Yay, it’s my birthday!

Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday to meeee! Happy birthday to me! Yep, today, April 1st, is my birthday. You know, April Fools day. And yes, I am expecting to hear a lot of the same lines, like being born for a joke. I’ve heard that one a lot. But yeah, today is a great day, a day of not just celebration of getting older, but also a chance to think back and see how things have been lately. I actually don’t normally do this (and I promised a while back to not write about myself… [Continue Reading]

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Help me! The importance of knowing where everyone is…

Let’s face it, I am a spastic twat with all the coordination skills of a donkey wearing ice skates. I’m bad. And in organized play, this is multiplied tenfold in my awfulness. No seriously, poor old Jensen so rarely gets healed because I can’t damn find him. Okay, to seem less cruel to myself, Jensen is a good old Scout who never stands still, which makes even just locking onto him very tricky, but you get what I mean. Knowing where everyone is could be considered the second most important thing in the entire game, the most important thing being… [Continue Reading]

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Mod Showcase: Mario Kart

Hello. I’m Brickinator. This is Mod Showcase. The end is coming. Today we’ll be having a look at Mario Kart, the worst custom Team Fortress 2 map ever made. There are no objectives and the level is a horrific, blocky landscape covered in rainbows. It basically looks like a Lego set covered in pixie jizz. Be afraid. Be very afraid. At first glance, Mario Kart appears to be a sugary bit of children’s drizzle where you can piss around, but the more you play it the more you realise it’s actually a stonehearted exposé of everything that’s wrong with our faltering so-called… [Continue Reading]

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