A trailer for The Day the Earth Stood Still just came to my attention. It looks appropriately cool, even if Keanu Reeves is in it.
Friday, July 4, 2008
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Recent Gaming Discoveries - March 2. 2008
Hiya all.
Well, recently I've got back into pira...buying games. Yup, I shelled out money for games. I feel like I sold out, but in the end it was worth it. Anyways, I'm gonna outline my "reviews" of the games.
First off, The Orange Box....
What can I say about Orange Box. Hrrm...OMFGZOMGZORSWTFBBQ! This game is awesome. Completely and totally awesome. I used to love me some TFC and TF2 is the perfect sequel. Dear lord it was worth every dime. Oh yeah, portal was cool too. I still haven't played HL2. To hell with it.
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Also worth the money. I suggest buying it retail and not from steam...big download made me sad. Took forever. Though you do have steam's autoupdater. Single player was fun, but too short. No replay there either. Where this game shines is its multiplayer. While the matchmaking system BLOWS, the gameplay rocks. Making kits is really great (P90 and Deagle with Frag x 3, Double Tap, and Steady aim FTW!), UAV/airstrike/helicopter are great/lame as hell depending on what end your on, and hardcore mode makes the game immensely more fun. If you love FPS multiplayer, this one and TF2 are the ones to have!
World in Conflict:
Blah. Got talked into buying an RTS. Played for a bit and decided to hell with it. Wish I had saved my $50.
Gary's Mod:
Oh...hell...yeah. With my finally legal copy of HL2, I could purchase Gary's Mod from steam. For $10, I've had HOURS of fun. Seriously, I love sandbox game play, and multiplayer could be good if I could manage to find a server. Go out and get some mods: Wire, life support, spacebuild, etc. and just have a fucking blast.
Bioshock:
Meh. Everyone was ZOMG BIOFREAKINGSHOCK IS AWESOME! THIS IS AWESOME! I respond with a Meh. I tried to like it, I really did. Plasmids were cool for a while, the setting was neat...but I just couldn't get into it. I dunno what it was about it, but I can't enjoy it.
Unreal Tournament 3:
OMFG! Hells yes! I've loved Unreal since forever, and UT3 cements it. Throw those graphics up to 1900x1220. Hell yes. So hot..want to touch the hiney. Gameplay is sweet, the story rocks, multiplayer rocks, everything rocks. ROCK ON!
Crysis:
Bleh. TOO OVER HYPED. Multiplayer blows, too many cheaters. Sure, the gizmos made it fun for a while (its fun using super strength to kill unwitting enemies) but it didn't last for me. Not to mention that it made MY system stutter, and I have 4gb ram, a quad core, and an 8800GTS 640mb SLI. Yup, made it stutter.
Test Drive Unlimited:
Cool concept, bad execution. I have still not managed to get online with the S.O.B. At least it gives me a fun game to use my G25 wheel for. [Editors note: Please be advised I haven't tried real hard to get this to work. I messed with it, got pissed, played single player for a while and got real far and found out I would have to start over to play online. Bad juju!]
Guitar Hero III:
Yup, I bought GHIII for the PC. I don't have a console that plays it (well..I don't want mono sound on my Wii...freaking Activision). Besides, let me see your PS3 of Xbox360 output 1920x1200. Yeah, that's what I though! I love this game. I'm no power player, it's strictly medium/hard for me (expert is IMPOSSIBLE!). The one thing I want is FREAKING DOWNLOADABLE CONTENT. I would pay for some of the songs that have been released for the consoles. Get off your asses and give me more tracks! oh yeah, and on co-op..always stick the younger sibling on the keyboard and take the guitar so you can SCHOOL THEM! Muwahahhahaha.
Anyways, that's all for now. Oh yeah, and I am now cloning my blog to myspace. Go me!
Conga rats, you made it to the end. Now you get to find out how to game with me!
On xfire I am andrewthetechie (big surprise huh?)
my steam page is http://www.steamcommunity.com/id/andrewthetechie
Well, recently I've got back into pira...buying games. Yup, I shelled out money for games. I feel like I sold out, but in the end it was worth it. Anyways, I'm gonna outline my "reviews" of the games.
First off, The Orange Box....
What can I say about Orange Box. Hrrm...OMFGZOMGZORSWTFBBQ! This game is awesome. Completely and totally awesome. I used to love me some TFC and TF2 is the perfect sequel. Dear lord it was worth every dime. Oh yeah, portal was cool too. I still haven't played HL2. To hell with it.
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Also worth the money. I suggest buying it retail and not from steam...big download made me sad. Took forever. Though you do have steam's autoupdater. Single player was fun, but too short. No replay there either. Where this game shines is its multiplayer. While the matchmaking system BLOWS, the gameplay rocks. Making kits is really great (P90 and Deagle with Frag x 3, Double Tap, and Steady aim FTW!), UAV/airstrike/helicopter are great/lame as hell depending on what end your on, and hardcore mode makes the game immensely more fun. If you love FPS multiplayer, this one and TF2 are the ones to have!
World in Conflict:
Blah. Got talked into buying an RTS. Played for a bit and decided to hell with it. Wish I had saved my $50.
Gary's Mod:
Oh...hell...yeah. With my finally legal copy of HL2, I could purchase Gary's Mod from steam. For $10, I've had HOURS of fun. Seriously, I love sandbox game play, and multiplayer could be good if I could manage to find a server. Go out and get some mods: Wire, life support, spacebuild, etc. and just have a fucking blast.
Bioshock:
Meh. Everyone was ZOMG BIOFREAKINGSHOCK IS AWESOME! THIS IS AWESOME! I respond with a Meh. I tried to like it, I really did. Plasmids were cool for a while, the setting was neat...but I just couldn't get into it. I dunno what it was about it, but I can't enjoy it.
Unreal Tournament 3:
OMFG! Hells yes! I've loved Unreal since forever, and UT3 cements it. Throw those graphics up to 1900x1220. Hell yes. So hot..want to touch the hiney. Gameplay is sweet, the story rocks, multiplayer rocks, everything rocks. ROCK ON!
Crysis:
Bleh. TOO OVER HYPED. Multiplayer blows, too many cheaters. Sure, the gizmos made it fun for a while (its fun using super strength to kill unwitting enemies) but it didn't last for me. Not to mention that it made MY system stutter, and I have 4gb ram, a quad core, and an 8800GTS 640mb SLI. Yup, made it stutter.
Test Drive Unlimited:
Cool concept, bad execution. I have still not managed to get online with the S.O.B. At least it gives me a fun game to use my G25 wheel for. [Editors note: Please be advised I haven't tried real hard to get this to work. I messed with it, got pissed, played single player for a while and got real far and found out I would have to start over to play online. Bad juju!]
Guitar Hero III:
Yup, I bought GHIII for the PC. I don't have a console that plays it (well..I don't want mono sound on my Wii...freaking Activision). Besides, let me see your PS3 of Xbox360 output 1920x1200. Yeah, that's what I though! I love this game. I'm no power player, it's strictly medium/hard for me (expert is IMPOSSIBLE!). The one thing I want is FREAKING DOWNLOADABLE CONTENT. I would pay for some of the songs that have been released for the consoles. Get off your asses and give me more tracks! oh yeah, and on co-op..always stick the younger sibling on the keyboard and take the guitar so you can SCHOOL THEM! Muwahahhahaha.
Anyways, that's all for now. Oh yeah, and I am now cloning my blog to myspace. Go me!
Conga rats, you made it to the end. Now you get to find out how to game with me!
On xfire I am andrewthetechie (big surprise huh?)
my steam page is http://www.steamcommunity.com/id/andrewthetechie
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Managing Cisco via Serial from a Mac - Feburary 5, 2008
This post is being written from class...SHH!
I'm in my cisco networking class, and we're working on our 2600 series routers. After getting frustrated with having to drag out hold laptops and desktops to do serial, I decided to hook my Mac up with a USB to serial adapter.
Here's how I did it and what advice I have:
1. Purchased a generic USB to serial with a Prolific 2303 chipset. Most usb-to-serial adapters have this.
2. Googled A BUNCH! (you'll be able to skip this step if you're reading this)
3. Installed the opensources PL2303 drivers for OS X from here.
4. Reboot. Don't bother with trying to kextload, while it says it works it doesn't seem to.
5. Plug in USB to Serial adapter.
6. In terminal type ls -l /dev/tty.* Look for the one that has PL2303 in it. If it's there, you're golden!
7. Download ZTerm. Here's your terminal emulator
-OR-
8. Use screen. type this in terminal: screen /dev/tty.PL2303-(your device ID here) 9600 You get your device ID from your ls -l /dev/tty.* 9600 is the baud rate.
Congrats, you now have hyperterminal to log into your routers via a serial interface! Woohoo!
I'm in my cisco networking class, and we're working on our 2600 series routers. After getting frustrated with having to drag out hold laptops and desktops to do serial, I decided to hook my Mac up with a USB to serial adapter.
Here's how I did it and what advice I have:
1. Purchased a generic USB to serial with a Prolific 2303 chipset. Most usb-to-serial adapters have this.
2. Googled A BUNCH! (you'll be able to skip this step if you're reading this)
3. Installed the opensources PL2303 drivers for OS X from here.
4. Reboot. Don't bother with trying to kextload, while it says it works it doesn't seem to.
5. Plug in USB to Serial adapter.
6. In terminal type ls -l /dev/tty.* Look for the one that has PL2303 in it. If it's there, you're golden!
7. Download ZTerm. Here's your terminal emulator
-OR-
8. Use screen. type this in terminal: screen /dev/tty.PL2303-(your device ID here) 9600 You get your device ID from your ls -l /dev/tty.* 9600 is the baud rate.
Congrats, you now have hyperterminal to log into your routers via a serial interface! Woohoo!
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Sunday, December 23, 2007
What are we worth? - December 23, 2007
I was watching MASH the other day, I know, older then I am..but still so very poignant. I tend to pay a lot of attention to what Alan Alda's character Hawkeye has to say.
In the 14th episode of season one, so aptly titled "Love Story", Hawkeye is talking to Colonel Blake and says this: "Without love, what are we worth? 89 cents. 89 cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely." Blake's response is comedic at best, but that line caught me. How true is that? Without love, we're nothing.
Glad I'm in love now.
In the 14th episode of season one, so aptly titled "Love Story", Hawkeye is talking to Colonel Blake and says this: "Without love, what are we worth? 89 cents. 89 cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely." Blake's response is comedic at best, but that line caught me. How true is that? Without love, we're nothing.
Glad I'm in love now.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Eve Online - December 6, 2007
Eve Online posted a major patch today, Trinity. It looks beautiful. CCP of course arsed it p. Someone at CCP decided to name an important Eve file boot.ini. Hrrm, eerily familiar to a windows system file, no?
Well, the patcher deleted boot.ini from / instead of ./ and all kinds of pooch screwing occured. Most of the affected (yours truly included) managed to fix it easily.
Just goes to show good QA is needed everywhere.
Well, the patcher deleted boot.ini from / instead of ./ and all kinds of pooch screwing occured. Most of the affected (yours truly included) managed to fix it easily.
Just goes to show good QA is needed everywhere.
Saturday, December 1, 2007
Interesting Lyrics- December 1, 2007
Well, party shuffle on iTunes strikes again. My 300gbs of music (All LEGALLY ACQUIRED!) are full of stuff I've never heard, and this time I came across something worth sharing.
Omega by Stone Sour. Quite interesting lyrics.
What a skeletal wreck of man this is
Translucent flesh and feeble bones
The kind of temple where the whores and villains try to tempt the holistic tones
Running rampant with free thought to free form, in the free in the clear
And the matters at hand are shelled out like lint at a laundry mat to sift and focus
On the bigger...better...now...
We all have a little sin that needs venting
Virtues for the renting and laws and systems and stems that riff from the branches of office
Do you know what your post entails?
Do you serve a purpose? or purposely serve?
Wind down inside atavistic galore
The value of a summer spent and a winter earned
For the rest of us there is always Sunday
The day of the week that reeks of rest but all we do is catch our breaths
So we can wade naked into the bloody pool
And place our hand on the big black book
To watch the knives zig zag between our aching fingers
A vacation is a countdown
T-minus your life and counting
Time to drag your tongue across the sugar cube and hope you get a taste
What the fuck is all this for?
What the hells going on?
Shut up!
I could go on and on, but lets move on...shall we?
Say, you're me and I'm you and they all watch the things we do
And like a smack of spite they threw me down the stairs
Haven't felt like this in years
The great magnet of malicious magnanimous refuse
Let me go and plunge me into the dead spot again
Thats where you go when theres no one else around
Its just you, and there was never anyone to begin with, now was there?
Sanctimonious pretentious dastardly bastards with there thumb on the pulse and a finger on the trigger
Classified my ass, thats a fucking secret and you know it
Government is another way to say...better...than...you...
Its like ice but no pick, a murder charge that wont stick
Its like a whole other world where you can smell the food but you cant touch the silverware...what luck
Fascism you can vote for...isn't that sweet
And were all gonna die some day, cause thats the American way
And Ive drunk to much and said to little
When your gaffer taped in the middle, say a prayer, say a phrase, get yourself together and...
See whats happening
Shut up
Fuck you, fuck you
I'm sorry I could go on and on
But its time to move on...so...
Remember..
You're a wreck
An accident, forget the freak you're just nature
Keep the gun oiled and the temple clean, shit snort and blaspheme
Let the heads cool and the engine run
Because in then end everything we do...
Is just everything we've done
Omega by Stone Sour. Quite interesting lyrics.
What a skeletal wreck of man this is
Translucent flesh and feeble bones
The kind of temple where the whores and villains try to tempt the holistic tones
Running rampant with free thought to free form, in the free in the clear
And the matters at hand are shelled out like lint at a laundry mat to sift and focus
On the bigger...better...now...
We all have a little sin that needs venting
Virtues for the renting and laws and systems and stems that riff from the branches of office
Do you know what your post entails?
Do you serve a purpose? or purposely serve?
Wind down inside atavistic galore
The value of a summer spent and a winter earned
For the rest of us there is always Sunday
The day of the week that reeks of rest but all we do is catch our breaths
So we can wade naked into the bloody pool
And place our hand on the big black book
To watch the knives zig zag between our aching fingers
A vacation is a countdown
T-minus your life and counting
Time to drag your tongue across the sugar cube and hope you get a taste
What the fuck is all this for?
What the hells going on?
Shut up!
I could go on and on, but lets move on...shall we?
Say, you're me and I'm you and they all watch the things we do
And like a smack of spite they threw me down the stairs
Haven't felt like this in years
The great magnet of malicious magnanimous refuse
Let me go and plunge me into the dead spot again
Thats where you go when theres no one else around
Its just you, and there was never anyone to begin with, now was there?
Sanctimonious pretentious dastardly bastards with there thumb on the pulse and a finger on the trigger
Classified my ass, thats a fucking secret and you know it
Government is another way to say...better...than...you...
Its like ice but no pick, a murder charge that wont stick
Its like a whole other world where you can smell the food but you cant touch the silverware...what luck
Fascism you can vote for...isn't that sweet
And were all gonna die some day, cause thats the American way
And Ive drunk to much and said to little
When your gaffer taped in the middle, say a prayer, say a phrase, get yourself together and...
See whats happening
Shut up
Fuck you, fuck you
I'm sorry I could go on and on
But its time to move on...so...
Remember..
You're a wreck
An accident, forget the freak you're just nature
Keep the gun oiled and the temple clean, shit snort and blaspheme
Let the heads cool and the engine run
Because in then end everything we do...
Is just everything we've done
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