prog | NYC Subway Battel | Hot Hot Cockpit Action | The "E" stands for potted mEat

This is a heartwarming story, I say without irony.

Yes, I played through all of Ace Combat 04 again, blasting through all 18 missions in just a couple of play sessions, which is kind of unprecedented for me. I take a vague sort of snob-pride in not being so obsessive about video games that I try to unlock every single thing, so I rarely bother replaying things.

It's still pretty easy on the 'Hard' setting. In fact, it's probably easier than starting the 'Normal' game from scratch, since the larger mission-award purses let you buy the better planes sooner. I saw that I just unlocked the chance to play the game yet again on a new 'Expert' mode, and the Web tells me that beating that will give me 'Ace' mode. Sheesh! No thanks, twice is enough. It's still a great time, though, and I'll probably get Ace Combat 5 when it comes out next month.

(Addendum to previous post on this topic: Oh, I guess they did send the Marines in. I wasn't really paying attention to the radio chatter on my first play-through. The mission is still kind of silly.)

A warning to my friends: please don't use eVite, most certainly not to me, probably not to anyone else either. I say this because it looks like Spam (unknown From header, almost entirely HTML body) and will automatically be treated as such by anyone who uses Spam-filtering software (such as myself) and didn't think to have it make exceptions for eVite mail. I am missing a party this weekend in part because I didn't see the invitation until Thursday night (when the host asked me if I got it), too late for me to plan the time for it properly. eVite does have some nice Web-based features, so if you do use it to send invitations, please follow up with a simultaneous plain-old email to your invite list.

Here ends today's episode of Jmac tells you how to act because he must think he's better'n you or sumthn.

NYC Subway Battel | Hot Hot Cockpit Action | The "E" stands for potted mEat

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