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[prog]

Fired off three job things today. Two of them sound like good fits, one especially so. It involves another Big Name Perl Dood, and I totally name-checked Boston.pm people in my email to him. I'm hopeful I'll hear something back.

Client is doing the dance of joy about the work I put in yesterday. Great, super. But now my plate is empty again. I need more clients.

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When it was time to do some Volity work tonight, I instead chose to let off a lot of steam in Resident Evil 4, which I haven't played in a couple of weeks. Advanced two chapters in about three hours of play.

Happily ignoring the advice in the two non-spoiler strategy GameFAQs docs I read about weapons choices. Everyone hates the machine gun! I think they're full of it. The machine gun is hella fun. You can even kill some bosses with it, once you get good. Poopy on you, silly min-maxer GameFAQ kiddies.

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Speaking of killing bosses with machine guns, Someone close to me is getting shafted hard by their job, he said vaguely but meaningfully. Multiple parties are upset at this. I look forward to seeing how it falls out. (And participating in this, to the degree that I can.)

Comments

[chocorisu.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed the segue into the last paragraph. :)

I think RE4's weapons are fairly well balanced. You don't really need to min-max the game to get the most out of it. i.e. go nuts with the machine gun, they don't punish you for it.

[prog.livejournal.com]

The game clearly wants you to use it by liberally sprinkling its ammo everywhere.

The min-maxers are also big fans of the "Red 9" pistol, which is slow as hell and takes up about 20 inventory slots but has the biggest numbers in its damage column and therefore it is clearly the best. I powerbarf upon them.

One of the FAQ writers also advised never buying first aid spray, instead just replaying the same scenes over and over until you can do them without getting hurt. Pfui!

(I do replay scenes sometimes, but only when I clearly missed a big fat opportunity. Not to wankily max my stats.)

[chocorisu.livejournal.com]

There is a certain breed of FAQ writer who isn't writing to be helpful but to brag about his achievements. You can easily spot them because they write in the first person a LOT.

I am astounded that GameFAQs still doesn't have a rating system for their FAQs. I would give all those guys a thumbs-down.

[aspartaimee.livejournal.com]

Someone close to me is getting shafted hard by their job, he said vaguely but meaningfully

sadly, i know how he feels.

[prog.livejournal.com]

Well, you took action. (Or took action by no-action in a zen-master sort of way.) The other in question is just starting down the road of suck.

[dictator555.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking the shafted party is our favorite junkie. If so, I'm one of the upset parties and have been for years. Action time!

[dianamp04.livejournal.com]

I believe I already discussed a plan with Jason, I don't want to give the details away so Amy can figure it out, but it includes sex and shackles. Not that it's needed anymore since the situation seems to have straightened out.

[dictator555.livejournal.com]

Nice, Diana. Real nice. Dirty thing.