Redshift

So today Joe and I decided to try out a new mod for Half-Life 2, and we found out that it’s pretty damn cool. The mod is called Following Freeman and it has a pretty interesting layout: Basically there’s a central hub in the game where you and your teammates start out and there are portals to different mods and such. Like there are portals into Rock 24 and The Island but instead of those being just single player Following Freeman turns them into Co-op Levels with a point system and all, it’s pretty cool. But that’s all I’ve really go to say right now, so I’ll talk to whoever reads this later.

So I upgraded my blog’s backend today to the latest version of WordPress and currently I’m trying to figure out how I’m going to use the tagging system from Word 2007. Either Microsoft is going to need to release a small patch for Word or WordPress will need to integrate something along the lines of this: [tag]insert, some, amazing, tag, here[/tag] into the system, Because I like using Word 2007 as my blogging program and I would really like to use the tagging features that WordPress has FINALLY added. In other news: Most people that read this know that I’m a big fan of the Half-Life series, and I’ve been waiting for HL2: Episode Two and Portal since I heard about them last year. The only downside is that in order to get both of them I have to either buy The Orange Box (which includes HL2 and Episode One, both of which I’ve recently purchased, so I REALLY don’t want to go that route), Or buy them separately on steam for a bit more then what they cost when bundled with everything else, which still isn’t all that great as I’m not a big fan of buying things from Steam. Ah well I guess I’ll just go ahead and buy the orange box and get Team Fortress Two while I’m at it. And now onto the hardware side of things: I’m getting a new video card for my PC in the next week or so. My current card (the dreaded Geforce FX 5200) has finally started to die on me and it’s pissing me off as it’s affecting the games I play. So since this system only has an AGP slot instead of PCI-Express I’m going for an Overclocked AGP-based Geforce 7600GT from eVGA. That should give me a nice boost in performance with my games and help extend my computer’s life, which I desperately need since I can’t afford to go out and buy a new computer, like certain other people. So yeah for the next month or so after I get my new card I’ll be glued to my computer playing games, so that should be fun. And now… I’m off to go play Half-Life 2: Deathmatch!

Today’s Comic: Pix Plz.

This week’s Video comes from Loading.Ready.Run

So my life lately has been… Well basically the same. I got Half-Life 2 again last week after my first account got stolen and I’ve become addicted to HL2 Deathmatch so that’s always fun. For the most of this week I’ve been having some odd problems with my pc wanting to crash, and then it wanted to run “Check Disk” at startup every time I started it so that was just great. But I got that fixed just now with Joe’s help (Thanks Joe), and now I’m pretty much set right now in terms of PC problems as I think I got all the bugs worked out of my system. In other news, I released a new album, and it can be downloaded here from last.fm. I’d offer it for download on here but I don’t want to go through the hassle of uploading each track and linking to it on the NRV page. Also I’m going to finally make an attempt to update the blog once or twice a week as I’ve started to get lazy with my blog posts and it’s pissing me off. I mean I used to update this at least every other day and I got further and further between blog posts. I really don’t know what happened to me, aside from school and work. And Finally, as I got a new camera, it’s time for me to bombard this with a couple pics of my stuff Because I can:

And Today’s Comic: Nostalgia

So finally, the end of cryptic and angry blog posts, I bet people were sick of that even though barely anyone reads this. =P Anyway Since’ it’s officially the 29^th this means that tomorrow’s my birthday, so woo! And as if just to make my birthday better there was a new Beck single released last week called ‘Time Bomb’, so naturally like the beck fan I am I downloaded it and like everything he writes: It’s fucking awesome and anyone that reads this needs to download it now. It’s fairly awesome and extremely catchy, it’s like the perfect song to end the summer with, and as he’s said: “Time Bomb is a song for bonfires, blackouts and the last hurrah of the summer.” So I’ve included it in the handy link at the end of this post for you to download and enjoy! =D

Anyways I’ve got my new Acer AL2016W 20-inch monitor, and I love it. I’m still having trouble adjusting to the new max resolution but hey, I can be more productive I guess at 1680×1050, and I might just be able to write blog posts more often. But yeah life’s going better, work isn’t but oh well it can only get better from this point. Also on Friday I get my new camera. So I’m happy. And on that note I’m off to listen to the song again and attempt to play XIII without my pc crashing.

Download “TimeBomb“

So yeah we had a tornado today. He didn’t bother paying for dinner (that useless bastard) and all he wanted me for was to fuck up my stuff! Damn tornados piss me off.

I’m done. Broken and drained of every ounce of hope I had for the site now. Phil and I have decided to declare Xiin fucked, That’s how I want to put it because I fucking can. The point of this post today is this: I want to say something to the staff and members that abandoned us. You fucking killed it. You’re the reason the site died. So fuck you.

Click It. Now.

I’d like to give to you A new song by a band I’m currently obsessed with: Manatsu no Dance Hall by GO!GO!7188

And Since we’re on the subject of music: Halcali has a new album out called Cyborg Oretachi and it’s pretty good. I have a feeling I’ll be sending it to Mike and Ben sometime this weekend.

Also no I’m not dead, I’ve just been avoiding this for a while since I’ve been on my spare monitor as my main display was ruined (long story, might be talked about in a future post). Right now I’m on a 13-inch CRT and it’s not so great for writing long ass blog posts (1024×768 isn’t such a great resolution anymore) So, I should be back on a decent monitor and writing in about a week when I get my new 20-inch Acer Widescreen display, So Woo! =D

Nintendorev [Deceased]

What’s your preferred genre of music?

Rock

All-time favorite band/artist?:

Tie between Nine inch Nails and Queens of the Stone Age

All-time favorite song?

I don’t really have a favorite right now.

Is your favorite band mainstream or underground?

Mainstream I guess

How many times have you seen them live in concert and/or in a club?

Saw NIN live in Detroit once, that was the best concert ever.

How many CDs or MP3s of your favorite band/artist do you have?

MP3s: 226 for NIN, 58 for QOTSA

Can you play any of their songs on guitar/piano/another instrument?

Sure

Do you know all the lyrics to every song they play?

Not every single one, but quite a few

What’s your favorite radio station?

Banana 101.5

MTV or Fuse?

Neither

Do you have a ringtone of your favorite band’s song?

Capital G’s on my phone right next to Run, Pig, Run =P

Rap or Rock?

Rock =P

Rather listen to music or be doing this survey?

I’d Rather be sleeping. And on that note I’m off to the land of nod.