Category: Video Games

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Company of Heroes

So you might have heard that I went to Sweden for a day while I was in Norway and one of the places I saw is that (see picture below) and immediately it reminded me of a map or scene from the game Company of Heroes. I can’t exactly pin point whether this was in online mode or campaign but I knew right away that I had seen it before.

Let me describe the scene a little bit. I am standing on the other side of a small bridge and on the far side there are plenty of buildings like the one you see in the background. I remember from the game that this is where one would place some machine gun to fire upon enemies coming from the other side. If you go further in (or up the street in between the buildings) the buildings start to disappear and there is more open space – usually where the tanks roll up in the game. I think this might be from the campaign mode because i remember on the other side of the bridge to the left, there might have been a mortar team that is firing on you as you progress.

If anyone has any idea of where this is from the game, comment here or contact me. This has been bothering me for about two weeks now.

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If Politics Was A Sport…

Got this from a friend earlier today…

Some in the media are declaring the series over because the Boston Celtics have won four of the six games played so far. But I don’t understand why, with a series this close and hotly contested, anyone would want to shut it down before we play a seventh game and have all the results in. As anybody who follows the NBA knows, a seven-game series would be good for the league, and the added competition would make the eventual victor, whomever it might be, a stronger opponent against the Los Angeles Lakers in the Finals….

Yes, Boston has won four games and Detroit only two. But it’s hard to imagine a more arbitrary and undemocratic way to determine this series’s outcome than “games won.” It is, after all, a bedrock value of the game of basketball that all points must be counted. But how can that be the case when every point beyond the winning point is ignored? There are literally dozens of layups, jumpers, free throws, and (yes, even) dunks that our opponents want to say don’t count for anything at all. We call on the NBA to do the right thing and fully count all of the baskets that were made throughout the course of this series.

Once you abandon the artificial four-games-to-two framework that the media has tried to impose on the series, a very different picture emerges, with the Celtics leading by a mere 549 points to 539. Yes that’s right, the margin between the two teams is less than one percent — a tie, for all intents and purposes. This is probably the closest Conference Finals in NBA history, though I will thank you not to check on that.

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Halo 3: Killimanjaro

So I have been playing Halo 3 since the day it came out but I have only recently started playing these double EXP events over the weekends. I was playing GriffBall yesterday which is a modified dodgeball with hammers and swords and there is a skull in the middle of the court that you need to get to the other side to score a point.

Well, let’s say that in between the scoring I was getting some kills in as well. I had gotten ‘Overkill’ which is 4 kills within 4 seconds of each other. Playing yesterday, I learned about ‘Killtacular’ (5 kills within 4 seconds of each other), ‘Killtrocity’ (6) and ‘Killimanjaro’ (7). That was some game there and certainly there is some luck involved where I got it all started with a double kill with a hammer and the opponents were spaced out enough that allowed to strike each opponent in time.

(Overkill)

(Killtacular)

(Killtrocity)

(Killimanjaro)

I would have loved to continue the streak but unfortunately my streak was ended right there.

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ABG Shop

Another day, another addition. Today welcomes the addition of the AngryBrownGuy Shop. So far the only items listed on there are books, but eventually I will add video games, electronics and anything else I wish to sell. I ran across a template from PHP Shopping Cart and it was pretty good. There offered a very good and customizable set of scripts that I set up my shop with. Also if there is anything you wish to sell, I will gladly put on here for you free of charge. Just provide me with an item name, condition, and list price. On a real update now, I will have my NCAA March Madness bracket up soon as well as my MLB season predictions by the end of the week. Well before Thursday for the March Madness so I guess that will be either tomorrow and Tuesday and maybe the baseball stuff I pump out by the weekend. By the way, if anyone is interested, this is the link to PHP Shopping Cart Software.

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MMO Gamers Documentary?

My roommate showed an interesting trailer for an upcoming documentary. I am not sure if I can will myself to watch an entire documentary on the subject but I am sure there are plenty of people out there who have been waiting for something like this to come out. For those of you, enjoy the the little introduction on the documentary below and have fun with the clip.

Second Skin is an upcoming documentary by Pure West Films that focuses on the lives of seven MMO gamers, exploring how their games of choice have affected their lives. It touches on many popular MMO topics, such as falling in love, becoming addicted, gold farming, and the effects virtual worlds can have on the handicapped.


Courtesy: Joseph Sullivan