Hey, sweet.... I'm at university, doing a uni course. Woot!

Bumped... lol.

¶ posted by Mezerian at 4:48 PM

Today we went to the careers expo and I totally sold out with all the free stuff you could get.

Here's the pictures of me selling out!

¶ posted by Andrew Fox at 4:39 PM

Halo 2 is not a game of skill, well maybe it is but it's not the same skills you require to play a PC game. Rather than practicing recoil patterns for hours and learning every point to a map so that you can navigate it while flashed you just have to practice sniping, smashing your B button in and shooting the dude directly in front of you. Since you can't actually turn fast enough to get the guy behind you and the sound is nowhere near good enough to work out when someone is coming up behind you you'll never be able to get them except for one hell of a reflex shot or maybe a lucky jump. You may say 'but Halo 2 has a motion detection just for that purpose' but alas, a lot of people don't know how to play Halo 2 and turn that off even on Deathmatch or CTF gametypes. Oh and learning how to stick people with plasma grenades doesn't hurt either.

To create a successful clan you really only need 3 people in Halo 2. Those peopl are:

1. The Sniper - Basically the clan guard him until they get to the sniper rifle and he picks it up and goes and camps it up in some place that you have to execute several jumps to get up to so he can just snipe away to his hearts content.

2. The Camper n00b - This guy just grabs any gun and camps it up, usually near the sniper to pickoff anyone that gets close enough to kill him. His weapons of choice are the Battlerifle, Rocket Launcher or Shotgun.

3. The Whore - This guy just runs around the map whoring people with the Battle Rifle, Shotgun and if he can get it The Sword. This guy just has to learn one skill: reflex shots. The key to winning a battle on Halo 2 is to either have one of the uber n00b guns (Shotgun, Sniper, Sword, Rocket Launcher) or be the person to start shooting first. Just aim sort of near them and the game will automatically lock on and keep them in the middle of your crosshair. You have to turn a bit but there's nothing they can do unless they use the "Hammer The B Button" "skill" to kill you instantly or stick you with a plasma grenade.

Because clans are made of such lame positions Halo 2 isn't a good game for clan gaming therefore making itself fail as a competitive game. Halo 2 is pretty good for chillout gaming with mates though as you just grab a gun and run at em firing madly :D Gotta love how guns have no recoil and no accuracy loss for being in the air.

If Bungie doesn't address the issues with Halo 2 before releasing it on PC it's never going to take off. PC gamers aren't used to a game like this which is why Halo PC failed and Halo CE tried to salvage the broken wreck but also failed. The future aint looking too good for poor ol' Halo...

¶ posted by Andrew Fox at 11:01 PM

Well as usual I was checking my e-mail (actually this is rather unusual, I was just sort of bored) and I came accross some spam. My first instinct was to delete it but after reading the hilarious message I decided to reply with something equally, if not more hilarious.

Enjoy!

Spam Email

From: "Alice Schmidt" <856christoph@mail.com>
To:
Subject: RE:
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 20:06:20 -0100
Hello Ali.ershady.
at first I should tell you about my appear, so I got E-mail from one DATING AGENCY but really that was VERY STRANGE for me because I closed all my accounts at DATING SITES, because I don't like people who are interested just in non SERIOUS RELATIONS, I have much FRIENDS from that sites but really I did not find someone special for me....

But I got your E-mail address and thought "MAYBE THAT IS MY DESTINY" to find someone special?
Really there was written that you wish to know me.
So I don't know where you did get MY E-MAIL ADDRESS but I hope that is NOT JUST MISTAKE.


I hope to hear from you soon....
If you decide to answer me I promise to SEND YOU big LETTER and MY BEST PHOTOS !!! I'd like to learn more about you. PLEASE, WRITE ME some lines about your personality, your hobbies, your way of life. I'm really interested to know!
As for me, I'm an easy-going and open-hearted person. I take life as it comes and have optimistic views. It doesn't mean that nothing makes me sad, but I consider all the difficulties in my life to be useful for me.

I'm very communicative and like to spend time in a good company. I enjoy outdoors activities and sport. What about you? Do you go in for sports?
Hope to hear from you soon, please use solaris13@HotPOP.com to answer me ! I wit your letter with large impatience . Please do it for me .
Katya

Thu, 25 May 2006 20:06:20 -0100
babysit alcoa

My Reply

From: Alias Zero
User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308)
To: solaris13@HotPOP.com, ali.ershady@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Re:
Hello Alice Schmidt aka Katya aka babysit alcoa,
If I was looking for a partner in life they'd have to speak English.
You appear to speak some sort of alien language, do you have cows on your planet? I like cows. They are used to create various meat products on my planet.

On the subject of meat what kinds of meat do you get on your planet? If any... We have 24 hour days on my planet, how long are the days on your planet? Our sun is yellow. Is yours red? That'd mean it's almost dead, time to find a new galaxy....

I am very interested in a 'serious relationship' of which you speak. Here on my planet such a phrase does not exist.

If you would like to be long time partners please let me know.

Signed,
Andrew

¶ posted by Andrew Fox at 8:44 PM

Alright here's an article about a motorist/"guy" who was trapped in his car driving at almost 130mph (209.21472 km/h) for 60 miles (96.5km) after the accelerator jammed in his automatic BMW.

Alright first of all, this guy says:
"I had gone into the fast lane and I couldn't get the pedal off the floor. I used my hands-free phone and tried the AA to ask them what to do."
Cause you know the AA are going to magically stop his car or something, he then goes on to say

"At that point I wasn't panicking because I jammed my foot on the brake and that was keeping the speed to a steady 70mph (112 km/h)."
So uhh he wasn't panicked at this stage yet he decides to uhh not stop his car and just keep going. He could've cut the power to the engine....

"My brakes were burning out and starting to fail - that's when the speed really started to build," he said. "I could see the speed building to 120mph or 130mph (cbf converting these speeds)."
At this stage it never occured to him that the faster he goes the less likely he is of stopping? No, of course not....

His defense is:
"I couldn't turn off the ignition because it would have disabled the power steering and made it even more dangerous."
Well I think he could've turned it off back when he was going 112km/h, it's a lot easier to control your car without power steering at 112km/h than it is at 209km/h, the BMW doesn't even have power steering when the ignition is off, a $12k Toyota even has power steering with no ignition (might be USD, fucked if i care) and power steering does absolutely nothing when your going really fast anyway.

The funny thing is this guy wants to buy the same car again because he says "although there was a problem, it saved my life in that crash." now there's some soundproof logic.

The comments on this story are typical of the US:



Cause you know everyone in America has to sue over everything!



and I didn't really take the quote in this context but have a look at this:

¶ posted by Andrew Fox at 11:07 PM

Just a quick note that sometime yesterday CAmo's acount was comprimised and the attacker made a crude attempt to deface it. Blog has been fixed.

¶ posted by Andrew Fox at 4:22 PM

http://rapidshare.de/files/10013714/Painkiller_pwnage.wmv.html

enjoy!

(Fox, feel free to add this to our rapidshare folder)

¶ posted by CAmo14 at 3:19 PM