Lazy blogger is lazy!
Seriously tho, I’m turning into a real Starcraft Esports addict, I keep watching the games from the Korean leagues. I’m even watching a game as I’m writing this, Fantasy vs. Mind.
Where did this all start? Starcraft was never popular around my gaming buddies, when we did LAN Parties we never even played it once, only RTS I can remember us play was Age of Empires/Mythology and that kind of thing, but most of the time we used to play FPS games like CS, battlefield, COD etc.
When BlizzCon 2007 went live I started watching the Stream of the events of the Con, mostly to catch some panels and just stuff like that (being a WoW player ;)), however, I kept the stream running on my other screen and after a while they started to show the tournaments, first WC3. Tournament wise its “ok”, but it feels to slow for me, and to hero based. Lose your hero, lose the game :<
Then after those games they showed the StarCraft tournament with shoutcaster Nick ‘Tasteless’ Plott, this guy is crazy when casting StarCraft and he’s really good at it. Currently he’s in Korea shoutcasting for GomTV as the english part of the show, together with a Korean female known as lilsusie.
This got me interested, but not enough to look around for games to watch, it wasn’t until WWI08 I got really into the watching of the games and wanting to watch more and even learn to play the game (Of course the announcement of StarCraft 2 gave a little boost in this :D). I started looking around and I found sites like TeamLiquid and SC2GG who had some nice info about where to find replays, vod’s and even english casted games by both amateurs and people like Tasteless.
At first I only watched games of players that interested me, like: boxer, this guy is f*cking king, too bad his in the army now and doesn’t play as much as we want him too. (Its funny tho, the Air Force in Korea has their own team in the Leagues :D).
After a while I ended up catching up to the preset games which actually made things a lot more interesting looking at results and the current standings in the leagues and stuff :D
I used to watch football and stuff like that, but tbh, this is a lot more interesting and fun to watch. At least for me :D
After I cleared the first Kingdom Hearts (which I really enjoyed!) I started working on the sequel on proud mode, being the harder mode on the normal game, for my first run.. Some bosses were pretty annoying (Xaldin >.<) on this mode. Mostly annoying were the trashmobs taking half my hp in one swing, fun fun!
Didn’t do sephi-boy yet, think I need to level a bit to do him on proud mode. Think I cleared it with Sora being below 50. Got final form tho, but wtf is the point of drive forms if you can’t use it on the final encounter :<
My clear screen can be seen here.
http://kotaku.com/5025018/final-fantasy-xiii-coming-to-xbox-360
As a major FF fanboi (;DDDD) I’ve always owned a its platform of choice (nes, snes, psx and ps2) over other consoles, simply due to the money.. and tbh, the games on those platforms are amazing :D
I’m not that much of a console gamer anymore, I’d rather have my games coming on the PC simply cause I will prolly always use one. However when it comes down to J-rpgs I bite the apple and go for the console. My biggest problem used to be that I didn’t own a working TV, the one I have is really really old and I can’t seem to find the remote anymore :< However, I bought this awesome device called “VGA BOX”, its basicly a vga switchbox allowing me to transfer VGA output into my PC Monitor and switch between sources, this made it possible for me to play my PS2 again a lot more and I’ve cleared Kingdom Hearts, starting on Kingdom Hearts 2 now.
When I bought my PS2 I used almost all my savings on it (being like 15yo lol) simply to play games like FFX and the likes. It got bagged for a while simply cause I didn’t own a TV! Now the new generation consoles comes out and its new generation of games and I have to admit, FFXIII looks pretty damn awesome. The new main characters look great, and I hope the new story will fit them well! The gameplay seems more fast-paced, pretty different from the standard turn-based, I guess they’re going for a different style (Tho all I’ve seen is the E3 trailer, It might still be turn-based, but I doubt it :D).
Now I’m at this big dilemma tho… xbox360 or PlayStation3? I’ll prolly still buy the PS3 sooner or later instead of a xbox tho, I still have a lot of PS2 games I’d like to play through and with the PS3 being backward compatible I don’t have to swap consoles to play them. And the FPS/Action/RTS stuff on the xbox don’t really interest me that much, I’d rather play those with a keyboard and mouse >.<. It’s gonna have to wait untill I get a more steady income anyways :D
local g = getfenv(0)
local OnMouseDown = function(self) if(IsAltKeyDown()) then self:StartMoving() end end
local OnMouseUp = function(self) self:StopMovingOrSizing() end
-- [[ TotemFrame ]]
local tb = TotemFrame
tb.UnregisterEvent = function() end
tb.UnregisterAllEvents = function() end
tb.noomnicc = true
tb:SetMovable(true)
tb:SetUserPlaced(true)
tb:EnableMouse(true)
tb:RegisterForDrag("LeftButton")
tb:SetWidth(128)
tb:SetHeight(38)
tb:SetScript("OnMouseDown", OnMouseDown)
tb:SetScript("OnMouseUp", OnMouseUp)
tb:RegisterEvent"PLAYER_TOTEM_UPDATE"
tb:RegisterEvent"PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD"
tb:SetParent(UIParent)
tb:ClearAllPoints()
tb:SetPoint("CENTER", UIParent, 0, 0)
for i = 1,4 do
g["TotemFrameTotem"..i.."IconCooldown"].noomnicc = true
end
This makes the default TotemBar in WoW show regardless of you using the default playerframe, it will also move it with pressing down alt while clicking on it. Will prolly clean up the code some and release it later on.
local socket = require("socket")
local port = "27910"
local host = "aq2.catchgamer.no"
local packet = "\255\255\255\255status\n"
local ip = assert(socket.dns.toip(host))
local udp = socket.udp()
udp:setpeername(ip, port)
local nsent, err = udp:send(packet)
local header, err = udp:receive()
local t = {players = {}}
header = header:sub(11) -- strip away the firstline
for key, var in header:gmatch'\\([^\\]+)\\([^\\\n]+)' do
t[key] = var
end
for frag, ping, player in header:gmatch'(%d+) (%d+) "(.-)"\n' do
table.insert(t.players, { player = player, frag = frag, ping = ping })
end
local output = string.format("%s, players: %s/%s, map: %s [%s]", t["hostname"], #t.players, t["maxclients"], t["mapname"], t["gamename"])
print(output)
Prints out:
23:17:14 steino@kimiko work $ time lua q2.lua
Catch-Gamer.no AQ2 #1 Teamplay, players: 7/16, map: urban3 [action]
real 0m0.078s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.010s
Requires Luasocket.
Made by Me and haste.
You can basicly make this work with any kind of game out there aslong as you know what packet to send. Qstat is a nice place to look for info on other types of games (hf reading that source :—D)
