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Soldier and Demo High-five Taunt in TF2
February 2, 2010 – 1:44 am
Someone over at the TF2 Steam Forums has found some interesting new demoman and soldier taunts of the demoman and soldier high-fiving that Valve seems to have added to the game at some point. Maybe some reconciliation in the works after the war update?
Seems the taunt is called “taunt_hifiveSuccess” and assumptions and theories abound, including that the new taunts will be for assists or for a new game mode.
Dunno what it is, but it should be interesting. =)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBqoDCd6rmc&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
Source:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1124856
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Ducktales in Arabic
January 27, 2010 – 3:56 am
Again, posted this over at the video.amusedme.com site, but again worth a repost, and I think it fits into the geek/childhood retro category well enough to be worth a post here.
Totally immature and ridiculous, but the sense of incongruity I get from watching something so from my childhood and yet so different just makes this video hilarious.
http://www.video.amusedme.com/2010/01/26/duck-tales-in-arabic/
[flv]http://www.amused-geeks.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Ducktales-Arabic-Version.flv[/flv]
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Hilarious Walmart Clown Commercial
January 27, 2010 – 3:49 am
Posted this over at video.amusedme.com and although not strictly a geek thing, it’s so goddamn funny, I think it deserves to be posted more than once.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsvAj6qfmFQ&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
New Era Star Wars Baseball Caps
January 25, 2010 – 6:15 pm
In the latest round of crazy Star Wars related merchandising, the Japanese branch of baseball cap manufacturer New Era has released a series of Star Wars themed baseball caps, including leather and shiny metallic representations of Darth Vader, R2D2, C3P0 etc.
They are a little pricey at around $50-60 U.S. each, and I don’t know if I’d wear one out in public, but definitely an interesting piece to have in the collection =)
News Release on Starwars.com:
http://www.starwars.com/vault/collecting/news20091210.html
Japanese store offering the entire selection:
http://www.amazingstore.jp/item/brand/stw/
Borderlands
November 15, 2009 – 4:45 am
Been playing a lot of borderlands lately in my spare time. Have to admit I actually like the game more than I thought I would. Online COOP is great (despite the absolutely crappy system they have implemented for it) and all the different items and stuff are great for
The game seems to me like it wasn’t finished. Towards the end in particular, you start to get a feeling things got kind of rushed and they pushed for release before they had done everything they wanted to. In addition to thelack of freezeframe/movie intros for later bosses, background music seems to disappear completely part way through the game, huge areas with nothing at all in them, digging through the audio files reveals a lot of interesting stuff that seems like it got left out or cut (including much more in depth relationships between the npcs, who otherwise just seem to all exist in limbo from one another except for when one tells you to go talk to someone else, and hints at other areas and more expansive versions of areas that already exist).
You can get at the sound files from
C:\Program Files\2K Games\Gearbox Software\Borderlands\WillowGame\CookedPC\Packages\Audio
C:\Program Files\2K Games\Gearbox Software\Borderlands\WillowGame\CookedPC\Packages\Audio\VO\VO_Narrative_WAV.upk
in particular had a lot of interesting stuff (including all the claptrap stuff).
You can use the oggextract program to unpack the sound files (just drag the sound file onto the oggextract.exe).
There’s also 2 videos that were apparently available before the game was released starring the claptrap. A bit of adult language, but I imagine most of you are used to it.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=876X30YznqE&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL4QNsaqnz4&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
- So sparkly...
- Oranges, purples, rare or not, still crap...
- So much crap, I don't even want to sell it.
- Would be nice if you could reorganize things manually...
- The joys of inventory management
- Also, cars seem to get stuck in weird places
- The driving also leaves a bit to be desired and usually ends up in parking like this
- Also a few "holes" in the design, like this one that drops you outside the map
- The game does have its WTF moments...
Had a whole bunch of other interesting stuff to say, but someone else already said it all better, so just go read this.
http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2009/11/05/the-borderlands-journal-day-15/
