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prog ([personal profile] prog) wrote2008-03-10 11:36 am
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XBox poop

My "vacation" failed to start last week, since my main active client had a bunch of revisions for me to make, which didn't surprise me. The work I have done went live on Friday, so we are now done-done and I hope to do interesting things starting today. (The client's already started to make new sales via the software I wrote, which makes everyone feel good.)

First, though, I spent the weekend sick at home, playing video games. Saturday [livejournal.com profile] classicaljunkie hung out and we played XBLA stuff together, and Sunday I spent alone playing Half Life 2, which is new to me. And, erm, I just played it all morning this morning, too. That's enough of that.

This is my first exposure to the current generation of digital gaming with a high-def display, sitting at the end of an intertube ready to pump more gamage at me whenever I wanted. I can see why someone could just sit and play forever. (Microsoft happily keeps your credit card info on-file after your first online purchase, so buying more downloadable gobbidge thereafter is as easy as pressing a button. They are bastards.)

I haven't played TF2 yet. I'm a little scared to. I had fun runnin around one of the maps alone just to check out the place.

The sickness was worrisome. After a month of masterful regularity, maybe the best I've ever had, I didn't go for five days and it was starting to hurt. Sunday I turned to a coordinated regimen of many things to get it all out, and it worked, and it was pretty awful. I am going to drink through this bottle of prune juice and hope that balance has been restored to the force. I have no idea what's going on.

[identity profile] keimel.livejournal.com 2008-03-10 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
On the gaming, I am amazed when I go look at the games in the stores. They're getting closer and closer to 'real' every generation.

It's looking amazingly good.

I'm still just getting geared up with my eyetoy and PS2 though.

;)

On the other stuff...
Glad you're feeling better - that's never any fun. I have taken to drinking 'smoothies' for breakfast once or twice a week to help out. Get lots of fruit into me, which has helped a lot. Of course, this morning I feel very ill and don't want to eat lunch. Ugh kind of dreading it right now.

[identity profile] prog.livejournal.com 2008-03-10 04:11 pm (UTC)(link)
HL2 was released around three years ago and I still have to stop every so often to look around and go "daaaarh, pretty". I especially love the scenes that take place out in the open, in bright daylight. It looks so nice.

[identity profile] chocorisu.livejournal.com 2008-03-11 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
Good art direction beats fancy tech every time. Valve's artists really know how to light an outdoor scene.