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Last night I enjoyed a versus campaign of L4D on No Mercy

Little did I realize then that finding an enjoyable game of versus will usually require several trips through and back from Hell.

My God is versus mode awful in that game. I can't even begin to list the number of reasons it sucks, but dammed if I'm not gonna try. So, to start off, all it takes is one person not trying, not experienced, or greifing to dampen (or ruin) the game. Half the time I enter a game and one team vastly outmaches the other, resulting in one immediate ragequit, followed suit by the entirety of that team ragequitting.

Then you have these games called pubstomps. 4 people who've whittled vast amounts of their precious time on this game have made it their life goal to soundlessly defeat any group of uncoordinated pubs who meet for the first time. They do this at any cost necessary; Ventrillo servers, mathacking, and even botting are a plus.

Let me interject though, mathacking breaks this game open further than any other Valve game on PC. In TF2 you can mathack and while it gives you an advantage you certainly won't have one over someone else using similar cheats. However, the ability to instantly find the opposing team, one which relies on stealth in order to win, makes it virtually impossible to get anything done. If you're reading this and are one of the few people who pick up the sniper rifle and consecutively headshot flying hunters midpounce please drop dead. No one is that good. One or two lucky headshots I can see. Dismantling all 4 infected in a matter of seconds as they erratically soar about (and in the smoker's case hide amongst shrubbery) should be a means for you to be garroted.

Even with all these layers of shit piled up against me I still pressed on, hoping to find a fun, evenly matched game with eight people who know what they're doing but aren't acquanted. Then it finally happened. I joined a blood harvest session, and it was beaituful. Mind you, this was after two hours of searching, so what was an even game objectively was pure vidya sex to me. Finally, the game was doing what it should have from the start--it was being fun.

We play as the infected and manage to anhilate them out of luck. Then as survivors we just BARELY make it to the shack. All four of us live. It's loading the next round and my pants are tightening in excitement when the next visage my eyes behold is the title screen. Without warning, without banning, without anything other than a giant "fuck you" the game had decided I would not have fun this day.

This was the pebble that shattered the hoover dam. If valve was so damn hellbent on me not having fun, who am I to stop them or spite them by enjoying it?

Uninstalled.


tl;dr i mad at l4d

The not-study game

BR?

Touhou UFO

so many leetle boolets

Gaiacarra, on 03 April 2008 - 01:57 PM, said:

That's pretty much what getting the data off my old HD is like.

The computer was assembled to stop you from taking out the HD every step of the way. When I finally cleverly figure out that I can simply connect the HD to the new computer without physically removing it (place them side by side so the cords can reach) I'm forbidden from doing so by my parents because "You wouldn't replace the engine in a brand new car, you're going to break the computer even if you know exactly what you're doing, fuck you"

I'm doing it anyway this weekend.