Another video!

Whatcha doing Charon? Making another video. Or rather, I have finished making a second video. Here is the link. Watch it in HD full screen for maximum effect. I think I did a lot better this time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K3MayPVlS4

I've also been writing a series of articles for the Radical Rooster clan but they are largely Counterstrike based and not of real interest to you guys. But it's time consuming, so that's what's keeping me busy. :P

No update on the mad neighbour yet. Police are slooooowww.

Crazy woman!

Well, I have a few minutes before the police arrive to fill you in on the bizarre event that happened on monday!
I went out, nothing weird there, and returned to find my garden gate off its hinges and footprints all over my front door. Oh noes! Attempted burglary? How lucky am I to have a CCTV camera outside my house. I settled down with a spicy bean burger and watched back. Out comes my next door neighbour, a massive dog in tow. She screams and shouts and rips my gate off its hinges, throws it at the door and commences kicking.

Absolutely no idea why. I barely know the woman. Hopefully the police will help me shed some light on this matter. O_O

Youtube

Video is now on youtube for your viewing pleasure! Best viewed full screen and in HD.

http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/102959444-4.jpg

OMG I'm so awesome! :P

So I've been practicing using virtualdub to edit video with. Are you ready for this? :D

Please click the 'download now' button rather than watching directly from the page as the actual video file is vastly greater quality than the youtube style preview.

Download size is around 122MB... sorry. :(

http://www.4shared.com/video/Eo9RpNUU/CharonTrain.html

Let me know what you think!

Whatcha doing?

The answer to that is so often, gaming.
As a rare treat I'm giving a teeny peek into my gaming habits with this short video of me kicking some ass on counter strike. Enjoy. :)

http://www.4shared.com/video/hIA7qHZo/charon1.html

Oh and if the video doesn't play, you're missing the divx codec. Google it.

It may even embed... let me test.



Yeah, looks better if you download it and watch in media player though.

Back? :O

After some extreme amounts of hassle I now have a new modem that sorta works. Sadly it's even worse than my old one. I get very pissed off when ISPs use shoddy hardware. After all, I'm paying them to provide me with all the equipment needed to get online (bar the computer itself). They shouldn't be able to get away with using such poor products that I then have to use other equipment of my own just to make it work!

See the problem is, that the modem fails epicly at providing a wireless signal. Epicly. Normally I'd use my wireless repeater to boost the signal round the house but I can't, because the modem errors like hell even at point blank range, rendering its wireless functions useless. So, in the end, I had to disable the wireless on the modem. then take my repeater and reconfigure it to act as an access point instead. Plug the access point into the modem with a frigging wire!!! Just so that it can take over the modem's job of supplying wireless to the house.

All that and it's still a little jittery. :(

Internet dead

I am temporarily without internet. My modem router is dead. I spent half an hour on phone to tech support pushing buttons on it and repeatedly confirming it's dead. Now I have to wait for a second department to call me back tomorrow to get me to push more buttons to confirm that it is, in fact, dead. Then and only then will my ISP be willing to entertain the fact that I was right all along and will ship me a new modem. I have no idea how long that will take them. I'm guessing over a week. In the meantime I have hijacked my brother's connection.
And people laugh at me for having two internet lines. :P Who's laughing now?!!

So I AM sorta here but sometimes might not be. :)

Success

Well the practice I put in was worth it. Now a proud member of the Radical Rooster clan. ^^ Hooray! :D

Tuesday Music... for Winners!

Well, last night's Alien Swarm session went better than expected. There were some minor, headcrab related hiccups. And a moment when our medic bit the dust, leaving me and Pete without ammo or health and facing hordes of aliens. Amazingly I managed to punch half of them to death while we ran round in circles like little girls. It was hilarious. There were also some minor flamethrower related injuries. ¬¬ Ches... ¬¬ HE SET ME ON FIRE! >_<

Ok let's have some music.... for winners!

We'll start with a classic winning tune. ^^

Survivior - Eye of the Tiger



The Team America Theme Tune! By Trey Parker I think.



And just because I haven't heard it for such a long time.

Reef - Place your Hands



Tonight those aliens are gonna get a kicking.

Sssshhh

Hear that? It's the sound of dragons dying. :(

I've had a busy week, in part driven by two videogames.

Firstly, an honourable mention for Alien Swarm, released free on Steam last week. As you'd expect for a game Valve were involved with it's pretty badass. Essentially a top down version of Left 4 Dead... with aliens. It's pretty much what I wanted Alien Breed: Impact to be right from the word go. Four player co-operative alien slaughter. Pete and I have already tried it out, proving our legendary gaming credentials by managing to complete the first mission without even getting hit, despite there being only two of us. Sadly, by level 3 the alien swarms were indeed building up and we came to realise we weren't gonna progress much further 'til we get a third or even fourth man to join us. The problem is the role system. You need a technician as only he can work the panels to get you through the level. That's Pete. You need someone who can shoot the aliens. Special Weapons. That's me. Which leaves us short one medic. Hopefully Ches will take some time out from StarCraft 2 to be our designated healer.
I must say... for a free game... it's bloody good. O_O Integrated steam friends, stats, achievements, microphone support. Definitely worth the price. Did I mention it's free? :)

Secondly, Counter-strike Source. I've played counter-strike on and off since its release and made plenty of friends doing so. It's a game I only really played for fun for that reason. Now Valve have updated the newer Source version with achievements I finally decided to give it some attention. Worked out well. I've made a bunch of friends on the Radical Rooster server and have been invited to take part in the clan tryouts next week. If I wanna make it in I need to put in some serious practice. I'll keep you posted on how I do. :P Wish me luck!