I don't give a wooden nickel about your compatibility...

Steam has a great sale going on, so I padded my game list a bit more. Only to have McNaire and I to start talking about old school games... Mainly, Red Alert 2. But it seems that out of all the Command & Conquer games, that is the only one that has compatibility issues with Vista. From what my research discovered, even the original Command & Conquer and Red Alert will run, although I haven't tried them myself.

I've tried all the tricks that I know, and everywhere I look everybody keeps telling me the same things(change compatibility and run as admin), which is what I tried before I even looked. Ah well...

Comic stuff:

Still getting things together for the big release, which as you may have guessed has been postponed, or readjusted, or whatever you want to call it. I'm guessing the second week of January, but that's not concrete. I really hope before February, hope...

Mmph hmmph mmf ghumm!

First and foremost, Pyro Pack Rules! I got my Flare Gun last night, I was also ruling that server. I had the highest score with a forty point gap! I do say that these achievements are much better than the Medic ones. With the Medic achievements most just seem to much a distraction, they are more so a hindrance to your team if you try to obtain them. Pyro achievements, most of them, are the things you're already doing. I can see now this is going to keep me from that KoTOR game I started a few weeks back..

This coming week, I'll be working something around 77 hours between today and Saturday afternoon. Can you guess what I'm going to say next? No Opti-Pessi on Monday, I really hope to get one on Friday. I'm also canning Bi-Weekly, until further notice we will only be releasing on Fridays. I have a lot of crazy crap going on at both bleedin jobs. But I do have a old Short that I never released, I'll post that tomorrow so you got something to look forward too.

Other reasons of a lack of comic are, for Fathers Day I was given the gift of Rock Band! Thus I have spent many nights flailing my arms like a crazed Scout swings his bat, pounding out rythems that fall short of maintaining rythem. That game does rule a bit too much.

Lastly, here is a project I was working on last month, that I finally got up and finished. It's not comic related or TF2. Just a whole other random part of the KoreRat.

The Alt Key Gives You the Power to Choose.

Don't know how many of you are into the MMO scene. But I thought I'd let you in on a great project. SWG Emu has been around for a while now, you might have heard about it, but they are really starting to get things looking great over there. Just today I reinstalled my copy of Star Wars Galaxies, but instead of playing SOE's game I went and set up to play SWGEmu. If you want to play what was(at least in my opinion) the greatest MMO head over there and get going. It's totally free, and only requires a few downloads, although you might be required to own a copy of SWG, not sure about that.

Star Wars Galaxies, before it was butchered, was a vast and exciting game world. One of the only games where I would just hop off my speeder and wander around the country side. Partly due to my love of Star Wars and partly to to the elegance of the environments. The planets were lush and beautiful, even the deserts, and really made me feel like I was there. The skill based combat system, again my opinion, was/is by-far better than a level based system.

When you play other MMO's, if you're a level 34 and you are fighting a level 35 odds are you'll lose. But with SWG it was never that clear cut. You could be a 2/2/4/3 Marksman fighting a 4/1/3/2 Brawler and you wouldn't have a clue as to whether or not you might win. It was all about your skill points and skill modifiers. True it had it's problems, uber-buffs and stat-stacking, but it was still a great system.

I think it's only true downfall was the implementation of Jedi. At first it wasn't too bad. You might see one Jedi a month, and even then it was always out in the middle of nowhere. Jedis feared being spotted, feared being hunted, and feared most of all, permadeath. To obtain Jedi was really no accomplishment, you only had to master the right professions in the right order, an order that was different for everybody and unknown to everybody until it was accomplished.

Over all, I say that Star Wars Galaxies had the driving force to change the MMO realm, to be a real contender in the current power-grab World of Warcraft currently has on the genre.

I'm not completely biased, I have played other MMO's. I've played World of Warcraft, RuneScape(as if that counts), City of Heros(and City of Villains), The Matrix Online, PlaneShift, and one other that I can't remember. While all these had their bright moments, they all had their downfalls.

I don't claim that SWG, or even SWGEmu, is the Golden Ark of the MMO Covenant. Just that it is excellence, I played SOE's Star Wars Galaxies for almost four years. Four years where the only other game I played was Half-Life 2. Four years of training, fighting, crafting, recruiting, exploring, flying, dying, dueling, questing, and most of all, having fun. More fun than I have had in any other game I have ever played in all my years of gaming.

I'm very excited to see the great updates coming from the SWGEmu Team. I can't wait to unleash my Imperial Master Pikeman unto the unsuspecting galaxy, and truly enjoy a game in a way I haven't for so many years.

I recommend all of you, whether you play any MMO's or not, to check out SWGEmu. Even if you have to go buy a retail copy of SWG, it's worth it.

Do you believe this is Flash?

Take a look at the above pic, do you believe it's Flash? Because it is.
Check out the link below to see for yourself...



LINK

Are you still there?

I just noticed that I have over 5000 views on this... Wow..


I was thinking today of redoing it, because there are parts that bug the crap out of me. OPinion?

You know, I was playing some KotOR the other night, and I saw this guy, and I thought to myself. "That is a wretched skin job on that model. The model itself is wretched!" Really it is, look at his freakin neck!

New O/P Monday, for real this time!