Rogue

The exitement never stops! Except for pain, it does brake for pain according to the bumper sticker.

Yesterday I roll up to work about 10minutes later than I usually do, only to find all the people from my building milling around the evacuation point. As I walk past the building towards them I notice that the doors are locked down in 'DANGER/HAZARD' with the red signs and all. "That can't be good."

In the IT department here we have an FM2000 extinguisher system mounted in the two 'server' rooms. There are four cannisters of gas which is rapidly ejected into the room in the event of a fire being detected.

Unfortunatly the system doesn't differentiate between an actually fire within the server room/nearby and just some fire alarm being tripped within the building. So as soon as anyone presses a button, then BOOM, $5000 a cylinder.

So since someone decided to knock out a wall in the server room to make one big room to hold all our servers, they wanted to isolate the gas system so it didn't get triggered by any dust that got kicked up. Obviously it didn't quite go as planned as the gas actually dropped while they were trying to isolate it.

Funny stuff. Meant I had to stand around till about 1100, not being able to do much.

The other occurance was that I swapped some SDRAM that I found in a box with a mate of mine so he could build a PC for his girlfriend. What did I get in return? A silver HL2 steam package. Awesome!

He never played with it so wasnt getting anything out of it anyway. He also had the steam preload files of HL2 as well, so I could avoid having to download 3Gb or so of stuff. So I updated HL2 overnight and started it up this morning to see if it would work, it does (yay!). Then queued up HL2DM and went off to work. The awesome thing about it being a silver package is that it means I now have real editions of basically every valve title/mod every made. And that includes the upcoming Day Of Defeat Source. HUZZAH!

I don't really care about CS of any flavour, but DoD might be nice. Havn't played it since about 2001.

This Saturday morning just gone, I awoke from a heavy session of BF2 the night before - meaning my eyes felt like someone elses, my trigger finger ached, dehydrated from the alcohol, and I was tired as a mofo - and had a bit of what at the time seemed to be a bright idea.

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At work just now, talking about development in general. And then a bit of a bombshell;

This project I'm working on, the stupidly complex and important one. The one that is going to control a multi-multimillion dollar operation. The one that only I am working on...

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Well we've now tagged the next MonsterLAN. Our 12th major event will be known as 'The Clan Wars' curtesy of CherryPopper's wit. I like it.

It's born of the shifting clan atmosphere which has been reflected on the MonsterLAN forums as of late. Speaking of which I'm hoping that with a couple of other clans starting to adopt a bit of a standardized image (through nicks, avatars, sigs, uniforms, etc) it will promote an awesome atmosphere at our events when these clans attend. When people have closer ties to their clan by being part of a cohesive identity they are more willing to stick with them no matter what. It's kind of a bonding thing. And that can only result in long lasting rivalries, which are fantastic to be a part of.

Think I'm talking BS? Have a look around at some of the biggest and longest running clans in the scene. CS, UT, whatever. It's the ones that have a dedicated and cohesive outlook which are still there years after forming instead of just weeks, and building a unified identity is part of that.

I've almost got my BF2 cons' how I want them and will be reviewing the UT ones during the week. Also must remember to finish the next splash screen for ML.com by Friday night.

Just so ya'll are prewarned, this is a Battlefield2 related gush/rant. It's seems pretty vogue at the moment to be talking about it, and rightly so (oooh look he's started already), but for those who don't care - turn down your eyes now.

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