I haven’t had much time to post the past few days, partly because of nothing much to talk about, but mostly because I couldn’t be bothered.
I have been working a lot on the tazer, It now has a lego casing for no reason apart from looking cool.
It will fire a neodymium magnet with two wires on the sides separated by something sticky… It will be fired using a kind of railgun - coilgun hybrid. It uses about 1 KV for the railgun thingy and another 900 v for the tazer wires.
I will be using a small PVC pipe to house it all in, and I will house that in the lego model casing. BTW PVC is prone to collect static electricity…
Yeh, I also sold my old box tazer for $25, the only thing I paid for was the wire, solder, box, buttons, and screws. So I made about $23.50 profit! He offered me $50 first time but then I remembered when I tried to sell a crappy $15 dollar laser pointer that I had beefed up for $50. It could burn things! Yay.
Look me down the barrel of that gun and tell me it doesn’t look SWEET!
I just bought on from BrickGun, I’m gonna take out the barrel and put in a spring, that spring will fire two pronged wires connected to my 990 volt-from-one-AA-battery power source! Yay!
And if that doesn’t work, who cares, it looks like a freaking Deagle!
Here’s a bunch of games I played recently.
Fortress Forever
Fortress Forever is TFC on the source engine. I could almost end there. There are a few changes to the gameplay, things that definitiely nice it up a bit.. but at its core it’s still TFC on a nicer engine with nicer models and nicer maps.
A few crashes here and there, but not so much that it makes it unplayable.
It has a lot of polish. Especially the HUD. It must have been hard to get all the coding done. Considering the scale of things, with all the classes, all the weapons, the sentrys, the grenades, the gameplay code. Especially considering that it’s already been done. You know it can be done, there’s no real challenge in it - together with the impending release of TF2 that was probably going to just make the whole thing redundant.
Well worth a go if you can’t get TF2 (or you’re refusing because you feel like valve stabbed you in the back by forcing you to re-buy 2 games you already own) and you’re looking for old school TFC action and don’t want to play TFC for some reason.
Quake Wars
Ok I only played for half an hour, but it’s BF2 with aliens.
TF2
I played the shit out of this the last couple of days. I was surprised by a lot of changes, but in retrospect they don’t really matter. For example, no grenades. But you don’t really miss them, unless you’re the demoman - in which case you chose the wrong class choose a different one.
The Good
- Spy paper mask
- Spy getting medicine from enemy medic then stabbing him in the back (literrally)
- Spy sapping a load of sentrys and watching the engineers not know whether to kill you or the sapper
- Spy doesn’t uncloak when shot - and it works - who would have thought!
- Everything about the Spy.
- Scout double jump
- Being an enginneer and watching out for spys
- Heavy Weapon Guy’s character (the things he says) awesome.
- Medic super powers make it much more useful.
- Dispenser much more useful
- Sniper rifle much easier to use, but still requires skill
- Great particles, especially the blood particles and medic particles and the teleport particles and the smoke from the spy
- Different Water(!)
- Gestures
- Stats
- In game avatars!!!!!
The Bad
- Still ‘just’ TFC. I know it sounds bad, but it’s been what, 10 years, and all it really is- is an extremely well polished, well balanced version of TFC, ported to the source engine. (Yeah, that’s why I only played it for 8 of the last 24 hours)
- Super map that is meant to play different every time plays the same every time. What am I missing here.
- Fucking 3D background that takes 30 seconds to load and you can only disable by editing the command line.
The way it released was kinda sucky. The whole buy 2 games you already own and give them away thing. I can totally see why people were pissed off about that. But if you look at the price it’s obvious that those 2 games you probably already own are being given away for free with the package, so that you can give them away to someone in some kind of viral game giving away campain. Still, kinda sucks.
I got kinda bored with K2, and because of the new version of wordpress it kept on stuffing up… So yeh, I am in the process of creating a new design!!
Yeh this is just me ranting on about what I think about all of these online video “services”.
YouTube
Pro’s:
- Lots of videos to watch
- Pretty quick to load
Con’s:
- Crappy embeding
- Doesn’t look good
- Loads of crap, not much actual good content.
Score:
5/10
Play YouTube example
Google Video
Pro’s:
- Hosts loads of titles, most of them free, which are viewable online on Windows or Macintosh PCs.
- Most free videos can be downloaded in video iPod- or PSP-compatible formats.
- Does feature some decent commercial content.
Con’s:
- Almost no organization of content
- Their AVI files have a messed up header
- Paid content comes in a wide range of prices
- Paid content is in a proprietary format, is not transferable to any portable devices at this point, and requires Google Video Player, which works only on Windows 2000 and XP systems.
Score:
7/10
Play GoogleVideo example
Stage6
Pro’s:
- High quality video up to 1080p HD (High Definition
- Social features with “Karma”
- Ability to fight tag spam
- Focus on high quality independent videos
- A growing community of video enthusiasts and video producers.
- Videos can be downloaded and played in DivX compatible electronics
- Fluid, functional, professional and aesthetic deisgn.
- Videos in 16:9 wide screen ratio
Con’s:
- Video player is known to crash
- You have to install the DivX software to watch it. (That’s not so bad though)
- Not as many videos as a site like YouTube, but the ones they have are more professional.
- The site is sometimes slow to respond.
Score:
9/10
Go to Stage6
I will add more as I test em out.
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