It's A Special, It Doesn't Have To Fit The Main Line

I am doing some maintenance on our stored images, some images in old posts may no longer work. At least until I bother to fix them.

We are planning an early release special for Thanksgiving, or maybe we aren't... The suspense thickens...

Have a taste:

Never tell your password to anyone.
McNaire: Cool, that worked for once
KoreRat (uc): Whoa, this is a first.
Garin: Sweet
KoreRat (uc): Are we going to use this for constructive things? Or just being ourselves?
McNaire: Hmm...
McNaire: HMM....
Garin: why does it have to one or the other?
McNaire: I give up
McNaire: What's the answer?
Garin explodes form the wrath of god
KoreRat (uc): Purple.
Garin: i shouldn't have said
Garin: yellow
McNaire: M'kay. I just thought, since Garin was asking me about Korerat replying we could save some time (And my fingers)
Garin: cool,
KoreRat (uc): Let me get my "thinking music" going...
KoreRat (uc): There, Sabbath.
Garin: anyway all I have for an idea so far is some king of character gathering,some video game reference, and a violent thanksgiving reference
McNaire is listening to Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along. "I know you guys thought this was lame, but this music is catchy.:P"
Garin listens to TSO
KoreRat (uc): What's more catchy than, "I'm going off the rails on a crazy train!" ??
McNaire: Actually a lot of Japanese stuff, but that gets stuck in your head
KoreRat (uc): But on point, I think it would be cool to do a Turkey day bit.
Garin: likse that one HORRIBLE flash song....
McNaire: Don't go there Garin
McNaire: Anyhow
KoreRat (uc): hehe
McNaire: We can, but what's the theme?
KoreRat (uc): Opti's first Antlion Day?
McNaire: let's catalog T-day themes. "Football, Turkey, eating alot..."
McNaire: Why would Opti go for antlions?
Garin: no other food
KoreRat (uc): Better yet, Opti just realizes that its a real holiday.
KoreRat (uc): And tries to seek out its history.
KoreRat (uc): But we make changes, like the antlions and turkeys.
McNaire: Nah, I'd rather have him looking for the fabled Plymouth Rock
KoreRat (uc): first settlers into Combine and Indians into refugees.
McNaire: So we get great shots of him holding a rock and talking to it
KoreRat (uc): Adopting a pet antlion, and Pessi wanting to eat it?
Garin disconnected.
KoreRat (uc): He thinks Antlion day is in support of Antlions, so he finds one, then Pessi makes it for dinner.
McNaire: Can we make the antlion smaller and cute?
McNaire: brb
KoreRat (uc): I might be able to deflate them, or see if there is something on gmod.org
KoreRat (uc): kk
KoreRat (uc): Oooh. L4D models, we could do a special with them celebrating thanksgiving in the zombie apocalypse..

Left 4 Wanting More

The Left 4 Dead Demo is availible for a few more days. I would reccomened taking a look at it. It's only two levels, but after you play through it a couple of times you see how the A.I. Director works. I've played about a dozen times and it's always been different. And that's only with two levels...

The loading screen, just before you start the round, rules. Plain and simple. Although I did have some issues with the game. I ran it on it's reccomended defaults, except changing the aspect ratio to 14:10. And not even two minutes in it crashed to the desktop...

So I went back in. Quickly joined a game inprogress, wondering if it would be the same one. It wasn't. But it wasn't far from where I had crashed, so I didn't mind. We made it to the end, surviving all the Smokers, Hunters, Boomers, and Witches it threw at us. And I was left wanting more. But I had to go to work.

So, eight hours later I was back at home and loading up the demo again. Only this time I decided to go at it alone, in that I was the only human. This was in a way, better. I had the opertunity to explore the enviroments better. When I was with a team of other players they were more focused on the task at hand and less in looking at VALVe's handywork. I discovered there are almost two ways to anywhere, and that setting off car alarms is a big no-no. Well, seeing a horde of zombies running at you from three directions is pretty sweet.

I've played a couple of zombie games, a big fan of the Resident Evil series. But Left 4 Dead, it feels less like a game and more like a movie. The way the zombies move about and attack reminds me more of the good 'ol zombie flicks.


Oh, and I'm really excited about SteamCloud. So many hassels will be saved.

TF2 Stuff

Here is a bunch of TF2 randomness...


I associate the great Sniper night to the fact that I was listening to the new Metallica album while playing.




And, my first attempt at Smooth in TF2...



And, my second...

Name Drop!

Just saw that I got a name drop over at Ubercharged.net. Go me! Last sentence of the post. "KoreRat has posted a thread with more in the forums."

Success is so sweet...

Achievment

Success!

Super Sneaky McNaire Secrets

Here is some TOP SECRET footage of McNaire's new prototype Piegeon launcher.

It's old, but new to me.

Opinion Needed!

CABAL is in need for a face lift! Let me know which of the choices is best for the following:

1) Says "It is my world now!"
2) Inflicts fear upon you.(Or in the case of no fear, most to put you slightly at unease.)
3) Is just awesome!
(pick the best look for each above statement)




Here is a bad picture of CABAL now.

KoreRat Quest! Part Two

Polls up! First is to pick the phrase said, second is where I say it. Vote, clear your cookies, and vote again!

In other news:

I was able to nab this shot of a Medic the other night. I gotta say it's a 'Class Definer'. I'm now on the lookout for shots this good for the rest of the classes. Keep in mind all I did to this is add the word 'Medic', the rest is just good timing.

KoreRat Quest!

Okay, so a few weeks ago I got a headset and mic for my computer. Since, every time I play me some TF2 I use it, although I have yet to say anything. At first I was just waiting for a need to say something, not wanting to be a random annoying person in the game. But after a few moments when I should have said 'Spy is Sniper' or 'Heavy/Medic coming across bridge' or 'touch the cart, just touch it!'. I failed. KoreRat you fail.

Then it came to the point where I wasn't even looking for the right time to say anything, I even typed things when I could have said them. I got to the point where I felt I had to make the first thing I say good, meaningful, or at least something.

Therefore I have started the quest for the perfect thing to say as my first thing said. I'm gonna list a few options below and start a forum on the Steam Forums. I'll see what I can get going and then I will make a poll and see what wins. Then the winning phrase will be said on the TF2 server of my choosing, maybe I'll do a second poll for the server...

• The Rat is in the House!
  
• Whatever you do, DON'T UBER ME!
  
• It's KORE-SPACE-RAT people!
  
• I reject your reality, and substitute my own.
  
• It's one small step for KoreRat, one giant leap for KoreRatHood.
  

EDIT: There are a lot of great idea coming out of the forums... I'm gonna let this run until Sunday before I pick the best for the poll.

We're not dead.

Saw this great post over at Ubercharged about the 'Red Delicious' VALVe, or is it 'Granny Smith'? Read it here.

Also we have a new video from VALVe. Meet the Sniper is out! Hoo-rah!

I noticed this the second time I watched it. Looks like one of the new guns, I'll bet to replace the Shotty.

Why wasn't I informed???

Holy Frick!

I'm not bothering to think of a witty title for this post...

You wanted a Portal vid remake, thus I'm negleting my Opti-Pessi duties and working tirelessly to give you what you want. And for all my loyal readers, here is a sneak peek! Enjoy.

I'm going to sleep now...

Korea Huh?

This explains alot about our friendship...including how KoreRat (a.k.a. Korea a.k.a KoreaRat apparently...) has promised me brownies for doing this comic, but I have yet to see anything of the sort. However, I did a search for him in 'The Database' using the new name 'KoreaRat' as the search parameters and came up with this starling image:



Everything becomes clear now, doesn't it?