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I have an indecent proposal for our Thursday clan deathmatch of tonight: a game in TheUgly style. That exactly means “dyna only”, not “insults only”. 😉

The reason behind this is that I want to obtain a client crash in Terra Nova to debug SG beta’s random crashes.

Since it seems that crashes occur more frequently in crowded games, I tried adding a lot of bots to the map, but without being able to produce a crash. I’m starting to think that crashes occurs in crowded games, but only when someone is using dynamite. This is plausible since dynamite had a similar bug in past times.

I think you understand my proposal now: I need many players, using dyna. Possibly in a not so big map (Tijuana should fit very well the purpose).

Do yo agree to help me in crashing my client?

The second game of the deathmatch might be another Winnies’ fight in Greenhill Lake, or something totally different in another map.

In the meanwhile have fun with this 2 minutes short … “Ugly Thursday”!

Music by: Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com/)

Sounds by: Benboncan, Erdie, Nikolino, Robinhood76, Syna-Max, davidou, fonogeno, joedeshon, juskiddink, klankbeeld, schademans, shawshank73, simon.rue, soundscalpel.com (http://www.freesound.org/)

If you thought that what happened at Greenhill Lake on Thursday wasn’t strange enough, surely you will be shocked to hear the latest news about it.
The tenth man is not missing any more. The Police’s helicopters have discovered him, swimming over the trees, in a catatonic state.
He was found to be the one named Biondo. Questioned by the Police a few hours after the finding, Biondo claimed that, while in the middle of shooting, he was captured by The Big Wave, and instead of surfing he erroneously started to swim. He added that he wasn’t able to reach the ground again until the moment when he was rescued by the policemen, three days later.
Biondo will have to undergo a psychiatric evaluation, county court has ruled. The need for an evaluation has been triggered by widespread criticism of his story.

Here is an excerpt from the Police’s video footage taken from an helicopter.

Credits: SG News Broadcasting.

Tonight, our weekly Clan Deathmatch.
Where: Terra Nova, and more.
What: DM, and more … TDM? BR?
When: @21:00 CET.
Vote for maps, servers, game-types in comments.

I had no time to draw something new, but I don’t want to betray the tradition of posting something visual.
So here are three glorious b/w Italian advertising from the ’60s, all set in an imaginary West (from Montana to Mexico). In my country, a whole generation of children had its evenings brightened by these shorts.

1– “Gringo” (1966 – 1972), for canned meat Montana, by Gamma Film. Stopmotion series of duels between Gringo and Black Jack, in the style of the best Spaghetti Western, with fun puns (in rhyme!) and nice titles.

2– “Carmencita” (1966 – 1973), for Paulista coffee, by Armando Testa. The famous graphic designer plays with cone-shaped characters in a series where a gunslinger has to search for his ever missing Carmencita.

3– “El Merendero” (1967), for Talmone chocolate, by Paul Campani. A series by a cartoonist, with 3 Mexican guitarists announcing to children the arrival of Merendero (the man of the candies).

Howdy Kids,
I feel like sharing this pic with you all.
A great image from artist Storm Thorgerson. I was looking this morning for some inspiration and found this one.
Shot has been shotted from a typical western-movie angle, in a town called Tabernas. Google learned me this is a ‘little’ hollywoodvillage in spain, where some movies were shot.
Check out Google images for more pics of Tabernas.
Anyone know more movie sets that were used in Western movies? This would make a nice map!

Cheers
Zap

A useful tip from Swedish Chef: How to convert Muffins into Donuts.
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