Super-Duper Sombrero

Before I read this, I made one. I wasn't even going for one, though. It's not really the Pastafarian FSM, but it's kinda scary, actually. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh2u9Fm-gGU

I played on the server on Wednesday night. It was a very enjoyable experience, the server settings seem to be in order. As for the server itself, it seems very fast and reliable, my ping didn't go about 40 the whole time.

I see a disappointing lack of Sombrero on the admin list.

OK, I looked into server hosts a little bit (nothing more than a quick google search), and I've found Gameservers and Darkstar. Gameservers would cost about $30 a month for a 20-slot server, or $300 for a year at a discount. Darkstar would cost $23 a month, or $65 per three month for a server of the same size. It looks like Darkstar would cost less, but I like the layout and design of Gameservers' webpage better. As for performance, I was pinging relatively well on the Darkstar servers I could actually connect to, but more than half the servers they listed as demo servers weren't up, or they were taken down. The Gameservers servers I tested went fairly well. I tested a full server in Amsterdam, and was at 140ms. A full server in Chicago put me at 20ms. Overall, I would vote in favor of Gameservers. Their support seems to be more coherent, and their features list is more fleshed out. However, advertisements don't tell the whole story. I would much rather take the word of someone with experience with this stuff.

Only works if it's organized, though. A lone Pyro can ruin everything. EDIT: I'm definitely in support of an OCR dedicated server, and there are probably some good deals runnin with one private and one public server. Though I'm not sure how much I could really donate in terms of money, however. If we can only get one server, though, I would say make it a pub. Give admin to someOCR regulars, though.

I really like the new borders on the front page, but I agree that they're just a bit too dark. I feel they would fit more if there were a bit lighter shade.

This is win.

I remember getting to a giant spider. There was a crazy scientist who drank a potion, turned into a spider, and proceeded to destroy everything. It was horrible. I hated that guy.

I did nearly the same thing, but with Ike. His B-up sometimes spikes them as he catches onto the ledge.

My steam id is superdupersombrero. I haven't played TF2 in a while, this should get that going again. Also

You know when you're playing on an emulator, and it takes you a couple tried to get somewhere, then you save the state? Each time the Mario splits up, it's all from one savestate. So they're not perfectly overlapped, until a certain spot, it's just one until the savestate. If that makes any sense at all.

TtFaF is easier than Jordan. GH3 has an expanded note window, and allows you to miss hammer-ons/pull-offs so long as you correct them before the window leaves. It is also a more sensible piece of music, consisting of a melody, rather than random mashing of notes. Having beaten TtFaF (86% notes hit), I can still say that Jordan is not an easy song to beat.

I hate this puzzle. This is just ridiculous. I've spent more time doing research for this single level than I have for any kind of school project I've done... *grumble*

No good. Still stuck on 12. I don't even know what direction to take on this one, I've tried everything I can think of...

So I'm stuck again. This time on level 12, the Mahjongg one. I don't even know what direction to take for this one... The music is good though, I like it.

Ok, I finished level 8. I already knew what I needed to do, but I'd never heard of the answer...

What the hell? Level 8 is stupid. I don't understand... I can't think of any anagrams for any of the phrases...

Ah, thanks. Is it still eligible for remixing?

The song that plays in the sound test under track 10 is really great, and I feel it deserves a remix (The sound test is in hexadecimal, so it's actually track 16). I don't remember where it plays in the game, but I still think it's good.

This is pretty groovy. At around 0:56 a guitar comes in and breaks my speakers. Maybe pitch it down about 500 or so octaves... Good percussion at 1:50. Interesting breakdown at 2:08, but it dies out in a hurry. Not a big fan of the drums that come in at 3:44 and passages similar to that. Tone down the bass a little bit. And they carry too much of a 'hardcore' feeling with them. Don't get me wrong; this is a very good piece of music. It's going onto my playlist, and aside from those minor problems mentioned above, I think it's great!

Rockbox is nice if you want to listen to NSF files. I like how it's more customizable, and it has some cool games and apps on it. It runs through batteries like no other, though. I would recommend doing a dual-OS system like I have. Use the Apple software for listening to regular music and stuff, but use rockbox for the more attention-intensive things. Also rockbox is butt-ugly. Apple has an annoying habit of making you go through like 500 menus in order to change one option, which isn't something I always want to on my music player. When you have it set to repeat one track, pressing next and previous just plays that track again, forcing you to go back out, find the playlist you're using, scroll all the way down to whatever track you want. You know, instead of doing something practical like CHANGING THE DAMN TRACK WHEN YOU PRESS NEXT. Apple doesn't have very good customer support I'm told, so whatever you choose to do, it's probably not going to matter. If you break a screen or need to replace batteries, I would recommend replacing them yourself. I used Kokopelli Music, which seems to be a family-run business. Great service there (as far as I've use it).

That cover art is trippin', yo.

I play on Garithos, 70 Warrior named Sombrero (Alliance). It's a low pop server, so there's not much ganking or World PvP activity, but we've got some good raiding guilds. There's a guy on our server who has both of Illidan's Warglaives. I'm usually willing to help, so if you ever wanna make a character there, shoot me up with some PM action.

So I beat TTFAF yesterday (on expert). I was pretty excited. I've joined the OCR Tour Group.

I took it.