Or supply ownage if you prefer. Awesome video showing what you can do with an ammo box and some C4 in Battlefield Bad Company 2. Thanks Field Operative!
And in related news, it’s also possible to fly a jetski using C4!
Clean ball point pen off your LCD easily
Several months ago my son grabbed a ball point pen off my desk and with glee scribbled on my LCD monitor. I was of course upset and researched the best way to remove the offending marks. Various methods and potions were recommended but I didn’t do anything about it. I got used to the scribbles, although looking at a web page with a white background was always annoying.
Eventually I asked again and Alex recommended Isopropyl Alcohol. Today I remembered that advice and asked for “i s o alcohol” in a chemist. I received a funny look in reply but she figured out what it was. She brought over a box of “Alcotip Swabs”. 5c each so I bought 4, just in case.
Did it work? Did it what! The swabs dried out quickly and it took two to clean the ball point pen marks off the monitor but it worked exceptionally well! I hardly had to apply any pressure as the alcohol dissolved the pen marks with ease. Here’s a gallery showing the pen marks (not so well), and the swabs. These things work really well if you have ball point marks on your screen!
I got a cheap USB keyboard to use with m…
I got a cheap USB keyboard to use with my PS3 and Xbox! Nice basic model from Sweex that cost me €9.99 and even came with a message from Leon!
PS. I also finally cleaned my monitor. In games I couldn’t make out the ball point pen marks at all but they really bugged me while doing any work or browsing the net.
PPS. The “XCM Multi-Consoles Component Cable V3” from Play Asia is still “Preparing order” 5 days after ordering it! Argh!
Congratulations must go out to Bruce Eve…
Congratulations must go out to Bruce Everiss who never gave up in his attempts to uncover the truth about the online game Evony.
The Chinese company finally threw in the towel on day two of the trial in Australia. Here’s hoping that’s the end of it and Bruce can get back to normal blogging.
The company abruptly abandoned its case against Everiss, which was being heard in the supreme court in Sydney, halfway through the second day of the case – and is now facing a legal bill of A$114,000 (£68,800) for the defence’s costs.
In a statement put out by Benjamin Gifford, the “vice development director” of Evony’s legal and intellectual property strategic division, the company said that it would not pursue the case in Australia or elsewhere. He told the Guardian that the decision had been driven by criticism from players of the game. “A lot of our players expressed opinions about the lawsuit,” he said, “and we reacted to that.”
Everiss, who lives in Coventry, declared himself “relieved” but noted that a quirk of the Australian legal process means that the case is not concluded until Evony pays a second tranche of A$80,000 of costs by 12 April. If it does not, the case reconvenes.
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The best Modern Warfare 2 montage
Could this be the best ever MW2 montage? Brilliantly edited and keeps you watching the whole way through with a thumping soundtrack. Nice job Yoblacksheep (via)
Congrats to Geoff for winning the March …
Congrats to Geoff for winning the March Madness competition! Great Modern Warfare 2 video too.
I sprint around corners too much. Always in a hurry to get killed, is me.
PS. check out my first post on the new games blog by myself and guys from work.
Spawn trapping parachutists in Bad Compa…
Spawn trapping parachutists in Bad Company 2. This is so mean. I’d have left the game or tried to move sideways back and forth to dodge those shots. Probably wouldn’t have helped much however.
It’s a bad sign when I’m willing to pl…
It’s a bad sign when I’m willing to play Bad Company 2 multiplayer on a non-HD screen even after I bought the Modern Warfare 2 stimulus map pack.
So, myself, David and Conor played a few…
So, myself, David and Conor played a few hours of Bad Company 2 tonight. We’re all low ranking players but getting to know the game better as we play. One of the new Rush maps, Laguna Presa, came up time and again and on my low res screen the foliage was a b*tch to see through. On the bright side David’s mic worked, but Conor’s didn’t. I contemplated calling him and leaving the phone on speaker phone as I have loads of minutes but that probably wouldn’t have worked too well.
Later Geoff sent me an invite to play and I asked David and Conor to join me. David did join the game but I think the game filled up and Conor couldn’t. Unfortunately for us we were playing against Geoff and his highly coordinated team on a map I presume they know well as Geoff’s latest video is set there! Let me just say, I hate Laguna Presa. The one highlight for me was knifing 3 enemy soldiers as they sniped from a cliff. Their medic got me though and then I got kicked out of the game so I’m not sure if those kills still count.
We got trounced, mostly.
I went looking for Conor and found him in Arica Harbour, playing Squad Deathmatch. I wasn’t on his team, but I did end up on the winning team, helping out with heals and revives and 7 kills to reach the winning score. Pure luck I ended up with them of course.
I’m almost rank 4 now (I think) and I unlocked the red dot sight and the first of the health pack improvements.
Update: David blogged about his game and he ended up doing well:
At that point I was going to blog the disaster and go to bed – BAH! But then I thought, let’s give it another go, I’ll use the Medic class and basically just stalk one of the other players shoving medpacks in his face and reviving him whether he likes it or not.
I rock.
Some other things come to mind. I’m sure I’ll remember some more later:
- There’s a glitch in Laguna, in the third base I think. It’s the one with the river running through the front of the base. I was disabling the bomb when suddenly I was in command of the guided missile launcher that was several feet away. I went WTF, got killed by Geoff in his tank behind me and the bomb exploded!
- Squad deathmatch is populated by lots of snipers. I was being sniped by a guy hidden in some trees but thankfully I was behind walls so the bullets didn’t hurt too much and a health pack helped. I waited him out and he eventually decided to run for it when I mowed him down with my LMG. Amazingly the roof of the house I was in was home to a sniper taking aim on the town in Arica Harbour. He had his back to the ladder. so the combat knife came in handy. Unfortunately his buddy sniper got me.
- On the first base in Laguna, we didn’t use the heavy gun on the boat enough to soften up the base. Must do that in future.
Anthony shows off his Modern Warfare 2 c…
Anthony shows off his Modern Warfare 2 classes. I’ve played with him a few times and he always rips through the enemy so I was particularly interested in this.
I notice he has completely different perks to me, but I bet he’d still be a better player even when using mine. I haven’t used steady aim since I got my headset as my footsteps were so loud but maybe it’s time to revisit perk 3 again.