More on the scout…

Before I’m back to the monotony of non-gaming news. Where’s our “meet the” video and new gamemode we were promised? Anyway, I disliked all the acheivments, the one where you have to double jump 1000 times for example. Why not just be honest and say “Hit spacebar 2000 times”?

So I did get all the achievments, but I’m most proud of the fact  I got the tauntkill one, on 2fort, not planned at all. However, allowing the consumer to do a vote on which item comes out first was stupid, it meant you had to do a pile of annoying grindy acheivments to unlock the weapons, which make up 70% of the rest of the acheivments.

Still, it beats those cockwhores who chose to use an unlocker.

Big mistake Valve.

“Spies can now control which weapon the enemy team sees them holding. Hitting the “last disguise” key while disguised updates the disguise to show the Spy’s currently held weapon.” In the patch.

It’s a simple move, but just…no…

Now it’s too easy to be a spy. Also, most of these achievments are too difficult to get in general. But i’ll comment on them more later.

Now you too can be a nazi and deny entry to the land of the free.

Thanks to http://www.blueservo.net/ You can watch live video streams all day, and keep an eye out for illegal immigrants and drug smuggling. Texas has become a big brother state. I registered, and thanks to Opera being the lost reject of the internet browsers, I have to resort back to IE..again to use it. I registered, because those Big Brother Commie Texans want to know everything about everyone, but of course with false credentials. Bringing up a dirty piece of history in those yanks past, I’m under the pseudonym of Jim Crow. Age 25.

But before I started, I want to pedantically analyze the banner.

The guy on the computer…either has poor eyesight or is a bloody no-lifing cock. Just look at his stance… If you were watching the same patch of land all day you’d be mildly bored. Next up, is the stereotype “sneaky” posed group in a single-file line. It needs classic pinkpantheresque musak to go with it. And then theres just the canal of Texas. Moving on.

hmmm…Which camera to choose…they make it like a game..  ”Camera 161
This area is known of illegal drug activity. If you see people crossing the water in this area please report activity.”

“Camera 898
During the day watch for subjects on foot carrying large bags. During the night time hours watch for activity involving lights from the middle of the screen to the bottom.”

I picked Camera 185, because it was a nice camera shot with good centering. So i’m watching right now. Nothing’s happening. Still nothing.Wait… Wait…. OH MY GOD!! RIGHT THERE! CONTACT THE KKK OR WHOEVER RUNS THIS SITE!! Oh…wait. That’s a tree. Nothing here, this is boring. Lets pick this one, where I must report anything happening from right to left. Well, it does look bloody hot down there, I can see the heatwaves. And it’s an extremely misty camera too. However… THERE’S A PORTALOO, THERE’S A DAMN DIRTY MEXICAN IN THERE! STOP HIM! (Sorry, Mexican people.)

Now to report this info. “Report suspicious activities button.” It tells me to describe what I witnessed. This is what I wrote, despite it being a lie.

A mexican guy walking from left to right (individual.) He looked pretty bad off, surely you can let just the one in? I know us Brits have little in common with you yanks down south in Texas, and it’s unlikely you even know where any other country is on the map, but you guys have spirit, and if you have even the slightest shred of human decency towards your fellow man, you would let him through. He could get a job as a bartender or something, that boosts the economy which you jerks have buggered up for the whole world, putting us all into recession and all.

you owe it to us. Muchos Gracias Amigos.  Hopefully I’ll get a better response than when I emailed Boris Johnson.

On TF2, I won’t post about the scout update until I’ve unlocked and tested the weapons, and maybe I’ll document some of the achievments. If there’s a tauntkill one, (which I don’t believe there is) I vow to get it not on an acheivment server, or sleepy sniper.

When was the last time I posted properly about Video Games?

PC games have been starved of oxygen on my PC gaming blog.

This ends here. For today atleast anyway. TF2 Update! Everyone’s posting about it, but seeing as my favourite character who happens to be in my banner is getting an update bound to ruin him, just like everyone else, I thought i’d post on him. Weirdly enough, he’s my favourite class, but my 4th most played as class. Later on I’ll take a picture of my stats. However…. This is the first change they have planned, and I thank valve for making it so easy to save image as.

Well, interesting weapon were my first words.

My second words are: OH NO, IS THIS THE END OF BOINKING?

It going to change the way the scout plays as. When I use the scouts melee weapon, it tends to be on dozy snipers because to be honest, if i’m close enough to kill with a melee weapon, I stick with the scattergun as it does more damage closeup. This is going to inspire some interesting hit and run tactics, in particular for the CTF game modes. I’ll test this one out on 2fort. Hopefully this is going to work like Sasha/Natascha, as alternatives to how you want to play, not like the Syringegun/Blutsauger. Not many people stick with the Syringegun.

If the scout wields this new bat (the Sandman) he loses his double jump ability. That makes it fair, not like when the Backburner came out. If I get stunned, it does sound annoying, but probably about as annoying as when you get hit by Natascha, or air blasted back. And hopefully people who play as scouts will enjoy double jumping (like I do) not just sit on the sniper battlements of 2fort, hurling thier tender white balls at the enemy snipers.

Sexual Innuendo implied.

And perhaps pyros can airblast the balls back? If you can spam balls though…..hruurrrr….  Anyway, Valve also slightly changed the ways critical hits work. Now they claim they’re more “skill based” not pot luck. Which is good because I hate having a heavy on heavy war, and only losing because he gets a nice roll of crits.

Still, they didn’t take my idea of a plank with a rusty nail in . You would hit someone with the plank, and they’d get tetanus, and bleed a trail of blood for effect, but also slowly drains thier health as if they’re on fire. And it can vary from tetanus, to rabies, to Diptheria. Boink!

You can see the other forthcoming updates (on the TF2 site) until next Tuesday, where the pack is released for this planet.

Alright, alright, another post.

Before I start, the long wait was because my internet severely broke, but anywho….

I got a nifty £20 HMV voucher, and I plan to buy either Burnout or FEAR 2. I played the demo of FEAR 2 because it didn’t take eternity to download like Burnout, and it worked when it did download. Quite good, and I like the graphics. The engine, not so much, but the graphics are quite smooth yet dark.

On the other hand, as much as I loved burnout on the ol’ PS2, the fact that the routes aren’t set, meaning slightly less explosions might make the game a bit bland, especially with keyboard controls. GRID wore thin very, very fast because instead of me frantically enjoying twiddling my thumbs very quickly to make swift manoevers, using a keyboard meant I was leaning back, bored, counting the laps. Also, it was far too easy. Really, I played on the hardest difficulty and it was still to easy.

Not to mention the amount of germans on multiplayer, it was almost as bad as Counterstrike…

More news, I got new speakers, Creative T3100s, and I like them because they look quite pretty, and the base is sublime. I could give them a proper review like people do for speakers, but who the hell cares about how they’re packaged?

Bad news, I accidentally somehow deleted my whole French GCSE folder. The entire thing. Lucky some of it is saved onto my memory stick. I swapped to Opera after Firefox proved why it’s the safest browser to use- It crashes 6/10 times for no reason.

Seems like right now I’m not posting anything interested, i’m just rambling on about things I’ve done and plan to do. So I need to go down to the shops and buy some deoderant and shampoo, and some blu-tack.

Yup, definitely just rambling. But I came up with this very interesting question, Does it count as child porn if you photoshop a child’s head onto a legal person’s nude body?

Ponder that one through while I gander on about other things. I desperately need to buy the two newest futurama mini-movies, Into the Wild Green Yonder, and Bender’s Game. Then I can review them. Hopefully it will be better then Beast With A Billion Backs, which was only mildly amusing. I give it a 5/10 for my ridiculously high standards!

So I apologise for this boring post which isn’t a review, or anything remotely readable, but hopefully I might have something good soon. such as some of my photography if anyone likes to look at pictures.

a few bland reasons why to RSS Feed me

Hopefully the RSS feed button works, but some reasons why you should RSS feed me instead of checking me every so often-

1. It’s easier.
2. You use valuable time to check my blog which you could be using searching /t/ or /b/
3. it somehow puts less pressure onto me to post- as I know people might come here looking for a post while if you had RSS I would be content knowing nobody looks at this.
4. It’s really simple, providing the RSS works!
5. I don’t have any more reasons

Spam attacks

Well, it’s not a spam attack as such, because it’s one guy. But- One guy is enough!

Commenting on my post on Scrubs, it wrote

Richard February 6, 2009 at 11:57 am

Hi Roadrunner
I find your blog when I search “Roadrunner’s PC Gaming Blog, But a bit of everything really” in Ovary, and enjoyed reading your post about “Scrubs Season 8 is Appauling“.
You can find more information about the same in ovary search engine. you can search for any particular web page by entering the title or keyword, you can search up to ten search engine at one time from the Ovaru interface.
I find your blog really interesting: plenty of things to discover here!

His search engine sounded like ovary. I don’t want to advertise them so if you want the link head over to google and type in Ovary! Thats right, Google! Actually, speaking of google, if you want to save some energy, use “Blackle“

-Blackle saves watt time because it uses mainly black pixels, black by definition means no light, and hence uses less energy.
-Blackle’s search quality can be considered slightly lower then Google, but if you are doing a specific search, it works perfectly.

There are a couple of downsides though- But not major downsides!

-Blackle does not show links to “Google images/gmail/video/ect.)
-Blackle does not have the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button
-Blackle does not offer in other languages (as far as I know.)

And it saves energy, therefore cuts down on your electricity bills. Because if its saving energy, nobody cares. If its saving money, THE WORLD IS AT STAKE! I’m no mathematician, but it does save a hefty amount of energy compared to Google and the other google variations.

However, this only saves power if you use a CRT monitor. On LCD it uses more power.

Scrubs Season 8 is Appauling

I’m not just off on one of my rants of endless cynicism and poor grammar. I’ve now seen the first 6 episodes of Scrubs season 8, and each one is crappier then the last. Carla has less lines.Infact, Carla has vanished off the planet.

Scrubs has had it’s time. Now it’s just stale. JD’s amusing naivity has worn thin and is now just irratating. Of course that said, it doesn’t mean it’s completely dull and crap. there are a few good jokes, all of them coming from the Janitor…Speaking of which, he is boycotted from an episode for some reason…

Anywho, Dr Kelso shouldn’t have been made into a retiree, what’s the point? He served a brilliant character being a miserly, money whoring bastard, and now he’s opening up to become a friendly, kind old man. Yet he just loiters around the hospital for the whole time. All realism has been sapped out.

And for some reason, the cameraman has fucked up and now everything has gone all hollywood; plastic people with more makeup on thier faces then the chinese industry can produce per month. They’re faces are too smooth and too unrealistic. If they were real doctors having to be up early, with irrational hours, they’d be tired or atleast not as smooth? On the topic of face-smoothness, the fact JD has grown a beard, ruins it.

He keeps the naivity of his character, but grows a beard, and these two factors fight each other like a schizophrenic rapist.  But what really did it, what truly and honestly pissed me off, was the fact that Dr. Cox is being nice to JD. WHY?! Of course his hilarious minirants of hatred get old, but it doesn’t make them unimaginative. When he opens up to be friendly to JD in one scene, I just couldn’t bear to watch anymore. It’s too cringeworthy. But I did watch more, only to find more points to complain about.

There aren’t even plots in the episodes…I just watched an episode when an unrealisitic depthless JD talks to an unrealistic depthless extra who can’t connect to anything, and they spend the episode whining about thier girl problems together. Screw this, I’m going to watch House!

But I dunno, watch it for yourself, decide whether you like it or not. But I’m sure 99% of people who read this will agree, it’s had it’s time, it’s not as good as it once was.

Happy Chinese New Year and Introducing a new category

Chinese New Year. I went into chinatown in london with my good SLR camera, and a digital camera. I got 4 shots with the digicam, and 72 shots with the SLR. Well, here are my 3 shots, and when I develop the films, i’ll scan the photos in and show you my satirical photo-skills. Infact, There were loads of photographers there, but they all had ultra expensive and fancy looking kits, while they probably don’t realise that doesn’t make thier shots look any better. I just went in my humble Pentax Camera, and fired away.

Being a kid, it was easy to sneak past the security and get up close to the dragon, and it was entertaining too. Next time i’ll make a fake press pass to get onto the mainstage, so I can greet Boris Johnson with a communist poster with him on it, made as a pasta collage. I didn’t wait around too long, I left at about 3pm because it was getting dark, and because I didn’t have thin gloves, I wore no gloves, and I thought my hand was about to fall off due to frostbite. (The effect of cross-breeding a vampire and a yeti.) Actually it snowed a bit before I left and after I got back, and because I ran out of money on my bus pass, the dick wouldn’t allow me to top up on the bus, and I thought, “Fuck it, fuck you, and fuck your whole bus driving corporation, i’m walking home you douche.” But being far too British and polite I just got off the bus and started walking home with a scarf wrapped tightly around my face looking at the floor in sadness.

Now before I post these digital camera pictures, i’m not going to lie. They’re shit. I’m going to retouch the only good one in photoshop and make a neat little photomanip. Other than that, my SLR shots are in black and white. Yes, I prefer colour but when you’re making a bulk display, if everything is in colour it loses its power and makes it look more like a photo album. If I scanned in a few good shots of the black and white pictures, then added colour into certain parts like in that crap movie Sin City, it would look fantastic I think. However because I develop my own pictures instead of leaving them in a shop for a week or so, this could take a while.

So those are my worst 3 photos. Also, does anyone care whether or not there’s a message if you hover the mouse over a photo? I’ve done it for 99% of the images on my blog, but I doubt anyone looks.

Hmmmm…What else before I go…..

I swapped from Google Chrome to Firefox. I was just so sick and tired of not being able to access youtube without swapping to IE, and couldn’t click on all the amusing links off Steam Chatrooms, so I’m with Firefox now. I like some of the add-ons, like Cooliris for flickr, which just displays pictures in an innovative and cool looking way, but there’s too much going on at the top. I just want a thin tab bar, bookmark bar and navigation bar, and I’m done. Firefox’s are too big, as if to say “LOOK, LOOKIE HERE, I HAVE A NAVIGATION BAR LOOK AT MEEE!”

And I just fixed my grammar too. Well…some of it.