Abort / Retry / Ignore

I just got a new computer. No internet yet, though, so don’t get all excited that you’ll hear from me more often. But it does have Vista, which is actually quite nice. If you’re a gamer, I wouldn’t recommend it right away, though, since the drivers aren’t quite perfect yet, but if you’re just surfing the net and word processing and other such things, it’s amazing. However, one of the first things I did was disable the User Agent Control, which is that “Cancel or Allow” thing in the Mac commercials. I hate those commercials, by the way. Anyway, other than that, things are great on Vista.

Um, and I’m finally writing again, which is quite nice. And POV‘ing. And playing games. Stuttery sound won’t stop me. Although I’m finally able to play Liquid’s next-to-last game (their last one was Desperate Housewives which I don’t intend to get–ever), Dragonshard. Fun so far. And I just bought the expansion to Galactic Civilizations 2, but it’s a pain in the ass trying to figure out how to get it to my home computer without internet. The default downloader just installs it for you, rather than saving the update files to transport to the home computer. Kind of annoying, but whatever; I ordered the CD version, so if I can’t get the download to work, the CD will arrive someday and I’ll just use that.

So, long boring post that really says nothing. But I am alive, which I guess some people might care about.

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You know you’re a gamer when the hardest choice you have is whether to spend the thirty dollars you’ve somehow managed to save (while being unemployed) on the new Magic: The Gathering expansion, the new Sims 2 expansion, or the new Metroid Prime Hunters.

Decisions, decisions. Feel free to comment with advice. But judging by my current rate of comments, I’ll probably have made the decision by the time I get one comment. Feel free to comment anyway, to tell me what a horrible choice I’ve made.

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Metroid Prime Pinball is the shiznit. I like games I can just pop in and play five minutes at a time when I’m bored. My current high score is 7.8 million. Which is pretty impressive since the record before that was 2.5 million. My score keeps going up exponentially. If the pattern follows, the next time I play I’ll get up to 27.3 million.

So, in conclusion, I highly recommend Metroid Prime Pinball. Especially for people who aren’t really gamers, since it’s easy to play and get into. It doesn’t require any sort of mental investment, and there’s no deep story to get engrossed in and lose your life to. Cuz that’s been known to happen.

I give it a 7,824,273 out of ten.

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I can’t decide if I should transfer some of the content from my last blog, or maybe summarize it, or just leave it in the digital æther.

Is my road to truckering important enough to preserve? The photos are mostly going to get saved and get their own section, eventually, so that’s not an issue. A non-issue, if you will.

Just when I’ve gotten used to word processors again, where I just push enter once, I have to do this, where I must push it twice. If I push it once, it just puts in the <br /> tag instead of creating a new paragraph. Oh well, I’ll get used to it. Otherwise, the interface is way more better than hand-editing all that crap that I had to do before. Probably the best parts are the auotmatic archiving and rssing. It’s nice not to have to do those by hand.

By the way, in case anyone reading this has a Nintendo DS and Mario Kart DS, my friend code is as follows: 347953 559127 — Going under the name “Buddy13″ (imagine that!). If indeed you do have Mario Kart, feel free to leave your friend code in the comments.

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