complains when they get there, and ends up using their phones for the duration of the trip, whilst the one without the phone sits eating marshmellows without a fire, because there is no fire due to the fact that its raining, windy and cold. Why do we pride ourselves in sleeping in portable houses, in a bag, why do we give up our nice warm pillows, computers, iPod's and snazzy HD TV's to suffer much worse? I got back from camping today, and I can't wait to sleep, actually I can wait, because I have something so much better to do, or at least I THOUGHT I would of had something to do, play Metal Gear Solid 2 + 3...
But due to damn postal strikes its been delayed for another week, which means I have been waiting for this thing for 1 1/2 weeks, and I REALLY want to play it... Strikes are a real pain in the arse, I know people sometimes go on strike, and they expect other people to support them, but god dammit I am going to throw stones at the next picket line I see, and I will moonwalk in there with no clothes on, just to piss them off.
So when I heard on the radio that there was another strike today, I finally gave up and decided to get back to pirating. This time it was...
Final Fantasy VI (It rocks so hard....it's like, Tenacious D and Iron Maiden combined, with good translation) Final Fantasy VIII (IT rocks hard too...not as hard as FFVI, but I'm not that far yet, did I ever say that it rocked hard?)
It's not "exactly" pirating since its ROMS. And they are...borderline copyright, I don't really want to argue about it, so I won't post links to my snazzy website with them.
Final Fantasy VI is 2d/2.5d(At times) and it's cinematics offers no audio, but nonetheless, I like it alot. It reminds me of pokémon, but a lot better. You play the role of a girl with green hair, and I have forgotten her name, so I named her Dagger, which was the name of the FFIX character, Princess Garnet(Sorta...not really, but sorta). And she's supposed to be sexy, but I honestly can't find 2d models sexy at all :-\\
After powerleveling to level 12 with my 2 other characters, Cid and Cloud(Yeh, I renamed them...) I noticed that FFVIII had finished downloading, so I extracted it and tried it out.
It was awesome.
I was disappointed with the intro cinematic, it seemed to give a lot of the game away, and also making it very confusing. But the rest of the game covers for it, definetly. This makes me really want to get back into Final Fantasy IX again, where I was doing quite well.
In Final Fantasy VIII(For noobs out there, 8 ) , you play the role of Squall(Or Leon...but everytime I think of Leon I just have to think to myself
"LEEEEOOONNNN!!!! HEEEEEELLLLLPPPP!!!
so I tend to just call him Squall, which sounds quite emo. So I renamed him to "Matt", because I always name one cool character in the game after myself )
I even named a Final Fantasy VI guy after me, his original name was Shadow, an assassin, a freelance assassin, who owes allegiance only to the highest bidder, he also has a cool dog.
I haven't gotten far in Final Fantasy VIII at all, mainly because FFVI rocked too hard to not play it, but I have one other party member, her name be Quintis or something.
Squall has a gunblade, which gives him +5 awesomeness and bTM=1 in uScriptness. Although I haven't figured out how to use the thing, it still seems awesome.
The fighting is like normal final fantasy, nothing new and exciting, just straight down oldskool in both games.
@Sun
I don't like the name, change it to "ALT + 255" Thanks.
Happy late SAAD to all those that deserve it. Peace out to others.
Joined: Tue Aug 15 2006, 06:16AM Location: The Wolf Clan Posts: 108
"Take your hand off your ear"
I've moved on in life, no more silly pirating, well...ok maybe I was lying, but I make up for my evil deeds with even greater good deeds. For every game I pirate, I would buy another one....for example, I illegally "shared with my best friends" a game called "Sid Meirs Pirates". It was ok, I was dissapointed because I have seen better, but overall it was the best game. After playing that I would learn more of open-source engines and Linux in the hope that I could make an even better game, and sell it. Therefore doing a great deed, and atoning for my sins.
I bought Final Fantasy XII today, which can be summed up in a game, spot the difference. Clothes don't count, as they are both hardly wearing any, and neither does hair.... Yuna Ashe I was arguing over Final Fantasy VII yesterday, on why everybody liked it, and considered it the best, here is my pro list in FFVII
[sub]No bullet points, that sucks....[/sub]
1. One of the "best" bad guys, Sephiroth. (How...like...you hardly get to know him in FFVII, just the films that he really shines...and thats not a game...) 2. One of the sexiest girls invented, Tifa. (She's ugly in FFVII....again only in the films does she really shine, and so does her tight leather suit *That was just for hits* ) 3. A sad and depressing storyline, a romantic TBS. (*ugh NO SPOILER tag!? Read the next line at your own risk.* So some flower girl dies...and you put her in a lake...and she sinks? I would of called her a witch, not my girlfriend, also Tifa is much sexier than her.) 4. Cid, Vincent, and Cloud Strife, some of the coolest Final Fantasy trademarks (Vincent was a new one, so was Cloud, Cid was taken in from Final Fantasy 2.) 5. I can't think of any.
That was all the "greatness" I heard about when arguing. I have played FFVII too....
"Yeh, the game is so much better when you get out of Midgar
WHEN do you even get out of midgar, its one of the main cities, so obviously you should keep coming back and forth, you never truely get "out" of it....well, you do right at the end, at the credits. So you get 5 minutes of credits, and Nobuo Uematsu's name isin't even in Bold writing. What sucky credits.
Final Fantasy 9 was my favourite in the whole series, and I've played them all apart from the Nintendo DS port overs, X-2(Which sucks, its just a porn game.) 11(because its online fool..) and 13, which isin't out yet...
Meaning I have played 6/7/8/9/10/12.
Anyways, going back to my newly bought game. The fighting is like 1 + 2 = FFXII combat style. I was very impressed with the combat, it's a totally new way to fight, and combining them with the games gambits, just rocks. Gambits are a bit like coding, you have an IF statement, such as "IF ally HP <= 70%" and then you have an action statement "cure" The ones at the top take top priority, so if you set attack an enemy first...they would ONLY carry out that if an enemy is near, even if a teammate needed cured.
I'll list penelo's so you understand.
1. IF ally HP <= 20% , potion. 2. IF ally HP <= 50% , cure. 3. IF ally HP < =70% , cure. 4. IF party leader is targeting foe, attack foe targeted. 5. IF foe appears on screen, attack that foe.
So now if you understood what I said, Penelo will heal the people with least health first, and make her way up. Sort of like hospitals on Christmas. The reason I set a potion to people with low health is because cure takes awhile to cast at my level, so by the time its ready they would probably have died.
Penelo's is my most complicated gambit. I currently need to buy more gambits for Balthier, currently he is set to...
1. If foe appears on screen, steal 2. If foe appears on screen, attack.
I was hoping this would mean that he would steal until the enemy has nothing else to steal, then attack, but he just steals the whole time, which is still very useful, but lame, so I have to go out and buy more gambits(You don't get them all...you basically buy more IF statements, such as "ally status = sleep" would cost 50 gil to buy, etc.)
Currently though, FFXII is way too easy, and I'm way to low a level... To regain MP, you regain it "over time", which means on how far you walk, so after every battle if my MP is low, I just run around in circles until its full, heal, run in circles, onto the next battle, powerleveling.
I know that is blog has sucked as much an an iMac and PSP UMD videos, but this will be my last paragraph.
Assuming that people can post in this, or at least leave comments, or you can pm me, the quotes in bold are a competition, you have to guess who said it, what it was in(A film...name the film, a website, supply the link....etc) and I will update it to show the winners <_<.
Btw, I won't be posting again on this odd days of the week, just on Monday...which I consider the 2nd day of the week.
Joined: Tue Aug 15 2006, 06:16AM Location: The Wolf Clan Posts: 108
"If at first you don't succeed, try try again"
I have been redecorating my room for the past 2 days. Just as I got in the paint and got the room setup for it accordingly, I realised that the main unit in my room(Which covers an entire wall) was completely varnished. Thus rendering painting it pointless, as it would just peel off once dry. So I had to sand it all down, which didn't take long, a couple of hours by myself, but it was tiring work as all the surfaces were sanded, including the roof's of the unit.
The backing from the wallpaper really bugs me when we tore it down, some parts of it really stuck to the wall, and we couldn't get it down, so we ended up painting over it. But now you can see a definite abstract shape from where it used to be. So it's going to be quite a few covers to hide that.
I'm going to keep this blog short so I can finish off my room.
I was asked by an anonymous member of council to try and make myself to sound something other than a douchebag, so here is my next paragraph dedicated to trying that.
The extent of porn downloaded from the internet is shocking nowadays. People will download the repulsive stuff JUST to put it up on their own website and charge money for people to watch it. Those people will then buy it and post it up on one of the hundreds of "rapidshare links" websites and/or torrent sites for other people to download. It's a never ending circle. I hope to avoid this by using a clever variation of torrents and a feature embedded in Limewire Pro. Simply be a mean dude and allow 0.1kb/s in upload speed for torrents, and in Limewire Pro you only seed when you have got the full file, and if its in the sharing folder, so just disable or hide the sharing folder, and nobody can upload from you. If more people did this in the world, people might actually buy porn.
Moving away from trying to act like somebody I'm not, I'm actually beginning to like FFVII for some reason, I don't know why, the story still isint as good as FFIX, but it's close. I've not played FFXII in awhile, I'll need to start on it again.
Also the same anonymous member of the "council" has insulted me by trying to fix my perfectly understandable blog. I don't proof read my work because I have got other things to do, and its perfectly understandable, and more educationable if the person has to think in order to understand a blog, savvy? In order words, don't fix my engrish either.
"The hunt for grapes was fruitless *Ba da dum DISH*"
Rising pun. Just for the people with an odd sense of humor.
Joined: Tue Aug 15 2006, 06:16AM Location: The Wolf Clan Posts: 108
[b]"Impervious to dirty magazines, place in spy unit."
Heh, I got back into Final Fantasy IX awhile ago, and now I'm on Disc 3 of 4...
Final Fantasy IX is definetly my favourite of the series. The storyline is great, the characters are detailed, and the idea of mognet is quite fun...
The thing that strikes me most about Final Fantasy IX is...well...at certain points of the game you have been battling monsters for ages, nowhere to save, nowhere to buy stuff...and then finally you arrive at one of the cities...Lindblum, Treno, Dali or Alexandria...and you just feel...safe...with a warm "ahh" feeling rushing up your neck...great music playing... The only thing I could possibly compare it to is Resident Evil 4(One of the greatest games I've played), where you only get save points far away, and saving doesn't restore your health, and after running low on ammo, and having to use your knife to kill zombies...you see a blue light, and then the music plays and you see the trader with more stuff for you to buy, and more awesome upgrades for the Broken Butterfly...It's an awesome feeling and one of which I've never experienced in any other Final Fantasy's.
In Final Fantasy IX you start the game as a boy called "Zidane"(Who I named Matt) who is a thief in a group called Tantalus. You are told your objective is to capture the princess, and thats she's smexy, and her mother ain't. When you get there, it appears the princess wants to escape, and you help her get out of the castle. Unfortunatly you get caught, and the castle open-fires on your airship as your leaving town.
Your airship then crashlands in the Evil Forest...A very meh part in the game where you are constantly battling for ages with no hope of finding a shop. Your main party in this part of the game are as follows,
(ahh, bullet points now!)
[li]Princess Garnet (White mage, renamed to "Dagger" later on in the game, however I called her "Liaver" )[/li] [li]Zidane (A typical fighter, nothing truely fancy about him apart from the fact that he's a thief, and can steal and his trance moves, which I'll explain later)[/li] [li]Vivi (A black mage, he's a trademark in the Final Fantasy series, and really shines in this game, one of my favourite characters.[/li] [li]Captain Steiner (Another typical fighter, very stubborn )[/li]
The fighting in Final Fantasy IX is pretty much simple, you have the choice of ATB(Active Time Battle) or Wait.
Active Time Battle The Active Time Battle is what experienced Final Fantasy players use, because when you learn how to use it properly, it can come as an advantage. Basically it means, when one of your party members attack gauge is full, and your deciding what they shall do(Attack..steal...magic) that the enemy won't patiently wait for them to finish, so if you do it fast enough, you can reel attacks in faster than the enemy.
Wait Bog standard FF combat, Basically the opposite of ATB, the enemies wait for you to finish.
One of the new features in Final Fantasy IX is trance, which isin't really new, it was implemented in Final Fantasy VII as the "Limit Bar/Gauge". Which means when you recieve enough damage, your trance/Limit Bar/Gauge will be at full, and you can choose a "special attack". Final Fantasy IX offers more variety of "special attacks" then Final Fantasy VII.
Your save points in this game are the moogles themselves. Moogles are a Final Fantasy trademark, they are little bears with horns and a beard
Another new feature in this game is mognet, (Short for moogle network), which is basically the moogles form of post. At various points in the game you will be given the choice of delivering a letter from moogle to moogle, and getting to read them afterwards, I'm guessing if you deliver all the letters, you will get some sort of rare item...
You can have a maximum of 4 people in your party in Final Fantasy IX, and a minimum of 1...
I was slightly wrong about Final Fantasy VII, although it's still not the greatest game imho, the materia system is awesome.
Materia is simply...magic balls...Which contain different elements in them... "Fire" "ice" "lightning" "all"...and go into materia slots, which is your weapons and armor, as you get better weapons and armor, more slots become available.
When I first played Final Fantasy VII, I didn't pay attention to the materia system, but now I understand it perfectly...
Some materia slots are "joined" together, (As in...2 of them have a link in-between) which allows you to experiment with it...for example, if I put
"Cure" and "All" in 2 materia slots joined together, it will allow me to cure all my teammates(or enemies...) in one move, costing the same amount of mana. at first it can only be used once a battle, but your materia "levels up" and becomes better, allowing you to maybe cast, Cura twice on all enemies in a battle...
Some examples: Ice and All = Hit all enemies with "ice" in one move. Cover and All = Pointless, Cover already covers all your allies, there are some combinations that are pointless. Steal and All = Hmm, I'm going to try that out...Steal from all your enemies in one move? Snazzy...
I cracked my PSP, as in, cracked the firmware, and downgraded to firmware 1.5, allowing me to run homebrew on my PSP, but not any new games...so I upgraded to a custom firmware, first of all I tried out Dark_Alex's 3.40 OE, which was good, but then I realised that it wasn't going to be updated anymore, so I tried out the newer and slightly better Team M33 3.52. Which emulates firmware, 3.52, and 1.5.
My PSP was firmware 3.02, and their was no downgrader for 3.02, so I had to upgrade to 3.03, then downgrade....
"Sometimes you have to go back to go forward"
...Which meant I needed GTA : Liberty City Stories, and not only that, an unpatched version...which they don't sell at the only game shop on my island.... Luckily my mate had one, so I followed the readme exactly and it worked. Very simple, how people manage to "brick"(Destroy) their PSP doing it is very odd.
So now after making my PSP look pretty and playing some PSX games on it, I realised that a 4GB memory stick wasn't enough space for all my games... But my iPod is, my iPod is 30GB, which holds more than enough space for plenty of .iso's...
Simple, use a computer to transfer the files over from one to another, but thats silly. And not very efficient if I go on holiday, taking a huge laptop JUST for that...
So I searched around the interwebs, both an iPod and the PSP are defaulted as USB clients, meaning they can only be told what to do by other things...
Luckily, a shell replacement for the PSP called "IR Shell" has the ability to turn the PSP into a USBHost, meaning I can copy files over, which was great. Unfortunatly I didn't like the look of it...but luck struck again and I could run it as a program, I just disabled it from the startup and I'm back into my pretty PSP again. Which was all great...
Now all I needed was something to connect the PSP and the iPod together, and this was the thingy that did it. So I'm waiting on that to arrive...when it does I should be able to copy files over to my PSP to play them...
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"Windows is now shutting down, without your permission."
Two words,
Holiday \o/
Well, I just got back from a brief visit to Aberdeen, the city of grey things, and aliens.
I hate aliens...
And grey things...
The holiday also sucked.
Another stupid thing? Paint. Paint sucks, as of the year of this writing, it is 2007. 2007 years after Jesus supposedly died. We haven't figured out a better solution for paint, well, apart from me. I know the easiest way.
Grapes.
Grapes are the solution to everything, sort of like sawdust, slap it on, give it 10 minutes(maybe longer..) and it's perfect. Much better than any mortal equivalent. Such as paint.
But, to be normal, I painted my room. And it was the most boring experience of my life.
The only reason I like going on holiday is because we go to watch my favourite nation play football <3 And it's tradition to wear the traditional nation wear, which in Scotland, is a kilt, sporran, Glen Garry, and a pipers jacket. I love wearing it, it makes me feel awesome, and the girls dig me <3
We need a <3 emote. I request a <3 emote. Or I will make sure <3 is in the top ten used words, in as bold as possible.
"<3"
This blog has sucked, because I have nothing to speak of. Well, I got two new games, Rayman and Mario Strikers, both for the Wii box.
I'm going to go back and liven up the chatroom, because it feels so 'incy, without me.
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FFX Part 1.(Much to my hatred, I have to use this opening line to describe my topic now...Thanks Sun, I hate you.)
Woo, my room is done. It's now painted light blue, my favourite colour.
I got back into Final Fantasy X now...did I explain Final Fantasy X? I don't care if I did, I need to get a blog done this week.
Final Fantasy moves onto the ps2 with Final Fantasy X! With millions of dollars being spent on the game, Nobuo Uematsu again stars in the music production, much to my delight.
Final Fantasy X is a slightly...confusing storyline. At least, I find it hard to explain. The main character is Tidus, a blonde teenager, who frankly, is annoying. And looks gay in the cinematics.
Tidus is a blitzball player, Blitzball is a sort of underwater football/rugby game. He lives in Zanarkand, a huge metropolis(uhh, the word has run out of my mind, I'm trusting the spell checker there). The story starts *Tidus getting ready for a Blitzball match. How he does that? By signing people's Blitzball and seducing the ladies.
[sub]*That was wrong, but copying and pasting sucks, so I'll use this complicated system instead. The next paragraph is REALLY what the game starts out by, after it, I will put another * in, where everything before THIS paragraph, after the last * should go, got it? No? You suck.[/sub]
The story starts with Final Fantasy X's main music theme, and your final party later on in the game. You don't know it yet, but you will be seeing this more than once, the game is told through Tidus, as though he is explaining it to a friend. You then hear the most awesome thing ever, voice acting! Final Fantasy finally moves away from closed captions and moves onto voice acting! Isin't the ps2 great? He tells you to listen to his story, as it may be his last chance. Then it moves onto something totally different. *
(You got that? Did it make sense? Great!)
During the match, a weird sorta tsunami invades, which you later find out is Sin. The main boss in the game. Tidus gets knocked out, and wakes up outside the stadium, the city wrecked, and people running everywhere. Just outside he meets the most awesome FF character since Sephiroth, Auron. Auron was Tidus' dad's friend (sorta.) Auron is a man of few words, and doesn't speak often. He tells you he was waiting for you, then he walks off, waiting for you to follow him. Along the way you fight sinspawn, the dead parts of Sin. Tidus gets a awesome sword, and he was told it was a gift from Jecht, which was Tidus' dad.
After awhile of fighting, you get sucked up by Sin, and Auron willingly pulls you and himself into it, saying "This is your story."
You wake up in ruins, in the water. You search around and find a ruined building, you are cold so you make a fire and rest. Shortly after you are attacked by a boss, feeling like the most unluckiest man in the world, you fight, having no other option, soon after, the door shoots open and strange people walk in, one of them was clearly a girl(Boobs, clearly outlined in her clothing, and a metal strap around her hips, lowering down over her downstairs) The strange girl seems to help you, but afterwards, they take you prisoner and you wake up on their ship. They speak a different language, Al Bhed. However the strange girl, Rikku, can speak English. She translates what they say, and tells you that you have to work for them if you want to stay on the ship. Having no other choice, you do their mission. Afterwards she says that we should head for Luca, somebody might know us there. However, Sin attacks...again, and you wake up in a weird island. Besaid.
Whoa, this took ages to write. I'll split this up into parts. I'll try fit all these parts into one week. Sorry.
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And it is written in the stone, henceforth, no game reviews shall be written within Sudo's blog, and the Sudo was told. The Sudo protested and complained, fighting for his very few rights. He gives in, and the God's revel in his loss. The end is f
cking 'nigh.
"Dieing is a day worth living for!"
I love that quote, I heard it once, and have been saying it ever since.
So what are normal blogs like? You know what, I've never read one. That's why mine is totally different. What do they do? "My life is great, I own 3 wives." "I like red socks" "I wear yellow underpants" I was really confused by this, so I decided to go for my own style, thank you. Haters.
Last week I went on holiday, to France, Woo, Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, hot French babes, hundreds of hot Japanese tourists with 10 megapixel cameras! Woo! The city of love and pancakes, and I've been there, twice!
Much to your demise I refuse to tell you anything about France, simply because pictures tell a thousand words. Much to my regret I am posting all my pictures of France, your lucky, this time.
Ahh, but one thing I will tell you is that I went away with the famous tartan army, which is basically a club that follow Scotland. They also travel traditionally, in kilts, and the works. Bagpipes, etc. I also wore a kilt, and I am very proud of it, thank you.
+10 karma goes to the one who finds me in one of the photo's.
I could not be bothered to resize and upload all the images seperatly, so I arranged a handy little .rar package, its not lazyness, its effectiveness
(Whoa, its 160mb...no chance...) I'll show them to those who ask <_<
Also, I got rid of my old phone, gave it to my brother in-fact, and got a new contract phone. I present, the Sony Ericsson k800i. With 3.2 megapixels, 100 free texts, and 75 minutes of free calls, for £20 a month, and a free upgrade at the end of 18 months, I also payed £7 for insurance. I consider it a pretty good deal. I'm loving my phone, and have styled it with a Vista bootup and Vista theme
New Games: [sub]Yikes, lists? Awesome. I need something to make my blogs seem different.[/sub]
[li]Armed Assault[/li]
10/10
[li]Bioshock[/li]
3/10(Major dissapointment)
To finish up... My friend tells me some crazy things, but this is his latest saying. "I prefer to earn than learn" To me, that sounds like he wants to become a male prostitute[sup]*[/sup], who would do everything rather than even finish school, and get at least a £15,000 salary.
[sup]*Hint hint Sun.[/sup]
OMG HORROR GASP :o
BUG BUG BUG! Can't get the list to work, I demand compensation, Sun.
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Did I ever tell you how much Scotland rock?
No? Great then. Here is the story of my Red Orchestra days...
Blah blah blah, downlaoded Red Orchestra, practiced, played, whatever. Within 15 minutes I was searching for a clan to join, as I'm a pretty fast learner and FPS's are nothing new to me.
At the time, the best clan was [13th], still a considerable clan nowadays. I tried membership with them, but eventully the leader told me that I was pretty much a dick and nobody liked me. So I left in a fit of velous 'jage!(Film quote of the year?) Got bored, blah blah blah, came back with a new alias. This time I tried several clans, and finally ended up with [DHTA] (RIP that awesome clan). I was accepted into DHTA, as the only European member. The squad leader was Sephiroth, an infamous player in RO, accussed falsely of cheating, and eventully leading to him, and the rest of DHTA(Including myself) all via IP address, banned from a lot of servers. I really liked Sephiroth, he was one of my idols that I watched and was always amazed by his skill. I would often follow him around and try to learn from him. Unfortunatly DHTA disbanded due to lack of interest and a general hatred towards us. I still wear the tag to this very day.
Shortly after, I met this man named Steven, who I noticed had a .Sco on the end of his name, GOSH HORROR AWESOME, the only scotland player I've ever seen?(Just to clear this up, I come from Scotland) We started talking and I asked about his tag, he explained to me the Nations Cup. The Nations Cup was a tournament held annually, with selected players playing for their country, fighting against others. He seemed to like me, and invited me in to trial for Scotland. I was gobsmacked, playing for my own country! I was so proud.
After a lot of discussion and gameplay, I was eventully invited into the Scotland team as a Rifleman, my job was to take out the exploiters(This was back in the mod, where there was some exploits left in the game, meaning you could shoot everyone, and they couldn't kill you.) I knew a lot of these exploits, and had to stop people using them. Although we did have referees, they didn't do much of a job.
The draw is made somewhat like football, based on world ranking, you will be drawn first, and its rigged so that you wont draw in the same group as another high rank. This means its much more harder for teams like Scotland to win.
Our first match was against Germany. It was the only matched I played in. And I loved it.
We knew from the very start we weren't going to win, Germany had one of the World's greatest player(Who I am very proud to have killed, pissed off, and generally annoyed). We played for fun. And the atmosphere was really great.
The match came, we were informed of the rules. Which Steven dumbed down for us.
Both Team's MUST use Teamspeak, and MUST be in the same server. There would be 2 channels, one for Germany, and one for us. Both would be passworded, with an independant referee listening to us, making sure we didn't cheat.
Our lineout was something like this: Steven (SMG) Me (Rifleman) Pan (Sniper) A few more players, I forgot their names.
So the start came, and I was really expecting Steven to order us around. But what he said was really funny...Here comes a chat log, as I remmember it.
Steven: So, who watched the footie last night? Pan: Uhh, hello, we are playing Germany at the moment... Steven: Don't worry, I got a plan. *Various tactics spread out* *several minutes later* Steven: Damn this ain't working, ok Toto(That was me), did you watch the footie last night? Me: I don't watch football. Pan: Steven, behind you. Me: They are cheating. Pan: I agree. Steven: Yes they are definetly cheating. Various other members: Cheats! Steven: Referee, they are cheating ban them please. Referee: You know, Germany are so organised...they have written down on paper all of their attack formations, and what they expect you to do. You on the other hand...well, what were you arguing about? Steven: The footie was crap last night. Pan: He means to say that the opposition are cheating. Steven: They also cheated at the football last night. Me: I got that SMG by the way, feel free to rush. *Several members die* Me: No, not THAT SMG. Idiots. Steven: Pan, your not very good with that sniper. Hand it over, I got a plan. Pan: No, I like this sniper. I'm just a little nervous. Me: You almost shot me! Pan: You positioned yourself poorly. Steven: Hand it over... Pan: No. Steven: Now. Pan: Make me. Steven: Dude, hand it over. Pan: Man, fuck this. *Pan leaves* Steven: ....Uhh.. Me: Do you think that qualifies as a disadvantage towards us, and an automatic forfeit for Germany, and we win? Steven: No. Various other members start to laugh Me: This is a disaster. Steven: So was the footie last night. Me: Grenade. Steven: What? Me: Too late now. Steven: We have lost all our places except this one, now what? Me: Your the captain. Steven: And I command you to kill the Germans. Me: Ok, would you like to suggest HOW? Steven: Good point. Unleash your fury. Me: The other SMG is taken down now. Scotland makes one last rush at objective. Me: You do know there is a grenade at that spot that your running to? Steven: Uhh...
Thats all I remmember. We lost the game, and the tournament. I loved it though, I hoped you enjoyed this blog. Scotland rock.
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In the space of a week I have been occupying myself and Wishing whilst waiting for the 4th installment of The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness to arrive. Not that I am impatient or anything but when I turn up annually to get these books I expect them to be there with my preorder slip perfectly valid, but waiting 2 months after a delay kinda saddens me and makes me think about the Bad things in life.
Looking at my doorstep nervously and beating up every postman that happens to be within the area, I noticed one was actually walking towards my house, with a brown envelope. Great Success! The book had arrived and I just began reading.
Fuck, tea. Meh, grandparents. Shit, homework! Bah, revision. Whoa Ubuntu 7.10 is out in 10 days! Cat's just been sick on my bed. Ugh, TV has magically turned itself on.*
After that annoying incident(s) were over, I finally resumed my first and most important task to READ the book. Outcast. Needless to say I was very pleased with it so far, and am already half way through it. I should be finished by the next blog writing. The books are set in Earth, but not as we know it, many years ago before Pong and even the CRT monitor. The time of clans and hunting. Set in Africa. The story immediatly jumps out at you so its hard to tell much about it without spoiling it. But I definetly would recommend it to anyone with one functioning eye or good knowledge in brail. The writing is simple to understand yet detailed, its interesting yet you can go a week without reading it and still remember the storyline. Although you really have to read the first books to understand the back-story, as it is pretty hard to understand if not.
*Someone put my TV and ps2 on sleep mode(With the red light STILL ON) rather than turning it off completely. Do you know how much that ANNOYS me? Save electricity people.*
Newish Games:
[li]Jedi Knight: Academy 2/10[/li] [li]Guitar Hero II 8/10[/li]
Yeh, I can do Freebird on Expert. I own.
I pick up quite a few funny chat logs in my time. So I'll try to give my blog added features and add my favorite picks in. As I like ladies boobs, they are completely true and no editing is done.*
*Apart from the few deletes to keep on topic. As I/others_I_talk_to tend to ramble on a lot.
Short one today. To marvel at Linux.
(This one is from my own knowledge, so it may not be completely accurate) *Previous boring statements aruging that both Linux and Windows(From seperate users) are better than the other.* Grue: It deleted my information. Sudo: Define "It" Grue: Linux. Sudo: Yeh, make sure to double check that you have all your data backed up before you press the 5x10[sup]3[/sup] window boxes asking if you REALLY REALLY want to format your hard drive. Sudo: *Chatroom goes dead* Sudo: :-\ *Chatroom still appears to be dead* Sudo: ._. *No respone* Till next week(s).
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