http://www.ghacks.net/2009/12/30/microsoft-to-start-word-patch-delivery-in-the-us/

http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Microsoft/Microsoft-Patch-Will-Allow-Word-Sales-to-Continue/

Etc.

TF2 bots have been mindless for a long time – and I don’t mean attacking randomly. Until yesterday, they didn’t know how to do anything other than attack whatever was right in front of them, and a person would have to manually tell them to attack.

To cope with the non-intelligent artificial intelligence, the community made a number of plugins, namely RCBot, which is running on my server at this moment. Unfortunately, all these plugins could do was spawn bots and read instructions. None were capable of figuring out what to do in real-time, or even generating their own AI files.

Enter TFBot. This is not a plugin. It is not a hack. It is not a modification. It exists within the game, and was put there by the developers of TF2, VALVe.

With TF2’s native bots, creating basic intelligence files is as easy as opening a listen server (through the “create server” button on the main screen), turning sv_cheats to 1, and typing nav_generate into the console. Generation can take about 5 minutes on complex maps. nav_generate does not need to be used on KOTH maps.

After the navigation file is generated, sv_cheats no longer needs to be turned on. To add bots to the game, simply use the console command tf_bot_add, which can be used alone to add one random bot, or with a number and/or a class name to add X bots of a certain class (or random classes).

All of the bots have their problems, but the most problematic are engineers, medics, and spies.

Engineers like to “turtle”, or build tons and tons of stuff in one place. Keep in mind that each engineer can only build one sentry, one dispenser, and one teleporter each.

The “turtling” isn’t a problem normally, because most of the time the engineers are on defense. When they’re on offense, however, they build sentries to defend places that can’t be attacked, like point A on cp_gorge.

Medics find a heavy and heal it forever. Even if an engineer is almost dead a few feet away, the medics will only care for the heavy most of the time. Also, the medics heal each other even when they have full health.

Spies never cloak or disguise themselves, but have extremely good aim. I can’t say much more about them.

Overall, the new bots are a far cry better than the old ones, and seeing as they are currently in their first release, they’re pretty darn good.

However, it is dying. Since July, it has received 46 thousand downloads. WordPress has received just under 10 million in almost the same amount of time.

The problem isn’t that bbPress is slow, or buggy, or insecure. bbPress is none of those things. The problem is a catch-22.

If nobody uses bbPress, nobody will spread the word. If nobody spreads the word, nobody will know what they’re missing.

Find bugs, write patches, run it on your server, but most importantly, spread the word.

We can help bbPress pull through this. We can revive the wonderful, simplistic software. All you need to do is tell your friends, or post something like this to your blog.

If you’re going to keep claiming that you’re somehow stronger, better, more advanced, or cooler than the Haymeen, you deserve to die. I mean, we DID save your lives with our extreme laser skills.

Besides, it was only a giant fire breathing bird with extremely powerful feet that can kill lots of people at once.

Oh, and by the way, what IS that smell? Are you cooking some dead animal in that tent of yours? Or even worse, are you cooking an ALIVE animal? That’s just gross, man. You seriously need to learn some hygiene skills.

Seriously, if you guys keep getting attacked by giant bird monsters, we’ll have to set up some kind of turret with heat seeking missiles.

… Unless it’s a cold-blooded bird reptile thing. Then we’d need to use cold-seeking missiles.

Or maybe we could just nuke one of your colonies. I mean, if you’re supposed to be such a big fighting force, why can’t you take out a big bird by yourselves? Is is something about watching Sesame Street when you were children? Do they even have Sesame Street on your planet?

Five points to the first person to name all of the inside references in this video.