The Life of Wighar Stamfaste

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.

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 2

I bought the game in October from my favorite online retailer Webhallen.com, I had heard there was a lot of fuzz about it not having dedicated servers but was matchmaking, but I wasn’t really intrested in how it would connect me to others as long as I could play it multiplayer while I was not playing it in singleplayer mode.

I found myself bothered though by the laggy matchings that it made now and again, i was at times set in games where the ping rate ran over 100ms, this obvious to many with high performance machines such as my own makes the multiplayer experience lacking finesse, knowing im not alone in this I queried a few searches on the search engines out there, the result was to edit mp_config.cfg that you locate in your “steam\steamapps\common\call of duty modern warfare 2\player” folder, edit the file and exchange the line
seta cl_maxPing “800″ (default value)
to something more accurate like
seta cl_maxPing “110″
This should apparently limit matchmaking to not accept any hosts over 110ms ping
Source Article: “Tank Master’s Blogg (Swedish)

This little trick seems to work, I have not had any laggy hosts in MW2 since, but to further improve my performance I installed the O&O CleverCache 7 Professional and O&O Defrag 12 Professional, I thought testing these things would be fun just for a goof, but in overall my computer performed much smoother in MW2 as well as many other games on my system, so much so I am acctualy thinking of buying the software when the trial version runs out.

Christmas Shopping

Browsing the Web for christmas gifts for people can sometime be terrible if you dont have a clue what the want or like, I was searching among many of the major stores online to see if there was anything I could afford or that i knew the individual would like, for another gamer you might come of well with a gift on steam for example but its not as much a pleasure as a store bought package wraped in colourful paper.

If i had a girlfriend I would have looked into jewelry or something affectionate, this might sound strange to some but I would buy a cat bell and make a necklace or chocker thing of it and give it to her in a box with the note “To my dearest one for which I would feel lost, A bell that shall guide my way to you always”, maybe a touch more romantic note that rhymes a bit more, but you get the point, that or if I would have enough money a voucher for a luxury spa weekend or such, I don’t know, depends on her likes and dislikes if she tells me honestly what she wants

Funny Stuff simple and Easy all day fun things and such…

Kotaku.com “Rise and Shine, Mr. Freeman. Rise and Shine”
This one made me laugh out loud (lol), that makes me wonder when Half-Life 2: Episode 3 will come…

GirlsDontPlayGames.Com
I like this comic and the style is cute ^_^, I know some girls who play games and are really good at it, I have had my behind handed to me by girls in FPS now and then nothing wrong with that , I think it’s cool that there are less stereo-types in and about gaming these days.

MegaTokyo: “not something we can change”
I like this online Manga and I especialy love the Neko (or is it a Kitsune) Girl in this strip, I try to follow the series and jump to it when I see the update message in my RSS reader when a new strip is posted
among most favorite characters in MegaTokyo i must say that Ping and Erika are those I seem to have the most intrest in as of the time of writing, might be because they have the most picture time right now

*walks around in infinite Cyberspace with his mind on other things…*