Yes I know it’s not rhyming (hell don’t fucking sing this out please). Yes I know the second half of the song is rather unoriginal. Yes I know Steam sucks. Yes I know their ‘update’ system needs to be fucking fixed. Yes I know America’s Army 3 is kinda repetitive. Yes I know that Agentcy is kinda empty lately.

…. but for god’s sake, I FUCKING MISS MY TF2 FRAGGING MOMENTS.

Here’s to a big ‘Fuck You’ to Steam for their crappy SEA servers. Thank you for your time. Do not waste it any more further.

UPDATE: So I finally got my Steam to update its client properly after 3 days. Guess what’s the first thing I see when I get in? “Team Fortress 2, Half-Life 2: Episode 1 & 2, and Portal Update Released”.

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FUCKING RAGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!

Welcome to patch hell.

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God… that must count as one of the most LOL’est things I’ve done in TF2 so far.

We actually got the tower to 7 people later but didn’t got a SS of it. 5 scouts, and 2 soldiers on top of each other was pretty hillarious LOL.

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Well, first of all, I’m happy to be in a Guinness World Record, at least until it’s broken. The official record is 274 gamers playing for 40 hours, btw. I’m pretty sure Nvidia might try to top it off, considering Cyberfusion was a AMD-ATI event. I managed to get myself a Phenom X4 9150e and an Orange Box (thanks a lot FatCatLim) from the event so I’m even more happier. Disappointed about the certificate we got though. It’s a copy-pasta, fill-up-yer-own-name kinda cert. I really wished we got a proper and named ones instead.

I do have a few nitpicks about the event though, mostly related to the ambience of the event. It apparently seems that the organizers think that gamers are rave pub goers, which might be true overseas, but it sure isn’t over here. Frankly speaking, I am quite surprised I managed to weather 40 hours of disco lights, crappy trance/classical trance/rave music and fake smog (yeah, smog) to set the record. At one point I was suffering from overexposure thanks to that unhealthy combination of lights, sound and smell. Yeah, smell. Because that fake smog they used smells poisonous and STINKS to high heaven. Even my hair smells like it still… eww. Whoever decided on making the whole event like a rave/trance party ought to be shot, whipped and have a glowing hot rod stuck up his back.

Which brings to me to the second nitpick of the event, mainly the committees. Some are pretty clueless, and some are rather rude. But my biggest complaint about them is not setting up their network earlier so that they could diagnose any problems. We were all required to be in the venue by 9pm Friday to be briefed and get ready, but instead they kinda wasted about 2 hours showing some people’s DotA matches and stuff. The LAN was only set up around 11:10pm and a LOT. I repeat. A LOT of problems popped up immediately.

First of all, they used a pretty fucking fail router which couldn’t support nearly 300 machines connecting to it. Hell, at one point, pinging the ROUTER from my PC actually timed out. Yeah, the router couldn’t respond to my pings. I wouldn’t have been surprised to discover a WRT in the router room, trying to slave away at routing 300 PCs. Of course the Internet was a no-go too, since the router kept dying on us.

In the end, we had to go on for about 4-5 hours with no Internet AND LAN too, since the router was so unstable that even LAN games couldn’t work as they kept timing out. Be reminded that this is a LAN party for god’s sake. Thank god as the morning of Saturday arrived, they managed to change the routers and everyone had the Internet back up, although some idiots actually went to torrent stuff after that and earned a well-deserved lashing from the emcee. And as expected, a virus made its rounds around the PC’s too, causing a lot of people to have downtime as they tried to remove it. Thank god I didn’t have the problem. Vista is surprisingly secure at everything on default settings but then I didn’t install any antivirus on it so I might not be so sure. I’ll still have to scan that install first though. Thankfully I used another HDD and Vista install for the event.

After the networking issues were resolved, everything else went on pretty smoothly. The food they provided pretty much sucked though, all throughout the three days, but it’s better that way. Kinda cut off the need to go for long toilet breaks, ahahaha. Eventually though, the need of sleep really became a pressing issue. There was this one guy who was pretty awesome since he was very obviously sleeping, but his car (he was playing a racing game) was actually still moving on screen. More awesomely, as I passed him, the VIP’s of the event went past met and saw him as well. After that, emcee made the mickey out of him, LOLOLOLOL.

Ahh, so now that’s out of the way, expect normal blogging to resume after this. Got a full backlog of anime to watch now. I need my Felli fix.

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UPDATE 8: These guys are mad. So yeah, we’re adding in another two hours to the record to make it 40 hours even. Another two hours…. problem now would be finding good enough servers on TF2….

UPDATE 7: Just past 36 hours and we’ve officially kicked the ass of the NVISION LAN party back in August. Another 2 hours or so till we reach our target of 38 hours with over 250 participants.

UPDATE 6: 3 hours and 50 mins to 38 hours. Let’s do this people!

UPDATE 5: Took a short 30 min nap around 30th hour. Feeling much better now. I shall continue my war against Russia by fielding my newly built Tanks against their Crossbowmen. Another 6 hours and 20 mins to go.

UPDATE 4: Oh god, nearly 9 hours left, but I am feeling so sleepy. I have nearly 2 hours worth of rest time stored up but I dare not use them as I’m scared I won’t come back after that. Maybe I’ll just steal a few winks in between turns/loading screens. God I so hope that the promise of free Orange Box for all the record-breakers is true as well.

UPDATE 3: Even Civ IV got boring. Currently completing my game of The Last Remnant. Glad to know that there is so many time sinks that I have. Nearly 40 hours w/o sleep… well discounting some nod-offs I had while playing Civ IV. Another 12 hours to go.

UPDATE 2: 20 hours now. Another 18 left. Oh god, I am so collapsing after this. Even L4D and TF2 get boring after nearly 18 hours of it, so the past two hours has been me playing Civ IV, the ultimate time sink game. I expect it to get me through at least another 6 hours. God bless Sid Meier and Firaxis Games.

UPDATE 1: 14 hours in. It’s lunch time now. L4D and TF2 are the only things keeping my consciousness awake. Whoever wants to try and do a L4D game with me can add me, ‘Kurogane-Cyberfusion’ on Steam. Hopefully the internet holds.

Blogging live from Cyberfusion 2009, the largest (and probably the first of its kind) LAN party in Malaysia with the aim of breaking the Guinness World Record for the longest LAN party recorded.

Lots of teething issues to start with, heck we all couldn’t even get decent Internet connection until now. Four hours in to the party now with another 34 hours to hang on, and I bloody hope they’re giving us Phenom II X4’s at the end of this.

Anyways, no anime probably for the weekend, but I’ll be updating myself throughout the event.

Currently finished a crazy bout of L4D with townberry and FatCatLim, probably gonna do some Steam gaming later on. Man I sure hope I can survive.

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First thoughts, this game is definitely as gruesome as advertised, but surprisingly, I wasn’t too disgusted by much of the game. Possibly because I’ve already been spoiled to certain parts of the story. It’s definitely not for the faint-hearted or with loose stomaches though, but I certainly think most people who are will avoid it, or at least dive in to it, properly warned.

The story is still pretty unnerving though, especially if you finish it fully by going through all three endings. The theory behind Saya’s true origin is especially disturbing as well as the lengths that Fuminori goes in order to protect his life with Saya. A plunge in to madness, as many would say, but surprisingly, Fuminori’s actions come off as… understandable to me, which is quite a dangerous thing to say, but speaks volumes of how good the writers portray Fuminori’s character.

Saya is surprisingly lacking of screen time though, but it’s a good move since we mostly see her in the “angelic” light that Fuminori paints her in, which enhances further on how dangerous she really is to the reader. Undoubtedly, she is cute… really cute. Nitroplus’s character designs are really quite attractive.

It’s really been a… dream(?) come true to be able to read one of the critically acclaimed VN’s released this decade, from the venerable Nitroplus team. Saya no Uta is really a great experience and I’m really thankful for Moogy from TLWiki who put in his effort to make this game accessible to a wider audience.

Now I gotta finish up Princess Waltz…. orz

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So satisfying I’ve been playing it non-stop for the past 3-4 days. My exams this semester is doomed again… sigh.

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Also unlocked the prototype skins. Prince looks less colorful but more buff. Elika’s skin = Storm (X-Men) LOL.

Now all we need is just the n**e mods for the game, hahahaha.

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One thing needs to be said though… OH GOD ELIKA IS HAWT.

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God I love Japan(ese fanart).

In the meantime, I’m still waiting for the mods for RA3. The game has gotten a bit too boring and the micromanagement is killing my interest in it.

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It’s actually way better than I expected, and I’m thankful that my worst fears of EA LA screwing up the game didn’t come true. Japan is still rather hard to get used to for all their transformation units. I suck at micro’ing in RTS’es. Their naval units are pretty awesome though.

Just finished through the campaign, and let’s just say the story is a bit subpar compared to RA2, but there are a bunch of crazy missions to balance it out. The Mount Rushmore one was pretty damn whacked as well as the reverse Pearl Harbour one too. At the least the sense of craziness is still there in the team, hahaha. In terms of storyline, the Soviet one was rather lame, since the twists were almost similar to the RA2 campaign. The Allied one was quite spiced up a bit nearing the end and the most original one is the Japanese campaign. Even the acting was better in it.

Trust me though, the FMV’s in RA3 have really subpar acting, generally though. In both the Soviet and Allied ones, I really didn’t feel any connection to the story at all, since the acting was rather wooden all the way. I think I mentioned somewhere that I hated the new Tanya, and yeah, I still hate her. Thankfully no Yuriko actress in the game though, LOLOLOLOL.

Finally, HELL MARCH ROCKS FUCK YEAH.

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