Wednesday, February 2, 2011

NEW FOO FIGHTERS ALBUM!

OH! I almost forgot!

The Foo Fighters announced their new album is to be released April 12th. I CAN'T WAAAAIIIT!

Fun, Trolling, and Banning on UrT

WHEW boy. So. {CoTP} (Cult of The Penguins) (Yes, the The is capitalized) got banned on Wildcat servers for... well, most of us until June 1, me until September 29. Because I'm "racist." But anyway...

Check out the /condump they put up from part of the game.

http://wildcatsclan.net/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=208

Also, notice how we totally trolled them and shot up the download number and page views, screwing up their stats. Honestly, I wasn't trolling, just Silly, Zeus, and Trogdor. Zeus especially. It WAS hilarious, but... oh well.

This on top of my being banned from Alpha pseudo-permanently (I'm appealing it) due to a mixup, kinda.

Anyway, I'm currently addicted to UrT again.

Hit me up. {CoTP}Twitch. Find me on Gametracker.com

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Holy Balls, It's Been Forever

DAAAAAYUM.

I totally lost interest for over a month. Silly me.

So the past month has been filled with quite a bit, including but not limited to obtaining Left 4 Dead 2, Starcraft 2, a renewed addiction to Minecraft, a new iPod [160GB Classic], a new flash drive, Team Fortress 2 [actually previously had it because of The Orange Box, but I never installed it]... Pretty nice.

My friends and I have been making videos of the stupid crap we've been doing on Minecraft, here's the youtube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/CultOfThePenguins

We'll put up stuff from other games, but for now Minecraft is all there is. There's like 4-5 videos. Silly made the first two, and I've made the rest from Silly's Black Box onwards. [recording and creating and etc.]

So anywho, I'm doing calc homework, so I'll cut this short and try to do it more often, now. I was so excited at first, and now I've slacked off.

Saturday, December 11, 2010

ELDER SCROLLS V: SKYRIM ANNOUNCED

http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/23338/Bethesda-Announcees-Elder-Scrolls-V-Skyrim/

FUCK YEAAAAAHHHH!

I dumped 80+ hours of my life into Oblivion. I intend to do similar things to this.

Due date: 11/11/11. Well, wouldn't you know it?

Anyhow, something about the Nords of Skyrim being at war with eachother, and some ancient foe that was said to be destroyed, but "only delayed." Oh well, it'll be epic regardless. I can't wait!

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Super Cool Games: Urban Terror

I guess to add content every so often I'll talk about a sweet game. Well, I'll start it off with one I play pretty often, Urban Terror, also known as UrT.

I guess that doesn't give a good idea of the game itself... so...


No, your reticle doesn't have to be big, green, and obnoxious, and there isn't normally that many people. I just googled "Urban Terror" and pulled a picture. Although that picture IS from the best map, Uptown.

http://www.urbanterror.info

So what it is is a first person shooter that's like half-Quake, half-Counter Strike. It has the shooter realism of Counterstrike, such as hitting someone in the head will USUALLY kill them [maybe two shots if they're wearing a helmet], whereas the legs or arms won't do as much. However, if they start bleeding in the legs, they can't sprint, for example. [you can bandage yourself up, don't worry]

Now, where Quake comes in is that the engine is the Quake engine. The movement is what gets a tad unrealistic. Jumping correctly and skilfully will have you flying across the map, off of walls, and confusing all of your opponents. That is, if you're REALLY good at jumping, which takes awhile. But when you get used to it, it's pretty useful. Anyhow, the game has unique messages for when you kill someone with certain weapons/methods, and it's just an overall fun game. Pretty quick to jump in to, with not that big of a learning curve.

But don't use the Remington SR8. It's a noob sniper rifle that kills in one hit if you hit in the head, torso, and I THINK arms. I know the legs deals 50% damage, not sure about the arms. But torso and head are instant-kills, which takes zero skill. Just aim and shoot.

Recommended servers: |Alpha| Uptown 24/7, |WC| Wildcat Uptown 24/7, NRG Uptown 24/7... Basically any dedicated 24/7 servers on Uptown, playing Team Deathmatch.

There are other decent maps, too, like Algiers, Streets, and Riyadh, but... Uptown's the best.

So if you play it, search for me and hit me up. I'm {CoTP}Twitch.

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

New Monitor, Song Loadout of the Week

So I got a new Acer 20" Widescreen monitor for my birthday/Christmas today. :D Resolution is 1600x900. It's quite sexy. Here's a screenshot.


See how huge that is? The window width of that Firefox window is roughly the same as my old monitor [a normal 1024x768 one]. So it's added on the width on the left and right. Not so cramped. AWESOME.

When we figure out an outlet/power strip situation I'll use both this AND my old monitor. It'll be awesome. But see only 2 followers? That number should be bigger...

So yes. The songs I'm NOW addicted to:

Zac Brown Band - "As She's Walking Away" - This is just an absolutely beautiful song, the harmonies in it are excellent, and it's just a neat song idea. The melody is awesome, and I can't stop singing it right now.

Them Crooked Vultures - "Warsaw or the First Breath You Take After You Give Up" - Long name, I know, but it's a sweet song with a really groovy riff. The chorus is sort of weird [it reminds me of circus music], but the main guitar riff is awesome. There's a breakdown that's like 3 minutes long of Josh Homme just messing around, and it slowly gets faster as he goes. It's really awesome.

Them Crooked Vultures - "Elephants" - This is one SEXY riff. I just imagine, right at the song's start, three guys bursting into a party in slow motion wearing tuxedos and stuff. I don't know. Tons of energy, I love it. The bridges are weird, but it's great.

For now I guess that's it, but, hey... It's something to try out. Go for it, I hope you'll be pleased

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Minecraft: Floating Peninsula

So in my Minecraft world, I have been mesmerised by a certain structure in the landscape.

That's the distant shot. Upon closer inspection...

Yeah. Pretty sweet, eh? Well, I took it upon myself to  sever it from that which it was connected. A floating island in the sky. Well, after a bit of doing so...


Yeah, that's only partway done. On the other side of that, behind me, is a wall. Like this.

I gotta dig through that. Well, actually, I succeeded in doing so.


I'm pretty proud of myself. I also had to light up basically everything underneath the island, because the shadow cast by it was so immense that it was essentially nighttime on the ground, and monsters were spawning like crazy. Trees couldn't grow, anything. It was cool, but annoying.

There's snow on top of it and everything. Now, what I should do is make a river flow off of the side of it closest to the water, so I can skyboat up to it. :D

Skyboat: (Verb) The action of abusing a glitch in Minecraft, allowing one to ride up a waterfall at extreme speeds while in a boat.