Bladen Force

A new patch has been released for StarCraft: Brood War, yay!
The game was updated from 1.13f to 1.14
Quite a lot of things where added/changed/fixed this time.
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- patch 1.14
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Feature Changes

- European ladder now affiliated with WGTour (http://www.wgtour.com/blizz.php).
See http://www.battle.net/scladder/ for additional information about the new
European ladder.
- Ladder games disabled for all other regions.
- For Top vs. Bottom games, the default chat filter is now ‘Chat To Allies’.
- In-game chat messages now show the speaker’s name in his/her team color.
- Users can now use the mouse wheel to scroll chat and selection boxes in
Windows 98 (or later) and Macintosh OS X.
- Screen shots now use a time/date stamp; they are no longer limited to 100.
- Improved version numbering system.
- The high-color application icon from the Macintosh version is now used on PC.
- Small corrections to the Lost Temple and Dire Straits maps.

Bug Fixes

- Fixed Hatchery cancellation crash bug.
- Fixed crash that can occur when SCVs are repairing a unit boarding a Dropship.
- Fixed crash when Mac users very quickly cancel connection to Battle.net.
- Fixed a scoring bug that gave Zerg unit points for building cancellation.
- Users can now take screen shots on Macintosh OS X.
- Updated Battle.net account creation information text.
- Logging onto an account closed for a Battle.net Terms of Service violation
will now say the account is closed, rather than ‘invalid password’.
- Fixed bug preventing Portuguese StarCraft clients from receiving patches from
Battle.net. Portuguese users must still patch to this level manually, but
subsequent patches can be obtained automatically from Battle.net.
- No longer displays control characters in Battle.net’s map description pane.
- Color codes and control codes are no longer allowed in chat messages.
- Fixed a crash in StarEdit when attempting to save modified Blizzard maps.
- Fixed undesired text wrapping in Spanish and Portuguese Battle.net screens.
- Fixed a rare crash in multiplayer games.

Exploits

- Fixed the Nydus Canal cancellation bug that allowed creating a mobile exit.
- Fixed two exploits that allowed players to gain minerals very quickly.
- Fixed exploit with Arbiter that allowed Zerg buildings to become cloaked.
- Fixed exploit that allowed units to kill themselves instantly.
- Fixed exploit that allowed Command Center infestation without a Queen.
- Fixed exploit that allowed Command Center infestation from a distance.
- Fixed exploit that allowed players to float Zerg Drones over obstacles.
- Fixed exploit that allowed worker units to mine at a distance.
- Fixed exploit that allowed Terran buildings to lift off while training units.
- Fixed exploit that allowed SCVs to repair Protoss buildings.
- Fixed exploit that allowed SCVs to detach Larvae from Hatcheries.
- Fixed exploit that allowed morphing Terran and Protoss buildings.
- Fixed exploit that allowed buildings to be stacked on top of each other.
- Playing against illegally named players on Battle.net no longer results in a
disconnect game result.

Yeah, sorry I don’t have the banners done yet, or the concept done yet. But lately I’ve had quite a bit on my plate. Up until about 9:30 this morning, I’ve been in some serious relationship issues. I almost lost a finger today in a car stereo installation. And I’ve had work piled up… and the stress is keeping me from doing some things… so… be patient… I don’t want to make guarantees, but I will try to have them done by next sunday.
GR

I’ve discovered that I’m an incompetent boob when it comes to PHP, and have no idea what I’m doing, so I’d like someone to come help me recode the website. I’d like to use this news system, (or a similar system if plausible,) and another system that also features a way to display multiple comics, and other pages and stuff. Basically, it needs to work just like Bladen Force.com already works, but better. It cou2ld go along with the new theme Gene and I are thinking up. Just e-mail me if you can help.

Thanks to Gene’s input, I have devised a new theme. Here it is.

Edit: I was just kidding.

Currently I am working on getting some web banners made. I’m going to be trying out some new programs, and modifying my art style a little bit to match Jazons. So… I’ve got my ideas, but haven’t put them to paper to get my ideas done. And then, I have to redraw it on the computer. So… expect them by the weekend. I am also trying to redesign the website. I won’t be coding it (because I only know HTML, and a little HTML, and Jazon prefers PHP). So, as soon as I get my concept done, and get it approved, he may begin coding it.
GR

From Leo’s blog, it seems that a lot of people are interested in a TechTV reunion of sorts. From the post:

“I don’t want to be a tease, but there’s some interest in putting together a TechTV reunion show for the net. Many of the TechTV hosts have said they’d participate, including Kate Botello. Kris Kosach, Chris Pirillo, and Jim Louderback. Martin Sargent has offered to host it. I know we could get all the TWiTs involved.”

Chris Pirillo has also posted something about a possible reunion in his blog as well. If you guys ever cruise by this site, I want you to know that Bladen Force would love to help revive TechTV, somehow. (I’m not exactly sure how yet.) I enjoyed watching ZDTV and I stayed with the channel into its change to TechTV and even partly into G4TechTV, but when The Screen Savers was dropped in favor of “Attack of the Show”, I immediately quit watching G4. It still disgusts me to this day what happened. Well, here’s hoping this turns out.

The US Department of Education can suck my balls.

That is all.

UPDATE: I have waded through the bureaucratic sea of bullshit to receive the sword from the stone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC3bqyq9QQY

All I can say is that I really hope this comes out for the Nintendo Wii.

Alright, as my first post I’m going to just inform everyone of how somethings are going to be changing around here.

Bladen Force started out primarily as Jazon, Coyote, and Kenoli (Mason). Well… somewhere in the past 6 months I jumped on board. Well, by allowing me to come on we can all focus on our individual tasks. Jazon, Coyote, and Mason pretty much collaborate to write (or so I imagine, I’m still rather blurred on how they do some of the things they do), Mason and I do artwork (I’ll be drawing the comics, and refining the text – as I’m a “Grammar Nazi”), at least I think Mason is going to be doing artwork… he has before. But anyway, with all of this in mind, as well as this new news system that Jazon has implemented, bladenforce.com should be updating much more frequently now. If Jazon and I can match art-styles (the only real hindrance in the art department currently), I am hoping that Bladen Force (or The Bladen Force Show as it is listed now) will be updating once a week. Stag Beetle is not my thing, that’s a Jazon-Mason venture, so that should only really update when either of them decides to make another one. And you never know… maybe eventually Bladen Force will update multiple times in a week. We’ll see. We all have ideas for the future of this place, some more grandiloquent than others, but nevertheless… we will make this work… we will make it funny… and we’ll try pretty damn hard not to kill each other.
GR

Ever since the acquisition (or for some of you, inquisition I suppose) of MySpace by News Corp., I’ve noticed a lot of changes in the way that MySpace works.

First off, it has become a horrid breeding ground for crappy media attempts at being “hip” and “cool” or “in” or whatever the hell kids call being socially attractive these days. You know the whole “Let’s add this random person as a friend and use them to promote our new movie!” or some crap like that. It’s really aggravating.

Secondly, I’m getting tired of the censorship. I personally haven’t noticed it, but I’m hearing a lot more stories about how MySpace is randomly censoring links to other websites, or people that talk down Rupert Murdoch, they find their posts mysteriously vanishing. It usually ends with the posts mysteriously reappearing and them chalking it up to an “error”. Look MySpace, you don’t fool anybody. This current war against other websites with “My” and/or “Space” in their name demonstrates that you’re absolutely terrified of competition, even from websites that benefit MySpace itself! (Such as the layout websites with similar names.) You are doing nothing but alienating the population, and I swear to God, if I hear one more thing about “Web 2.0″ shenanigans, I’m going to stab someone in the face. I’m tired of hearing the term because it has no real meaning. It was created to try and demonstrate a superiority over other websites and services. I could say my asshole is “Shit 2.0 Compatible” but it wouldn’t mean anything. Point is, I’m tired of MySpace’s crazy adventures into fascism, and I’m tired of people saying < INSERT NAME OF SOMETHING HERE > 2.0 to mean “Holier Than Thou.”

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Yes, I have downloaded and installed a new news posting system that allows for much more than our previous system offered. Now, Gene, Coy and Kenoli can all update and can do so from anywhere, so I can keep you all informed in the most random of venues. It also supports commenting, so whenever I start bashing someone, you can let me have what for!