Tuesday, June 30, 2009

angry L4D gamer is angry

I've noticed over time (but it was just way more noticeable last night) that people get really really worked up over L4D. You could probably make that statement about any game out there, but I just notice it the most on L4D. Last night I was playing a versus match and the server happened to have "all-talk" on, and my team seemed to figure that out immediately because we can read. It sais "All-talk is on." However, the guys on the other team didn't get it. I don't know why, because we typed it to them over and over. This one dude, on the other team, was yelling and cursing his teammates. I guess he didn't think that the reason we were destroying them is because he was telling the whole server where they were going to move and position. He then proceeded to vote-kick anyone on his team that wasn't doing well enough to reach his standards. He kept screaming "You fucking suck! You fucking suck! What the fuck is wrong with you? You should fucking die! GOD!" I told him to relax and that made him even more mad. He told me that I was horrible at L4D and my team sucked, even though we were winning by thousands of points. It makes me not want to play online games, when people behave that way.

But I'll still do it...

Friday, June 26, 2009

Forgot.

It seems I forgot to show everyone this thing. Back when the sniper/spy update was being released I was reading the TF2 forums and came across a thread where some guy was drafting a thank you note. I added our names. It is actually really nicely done. Scroll down about 2/3 of the way and look in the middle of the block of names underneath the quote attributed to Wakaboom.

Here

Also, why did I never get an IAAT profile? That is upsetting to say the least.

Thursday, June 25, 2009

according to last.fm

I have listened to the following artists on my work computer (I don't remember this at all):

Finntroll - 3
Korpiklaani - 2
theNoLifeKing - 1
Franz Liszt - 1
Eisregen - 1
birthday boyz - 1
Dogpiss - 1
BomberMan Awesome - 1
Jan Jelinek - 1
The Offspring - 1

I guess it wasn't bad enough that I was rocking out to Dogpiss, but apparently thought it was a good idea to listen to Finntroll three times. I mean..."birthday boyz" ??? Really?

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Mass Effect

So I got Mass Effect yesterday, and yes I am years behind everyone. Just started playing it, but it is very enjoyable so far. I'm still in the learning curve, but I'm stoked.

Kitten Hooray!

So about two weeks ago I was sitting on the couch with my brother watching television. All of the sudden I said, "You should get a cat." He said, "okay." A bit of backstory: When we were young we had a special type of siamese cat called an applehead bluepoint. His name was Andy and he was my brother's cat. My brother said he only wanted this type of cat if he were to get one. We called cat breeders all over Florida, and after encountering some crazy cat ladies we found a nice lady in Orlando with a male bluepoint. We are picking him up in three weeks.





As for names, up until yesterday we had a long list of names which included Matzoh, Thug, Ray Ray, Tuna, and Bonzai among many others. My brother has been a lifelong Miami fan and is more into the sports than I am. He wanted to name him after his favorite player Sean Taylor, but it just didn't work. So at dinner last night I had sort of an epiphany and decided to revisit the name Cane. This will be his name. Now we have the ability to call him whatever player or coach's name we want to since they all fall under the Cane umbrella. We're dumb.

Monday, June 22, 2009

This is good.

Crysis Plebian!!!

I finished Crysis Warhead over the weekend, and decided that it is better than the previous game. The improvements are small, yet useful. Now I am going to be excited for Crysis 2 & 3.

But not as excited (impatient/irritated) for Ep3...

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Happy Father's Day.



I love you dad.

Saturday, June 20, 2009

A Post from our own snowy_bebe

Snowybebe has been to the future and seen what is in store for our little albino Shane Morris:








"From that moment on, I knew I would never forget about Dr. Shane Morris."


love,

-snowy

Thursday, June 18, 2009

This guy



I graduated from this place.

Maybe someday we could get together and practice my newly acquired "smart talk".

I bought Ghostbusters the video game.
Meh/10

I would not buy this game unless you are a huge fan of the ghostbusters like me (I wear my proton pack to interviews). It falls prey to the same shitty mistakes made in most movie to video game situations. Only this time, the original actors were out-of-work enough to actually do the voices of the characters.


I am in Pittsburgh. That is all.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

ATTN: HUNT_FISH_WITH_DYNAMITE



HEY NIC, IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY! HAPPY BIRTHDAY NIC!

sad taco


It seems that everyone has been too busy.

Friday, June 12, 2009

Later This Evening.

A few of you know that when I was in college that I lived with some girls. Two were lesbians. Shannon is moving out of town this weekend and we are going to a lesbian bar to, uh, celebrate or something? I guess. Anyway, I was reminded of this humorous internet video that you have probably already seen. Enjoy.

Thursday, June 11, 2009

IAAT profile: Christian Renfrew aka Godfatherofsoul

1. How old were you when you took your first dump?
About 15

2. Have you accidentally the whole thing?
Oh many times.

3. OWNED!
Haha

4. What was the first game that made you ragequit and what happened to make you act like a big fucking baby?
Mario kart

5. What are your thoughts on shirtless men hugging?
Not fussed.

6. Would you ever show your ass to your own ass? Why?
No definitely not, for fear of embarrassment.

7. If you were Gordon Freeman for one day, what would you do?
Take a crowbar to Barney's face.

8. How extreme are you?

Extremely naked & a man.

9. Do you agree that the Engineer is a credit to the team?
On the fence.

10. Tell the story about the first time you kissed a man:
It was my dad.

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Nerd L4D shit

I'm not a serious guy when it comes to video games. I have a great time playing with you guys and that's really all I care about.

However, I've heard a couple people who don't feel confident at their zombie humping skills complain about being outgunned during games.

I've gathered a couple things that may help:

1) get rid of that shitty cross-hair they gave you and get an accurate one.

in console commands:

cl_crosshair_dynamic (auto adjust) - i use 0 (numeral)
cl_crosshair_thickness (thickness of crosshair lines) - i use 1 or 0
cl_crosshair_alpha (opacity) - i use 255
cl_crosshair_red/blue/green (color) i either use green or red, typed, this goes red 255/blue 0/green 0 or red 0/blue 0/green 255

Those numbers that i gave you, you type in a space after the console command. Trust me when I say that doing so will greatly improve accuracy.

2) L4D guide - click that link and read. I guarantee you learn some stuff you didn't even know about.

3) One of this "visceral" dudes videos - Some of these are unreal. More of an interesting video on utilizing that wall jump as a hunter. The key is, when you hit a wall, you have to be facing at least (i think) about 15 degrees from the angle you met it, and click the pounce again. Increases damage and confuses the hell out of survivors.


Hope some of that helps, there are a ton more things to do in console you can find on forums that will give you an advantage. I personally like playing the game straight up, so I didn't link any of that nonsense. That crosshair is pretty important, though, and debilitating on default. So at the very least, you'd be doing yourself a favor by changing it.

*smooches*

The Nanier family



When the time comes, the parents, Borgeau and Snowy Nanier, will be survived by their three adopted children (from left to right): Schmuel Dolderer-Nanier, Christian Renfrew-Nanier, and Fahn "Meat and Potatoes" Patrick-Nanier. They love you, dad!

Shane, please come home. We all miss you.

Monday, June 8, 2009

Ellen McLain and other issues

fahn_patrick and I were discussing setting up a PayPal to get Galactus/Nader a new microphone. If we each PayPal'd him $1.50, then he could get one.


Ellen McLain is an opera singer and voice actress from Nashville, Tennessee, USA. McLain provides voices for many characters in several video games from Valve. Among them are GLaDOS, the artificial intelligence antagonist in Portal (for which she won an AIAS Interactive Achievement Award for Outstanding Achievement in Character Performance), the announcer in Team Fortress 2, and the voice of the Combine overwatch for the Half-Life 2 series. She is the only person to have her voice in all the games in The Orange Box.

McLain also sang the ending credits song to Portal, titled "Still Alive", written by Jonathan Coulton.

I missed another good one.

By: rob_mcfeters on 3/3/2009 5:29:52 PM

I used to smoke while I would take a shit. Yea, it was awesome. I would feel a shit coming, so I would hurry, grab the vodka...make a cosmo...grab my pack of Virginia Slims and just party on the toilet.




Off to other matters: OUR LIST OF LABELS JUST KEEPS GROWING AND GROWING WITH EACH POST. COME ON PEOPLE, LET'S RECYCLE SOME. I'M DOING MY PART AND I CAN'T DO THIS ALONE! :|


ONE MORE THING: THIS IS FUCKING AWESOME.

Lychees and Other Things.

My brother and I recently discovered lychees. On a trip to Miami there was a man selling them on the side of the road and we bought three pounds. They were gone in two days. The following weekend we bought twenty-six pounds of them from a local farmer because we are addicted to them. They are really exotic and taste wonderful. I have read all the information ever on the internet about lychees and I am now an expert. When my father landscapes his new house he is going to put lychee trees in. Great excitement.



In other news I started working a 40 hour a week job in a corporate environment. Besides having to do retarded bullshit work, I have to wake up at 7 am and dress like a professional asshole. It's upsetting. I'm too tired to stay up and play video games at night. Maybe this weekend. This poor clip art man reflects how I feel about the situation.



Green Tea is really great. I've done a lot of reading on it. Consuming polyphenols like catechins is good for you. Interesting. This is my tea of choice. I drink it at room temperature.



I got really drunk on Friday night and then had a bad hangover on Saturday. I went to a beer tasting at Whole Foods, then did sake bombs in a Japanese restaurant, and then drank more beer.



This is the Sandhill_Crane_Mobile_Attack_Unit_Bravo_1. This just happened 5 minutes ago. They won't let my brother leave the house. They stare you down with a ridiculous anger in their eyes. I have to leave now and they are waiting. Fear.





It's an exciting life I lead.

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Saturday, June 6, 2009

IAAT profile: Sunnyvaletrash aka Shane Morris

1. How old were you when you took your first dump?
Still waiting on that one.

2. Have you accidentally the whole thing?
Many, many times.

3. OWNED!
Haha

4. What was the first game that made you ragequit and what happened to make you act like a big fucking baby?
I'm gonna guess Punch-Out, and it was most likely that faggot King Hippo.

5. What are your thoughts on shirtless men hugging?
Not enough of it in my life. Perhaps the IAAT crew should get together and fix this.

6. Would you ever show your ass to your own ass? Why?
I wouldn't. I don't want my ass to become self-aware.

7. If you were Gordon Freeman for one day, what would you do?
I'd find a way to have sex with Alyx that incorporates the gravity gun.

8. How extreme are you?
I'm so extreme that you can expect to see a licensed energy drink soon.

9. Do you agree that the Engineer is a credit to the team?
Yes.

10. Tell the story about the first time you kissed a man:
Once again, we may have to get the IAAT crew together to make this happen.

Friday, June 5, 2009

IAAT profile: fahn_patrick

1. How old were you when you took your first dump?
The bronzed dook says “Sean: age three”. I was pretty sure that it’s physically impossible for a person to hold a bm for that long. I consulted Dr. Beardface anyway, and he said it’s probably the first one I took that was not in my own pants. He also mentioned that it was a bit unusual to have a bronzed statuette of your own feces, fucking racist.

2. Have you accidentally the whole thing?
I don’t even know where to the to the. But, I the thing apart, hard.

3. OWNED!
- Valve

4. What was the first game that made you ragequit and what happened to make you act like a big fucking baby?
I used to be way better at games. I think it was the Doom II mod pack that started my problems. I would serial link the hell out of anything. Duke Nukem 3D made things worse. My dad would kick my ass from across the desk and laugh into my face. It was then that the drinking and drug problem started.
I still go home and ragequit when he beats my ass in the first call of duty.
These days, fighting my addictions publicly on steam, sometimes I inhale so many pills that I fall asleep at the wheel. I usually try to ragekick first. This could be a form of projecting.

5. What are your thoughts on shirtless men hugging?
It’s like the time I turned on that TV show “naked science.” It is strange, and not what I expected.

6. Would you ever show your ass to your own ass? Why?
I could answer this question with an old adage. Did you ever hear the story of the ugly duckling? It didn’t even know it wasn’t a duckling because it’s mother was an otter. It is a well known fact that otters are like the albino jewish afro-ed Canadians opening baked good stores in America of the animal world. Not acceptable. The moral of the story being: Watch out for IEDs on the riverbank.
But I digress:
It is akin to my ass thinking that it’s a worn, shoddily upholstered lecture-hall desk cushion. How does one know itself if it cannot be shown by its own kind? Are we a product of the identity others project on us? Was my ass born to poop? Or was it SHOWN to poop? Is my ass really an ass?
I think I just figured out my grad school thesis…

7. If you were Gordon Freeman for one day, what would you do?
I’d go back to those beautiful, long gone days of studying to get my doctorate at MIT. I’d march right into work and in front of everyone, exclaim to Dr. Eli Vance that his is the only “Black Mesa” I’d ever need. I would love him like GLaDOS loves cake. Then we would ride that resonance cascade on top of each other right into Xen and explode our anomalous materials over everything. We’d float on the clouds above the border world and show the combine how to love the vortigaunts with our rigid, shirtless motions. G-man’s head would explode at the immorality of our actions and his loss of control. I would love Alyx like a daughter. I would also prevent Dr. Kleiner from acquiring a horrible case of headcrabs.

The gens of the people would swell to the size of Nihilanth himself.

All are satisfied.









8. How extreme are you?
Daily.

I haven’t had a solid movement in years.

9. Do you agree that the Engineer is a credit to the team?
The engineer is comic relief and not much else. Not only does he look like a member of village people, the last time I saw overalls was at the ’98 county fair.
Listen, I know he’s the engineer, and he’s here to solve problems. But, one problem I have trouble resolving is why he can’t ever put the teleporter in a useful spot. This one time, I went through a teleporter and I came all the back to the spawnpoint. I was so angry, I yelled at a puppy’s face.
He also says things that are dumb, like this. This other time, I was so laughing hard at something the engineer said, that I actually blew myself up with my own sticky bombs. Fuck this guy. I hate him.

10. Tell the story about the first time you kissed a man:
It was cold and dark. I’d never spent the night in a tent before. Deep in the recesses of my cold-weather mummy sleeping bag, I shivered at the whim of a fear that had taken over me. The harsh gusts of wind shook my tent to its poles. It was then I noticed that I couldn’t hear anyone else. The rustle of cheap nylon struck me like the unexpected droppings of a bird. I shook as a hand crept onto my cocooned body.

“Don’t worry, little boy. Scoutmaster Johnson knows how to take the fear away.”

That is a lie. I’ve never kissed a guy. But sometimes, Nic and I kiss our monitors and pretend we’re kissing each other when no one else is in vent. Doing this is probably more homosexual than actually kissing another man.

Thursday, June 4, 2009

THIS FEELS GREAT

IAAT profile: Nader aka Galactus


1. How old were you when you took your first dump?
I was about 13. My friend made a joke about taking a shit, and I had no idea what that meant. I later found out that POOP came out of there. How crazy is that? Up until that point, I've been using that place to hold a roll of quarters so I always had change for the bus.

2. Have you accidentally the whole thing?
The real question is "who hasn't accidentally the whole thing?"

3. OWNED!
HAHA! :|

4. What was the first game that made you ragequit and what happened to make you act like a big fucking baby?
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. Out of 23 playable characters to choose from, my cousin picks Scorpion. Any fucking noob can constantly shoot the spear and uppercut someone to gain a victory.

5. What are your thoughts on shirtless men hugging?
Can I participate?

6. Would you ever show your ass to your own ass? Why?
The thought never occurred. I was always too busy showing my ass to Daniel's ass.

7. If you were Gordon Freeman for one day, what would you do?
The obvious answer would be having sex with Alyx Vance. Honestly, I would sprint the whole day. How fucking cool is it to be able to run THAT fast.

8. How extreme are you?

9. Do you agree that the Engineer is a credit to the team?
Pretty much the only class I play (when I do play). Not only does he support the team with wonderful gadgets such as health/ammo dispensers and sentry guns, but the teleporters are very convenient and useful because you don't have to waste the whole game away running across the map.

10. Tell the story about the first time you kissed a man:
His name was Juan. There was a certain musky aroma that emanated from his silky copper skin that lured me in. In retrospect, I think it was the assless leather chaps that drove me nuts.

trust us a little bit.

I trust them so goddamn hard it isn't even funny.



Calm your nerves men. Calm them.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

His influence is spreading like wildfire



I can no longer hide in my own city.

IAAT profile series

In the coming weeks, we will be taking a closer look at our beloved tacos. Our producers are approving the questionnaire and will be sending them to the respective tacos' agents. Just make sure your son isn't sitting on your lap, while you read this.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Hold onto your hats

Shane Morris is safe

When websites have inadequate servers

probably the only one excited


But I posted it anyways...

L4D2

I'm not sure how I feel about a L4D sequel a year after the first one, especially since the first one felt like a clunky, unfinished product when it shipped. But, if they let you use chainsaws, then I guess that's always a good thing.

Monday, June 1, 2009

I stabbed my desk with a screwdriver.

(this person got stabbed in the face)

I yelled at a stranger.
I stabbed my desk with a screwdriver.
Force of nature.