Saturday, November 27, 2004

sexy photo-shoot

Ya mangs, I gotta do a photo-shoot tomorrow! omg i = sexay. it's for the cd, and I think it's gonna be an all-day thing (driving to different "lo-cals", that's photo-shoot lingo fellas)and we're prolly gonna get some night shots too. BUT, since it looks like it's DYING to rain this weekend, maybe we'll do it another day or not. I dunno - gonna talk to him later. But, I want to be done with it by our usual gaming time [at least me and Art's gaming time :( ] Eric, if you're not going to a sea-donkey game or whatever tomorrow night, and if art is free from teh fam, we should play some games damit! If you two (and jon maybe later?) wanna try out that Firefly shit, I'm SO down. Fire up that module, make some guys, it puts u in a room where u get dressed and lvl up to 5, and then save your characters. Oh, has anyone figured out how to run a server for nwn? I don't think I can - I checked out the support pages for router shit, and couldn't find my POS dsl modem - the characters need to be in the servers "vault" folder b4 game because of the mods to nwn. i'm all out of breath - check in later.

Jael! Bummer about being alone out there dude. Maybe you can meet someone to kick it with at that mega-mall or something. See if they have teamspeak or skype in those internet cafes and listen in on us if we play or someting.

Eric, joo are a bad man for making me spend de moneys

I have some Fry's and GameStop store credit I can use. So I could either use it on Halo 2 + Xbox Live, or Worlds of Warcraft + more memory for my Mac. (Worlds of Warcraft = works on OS X = yay Blizzard!) I'll let you choose!

You guys should play NWN/Firefly tomorrow night! Aaron and I are driving back to SF tomorrow, so if we're home in time I could join in the fun! My lack of playing makes me sad. Almost every night I do nothing, so it is odd that I end up having something to do almost every Sunday! Argh.
Halo 2

Infact I have Halo 2 already, but I held off on XBox Live. 2 is fun, but it is more geared toward a serious multiplayer game, rather than a silly warthog-a-mania game that we are so find of playing, so in that regard I don't like it as much. The warthogs explode after numerous beatings in multiplayer, and so far I can't figure out how to give unlimited grenades and only rockets, so I am bummed. The single player missions are fun, but since the day I picked it up, I have not returned to play because I have been infatuated with Half Life 2 and GTA:SA.

As far XBL, I would totally be in, I just thought it would be even better playing with friends as opposed to joe shmoes. If you are interested though, I can always be convinced....

Also, is anyone other than Mr. Absent (Denis) interested in World of Warcraft or Evercrack II? I have been thinking about both of them.

GenCon awaits!

Friday, November 26, 2004

HEY FELLAS!!! Day of absolute boredom

I have absolutely nothing to do this weekend on saturday. One it's a weekend and there's no office. It's also a long 3 day weekend for all phillipinians, descendants of the Macedonians (uh not), so I'm basically sitting in the mall in an internet cafe. On the other hand, this is the absolute biggest mall I've ever seen. There are 5 independant malls that are linked by bridges. The owners are 5 independant companies who decided to merge together the mall in spite of obvious direct competition but I guess it opens the floodgates both ways. But the result of the combining, is a vast expanse and so far this morning I was able to explore only 1 wing of the mall but I plan on exploring a little more. On one hall there are 10-12 restaurants in a row. Talk about doing things in extremety. The food court is big too.

I'm also here alone because of poor planning. My dad told me to go to Manila, but he didn't say when! Without question I booked a flight when I had the time and here I am ONLY to find out that my uncle is in Taiwan and won't be back till next week. Which makes sense because it's a business day. In the meantime, then I'm spending the weekend pretty much alone.

On top of that, because of the rush planning, all the hotels in a decent price range are booked full for the Xmas season and the only place that was reservervable in a decent area is this Condominuim hotel next to the mall. Let me just say, the hotel stinks. That's all I can say. Personally I would have preferred, if I knew a more definitive schedule, to have booked the entire weekend in Singapore.

What compounds the loneliness, is that fact that I'm stuck in a huge AWESOME mall with no one to hang out with. Even worse, everyone is with their dates, friends, loved ones, family and I'm here sitting in an internet cafe doing some Happy hour blogging. (dion't get me wrong, I love blogging to u guys). This is the one time I wish I had a friend.

So, I haven't done my fantasy football deal, but I see that I only lost 1 game to Enron. not bad I'd say.

Well I hope things are well with everyone, and HAPPY T-0ikey DAY!

JAEL




Thursday, November 25, 2004

I dunno if you've ever played with the OIC named Ricemag, but he rules! I was a part of his crew, and we went in with 6 tanks, maybe 12 inf (in diff teams) and awesome air support. Took a town - went SO smooth. I was a part of the 2nd recon team, and when the orders came I nabbed a depot, and held it till we owned that town. After the town was ours I went outside kinda goofin around, and some enemy dude steps in front of me! We both shoot - we both go down - i was injured, he was dead. It was rad. Then today when I checked, that town was owned by the axis again - oh well! :) it's such a fun game. Today was kinda burnt - went on a 2 hour mission! Rode a boat out to a secluded island that had a enemy base, when we finally got close (i was riding on a tank) a 110 nailed me a few times (almost dead) and then I got popped a few minutes later. Dude, 2 fuckin hours to get there, and its over like that. Communication was wack - having an awesome OIC really makes a difference.

Oh, and turkey-day was cool. Stuft my fat-ass to the limit, and beyond.

Wednesday, November 24, 2004

Art and the Art of Blood Bowl Maintenance

I think you would be the perfect candidate for some Online Javabowl Blood Bowl goodness! Blood Bowl is the best game ever made by anyone, hands down. Yes, better than World in Flames, Ticket to Ride, Reichstar, Elixir, Oi! Dat's Me Leg, and Cootie. It is infact so fun, that you should play it. We played a mini tournament that actually has yet to be finalised, I think the championship game is between Enron's Smoking Tacos and my Leather Chaps. Do these things:

1) Go to bloodbowl.com and download the Living Rule Book and read it if you want.

2) Go to fumbbl.com and download from the downloads/essentials section the proper Java Runtime Environment, the Javabowl Engine, the most recent patch, and then create a user account on fumbbl.com.

3) Contact me and we we can meet online and I, or someone else will show you how to play and open your eyes to a new world you never knew existed.

Seriously, I think you will like the game. It's free, fun, and somewhat quick once you get the hang of it (1-2hrs max.). Do it!
Geeksgiving?

Hey guys, Aaron and I are coming home--I'll have some free time from about 12-6 on Friday and Saturday. Would any of you guys like to get together for some gameage? Perhaps at Eric's fine young cannibalistic house?

Tuesday, November 23, 2004

Hey, by the way.. about WWIIOL


If you do kill something, make sure you stay alive and stay IN game for at least 10 minutes so you can get your "mission success" and collect your rank points! Staying alive for 10 minutes at a pop as an infantryman is the key to sucess and rank advancement so you can get the cooler equipment like the sub-machine gun, light machine-gun, grenadier, and anti-tank rifleman. I was browsing through your combat stats and records briefly and noticed your mission time was only 6 minutes on that bf110 kill. =(

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Re: Fantasy Fooseball.. hehe.. yeah, that was definately a down to the wire kind of thing. I've actually lost a game by a tenth of a point before if you can believe it... talk about frustrating! I actually do enjoy playing with "partial points" enabled a bit better for this reason.. I think it adds a bit more fun when every play can add little bits of points and you aren't depending solely on reaching certain milestones. I love playing Fantasy Football.. weeeeeeeee!

~O.



Monday, November 22, 2004

Sweet!


I have to admit, taking down planes is my favorite thing to do in WWIIOL whether I am flying another plane, or shooting them down from the ground. For some reason it's just entirely and wholely satisfying to the deepest of levels. Just wait until you get a little bit of rank and can spawn light machine guns on bipods.. hehe.. WEEEEEEEEE!

Can you spawn cmle38's yet? Those are kick ass anti-aircraft guns with a high rate of fire. you'd have to use your gamepad probably, though.. try practicing offline with the cmle38 and see how you do. Also, give the anti-tank guns a try. The Frenchies have a bad ass gun in the "1937" and the Brits have the standard 2-lber. If you can get the hang of those (especially the '37), you can take out any German tank at just about any range if you connect-four.

BTW.. I've completed phase one of my consumer hands-on testing of digital cameras thanks to the generous return policy at Costco. The first contender was the Olympus C-60 and I have to admit I was a bit underwhelmed on the whole. I took it back tonight and picked up the Fujifilm S7000 and have been immediately impressed with the quality of the camera and have even managed to take some seriously low-light images that came out reasonably well despite my having nearly zero knowledge of photography other than what I've been reading up on voraciously the past two weeks. I set the film speed down to 400 and it picked up an image of my wife and daughter on the couch with all the lights off in the room except for the TV and you would have sworn that I actually had ALL the lights on by the image itself... very weird but very exciting. I can't wait to learn more about what the hell I'm doing so that I can really make use of the camera. I get the feeling that I'm going to need a really nice digital image editor like Photoshop so I can crop and manipulate the images before getting them printed up real nice-like.

I was just at Target and they have standard 4x6 images for like 26 cents apiece which seems like a pretty sweet deal when you figure you're only printing off the ones you really like. 8x10 glossies for $3 a piece too! Can't wait to take some of these down there and see how they come out.

.....interlude.....


I am SO jonesing for some NWN madness! We *MUST* fucking play some NWN this weekend. Even if it's just a jonsey-jones hack/slash maniac mod or something.

I hate the Patriots.

~O-rugs, out.

Well, re: the two 110's, I was the ONLY person spawning at that fb. And they were just fucking around taking turns swooping down on me trying to nail me. So, one of them, I kept plugging away, and these dudes were flying LOW trying to get me - I led one into the trees and he crashed. The other one just exploded eventually. So, i got one 1 and it says I damaged the other. It was bad ass. Then later I went into a town under attack, and we were getting SO fucking smoked. Couldn't even get out of spawn. They had tanks surrounding the spawn - it was bloody. The bridge that connected to that town was blown, so no support came. Later on, I was with one other inf, and he took me under his wing, and we had this plan to sneak into a town, and TRY and take it by ourselves - we snuck into the 1st depot, started to take it, and then we got killed. It was awesome though. So tense! Ya eric, you gotta get in on these. Art - with my shitty joypad, I'm able to at least drive trucks pretty good. Did that for awhile. No planes for me (I don't know how to fly em.)

Eric - I doubt my cd will be manufactured by GenCon time, but once it is, I'll gladly hook u d00ds up. We GOTTA play some NWN someday! Fuck, it's so frustrating.

I Have Returned From Teh Grave!

So, I am now swingin' with my own computer, and "lovin' it" McDonalds Style. I wanna play WW2OL too guys! I still have my account setup so we should TeamSpeak, WWII, and kill some Nartzi's!

TW, Half Life 2 is the rox0rz. System requirements are as follows: Recommended - 2.4 processor, 512RAM, Direct X Level 9 graphics card. Minimum - 1.2, 256, DirectX Level 7. So, it's not too brutal, though it is a resource hog on the higher graphics settings, I am running 1024 x 768 just fine. Get it! It is a worthy followup to the greastest game ever made! And did I mention that included with the install is Counterstrike: Source, which is the old Counterstrike with better graphics, so we should play that too!

The only weird/intrusive thing is that an internet connection is required to install the game, because it decrypts files during install, and also installs this "Steam" service on your machine that must be running to play....

Worth it though!

Can't wait to hear the CD at GenCon Rudy! Can we buy a pre-release version there? I don't want one for free, I want to buy one! Do it! Also, sorry about the cell phone last night, I went to an Ice Dogs game.
World War Too Online!

Yes, it's very addictive. Hehe.. I remember many a night staying up until 2-3am fighting to capture a town. It's a whole new experience once you get involved in huge firefights. I'm just bummed that none of my transport missions resulted in you guys getting safely to target.. but that's what you're up against when you've got an entrenched enemy. It's damned hard to crack those defenses! Still, I think we had a good time in just a few hours. Hard to believe how fast time flies when you're playing that game. Next time, when there's someone shooting at you, keep your head down and crawl backwards into cover.. standing up to run is generally going to result in eating a bullet 90% of the time. =]

Good job on the two 110s! That's not easy to do. I'm not knocking your confirmed kills (that's NOT easy to do), but keep in mind that sometimes you might score the first hit on a critical internal component (in a non-lethal level), then someone else follows up with a big hit (like 40mm bofors anti-aircraft) and blows them up.. but you get the kill credit. It's one of the little annoying things in the game that sometimes you don't get kill credit for something even if you really did destroy the last 99% of the thing, because someone "tagged" it first. The developers are working on a better functioning kill-credit system.. but it's not a show stopper so I don't forsee it happening anytime real soon.

If we do WWII Online again in the next few weeks, I'll see about reactivating my account so we can multicrew some bombers and tanks and shit.
CDs Done! (almost)

Just gotta make 2 small changes, but then the music is done! I named 2 songs game-ish: Pickpocket and Detect Mode. Also have a song called Palaver (but thats mostly from the Dark Tower books.) Heh. Next weekend gotta spend the day doing photo-shoots. Ew. But, I'm so stoked it's basically over. Good times ahead! Now, off to my shitty job. b00!

Sunday, November 21, 2004

RUUUUD-AY!!!


I'm emailing you my cell number. Call me.


Duuuude..


It is a moral imperative that we play games this evening. My blood alcohol level commands it!

I have a teamspeak server we can borrow for the eveining to play with as we like. NWN, WWIIOL, whatever.. but even if it's just the two of us losers, we need to hook up and have some fun one way or another.. but not in the S.E. Asia prostitutional way, if you know what I mean. LOL.. mooooooore Guinness!

=]

~Drunkard O.


b00

Hopefully we'll hear from eric by 8 or so, but haven't gotten a hold of him yet. So, probably no gaming tonight. *sniff* *sniff*

RE: Firefly. Assuming we'll have 3 players in the game (art eric jon) you'd want at least 1 character with some good piloting skills (and engineering), someone with some medic background, and then maybe some kind of jack-of-all-trades/merc/rouge kinda guy. To make your guy, fire up the module, and it helps you make yer dude. You get to pickout some outfits and it also levels you up to 5th level. THEN, save your character, and email the *.bic file to me: rudymangual @ gmail.com - because the game uses custom classes/rules, I need to store the characters on my machine in "server vault" area. Also, I've modified the module quite a bit, so b4 we play I'd have to get you guys to d/l my version of the mod. But, let's wait and see if we'll be able to do anything tonight anyways.

Never Give Up!

Art! Well, Jon is out for the night (no internet and he's watching a movie) but I haven't heard from Eric yet. MAYBE (just maybe) he's online again and the 3 of us can play something. Gonna have to wait till I hear from him, so don't give up hope! If it IS just the 3 of us, we can use teamspeak and maybe eric can setup a server, etc. We'll see. BUMMER-MAXIMUS (maybe.)

Regular TV on the weekends is SO bad! OMG, nothing to watch.

I'm gonna mess with the Firefly stuff today, and if we can get eric in, I should be able to run at least a short intro-module for us. Alright - I'll check in lat4er

Fireflizzle..

I'm downloading all the hacks and module now.. we still on for this one tonight? I've got a green light from the wife for gaming to-night. Yeehaw!

two questions: We using teamspeak tonight or the other application? If not, we aught to figure out who is hosting, what the name/password is going to be well in advance. Also, the module calls for level five characters to start, but I'm not sure if building a character for this module is giong to be different than the typical NWN character or not.. ? Should I just wait until we're all on teamspeak to get the character thing worked out? Also, what kind of mix of players should we have?

I guess that was more than two. Blow me.

Hehe..

~Cap'n O.