Jasper Tandy » gaming

Got Game

Jasper — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:36:59 +0000

Griffiths demonstrates why EVE gamers are way better than other gamers.

LAN

Jasper — Sat, 21 May 2011 23:08:26 +0000

Been at a LAN party today. Played lots of cool games, including some that I thought I’d hate. ÜberMac handled things very well. Suspending it kept it nice and cool – think I would benefit from expanding my setup. Trip to the Apple Store is in order, I suppose.

Windows

Jasper — Sun, 01 May 2011 11:47:19 +0000

Since getting The New Laptop, I’ve been gaming in Windows again. Got myself an XBOX pad and a few games on Steam. Also kept forgetting to hold Option at boot, so installed rEFIt. rEFIt is awesome, and it lets you customise icons, which I naturally love. These are from one of the Flurry sets, in case you’re wondering.

my homebrew race wheel stand

Jasper — Sat, 01 May 2010 14:28:49 +0000

I announced to the small masses on twitter the other day that I was going to indulge in a spot of carpentry. The last bit of woodwork I did was in Mr Totton’s (I think – verify, anyone) year 9 CDT class, where I made a disastrous Cartman clock. I am rubbish at manly things like DIY.

After having purchased Forza 3 and the Official MS Wireless Race Wheel, I quickly discovered that adopting a piece of home furniture to clamp this thing to was just not going to suffice. I looked into buying something fit for purpose, but I’ve spent loads on gaming in the last two weeks, and they’re really expensive. This presented a pretty unique opportunity to do try and prove to myself that I’m not a total failure when it comes to woodwork. I set about getting my measurements for a table that I could clamp my race wheel to and rest the pedals on so as to be a self-contained, geek-tastic cockpit type affair. After annoying Charlotte for a few nights drawing squares and triangles and figuring out how high it’d need to be (something that I messed up, incidentally!), today I set about using the bench saw in our workshop to carve up an old table to make this thing.

Without going into boring details, here is revision one of my race wheel stand. Future improvements I could make one day but won’t are:

tidying the cables
four little rubber feet for the bottom
painting
replacing the bit of the pedestal mount that I split driving a screw in
some kind of elevated plate for the pedals/a stop for the back edge

Now taking orders. It’s pretty fucking badass.

I’m not taking orders. Charlotte would kill me.

Scrabble is for Lovers League

Jasper — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:26:06 +0000

So, Charlotte and I are going to start a Scrabble league. She’s very good and ridiculously competitive, and I have a relatively good grasp of English with no ability to play Scrabble! Having said that, the current score for the league is 1-1 after a very close second game.

1-0 Charlotte

1-1 (any word with an “A” was put down by Charlotte originally. No exaggeration.

Excuse the filthy carpet – we rent.