Bittenhard's bday

Today is Bittenhard's bday, so Zach made a cake and i hid in it!

After he stopped crying, we gave him our real presents and he was ever so happy.

I apologize for the lack of updates, but I've been fairly sick and couldn't use the computer at all. I'm just now slightly recovering.

The "Retsupurae Special"

At first retsupurae was videos of good LPers from the something awful forums making fun of terrible "Let's play" videos that were flooding youtube. You could think they were just being mean, but they were funny and had good points.

Then for a while they started making fun of Navigator, some middle aged man who supposedly did video game reviews in the Clinton era and had no clue what he was talking about.

And then started something i especially liked, They started playing and making fun of flash games found on newgrounds. Among these was a really bad game called "Arrival in Hell".

And yesterday, they uploaded "Arrival in Hell 2". Might not b too safe for work, but if you watch 55 mins movies at work, i want your job.

Important if you're gonna play Alien Swarm!

I forgot to post this rather important note about alien swarm.

On some systems alien swarm has been known to raise the temperature to abnormally high levels.

It's been reported by several users on steam that their computer either burned out or did fail-safe shutdowns because of Alien Swarm. The game probably isn't optimized at all right now.

HOWEVER.

There are measures to prevent this, if you're planning to play alien swarm you should take the following precautions:

• In the video options, set multicore rending off, one of the issues is processor temperature rising, multicore rendering heavily contributes for that and doesn't even help that much with performance.
• Still in video options, set VSYNC on double buffering, anything else will heat up your GPU greatly, which is the other issue people report with the game.

After these 2 steps you should b safe as many steam forum users reported, however, if u want to take it an extra step, get a system monitor app that monitors the temperature, play windowed, and keep an eye on the temperature of the CPU and GPU as you play. Play some other game you own first as reference (like TF2 or portal) so you know how high the temperature should go normally.

Lots of Demons

Here's a buncha crap I drew for no reason. Well, mostly. As per usual, I got far too into something pointless: This is part of the reason I have way too many characters.

These guys are based on historical figures from Japan's Sengoku period. Namely, Musashi Miyamoto, Ieyasu Tokugawa, Tadakatsu Honda and his daughter, and Hattori Hanzo. Also Haohmaru from Samurai Showdown, who is also a composit character of Musashi Miyamoto.

I even thought of punny names for all of them, but they don't matter. Only Garbanzo Hattori and Gary's dad Makar matter.

These mark a bit of a milestone for me. Inahime there is the first original female member of Gary's race I've drawn. Truth be told, I've drawn Hellina in this sort of build, but it sucked. Wanna know what it looked like? Picture her twig thin, really short, with giant hands and feet. There ya go.

Free Steam Games: Alien Swarm

The reason it took me 3 days to write a review about this game is because I've been playing it almost the entire time.

What's it like?

This game is top down view, like Diablo 2, you play as a team to survive and complete objectives, like L4D, and you can pick characters from 4 classes and a bunch of different equipment that unlocks with levels, like borderlands?

Watch as Zach is about to lag behind as usual.

What are the classes like?

Differences are really minor. there aren't many class restricted items at all.

Obviously, only medics can use healing equipment, and the rest seems rather unimportant.

Ma promotions.

When you max up your level, you can take a promotion and get a medal, that resets your level to 1 and re-locks all items again.

The medal doesn't do shit, but i want them all for bragging rights!

What are the enemies like?

Once you've played through the only campaign the game has a few times, the swarm are fairly predictable, which i sort of like.

There is a console command to turn on an AI director L4D style though.

As for the aliens, they're decent variety in those, there's some that take tons and tons of damage, some that fly around u and are quick, some that shoot at you from long range, some that explode when they die and drop explosive orbs around you, etc.

The aliens are like fucking bugs though, they'll pop out of unexpected places and rush you. On that aspect, the worse ones of all are the parasites, which id u don't have healing around, they'll kill you for sure if they grab you.

Me, yours truly, myself, and moi. the perfect team.

Other details?

• Cool feature: you can pick a songs you have as the battle music for the game. It's kickass!
  
• Don't play with Spanish people, they'll shoot u in the face for no good reason, complete the level so that u get the exp anyway, and then kick u out (srly, that was fucking retarded).
• The game is free, the source code is free, modding for it is highly encouraged. This could b a big deal for gaming.
• Most people right now suck at this game and run off by themselves or lag behind trying to kill everything (aliens can spawn forever so it's pointless), so playing with people can b frustrating.
• From the first level you run into parasites, FOLLOW THE MEDIC! I cannot stress how simple this logic is, and yet everyone ignores it.
• If you never played as tech, do it at least once in offline practice, no one wants to wait 5 mins in an actual game for you to figure out you're dumb as fuck. (so far, the longest i had to wait was around 7 mins, dude was french)

Anyway yea, it's fun, it's something to do with friends, higher difficulties are more intense and also rewarding.

But importantly, think of this game as a demo of things to come.

In the next month there will b tons of content made for this game, expect a lot of new content, maybe weapons, campaigns, who knows. I'm looking forward to it a lot.

"Free" Steam games

Here's the deal, about a week ago i started planning making a small video series where i show u guys some games and mods that were either free or required at least 1 source engine game to play. It was just a bunch of games that you could probably play and didn't know about.

The intro video didn't turn out too bad, but then i tried to get footage of the first game, and something is just way too slow for that on my system. I suspect the hard drives but that's besides the point.

I did record it and added commentary on the video, but with the system i currently have i can't do stuff like that with games that have requirements as the source engine does.

So here's the deal, I'm just gonna write about it on the blog like i normally do. I know ya all hate reading, but can't do much about that.

A game that i wasn't going to talk about but suddenly popped out is Alien Swarm. It was released just yesterday.

Alien swarm falls right into the scope of the videos i was going to do.

To my surprise, this game doesn't have any requirements at all, as in, you don't need to previously own anything at all to play it.

Only reason i know about this game is because Valve released Hats for TF2 to celebrate the game. I'm downloading it right now and i'll b testing it soon.

As Robin Walker says...

Took me way to long to think of making this...

Best, Sonic 2, hack, ever

This blew the win scale.