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Right, so I myself haven’t posted in a while but more importantly my friends who normally do post are also busy with college. YET, we somehow average 100+ views a day. Why is this? Is it our League of Legends topics? Is it our random geek thrills and photography? Or is it my obsession with Deadpool? Either way, I feel really bad not posting and I know we have readers who would love to add to the site so, I am looking for Authors / Editors. I know we are called So Cash, and we haven’t been playing Eve online lately but I don’t care. If you play Eve Online and you wish to tell us a tale about Hi-sec war or better yet a 0.0 experience. Then I’ll let you. if you play League of Legends by Riot games and want to post your Tier list vs others or maybe you want to post a champion guide or build order, go right ahead! I will have it so. Tell me what you want to do, even if you are a photography major or journalist major at a university somewhere and you are required to or are just looking for a blog to add your own personal flair to, then DO IT! Ask, and you shall receive. The only guidelines I ask you follow is to credit people if you use their material. (No stealing!) and try to not post obscene material that would only be adults. A few curse words such as “Fuck” every now and then aren’t stressful but don’t post a game review bashing a game entirely with profanity. Post gamer / geek / student friendly topics and have fun. I will be approving membership to the site and if we get enough Authors, perhaps I’ll upgrade the site to have specific area for each topics. Maybe even make a private section, etc. This site supports youtube links, so if you post a youtube url in the HTML screen, it will embed it automatically.

How do you apply? Just email me at rockmanneo12@gmail.com
Topic: A So Cash Application
Body: your name, preferred user name (can choose on wordpress), a little bit about yourself and your motives for applying to the site. nothing crazy just brief. Then just tell me what you want to post about. First come, get first dibs on topics of course. The email you want to use to sign in is also important.

Topic ideas:
This is just to give you examples of what you can do, that I’m looking for.

League of Legends by Riot Games

• Champion tiers
• Champion critiques
• Champion guides or builds
• Dominion strategies
• Draft mode Dos & Don’ts
• What to expect in Ranked
• How to not Feed the enemy team
• How to get average to good Creep Score
• Why Magic Resist and Armor are important
• When cursing in the All chat goes too far

Material could include Pictures, links to league craft, youtube videos, narrative mp3′s, etc. You can only upload images to this site right now. Do to cost of upgrades, Video and music as well as space is restricted.

Let’s Play or Game Reviews

• Game Critique
• News
• Upcoming Releases
• DLC (Downloadable Content)
• Trailers
• Reviews
• Guides

College Life

• Dorm room life
• Parties vs studies, balance?
• Hangovers are bad
• Pranking your roommate
• Is your university worth the $$?
• Calculus raped me

Geek Talk

• Graphics cards
• PC building (What’s important?)
• Internet Browsers
• ipod/iphone/ipad (stuff)
• Apps
• Operating systems
• PROGRAMS FOR DOING STUFF! (Not just photoshop)
• Programming!

Random stuff of interest or that makes me cry

• XKCD.com
• Coffeepress.com (That’s not a soundboard, that’s Roy – mug)
• Axe cop or Dr. Mcninja
• Red vs Blue (roosterteeth.com)
• imgur.com
• Reddit.com
• somethingawful (Be careful O_<)
• Deadpool (Marvel)
• Anime (Yes.. even anime..)
• Deviant art.com
• Newgrounds.com
• Personal Art or drawings or 3D Max
• Flash
• Conventions
• thinkgeek.com
• Pandora
• Blah Blah Blogging, I made a poptart! Herp a Derp!

Minecraft

• Do you love Notch?
• Why I love or hate Survival
• Creepers destroy my hopes and dreams
• Creations, worlds
• Pyramids  (I love them)
• Dieing, before it was cool

Garrysmod

• <3 Garry
• I spawn things and kill them for fun
• Mingebags
• Poses or comics
• Contraptions
• mods / scripts
• Pmod!

Dungeon fighter Online

• Why I hate gunners
• When Witches are actually fun to fight…. wait..
• PVP
• Builds, Guides
• Why Lesbian is a popular name
• She broke my +10 weapon!

Eve Online

• Wormhole space
• Suicide ganking = fun at the office
• Mining vs mission running
• Ship Load outs
• Corporation goals
• Shit fits
• Buffer Refusing

These are all just examples but if you have something else you’d like to post then by all means, run it by me. Once I approve your first few posts, you will gain the ability to post what you want and when! No pressure. Just remember I’m always watching.

Attention: So Cash is also looking to reestablish it’s affiliate network. If you’d like us to list you and/or your site as an affiliate. Email me at Rockmanneo12@gmail.com titled: Affiliate. Whether you are an e-commerce site, or search engine, or just a simple blog, we will see about listing you.

 

Our biggest concern for affiliating again is to make the money to pay for this site and upgrade it like we did in the past. I hope that this site will once again grow! Thanks to anyone for their assistance.

So it’s been alive for a couple years now but alas has been stolen far too much for anyone to realize it. Other people are making player model packs and in every release I catch the script there as if it’s open source. At least they leave the “echo” in there. Maybe they think that, that particular line of code “…Tell the police to investigate Garry Newmen..” is apart of a vast system required to have more player models. I honestly don’t care anymore, it’s brought us how many cool machinimas? Recently I’ve been spammed with messages like “why isn’t this on garrysmod.org, someone please upload it there”. So I finally consider it but as SOON as I upload it it get’s flagged and deleted. I check the rules and it didn’t break any. Just seems to me like a jumpy admin or something doesn’t want it on there. Hell I just saw a model that m friend Noobguy hexed a long while. When he did he renamed it Neo_Heavy. Now Going to the main page I see this: http://www.garrysmod.org/downloads/?a=view&id=76713

The naming is the same and everything. Pretty much screams stolen. So I am done. I don’t have the time anymore to worry about these things. Two jobs take up almost all of my time and I generally play Eve. So Catch us online if you want.

Was going through my Screenshot folder. A folder specifically for when I take a screenshot of my desktop or something on my computer. As opposed to a game screenshot or something. Some of them were just so nostalga or hilrious or both. So I figured I’d share.

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The new Cod4 and Halo3 Map packs are out. Cod4 coming out last week and halo3′s coming out just yesterday. Since Dark had a better look at the maps I’ll let him leave an explanation below. As for Cod4 if you’ve played Cod2 you’ll recognize one of the new maps, “China Town” to be a remake of an old favorite. the Halo3 map pack itself had a few remakes. One from Halo 1 & 2. I’m sure I left out enough for Dark to fill in but I can’t remember much on the Cod4 maps because I’ve been busy playing other games. I’ll post links to Gamespot reviews of these map packs below.10 Bucks a map pack may seem expensive to the cheap but it really isn’t, help those map designers feed their familys even though they definitely have the money you Pricks!

(Click here for more info on the Cod4 map pack)

(Click here for more info on the Halo3 Legendary Map pack)

As for PC games we have resorted to Half-life one mods.

The Specialists

-Matrix style game play

Half-Life 2: Jaykin’ Bacon Source

-Death simulator

Sven Co-op

-Solo play will get you no where.

Go to the pages yourself if your interested.

As for me, I’m waiting on GTA4 and Mario Kart for the Wii to come out. (A week and a half’s wait) In my free time I’ve been progressing in my scripting education in lua.

Practice doesn’t make perfect but it compiles easier. ™

-Rockman
This has led me to tampering with PMod again. Speaking of which there’s a guy named DarkNovaClan on the FacePunch Forums who’s been doing model animations for all the models. he even fixed those nasty weapon animation problems with CSS models. Go to the PMod thread to see my latest changes to the thread to go by his explanations. The only recent changes to the script I made were to exclude a few more loose animations from being added to the player menu because that’s just uneeded clutter.

He also did a really good mod that I recomend getting that adds seats to the game (Like PHX did the airboat seat) but unlike that one little seat we got in PHX these have perfect sitting animations. Plus he adds a passenger seat to the Vehicles (not Airboat). Here’s some pics:

If your interested here’s a link the the FacePunch Thread. There’s also these new Halo3 models out. We just need to get around to hexing in those new animations before we skin our own versions. Here’s a link to that off garry’s mod community downloads.

Maps for Legends

I downloaded the Legendary Map Pack yesterday and played through them. Keep reading for my thoughts on these levels, and also to eyeball the sweet banners I made for each map.

Avalanche! The much-anticipated remake of Sidewinder. To my knowledge it’s the largest map in any Halo game, even surpassing Sandtrap in size.

Overall the geometry of Avalanche remains essentially unchanged from Sidewinder, keeping the same horseshoe-shaped level with a base at either end of the horseshoe, but some awesome things lay in between. The outside curve of the horseshoe is now an open cliff edge, and vaulting over it will cause you to fall to your death into a floe of icebergs.

The ladders in the base were replaced with ramps, with a Man Cannon at the top which launches players out into the middle of their team’s side. At the landing of that Man Cannon there’s one which leads right back to where the first one launches from, which will probably make for some frantic attempts to capture the flag and make a quick getaway.

The teleporter in each base is still there, which leads out to two lookout points on either side of the horseshoe curve, which are two elevated points with rocket launchers, with plain sight to the center of the curve, which has a tripmine and a Spartan Laser in the center. Interestingly enough, there are also Man Cannons embedded in the walls behind these lookout points, and jumping into one will propel you into the center.

Halfway out each team’s side there is a shortcut tunnel which connects the two sides, with a shotgun spawn in the middle. Also connected here is a Man Cannon which can launch players to and from a corridor which leads to the tripmine and Spartan Laser.

Gameplay-wise, it plays the way you’d expect a large vehicle-based map to play. The DLC matchmaking playlist currently sets up team matches with four on each side, and even with four on each side, the map is still very large. Definitely a Big Team Battle map.

Cosmetically speaking, the map looks beautiful. Looking into the skybox, the map is situated on the Halo ring which was being constructed above the Ark at the end of the Campaign. Off in the distance you can see smoldering red patches where the ring is still being put together.

Also cool to notice are that all of the Human vehicles have had their traditional paintjobs replaced with white snowfield camouflage. A nice touch. The Hornet makes it first appearance as a default vehicle, but at a price. The machine gun firepower has been reduced, and there are no homing missiles. This only applies to this map, however.

Blackout. The remake of Lockout. While Guardian was supposed to be the throwback to Lockout, fan requests have brought back this classic almost exactly the same as it was back then. Now, however, instead of being situated under an icy cliff on Halo, it’s now a human weather station in the Antarctic. Comes complete with dazzling aurora effects in the night skies above.

Not much new to say about this map, the geometry is almost exactly the same as its Halo 2 counterpart, with most of the weapons in their same places. Even the fusion cores are where they used to be. The Battle Rifle platform which sits opposite the level to the Sniper Rifle tower is a little bit larger, but that’s pretty much it.

Ghost Town is something entirely new, but if I had to equate it to an existing map, I’d say it’s like a larger version of Halo 2′s Turf. It’s a lot of close, tightly-packed corridors with little room for vehicles. Ghost Town is a two-tiered level, and a lot of attention should be paid to what may be above or below you. I haven’t played on this one as much as the other two, but it was still a decent map to play some Shotty Snipers on.

They also added some new Forge stuff which I unfortunately didn’t get around to getting screens of. Spawnable items in the game actually create color filters on your screen, which can be placed in the level for both neat screenshots, as well as providing the right atmosphere for a level. The Gloomy effect darkens all of the colors, while enhancing light sources, which creates a real horror-movie style atmosphere. Put this on Blackout and you’ve got yourself a scary zombie match.

My final verdict? Well worth the $10 (800 Microsoft Points) I paid for it, and I say that overall this is better than the Heroic Pack. The pack weighs in at over 400+ MB, so go download it now!

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Why a bad start? Well March 1′st I got hurt and suffered some near fracture injuries to my hip so from then till now I’m felt pain walking, sitting, eating, sleeping and everything without pain killers that didn’t work to begin with! On to the good news. Aside from today being my birthday I feel a lot better. My laptop I ordered back in February finally came Yesterday and it is everything I thought it’d be. I can run Gmod better than ever before. Not to mention I get to see PMod from a better Resolution. I also tested Fraps and everything works perfectly. It takes aprox. 38 seconds to boot my laptop. Shutting down takes longer depending on how many programs I left running but regardless I installed tons of my favorite games and all the programs I use frequently from Photoshop to my Tablet software and still no problem. Thanks IBUYPOWER!

In other news,(spoiler warning) Read more…

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Click the following Thumbnail and take a look at this PM I received on FacePunch Studios Last week.

Some of you may recognize Steinmann as a very good movie director in many gmod films. I’ll let Dark do a better synopsis below on that but for let me just tell you this is pretty exciting so it’s a great we have a chance like this. PMod is under some new repairs so just hang in there a bit longer.

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That’s right, a new “very black” look. As Dark said below, he’s workin on a banner. I did the same thing he did yesterday. I went to my local Game Stop to pick up Call of Duty 4 and reserve Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Burn Out Paradise as well. The only difference is I already have Assassin’s Creed and I got a guide for Resident Evil Chronicles. You might be thinking, “Why the Fuck would you need a guide for a rail shooter”? I looked at it in the store and it shows you where all the key documents are aka what shit to shoot at while your fighting for survival to find items to unlock for levels of play etc. My favorite thing about the guide is they print a lot of the back story behind these new side missions that were unknown before Chronicles. Including printing documents you find in the game so you can read them yourself! As for Assassin’s Creed, I did beat it the other day but the repetitiveness of the game kept me from playing it again to get all the flags. Maybe another time..

Hell I’m not the only one who sees this, see Zero Punctuation’s Review:

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As for CoD4, Dark got surprisingly farther than me but I’ve been busy trying to get PMod to work but still no progress there. Hell I got new models I still have to add to the old SVN that people are submitting but I may keep forgetting. Hell I’m doing this blog post and I’m at work right now! >:O

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As you know I love Zero Punctuation and posted a vid above but come on! They finally made one for Mass Effect and it was really good for laughs so you better watch it too!

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Now for the one on Super Mario Galaxy that was released today!

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Oh and even though I could post more and more I’ll just post this last one to add to the various games I’m currently still playing! The winner is? Guitar Hero 3!

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(For more Zero Punctuation Game Reviews go to http://www.escapistmagazine.com/)

Well that’s it, a new year every one, expect a few halo 3 vids and new PMod models this week and next and Thanks to the thousands of visitors we get a week because as you know the counter on the right resets weekly.

update: My orders came in today. Such as my Wii Zapper with Link’s Cross bow training + Rock Band!

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Rockman here, I’m back from my trip out of town and I’ve decided to make a post on games that all us here at =TL= are currently playing, looking forward to or simply just enjoyed playing recently.

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Xbox 360

Gears of War
The game that started =TL= for an incredible addiction had to be Gears of War. Everyone of us has this game and enjoys the carnage time and time again. The gibbing a shotgun brings us paralleled with the exploding sound headshots give us and let’s not forget countless times we all played the single player alone or with a friend. Regardless if we’ve already found all the dog tags or beat the game on insane the fun of playing with your friends in co-op was infinitely rewarding. Our online group usually consists of me, Dark Spartan796, Racz Man, I Shadou I, and sometimes UnlivedPhalanx or is brother PlasmaVirus. At least three movies were made and are on the right.

Lost Planet
At some point we all had this reserved and wanted this game badly. When we got it however we were a bit disappointed with the single player and lack of multi player thrill. We did however have a lot of good games we remember involving consistent use of the VS with the Laser sword which we dubbed the VSO (Vital suit Omega). Once me or Dark got our hands on it we were hard to stop. Sniper of Fear would play with us and often would live to his name and snipe the opposing teams to death.

Guitar Hero 2
Needless to say, not all of us have it but I for one own it and think it deserves recognition. GH2 was already wonderful on the PS2 but when it came to the 360 I just had to get it. This game is most popular when I have friends over and when we have two Guitars. I just recently five stared every difficulty and I must say it was a fun road of Rock solid gameplay.

The Darkness
A breathtaking game to say the least. Not all of us picked this up but we do all acknowledge The Darkness as a must have game. The multi player isn’t much to talk about but the story will have you consumed by darkness.

Bioshock
Another game expected to be good from the start, we all enjoyed this one to the fullest. Bioshock brings us to an underwater city filled with horrific sites and god like abilities. If you don’t have Bioshock would you kindly go get it, cause your missing out. Good on the 360 and PC

Halo 3
The game we’re all waiting for. Two more weeks and everyone here at Team Legit will finish the fight then bring our Spartan team online to wage war on the Halo noobs we all know exist.

Halo Wars
I’m a personal fan of RTS games, and even though ony a few of us here at =TL= are, the majority will get this game simply because of how good it’s getting and the fact that it’s HALO!

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Xbox 360 Arcade

Uno
Such a simple game brought us so many memorys. Mainly because of all the weirdos we seen using their live action cameras. Uno will forever be out group game where we can relax and discuss things such as games I’m discussing here, or what we did that day etc. Plus we get to see the look on each others faces when someone throws down a draw four.

Heavy Weapon
Absolutely a must have! Four player goodness all around! Simply addicting. Face it if you don’t have it your missing out on some simple atomic destruction in the palm of your hand.

Bomberman Live
Another great Multi player game we all love to play. Brings back the feel of Mega Bomber man for Sega Genesis with some online expansion and fun character designs! Another must have for all to enjoy.

Aegiswing
Another fun Multilayer game that’s free to boot! Hook up to your buddies ship and prepare to own.

Alien Hominid
What? It may not be a group online capable game but dam that alien is so cute, especially when he bites the agent’s heads off!

Marathon: Durundal
Old school goodness from the makers of Halo. Has that 3d paper feel.

Lumines Live
Such a wonderful game. So good I had to download all the expansions to it. Just one of those games that involve rational thought. Beware.

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Wii

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
I’ll always be a Zelda fan at heart and in my opinion this is the best one yet. Near all of us got a Wii just for this game originally. Fighting the Twilight monsters with your trusty Wii Remote and Nun-chuk is always fun and makes you want to play it more than once.

Super Paper Mario
Back in the day, Paper Mario was an RPG favorite and brought us a new Mario game feel from the N64 to the Gamecube and now the Wii!

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Retro Studios knew what they were doing when they brought the final chapter of the Metroid Prime Trilogy to the Wii. Over all, I love all the metroid games but with the Wii’s promising controls it became more than a dream.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Another title we’re all waiting for. The Super Smash Bros. Series has so far been a must have every title and when the new one comes out for the Wii you can be certain we’ll all have a copy.

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PC

DEFCON
Who knew Canada had nukes? Again, I’m a big fan of RTS games and even though this isn’t like warcraft 3 or CnC it’s a fun game to play with your friends but be warned, the CPU is can launch all his nukes at once while your still clicking so slow time down, and try to decide if your friends are really apart of your alliance.

Supreme Commander
Recently this game in my eyes has become the greatest RTS game seen so far. We’ll wait till Halo Wars comes out before we say more.

Half-Life 2: Orange Box
Half-Life 2: Episode 2, Team Fortress 2, and Portals. What more could you ask for? Yet another group of games we all can’t wait for!

Command and Conquer: The First Decade
The Command and Conquer games were the first RTS games to actually be addictive and online. Only two of us currently have the First Decade but near all of us have a few CnC titles. Pick this bad boy up for all of them up to CnC 3.

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Well I was unbanned last night and of course I nicely answered some Minge questions. Apparently, some people believe they should be able to decide what models they want to download. That would take too long to organize a system capable of that request. If anything, I will finish working on all the current problems in PMod (animations, lack of icons etc). Then I will make an installer that is capable of letting the user select what model packs they’s want to install. for instance a pack of just rebels and a pack of just spartans etc. If all goes well I’ll make installers for all our content.

Of course all of that is unlikely going to happen till a really bad snow day. For starters a Full PMod archive will be uploaded to Filefront or some other host.

As for web site news.

Updates
• The comics Page has been updated to now have all comics hosted here and I even through in the 20×6 series Dark made a long time ago. A look at the artists progress if you will.
• MP3 player was finished but I could not get WordPress to except the embed codes so I hosted a separate HTML file with it on my Geocities account since it won’t require their bandwidth it should be fine. Currently all that’s on the MP3 player is a few Kamelot tracks I love. Give me some ideas on other possible tracks to add and I can have them hosted.

In popular interest news. Halo 3 has finally gone golden, as in it’s complete. No changes for the release dates!
For more information see the article I read on Gamespot here.

Gamespot is in my opinion is the greatest place to find Game release information the second it’s out. including wonderful gameplay footage and trailer videos on top of their sweet game guides.

Here’s an Epic Pic from back in the day.

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It finally happened. Although this is only a two day thing, I got banned from Face Punch for Flaming. All I did was call someone an asshole in my own thread. Check the PMod Face Punch release link on the right and go to the last post to see it. I’m so happy I finally got banned because that means I get a break from the Minges. Seriously, Fuck’em.