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Cardboard Weaponry – The Flamethrower

September 4, 2016September 27, 2016 Medic 0 Comments art, cardboard, pyro

My obsession with cardboard replicas of weapons is an odd one. Sadly, as the walls close in and I run out of space to put all my weapons, it seems that my future cardboard weapon exploits will fall towards smaller weapons, mostly secondary weapons. Why? Because I made a flamethrower and it’s taking up way too much room right now. The cardboard Flamethrower is probably the most oxymoronic weapon I’ve made. A replica flamethrower made out of an incredibly flammable material. Seriously, cardboard is cool to set on fire and it glows nicely if it’s coated in plastic… don’t try… [Continue Reading]

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I’m not going anywhere

September 2, 2016September 1, 2016 Medic 0 Comments rant

Hey look, something more akin to an actual blog post. Really, the Daily SPUF is more of an opinion factory than an actual blog. We don’t talk about real life stuff. We produce articles and things like that. I feel I should explain what’s going on lately because I’m clearly not myself, I barely post on SPUF, I barely answer messages, I’ve only recently taken over the Daily SPUF again, as aabicus ran the site throughout August. Well, at least until he went on holiday. Then the site crashed and I spent WAY too much time bringing you the new… [Continue Reading]

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On the Species of Dragons

September 1, 2016September 27, 2016 Medic 0 Comments dragon, ramble, roar

Dragons don’t exist. They probably never will. Yet people still argue about them and what they think dragons should look like. This argument is generally between four-legged, two-winged dragons and wyverns, with a lot of people saying that wyverns ‘aren’t true dragons’ or ‘are inferior to four-legged, two-winged dragons’ and other similar arguments. Well bollocks to that! Let’s get the bias out of the way first. I really like wyverns as a type of dragon. They can get away with being more elegant than your standard four-legged, two-winged dragon, despite the fact that they have trouble walking on land. Then… [Continue Reading]

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Me and my Chromebook

August 31, 2016September 17, 2016 Medic 0 Comments chrome, chrome book, non-tf2, operating system

“Using Cloudready and the new Chromium OS, you can turn your old, slow Windows computer into a blazing fast new shiny Chromebook!” I was told as a shitty old laptop that dies the second you unplug it from the power supply was dumped in front of me. “Go on, I know you can do it!” A short father-daughter activity later left us waiting for Chrome to load itself. It was used once by my father then forgotten. Then my laptop died, and here I am, typing articles on a Chromebook. The relationship… isn’t great. This laptop though, back in its… [Continue Reading]

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Rambling on about Minecraft – My way of playing

August 29, 2016September 17, 2016 Medic 0 Comments blocks, building things, minecraft, non-tf2, ramble

I’m genuinely surprised that I haven’t written more Minecraft articles in the past. I used to be an avid Minecraft player, especially back when I started writing for the Daily SPUF, but it’s never really come up. I suppose it’s because everyone has pretty much covered Minecraft elsewhere, plus I wasn’t really doing anything new or innovative like building complex redstone mechanisms or recreating world icons or things like that. I just did what most people were doing, which was survive. That being said, I HAVE recreated CTF_Turbine in Minecraft, on an old creative mode server that no longer exists,… [Continue Reading]

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Poem Day

August 26, 2016September 17, 2016 Medic 0 Comments fun, poem, SPUF

According to the billion posts on my Facebook feed from Tearaway Magazine, it’s national poetry day or something. Probably in New Zealand. Really, the only reason I’m linking that is because our former SPUFer and ferocious catsnake Dekky (the guy behind the Phlogisticast and some of the Bionicle articles here) is a writer for Tearaway and he’s a damn good writer himself. Oh and he’s a friend. Anyway, I should probably do some poems or something. But I’m lazy and I generally dislike poetry, so I’m finding poems posted on SPUF about TF2 and are posting them here. Small problem… [Continue Reading]

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A Rant About Dawnguard

August 25, 2016September 17, 2016 Medic 0 Comments ramble, rant, Skyrim

I don’t suppose many of you remember the Dawnguard Snipin’ series I did a while back, which concluded back in January, but it was pretty clear that 1. I had played through Skyrim’s vampire-based DLC before and 2. that I clearly went with the Dawnguard and didn’t consider the vampire side at all. I’ve actually played both sides, and I’m considering doing a brand new Skyrim playthrough at some point, including Dawnguard and Dragonborn, but it recently occurred to me just how stupid the Dawnguard storyline is. I did go on about it in Dawnguard Snipin’, but most of those… [Continue Reading]

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Are constant updates for the best in Minecraft?

August 20, 2016September 9, 2016 Medic 0 Comments history, minecraft, opinion, patch, update

Minecraft as a has been around for quite a long time, with me alone having been playing it since December 2010, the same time when I joined SPUF. It’s a slow burner of a game, both in the way you play and how the game gets semi-frequent updates. Each update might not try to be bigger than the last, but they always try to add more stuff. You don’t often see things getting nerfed though, it’s mostly bug fixes and new features. The updates do add more to an otherwise very sparse and often repetitive-looking world. The very early InDev… [Continue Reading]

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On Garry’s Mod

August 19, 2016September 9, 2016 Medic 0 Comments game, garry's mod, ramble, review

I actually haven’t really talked much about Garry’s Mod before. I wrote a brief article on the perils of posing in Garry’s Mod, but otherwise it’s a mostly unspoken subject. Which is weird since a lot of the Daily SPUF’s images are made by me in said game. Really, I could have moved on to Source Film Maker ages ago. I originally couldn’t because it ran so slowly on my old laptop, and my current laptop isn’t actually much better. The problem with SFM is that the program is a beefy one, which needs to run both a version of… [Continue Reading]

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Back to the very beginning of me…

August 17, 2016September 9, 2016 Medic 0 Comments bionicle, non-tf2, off topic, opinion, ponder, ramble, rambling, thoughts

I never thought I’d be the sort of person to play video games regularly, let alone be running and writing a blog about them. I never thought I’d be making websites for a living. I never thought a lot of things. One of the things that I HAVE recently been thinking about though is how I got here. Yeah, yeah, you’ve all heard it, I started off as a no one with a gimmicky name and ended up being one of the faces of SPUF with a gimmicky name. But it goes back further than that. SPUF was the fourth… [Continue Reading]