Gamers with the Xbox 360 version of Team Fortress 2 have had kind of a rough time. First we see the PC version get Medic updates and achievements, then the Pyro gets the same treatment, and now our good friend the Heavy is getting his own update (not to mention the Sandvich). We 360 gamers have sat idly by as PC gamers get to romp about with new weapons and there's a even a new map on the way. It's time to cheer up fanboys, because Valve has confirmed to GameSpot that all of the TF2 content released thus far should be hitting the Xbox 360 before the end of the year.
It's news to me. But the worst part is that i'm supporting Microsoft's Capitalism machine because i don't have enough PC power to run a game that's
A) Better on the PC
B)Doesn't cost anything for online
and C) Get's its updates quickly and for free.
PHOENIX, Arizona (AP) -- When it comes to marking up historic signs, good grammar is a bad defense.
Two self-styled vigilantes against typos who defaced a more than 60-year-old, hand-painted sign at Grand Canyon National Park were sentenced to probation and banned from national parks for a year.
Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson pleaded guilty August 11 for the damage done March 28 at the park's Desert View Watchtower. The sign was made by Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter, the architect who designed the rustic 1930s watchtower and other Grand Canyon-area landmarks.
Deck and Herson, both 28, toured the United States this spring, wiping out errors on government and private signs. They were interviewed by NPR and the Chicago Tribune, which called them "a pair of Kerouacs armed with Sharpies and erasers and righteous indignation."
An affidavit by National Park Service agent Christopher A. Smith said investigators learned of the vandalism from an Internet site operated by Deck on behalf of the Typo Eradication Advancement League.
Authorities said a diary written by Deck reported that while visiting the watchtower, he and Herson "discovered a hand-rendered sign inside that, I regret to report, contained a few errors."
The fiberboard sign has yellow lettering with a black background. Deck wrote that they used a marker to cover an erroneous apostrophe, put the apostrophe in its proper place with correction fluid and added a comma.
The misspelled word "emense" was not fixed, Deck wrote, because "I was reluctant to disfigure the sign any further. ... Still, I think I shall be haunted by that perversity, emense, in my train-whistle-blighted dreams tonight."
Deck and Herson pleaded guilty to conspiracy to vandalize government property.
They were sentenced to a year's probation, during which they cannot enter any national park or modify any public signs. They were also ordered to pay $3,035 to repair the watchtower sign.
The TEAL Web site now has only this message: "Statement on the signage of our National Parks and public lands to come."
That.... is.... awesome!!! I always want to do that, too! All those signs where plural nouns have an apostrophe before the S.... gah! I don't think they did the right thing, but it's hilarious nonetheless.
It doesn't seem like it would take ALL that much time, I mean, they have all the models done and the scripting done, all they have to do is add the achievements and spiff it up for el xboxo right?
Despite having a computer that is over 5 years old I'm sure it'll run TF2 just fine if I ever have the desire to play it. I do not understand this concept of lacking PC power for something like TF2. It's not exactly Crysis.
Team Fortress 2 is actually a fairly graphically advanced game. However, my brothers computer is absolute crap and he can run the game. Its on all the lowest settings, and its around 30 fps, but its playable.
If you have some crappy Dell with no video card, it'll make it much more difficult to run the game. But even a fairly old video card like a 6600 GT runs the game.
Yeah, the important thing is the video card. My desktop has a shitty Intel Chipset whatever and it can't run TF2 even on the lowest settings. MY laptop, on the other hand has an Nvidia card and can run it perfectly, even though it's worse than the desktop in every other aspect.
Considering Blizzard's history, I'm curious to know just how horrid your computer is that you actually think you will need something drastic to run Starcraft 2.
Portal is awesome, but so is Team Fortress 2. And so is Half-Life 2. Portal may be the best constructed game on there, but it does lack staying power. You could play Team Fortress 2 forever.
EDIT: Oh, I think it's actually, "hear hear," Keith.
I'll agree with illithid. The entire replayability of the Orange Box is Team Fortress 2. Not just because it's a multiplayer game, but probably one of the best multiplayer games ever made.
Yeah, even though I can't afford the time to play anymore, I would love to just play all day and work on those achievements. Those achievements are fun as hell.
They should require all newspeople to wear devices to give them electric shocks whenever they make a pun. I think that would make the world a better place.
TRENTON, New Jersey - Cries for help inside a house in New Jersey turned out to be nothing but a talkative cockatoo.
Neighbors called police Wednesday morning after hearing what they believed was a woman's persistent cry of "Help me! Help me!" coming from a house. Officers arrived and when no one answered the door, they kicked it in to make a rescue, The Times newspaper reported.
But instead of a damsel in distress, officers found a caged bird with a convincing call. It was not the first time the 10-year-old bird named Luna said something that brought authorities to the home of owner Evelyn DeLeon.
About seven years ago, the bird cried like a baby for hours, leading to reports of a possible abandoned baby and a visit to the home by state child welfare workers. But it was only Luna practicing a newfound sound, DeLeon told the newspaper.
DeLeon says her bird learns much of her ever-growing vocabulary from watching television, in both English and Spanish.
FRESNO, California (AP) -- Authorities say they've arrested a man who broke into the home of two California farmworkers, stole money, rubbed one with spices and whacked the other with a sausage before fleeing.
Fresno County sheriff's Lt. Ian Burrimond says 22-year-old Antonio Vasquez was found hiding in a field wearing only a T-shirt, boxers and socks after the Saturday morning attack.
He says deputies arrested Vasquez after finding a wallet containing his ID in the ransacked house.
The farmworkers told deputies the suspect woke them Saturday morning by rubbing spices on one of them and smacking the other with an 8-inch sausage.
Burrimond says money allegedly stolen was recovered
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It's news to me. But the worst part is that i'm supporting Microsoft's Capitalism machine because i don't have enough PC power to run a game that's
A) Better on the PC
B)Doesn't cost anything for online
and C) Get's its updates quickly and for free.
It's a blessing and a curse.
Typo vigilantes banned from national parks
That.... is.... awesome!!! I always want to do that, too! All those signs where plural nouns have an apostrophe before the S.... gah! I don't think they did the right thing, but it's hilarious nonetheless.
They're running on Valve Time, so before the end of the year means Early 2009, and Early 2009 means August of next year.
Come on PS3 version!
Also, TEAL FTW!
If you have some crappy Dell with no video card, it'll make it much more difficult to run the game. But even a fairly old video card like a 6600 GT runs the game.
*They are not actually awesome.
EDIT: Oh, I think it's actually, "hear hear," Keith.
That would be cool story to tell friends.
Burglar wakes men with spice rub, sausage whack