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Free Half-life 2 Deathmatch

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There is one negative of steam:  Individual packages can be cut up even further.

When Half-life 1 launched: any mod of it was freely available.  Now: TFC and Counter-strike are considered separate packages.  Half-life 2’s Deathmatch is actually a separate component from HL2, and was not included with Orange Box.

However, owners of Nvidia or ATI graphics cards can download HL2’s deathmatch (and Lost Coast) for free.

http://www.steampowered.com/nvidia/

http://www.steampowered.com/ati_offer1a/

Thanks, Cheapassgamer

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Torment's Intro

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Planescape: Torment.  Made with the Forgotten Realms: Baldur’s Gate engine, but significantly more plot focused and less about combat.  It almost plays like an adventure game.

It has a similar feel and presentation as the movie Momento.  However, it came out well before Momento.  Great writing overall, and great dialog.

Here are some of my previous posts on it:

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don’t tell me the ending to: Battlestar Galactica

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Battlestar Galactica is one of the best shows currently on television.  Much like other recent, popular TV series, BG is a continual story connected with consecutive episodes.  It is not a plot you can jump into midway; you have to start with the pilot and watch the show sequentially.

Galactica has introduced a number of plot and characters over its three and a half seasons.  Soon, season 4 will resume on January 16th from its mid-season hiatus.  These final episodes will conclude the story started back in 2003 with the relaunch of the show.

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Surviving Expert L4D

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I found this wordpress blog post to be both informative and interesting.  Did you know that once you set a Tank on fire, it is going to die X seconds later, no matter if you shoot it or not?  Or that if it jumps in the water the fire goes out, but it will still die X seconds later?

Useful stuff.  I’m going to have to try some of this out.

http://espion4ge.wordpress.com/2008/12/30/left-4-dead-tips-for-surviving-expert-difficulty/

I finally watched: Sukiyaki Western Django

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This is not a movie that can be recommended to anybody.  It can simply be explained.  Your listener, you, can then decide if they should get excited:

A modern take on the spaghetti western, filmed in Japan were lines are delivered in broken English from Japanese actors who may or may not actually know how to speak English.  And Quentin Tarantino has a part in it.

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there is no end to: Left 4 Dead

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Abandoned and alone in a city infested with zombies, you have no hope for survival.  The feeling of being surrounded but isolated is what most zombie/horror stories, movies, and games go for.  Yet, in many stories there are at least some other human survivors (for awhile).  Left 4 Dead centers around this aspect: the teamwork to survive.  However, in a traditional zombie movie, four CounterStrike counter-terrorist agents would have little trouble surviving.  Something has to be done to make the game challenging for the people who are already excellent at games like Halo or Team Fortress 2.

That something is the endless horde of 28 Days Later zombies.

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Club Nintendo is out NOW (in US. Has been in Japan awhile.)

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Club Nintendo is out.  Apparently, all those games you registered with your Nintendo.com account can be worth points if you take Surveys for them.

Currently, the site is being hammered, so expect sudden Username/Password rejections and logouts.  Or your todo list, which lists the available surveys you can take on your registered games, not updating.  I’d recommend waiting, but then someone may register and they’ll sell out of their few available items.

If you haven’t registered your games, that’s probably for the better.  You’ll get +10 bonus points if you declare intent to buy BEFORE registering the game itself.  Since the whole Wii game is only worth 40 (50? Reported, but I only got 40), +10 is quite a bit.

Completing a “completion” survey within 4 weeks of a games launch will also net you another +10.

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I finally beat: Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe

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Let us get this out of the way: “mortal kombat” and “teen rating.”

Now, if you are still reading, either you are new to the series or you are wondering *how* they could do that to your beloved Mortal Kombat.

The answer is: not as badly as you would think.

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Bioshock – Quote of the Day

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“The Wild Bunny, by Sander Cohen. I want to take the ears off, but I can’t. I hop, and when I hop, I never get off the ground. It’s my curse, my eternal curse. I want to take the ears off, but I can’t! It’s my curse, it’s my fucking curse! I want to take the ears off! Please! Take them off! Pleeeeeeease!”

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APC UPS on sale

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An apparently, recently discontinued UPS on sale at Circuit City.  Perhaps they are clearing them out?

http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/APC-UPS-Surge-Protector-BE550R/sem/rpsm/oid/177693/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do?linkid=j13459594k31063

Thanks, Cheapassgamer

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