FIAH! FIAH!

[prog]

I finally played a little bit of TF2 via XBox Live. It's fun! I took ahkond's advice and stuck to the newbie-friendly Heavy and Pyro classes, and then just wandered around frying dudes, taking short breaks when suggested. (Suggestions usually being implemented as headshots.)

You know a game with this structure is successful when getting killed doesn't make you say "dammit" but "ooh, I wanna try that!" (You can see who killed you, where they were, and how they did it.) See also "Street Fighter 2", back in the heady days of Sputnik and Gagarin.

Sorry I can't play with you PC peoples...

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Re: HUDDA HUDDA HUDDA

[prog.livejournal.com]

Aw, I was wondering where the sandvich was. :( (Had seen the MEET THE SANDVICH video.)

Noted that the PC is better... even without the controller differences or PC-only powerups, the fact that you can have community-based servers and player-created maps makes all the difference. Maybe when I am feeling motivated I'll see if the game works on this PC I'm borrowing. (It has a hot new video card I bought, but cannot speak for the rest of it.)

Re: HUDDA HUDDA HUDDA

[ahkond.livejournal.com]

Right. I know that some people play the PC version on Windows emulators like Wine or VMWare, but I also understand that lots of Mac users in our social circle use older Macs that don't support VMWare because of different processors/chips or whatnot (not to mention the added expense), so that's how it goes. Oh well.

Games like this are one of the two reasons I still have a Windows machine; the other is recording radio with the RadioShark. I use Ubuntu for everything else (at home) now. Work is still very Windows-centric.

Meet the Sandvich is fun but it doesn't actually show you the sandvich in action. The clearest-looking example I've found in a brief search is this: http://www.vimeo.com/1593448 (plus extraneous music and people talking in Finnish(?)).

If you do get it working on the borrowed PC, see if I'm around using the Steam friend/community stuff, and feel free to hit the "join" button to join whatever game I'm in, or send me a Steam text message. My Steam name is '[sn]-ahkond'. I'll be out of town most of this week but I'll have my snazzy new laptop and I might be playing anyway.

Re: HUDDA HUDDA HUDDA

[prog.livejournal.com]

I'm laughing at the video. Also apparently OM NOM NOM in Finnish(?) is pronounced Om-nuh-nom-nuh-nom.