Humans and zombies, the conflict continues
Humans!!! This game had “different” written all over it but it didn’t meet my expectations. Don’t get me wrong, its a fun game but it wasn’t quite as different as I thought it could be. The stereotypical scenario is a zombie outbreak forces all humans (well, atleast the smart ones) to flee the zombie invasion and fend them off. This game wasn’t any different except the humans were inanimate and you played the part of the zombie trying to get the humans – instead of the human trying to fend off the zombie.
My initial expectation of the game before I knew the rules was considerably different. I was expecting the zombies to be in the minority, trying to survive in a world full of ignorant humans out to destroy the zombie specie. I mean, come on, zombies are dead, they can’t help it if they like to eat flesh and are infectious. There have been times were little kids are just as bad. Think, “You brought what disease home from school?!” or “You put what in your mouth? Yuck!”. Yet many of us have children and our specie continues to procreate. At any rate, I digress. Instead of poor zombies trying to survive the onslaught of a human invasion it was just an all-you-can-eat buffet of flighty humans that you had to catch and either eat or infect.
The game was well balanced and it was difficult to eat or infect a human figure. If one of the other zombie players didn’t trip you up then it was worrying about the human escaping.
BA, JK, WO, CC, MR and I all had a good time playing. There were a couple really funny situations and chatter that came up. BA was full of witty zombie monologue. Unfortunately that was almost a week ago and I don’t remember much beyond who was there and enjoying the game.
More windsurfing adventures
To my dismay I still don’t have a decent picture of me, or the windsurfing board. Sunday turned out to be an interesting windsurfing day. The wind was blowing and partly gusty. The lake was also churned up with 1 – 2′ waves. Getting up wasn’t a problem but I found it hard to move. I think most of the momentum was being snatched away by the waves.
I loosened the rope holding the sail to the boom. It made more of a pocket for the wind to blow over. This helped a lot but made it harder to snap the sail when I wanted to reverse course.
The strong wind also gave me some practice going down wind. Unfortunately the waves made it very VERY hard to steady the board, even with the dagger fin down.
This outing taught me that a consistent wind is better than a gusty wind and that waves over 2′ aren’t any fun.
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.
Out of the graveyard
The end has arrived. I’m running from house to house trying to survive the zombie infestation that is monotonously limping from the graveyard in the center of town. I only have to survive for 10 days before help arrives. If the zombies don’t get me by then I just have to worry about fending off my lunatic neighbors… I mean.. friends.
Back to reality; game day was a bit mixed up. WO couldn’t make it so everyone was supposed to come to my house. Only JK and MR showed.
We played Zombie Town. It was a good game but it gets really hard to play if everyone decides to turn against one player. Normally there is enough balance so no one player can dominate the game unless they happen to be very lucky.
Windows Update Fails to Install Updates
This is a collection of links and resources I have used to repair Windows Updates which won’t install.