Call of Duty Lan Party
Interesting facts:
- Qman, AvengerAce, Dungboy, MajCamper, Unknown Soldier, and Lord Servant were in attendance.
- Qman owened with the German Kar rifle
- AvengerAce was on the underdog team most of the time
- Dungboy had the best system on the LAN
- MajCamper is a master at wartime insults spoken in jest (so I hope, if not, he is a real pig f.....
) - Unknown Soldier made a great target, and even managed to smoke a few baddies
- Lord Servant is too humble to talk about himself
Thanks to everyone for coming. Unknown Soldier, I salute you - you gave it a shot!
Painting The Computer Camouflage
Painting the computer case camouflage doesn't make it run any faster and help out with the game, its just cool. Painting a computer case has been on my to do list for years and I finally did it. Before starting I checked out two YouTube videos that were decent. The first was pretty good but because the computer case was large and flat I didn't think this method would work very well. The second method was more fitting to my application and I liked the simple patterns so I adapted it for my own use.
You can see the results. I won't bore you with details about how I got paint on my fingers but here are a couple notes:
- I used a expensive dark green spray paint formulated to adhere to plastic as a base coat. Then I painted patterns using a cheap flat black and brown.
- Try not to use paper for templates, the paint causes the edges to curl up.
- Be sure to get some overlapping colors, brown on black, and black on brown.
- If lettering, use a stencil that has some variation to the letters and doesn't have many straight lines. It is harder to trace but hides imperfection better.
The LAN Party is going to be a blast.
LAN PARTY! Call of Duty:United Offensive
My friends and I decided it was time for a LAN party. Over the years there have been many good memories playing Call of Duty so for the same of good-old-times we decided to play it at the LAN Party. Its an older game but it should run great on everyone's machine.
If you are in the Ironwood, MI area and want to join in check out the LAN Party page for more information.
Company, Attack!
LAN Parties may be hard to setup and tedious because of hauling around equipment and hooking up cables but it sure beats playing online against some faceless foe. LS, MR, and myself got together for a little action playing Company of Heroes. WO couldn't join us because he was resting up. It was a good game, at the end of the evening we were holding our own in 3 vs. 3 against the computer. The computer skill level was expert, hard, and normal (hard/expert?).
