Game Night! August 14, 2020 1900EST5EDT/2300UTC

Posted 2020-08-10 01:55
Modified 2020-08-29 14:16
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Hey, all! It’s that time again! We’re having a game night.

I thought you just had one

We had a low-key one on July 29, 2020 at 2000EDT but we didn’t get many takers. We played Half-Life .¹ However, we played cooperatively in the campaign via Sven Coop. You can watch some highlights here:

• RIP Chimples
• Jthan kills everyone in his greedy pursuit of gold
• Jthan thinks it’s Opposite Day
• Jthan still thinks it’s Opposite Day
• Jthan scouts out for us
• Jthan outsmarts an automated ceiling-mounted turret
• Paden finds the little box we need, does a 180, and promptly ignores it
• Paden learns how to read
• Jthan is bad luck
• Jthan does it again
• Jthan climbs a rope
• The first of many times Jthan kills everyone with a tripmine
• Paden and r00t^2 share a moment of quiet desperation

So what about this one?

The next game night, August 14, 2020 at 1900EDT, was Half-Life: Opposing Force .¹ I’m fairly certain you didn’t need to own a copy to play; you just need to install Sven Coop (link above), which is free.

We beat HL: OP early, so we played Half-Life: Blue-Shift .¹ Unfortunately the stream I managed to broadcast was only my audio, not everyone’s and it was just me (r00t^2), Jthan, and Nosbig. It was pretty uneventful, though, so you didn’t miss much. (Sorry! It was a last-minute thing with little to no time for testing beforehand.)

By the way, I was right and Jthan was wrong. You absolutely can blow up that rocket.

[11:55 PM] jthan: @r00t^2 how many things have I not blown up in half life?
[11:55 PM] jthan: I tried to blow it up
[11:55 PM] jthan: if it were possible
[11:55 PM] jthan: we'd have all died
[11:56 PM] r00t^2: ^ that is **literal video proof** that it's possible. you just weren't good enough
[11:56 PM] jthan: spoken like my true dad

You can watch some highlights here (from HL: OP):

• It’s always Jthan’s fault
• Jthan summons a portal with his teenage angst
• r00t^2 can’t find Paden
• r00t^2 predicts the future
• ‘Chimples died mysteriously’ 1/4096
• ‘Oh, there’s a chumtoad!’
• ‘Did she fall down again?’ ‘I think this might be the worst part.’
• He does it again
• ‘Yeah, don’t run into the electric- PADEN.’
• r00t^2 forgets how to ladder
• r00t^2 has poor hearing
• r00t^2 tries to climb a ladder ‘ammediately’.
• Great res, 10 out of 10 would res again
• Running and jumping
• Doing it without falling off
• r00t^2 catches the covid
• ‘Chimples was smashed’
• Just checking to make sure friendly fire is off
• Waaaaiiit… GO!
• ‘Do you really want to be tied with me for deaths?’
• ‘How are you alive?!’
• It might kill you immediately, but we’ll see.
• ‘…Just go.’
• Jthan moves out of the way
• Is this downloading from a server or The Internet™?
• Jthan almost kills us all
• Jthan is probably frustrated
• Jthan learns about scripted event dependencies
• r00t^2 games the game
• Jthan is back at it again
• r00t^2 still has poor hearing
• Paden learns about the Displacer Gun.
• Jthan traumatizes a scientist
• Excuse me, what did WE do to him??
• Jthan ruins everything
• Jthan is wrong again
• ‘Oh no.’
• ‘Aw fuck.’
• Paden remembers about the Displacer Gun
• Jthan doesn’t understand what games are
• Jthan is a liar
• Paden learns about splash damage
• Paden learns about splash damage again
• Jthan doesn’t listen to instructions
• Jthan narrowly misses death
• r00t^2 doesn’t know what worms are
• Jthan is still a liar
• Paden is still learning about the Displacer Gun.
• Paden throws a party for Gonomes
• Jthan is wrong yet again
• Jthan is wrong yet again
• Jthan is a saboteur
• ‘Back up BACK UP!’
• ‘Back up.’
• For once, Jthan actually didn’t do it this time
• It’s okay, they’re married
• Paden defuses a bomb
• He almost made it
• To be fair, it’s usually Jthan
• Another one bites the dust
• Lame.
  • You can see the boss fight (and actual end) of HL:OP here.

Where’s the server?

The information was pinned in our Discord’s ‘#game-night’ channel.

More Info

Please be sure to see the Game Night HOWTO/FAQ.

¹ If you want to buy all three, though you shouldn’t need to, I’d recommend you get the discount bundle for less than 15USD. Not too bad.

Author r00t^2
Categories Announcement/News, Game Night