Ponderings...
Nov. 21st, 2001 08:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robinblokeWerl, 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.
