60 euros later

I went shopping:

• 1 x 480W power supply
• 2 x Nerwork adapter cards

But yea, barely fixed it. Oekaki and Wiki up again.

Seems that the full damage list is:

• 1 x PCI slot (yea, just 1 specific slot)
• Onboard Network adapter
• 1 x Network adapter card
• 1 x 520W power supply

Business as usual now.

Stuff went poof

There was a thunder storm last night, a pretty damn sneaky one at that, that somehow bypassed my UPS (i swear those things are more and more useless) and damaged my computer.

right now, ugh... dunno the full extent of the damage yet. down for the count are the computer's power source and a network card. Stuff that seems to still work is the hardrives, the graphic card, the motherboard, DVD burner, RAM and processor.

I'm unsure my onboard network adapter works, and i couldn't test the onboard sound either.

anyway, I'm on an old computer i had around, until i get the newer computer back up and running, both the wiki and the oekaki will b down (since almost no one visited it, no biggy).

pfff... what a thing to happen just before Dandel's bday.

Kojima

Metal Gear's Kojima is leading the new Castlevania game. While the trailer has some fucken awesome music and voice acting (Patrick Stewart? YES.), it looks like it is trying to be Shadow of Colossus. At least the main character is not some wimpy teen kid.

Kojima should just make this into an animated movie instead.

It's June 4th right now

At least, in Portugal, So I'll leave this here:


Something Zach doodled and i colored.

Banana Ice Cream?

Huh, so that's how they eat ice cream in Japan. Interesting.

The camera person must be an amateur because he's all over the place.

L4D2: A reaction investigation

doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out 1 thing: most people are OUTRAGED at the idea of this game coming out so incredibly early.

I keep in mind that this could end up being a marketing strategy and that the game might end up free, however... Amazon already has the 360 and PC version for sale for 60 and 50 dollars respectively. So the hopes of this being DLC are fading fast.

i checked various places for reactions:

• Official L4D forum - There's just general rage all over, people are really sad that the current survivors are going to b obsolete, a bunch hate how the new game looks, some like it but think it should b DLC, etc. Only people who aren't mad are rich assholes and spoiled kids. You'd have to b stupid to not b able to tell they're reselling the same shit all over with minor tweaks.
• Official L4D2 forum - That's right, the game already has it's own forum now. this has caused problems because the enraged people kept posting in the L4D forum posts related to L4D2, and the mods kept removing or moving them. but it's pretty much the same crap. I did notice that NO ONE was willing to pay full price for this game. Again rich idiots don't count.
• L4D mods - Ok this one is the one that i really felt sorry for. This community LOVES L4D, they spent months preparing and waiting to make campaigns and custom content for it, MONTHS people, I'm not talking days or weeks. Not only L4D's SDK came out incredibly late, 1 month ago or so, but now they announce the sequel of the game like 6 months after the original game came out? This is not how u treat fans, this is a HUGE slap on the face.

A new steam group L4D2 Boycott was born almost instantly, checked it yesterday and today, seems to b growing exponentially. I actually joined the group myself just now, i don't even know what steam groups are good for, but i do support that cause.

The more i read, the more I'm sickened by it all. while investigating, i came across "i hate mountains", It's a site for a L4D campaign, which to b honest, looks amazing, and to me way more interesting than the official ones. u can tell there was a lot of work done to it and it looks extremely promising.

Edit: oh good fucking lord, this is just enraging: Left 4 Dead 2 will last 'much longer' as a platform.

especially:

• "Put simply, Valve wasn't entirely satisfied with the original game. Left 4 Dead 1" - Neither are we you fucking dumb cunts!
  
  
• "A more refined game will also set the stage for a longer lifespan, with Faliszek having no qualms calling the EA-published Left 4 Dead 2 a platform, one that Valve sees "lasting for a much longer period of time" via updates and DLC." - You gotta b trolling me! that's what they said about the first game to begin with!!!
  

No... it can't be... can it?

I'm not the only one that thinks that, rite?

You best be trolling me Valve

Cause this ain't funny.


So it seems that Valve released a trailer for L4D2, and such trailer got a lot of people mad. Why? well it's simple:

Valve is known for listening to people and adding to games ever after they've been released for a long ass time. Best example is TF2, been released almost 2 years ago, and they're still adding maps, weapons, misc items and balances.

L4D is MUCH more recent, has barely any maps to begin with, feels terribly short and replay value is kinda "meh" to b honest. I paid 20 euros for TF2 and 25 for L4d, but if i had to put a price tag on them, TF2 would cost 40 and L4D would cost 10.

People are "slightly" enraged at Valve because this really shouldn't b a new game, but an addon or patch. If u look at the gameplay video, it's pretty much the same game, but WAY brighter and with melee weapons.

Seriously, a new game just for the ruined ambiance and melee weapons?

You best be trolling me valve, you seriously do. Cause after the huge "sniper vs spy" update fiasco in TF2, i don't think i'll b able to respect this company i held in such high esteem anymore.

Doesn't take too much to ruin one's reputation, This could be it.

Fucking DO NO WANT the same game all over again but in daytime Louisiana.

P.S: I think L4D2 might be actual trolling from Valve as a publicity for L4D and that this might actually be an Addon.