TF2 : neat custom model

So yea, couple of things wanted to rant about first.

The new drop system is terrible, Everyone can only get from 1 to 11 items a WEEK (my average is 6), most people get all of them on Thursday which is when the limit resets and spends a week waiting for items to craft.

Why am i bitching about crafting again? because now it's not hats, it's weapons. During this new system, 1 or 2 community updates came out and there's a bunch of new weapons to b gained, and i still don't even have the fucking chocolate from the previous update!

Even though there's recipes for those items, i need the ingredients for those, and I've been waiting like 3-4 weeks for 2 fucking bonks! Also seeing as not everyone can get those items, they're most certainly banned from competitive play.

Seems backwards as to the point of the drop system was implemented for. Valve said they implemented it to get weaps out faster to players, but as we saw in the sniper vs spy update, it was a disaster and didn't work towards that at all. This new system already proves to be even worse.

Why is it so hard for Valve to sit down for 20 mins and come up with something that isn't retarded? They keep trying to make systems that attempt to prevent farming but end up fucking up everyone every time. If it's farmable then let it b farmable, it's better than no one getting shit.

I personally doubt there is such a thing as a system that isn't farmable and still satisfactory.

Anyway:

I sort of doubt they'll ever add this, but it's really neat looking.

There's a promo video on the site if you'd like to know how it looks ingame, it's an equalizer replacement.

Blog Layout update.

Small update on the blog's layout, still not 100% happy with it though.

Feel free to comment.

EDIT: the footer image seems to randomly disappear on Internet explorer, can't do anything about that. IE's freaking drunk all the time.

Hot Hands

Valve claims they're trying to work more skill into the little bastion of anonymity the Pyro...But all they really seem to be doing is encouraging more people to use the Flare Gun.

In any case, here's a little doodle of the malformed, mumbling miscreant. I was doodling it for a little long-term side project(that I'll probably never finish), but it didn't really fit in with the other stuff I did for it. But I liked it enough that I decided not to obliterate it from existence.

In other news I'll be heading off for Connecticon soon. Truth be told I'm a bit nervous about it.

Game review (Quickie): Sonic & Sega all stars racing

Around a week ago, i was really bored, nothing to do. I had heard about this game and on a whim, i decided to try it. I was fairly sure it would suck, but was curious to see how much it would suck. I basicly had it set on my mind this wasn't going to b a good game.

Boy, was i ever wrong...

Over the last few years i was under the impression SEGA was just making rushed games and getting them out on the market as fast as possible, and that their gameplay was in general quite bad.

This game was a nice surprise...

Inevitably, This game has to b compared to Mario Kart Wii, since the Mario Kart series are pretty much the reference when it comes to racing games.

Down to the point, what really impressed me with this game is the gameplay, it's very very good and easy to pick up, and i dare say maybe a little better than Mario Kart Wii. It's actually enjoyable to just start a time trial on a track and just drive on and on for 10-20 mins.

It could b just me, but i think there's 3 types of vehicles in the game that handle differently: 2 wheel, 4 wheel, hovering. I haven't checked FAQs or anything, but i think they're different.

Visually, The game is so colorful, full of SEGA themed tracks, it's really nice to look at, the music is from SEGA games too, so there's good stuff in there, Characters... well, i wish there were much less sonic characters there to b honest. Seeing Opa Opa and Alex Kidd in a videogame again sure feels strange though.

So yea, I was really surprised by this game, It's almost a shame u can unlock characters so quickly and by any order u like (you buy them with money earned in gameplay). I kinda of enjoyed the mission mode.


I wish this had multiplayer online, as far as i know it doesn't. Maybe the Wii version does, I'll have to look that up.

Anyway this is a total "Do Want!", i had fun playing this.

Kickassia: Final thoughts.

So a few days ago, I posted my thoughts about the Kickassia movie TGWTG did, and now it's the end of the week and I've seen the rest of it.

Well, My opinion changed a lil about it.

The action scenes all mostly suck, my opinion hasn't changed on those. I guess there's good reasons behind that though. I watched Spoony's commentary on Kickassia and he does point out that in the scenes they run in the desert towards the house, it's a fucking rocky wasteland and rather dangerous.

Apparently, After that charge scene, a lot of people got hurt. Just after the 1st day, everyone was dead exausted. Also the entire thing was shot in 4 days.

If anything, the action scenes were just too ambitious. Also i dare say, a few of these guy maybe be a lil out of shape... I mean some of those guys can't even slap someone naturally.

After part 2, there weren't as many actions scenes, and it kind of picked up. There were funny scenes, some people acted pretty well, some really didn't.

As I've said before, i don't really like Joe all that much, but he did have a couple of good scenes, like the one on the pic i posted up, and there was one where he's giving a speech and hitting 8-bit mickey who's behind him. I knew that Brad (The cinema snob) had made some similar movie projects before (never really watched them though) but he was surprisingly good in Kickassia.

As long as the scenes didn't have toys in it, I could sort of take them seriously and almost enjoy it, some stuff just felt really stupid though... if you want an example that bothered me, there's a part where a reporter is interviewing LordKat as the minster in charge of trading, and LordKat says he's hoping to trade NES games to foreign nations and he's holding like 4 NES games. Maybe it's just me, but that was too lame to be funny.

Would i call this a good movie though? no. Would i call it good considering the time they put in it? yea totally, 4 days to make a movie that's so little time. But it's still not a good movie.

If anything though, they got a lot of bloopers out of it, and looks like they had fun doing it, so heh.

Speaking of TF2 hats

That's kinda brilliant.

TF2: more community items added

Yesterday Pyro got a reduction of his prior nerf and today new items are added.

recipes for the new weapons seem to b:

• Dead Ringer + Huntsman = Tribalman's Shiv
• Jarate + Axetinguisher = The Scotman's Skullcutter

Dunno the stats of the new weaps, someone let me know.

"Kickassia" thoughts

As some may know, Thatguywiththeglasses.com is having their 2nd anniversary and flew everyone in to make a special movie for the occasion.

His costume looks surprisingly well made, but still...

It's a 5 or 6 part thing, and so far the first 2 episodes have been posted. And i gotta say it's pretty much what I'd expect from it.

But maybe I'm not being fair, after all, I've disliked the idea of this movie even before it was done, why? well, the main reason was that pretty much all the guys i watch are on Thatguywiththeglasses now, and if everyone was flown in, that meant an entire week (or so) of nothing to watch.

So yea, you may have guessed that i don't like Kickassia. I mean i get that they wanna make something special, but this thing is just... lame, u know?

These people are all reviewers, they review videogames and movies, they're good at that, so for the special what do they do? a movie where they're all actors. I mean yea, they're doing a better job than i would at acting, but it's still hard to watch cause it's just so shameful...

Wait... is this suposed to b Spoony?

I can't get past the fact that most of what they do looks really really retarded. I really WANT to try and enjoy it, but these guys aren't actors, the story is retarded even by retarded movie standards and the action is just too shameful. FFS, we have a bunch of people in their 20s cosplaying and running around with toys.

They try to have their lil gags here and there, but all i can think is how ridiculous it all looks. I don't like angry joe so he looks normal to me in this: annoying and loud. Despite how painful it is to watch overall, some people are ok in this. Especially Spoony, he has a really hammy scene and it's pretty awesome.

What sucks even more though is that it feels like it's all we're gonna get to watch this week on all their sites. So for me, this was 2 weeks down the toilet. I'm sure a lot, if not most people, will disagree with me. But hey, it's still my opinion.