gigad0m’s posterous

I'm a big fan of Valve's digital distribution service - Steam.

It allows me to buy the latest PC games at a discounted price without even leaving my home, and play them the same day without using disks and having to worry about scratching them. It has a community, making it easy to message my friends, see what they're playing and join whatever online game they're in. On top of all that, they have regular deals on various games every few weeks, sometimes offering up to 50% off selected games, all with customer support and a vast number of forum members willing to help you with any problems you encounter. With all this, what do I have to complain about?

Don't get me wrong, I love what Valve have done, but I wish it offered the same content worldwide at the same prices. The U.S is getting more games at lower prices, some that don't even look like they're being released on the U.K Steam. I realise that there's probably a lot of legal nonsense going on preventing them from releasing games worldwide, but with all that Valve have done to the gaming industry, It seems odd that after (in somes cases) months of games being released in America that there's no sign of U.K release. Haven't the game developers seen what Steam can do for sales? Particularly "Left 4 Dead" after a price drop making the overall sales go up by 3000% - http://tinyurl.com/ad6gdz

I guess this is just a silly rant. I'll continue to use the service for PC gaming in the hope to see a more fair Steam in the future.

Just found this image while browsing through my pictures folder. I forgot how humorous it was!

The invisible bike cyclist is Brendan - http://twitter.com/honytawk

The image was made in the great Photoshop CS3.

So I recently realised that I haven't blogged in a long time, In fact, I haven't blogged at all this year!

Things are much the same. Exams are drawing nearer, and I'm no-where near ready for any of them. School Is giving new deadlines everyday, and I seem to be getting hardly any sleep at all. However, even with the school nagging away, life isn't too bad. 

I've been gaming constantly for a few months. I've completed the Half Life 2 series, played online in Counter-Strike: Source, Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress 2, and attempted to stay alive longer than 5 seconds in Unreal Tournament 3.

I'm considering upgrading Maximus once again, this time replacing the RAM with 8Gb of 800MHz pure goodness (with the money that I'll *hopefully* get on my birthday in 5 days time).

Anyway, to conclude this pointless blog, I shall say goodbye, and attempt to finish my computing coursework which was due in last week.

Goodbye!

This is just a quick post to inform you of my webiste - http://www.domonline.net

It's only been open for about two weeks, and it's not getting many visitors, so i thought a quick post on posterous should help get it out there. It's my personal website (not exactly a blog, since I don't blog often), where i post all of my latest photoshop creations and photographs, with detailed photoshop tutorials listed aswell.

If you're interested, give it a quick visit and post a comment : )

So here I am once again, staying off from school, drinking tea and feeling sorry for myself. Yes, the common cold has hit me again a week before christmas, although, I can't really complain, as I'm missing out on all the pointless last days of school that include nothing but watching the same christmas DVD's over and over again. 

I guess it's time to do a bit of digging and twittering.

Last week i decided to give steam (steampowered.com) a try. I bought the orange box from it at a very reasonable price, and i became totally hooked. Team fortress 2 immediantly grabbed my attention, as it's one of the most thrilling FPS games i have ever played, but no game that i have played in the past couple of years has matched up to the jaw-dropping experience that is Half life 2. Every single part about it is fantastic. The graphics are flawless, the storyline is nothing less than epic and the overall product is something that completely sucks you in. I've found myself pausing it to get over how scary the game actually is, but am always excited to get back into it. Now I'm just counting down the days until i can start Episode 1 and 2.

This is just a quick test to see if posterous is worth using. 
I read about it in bwana's blog (bwana.org) as being one of his favourite sites of 2008, so i figured it's worth a try.

Stay tuned for more totally pointless posts!