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Memes, Combined Arms, and Whatnot
Apr. 3rd, 2011 08:12 pmFirst, a meme. The AO3 (Archive Of Our Own, a fanfic repository) site has enabled user subscriptions, so you can get emails when someone updates. I haven't done so recently, and probably won't, since I'm writing original fic these days. But just in case you're dying to see what I've posted there:
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I've been playing a lot of Battlefield 1942 on my new Windows machine, using keyboard and mouse as God intended, no matter what other misguided souls may claim. I tried playing Battlefield 1943 on X-Box Live, but I hate hate hate the handheld controller, mostly because I can't use it for shit. Plus, they only have one map available to play: Wake Island. Which is a fun map--I've been playing that one a lot on my PC, along with Stalingrad and Berlin--but just the one map gets old.
So I've mostly been playing the Medic class. Advantage: you can heal yourself of injuries. Disadvantage: your primary weapon isn't great at long range. Sometimes I play the Scout (sniper) class; or, rarely, the Engineer. I play the engineer mostly when I'm spending a lot of time manning the anti-aircraft gun, because I can repair the gun when it takes damage.
The game is good for teaching you the value of combined arms. The AA gun is extremely effective at shooting down enemy aircraft, which will otherwise strafe and bomb the bejesus out of your guys. But it's hard to do that when the bad guy infantry can walk up and shoot you in the head because nobody was around to defend you. Or their tanks can blow you to pink mist for the same reason.
Ditto, when I'm running around shooting other bad guys, I do pretty well...unless I run into a tank. Then I'm screwed...unless an anti-tank guy is there to demoralize him (and by "demoralize" I mean "destroy"). But he needs ME to defend HIM from the enemy anti-tank guy with the bazooka. And we need the AA gunner to keep the enemy aircraft from ruining our day.
I'm still playing solo. I've tried to join a couple of online games just to try them on, but I always get a "wrong version" error message. I haven't bothered downloading patches for the base game. So far I haven't wanted to try the online game enough to bother doing so. I may not. The drawback to solo play is that some maps--the desert maps, mostly--are too big and empty to be much fun, even with bots. But Wake Island, Berlin and Stalingrad are crowded, deadly, fun maps.
One of the larger romance epublishers (Samhain, I believe) has put out a call for manuscripts for a superhero romance anthology at "any heat level". Which means my smutty superhero erotica is just what they're looking for. So I plan to write a couple and submit them. That should be fun.
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I've been playing a lot of Battlefield 1942 on my new Windows machine, using keyboard and mouse as God intended, no matter what other misguided souls may claim. I tried playing Battlefield 1943 on X-Box Live, but I hate hate hate the handheld controller, mostly because I can't use it for shit. Plus, they only have one map available to play: Wake Island. Which is a fun map--I've been playing that one a lot on my PC, along with Stalingrad and Berlin--but just the one map gets old.
So I've mostly been playing the Medic class. Advantage: you can heal yourself of injuries. Disadvantage: your primary weapon isn't great at long range. Sometimes I play the Scout (sniper) class; or, rarely, the Engineer. I play the engineer mostly when I'm spending a lot of time manning the anti-aircraft gun, because I can repair the gun when it takes damage.
The game is good for teaching you the value of combined arms. The AA gun is extremely effective at shooting down enemy aircraft, which will otherwise strafe and bomb the bejesus out of your guys. But it's hard to do that when the bad guy infantry can walk up and shoot you in the head because nobody was around to defend you. Or their tanks can blow you to pink mist for the same reason.
Ditto, when I'm running around shooting other bad guys, I do pretty well...unless I run into a tank. Then I'm screwed...unless an anti-tank guy is there to demoralize him (and by "demoralize" I mean "destroy"). But he needs ME to defend HIM from the enemy anti-tank guy with the bazooka. And we need the AA gunner to keep the enemy aircraft from ruining our day.
I'm still playing solo. I've tried to join a couple of online games just to try them on, but I always get a "wrong version" error message. I haven't bothered downloading patches for the base game. So far I haven't wanted to try the online game enough to bother doing so. I may not. The drawback to solo play is that some maps--the desert maps, mostly--are too big and empty to be much fun, even with bots. But Wake Island, Berlin and Stalingrad are crowded, deadly, fun maps.
One of the larger romance epublishers (Samhain, I believe) has put out a call for manuscripts for a superhero romance anthology at "any heat level". Which means my smutty superhero erotica is just what they're looking for. So I plan to write a couple and submit them. That should be fun.