TF2 Scout pack is out!

Valve really knows how to bring the love to gamers. I am a gamer. Therefore, by the transitive property of love, Valve loves me. It feels good to be loved, you know?

While Team Fortress 2 continues to be one of my favorite PC games ever, admittedly I hadn't been able to get myself back into it. Not because it's bad, but I've had a bajillion other things to do and the gameplay had gotten... a little stale.

Which brings us to today, when the new Scout pack is out for TF2. It comes complete with new unlockable Scout weapons, Scout achievements, and Valve-created and community maps to play it all on. All of which are conspiring to get me reacquainted with the addiction I call TF2. Details of the pack can be found here:

http://www.teamfortress.com/scoutupdate/

This means that if you're going to play TF2 for the next couple of days you're going to see Scouts. Lots of them. If you're not grinding out your own achievements as the Scout, be prepared. My advice:

• Engineer's sentries are set to have a field day, and Natasha-equipped (or skilled Sasha-equipped) Heavies should have fun against leetle targets as well.
  
  
• Pyros' and Soldiers' lives have gotten more interesting - Scouts never were a huge problem for them, but now there's just more of them to harass you.
  
  
• For Medics and skilled Snipers, it's still business as usual. For bad Snipers (like myself), your targets just got a lot faster.
  
  
• Demoman and Spies should just take the next week off.

Happy Scouting!

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Unwind updates and other housekeeping

Figured I'd take care of a few housekeeping items.

In order to not clutter up the homepage too much, I've implemented a "continue to read X" link at the bottom of the posts. Unfortunately I haven't gotten it working perfectly, as every post currently has one, whether or not I've hidden any of the post.

Currently, just today's Horatio Comics post has anything worth going to the "continue to read X" link. In the future, I hope to only have that link show up when there's content behind it, but I largely don't know what I'm doing and am learning as I'm implementing. Bear with me.

Also, as a heads-up, I'll be on vacation Thursday and Friday. And since I'm the sole content contributor on this blog, that means The Unwind is going on vacation too. Sorry to disappoint all 5 of you (myself included in that number). I'll be back next Monday, hopefully with amusing anecdotes and pictures to share.

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Houston, we have WiiFit

I was able to secure a copy of WiiFit today and will post in the near future about my initial reactions to it and how the progress is coming thusfar. I do plan, however, on taking you all on through a long, strange journey as I transform my body from this:

To this:



I'm thinking it'll probably take me 3, maybe 4 weeks tops. Savvy?

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Unwind update - Twitter!

Twitter! This is my first foray into the service, but already I'm looking forward to being kind of a prick giving brief status updates from virtually anywhere! If you're already down the Twitter rabbit hole - as I see myself quickly descending into - feel free to follow me.

If you've never Tweeted before, Twitter is basically a very polished, well-executed microblog that you interface via the twitter website, sms text, instant messenger, carrier pigeon and telepathy (they're beta testing that feature, I think). Check it out for yourself at http://www.twitter.com/ and create an account. If you don't, you don't love America.

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