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Nov. 21st, 2001
Ponderings...
Nov. 21st, 2001 08:17 amWerl, been a while since I've dumped a pile of meaningless tosh relating to the meandering that is my life.
Bought fallout tactics yesterday, its a squad based tactical combat type game, the sort of game I used to burn hours on quite happily day by day, week by week. And lo and behold I look at the clock and it's 2 am.
Yes, it's fun and the game is quite good - although X-Com Apocolypse still has the best real-time combat system for tactical squad games I've played, but you can turn base it too, which is squiffy. Anyway... 2 am... which isn't that late really, and I'm up and at work only a little late, or rather only a little earlier than I normally am... but I find myself resenting a little I've played the game when I could have done something more constructive.
Why? Its a fun game and all but I think I'm beginning to get to the stage where I like to have actually done something that will have some kind of impact outside my own little world or my own computer rather than wasting away time changing a few hundred K of bytes on my own hard drive.
This is probably why Evercrack® is more appealing, because while the game itself is pretty squiffy (if you like that sort of thing) the results of what I do, ie my character, is developed and impacts more than just me and my computer, a whole digital world of people and monsters online percieve the results of what I do.
Pre-midlife crisis or boredom? Boredom is increasing attempting to sit its baleful self on my 'to-do' shelf and await selection - and apathy has been there for longer than I can remember.
Now I'm sure there was a point, possibly, to all this rambling but who knows, I've certainly forgotten what it was and I think I probably ought to do a counter bibble to this long drawn out semi-winge at the world or random things in general.
Anyway, maybe I should do some work.
Que canned laughter
Oh I kill myself.
Bought fallout tactics yesterday, its a squad based tactical combat type game, the sort of game I used to burn hours on quite happily day by day, week by week. And lo and behold I look at the clock and it's 2 am.
Yes, it's fun and the game is quite good - although X-Com Apocolypse still has the best real-time combat system for tactical squad games I've played, but you can turn base it too, which is squiffy. Anyway... 2 am... which isn't that late really, and I'm up and at work only a little late, or rather only a little earlier than I normally am... but I find myself resenting a little I've played the game when I could have done something more constructive.
Why? Its a fun game and all but I think I'm beginning to get to the stage where I like to have actually done something that will have some kind of impact outside my own little world or my own computer rather than wasting away time changing a few hundred K of bytes on my own hard drive.
This is probably why Evercrack® is more appealing, because while the game itself is pretty squiffy (if you like that sort of thing) the results of what I do, ie my character, is developed and impacts more than just me and my computer, a whole digital world of people and monsters online percieve the results of what I do.
Pre-midlife crisis or boredom? Boredom is increasing attempting to sit its baleful self on my 'to-do' shelf and await selection - and apathy has been there for longer than I can remember.
Now I'm sure there was a point, possibly, to all this rambling but who knows, I've certainly forgotten what it was and I think I probably ought to do a counter bibble to this long drawn out semi-winge at the world or random things in general.
Anyway, maybe I should do some work.
Que canned laughter
Oh I kill myself.
A random offshoot
Nov. 21st, 2001 08:54 amArgh! I've been attempting to ponder some random utter pap to randomly type into here but it's just not happening, what's happened to me? My pap-generator is up the spout, I used to be able to just sit and waffle mindlessly about utterly obscure or pointless (or both) things and now even rambling about rambling about them is taking thought, and that's not good, ack nearly had it there, there on the stair, yes that's it just type, thank goodness I've sort of found it again, whooops, sliding left, sentence growing oh now, lost the ability to use fullstops, no no fullstops for me stop them grab them jab them scag them tag them stop those fullstops now! Phew, right, now I have an alternative, but can I keep it up? haha question mark to the rescue! Ok, the problem was simple, thinking too much, thinking is bad, thinking gives you time to formulate some kind of reasoned statement and that's not a good thing when you're just trying to rambling mindlessly, although since I'm trying not to use fullstops without running a sentence into twelve billion billion words and unknown zillions of commas the um... argh! Nooooo I forgot about that, I'd just paused for just a moment to try and remember where I was and what I was rambling about and I used the infamous three dots... again, there they are the swines, I use them far too much I think, in oooo, mindblank, this is great... I wonder if the canteen has any fruit pastels left? Mmmm sugar, sugar good. Sugar is the mindkiller, sugar is the little flowery fuzzy feeling that zings through your veins and makes your heart go buddabing buddabah, oh yeah. Right, that's a big relief, now to go back and correct typos, spelling and see what the hell I've just written...
Ha ha thisaway...
Nov. 21st, 2001 11:20 amIn my minds twisted attempt to remember the smurf song - which I have just this second managed to find in the deep recesses of my Warning do not attempt to remember part of my brain - I came across the song for Wizbit, now I apologise to everyone who has this song playing in their head, now you feel my pain
Ha ha this-a-way,
ha ha that-a-way,
ha ha this-a-way,
my oh my
Ha ha this-a-way,
ha ha that-a-way,
ha ha this-a-way,
my oh my
80's forever!!!
Nov. 21st, 2001 02:09 pmThis is turning into 80's nostalgia day, so it's time to present my all time favourite (and imho the best) arcade game ever ever ever!
The brilliant music, the way they wagged their little tails as they ran, the secret levels, the music, the popping bubbles, the bouncing, bubbling up, collecting letters, the evil baron - the music on forever infesting your mind!
Not to mention other wonderous 80's arcade games
Gauntlet : Elf needs food badly
Star Wars : Just the badgers nadgers
and so many many more... no gameplay these days, no duration with the posey new wave of arcade games - give me back bubble bobble!
I have it on MIME anyway...
And Rio by Duran Duran was on the radio on the way to the gym, yeah!
The brilliant music, the way they wagged their little tails as they ran, the secret levels, the music, the popping bubbles, the bouncing, bubbling up, collecting letters, the evil baron - the music on forever infesting your mind!
Not to mention other wonderous 80's arcade games
Gauntlet : Elf needs food badly
Star Wars : Just the badgers nadgers
and so many many more... no gameplay these days, no duration with the posey new wave of arcade games - give me back bubble bobble!
I have it on MIME anyway...
And Rio by Duran Duran was on the radio on the way to the gym, yeah!
