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Intermission: Riot Act
Hey go play this Half Life 2 mod, Riot Act. I finished it last night, great fun shooting up some combine.
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 …
Rom’s PC Gamer Rants
Michael Russel has an article in the September issue of PC Gamer (Star Siege on the cover) covering his time at Ritual. Go pick it up, only 5 bucks! After reading that, you should also read his blog for a straight look at the life of a software developer/tester.
Sam Circles Fail Before Passing it In
Just click the link for Sam’s deconstruction of the Seattle Weekly article. Also, with regard to VMC/Volt/etc, it was explained to me during one of my interviews there – during the more stringent hiring process for more regular contractors than the bull pen clown car – that VMC/Volt exists solely so Microsoft doesn’t get pwned …
Seattle Weekly’s Article on VMC
Here, of which my favorite quote is: I get up and use the women’s rest room, which is empty and spotless.
The Darkness Couch Bug
Oh man, what a terrible bug in The Darkness, if you sit down on the couch and watch “To Kill a Mockingbird”, after awhile you won’t be able to rise again. I’ve had this happen twice now in the PS3 version and so have other people, in the 360 version as well!
Responsible Bug Reporting
A friend and I were discussing how annoying bugzilla can be the other day after a bug reporter resolved his own bug. It made sense to the bug reporter, since he had submitted a patch to fix the problem as well, but then the bug of course doesn’t show up in my open bug list, …
One Year of Game QA Blogging
Exactly one year ago on Sunday, July 9th I posted the first gameqablog post here. Just in time for the anniversary I fscked my hand in some fashion to make typing and mousing difficult. In any case, thanks for reading, hopefully after my hand heals up I can return to normal post lengths!