So, my interview with Steve Gibson and other members of the Shacknews team happens today. I’m a little jittery but also excited, and looking forward to talking to them.
When I found out the interview would be conducted over Skype, a thought immediately popped into my head. A great and terrible thought that, once lodged […]

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My friend Mark, aka Zompist, has recently joined the ranks of TF2 players. This pleases me to no end.
Zompist, a soft-spoken writer, intellectual and linguist, seems more likely to be at home in the turn-based world of Civ III than embracing the twitchy carnage of TF2. And it’s only when someone new joins […]

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I’m just not.  Sorry.  I just can’t envision the amount of time and effort it would take to produce another comic, plus, my ideas for 1Fort just aren’t formed enough to even get started, plus I think I just don’t want to in general.  I want to do something a bit more strenuous than a […]

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Massive, massive thanks to Robin and Patrick at Valve.
Also thanks to everyone for all the entertaining comments in the other post.

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UPDATE 1046AM PST:  GOT MY ACCOUNT BACK.
UPDATE: Haven’t gotten my account back, but it doesn’t appear to have been online since the incident. Also, it appears the account used to send me the message had also been hijacked. The phishing page I got suckered by was flagged by Firefox this morning, and […]

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So, as you may or may not notice, there are some Google ads on the sidebar now.  This is an attempt to see if I can cover my site hosting costs through ad revenue (I have three sites now).  Hopefully they’re not too annoying or distracting.
If you have a wordpress blog and want to try […]

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Continuing the series one some minor game tweaks I, and my commenters, feel would enhance the TF2 experience.
First stop: This post on Pentadact, with some great ideas on making sentries and Kritzkriegs more effective, and on how to tone down the Demoman’s game without completely hamstringing him.
Some more from my blog comments:
Eikern:  I would like […]

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So, there were some nice suggestions in the comments on little tweaks people would like to see made to TF2.  I’ll repost the ones I agree with here.
From Tom:
Make it so soldier/demoman suicide works like the “finished off” thing. Its really annoying to burn a soldier down to 20 health only for him to commit […]

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Time for some passive pleas to Valve (I know at least someone there reads my blog) to make some minor TF2 changes.
1)  Add the music from the Meet the Sniper video to the gamestartup music list.
It’s great music, plus, if it’s in the game I can extract it and stick it on my iPod.  Which […]

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This week is gonna be a bit light on the blogging — my sister is coming into town toward the end of the week and I’ve got a ton of stuff to take care of at work and at home before I go AWOL for a few days. I should be back in […]

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