During a versus game of Left 4 Dead 2 this evening I went on a tank rampage (I normally suck with tank) and managed to knock three people down. While I was going for the fourth the following came up on the screen.

Sarge : GET ROCHELLE
Hammy : fuck off u cheeser
Thermidor : gj

Cheeser? That is an AWESOME insult! Oh and later on in the game the following little exchange happened:

[TSE]Great_Kahn (Boost) : there is nowhere to fucking spawn
[TSE]Great_Kahn (Boost) : has this server been modded
[TSE]Great_Kahn (Boost) : ?? cant get far enough away to spawn
[TSE]Great_Kahn (Boost) : bullshit modded server tbh
PeeJay : nope, spawn blocking
[TSE]Great_Kahn (Boost) : are you a faggot
PeeJay : no, are you?

As could be expected, he ragequitted shortly afterwards. Not before shooting up his own team first though. >_<

This week’s Left 4 Dead 2 Mutation is campaign-based and involves the four survivors tossing aside their guns in favour of chainsaws with infinite juice. Is it any good? (more…)

Super Mario Galaxy 2 is easily one of my most anticipated titles of the year, and to ensure I get a better experience I have finally bought a component cable for the Wii. I got my HDTV around the same time as New Super Mario Bros Wii and the picture was a little bit on the blurry side. The cable won’t make the game HD, but it’ll help make the new galaxies look lurvely.

I did a test just now with New Super Mario Bros Wii and it is looking much better. The image is not quite so blurred but it helped bring out the jaggies. Not a good thing but then again, I probably shouldn’t be sitting as close to the screen as I do!

All in all it seems to be a worthwhile purchase, and with Mario’s latest adventure releasing in a week’s time I’m definitely ready. Thank god the cable only cost me six quid instead of Nintendo’s asking price of £17.99.

… now I’ve said that, the cable will probably randomly catch on fire.

The best part about being off work is that I can be awake at this time and not really feel that guilty about it. Ok, I’m normally go to bed around this time when I do work but it’s just nice to be able to sit here for longer. The birds are now singing and it’s gradually getting lighter. In about 20 minutes or so it’ll be full daylight.

Unfortunately today it’s a little cloudy out (it’s meant to rain later), but at least I can see a tiny bit of blue sky. Hopefully the weather will stay fairly nice.

In unrelated news, I now want to see Scott Pilgrim Vs The World.

After returning to Twitter earlier this week I’ve decided that if I can update that several times a day then I can kick out a few blog entries each week. At the moment I haven’t got a whole lot to say (it is 4am and my brain is on shut down), one thing I can tell you about this week is passing kidney stones bloody hurts – I recommend you try it!

I’ve also shoved a little Twitter feed at the top of the page so this place will continue to be kept up-to-date… from a certain point of view!

Since I last updated this place. I’m not sure how long it’ll be before I increase my blogging frequency, I could start tomorrow, I could even start next month. All I know is I’m making this entry in the interest of the tidyness of my archive links! We can’t be jumping from March to May now!

I’ve just had dinner. Yes… at 3:15 in the morning I’ve finally had dinner!

See, what happened was at around 7pm this evening I thought I’d try and watch the Inglourious Basterds Bluray I bought at Tesco today but PowerDVD had other ideas. After three quarters of an hour try to mess with the bastard thing (and trying alternatives) I admitted defeat and retired to bed while watching Robot Chicken on DVD. The only problem with this was I was out cold for the next 6-7 hours and now I’m wide awake.

I’ve already been looking into this but I am definitely in the market for a dedicated Bluray player now. I can’t put up with PowerDVD’s crap.

I’ve been all about Aliens Vs Predator this week, read on…

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I’m currently running the beta version of the new Steam User Interface. It’s not too bad so far, and I haven’t noticed too many problems with it outside of running games in DirectX 11 mode.

The most noticeable glitch has just occurred in the last ten minutes when I came out of a game of Aliens Vs Predator. All the info updated, like which of my friends was playing, how many hours in total I’ve played etc. But it now appears that the last time I played was tomorrow.

Interesting, it can see into the future!

Y’know, one day I’ll get this written on the Sunday – when it’s meant to be put up!

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