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I noticed this morning on Steam that Left4Dead was discounted by 50% for the weekend. Having heard so many great reviews about the game, I had to give in at that price. I wasn’t quite willing to part with $50 for a game I didn’t know a ton about. I can safely say that I have a new favorite game. If you’re hesitant about buying it one comparison that comes to mind for me is, back on Counter Strike 1.6. At LAN parties a bunch of buddies and I would use the PodBot server to load up our LAN game and we’d stack the teams humans on one team and the rest of the spots all bots on the opposing team. We’d give the bots only knives but bump their skill to the max. This is pretty much identical to what Left4Dead is. Short of the fact that these bots actually have serious skills and numbers you never could do on the original CS. If you’re a gunfire junky who loves surprises this is definitely a game for you.

Also today, I tagged along with Izzie and a few local members of the Engineers Without Borders crew to test out a long range wifi setup. It was pretty amazing, we were able to transmit 1Mbit+ speeds over 2 miles using a basic WRT54G and some aftermarket antennae. Surprisingly I was able to connect to the AP with nothing but my eeePC without an external antennae. I could only get a few pings through, but that was all I needed to be impressed by the little netbook. Ping times for my eeePC were ~15ms. The entire signal was all noise, but it managed to get out a ping. Pretty great day, got some homework to finish up tonight, and then tomorrow I can get a head start on the week thanks to our 3 day weekend.