A Man and his Penguin

I read today that Nexuiz 2.4 was out. I now have 5 gigs of download per month so I thought I’d download the new version.

In case of misadventure, I decided to grab it with Wget, as Wget can restart failed downloads. However, after about 170 megabytes the download failed, and Wget had to start at the beginning for some reason. Then the download silently failed after 160 megabytes. In short, I’ve never played Nexuiz on this computer and I probably won’t until the download servers get a bit less of a hammering.

So instead I played a bit of Warsow. I seem to be getting better at it in Team Deathmatch mode, and now I think that Warsow isn’t too bad. It’s just that even the novice bots completely outclass me. The graphics continue to impress me - I can’t work out how they managed to get the indie cartoon feel to the game on top of the Quake 2 engine.

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