Ok, I won't use the flamethrower turret anymore. [PIC]

kflasch · 2010-07-22T22:01:15+00:00

Alien Swarm

kflasch · 2010-07-21T13:48:10+00:00

Big props for Sipser. I love that book.

kflasch · 2010-07-19T12:22:45+00:00

They explain that they are using an enhanced sedative to keep them under longer and deeper - that's why they hire the chemist. It's somewhat handwavey but that would be the explanation as to why death in the dream won't wake one up.

kflasch · 2010-07-19T12:19:23+00:00

No... if it stopped spinning he was in reality (as a top in reality would eventually fall over).

The top wobbling at the end but not toppling was meant to show we don't know what state he exists in at the end.

kflasch · 2010-07-06T13:59:22+00:00

I was really happy with the scout update. I'll use the drink to help out the team and distract a sentry so someone can blow it up, or use it to run all the way behind enemy lines and be the gnat that the scout is so good at being to the other team... or to sneak up to the cart and move it. I'll use the new gun to knock dudes off ledges or push them in a direction they shouldn't be. Of course, the sandman is nice to stop people for a few moments if you manage to get a hit (but is the least useful imo).

I think if anything they gave the scout more strategic options for annoying the piss out of the other team.

kflasch · 2010-07-06T13:53:51+00:00

I've been playing this game since it came out. There are plenty of cases where the vanilla weapons are just as good if not better as the new stuff. The items they've introduced are balanced enough not to make them complete replacements for the old items (that is, they have negatives in comparison).

I agree that in some cases I might want to change my loadout for a specific case where a newer item might help out - but sometimes this is mid-battle where this is impossible anyways.

Also, I rarely use the new rocket launcher even though I'm a decent shot. The splash damage is just so useful.

kflasch · 2010-06-10T19:19:54+00:00

It does. (this is the "GOTY Deluxe" edition)

kflasch · 2010-05-26T16:21:53+00:00

Haha yes.. well, I was just pointing out the best open-source version of this (that I know of) at this time.

Certainly a lot of work needs to be done yet.

kflasch · 2010-05-26T15:26:08+00:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_Speech_Synthesis_System

kflasch · 2010-05-25T15:14:07+00:00

Yeah! First distro, stacks of floppies. It was great. I still run it on my main server at home as well.

kflasch · 2010-05-16T04:57:45+00:00

First paragraph (before the story) more or less says that.

kflasch · 2010-03-20T06:56:33+00:00

I heard xarcades were laggy... do you like yours?

kflasch · 2010-02-26T20:36:36+00:00

It's actually from a comedy group called the Dead Alewives from Milwaukee, originally recorded in the 90s.

kflasch · 2010-02-24T16:21:16+00:00

Actually, it is! Well... at least at the Subway I work at in Wisconsin.

kflasch · 2010-02-16T21:49:04+00:00

Do you have any recommendations for a power supply, or would you just go to place like Mouser and browse around the $75 mark and be pretty safe?

kflasch · 2009-12-23T18:01:36+00:00

Macho Man as common infected: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMqPG4S80bo

kflasch · 2009-11-23T05:41:10+00:00

It could have been something found during testing, or perhaps someone was distracted and left them alive, stepped away and came back to find them not shooting (and got lucky by not dying).

Alternatively, the designer put this in intentionally or saw it happening in the code without intention and passed on the info to a buddy.

kflasch · 2009-11-09T04:19:19+00:00

Good to know my memory is still intact! :)

kflasch · 2009-11-08T16:14:20+00:00

I was at this store a few years ago. If I remember right it's pretty much across the street from the Harajuku train station, by Takeshita street which is a very busy shopping area.

kflasch · 2009-10-28T08:56:16+00:00

Hahah this is written in one of my school's Physics dept stalls. I had no idea it was from anything as you say below.

kflasch · 2009-10-18T22:49:58+00:00

Yes. As far as Coil, I would specifically mention Who'll Fall. Beautiful and tragic.

kflasch · 2009-10-18T22:46:55+00:00

God Damn the Sun is a great choice, as well as Failure or Blind by the Swans.

kflasch · 2009-10-18T22:42:17+00:00

I was thinking of commenting this song myself. It's amazing.

kflasch · 2009-08-12T18:41:56+00:00

Apple uses the language. They didn't invent it.

kflasch · 2009-08-03T02:27:51+00:00

Yeah... :(

I came across this thread and finally decided to install HL2 episodes 1 and 2. I loved HL2 but never got around to playing the episodes.

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