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Wanker Cup Enduro Champion 2007

Today saw the final races in the Wanker Cup 2007 – an online GTR2 racing league I take part in with a great bunch of American guys I met over at Track Forum almost two years back, now.

In my first season, which started January 2006, I really struggled. I just never got to grips with the handling model of the original GTR game, leading to a whole load of frustration through throwing away races that I could and should have won.

Season two has been different. Well, a little different. Despite starting well with an early victory at Monza, I was pretty mediocre in some of the events that followed – sliding out of a hard fought 3rd place with around two laps to go at Valencia showed that I still had to find some consistency. Things got worse from there – I was away in Amsterdam for the event at Magny Cours, so didn’t pick up any points there, and then I parked it after being knocked out at the first corner at Hockenhiem. Essentially, I let a whole bunch of points slip away early on.

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Over Rated

The current furore surrounding the Banning of Manhunt 2 is proof, if it was ever needed, that we’re living in a nanny state.

What makes it all the more annoying is the know-it-all parents commenting that they cant believe this sort of thing is available for kids. If the game is rated 18 then the only way those kids are seeing the content is if the know-it-all parents have let them play it, despite the certification.

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The longest mission

Today I finally completed the Night Crawler mission in SOCOM 3, a year and 14 days after starting it!

At the time when I got stuck at it I turned my attentions to SOCOM Fireteam Bravo on the PSP and never got the time to go back to it’s PS2 brother, so I did a double take when I saw the date of my save file today. In the event it wasn’t as difficult as I’d thought it was when I first attempted it. I guess I’d just come off an all-guns-blazing kind of mission and wasn’t attuned to the stealth in the death of night required for Night Crawler.

I did encounter a terrible AI glitch, though, whereby the Bravo team would hide under a bridge and refuse to come out. Most strange!

After several failed attempts, I took a different approach to the level to avoid the glitch and it worked out really well, so I’m now looking forward to playing the next mission during my lunch hour tomorrow.

This is all in preparation for Fireteam Bravo 2 coming out on Friday – I need to get my Navy Seal skills honed in time for that.

Over and out. 😉

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