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[SolarShado]

Getting cable internet access at home!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sure, I had to tinker with stuff for a couple hours to set up an old computer as a linux router, and use an old laptop as a wireless access point because I don't currently have any proper hardware (trying to save as much money as possible).

But:

8 Megs!

7 days a week!

[ein]

I am now in Indiana.
Houston is still horrible.

[Realmfighter]

Tomorrow is my Graduation day.

In the morning i'm heading to a ceremony at the school and getting my report card, and in the night i'm going to the grad party.

Fuck yes. Hope i passed though.

[ToonyMan]

Spoiler: My hour play of that zombie roguelike has no influence on this (click to show/hide)

Tuesday, June 29, 2010
1:18 AM - Toony: earlier today
1:18 AM - Toony: I was Carvin Kendul
1:18 AM - Toony: and I awoke on my bed/couch
1:18 AM - [DFC] Jackrabbit: This is odd.
1:18 AM - [DFC] Jackrabbit: Yes.
1:19 AM - Toony: there was 20 light ammo rounds on a wardrobe near me
1:19 AM - Toony: and on a table nearby was 6 bandages
1:19 AM - Toony: thats when the skeleton attacked me
1:20 AM - Toony: I threw high velcitoy bullets at him until he fell over with the sound effect RIP
1:20 AM - Toony: he was dead again
1:20 AM - Toony: I ripped apart my wardrobe and table with my bear hands for the wood
1:21 AM - Toony: each piece of furnitace gave me one plank of wood somehow
1:21 AM - Toony: but Calvin Jendul does not give up that easily
1:22 AM - Toony: I walked through my first window and saw outside
1:22 AM - Toony: it was chaos
1:22 AM - Toony: there was cars
1:22 AM - Toony: everywhere
1:22 AM - Toony: on fire
1:22 AM - Toony: and a zombie
1:22 AM - Toony: and a lady
1:23 AM - Toony: the lady was a zombie too
1:23 AM - Toony: I was low on ammo
1:23 AM - Toony: 10 shells or so
1:23 AM - Toony: (although shells I dont think are ammo)
1:23 AM - Toony: pushing the car ontop of them would have cost too much STR
1:23 AM - Toony: or was it STA
1:24 AM - Toony: maybe both
1:24 AM - Toony: but since their speed was 0.5 and mine was 1.0 I was able to walk away from them as fast as I could
1:24 AM - Toony: this involved climbing over cars
1:24 AM - Toony: because there was no street
1:24 AM - Toony: only cars
1:25 AM - Toony: I was Calvin Lendul and I do not give up easily
1:25 AM - Toony: on fire
1:25 AM - Toony: I found two bags of grocies after my run in with zombie and lady that was zombie were gone
1:25 AM - Toony: because I had outrun them
1:26 AM - Toony: I would need to eat the grocies for FOO
1:26 AM - Toony: I looked at my wacth
1:26 AM - Toony: my food was running empty
1:26 AM - Toony: I ate one grocery
1:27 AM - Toony: I ran into a nearby bulding for shelter
1:27 AM - Toony: to breathe of course
1:27 AM - Toony: inside I found two cops
1:27 AM - Toony: one of them was named Buddy because there is always a cop named Buddy
1:27 AM - Toony: he had a shot gun
1:27 AM - Toony: the other was eating blue pills
1:28 AM - Toony: he told me they let him stay up longer
1:28 AM - Toony: I looked at my watch
1:28 AM - Toony: I was running low on SLE
1:28 AM - Toony: I asked him if I could have his (9) blue pills if I gave him (1) of my plank of wood
1:28 AM - Toony: he accepted
1:28 AM - Toony: or rather
1:28 AM - Toony: I accepted because he asked for that trade offer
1:29 AM - Toony: because people are weird
1:29 AM - Toony: two pills would be fine for now I thought
1:29 AM - Toony: thats when zmobie came through the door behind me
1:29 AM - Toony: it was the zombie and lady that wsa a zombie from before!
1:30 AM - Toony: the cop with the shotgun fired a round into the first to come through, I was well out of the way
1:30 AM - Toony: I told the cop that she was only 15!
1:30 AM - Toony: but then he got confused
1:30 AM - Toony: zmboies have alot of HP for some reason
1:31 AM - Toony: but their slow so we managed, uh he managed to kill them
1:31 AM - Toony: I stayed for two or so hours and left feeling empty inside
1:31 AM - Toony: it was midday now
1:31 AM - Toony: I could tell because thats the only time you can see the sun in the cirt
1:31 AM - Toony: ahem city
1:31 AM - Toony: Ahem City was a bad place
1:32 AM - Toony: the streets were cars!
1:32 AM - Toony: on fire
1:32 AM - Toony: I got a message that Ive entered a new district in the city
1:32 AM - Toony: business district
1:32 AM - Toony: thats bad
1:32 AM - Toony: Chev Corp have their hands in this place
1:32 AM - Toony: they are worse than zombies
1:33 AM - Toony: because they can shoot guns
1:33 AM - Toony: and guns hurt people
1:33 AM - Toony: atleast their buildings were easy to see
1:33 AM - Toony: they were black and heavily barricaded
1:33 AM - Toony: with some graffitit sprayed on them
1:33 AM - Toony: "PRAY TO GOD"
1:34 AM - Toony: I went in a building nearby
1:34 AM - Toony: there was a skeleton in there
1:34 AM - Toony: I wonder what they were thinking when they stand there for no reason
1:34 AM - Toony: but no time to think
1:34 AM - Toony: skeleton infront of me
1:34 AM - Toony: I spent 2 more shots killing it
1:35 AM - Toony: Im down to 6 ammo
1:35 AM - Toony: and 6 blue pills
1:35 AM - Toony: and I might as well say 6 grocerys for some symbolic purpose
1:35 AM - Toony: but I only had 1
1:35 AM - Toony: so 661 is the number you call to get to 666
1:35 AM - Toony: ok
1:35 AM - Toony: because Im sure the devil is busy
1:36 AM - Toony: so many prank calllers
1:36 AM - Toony: call 661
1:36 AM - Toony: save the devil some time
1:36 AM - Toony: where was I
1:36 AM - Toony: the sun was setting through the window
1:37 AM - Toony: I needed some gun
1:37 AM - Toony: and food would be nice
1:37 AM - Toony: I popped 2 more pills
1:37 AM - Toony: Louis wouldnt have been impressed
1:37 AM - Toony: maybe a gun shop would work
1:37 AM - Toony: but no, think about it
1:37 AM - Toony: the gun shop would be the first empty place
1:37 AM - Toony: I need to find a dead body
1:38 AM - Toony: that isnt moving
1:38 AM - Toony: flaming cars dont move luckly
1:38 AM - Toony: I managed to find a pistol off the ground with a grocery bag nearby
1:38 AM - Toony: 22 hours into the 0 day
1:38 AM - Toony: it was almost midnight
1:39 AM - Toony: more zombies come during midnight
1:39 AM - Toony: I grabbed the good and ran into a building
1:39 AM - Toony: it was empty
1:39 AM - Toony: there was a chair and a table
1:39 AM - Toony: and a
1:39 AM - Toony: well noose victim heh
1:40 AM - Toony: nothing on him except a pack of smokes, no lights
1:40 AM - Toony: I smashed the furnitace for baracading
1:40 AM - Toony: there was one window and door so I did those up goood
1:40 AM - Toony: no couch though
1:40 AM - Toony: when I go to sleep there's this music that plays in my ears
1:41 AM - Toony: because Im Calvin Hendul
1:41 AM - Toony: and I didnt need to look that up
1:41 AM - Toony: (I lie_
1:41 AM - Toony: )
1:41 AM - Toony: 6 hours into day 1
1:42 AM - Toony: I was eaton by zombies
1:50 AM - [DFC] Jackrabbit: Oh man that sounds like it sucked.
1:50 AM - Toony: it did
1:50 AM - [DFC] Jackrabbit: Well, I have to leave you. I hope you won't be eaten by zombies tomorrow.
1:51 AM - Toony: ok cya

[Itnetlolor]

Got another year of New Wavehandle done. Lost a dwarf or 2 to circumstances beyond my control (carp and a failed mood; jeweler at least). However, I did manage to get more use out of the barracks as a housing area (a minimum of 50-75 dwarves can live in there). I made a rather pleasant iron boiler to serve as a repeater (not armed yet; still need to run a few tests) for the spike strip of my security grid (with a slight modification to the spike strip by progressively getting worse per-row, 1 at a time (per trap), then 2, then 3 and onward 'til the end). I have all other parts of it established as well (bridge-->wall switches work exactly how I wanted them to; same with doorways), and I also managed to get a couple elites (wrestlers at least); and a crap-ton of turtle-armor. Oh, and my sheriff is also an elite wrestler as well. I'm working on my gun-captains at the moment.

Fortunately, all my useful legends are still intact, and I might actually be able to stave off any invasions easy (also thanks to Kitty-Cams placed in spots where invaders would be likely to appear; behind the walls, of course, but still able to look out). Plus, the iron boiler adds to the scenery. I still need more proper housing before everyone gets pissed off at me, and I still need to establish the dining hall and the sewers. I've been too busy working on the security and trading like mad; along with clear-cutting my claimed land (and that's a crap-ton of trees as well) and thanks to a kobold, I found a security hole, and sealed it; thanks to his help, I spared his life. Speaking of which, I have a better setup regarding industry and trade, and even the prison looks damn snazzy. I figure 5 prisoners will be the maximum I'll be dealing with anyway. Let's not forget, I finally got around to engraving using a lone legendary +1 (fort's looking sweet). Amazingly, despite all my progress, no migrants, no new sources of goblinite. I'll be updating the map tomorrow.

EDIT:
Updated: http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-9045-return-to-wavehandle

[Acanthus117]

My brother vomited in the pool downstairs, due to his inherent stupidity.

He got chewed out so BAAAAD.

[Realmfighter]

My God, Pokegirls just went from bizarre cross world fanfiction to amazing.

Thankfully, i am unable to tell the difference between bad writing and good writing. Instead of seeing grammar failures, i gleen plot. I would have hated Pokegirls otherwise.

[Duke 2.0]

 My Steam is back! Hooray! And everything seems to be fine! Hooray! And this was like a day earlier than expected! Hooray!

[Aklyon]

My Steam is back! Hooray! And everything seems to be fine! Hooray! And this was like a day earlier than expected! Hooray!

[alway]

The thing in warband is the shield skill makes shields BIGGER. So when you shoot them in the leg/foot you're actually hitting the shield. This kinda makes shooting OVER them usually impossible. Though under works and yeah if their leg or arm goes PAST the shield you can hit them that way too. 1v1s like that CAN be hell for an archer though. Mainly the trick is to FIND them and score enough hits to break their shield before they get too close Though if you have a horse it's much easier.

Actually, that was the case in the first M&B as well. In fact, I think there was a ridiculous bug where your character's shield skill didn't just increase your coverage, it increased the coverage of your entire army.

Speaking as someone who played several hundred hours of the original, the shield coverage was definately smaller. You could shoot pretty much anyone but a rhodock with as high as the knees and still score a hit.

And yeah, getting on a horse in tourney is pretty much an I-win button.

[Josephus]

The thing in warband is the shield skill makes shields BIGGER. So when you shoot them in the leg/foot you're actually hitting the shield. This kinda makes shooting OVER them usually impossible. Though under works and yeah if their leg or arm goes PAST the shield you can hit them that way too. 1v1s like that CAN be hell for an archer though. Mainly the trick is to FIND them and score enough hits to break their shield before they get too close Though if you have a horse it's much easier.

Actually, that was the case in the first M&B as well. In fact, I think there was a ridiculous bug where your character's shield skill didn't just increase your coverage, it increased the coverage of your entire army.

Speaking as someone who played several hundred hours of the original, the shield coverage was definately smaller. You could shoot pretty much anyone but a rhodock with as high as the knees and still score a hit.

And yeah, getting on a horse in tourney is pretty much an I-win button.

I swear that the combat AI intentionally does that. Every time I was trying to assault a castle, someone would shoot me in the goddamn foot and I'd slip-n'-slide all the way to the bottom. AAGH.

[Taco Dan]

I'm sorry, but, don't you have to pay for Mount & Blade?
I played it a long time ago based on an Escapist article and I think I got a trial version or something.

[Josephus]

Yes, the initial download you can get off the TaleWorlds site is the full version of the game, but it's locked to a trial version (you can only get up to level 7, I believe) until you pay and activate.

[Gunner-Chan]

The thing in warband is the shield skill makes shields BIGGER. So when you shoot them in the leg/foot you're actually hitting the shield. This kinda makes shooting OVER them usually impossible. Though under works and yeah if their leg or arm goes PAST the shield you can hit them that way too. 1v1s like that CAN be hell for an archer though. Mainly the trick is to FIND them and score enough hits to break their shield before they get too close Though if you have a horse it's much easier.

Actually, that was the case in the first M&B as well. In fact, I think there was a ridiculous bug where your character's shield skill didn't just increase your coverage, it increased the coverage of your entire army.

Speaking as someone who played several hundred hours of the original, the shield coverage was definately smaller. You could shoot pretty much anyone but a rhodock with as high as the knees and still score a hit.

This is because the shield skill was broken. It did nothing for the enemy's and companions but raising it made EVERYONES shields bigger.

[Aqizzar]

That was the "shield bug"?  Huh, wish I'd known that.  Oh well.

I just had a kickass turkey and pastrami sandwich for breakfast.  Damn, this was a good sandwich.