The Life of Wighar Stamfaste

Christmas Week and New Years Coming

So today is the 29th of December the countdown to new years eve will soon come to an end and we will leave 2009 to the tales of history.
I do not personally remember much from this year other than bad incidents during the fall and winter, but maybe you the reader may have had some good memories of this passing year, reflect upon them if you wish or not, be them best preserved as memories.

Time to change workload and get a new power source.

Once more the time has come when saving must be done and plans be made for the future, the computer I use was a real gamers beast when I first assembled it from the parts I had bought.
It’s proved itself to be a workhorse when I played World of Warcraft or any of the several FPS/RTS games I still play these days, however the rig is fatigued and showing signs of age, the most honorable to me is that I let this tired machine convert over from Power Gaming to General Purpose Server.

I purchased an Cooler Master Cosmos S for this purpose, the new machine is now still just a plan and an empty case, I am however unsure what I wish to put in it and how much the total cost may come to, yet I am saving money for other things as well, the computer is a secondary issue and not on my primary list of things to do, more on that I may reveal another time perhaps.

Who knows, maybe you the reader have an idea of what I should put in the computer plans?, You know certain models of GPU, CPU or MoBo and why it would suit my requirements, Do not be shy just leave a comment and I will read your ideas

Might as well ask that you who feel up for it tell me what kind of system you would build and what it would be best suited for in accordance with your own desires.

Right now I am thinking of the cooling of the machine mostly, since it is a big issue with computers to have the best possible cooling for the operations you wish to perform upon them.

The burning X broadcasts

Me and my brother spent a day playing Special Ops in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, we had some fun and I thought I would broadcast/record the match, to do so I use Xfire, though recording/broadcasting limits the fps during gameplay somewhat I decided to run on 60fps limitation while recording, for some reason the fps dropped to around 35-42 in game, why I have no clue, but it worked, even if it was a bit laggy I recorded this video of the match, In the video I am keeping back and less agile as the fps was low and damage detection is usually less reliable during it.

As you may notice I let my brother do most of the work, I am just keeping him alive and covering the rear that is less work, but then again it was the last match and I was getting tired, even though I set the xfire client to broadcast sound it didn’t do so, still trying to figure why.

(During this blog posting I have been listening to Valinor Music Radio Station on Shoutcast.com)
Happy New Year.

The Spy Uncloaked

When I play Team Fortress 2, I find its often that spies on the other teams that gets pissed of at me for some reason, today for example, wont name the french player, he or she accused me of using WH (Wall Hack for short), first of I have no idea how to use, install or even where to get one, and to explain the situation that happened is easy.

The spy was cloaked and ran thru the tunnel which I saw him run into as the cloaking field takes a few seconds to make someone fully invisible, I as a Demoman was shooting grenades into the tunnel to hit him, if it was me or someone else that hit him I do not know but spies get semi-cloaked during injury, so I saw him run into the shaft, Ready to kill the spy I don’t check who is in the shaft I instinctively shot a grenade at whatever is there, inside there was a Pyro, the pyro being the spy in disguise, short to say he was killed, He then states “Nice WH Wighar”, this of course as you understand was wrong, he left the server shortly after this.

I have previously been accused by other spy players for cheating, the problem I find with some spy players is that they think they are fully cloaked at once, when de facto it takes like 1-2 seconds for the cloak to be complete, and bumping in to enemy players or sustaining damage from explosions will brake the light on the cloak showing a walking shadowy transparent spy, Also when spies cloak they make a cloaking sound that is heard to those close enough, at one point in the same tunnel I mentioned earlier I was sniping from the end of the tunnel and I hear the cloaking sound of a spy, not sure if its one of my team or enemy team spies I turn and charge the teammate with my knife, knowing that if its a spy he will die, else it just goes thump (Friendly Fire off) and it will be counted as a “spy check”.

Notice: The following is written in Swedish

13 December “Lucia”

Då kommas December den 13:e, denna dag då lussebullar och pepparkakor serveras I var skola, och I matsalar så väll som teater scener kan man se av skolans valda elever en Lucia och hennes tåg följt av sina tärnor, stjärngossar, pepparkaksgubbar, en stalledräng och tomtar i visa fall.

Firar jag Lucia något, inte direkt, jag ser kanske lite på TV, men då brukar det oftast nu på senare tid tyvärr vara sånger som är mer av lokal tradition eller sådana man aldrig hört förut, både min mor och jag är lite mer för dom traditionella sångerna man hör I skolor och dagis.

Så vad annat gör just jag den 13:e December, inte mycket annorlunda än vad jag gör varje dag, men förstås kan man ju ha sin egen kläm på saker och ting, så i min familj tar vi oss en fika helt enkelt som vi för övrigt även gör till advents dagarna, det är vår egen lilla tradition till det hela.

Det är runt den här tiden som inskaffandet av en gran blir aktuellt i min familj och vi köper oftast en ner på byn där mina yngre bröder bär hem den, så julen äro kommen och jag önskar eder alla en god jul och med tack för att ni läst mitt lilla inlägg

With that I thank you all for reading and wish all a merry christmas and happy holidays.