Category: Me

Orange Box

RyanEpisode 2, Half Life 2, Portal, Team Fortress 2

Bought myself the Orange Box (Half Life Portal, Team Fortress 2 and Episode 2) and I must say I had a lot of fun yesterday. Playing Portal was a blast. I don’t want to reveal too much of the “story” but it was really well done, had you thinking around corners the whole time.

After I got done with Portal (haven’t tried any of the special challenges yet) I gave Team Fortress 2 a look. The graphics are simply “lol”, you have the feeling you just landed in a Pixar film. After playing all the classes i must say, if you have 3 or less players on each side, the Scout dominates most other classes. You often run into one-on-one situations where the sheer speed of the Scout gives you the upper hand (and I find the shotgun is a bit too powerful at range). I even managed to take down two “Heavy Weapons Guys” with the Scout. So that kinda makes the Scout my personal favorite, closely followed by the Engineer (which is a wuss without his turret). And yes, planting a turrent in the enemy base on the “2fort” map is still hilarious.

While plaing around with steam, I noticed that it has a webpage that shows the statistics of the user. http://steamcommunity.com/id/rschulze/ Nice.

Cairns

Ryan

So I got around to dropping by an internet cafe. I’m in cairns right now and dfinatly won’t be logging into any forums from here (for one the most arn’t on https servers, and for another I don’t have the time to check all the missed postings from the last 2 and a half weeks). I’ll check forums when i get back home.

Weather is great, kinda hot if there is no wind blowing in from the sea. People here grill all the time, the park is full of picknick tables and gas grills free to use. We were out on the riff twice and it was great both times. ayers rock was pretty nice, but extremely dry out there. Sydney was an interresting city, Singapore too, but I’ll write more when I get home.

Ready for take off

Ryan

Just got done packing my suitcase, I’ll be leaving for the airport soon. I might drop some updates into my blog if I find internet access while I’m down under. Otherwise you’ll get a whole bunch of pictures when I’m back 😉

Tonight I’ll be in Singapur, tomorrow Sydney. We will be staying in each place for a few days, then moving on, after Sydney we’ll be off to Ayers Rock -> Alice Springs -> Cairns (Cairns will be a full week)

Vacation

Ryan

So, now that I have my shiny new blog software up and running I might as well use it 😉
Another week of work, and then I’m going on vacation. 3 weeks in Australia. It’s going to be a pretty darn long flight, but we are going to have tons of fun down there. Try not to break anything here while I’m gone. The last time I went on vacation (Chicago, visiting my parents) the power supply of my server kinda died and tore the motherboard down with it. Fortunatly I noticed it and had it replaced. Took me an afternoon to get the system installed and backups up and running again. Hopefully this time nothing happens since I’m not planning on seeing or using Internet while abroad.