Jag är inte hundra, men rätt säker på att Youtubeklippet är inte officiell video utan hemmagjord. Här är även texten.

Jag ska kanske tillägga att jag inte är speciellt förtjust i Sabaton, vare dig denna låt eller andra: För många bredbenta klichéer (fire and steel och sånt) och för ooriginell musik. (Och så de där militäriskt rullade r:en.) De är väl Heavy metals motsvarighet till en kebabrulle: Det går ner, men gör inget bestående intryck. 

Egentligen har jag extremt svårt för allt som ens gränsar till glorifiering av krig, så ett band som bara sjunger om krig och poserar i militärkläder med vapen i hand känns inte riktigt som min kopp te, men samtidigt har jag inga moraliska glasögon när jag tittar på hårdrock eftersom den genren går mycket ut på att utforska allt som är negativt och "ont".
Och dessutom, bara för att man sjunger om ett ämne innebär det inte att man glorifierar det. De är två helt olika saker, vilket ickehårdrockare oftast missar.

To put things in context I'll go over a bit of a history lesson in the gaming life of Sandspider.

Sandspider - The Early Years

So I guess the first games I played multiplayer when I was younger were Doom, Duke Nukem 3d, Hexen 2 and Doom 2. It was easy cos my bro also loved gaming and my Dad has a business providing consultation and installation of networking solutions.

Stringing a custom serial cable across the room brought the world of gaming to us in a matter of minutes!

Obviously this then evolved to Halflife Deathmatch and Counterstrike with the release of the groundbreaker Halflife and the introduction of 12mb graphics cards!

It was during the early days of Halflife I chose the handle "Sandspider". It's origins lie in the film "True Lies". Art Malik's character was the "Sandspider of the Crimsen Jihad"... a terrorist leader who used to strike fear into his enemys.... so it's now my online handle!

So there you have it. The origin of my online handle!

Counterstrike and Halflife

Many a time myself and freinds would have a "free house" and bring our computers over to one location. With the help of numerous network cables, a few routers and a bit of brains (windows 95 didn't like networking) we'd have 6-10 player halflife/CS!

Counterstrike Source and the Halflife2.net Clan years

So with the intro of Halflife2 and consequently Counterstrike: Source (and broadband) I began playing more online games. I was soon a regular on the Halflife2.net CSS servers and after a while joined them as part of the Halflife2.net clan on the pro Enemydown competition ladder!

More on this story soon...........

Thanks to my deplorable sense of orientation (the only thing I seem to be able to find unerringly in every city are the respective opera houses) I stumbled across the final concert of the "Summer Festivities of Early Music" (Letní slavostni staré hudby) in Prague (trip made possible by generous mother-in-law).

I wouldn't have noticed the announcement in time if I hadn't stepped out of the tram (next to a chagrined Ngf) at the wrong stop and found myself in front of the Municipal House where I immediately caught sight of this:

The only thing I could make out was Jaroussky and, being as German as the rain that was falling, I immediately assumed that the concert was not this very weekend.

Ngf, blessed with a decidedly sunnier and more Southern temper, suggested that we check out the poster first and, low and behold, the concert was the following evening.

I, still wary to trust in the chance of catching Jaroussky LIVE, mumbled something about the concert being sold out for sure. After all, how could it not? - Jaroussky. Do the math.

Waiting in line, we witnessed a considerable amount of tourists get tickets to events like this:

Two operas for the price of one, and you don't even have to sit through the whole thing, yay! --- I secretly suspect this to be Prague's revenge on all the noisy tourists. But thanks to this, Ngf and I managed to get two of the last tickets to the Jaroussky concert - they only had first category left, but even that only amounted to 500 CzK, which is about 22€ (which was our food money, so we switched the diet to Ramen and invested in culture instead). Of course, after I had stopped jumping around in excitement, I realized I had nothing to wear. I apologize in retrospect to the well-dressed Prague citizens for appearing at Smetana Hall in jeans and trekking shoes.

Smetana Hall itself is a gorgeous Art Nouveau place - a picture book example of the sensuous temples an increasingly restricted bourgeoisie erected in the late 19^th century. Naked statues, lush stairways and boldly swung iron framework throughout (try not to get distracted by the many female/female scenes among the ceiling paintings in the main hall!). The acoustic favors 19^th century symphonic works, but also worked well with Musica Florea and Philippe Jaroussky.

The program, "il maestro di Bohemia", focused exclusively on the works of Jan Zelenka (1679 -1745 ), - excerpts from the "Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae" (ZWV 53, 1722) and "Sub olea pacis et palma virtutis" (ZWV 175, 1723), and two orchestral pieces, a "Hipocondrie" and some suites from an Ouverture à "7 concertanti".

Jaroussky knows how to wear a suit (with a black shirt, of course) nearly as well as certain mezzo sopranos and his range tops more than one soprano. For my ears, Jaroussky is not a counter, but a full soprano whose voice simply hasn't broken. He may very well be the closest in sound to the actual castrati that is available today and it speaks for itself that he managed to enchant an audience that (apart from the fifty percent that were Early Music freaks who had travelled far to hear him) most likely had never heard a high male voice before. Although it has to be said that (Scholl excluded) they started with the best.

The program was structured in a way that it showed off both Jaroussky's coloratura abilities and the melting softness of his sound at slower speeds. As for the former, he did the program's final showstopper ("Phoebe umbras pelle" from "Sub olea...")  all over again as a second encore as if it were nothing at all.

But all coloratura fireworks taken into account, I still prefer Jaroussky at a slower speed - and that night, most notably the second to last piece of the evening ("Ave Deus", also from "Sub olea..."),  and the first encore, a "Dove sei, amato bene" that started off with an a capella messa di voce which in turn could have turned anyone into a puddle on the floor.

Incredible.

Even Ngf was swooning. Initially, she wasn't quite as enthusiastic about dating an Early Music and Opera freak with a thing for voices, and Bartoli gives her headaches at times (sacrilege!), but she took it in stride. Jaroussky, however, seems to have genuinely won her over.

Bottom line: Check the concert announcements at Smetana Hall if you happen to travel through Prague (the only two things that still are singificantly cheaper there are beer and culture, both of them great), and if Jaroussky is singing anywhere near you: run, don't walk to the nearest ticket booth. And hope it contains some messa di voce!!! - And for everyone not living near a concert site but wuilling to swoon, there is always the Vivaldi "Nisi dominus" left.

Mein Kommentar dazu:

Ich selber wurde schon oft in den verschiedensten Communities gelöscht. Gründe? Wurden mir nie genannt. In "privaten" Communities spielen die Betreiber halt gerne mal Gott...
Bei StudiVZ dagegen wurde ich zwar mal gemahnt, das war's aber auch. (Wo anders hätte man mich ohne Hinweise gelöscht).
Ich persönlich nehme diese Communities deshalb auch wirklich kaum noch ernst. In Foren diskutiere ich eh nicht mehr. Meine Meinung verbreite ich nur noch persönlich und im eigenen Rahmen. Da hätten wir wohl das geschilderte "Man-darf-nicht-alles-sagen"-Gefühl erreicht.
Und Deutschland wird nicht nur ein Zensurland, sondern auch ein Überwachungsstaat. Von Kameras an jeder Ecke über Spitzel-Viren und Befugnisse private PCs auszuspionieren bis hin zur ausufernden privaten Überwachung. Hier im Haus haben die Vermieter ohne den Mietern Bescheid zu geben überall Kameras installiert! Da bin ich doch sehr froh, dass ich in 11 Stunden hier ausziehe.
Und wenn ich einmal groß bin, vielleicht auch auswander. :/
(Das autoritätsgewohnte Deutschland war noch nie sonderlich "relaxt")

Do you want to relax after midterm test? Want to have a friendly match with other gamers? Want to play any game like DOTA, COUNTER-STRIKE, and much more together like playing in a cyber café with low cost? Want to play together after extra class on Saturday? Want to know more friends? Here’s the chance!!

All you have to do is bring your own computer or laptop to the LAN PARTY organized by GDC!!

Here are the details:

Date: 16 August 2008

Time: 10am-10pm

Venue: FITCR1001 (glass room)

Fee: RM2 for members, RM3 for non-members

***Refreshments will be provided.

For those bringing desktops, please do tell the guard before coming and do some sort of registration.

On the spot registration for the LAN party is available.

Featured games:

- DOTA

- COUNTER-STRIKE

- Any game which supports LAN play

Committees will also join to play too if possible.

For more details please contact:

Teng Ung Chee (brian_tuc@yahoo.com)

“Inspiring Talent, Creating Passion”

GDC Homepage: http://mmugdc.wordpress.com/

Regards,
Game Developers Club
Multimedia University
Cyberjaya Campus

Scheiß doch ma jemand anders ihn auch zu, wenn ich ihn nur zuscheiße is scheiße, wir müssen alle ihn zuscheißen

Zu dieser fäkal-rhetorischen "Meisterleistung" fällt mir auch nichts mehr ein. Wer sich für 2min55sec in die Kanalisation "deutscher" Sprachkultur begeben möchte, kann sich hier den ganzen Mitschnitt 'reinziehen.

Full details, terms and conditions, and rules are all here

If you think you can create a banner good enough to win this competition, register with us and post your entry before 1st September [ 01.09.08 ] for your chance to win.

Martin 'F!5H' Andersson is kindly giving away a server, completely free, and all you have to do is create a banner for us. Details and rules are below.

The banner must link back to the Sensitivity website homepage, and must be as appealing and interesting as possible. Preferably featuring either CodD 4, Warcraft 3, CS, or CS:S. The size of the banner must be 600x140. The banner must also include the slogan 'More Power In Game' and the title '#Sensitivity'.

Post all your entries HERE to enter.

There will only be one winner, although a clan/multiple people may enter as one entry. The server can be used for either Counter Strike 1.6, or Counter Strike:Source, and the winner will receive their own server, completely free with full admin status for 6 months, no fee's are required and there are no payments of any kind.

Good Luck!

For your completely free chance to win the server, Enter here

I make sure I get out of the house quite a bit, so I don't turn into this!

The Official Xbox Magazine held an interview with Valve's Doug Lombardi (Marketing Director) recently, regarding their increasing power-player role on the 360. Click through to read on...

Valve is quickly becoming one of the major players on Xbox 360.

With The Orange Box one of the acclaimed games of last year, Valve is set for further success in 2008 with its frantic zombie FPS Left 4 Dead shaping up to be chaotic co-op fun.

With Portal: Still Alive just announced and the impossible-to-ignore distant rumblings of Half-Life 2: Episode 3 being felt for the first time, OXM caught up with Valve's Marketing Director Doug Lombardi to check in on the state of affairs with the developers...

So is this the proper Portal sequel we've been waiting for?
No, no, no. It's designed to give Xbox 360 gamers the chance to get Portal, for those who didn't want to go through the Orange Box. It's Portal, the game we all played and loved last year, plus 10-20 new challenges that you'll unlock.

And are those challenges also going to be on PC later on?
Perhaps. They're going to be exclusive to Xbox 360 in 2008.

Where did the new maps come from, the original team or are they inspired by maps the mod community has created?
A little bit of both. We haven't hired anyone from the mod community yet but there are a couple of people out there we're keeping an eye on.

Will there be more DLC to follow for Portal?
We'll see. It's a bit of a first for not just us but the platform to have a game this big that isn't an arcade style game. We're always looking for ways to make interesting new content and get it out there. We'll see if people like it and if it makes sense to do more we'll do more.

Would you think about bringing older Valve games like Counter-Strike to XBLA?
We'll certainly consider it. If you look at what we've done on steam, we try to make all our games available and we're always reviewing the prices to keep them current. We'd love to do that, but this is our first step at doing that beyond the PC.

Is this on Xbox 360 because you're more familiar with developing for it?
Right now, Valve's doing PC and 360 stuff, so anything we would iterate on would be on Xbox. We don't have any immediate plans to do this on PS3 or Nintendo.

Will we see the new Team Fortress 2 updates on Xbox 360?
I think so, it's another pathway to getting new content out there. On 360 there are a few things we have to discuss such as, is it free or is it paid for? Right now we're accumulating a lot of TF2 content for PC and at some point there'll be a sweet amount of stuff that's ready to go and large enough that if people have to pay for it, they'll be happy.

Are you staying quiet on Episode 3 until after Left 4 Dead comes out?
Absolutely. We'll probably be making some new announcements at the end of this year or early next year.

How's the Xbox 360 version of Left 4 Dead coming on?
Great! With Orange Box we made a lot of progress on getting the engine working with Xbox 360 and we're really proud of how the interface translated across. Now we've got split screen in Left 4 Dead, which was something I was really pushing for with the Orange Box. But that was a big chunk of work and didn't happen. Now Left 4 Dead is coming, I'm back on my soap box and I have a reason!

Did you record new lines of dialogue for GLaDOS?
No, this is purely about new challenges. We're not going to extend the narrative until later. We thought about it, but there's kind of an ending to that one and we didn't want to mess with that.

OXM Staff

Now is the chance for DOTA and CS players to show off your skills. MMU Closed DOTA and CS tournament will be held as shown below:

Date: 23/8/2008 (Saturday)
Time: 10AM
Venue: FIT labs

Game selection: We have two games that you can register for which is DOTA and CS.

*Note: You are not allowed to register for two games because both games will be held at the same time.

Requirements:-Participants must be MMU's students since it is a closed tournament.
                      -Participants have to register in a team of 5 members.
                      -The leader of the team can represent your team to register for this tournament. (make sure u have 5 members in your team and get all your members info, eg: Name, ID, Contact No and E-mail address)

Registration fees:-RM 20 per team (Member price)
                          -RM 25 per team (Non-member price)

*We only open 16 teams for DOTA and 16 teams for CS. So please hurry to register yourself at GDC’s booth (Central Plaza).

Prize: 1st prize -- RM 200   (For DOTA and CS)
         2nd prize -- RM 100   (For DOTA and CS)

MMU Closed DOTA and CS tournament is now open for registration.  You can register at our booth (Central Plaza).

Thank you.

Contact:

Director: Cadrick Loh (cadrick_loh@hotmail.com)
Asst.Director: Chung Farn Kien (narutoxbleach32@yahoo.com)

“Inspiring Talent, Creating Passion.”

GDC Homepage: http://mmugdc.wordpress.com/

Regards,
Game Developers Club
Multimedia University
Cyberjaya Campus

Hey, how is everyone? This is the Major Kill Gaming Clan leader, Masterwares, and I would just like to welcome all of you internet gamers to join our gaming clan. This clan is not professional; just a great place to get together with a plethora of other gamers to discuss new games, good servers, and elite players. You guys can all join whenever you would like to at the following website. All you need is an Xfire account, and a desire to play games! This clan supports a variety of games including but not limited to Counterstrike Source, Half-life 2, Age of Conan, Guildwars, Warrock, and so on. If you would like to start a new game, just ask me and I will consider the decision.  Hope you join!

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Go to this website to join the clan. Good Gaming!

-Masterwares

So guys, go to our affiliate's page and join his clan!

Check it out below, its a spoof commercial for "Counter Strike for Kids!" Now for any of you or probably many of you who have played the real Counter Strike or CSS:Source this is a truely hilarious prospect and to anyone who hasnt played CSS it's just a damn fine effort at a viral video!

Enjoy!

First names:

Counterstrike (Evol Intent, Obscene, Outbreak, South Africa) LIVE
Boxcutter (Planet Mu, Hotflush, U.K.) LIVE
Global Goon (Rephlex, Wémè, U.K.) LIVE
X&trick (Bug Klinik, Suburban Trash, B) LIVE
Cafe Con Leche (9 Piece ska) LIVE BAND
Ansatz Der Maschine (Vlas Vegas Rec, Je m’en Fish) LIVE BAND
Sicktronick (I&I Relations, B) LIVE
Jah Inspiration Sound (Irie Vibes, Green Forward, B)
Stoornis (Narcosis, B) LIVE

many more names to be confirmed soon!

Drum'n'Bass, Dub, Breakcore, Reggae, Acid,
Ska, Hardcore, Electronica, Gypsy, Post-rock,
Tekno, IDM, Darkstep and much more...

Sat. 01 November 2008, ICC GENT, BELGIUM
Citadelpark, (near St. Pieterstrainstation)
http://www.clashofthecultures.be

Big Brother 10 is starting to pick up a bit as more fighting begins - that always makes it far more interesting. My DVR is starting to pile up as I have a couple of episodes of Last Comic Standing & American Gladiators sitting on it. I think we also still have what turned out to the final episode of Vegas - that was back in February, think I should watch it soon!

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El caso, es que el juego estaba programado de modo que las caídas en el agua, no hacían daño al jugador, y ya podías saltar desde 10 metros de altura en un barreño de agua, que no pasaba nada. En cambio, una caída desde 3 metros, ya te hacía daño, y desde poco más te mataba.

Flipadito me he quedado cuando he visto que se puede hacer.

Darren Taylor, también conocido como el Proffessor Splash!, ha establecido el record Guinnes de 10,83 m de altura en salto a agua con una profundidad de 30 Cm.

En fín, en el caso del juego, podríamos aplicar aquella famosa frase de "It's not a bug, its a feature*"

*No es un error, es una característica. - Es una pequeña broma bastante conocida en el mundillo de la programación, hablando particularmente de windows :D

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"Enemy Spotted"

Running through the office, you chuck a grenade at the door ahead, hoping to dislodge any enemy waiting for you to run past. But as you run through, you fail to notice a sniper so well camoflauged in the corner, and immediately you die...

With such a fast paced game such as CSS, you need a really quick response time to keep up. Kills happen in seconds, and if you have anything slower than a 54mbps internet connection, you won't be able to keep up with the pace of the action. The game is structured around a single main game mode, which is basically something along the lines of team defense/attack. In some maps, such as Office, one team must rescue hostages while the other protects them. In other maps such as Dust, one team must plant a bomb while the other must diffuse it. Other game variants are usually seen, but these are the two main ones.

Counterstrike features a varying arsenal of guns, from the simple pistol to the more advanced sniper rifles. Playing this game the user usually gets a feel for his/her playing style. Most servers also have rankings and player profiles, the niche that makes the game more competitive.

Amid the many other options one has while playing, the best is joining a gaming guild/clan. This usually happens online on the guild website, where one submits an application and then joins. This is a very fast-paced shooter, not for the slow gamer, but mostly for the avid player.

Looking at computer resources, this game requires at least a geforce 6200 or above. I play with a geforce 6200 and get about 20-30 fps on low settings at 1024x 768 mode. Playing with an nvidia 8800 GT, my friend acquired a 60-90 fps frame rate, astoundingly higher than mine.

This is a great game, one which I rate a 9/10.

Screenshot:

Etter litt leting fant jeg i dag frem til GGhacks, et nettsted med hacks for det aller meste.  Jeg lastet ned multihacken, og tenkte at "nå skal jeg ha det kjekt".  Så jeg lastet ned en multihack til CS:S, men fikk det ikke til.  Jeg romsterte i filer, endret på configs men ingenting virket.  Etter litt lesing rundt om kring på nettet fant jeg ut at jeg ikke skulle "type inser" som det sto i beskrivelsen.  Jeg skulle trykke på insert knappen.  Brainstorm.

Så joda, jeg trykte i vei på insert, og fikk opp en meny, hvor det sto "aimbot, wallhack, esp" og alle mulige cheats du kan tenke deg.  Det var så meningen at jeg skulle endre på verdiene som sto på "0.00" til 1.   Men hvordan gjør man det!?  David og meg satte oss ned. Leste, prøvde, fikset, ødela men ingenting virket.  Faen.  Jeg som hadde gledet meg til å ødelegge for andre!!!

Litt lengre nede på siden ser jeg da et tips om en annen cheat.  Wallhack!  Jeg laster ned, joiner en "de_dust" server, og fryder meg.  Jeg kan se igjennom vegger. :)   Så etter litt spilling mot tyskere som aner fred, "haha", og ingen fare finner jeg ut at jeg vil spille på min favoritt bane.  Ideél å bruke wallhack på.  Men den jævla hacken virker bare på noen av standard map'ene.

Så her sitter jeg å skyter tyskere på asault og dust, merk: ikke dust2, og kjeder livet av meg...  Noen som har en link til en bra multihack og fremgangsmåte?  Vær så snill; SEND!