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Still working on another taunt kill video. Havnt been playing as much recently. Kind of annoyed with fraps at the moment. Running TF2 windowed with no borders now for easier access to my other monitor, so fraps decided it wants to record at 1920×600. Thats the normal horizontal size but half the height? I guess i will just have to do some resizing. Cant seem to get it to record normaly while in windowed mode so i guess ill just have to put up with it.

Also, i have a bit of a better Internet connection now. Might be able to upload the next video in a higher resolution.

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I added a blog post on Giantbomb, because im an Achievement Whore. They added Achievements to the website, you gain EXP for getting them… Sounds terrible, and if someone invited me to a website to view pages and gain EXP for it i would call them an idiot, but here i am…

Also created a list of a few games ive got a lot of nostalgia for.

Taunt kills in Team Fortress 2, i love them. Other the past week i have been recording and have got quite a collection as you can see here. (may take a while for youtube to process it)

This was all recorded in sourceop.com Valve Maps 1 server which is pretty much the ONLY server ive played in since october 2007. There are a few kills ive got recently that arnt here though, usually because im an idiot and forgot to start recording, or accidently stopped recording trying to start… I record them using Fraps, takes alot of space but i have 600GB free and i find it easier than trying to search through the demos for the kills.

Im probably going to keep recording but for a month or two this time. Get a bigger collection and pick n choose the best of them. I probably should have kept recording and not uploaded this but i kinda liked the flow and how some parts were syncing with the music, so i thought “what the hell” and finished with this one for now. More to come soon hopefully!

FINAL EDIT BEFORE PUBLISHING: Holy crap thats a massive wall of text, did i type that much? Im not even finished, i think that will deffinetly do. I was getting carried away because this game made me fall in love with the stalker series again, i dont know why i stopped playing Clear Sky.

tl;dr – this game is awesome. And not the crappy “awesome” that has been thrown around for the past 20 years… Crisps are not awesome, they are crunchy! (holy crap, never thought i would make a dylan moran reference). The proper awesome, where something leaves you in awe. Anywho, now for the main event -

So, the third S.T.A.L.K.E.R game has been with us for a while now and ive already got 40-50 hours playtime under my belt. Been trying to write some sort of review for it but im finding it difficult. It keeps just turning into some kind of crappy walkthrough or a list of anecdotes. So i thought i would just stick with the anecdotes, the best thing about stalker games of course is the free roam and the way the world around you is dynamic. Anything can happen the weather and day/night cycle can also add alot of atmosphere to certain situations.

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Your videos are not fun when you spend 50% of the time complaining about the youtube time limit and spending the other 50% making sure you are still below the time limit and commenting when you are near it. Just play the game, nobody cares about the time, play for as long as you want, when it goes over 11 mins (yes, the limit is actually 11 mins, not 10) then you ignore it and keep playing, you can split the video into 11 min segments at the end.

Dont edit the video so you do everything perfectly, and dont do test runs, thats just a video walkthrough, not a let’s play and are often less entertaining.

Dont act like its the first time youve played the game or the first time youve seen something when it clearly isnt, ive yet to see a lets player that can actually act and do it believably, it’s just annoying.

Dont drown out the game’s sound, the game is a major part of the let’s play, obviously, and it sucks when the viewer has to turn the volume up three times higher than usual to hear the actual game then get deafened by your voice, you need to find a balance between you and the game.

One of my fav Let’s Plays at the moment is gixG17′s Morrowind Let’s Play.

• It’s an awesome game
• He just plays, no being held down by time limits
• He talks about the game, his views, ideas and opinions on it, not about whatever you did last Tuesday
• He dosnt edit anything out. spending a whole 10 mins reading the quest log? May seem boring to some but he provides running commentaries and its nice to see all this from a different persons perspective
• He does this cool thing where you can see him in the bottom corner while he is playing the game. One thing you lose with just audio is body language, which can say a lot on its own.

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Ive probably missed something. That was fun though, been a while since ive had a proper rant. I still watch and enjoy a lot of Let’s Players that do the bad things i mentioned above, but its really annoying. Anywho, back to watching Let’s Plays! Enjoying ThatEnglishDude’s FEAR 2 Let’s Play at the moment.

This is awesome

That is all

Quick update, added a new page about the firefox add-on called stylish, you can get to it via the navigation at the top of the page… Alright, here, lazy people! Its basically gonna be a place where i can dump any styles i create for it, just a twitter one there at the moment. Anything i do use is purely made to suit my needs and tastes though so it will probably end up being useless.

In other news

Stopped playing oblivion, not really a big fan of a pure mage class, probably wasnt the best idea like i said. Went back to morrowind, started a stealth/theif/marksman like character. Its going pretty well considering this is the first time ive ever actually managed to get past seyda neen before getting bored, and ive had the game for god knows how long, a couple of years before oblivion was released. Im up to level 20 something (havnt played for a day or two now) and im really appreciating the game this time, i can deffinetly see why alot of people preferred it over oblivion, the depth and variety is so much better.

Anywho, thats it for now.