Approaching contras!

Hoist the main whalesail and fire the cannon!

After 3 months at sea, buckling swashes, booty plundering and parrot punching (photos to come), i’ve returned bearing HTSF riches and being the generous captain I am, i’m going to share the loot, ya insatiable bilgerats.

First up, i’ll give ye a rare liquor from lands afar, named Beneath a Steel Sky.  It glistens with malty adventure!

After that?  Well, a good captain knows to not get his crew too shitfaced too fast, or they’ll be unfit for duty.  Fear not though, the tap shall not be turned off again soon.

After half a year of pissing around, buying new equipment and uncountable pounds spent on phone calls, my connection finally seems to be steadying itself.

Gone are the twice hourly disconnects, as is the god awful 350-500kbit upload speed that’s plagued me for the past 6+ weeks.

Pingtest Result
Speedtest Result

Nice results, though I don’t quite believe the Pingtest result, as i’m getting packetloss in games.. it’s minor, but certainly noticeable.

What I suspect i’ll be doing, is for streams and upload sprees, i’ll be using the router (the one from the above tests) that lets me get that 1.55meg upload, yet causes packetloss (considering the stress on the line, 1% packetloss seems quite good), while using the newer router which syncs at lower upload speeds to assure stability for gaming sessions where I want/need the game running perfectly.

Anyway, long story short is, my connection (touch wood) seems solid again now, allowing me to both stream, and upload the ever growing backlog of HTSF.

It has come to the attention of the HTSF community that Lliam, also known as OverTheGun (OTG for short) has been dethroned from his righteous pedestal. OTG, creator of all things fail, has been bested by Claire in Super Mario Bros Wii TWICE and for that we now hold homage to our new queen for whom we have devoted our lives to. This website and all of the Kingdom that was once the realm of OTG has been bestowed upon Claire.

LONG LIVE OUR QUEEN CLAIRE.

I just wanted to put up a post saying thanks to Vegeta, who very kindly donated enough for me to snag an HD capture card.

“Which card?”  I hear all none of you yell.  Well, Vegeta actually gave me the donation about a week and a half agoish, with the original intent to get a Hauppage HD PVR, the cookie cutter capture device used by 9/10 walk/playthroughers (it’s a solid device, that’s why).  The cheapest you’d get one for is 200 bucks, most places being more expensive, and most of them either being out of stock or American (plug problems).

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