Today, I want to start with friends.

This weekend I finally got around to indulging myself in the community side of GameSpot. Its pretty neat from what I've seen and I especially admire the high amount of good spelling and grammar in posts. One feature I really like is "friends". For one thing it makes interesting journals that much easier to follow, and when someone accepts or requests you as a friend, it gives a pretty nice feeling. I want to say hi to my new GameSpot friends, alexsalvador and Lazlow1988, what's up guys! That odd guy Locke_ needs no hollers as he can't be ****ed to read let alone write any journal of sorts. Yes indeed, he's one of those. Besides I seem him every week, he's a "real life" friend. But enough of that, time to rant about gaming.

Tribes, one of my loves in life. I've pretty much hung-up one Tribes ever since I played the original Starsiege Tribes at a LAN I organised. Its vehicle-based combat accross vast distances with multiple objectives is just so cool. No wonder every new game is copying it, the only reason the original Tribes never caught on is that it was to much for the average gamer of that time. Hah, noobs.
Anyway Tribes 2 has got to be my favourite game of all time (with a record of 7 hours non-stop on the same server) and now its sequel lies just around the corner. Due for an october release, Tribes Vengeance is sure getting my blood pumping. And so I was sitting in front of my pc yesterday, just staring at my screen, when Locke_ told me about a Tribes Vengeance free beta! He found out that FilePlanet got exclusive hosting (yes indeed, that'll be a 9.0+ score for Tribes Vengeance on GameSpy) and was offering it to all registered members. I was so excited I could wet myself! This all went rather pear-shaped when I saw that the download was 459.1mb and my nasty ISP's download limit only allowed 250mb untill my monthly limit period was over! Which is wednesday! AArghhhh...

So there you go, the drama of my life. Now all that remains is to ask around and see if any friends of mine would be kind enough to download it for me...