Portal:Prelude is OUT!

I'm posting, and I'm Still Alive.

I've been anticipating this mod for all of one week, and it's finally out! Shame you can only get it off FilePlanet. I've been waiting in line for a while now, and I've only moved ten places.

Expect a review or something once I get it downloaded.

Sick.

I'm sick today. I just feel terrible. Maybe I'll try playing a online game. I certainly have the time to do so.

Darn. (Gmod)

Garry's Mod has a virus. I've been playing Team Fortress 2 lately, but found myself wanting to go online with GMod today. I usually read the latest posts in some forums on Facepunch, so at least I found out about it before I could get it. There's an antidote out, but I'm going to wait for Garry to update it before I go online again.

What Ate My Time? (Part 2)

Sorry it's late; I've had a busy week, occasionally without power/internet.

The second time-waster I've been hooked on recently is Garry's Mod. If you haven't used it before, you need to get it and any Source game. In Garry's Mod, you can access props, items and characters from any Source game, and use a set of tools on them in an environment. It doesn't sound like anything when I explain it, but it really is awesome. By itself, it's only a $10 purchase, so I really had no reason not to buy it. Now I only have to buy the rest of The Orange Box; I only have Portal.

In other news, my laptop doesn't seem to want to let me click in a certain area of my screen. I just installed Vista SP1: could this be the source of my problem?

Spore Update.

It begins.

I just heard that Spore's Creature Creator might be coming out a day early. Also, a few videos have already been posted from within the Creature Creator. Not to mention Spore's website redesign.

(My favorite of the videos can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W78hNbhllcI )

Will Spore Crash YouTube?

I want to make a prediction. YouTube will go down soon after July 17, the day that the Spore Creature Creator is released. Think about it. At least a million people will either download or buy it. One of its feature is uploading videos of your creature to YouTube. Most people will only do one short video, but I'm sure a small segment of the userbase will make hundreds of long videos. This is a ton of traffic, even without people watching all the uploaded videos. YouTube is already very, very popular, and the combined traffic will definitely not work in its favor.

So...

It being Memorial Day, only a select few stores are open. Fortunately, GameStop was one of them. I managed to pre-order the Spore Creature Creator, which the guy there didn't know existed. "You mean for DS?" was what he asked me. I got him to check the database again and he found it. I spent the whole $10 on it so I can just go in and pick it up next month. I also went to get Wii Fit, but it turns out they only had boxes in the store to tell people it existed. It was still a positive experience though.

Broken: FAIL(!!!)

Here, look at this ad I saw today.

Right off the bat, you can tell what it's for. If you saw it live, you'd see two characters fighting. At a first glance, it's not broken, but if you look at it longer you see the "-Lire... FAIL!!!-" text at the bottom. Does this mean anything ingame? Dev inside jokes? Guess it must be its main selling point: "Find out what -Lire... FAIL!!!- means!"

It got even more broken from there. While I was pondering the meaning of -Lire... FAIL!!!-, the animation suddenly stopped. Didn't they think people might look at it for a minute or two?

They have such a terrible ad, but somehow I actually kinda want to play it. I'm lucky it doesn't run on Macs.

EDIT: Apparently, it's some secret programmer joke that no one's ever heard of. I think I read that somewhere.

Strong Bad WiiWare this June!

I was wondering why the "actual gameplay footage" looked like it was a little too actual. I just hope the WiiWare game won't take up all my Wii's memory and cost over $10. Honestly, This game will be the best 8.95 bucks I ever spent.

By the way, why are all the great things coming out in June? Spore's demo, SBCG4AP, and I'm sure at least a few more things..

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Super Smash Bros. Brawl

I think I can sum up this game in one word: Awesome. I think that's all I need to say about it. If you haven't already, go out and buy it.