The Life Of A LittlBUGer

Yup, it’s that time again where I say “wow, it’s been a long time since I last posted”.  And it’s true but it’s not the point.  I no longer own any of my stuff related to littlbuger.info and as such have more time to deal with my family and work and whatnot (yes, that was the excruciatingly short version of the whole long story, but whatever).  Thus this will probably be my last post here as there’s really no point, though I’m sure no one cares as my blog never really got read by anyone.

But just in case, thanks and farewell.  Here’s a couple final pictures that I thought were funny.  Enjoy…

The obvious (yet technically correct)…

and The Even More Obvious (and even more technically correct)…

Yes, it’s been a long time, I know. I’ve just been FAR too busy with, well, life. Work, Family, and more work and family, throw in heaps and heaps of stress and drama, and that’s my life. Oh yea, don’t forget to suck away all of the money too, gotta make it challenging.

Anyway, I thought the following was funny enough to post about when I had a few minutes. Basically titled:

Don’t Piss Off An Engineer

Gotta love it!

Oh, and by the way, for some reason, I hate the new admin interface of the latest WordPress. I have no idea why they changed it like this. It’s like they wanted to make it even harder to do and find things, and to click 3 times as much to do 1 thing. Oh well…

Until next time… which may be ???

As the title states, I don’t have a whole lot to say today except…

IT’S MY BIRTHDAY TODAY!  HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!  WHOOPEE!!!

“The cake is a lie…” isn’t true today!  AH HA!

OK, maybe I had a little… 

For those of you who know (or those who don’t), I’m a “hardcore gamer”.  Yes, my family kind of sucks the life out of that term because I may get an hour a night or less to actually do anything on my computer, nevertheless actually game, but still, I consider that phrase good.  The reason?  There is nothing else in this world that can help get or keep me sincerely calm and relaxed like a good game can.  My family/wife?  Bah!  My friends?  LOL!  Nope, it all comes to my gaming and I.  It’s just something I love to do.  I love to explore new worlds and kick other faceless people’s asses (though it’s also fun to kick your friend’s ass too) and to mainly just get away from all of the crap in the “real world.”  There’s so much stress and chaos and dullness and no adventure here that it’s just natural to feel so much better in a game.  I mean, I could have a stomach ache or a headache or some other type of pain and yet once I get into a game, I really don’t feel anything buy happiness.  Sure, there’s games where things can get frustrating and difficult and whatnot, but that’s easy to deal with, as if it becomes too much, you stop playing that game and move on to the next for a while.  Simple, easy, fun.  Real world?  Not simple, not easy, no fun.  Some of you may think I’m a horrible beast, that my kids nor my wife can’t make me happy and such.  I never said they couldn’t make me happy and whatnot, I just said they can’t take all of the stress, dullness, depression, and crap away from the world like a good game can.  Nothing more… now… where was I going with this…?  Hmm…. oh yes!  I’m curious, is anyone out there just like me?  If so, what games do you play as I’d love to kick your ass some time (though co-op is just as fun). 

Anyway, somewhat related to the above, some very recent games I’ve played have been BioShock, Half-Life 2: Episode 2, Portal, Team Fortress 2, Overlord, TrackMania United, etc.  Well, here’s some rants I have for those games before I move on to new ones like Crysis and Unreal Tournament 3 and so forth:

• BioShock: Fantastic game and made me miss the good ol days of System Shock 2.  A little short, but still great.  Only downfall—why the hell did you not provide a multiplayer interface like you did with System Shock 2??!!  SS2 actually had a fantastic multiplayer, where the only thing you can do is play the single player game with up to 3 of your friends.  Full storyline and cut scenes, saves allowed, the whole works.  Why not in BioShock as well damit!  Ending was OK, though short for either version (’good’ or ‘bad’).
• Half-Life 2: Episode 2: What??!! You ended it like that!  NOOOOO!!!!  I’ll try not to spoil it, but damit!  NOOO!!!!  I wanted to know everything he knew before he went away like that!  Sheesh!  Otherwise, wonderful game.  Oh, and bringing Achievements to the PC finally… nice touch.
• Portal: More fun than I’ve had in a long time and also added a new level of thinking to my daily brain vocabulary.  Wish there was more, but I know it was more of a long tech demo than anything.  Great job.
•  Team Fortress 2: As I’ve mentioned before, I like it the more I play it, but seriously, no grenades or armor?!  You’ve got to be kidding me!
• Overlord: A very fun game to play and provides kind of a new style of gaming, at least it was to me.  Maybe could have been slightly better, but still a good fun.  Great endings too, depending on if  you’re ‘good’ or ‘bad’. 
• TrackMania United: Some crazy racing going on here which can give great fun or great frustration.  There are types of races I can do with ease, others I can’t even get past the 3rd track.  Fun overall and I like that’s it’s not a simulated real-world game, it’s just pure crazy racing fun.

As for Crysis and UT3, you better run nicely on my gaming laptop… or else!  Until next time… 

Hello. I was just curious if there were any other gamers out there who, for some reason, don’t already have Half-Life 2 and HL2: Episode 1 and who are interested in getting them for cheap? Because of my recent purchase of “The Orange Box”, I have two licenses to the above games, and thus in the Steam client, I can give the two games above to anyone I chose as a “gift” which would use one of my licenses. This is completely legal (it’s part of Steam—thus you’d need to install Steam for free and download the games through it) and it would be the full versions. Normally these would sell for somewhere around $30-40, but I’d be willing to sell them for a minimum of $10 if anyone is interested. Please let me know. Thanks.

Well, like many other gamers out there, I had to buy “The Orange Box” recently because I just couldn’t live without Half-Life 2: Episode 2, Team Fortress 2, and Portal. Portal was fantastic and I can’t wait until they implement that technology into other mainstream games. GlaDOS and the ending were just brilliant. I have yet to play HL2: Episode 2 because I’ve been too enthralled with the other games…

Team Fortress 2 on the other hand is kind of a mixed bag for me. Don’t get get me wrong, the game is good—nice graphics, sweet facial expressions, frickin hilarious at times, nice new features, and of course it’s the damned sequel to one of the greatest co-op multiplayer games of all time that’s FINALLY here. So it’s good overall. But there are a few… issues… that really bug me almost to the point of where I didn’t want to play it anymore. These include but are definitely not limited to:

1.) The maps. Obviously, it came with few maps and only two different types of maps. This is somewhat understandable as the game is new and they probably wanted to let the modding community to start hashing out stuff or to give them ideas. Then again, it’s been what, 8 FRICKIN YEARS and they only started it out with 6 maps??!! Grrr….

2.) Grenades… where the F*$K are the damn grenades?! This was one of the main features/highlights of the original TFC, to be able to not only throw and properly time the regular grenades, but to get your own special grenade based on your class chosen. It not only added another great element to the game, but it allowed for so many more things that wouldn’t have been possible. I just feel robbed without grenades and it just seems to simplify the game a bit too much, like there’s not quite enough stuff to use or at least have the availability to use. This is more or less unacceptable to me and almost made me not play the game at all after the very first time I tried it. Damn you Valve, damn you! This BETTER be FIXED in the next release/patch…. GRRRRR….

3.) Armor… again, where the hell is all the damn armor?! It’s bad enough that there’s still uneven balances between a few certain classes that allows many people to get killed way too easily, but to then also take armor out completely, the one thing that allowed you to survive that much more longer, give yourself a sense of extra security, and yet add another exciting element to the game… and it’s not there?! GAH!!! Again, unacceptable and just plain ridiculous.

4.) As I mentioned above, not quite balanced classes. Most of the things are balanced pretty decently, but the damn spy and sniper are way too powerful in this game. It’s just damn silly really. The spies can not only become a member of the other team, but they can go completely invisible?! Are you fricking kidding me? It’s hard enough at time to keep those damn spies at bay when they are already disguised as your own teammates, but to completely make them invisible is just damn crazy stupid and nearly impossible to detect. Oh, and their ability to destroy a turrent is just sad. And then there’s the sniper… let’s not only give him the ability to kill people with ease (if the player has skill) because no one has any frickin armor, but to then allow his gun to “charge up” and become super powerful and allow for one-hit kills almost no matter where you shot the victim? Seriously? Gimme a break!!!

Anyway, those are the main points for my dislike of the game. Other than the fact that, for my main class (Engineer), you can’t tell if the enemy is by your dispencer and thus destroy it to try and kill him, and your turrent is just plain too loud and obnoxious (and thus easy to spot/destroy). And what’s up the with teleportation technology? You just released Portal with these game set, yet you have the sick sad excuse for a “portal” in TF2 instead of using the ones in Portal… yea… Oh yea, and the ability for medics to heal from a distance… nice in some situations, bad in most.

So there you have it, my little rant on The Orange Box. I hope you’ve enjoyed it, as I know I … might have.