Who is fatkiddown?

I get asked this a lot.  I must admit, I'm a mystery even to myself.  It goes way back, the mystery of me.

This Spaniard I once fought asked just prior to the event, "who are you fatkiddown?..."

Everyone's always asking me, "do you know fatkiddown?"

Am I the fkd on the left? or on the right?

You cannot know rly, who I am -- you must know?  Well, get used to disappointments...

There are clues however.  I thought I'd tease/help  you out by listing stuff people have said about fatkiddown:

"You are the most articulate and intelligent bastard I've ever known."

"You are like saliva, you encourage digestion."

"I hate you! [Usually preceeded and/or followed by] I love you!"

"Your stats suck.  He should not play with you."

Back in my biker days....

"You're fucking cancer."

"You are really good in bed."

"You're not that good in bed."

"Boy, you fucked-up just then...."

"fatkiddown, you got hacks or something?"

"You're retarded and your w/r is puny"

[This last one sounds very similar to what a woman once said:]

"You're stupid and puny"

[Odd thing, another woman once said to me:]

"It hurts!" <-- if only that were my thingy I was using....

Me in my (cloaked-jedi) halloween costume worn last Oct.
I felt, when fully closed, it robbed me of the better look

"Well done fatkiddown, (golf clap)" <-- was this regarding: A. a video game, B. sex or C. golf?

"Let's see if we can save the fat from the fire." <-- sed to me in kollage, by a prof. who had no clue I was indeed, _the_ FKD....

"You can have anything you want from our family.  Just name it.  We owe you that."

"Get out of here! Stay away from my family! Never come back!"

"Thank you god!" <-- overheard whispered by a woman just after we deed eet

"I pray god never makes me do that again" <-- overheard whispered by a woman just after we deed eet

"You are a perfect example of what a good player is" <-- was this regarding: A. a video game, B. my ability to pick-up women in a bar? C. my abilities at guitar?

"You are a perfect example of what a suck player is" <-- was this regarding: A. a video game, B. my ability to pick-up women in a bar? C. my abilities at guitar?

"You suck and your blog sucks too."

"Lol! Read your entire blog, love it!"

And last but not least:

"Please, can you just stop talking?..."

Me at a bar just this past weekend

How to get free credits in World of Tanks

1st, take advantage of the recent promotional:

Victory Day Bonus Code

2nd, go to your garage, click on, "Depot."

3rd, choose on the left hand side of the "Depot" menu the "Consumables" selection.  Make sure to also select, "On Vehicles" and then, "My Vehicles." This will list all consumables.

4th, simply left-click on the recently added "gold" consumables you got through the promo code to sell them.

These will be:

• Extra Combat Rations
• Case of Cola
• Chocolate
• Improved Combat Rations
• Strong Coffee

The stacks will sell x5 each for 50,000 credits a pop.  x5, that's 250,000 credits for free!

A lot of grinding done in no time!

(Note: some accounts will not have all "gold consumes" available.  That is, if you do not have the Chinese T59, etc.  A friend who just made an account this weekend had acccess to 3 stacks of sellable consumes instead of 5, and made 150k instead -- still!...)

Enjoy!

-FKD

The March of The E-75

"Comrades fast and little, fearful and brittle, follow me as I drive,"
 Said the lumbering hulk, that huge steel bulk, known as the E-75.

"Many guns have they, but scared I say, are they as much as we."
 And he turned and faced, like a runner at race, the sun it seemed with glee.

All were amazed, dark smoke was raised, from the mouths of his great exhaust,
 And thus drove on, that leviathan, who seemed not to know the cost.

As though pulled along, his brethren fell on, his flanks but not ahead,
 Of the great dark hunk, that towering chunk, rolling on as an ominous dread.

It wasn't long, before a sniper song, of pings and chinks and lead,
 Speckled his coat, battle-worn and smote, in a hail that he could not shed.

Still on he stroked, through the churned-black smoke, toward their battle-line,
 Some comrades bowed, as he continually plowed, now with holes where
 metal shined.

Enemies alit, and seeming to quit, he stopped dead in his tracks,
 but not with fear, for he was sincere, and raised his great gun-rack.

His aim was true, and soon all knew, his gunner was not poor.
 He killed a tank, who realized too late, this was no easy score.

On he marched, soon all took part, in the awe that he inspired,
 And more and more, of the enemy core, came to end his furious ire.

Then larger tanks, filled the ranks, of those opposed to him,
 And damage deep, into him seeped, for his engine with fire brimmed.

Now his tracks, turned into wax, for foes had shot them out,
 And in this arena, of the goddess Athena, they meant to end his route.

They must assemble, instead of tremble, if they wish to bring him down,
 So all surrounded, hammered and pounded, this titan commanding the ground.

Round after round, blow after blow, landed into his hull,
 He refused to show, and he refused them know, that soon his life they'd cull.

Turned this way and that, like dragon spit and spat, he seemed to damage all.
 They were amazed, bright-eyed they gazed, for he refused to fall.

Now most his life, had gone away, and soon the end would come,
 But not before, he felled four more, who thought that he was done.

And so he died, while none could hide, him seeing his gamble pay,
 As they had ignored, his brethren corps, who capitalized on the day.

The last enemy died, and some did cry, o'er the hulk who had no fear,
 Who instead had chose, give his life for those, fast and little and dear.

Can I has a can of air?

Apparently, there is a mo' betta way to give blow jobs now, vs., the old, dangerous, way.  It's the:

Canless Air Systems O2 Hurricane Computer Duster!

It slices, dices and juliennes! (wtf does juliennes mean?), and look at that shine!

It will produce approx. 150mph air flow for upwards of 18 minutes, and has 500 charges.  It will apparently replace $100s, if not $1000s of dollars in cost for old-fashioned, chemical-based, gas-based, "canned air."

And eets about $80.

The _only_ question I have, is: how fast is the air flow that comes out of old-fashioned, sucky "canned-air?"  If it is significanly faster than 150mph, then you might be tempted to reach for a can of it the next time you have some stubborn debris, and the fancy/shmancy new fangled, Canless Air Systems O2 Hurricane Computer Duster! don't cut it.

Please someone tell me how fast old-fashioned canned air-flow is -- my googles skills are t3h fails....

And now, a couple more images of folks using the Canless Air Systems O2 Hurricane Computer Duster!

WoT: The IS-4 & The KV & The 7.3 Changes

I've been playing World of Tanks since closed beta, since July 2010 to be exact.  If I've successfully backwards-engineered my player profile page, I was the 5,148th accepted closed beta tester.  I went through all of the betas, restarting each time.

I focused on the German tree.  I am currently only 2 vehicles from completing/eliting the entire tree.  My point?  Glad you asked.

The two ancient nemesis of the me are about to go through the most significant changes since evar! in the game since they were in the game

I'm talking about the IS-4 and KV:

An IS-4
The only information for this picture states, "Soviet post-war heavy tanks"

A KV-2
Similar to the iconic "KV" in World of Tanks, pre 7.2

As a German-centric player, I have to say: I have loathed, feared and hated these 2 vehicles.  They have been my bane.  The IS-4, I simply hated to face, in any German tank, at any tier.  Even in my Maus or JDT, when one is about to fire on me -- and I cannot stop it or get away from it -- I say to self, "this is going to hurt."

The IS-4 has an incredible gun, the 130 mm S-70

This was basically a naval gun, modified for field and tank usage.

Entitled: "Here's a Guide To The Military Qaddafi Is Using To Crush His Own People"

(The Wiki states this gun did not show up until the IS-7)
World of Tanks Forum Discussion on the 130 mm S-70 Gun utilized in the IS-4

The coming changes will move this tank to Tier 10, with no more S-70 at Tier 9 in the replacement to the IS-4: the IS-8.

Likewise, the KV of World of Tanks, is like the IS-4 just discussed: great, horrific, predators of a Pleistocene battlefield, praying on the herbivores of German and US tanks.  Soon to be relics of a museum, with onlookers wondering how they used to behave, what they ate, as they peer upon their hulking skeletons.

The great 152 mm M-10 Gun of the monstrosity known as the ... 'current' ... KV, shook the hulls of all around it when it would let out its bellowing roar.  It became _the_ "derp" of the game, and forever will hold that moniker.

The KV, soon, will be moved as a KV-2 to Tier 6, and the KV-1 will get a 57mm gun.

Yes, the great roar of the "derp" will still be heard, but never again at Tier 5.  How those leviathans prowled the battlefields at that tier, eating other Tier 5s and lesser tiers.  Always, they tilted the balance.

It is soon to be a new epoch in World of Tanks, as we say goodbye to these titans of the battlefield, never again to be seen again in their original tiers, with their original guns.  We shall never again have, at Tier 5, the 152mm "derp" or, at Tier 9, the 130mm finger-of-god.

Yes, I finally got me a KV, and did play it a bunch, but only late, and only after many, many ages of facing it in my German tanks and tank destroyers.

As a former opponent of them, I salute.  It was a gg....

-FKD

More IS-4 and KV pics:

WoT: Can't Login? "Scheduled Maintenance"? Try This

There's been an obvious DNS change with the World of Tanks authentication server.  I have no clue what's happened, but that's my best guess.  Starting about a day ago, many folks cannot login.

Ye ol' "Server is temporarily unavailable due to scheduled maintenance" message.  Some are going, "man, how long is this going?  It's been over 24 hours now?!?"  That's cuz it ain't.  It's borked....

Oh the horror....

Meanwhile, World of Tanks engineers are hard at work trying to resolve:

...in the mean-time, there's something you can do to fix (as discussed on the forums):

If you're trying to login to World of Tanks, and can't, and get the red-lettered message about "Scheduled Maintenance," but then search news for such at www.worldoftanks.com to realize, well, they've not announced any "scheduled maintenance," then it could be a problem you can resolve yourself, on your 'puter.

Windows 7:  Do this:
-Close all web browsers (and any other app you have open for that matter).
-Click "start".
-In "Search programs and files" type, "cmd."
-"cmd.exe" will show up at the top of the pop-up menu.
-Right-click and choose, "run as administrator."
-Choose, "Yes" to the "User Account Control" security pop-up.
-You now have a black box with a blinking command prompt.
-Type the following in that box: "ipconfig /flushdns".
-Hit "enter"

It should look like this when you've done all just listed:

Now, try to log back-in to World of Tanks.

This should fix it.

Another great link 'splaining this procedure across operating systems:
http://www.whatsmydns.net/flush-dns.html

Now, go play World of Tanks:

WoT: Mumble Voice Server

As clans are challenged to provide voice communication for their members, there are lotsa choices out there: ventrilo, teamspeak ... and mumble.  I recently setup a mumble server and I highly recommend it.

A. It is free, open source.
B. Unlimited users.
C. Arguably, out-performs the other 2

More:
http://mumble.sourceforge.net/
Watch the video at the bottom of this page to see performance:
http://gcguild.net/movie/ventrilo-vs-teamspeak-vs-mumble