World of Arcana

I hate Colby. I hate Colby.

So does the guy at the laundromat.

I do not hate Noah.

But the creepy guy who lives next to the movie theater does.

Ever since I’ve gotten the Orange Box in January, I have been in love with Team Fortress 2. For not being a huge online gamer, I’ve had an incredible time on most of the servers I’ve been on.

Now as anybody who knows anything about videogames knows, for any given game there is a certain amount of high-quality official content, and a thousand times more craptastic fan-made content. However, I’ve noticed that with Team Fortress, there is actually a wealth of high-quality and occasionally very creative fan maps. One particular one that sticks out in my mind is the map Best In Class. As opposed to the play systems that Valve shipped the game with, Capture the Flag and Control Points^*, this map instead creates an obstacle course for every class in the game that, for the most part, only that particular class can complete. In addition, the map is bloated with easter eggs (i.e. hidden areas) to the point where I’ve played games were nobody actually kills each other, they just work together to get to the hidden areas. Some other maps that have been fun are the Orange series of maps, which are all incredibly evenly balanced.

Anyway, Valve has been teasing fans for a few months that a huge update was coming in April, after the 15th, which will contain 36 new achievements and three unlockable weapons (all for the Medic class), plus a new map with an entirely new play style.

I have been on the edge of my seat for this, and am starting to get a little impatient. Come on Valve, I want my update!

^{*Hydro doesn’t really count - nobody’s been able to figure out how to replicate it in Hammer.}

So for you nobody who went to my site last night according to my bandwidth reports, I have changed my site from Drupal powered to Wordpress powered. Last night I was getting extremely frustrated with Drupal not doing anything I wanted it to. Today I set up Wordpress.

Listen closely to me: Wordpress is seven thousand times better than Drupal.

Seriously, even for somebody like me (who likes to pretend he’s technologically literate) setting up Drupal was a royal pain. Most changes I made on FTP wouldn’t show up on the server, pages and posts weren’t created the way I wanted - it was pretty frustrating. Somebody at Wordpress seemed to decide to leave frustration out of their system, and the setup was so painless, I literally laughed out loud.

Seriously Drupal, take a hint.