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And Now For Something Completely Different

Katana has put together an authentic Monty Python style vid done Team Fortress 2 style. If John Cleese and the gang played TF2, this is how it would be.

A number of humorous sketches filmed in Team Fortress 2. I didn’t really have any ideas as to how I could correlate them, but I hope you can enjoy it anyway.

TF2 - Something Completely Different from David Keyworth on Vimeo.

All it really needed was a giant foot coming down and squashing everyone, and it would have been perfect.

Cheers to John for the link

Update I tracked down a nicer res version at Vimeo and embedded that one instead. If you’re on a slow connection, and want the crappola Youtube version, you can check it out here.

It’s getting to prime time. Around about 9pm. You’ve been playing for a few hours now, and having a good time with the regular crew. But you know they aren’t far off. They’re getting ready. Waiting. One by one, they arrive. They blend in at first, but before long they’ve overwhelmed the server population. The quality of gameplay goes down - yet they scream and demand more of you. As if you are there to personally entertain them. Who the hell do they think they are?

They’re the middle aged player with precious few minutes on their hands. They’re on an urgent mission to sneak in a few minutes idle gaming in between getting kids off to bed, or watching TV, or after getting home from a long day before crashing and doing it all again.

I’ve been half way through writing this post for a while. I get a certain way through, then lose momentum and hit the delete button. I think people have come to expect exaggerated tales of outlandish stereotypes on this site. The middle age whiner just seemed too… familiar. I’d be trying to come up with funny anecdotes, but they all seemed fairly ho-hum. Is it because middle aged players just aren’t that interesting?

It’s… me?

A couple of weeks back I hit the bit three-O. And it hit me. The reason it is so hard to find anything extreme because - it’s me I’m talking about. I have slowly become one of the middle aged work/life balance whiners I was so trying to mock.

I just get cranky. I get an hour max to play most days. Crammed somewhere in between getting home from work, making dinner, doing dishes, chilling out, and going to bed. This explains a few of my outbursts of recent note. MY TF2 SESSION IS PRECIOUS DAMN IT. You kids are screwing with my tightly planned out leisure time. IT’S ON THE SCHEDULE STUCK TO THE FRIDGE. IT’S SACRED!

Yes. I have finally admitted that I don’t like teenagers’ music. I like watching the same lame TV shows my parents liked. My hair is getting grayer by the week. And my fitness levels get harder to maintain. Yup. I’m a cranky old man with cranky old man views on how things should be. And I will tell you about it - as is my need and want as a white, middle aged male.

So what’s your problem anyway? Just play more if you really want.

So why exactly am I like this? Lets look at a photo essay of my life commitments which contribute to my lack of quality TF2 time:

• Acting in an ecologically sustainable and socially responsible manner
  Getting face-crammed next to some fat guy with body odor on the train.
  
• A challenging and rewarding career
  Updating this blog from work, and trying to look busy (Just kidding if you’re reading this Adam and Mark - You know I’m good )
  
• A rich and rewarding social life
  This mainly just involves drinking really
  
• Spending quality time with my significant other
  No seriously, this bit is actually pretty good. We enjoy ourselves and are happy .
  

So what can you do about it?

Well, not much really. But I’m pretty harmless. I’m not into it enough to really cause any harm. I’ll mostly just whine at people who I think are more incompetent than me on my team. I have a tight little window to play every night. It’s gotta be casual games, cause I don’t have time for clans. I am expecting quality. If you don’t give it to me I WILL bitch about it on voice comms.

So… just mute me if you want.

One heavy’s tale of flabs to riches.

The story of Armchair Warrior, someone who decides he must get in shape after a rough experience on a Team Fortress 2 server and later returns to see if his training has paid off.

Made by Xanatos and the Janus Syndicate

I reckon they needed some meat carcass punching during the training scenes.

I’ve spotted this floating around a few sites, but I think original credit goes to Peter C O Johansson over at monkeyblah.com.

Godamn spies…

Gah, another non TF2 ramble.

It’s almost April FFS. Autumn in this part of the world. What temperature is it?

(Thats about 100F for all you non-metric kids.)

TOO DAMN HOT. We should be having pleasant low to mid 20s about now. Enjoyable temperatures to go outside. Light shirt weather. Instead it’s been high-30s/low-40s all week. 27C degrees. And thats at 9:30am. In March! I suffered through the stupid hot temperatures all the way through summer. The only thing that got me through was the thought that when we hit Feb/March things get comfortable again.

So, could everyone please just you know. Stop driving. You don’t need that damn SUV to go pick up the milk from the store.

Although thinking about it, probably the worst car based pollution source in the world on this particular day, is happening just down the road.

I swear that each one of those whiny F1 cars looping round Albert Park for a day puts out the same carbon emissions as your average shuttle launch. I live about 7km from the track, and I can still hear them - and the buildings of the city directly block line of sight. 747s flying overhead taking off from the airport are quieter.

*sigh*

For the record, I don’t own a car. Never have. This is what my commute looks like every day:
(Those people aren’t just standing at the door - they’re the front edge of a crowd of about 30-40 people jammed into that door well, because its the only place left to squeeze onto the train)

n00bie51 emailed with word of a nice little vid he’s put together showing off some back door spyware shenanigans. Thanks to people like him, I’m developing paranoid delusions about who is behind me outside of TF2 as well (this gets embarrassing when you do an IRL spy check by trying to walk through someone on the street to see if they’re on your team)

Greetings, madlep! I’ve been browsing ubercharged.net for some time and I wanted to contribute. This is my first Team Fortress 2 montage. I hope you enjoy it.

Nicely edited and all that. There is even some George Michael thrown into the mix as well.

Tricky.wmv

Pyro Rock Star is a new parody blog I’ve been helping out on the technical side of things to get up and running. There still isn’t much content on there, but they’ve got some big plans coming up.

It’s basically a blog of the Pyro’s thoughts and world views - as written as if spoken by the Pyro. Doesn’t sound like much fun? Well, they tend to keep the mumbling to a minimum and focus on Pyro related multimedia such as movies, pictures, sound etc.

Heeeeerrrre’s Pyro!!
I lrvhdu thuhth rnh. I rhn hrrundu wuhth hn hxh chrppuhng phrplh up. Bhtht buht whth thht blhcg f***hr thht durrvh 20 hrurth jutht tr ght hxhdu uhn thh bhcg. RHHHHHH!!!

If anything more wordy does need to be discussed, Pyro has Elizabeth Bourke as his “Executive Assistant” to help him out with the communications.

Good luck to Pyro and Elizabeth, and welcome to the TF2 blogging world

Project Transmissions has collected a few pics of the Team Fortress 2 guys butt kicking the Counter Strike Source kiddies from the Steam Forums.

Anything involving ritual humiliation of the plebs inhabiting that game is all good.

“Team Fortress 2 Wins”

supremesonic over abxy has written a nicely articulate rant in the style that I’m so fond of. Better still, its on a topic close to the top of my annoyance list : snipers.

Still, perhaps the only true reason I hate snipers is because I can’t really snipe myself. Yes, I’m one of those people that I’ve just been laughing at, who desperately try and pump you with sniper shells and only succeed when you have the decency to face the other way and stand still. I’m the sort of person who only gets kills simply because of the power of the sniper rifle, with one shot in your chest managing to end your life quite suddenly. Still, at least I retain some sort of sanity in the way that I know I’m not very good, because I’m not going to cheer and hold a party for my sniper friends celebrating how awesome I am, just when I kill someone running straight at me with a headshot. I always lose sniper duels as well, and along with the curse I have of being the chosen sniper target in a group of twenty other team members (I’m serious, do I have a sign above my head? “Shoot this least threatening target and ignore those shooting at you!” or something?) it probably does mean I have a slight bias towards hatred. Ok, heavy bias. Maybe disturbingly so.

cheesewiz27 (of Saving Private Ryan, Team Fortress 2 Style fame) has been hard at work team fortressizing some bad old Arnie movies.

Team Predator

It’s been a while since I’ve done anything, so I put together another one of my videos. I cut together pieces of the movie “Predator” with sounds from the Valve game “Team Fortress 2″

Team Fortress Commando - One Man Team

I didnt realize how rediculous a movie “Commando” was until I saw it on Spike the other day. I dont think it’s much of a stretch to say that the TF2 diologue is much more convincing than that of the actors.

Props to Onlinegamer.se for the find.