[Insert shooped picture of me with one of those funny hats you wear when you graduate]
Just a very quick cblog to annouce I now have letters after my name. Four to be exact; BEng.
I have received a 2i from my university in the field of Comuter Engineering. Completeing my 3 year Bachelors degree and getting to legitematly add BEng after my name. This now means I will contune on to start my Masters in Advanced Computer Science in September. Woot!
The Masters is a full 12 months of hard work, but when done will bring the total number of letters after my name upto 7 (adding MSc). After that, it's either a job, or possibly more University in the form of a research Phd. Dr. Wardrox does have a nice ring to it.
Do you have that Friday feeling? No real mates to get you out of the house? A horribly, crippling addiction to videogames which has left you all alone in an uncaring world? Welcome to Friday Night Fights!
As always, us Europeans wil be kicking of the evening with silly accents and rioting on any number of wonderful gaming machines.
Xbox 360 – Call of Duty 4 If you fancy honing you melon killing skills then get your ass online around 9pm GMT (4pm EST) and either wait for my invite, or if I'm not on your friends list, send me a message (gamertag: wardrox)
Xbox 360 - Halo 3 Once again Gibbo (gt: Jgibbo08 ) will be hosting Halos this evening from 10pm GMT (5pm EST) onwards.. probably.
PST-T-Triples – GTA IV and Metal gear Starting the evening in liberty city, Mushman will be leading the Blu-rays. Get online and wave at him (psn: mushmania101), he'll be sending out invites at 10:15pm GMT (5:15pm EST) SHARP. I heard if you are not there at exactly that time, you start crying and can't stop until all the water in your body has gone. Then you die.
PC – Team Fortress 2 Want to try out the new Pyro update? Head over to Insomnia's server from 8:00pm CEST (6pm GMT, 1pm EST) onwards. More info than you could ever need can be found in insomnia's his cblog.
Hot on the heals of the GTA IV mocking brought about by Saint's Row 2, this new Battlefield: Bad Company video does make a few subtle jabs at MGS.
Now, before you go blabbering on about how B:BC is rubbish, and start telling me that they are stupid for mocking something better, take a good look at yourself. It was a joke, and a funny one at that. Take a leaf out of my book and lighten up :P
Yeah, that's right, this Friday we are not just rocking out on our Sexboxs, but also stroking our PST-T-Triple's and... umm... doing something erotic to our PCs.
So if you have nothing better to do (like watch Euro 2008) then hop online and get gaming!
Xbox 360 – Call of Duty 4
I have secured myself an SD TV (I can see the pixels!) for this evening and so will be hosting everybody's favourite FPS, Call of Duty 4. To join in, get online around 9pm GMT (4pm EST) and hassle me (GamerTag: wardrox) for an invite. If I'm not on your friends list, just send me a message or leave your gt in the comments.
PS3 – Grand Theft Auto 4
Mushman has kindly offered to host on the PS3 for this evening. He will be kicking things off in Liberty City around 10pm GMT (5pm EST). So send him a friends request... or whatever you do on the playstation (psn: mushmania101).
PC – Team Fortress 2
To complete our bastion of gaming this evening, the PC gamers are getting some love. Head over to the TF2 server where I am reliably informed (by ainmosni/insomnia) that Budr will be kicking around somewhere. If somebody would like to take charge of the PC side of things, that would be grand, if not assume people will be getting online around 9/10pm GMT (4/5 EST). The info you need to connect is:
The Team Fortress 2 server is up 24/7 at ares.ams-sec.org:27015 .
No new custom maps tonight because I don't have time to hunt them down
and install them.
Map Pack at:
http://files.filefront.com/brbu+TF2+Map+Packrar/;10276111;/fileinfo.html
If you had a reserved slot on Caffeine's server, you will have it on
this one as well, if you don't and want a reserved spot: mail me your
Steam ID on FNF [at] ams-sec [dot] org
Server: brbuninstalling.com #3 European Server [HLStatsX|Voting] IP: ares.ams-sec.org:27015 Password: N/A
If you need help with overflow on TF2 then shout really loud. Or hassle one of the main FNF PC guys.
So there you have it, all the info you need to tear yourself away from the football!
So it's been a couple of days with no TV and I like to think I'm keeping myself busy. My to-do list has gone from 12 things, to 2. My fridge is full, clothes clean, room tidy and the amount of work I can get done has increased tremendously!
So much so that I have had time to do some R&D and discovered a way to attach a proper hard drive to my Wii.
And from the looks of it, a few (goNintendo) other (La Gran N) people (Kotaku) seem impressed.
During tonights recording of The Podcastle, my housemate took the TV away (more details explained on The Podcastle). Needless to say, I found a solution.
This is a story I have seen cropping up across the web and it seems to me to be rather misleading. I would just like to clarify it for some people who may be confused.
The IBM Roadrunner supercomputer is not made out of PS3s. The supercomputer is made out of a type of Cell microprocessor. The Cell microprocessor was designed by Sony, Toshiba and IBM in collaboration.
The PS3 has an early version of the Cell in it, made at the 90nm feature size. Once Sony had the PS3's brain securely in place, they left Tohiba and IBM and stopped funding Cell research.
The IBM Roadrunner supercomputer uses a more recent version of the Cell, a “high-performance double-precision floating-point version of the Cell processor, the PowerXCell 8i, at the 65 nm feature size”. These are then put into IBM Blade servers to form the supercomputer.
So there you have it. The supercomputer doesn't use PS3 technology, more accurately the PS3 uses older supercomputer technology. read more
My god that took a while. Finally, after weeks of slogging it out, I had a solid 3 hour sitting with the game this morning and got it finished.
Oddly though, I didn't realise I was at the end of the story until the very final cut scene. I guess "game progress" includes killing 200 pidgins.
All in all, the game is good. No 10/10, I would say more of an 8/10, but then I am a fanboy and bad a games etc.
After reading Rev's great deconstruction of GTA's ending I can't help but feel a little disappointed. I got the lesser cool ending, what with me being a revenge seeking killing machine (the guy was a dick, and I already had more money than I needed). Had I got the cooler ending, I might have actually cared.
So, what's the first thing a gamer like me does on completion of one of the greatest games of the year? Continue and strive for 100%? Ha! God no. Now the story is done with I can happily go without bad driving, questionable combat and incredibly annoying and inconvenient police for a while.
I went out and bought myself Motor Storm and Ridge Racer. Aaah, the good old days, when games were fun and realism was measured in... well, it just didn't factor into it.
Also, after many weeks, and a solid 2 days of drinking (followed by a 2 day hangover) my exams are done with... woot! read more
IRCartel ftw! Hi! I'm a boy-gamer! When I game, I'm a boy!
I'm a student in Manchester over here in the always sunny UK. I can juggle, like cats and can't say the alphabet backwards very fast.
On Dtoid, as well as all the turgid crap you normally get in a community blog, I write about news that I find interesting, food that I find interesting and cock jokes that I find interesting. Less of the latter. I'm also a regular on The Podcastle, which you should listen to, if just to feel superior.
Games have become a backward-looking medium. Because game designers rely on the language of cinema, they have not sufficiently developed a new form of storytelling based on the language of video games. - Daniel Radosh 28/09/07
