Bought Alan Wake Collector’s edition last week, and loving it. It’s all I expected it to be. In less than a week I’ve plugged through five episodes. That’s fairly damn fast for me.
Archive for the ‘Tech’ Category
Because I could…
2010 -
05.06
Migraine for fair chunk of night meant I stayed home today. Byron sent me an SMS asking about posting to a blog by iPhone so I thought I’d try the wordpress out since I run that on bombadil. It did require an update of WordPress to version 2.9.2 but it was about time for that anyway. I’ve not tried posting with a photo yet, and the geolocation seems to be taking a bit of tweaking. I have advised Furbag that she’s been updated too. She will no doubt test later.
There comes a time…
2010 -
05.02
This week I plan finish Mass Effect 2 by the end of the week. In fact I will have no sex until I finish this game, so it better be before week’s end, or I’m going to be moving towards a sex free weekend! It’s been too long waiting to finish. I have at least 3 others to finish too. I may have to apply the same caveat to them also…
Thursday night ramblings…
2010 -
04.08
For a short week it’s been a very very LONG week! Can’t wait for 17:00 tomorrow.
This week i’ve been filling two roles, and I’ve been dragged into more work politics than I’d like: I can’t wait to go back to being a “pleb” on the ground. I’m much happier forgetting the politics and getting back on the ground helping get REAL work done!
Also this week I’ve started an exercise (or perhaps I REALLY mean exOrcise) regime. My last threesome left me feeling somewhat less than 100% up to par so I’ve found the motivation to try and regain my fitness level of 10 years ago. If nothing else at the moment it’s helping me sleep better at night. Seems Furbag is having trouble waking me up last few nights.
Given that tomorrow is Friday, I may go for a quick trip to check out JB Hifi and see if LoRT Blue-Ray is there yet, given it was released on the 6th just gone. I’m still dubious about the worth given the lack lustre reviews, but somehow I don’t think I’ll be able to help myself…
The Trouble with Tentacles…
2010 -
03.21
Asari Table Top dancing is trouble waiting to happen and the go-go to die for: there really is something about the powder blue skin…
M$ Wh0r3…
2010 -
03.14
Well “Gandalf” has been retired and “Elrond” has been reincarnated as a Windows 2008 Server. Beleriand has moved on to be supplanted by Middle-Earth.
Gone is the 2K3 domain, to be replaced with a completely new 2K8 Forest/Domain(s) and Windows 7 clients. At the heart is an old Dell 2850, which admittedly is several years old, but will do the job I need it to do. All up about 10 hours for installation, creation of AD, configuring DNS, DHCP scopes, RAS, WSUS, Group Policy and configuration of various shares and printing resources.
Bit quicker than I gave myself credit for really. Still it’s up and running, with no real disruption. Interestingly my old UPS can’t handle the server for more than a couple of minutes, so another purchase looms I can see. As if to demonstrate this the power died for about 10 minutes immediately after I finished the final tasks today. Plop, server down in 2 minutes flat!
Seems I love my Micro$lut…
Waiting so long and yet…
2010 -
03.06
Well after waiting until yesterday to be able to install it, and this morning to be able to play it, the jury is still out on Supreme Commander 2. I can’t say I instantly think it is better. I really can’t say yet, and that’s not necessarily a good thing but may not be bad either, too early to tell.
Blowing STEAM…
2010 -
03.02
Fuckitty Fuck Fuck!!
I hate STEAM. I have definitely just bought my last PC game ever I think. It’s bad enough that Supreme Commander 2 is Steam, but I can’t even fucking install the game for 2.5 more days, because EVEN THOUGH I’ve just puchased the media today (i.e. disc), I’m not able to install it because of STEAM!
I know it’s not really STEAM’S fault per se, damned publishers too! They’ve finally killed the PC market for me with one of my favourite games… 🙁
And I obviously DIDN’T REMEMBER this “..Certainly I won’t buy Supreme Commander 2 for the console, but if I’m going to be inconvenienced for legitimately buying a game I would previously genuinely have bought unseen, I think not! Now it’s got to the point for me that I have to wait and see what crap others have to put up with before I go out to buy a PC game.”! I didn’t wait, and, well I deserve the pain really for my own instant gratification.
So you PAID for that…?
2010 -
02.10
Well glad I’m not big fan of buying PC games nowadays. I might have bought Mass Effect 2 or Bioshock 2 for the PC, and been really fucking pissed that I paid to be stuffed around: and those who don’t pay have all the fun and no inconvenience! Admittedly I won’t buy these games for PC, although I WILL buy them to play on xbox 360 quite cheerily. I’ll be looking very closely at what might be done to Supreme Commander 2 just prior to release and may actually wait a day or so now, and see what comes up on the internet from the early adopters! Certainly I won’t buy Supreme Commander 2 for the console, but if I’m going to be inconvenienced for legitimately buying a game I would previously genuinely have bought unseen, I think not! Now it’s got to the point for me that I have to wait and see what crap others have to put up with before I go out to buy a PC game. Seems that saves me a fair bit of grief nowadays. And let’s face it, those who know me, know I’ve not been shy of buying games over the years. I even own multiple copies of some like Starcraft, Warcraft and several others, so I think I can legitimately bitch about intrusive “protection schemes”.
It’s a cold wind…
2010 -
01.25
A final whiny moment and then I’m done I guess. Two games off my shopping list this year are Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3. Yes it’s clear that Blizzard and I part company as a consumer partnership. Their ridiculous excuse about not including LAN support on the basis of preventing piracy is just insulting. I won’t even deign providing links for the two aforementioned titles. If Blizzard did a flip on this I’d happily purchase both games, but short of that, I believe that Warcraft 3 will be my last blizzard game.
However, two games that I am looking forward to immensely and oddly both sequals, are Mass Effect 2, and Supreme Commander 2. Hopefully by the end of this week I’ll have a collector’s edition of Mass Effect 2. The other will have to wait until March if it maintains it’s release date.
Hopefully I’ll be finished Dragon Age: Origins by the end of the week, because I’m going to find it hard to not fire up Mass Effect 2 on Friday night.