Should’ve chosen Rt. 460
Yesterday’s drive could have gone better. I made excellent time up to the Busch Gardens exit of I-64; suddenly, the highway turned into a parking lot, and I sat there for the next 90 minutes. Good thing the iPaq has Solitaire and a power adapter. Now we just need flat-rate nationwide 802.11 access!
I think the 90 minutes of inactivity wiped me out more than the drive would have, but I did have enough energy last night to load up DDRMax to make sure everything worked okay – tonight will be my first “workout mode” session. Then I played an hour of Fatal Frame, since that’s on loan and I want to finish it. Nice graphics, very atmospheric and creepy, though I haven’t actually been scared by it yet. I also need to be quicker on the draw with my camera!
I miss Rain already – I’m so glad I’ll see her again Friday. I have to get one or two more items for my costume for Lorelei’s party – I can’t wait to see what Rain picks out for herself. Lots to do this week!
9-inch bitmapped glory
Here’s a website that brings back some old Mac gaming memories.
Warning: you might need an emulator to run some of thse titles. Even a newer Mac may need to emulate an older one.
I should never have asked him to grow *those* plants
For the Final Fantasy XI players: what happens if you push your moogle too far.
MacHall (if you’re tuning in late, you want the Wed. June 16, 2004 issue)
Almost makes me wish I could play Morrowind.
dot/Hack//Chocobo
The registration / software update process to get Final Fantasy XI Online running took 2 hours last night. We were afraid no one was going to wait for us, and I don’t want to look at another License Agreement screen for a long time – there must have been a dozen of them.
The dot/Hack PS2 game begins with the player registering for a (simulated) online RPG, going to meet the friend who got them to play, trying some simple actions and battles with that friend, then being attacked by a mysterious force hiding in the game which puts said friend in a coma.
Last night raininva registered for an online RPG, went to meet kittenchan, and tried some simple actions and battles with with her help. Rain and I both couldn’t help thinking, “If Skeith attacks now, vond will never forgive us.”
I am clearing the personal effects from my desk and this machine’s hard drive, on my last day of work here. Everyone’s saying how much they’ll miss me, and meaning it, which is nice. I’m just refusing to think too much about all this change; it’ll probably hit me hard Sunday night. Monday morning, hello Decipher!
Count Floyd
I read this comic and I thought of one of Rain’s co-workers… she’s all about the Silent Hill etc.
Me, I’ll stick to .Hack and Frequency for now 🙂
Black Rose isn’t answering
You know you’ve been playing (or watching someone play) a lot of dot/Hack when you get someone’s IM screenname, and immediately think, “Good, I can add them to my party from now on!”
Boy, I’m tired 🙂
Waahhh
Douglas Adams’ last finished computer game, “Starship Titanic”, won’t install on my OS X system. Searches on the web reveal that it also doesn’t install on many of the Mac OS 8-9 systems it was intended to. Further searches mention that many people who got it to install wish it hadn’t; it may not have been the pinnacle of his work. Maybe I’ll put it on the back up machine, but maybe not, now.
Owie owie owie
Well, apparently someone waltzed into Valve Software‘s computers, and waltzed out with the source code to Half-Life 2. The code and compiled binaries are all over the net, and soon script kiddies will be able to cheat at multi-player before the game is on the shelf.
I’ve always wondered what the point of cheating in online shooters is. Isn’t that the same as stating up front, “I suck so badly that I don’t have a prayer of beating anyone”?
I’ve sometimes used cheat codes in the single-player missions of some shooters, but I know I suck. 🙂
Hiding sharp objects from myself
There is a mission in the Terran levels of single-player Starcraft that I have been trying to beat for over a year, since we bought the game. I haven’t played a single Zerg or Protoss mission because this level has kept me from finishing the Terran campaign.
Tonight I beat it.
… and then the game locked up before I could save.
Another Roanoke Valley Saturday
Yesterday was quite productive, I got four other people in my office to Talk Like a Pirate.
dot/Hack definitely has raininva and myself sucked in, I’m up to seven hours of play, and I’m not sure how many Rain has. The “game within a game” aspect appeals greatly to my interests in metareality, and I’m pretty impressed with the emotional range of the characters – not something that most of my PlayStation games do much with.
Our Kellan Colt promotional figures for Shadowrun: Duels came this morning, so now we have a truly complete set of Series One. I’ve noticed that there’s already a FAQ posted on the official site with clarifications and errata. What did we gamers do before the Internet?
Rising Star has a staff meeting this afternoon in Blacksburg, and I’m looking forward to discussing ideas for the Emcee skit with rattrap and yubbie. I know that there will be other, less entertaining issues raised at the meeting, but I have a great deal of faith in RS and the people who make it happen. I see no reason yet to change my opinion.
