The Refuge Shelter

Well, as the title may suggest, I'm at home sick. At least this gives me a bit of time to work on my Math assignment, despite how boring it is.

I've generally been pretty lax with my whole blogging aspect. The holidays saw me wasting my time, and now I'm back at school. Well, not for today at least, as I'm at home due to an annoying cold. The worst part is the blocked nose, how I hate that blocked nose! Then when my ears get blocked, it's a *bleep*ing pain. Not to mention my sore throat all morning. Felt like I was swallowing a razor blade the entire time.

But anyway, things have seemed to change a little bit since my last blog. I managed to get a DS over the Easter break, and finally managed to play the Pokemon Diamond that I had on my shelf for over a year. Been playing a little bit of Left 4 Dead, as well as some Counter Strike, thanks to Chaos for FINALLY giving me my well earned forum
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Mainly my week has involved refereeing football and drastically scrambling to finish an Economics assignment.
Part of today's fun involved watching my friend receive a red card in his game, with myself and Machienzo actually assisting referees for the game.
Now I'm scowering the Reserve Bank's website to get all my information together. I haven't had as much time to play Left 4 Dead as I'd like, but soon enough I will, as Machi and I have incredible news to share. Keep a lookout!
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I just had the single greatest online game of Left 4 Dead in my entire life. Ironically enough, I hardly played the game as usual.

It was difficult to find a server that would work well, so when I did it was such a delight. I even had a good bunch of team mates, so that was awesome. I quickly became friends with one of them, ngx.morpha, and we just had the best online game as well as chat. This also came with so much in game fun, I definitely wished I had FRAPS loaded. :(

Anyway, here's a little story of what it involved, which I am ordering from how I remember it.

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Playing online, we scrambled for the Elevator. Just as Bloodyomen hit the elevators close button, Louis (who was played by a guy who had just joined) was dragged out of the elevator and shut out. We all laughed so hard, it was the funniest thing I had ever seen! Also, a few seconds after reaching the top, I got thrown through
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I promised myself that I would make a note of my latest achievement whilst playing online on Left 4 Dead.

I managed to find myself amongst a decent team within versus mode for once. We were playing as the Infected on the last chapter of No Mercy. We decided to use the most obvious tactic, which was to wait and pounce them before the reached the roof via the ladder. This, combined with 2 Hunters, a Boomer and a Smoker is pure gold.

So, I began as a Hunter, and waited on the roof, above the ladder. The first survivor (Francis) popped his head up through the gap. He was immediately snatched up by a Smoker and drag off the mini section of the roof. The remaining 3 followed up the ladder as well, all getting hit by a Boomer. I had noticed that one survivor (Louis) had strayed a bit from the other two, so I immediately pounced him, pinning him just on the edge of the roof section. The other two
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Today has been a great day for me. One of my best, since the influx of lots of good news!
I managed to finish 2 important assessments for school today, one being an English assignment, the other being a Business Seminar presentation.
The seminar one was a bit of a scare, considering the fact that literally minutes before I was to present, I had my USB in the computer, getting a little more organised. Then, unknowingly, this idiot kid from my class decided to pull out my USB and announced "Who's USB is this?", taking it out of the USB port whilst I was transferring files from it.
I literally almost shat bricks. Thankfully the USB still worked, and I gave the other student a stern abusive speech to. The teacher even laughed at it!

Both assessments went well, and I continued the day normally. When I arrived at home, I was greeted by a message from Chaos about winning the Left 4 Dead Forum them
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Well, I recently acquired the game Prinny: Can I Really Be The Hero? At first it was fun, but that love relationship wuickly turned to hate. I hate the stupid boss system, I hate the health system. Pretty much the factors that bring it down are the ones I detest the most. Don't get me wrong, it's an enjoyable game, it's just that I feel mortal *bleep*ing man was not meant to accomplish it. After spending hours trying to beat the final boss, I rage quit by turning of my PSP and throwing the game at the wall. I guess I'll just wait till I can get a *bleep*ing save file to quench my thirst, because obviously, the game was JUST not worth it.
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Well, looks like QLD ROAR *bleep*ed up their chances of a Grand Final yet again. Even though the game was in Adelaide, I managed to see it courtesy of a friend with cable TV. I thought the game was generally woeful. Queensland really wasted the opportunities they had, despite the fact that they were receiving them by the handful.
Alas, good job to Adelaide, and I hope you get *bleep*ed up by Melbourne like last time.

Right now it's pretty late and I have school in the morning. At least my Friday was good, having a nice chat with girl I have a good thing with. Hopefully as soon as my school holidays begin, we can get out more. I might decide to keep you all posted, if you're in the least bit interested.
Be on the lookout for my latest user review. I managed to must one an hour or so ago. I hope it's helpful to some.
Well now, I must go to sleep for another shit week of school. Enjoy, bloggers
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Just got home from yet another Queensland Roar game. Was definitely a treat. The 2-1 win has sent us through the semi-finals into the preliminaries. It was an awesome game to behold, despite the fact that myself and my friend Pottsy had somewhat woeful seating arrangements. Te first goal was an excellent shot across ground by Mitch Nicholls in the first half. The 2nd came in the second half by Matt McKay, slotting it on the left within a gap inches wide separating Vuckovic and the goal post. Sadly, as Pottsy and I were searching for our goddamn friend, we missed the *bleep*ing goal. Ohh well, it was a great experience and I had loads of fun.

One thing to mention was that a flare went off during the game. I managed to capture some of it on footage in low quality, but still good. I'll be posting the match highlights as soon as they arrive. ;)


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It's literally just hours before I begin my all nighter of Left 4 Dead. I must say, I've become heavily addicted to that game. I'm surprised I've managed to stay off it for the past few days.
Ohh well.
I plan to record some more movies and hopefully upload them for all to see. As usual, they are all packed full of fun and excitement.

Here are the first to Chapters of the first campaign, as well as some gameplay of online versus mode. Machienzo and I are soon to make a compilation of the best clips of all our recorded gameplay, so stay tuned.

No Mercy: The Apartments


No Mercy: The Subway



Versus Mode Online

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Well, as you may have guessed it already, I've been absolutely hooked on Left 4 Dead. I just got it yesterday afternoon and managed to install it on our parents good computer. It runs perfectly, which I am absolutely loving.
Now, if I was so hooked, why would I be blogging and not playing? Well, with my time, I've decided to make some videos of my gameplay, just for fun. Most are actually quite good.
So far I've taken video of the first 2 chapters of No Mercy and the rest are on the way. Sadly, with FRAPS, the movie files are so *bleep*ing huge in file size, I'm sitting here waiting for them to convert to a smaller size.
As well as story mode, I've had a few of online versus mode. I just love playing as the Hunter!

So, as I continue to play, a 11pm at night, school in the morning, know that if I die, I died happily.
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