Monthly Archives: August 2007

SWAT 4: Yarr Edition

When we last checked in with SWAT 4, it had decided to: Decide I’m a Pirate and install securom. Deactivate Windows Now securom has decided that I’m a pirate, again:

The “Mysterious Wall In An Otherwise Normal City” Problem

Last night while playing Bioshock I was reminded of something that is rather annoying in linear games that should be easier to get around with modern consoles: corridors that go nowhere and mysterious barriers preventing your passage because games aren’t designed for it Single player games tend to just have the barrier, while multiplayer games

Intermission: Sam? SAM?! SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM?!?!?!

Climactic-ave knows to how reel in the links with a good home-made video from Metal Gear Solid 3.

Intermission: Riot Act

Hey go play this Half Life 2 mod, Riot Act. I finished it last night, great fun shooting up some combine.

Best Change Practices

Check out this great article from Mike Russell on trends and keeping your QA staff from cycling, now!

Goodbye, Blogger.

As you can tell, I’ve switched to wordpress. Thanks once again to Aaron Gyes for helping with the site code. Various things are still broken, they will be fixed.

Thank you for calling. The SWAT team will bust your ass for pirating windows shortly

So today I bought SWAT 4‘s expansion pack, and ran Windows Update beforehand. Windows Update detected a new version of the nForce SATA driver for my motherboard, I agreed to install it, rebooted, began installing SWAT 4 (which I hadn’t previously installed.) when the SWAT 4 installer got around to installing securom (I assume) Windows