SC2: Wings of Liberty Completed

This entry is really for my own personal record. Maybe, just maybe, some geeky gamers will find it interesting too.

Completed the Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty single player campaign in the wee hours today.

Gotta hand it to Blizzard for making great games. Warcraft, Diablo, Starcraft, each a winner that other gaming companies try to clone.

Anyway, first time through the single player campaign, love the smooth gameplay and followed the storyline like a true fanboy. Played the normal difficulty and completed the 26 missions in this order:

01. Liberation Day
02. The Outlaws
03. Zero Hour
04. The Evacuation
05. Outbreak
06. The Devil's Playground
07. The Great Train Robbery
08. Safe Haven*
09. Cutthroat
10. Engine of Destruction
11. Media Blitz
12. (secret mission) Piercing the Shroud
13. Welcome to the Jungle
14. Breakout*
15. Smash & Grab
16. The Dig
17. Whispers of Doom
18. A Sinister Turn
19. Echoes of the Future
20. In Utter Darkness
21. The Moebius Factor
22. Supernova
23. Maw of the Void
24. The Gates of Hell
25. Belly of the Beast*
26. All In

Saw the easter egg Diablo in The Devil's Playground mission, didn't notice the tauren and murloc marines easter eggs though, will keep an eye out on my next run through the campaign.

The secret mission Piercing the Shroud is obtained by destroying a science facility in the Media Blitz mission and taking the data. The science facility is at the lower right corner of the map.

Will also choose the other option on those missions where options are available in my next run. These missions are marked with *, so instead of saving the colony I will destroy them next time, the mission will not be Safe Haven then but of another name. Will side with Nova next time instead of Tosh, and will destroy the aerial base of the zerg instead of their underground nodus.

Yea yea I know I can play them from the archive but I want to play through the champaign with different upgrades and research path anyway.

The following modified screenshots are the upgrades and researches I have as I entered the final mission. I missed the Protoss research opportunity in the In Utter Darkness mission, so I could have 30k credits more and probably another upgrade, oh well. All mercenaries hired.

This is my upgrade path as credits became available, had 125k credits left unused:

01. Infantry > Marine > Stimpacks
02. Infantry > Medic > Stabilizer Medpacks
03. Infantry > Firebat > Incinerator Gauntlets
04. Infantry > Marine > Combat Shield
05. Base > Bunker > Projectile Accelerator
06. Infantry > Reaper > U-238 Rounds
07. Vehicles > Diamondback > Tri-lithium Power Cell
08. Starships > Viking > Ripwave Missles
09. Starships > Viking > Phobos-class Weapons System
10. Base > SCV > Dual-Fusion Weilders
11. Base > Missle Turret > Hellstorm Batteries
12. Base > Terran Building > Orbital Command
13. Base > Terran Building > Fire-Suppression System
14. Vehicles > Goliath > Multi-lock Weapons System
15. Vehicles > Goliath > Ares-class Targeting System
16. Dominion > Spectre > Nyx-class Cloaking Module
17. Dominion > Spectre > Psionic Lash
18. Infantry > Marauder > Concussive Shells
19. Vehicles > Siege Tank > Maelstrom Rounds
20. Vehicles > Siege Tank > Shaped Blast
21. Starships > Medivac > Rapid Deployment Tube
22. Starships > Banshee > Shockwave Missle Battery













Oh, best I did in the Viking arcade game was level 2, not even reaching the boss. =\

Here's hoping I don't have to wait another 10 years for Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm.

瓜瓜篇

才三岁的大瓜开始有点叛逆
总要造反激怒爸妈
十年后的青春叛逆期不知会怎么样？
学会唱些华语儿歌逗弟弟
但还是带香蕉音

调皮的小瓜已会假哭撒娇
哥哥唱歌他会拍手
知道爸爸要吻他会逃避
四颗牙的笑样很可爱
就是还不叫爸爸

甜瓜日复一日细心照顾大小瓜
近来几乎每天都给大瓜气坏
天天燃烧自己给儿子们
天下第一妈妈
只是没时间给老瓜

老瓜呢？
老瓜只想要可以好好睡一觉
希望工作的同事们可以合作点
最好就是可以中个大彩票再也不必为工作和钱烦
只是呵，老瓜不买彩票的

Oi, don't simply say leh

Shocked and stunned till mind went momentarily blank when a lady colleague said out loud in front of a group of colleagues that...

"CK touched my butt"

Wah lau eh, I did no such thing! >.<

Honest to goodness, I am not that kind of person ler. Really.

After I picked up my jaw from the floor and popped my eyes back in, I requested clarification so I could clear my non-existent reputation.

Turned out to be a twisted version of my label looking action a while back.

Wah lau eh, how did moving the shirttail aside so I could read the intriguing jeans label turned into touching the butt?!?! >.<

Don't simply say leh, veli the big wok one. Could lose me my job at work and lose me my ear, or worse, at home one ah...

Admittedly it was my bad to move the shirttail, but I touched no butt, I swear!

They say curiosity killed the cat. I honestly just wanted to find out what that label says. =\

And I am not a cat.

Maybe, I should just go ahead and touch the butt now since I am being accused of it anyway. =P

Just kidding wifey, don't kill me.

*meow* =^.^=




This is meant to be taken as a light-hearted sharing, the lady colleague was just joking, er... I think. =P

Random Thoughts

Replugged-in

Like it or not, internet is part of my life now.

No, I am not addicted to Facebook nor crazy about instant messaging, I just like to have my daily dose of forum surfing and blog reading.

So when my router started to act up a few weeks ago, my 'normal' lifestyle got disturbed by its erratic behaviour.

I put up with it since it was still working sporadically, while the reset button no longer works (always a bad sign), manual rebooting multiple times managed to get it going.

Until two days ago, that is. It's now offcially dead.

Router modem set to serve as bridge since I have a wireless router that handles the traffic, after a mere 1.5 years of service the modem went belly up. Of course the warranty is just 1 year, typical.

Replaced the dead Pci DSL2-01 with a new TP-Link TD-8817 today, hopefully the TP-Link product is more reliable. Well, at least it comes with a 2 years warranty so I guess at least I have two years before it kaput.

Am now weighing my options of dealing with the dead modem... should I hurl it against something hard and solid, drop it from great height, or use something hard and solid to smash it?

Hammer time! =P

May you rest in pieces, you piece of crap.

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+1

Happy birthday Fang!

Wishing you a fantastic day, hope you get to enjoy the day just the way you like it, and get married and have babies.

So nice to be born on our National Day, as long as you remain in Malaysia, every birthday is a holiday! ^_^

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53rd birthday

Happy independence day Malaysia!

While the older and more exposed I get, the less my sense of patriotism becomes, I do love my country still.

Can't say the same for the government and majority of the politicians who directly contribute to my diminishing patriotism.

Besides a great reluctance to quit my home country (which according to some racists, doesn't welcome me), there is hope that with the new generation of enlightened Malaysians who realised the "supreme race" idea is just going to impede development and tear the country apart, I guess it's still worth hanging on the citizenship, for whatever it's worth.

Here's hoping that within my lifetime, I would see a Malaysia that is fair to all its rakyat, a Malaysia that doesn't differentiate its people by race, gender or religion. You know, just Malaysian.

Of course, here's also hoping we would have a government that's really for the rakyat, and not for their own pocket.

One can always dream.

Disabled Parking Space

Public infrastructures in Malaysia are actually much better compared to, say, ten years ago.

It warms my heart to see that there are now buses designed for the ease of disabled people, the emergence of ramps and disabled parking spaces at shopping centres and offices. After all, disabled people are also part of our community, and should be treated equally if not better.

So I am rather proud that infrastructure wise, my beloved country is marching towards the developed country standard. Yay, Malaysia Boleh!

However, many of the rakyat are not. Many simply do not develop, and some are downright uncivilised. It's like junglemen in a modern city.

Just look at how casual some people litter, throwing rubbish wherever they like.

Most of the news regarding our politicians or politics are disgraceful redicule, as if it's their job to provide a constant supply of jokes for the foreigners and shame for the Malaysians.

There are of course those monkeys in clothes that staying true to monkey's behaviour, like to fling shits around. It's really sad that according to these monkeys, even as a Malaysian, I am not wanted in my own country because of my race.

As a Malaysian, I am not treated equally because of my race. No idea why the bumi deserves better treatments and privileges, but sadly that's the way it is now. One Malaysia huh? Yea right.

I often wonder if Chinese-Malaysians and Indian-Malaysians really did vacate the country, how far back would Malaysia fall to?


Anyway, I apologise, I have strayed too far from the topic.

What I really want to talk about is those very able people who park at the disabled parking spaces. Go check the vehicles at the disabled parking spaces, don't be surprised most do not have the permit or badge to park at disabled parking space. True disabled people will have these permits and badges, you see.

So far, the people I saw with my own eyes parking at the disabled parking space are able body people, they simply park there because it's convenient. Just like those selfish drivers on the road who think only about their own convenience, regardless of the inconvenience to other road users. Yea, those bastards.

Okay, let's give them the benefit of doubt and assume they simply forgot to display their disabled parking permit, one wonders what disability such able body persons are suffering from?

I could only come to this conclusion: they are disabled in the brain, specifically, they suffer from fooking-stupid-revolting-selfish-terminal-idiocy.

First class infrastructures, monkey-class population.

Sad.

The Bold One

Actually, it's the bald one lar, not the bold one. =P

A question I get asked a few times these few days is: "What happened to your hair?" or "New hairstyle?"

Here are my typical answers:

"Hair? What hair?" *puzzled look*

"I used the wrong shampoo." *serious face*

If there was a follow up question on what shampoo I use, I would feint forgetfulness and ask what shampoo he or she is using, and said "yea, that one."

If a name of the shampoo was not forthcoming from the inquirer, I would just say: "the one Wendy is using."

^_^

Truth is wifey forgot to attach the number two head to the clipper when she gave me a hair cut in the weekend, she realised that after the first cut on the back of my head. Said she could do an inverted V as cover up pattern so naturally I asked her to just shave off everything. =)

Have always wanted to see how I look bald anyway.

Thing is, I didn't actually shave to the skin since I am too chicken shit to put the shaving blade to my head, I don't want to end up with scars all over my scalp. =P

Anyway, that's that.



No idea why but somehow Veronica, who is in another state, is interested in seeing my bald look so a photo is requested and hey, I am not about to say no to her. Model extraordinaire you know? Don't play play.

If she thinks she is going to get an honest shot then she clearly doesn't know me, muahahaha! =P

Behold! H.Ang*, the Rulebender!
*H.Ang = hubby of Karen Ang


I think fans of Airbender Aang are going to cry if they see this

Not good enough?

Fine fine, how about this then...

Behold! CKratos, the God of slack!


please don't kill me, fans of God of War

Too scary looking?

Okay okay, this one should do it then... I hope.

Behold! Minsc wannabe and his stuffed toy Deefer!


what lar, I don't have a space hamster okay?

Butt kicking for goodness! (Baldur's Gate gamers will know this)

Come on, at least give face to Deefer ler, it's adorable! =P

-_-

This is a rant, so quit now if you are allergy to rants. =)

The return of Mr Memory... *sigh*.

Thought I have rid myself of this empty bucket, why oh why the single person in the department whom I just can't tolerate has to come bugging me? >_<

Of course I am not surprised the transfer didn't work out, though I honestly wish it had so we would no longer be in the same department. Just shows that not everyone is like Mr Chicken Shit, smart manager looks at actual performance when hiring instead of buying all the cocks and bullshit.

So the "expert with at least 10 years experience in modelling" is now asking a lowly thermal engineer to teach him how to do modelling huh? Just how the heck did he survived all these years? Bullshitted his way through all the performance reviews? Or was it his "people management skill", i.e. get someone else to do his job while he took all the credits?

Seriously, can't even sort out a simple installation and licensing of modelling software? That's just... unbelievable. It's just following instructions on the website you know? And there is that Tech Support link on the website where one can get help from.

He can continue to dream on if he thinks I will spoonfeed him, there is a limit to this 'mentoring request'.

There is something irony about mentoring someone who attended the same thermal modelling training class a couple of years back, who was already showing off his "extensive knowledge" by giving some hoo-ha in the class, who deemed fit to skip more than half the training session, and not to forget one who has "at least 10 years of modelling experience".

I am watching this 'mentoring request' closely, and I am going to pull the plug as soon as the first sign of "people management" shows up. I couldn't care less about the bullshitting skill, Mr Empty Bucket, and you can go burn in hell if you ever try to take credit from my work.

If I was a harsher person, I would not have agreed to the mentoring in the first place. There is just that sick satisfaction of an "expert with at least 10 years experience in thermal modelling" requesting for mentoring.

I hope I won't pay for this wickedness.