So November 4th, 2004 I joined the ranks of GameSpot. I was 15. And stupid.

Over the years there have been so many things I've wanted to say to so many people and just haven't had the time. There have been a lot of stories, a lot of concerts, and a whole lot of semi-colons. I want to thank all of you for making my stay here an enjoyable one; for commenting on my blogs, for making blogs for me to comment on; for putting up with my shenanigans. Thank you!

To celebrate, I've put up this fancy new blog banner that was made by mryoto over at WeGame. Check out that site if you haven't already. The community is kind of crap but the videos and the recording software are really neat.

There are a few things I'd like to share with you.

I've been dubbed a "black hole of negative emotions" by my friends here at school. The story behind it is a tale for another day. Goes back a long ways.

A list of a few things about me:

• I live in New Hampshire, and have for all of my 20 years of being. I occasionally have a New England accent.
• I've been a gamer since Christmas when I was 4 and I got my GameBoy
• I'm a whole lot more intelligent in writing but I can still hold my own in a conversation
• I play the trombone and have since the 5th grad, for more than 10 years.
• I've been involved with music for all of those years and I've played with: A Christian rock band, a funk band that played with Chuck Norris, a classic rock cover band and multiple jazz bands and I've played with or for Clark Terry, Jimmy Heath, and Antonio Hart. Favorite 3 bands are Chicago, Streetlight Manifesto, and The Mighty, Mighty Bosstones.
• I'm a Junior in college studying for a degree in Chemical Engineering
• I'm pretty miserable and stressed out, as well.

I was pretty indecisive about what to include in this post. There's so much that I want to share but it would ruin the mood. It took me an hour to narrow down what I wanted to share.

So here we are, at the end of another blog. I guess if there's any questions, I'd be happy to take them but I can't really be sure as to when I'd be able to answer them. If not, see you in the start of a new GS year. Have a good night, all

dubel_07

I was playing Team Fortress 2 and making the enemy team my ***** when my team lost. By a good bit. Since I pay for access to a server (it's called a VIP slot) that gives me permission to screw around and when we lose, I'm immune to the other team's fire and stabbing and whatnot. Well, we lost and I used the taunt key on the spy with my knife out...and I noticed that I didn't do the usual taunt. I did the Thriller dance. And then I made a machinima. And it was fun. Enjoy!

Happy Halloween!

http://www.wegame.com/watch/Team-Fortress-2-Thriller/

So yesterday I downloaded the Killing Floor update from Ireland. Of the 4 I tried, downloading from Ireland was the fastest since Valve decided to spend $25 million on an ad campaign for L4D2 instead of better servers. I don't live in Ireland (though I am Irish). Anyway...

The update included 3 new maps:

1. Bedlam - an asylum that was decked out for a Halloween rave complete with trippy lights and women who want to kill me
2. Wyre Forest - a forest that I didn't get to play a whole lot on since I got killed and of the two patched servers, the lowest had a ping of 250. Then I was kicked.
3. Waterworks - I have yet to play this one

7 new weapons

1. SCAR - The mac-daddy of the AR world. This gun is rediculously broken. Just rediculously broken. Like, going to patch it soon broken
2. Auto-shotgun - has some fancy name that I can't remember since I usually play the Commando class which specializes in AR weapons
3. M79 grenade launcher (or something) - a single-shot grenade launcher. Pretty good.
4. M82 grenade launcher (I'm just making up numbers) - 6 shot grenade launcher. This thing is sweet. Kills the boss in 12 hits. Took me about 90 seconds to kill the Patriarch with this, complete with wave of zeds in between
5. Pipe bomb - proximity mines. These rock
6. M-something-or-other Semi-Automatic Sniper Rifle - Haven't used it since I can't snipe to save my life
7. MP7 Medic gun - looks like the MG from HL2 but it's alternate fire shoots HEALING DARTS. That's just awesome.

and a NEW can't say the "c" word...uhh..."Perk Set"

The DEMOMAN! Demolitions expert specializes in the explosive weapons, specifically the grenades that are standard to every class, the grenade launchers, and the pipe bombs. Class is nasty. At rank 2 Demolitions, I had 348 kills in the 20 minute game and the next closest was 169 (Next was in the 90's). I'm gonna play more demo

So, if you have absolutely no idea what I just said, download Steam and try the Killing Floor FREE WEEKEND where you can play the FULL GAME FREE. Completely FREE. Plus, this weekend, it's only $15. Go for it. I'll do a real proper blog sometime soonish.