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Teeworlds

Screenshot of LieroLiero Screenshot (Wikipedia)

If you’ve ever played Liero, you’ll know that worms-style real time games are a lot of fun. Take that and mix it up with the graphics from Chase Ace 2 and you’ve pretty much got Teeworlds.

There are less weapons than Liero had back in the day, just the close-quarters hammer (which reminds me of when you pick up the hammer in Super Smash Brothers), a pistol, a shotgun, a laser gun (think rail gun from Quake but it ricochets) and a grenade launcher. You can’t make tunnels into the maps either..

There are clients for Windows, Linux and Mac which is always a massive plus for these type of games. The amount of online servers running is decent, you can easily jump into a game (trouble is, they’re all pros and if it’s your first time you get absolutely annihilated as you try and figure out the controls). I changed jump to up, rather than space but whatever floats your boat. I noticed a couple of graphics glitches when connecting to a couple of servers but most of them seem fine. Anyway, it’s really addictive and a lot of fun. Don’t waste too much time on it!!

Bluetooth Troubles

My friend Max is a curse on Ubuntu. Whenever he’s near my laptop, something goes wrong, something crashes or doesn’t work the way it normally does. It’s okay though, I have the same effect on his Vista monstrosity.

It’s nice that Ubuntu supports bluetooth out of the box, I have had a little bluetooth icon in the notification area since I installed but what does that actually do? Right-clicking it gives some options and a “Browse Device” window which throws up an error when you try and connect to any nearby bluetooth device. Something like this;

“obex://[nn:uu:mm:bb:ee:rr]” is not a valid location.

I was trying to bluetooth a file to my phone and Max’s phone. Well, you’d assume it would be fairly simple, something like right-clicking on the file, then Send To, choosing Bluetooth and then selecting a device. No. Not by default anyway. To get this functionality I had to follow these instructions.