| August 1st, 2005
 here's
somewhat of a growth in the links below. Once again, I've gone
and added another,
Ann Coulter Tossed My Salad. As the text-link narrates, it's a
blogger that won't bore the everliving hell out of you. It's very
reminiscent of the
True Porn Clerk Stories.
It's not what you think, and
you'd honestly be surprised.
Anyway, I decided I'd post a link
to ACTMS because it seems he's linked me as "Worth A Look," and a
good number of referral hits that are not search engine
results are because he's linked me to his site. So, there you go. I
guess that's a link trade or something. I don't feel violated, and
nothing's bleeding.
Also of note, someone in Tel Aviv
(or so that's where they say they're from) found it necessary to
create not one -- but two LiveJournal icons for themselves. I
present them here, in all of their animated GIF glory.
That's Rupert in the top icon and
Bob in the bottom. Rupert's picture is taken from
Do
Not Herald, way back on September 23rd, 2003. I'm not quite sure
where Bob makes the specific appearance he's making in that bottom icon.
As the kids say, I appreciate the
"props," dawg.
I've been playing a lot of
Battlefield 2 recently. It would be a good game, if it were not
for a few very bad points.
- You rarely ever know who or
what killed you. If you're out of a vehicle, you simply roll over
onto your back and stare at the tiny black hole in the sky,
begging for a medic to revive you. If you're in a vehicle, you
smolder for fifteen seconds.
- The new patch to fix the
incredibly flawed, bare-bones multiplayer server system isn't due
out until the end of August. This was announced in the
middle of July.
- Searching for any games in
multiplayer completely erases whatever list you were given when
the game pings servers itself after start-up.
- Once you finally get into a
game, you'll somehow disconnect twenty-five percent of the time.
- The EA Website is a maze of
annoyance and frustration. Their help section includes a help
section on using their help section. I'm not making this up.
- Teammates are almost always
completely retarded. Finding anyone with even a modicum of
ability when it comes to intelligent team-play is almost
impossible.
Like I said, it could
be a fun game to play -- if it worked correctly. Simply put,
it was released way too early. The often-felt frustration
frequently overshadows the impressive improvement upon first-person
shooters. A lot more work should've gone into it before they decided
to put it to the shelves.
As my friend Stuie put it,
"Unless you get a good team, it's just like Counterstrike -- but
with vehicles."
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