H - Half-Life 3 or Episode 3 needs to come out.

I don't care which one happens, just do it. Come on Valve! You are killing me. I need to play the next chapter of this and you are making it hard for me.

An amazing game, compelling story. We are so close to getting involved in a game to a point that we might actually cry. We might be able to go back and say "yes, a game can make you cry". Please don't just leave us here. Don't forget about us. I know Portal 2 is important, but Half Life has carried your company for a long time.

There isn't much more to really say about it, just get it done. We are all waiting for it and will shell out the cash as soon as it becomes available. Maybe by this summer you'll have it done, so you can take a nice long vacation. Right? =(

Left 4 Dead vs. Comodo

Ahhh yes. Friday night. We eat steak every Friday at my house, a little later than normal this Friday, but still steak. I settle into my normal groove and get read to play a game with my brother, which I haven't done in a long time. He just got a Left 4 Dead pack that Steam had on sale. I don't own the second game, so we start with the first.

We both know what zombies are and look forward to killing them. I, however, have to shoot down my overzealous internet security first. The interesting way that L4D connects requires me to fight with Comodo more than normal. I have to play half of my games in Windowed mode, at least to start, because Comodo will freeze fullscreen applications that don't have the proper permissions. While I do appreciate this, I had kind of hoped that after nearly a year on this same install of Winodws 7 that it would have picked up SOME of my habits. Also, gaming in a window blows. Like, a lot.

He sets up a room, I join. First go... NO GO. I get a popup that won't go away no matter how many times I tell it that it's trust. Comodo refuses to believe that I want to play this game. I have to turn everything off, close the program, reopen it, turn everything off again and somehow manage to magically fix it. What? Yep. Not even worth going into much more detail.

Second try... and we succeed. We manage to get connected and start the game. He has never played, so I take the initiative and begin to lead him into the fray. We have a good time, blasting zombies and whatnot. We get to the first checkpoint without issue. We breeze through the first part of the second area, end up having to deal with a witch. I picked the fight, I was trying to show how much of a pain in the ass she is, but she didn't live long enough to get to us. We enter into the next stage and everything sucks. There is a Witch waiting for us at the lift, we have to deal with her and I end up taking the death punch. It sucked.

We make it to the hospital and the end of the map. We fight to the top of the building. We have killed a bunch of zombies. We have been pounded on by tanks. My brother has shot be about 30 fucking times. We enter into the last little bit and I'm looking forward to it, my brother... he has no idea what is coming. Wave after wave of zombie washes over us. All over the place. We get two different tanks and at one point both of us are pulled different directions by smokers. We somehow make it through and "get to da chawpa". Ahh, success.

I have won a mission in L4D. I have enjoyed my brother's company on a frenzied corpse-strewn street. I have conquered something, yes, but more importantly, I had made Comodo stop being such a bitch.

I just realized that there was a new version out, so I picked it up, uninstalled the old one and got to installing this one. I'm running the first scan with it right now, so it'll quit complaining that I haven't scanned with it. Hopefully I can train this new version better than the last.