Shoot… Or Run… Or Melee?

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Another Left 4 Dead 2 post! Today I bring the whats and what nots of fighting our dearest friend, the Tank!

However, before we continue, a note from the star himself, Tank:

Dear Humans. This is Tank. You probably know me from hit Xbox 360 game Left 4 Dead. Well, Tank need to get something off chest.

It make Tank sad that as soon as you see him, you start shooting at him. Tank not mindless killing machine. Sure, Tank enjoy smashing human skulls to paste. What 12-foot tall, 800 pound, horribly mutated creature wouldn’t? But there is another side to Tank. Tank also enjoy stamp collecting, scrapbooking, and updating blog under pen name “Love Muffin”. Tank took origami class once at adult-learning annex, but fingers to big, so Tank smash teacher. Got B-minus.

So, when you see Tank on the streets of city, instead of shooting, try asking Tank how day is going. You may find that you and Tank have more in common than you think. Of course, Tank will still smash you, but you will die having made new friend. And that make Tank happy.

-Tank

If you’re still here and you still want to know how to make sure your skull isn’t turned into a fine paste, read on!

A user on the Steam forums posted this, (Urik) and it looks like it might just do the trick when it comes to facing our next Tank. This shows the amount of bullets, reloads, hits and time it takes for each weapon to kill a tank on Expert mode (click for bigger)! So the next time you look into the night’s sky and see a car rental drifting through the air at high speed toward you, remember – you should have picked up the frying pan. Screw the shotgun. Cook that mother fucker.

Left 4 Dead 2 Voice Commands

Moved to Left 4 Dead 2 Voice Commands.

Need a… Dispenser?!

Yep. He did it.

The Zombie Apocalypse Nears: Better Tell Facebook

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The Zombie Apocalypse is finally here.

What happens? Geeks everywhere already have a plan. We’re ready, not that our imaginary plans would even work. I think the best plan is to make sure you can run faster than the person behind you.

In the past few years, social networking has become huge, and more likely than anything I think we’d see: ‘lol next door just got eaten by a zombie‘ on our friend’s Facebook page. Word of mouth travels pretty quickly through social media, a lot faster than conventional media in my opinion.

So, what would you do? Maybe you’re in a taxi or car rental on the way home from some heavy drinking in town (make sure to have a dedicated driver, you might hit a zombie) and get home. Then you remember that the driver tried to bite you… Hmmm. Better tell Facebook.

Here’s an example of what you might see, come that time:

You can find more here.

Make your own Piranha Plant for Halloween!

How awesome is this?

Piranha Plant and Vincent

Super awesome.

This would be great for keeping the trick and treaters at bay, or at least scaring them! Sadly it doesn’t breath fire though… not that I would want my life size Piranha to throw awesome balls of fire at children. Nope.

These were sculpted by Kalapusa.  A really awesome job. Some more pics, including baby plant who is teething:

Teething Hurts

Piranha Plant's Mouth

I know what you’re all thinking, if you grew up in the 80s or before, at least: Feed me, Seymour! Well, you’re in luck, he also made Audrey:

Audrey

Want one? Apparently they’re going to be on eBay soon. You can check out the details in the ‘more info’ box of his ‘How to make a Piranha Plant’ video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMp4JKcz5kE

Oops

Something which I nearly forgot to talk about today was a call I got recently.

One of my friends is very into cars, I’m not really into them so I can’t tell you about what kind of car he has, or what he does to it exactly. However it’s very loud, very bright and very shiny. You know the people you see driving around with blacked out windows and a sub-woofer that’s bigger than the car itself? That’s him.

So, this happened last weekend. I get a call from the friend and I’m told that he got himself into an accident – ‘Course at first I am worried and try to figure out if anyone is hurt. He tells me that he’s fine, but that the car was stuck down a ditch and was a bit messed up. “That’s good”, I tell him, at least he isn’t hurt, right? I say to call a tow truck, or a garage for a car rental/replacement to get home (he was more than an hour away from home at this point).

He wants to try and drive the car home. I got to see the car after and half of the front had a pretty big dent and the wheel underneath the dent looked like it was about to give up and kick the bucket. Basically it wasn’t going to get him home, but he seems pretty stuck on the idea of driving it. I tell him not to, we finish talking and I assume he has called someone to help out.

About an hour later I get a text – “I think I dug it into the mud a lot more, don’t think this will work.” (I fixed the punctuation and spelling errors)

Yep, he was literally digging himself deeper.

What Did You Text Last Night?

Once again, I have browsed the Internet and returned with some goodies that will keep you entertained for a while. However the sites might contain some language not suitable for minors – I warned you!

My first find which was sent to me by a friend is FMyLife, in their own words:

Fmylife.com is a weird and wonderful addition to the web. It’s a collection of everyday anecdotes and stories likely to happen to anyone and everyone, sent to us exclusively by our users, which we then publish on the site. This is a space where you can let it all out and unwind by sharing the little things that screw with your day, and maybe realize that you are not alone in experiencing day to day crap. Posts start with ‘Today’ and end with ‘FML’. The site is meant to be fun to read and can be enjoyed on a daily basis.

and of course, an example:

Today, I received my passport in the mail. They got my birthdate wrong. Then I picked up my birth certificate that I had sent in with the application. Turns out my parents have been celebrating my birthday on the wrong day for 16 years. FML

Next up, one I found this morning while trying to figure out what I wanted to blog about: textsfromlast night. This is quite similar to FMyLife, except in text form. Another example:

(727): im pretty sure i tried to attack the vending machine last night
(303): lol who won
(727): well im in the hospital right now so u tell me

Now, off I go back to reading. If you find any good ones, feel free to share.