XBox poop

[prog]

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 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.

Comments

[keimel.livejournal.com]

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.

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

your plumbing problems may be caused by one of the many viruses going around now. In any case, I hope you're feeling better.

I just like using this icon.

[ahkond.livejournal.com]

I love TF2, even though I haven't historically been much of an on-line FPS player. If you're playing on the PC, add me as a friend (ahkond is my user name, and my current nickname is [sn]-ahkond; I'm not sure which is used for friend listing) and I can show you around a bit. I did the same thing at first, just running around by myself on empty maps to learn the terrain. But playing for real can be a huge amount of fun and I found some servers where I feel comfortable and the people are nice.

I think the easiest classes to pick up and run with are the ones that don't require too much in the way of aiming and reflexes OR complex controls: Heavy, Pyro and Medic. I thought it would be easy to play Scout too but it's not. The Spy and the Engineer have a lot of technology to work with, and the Soldier requires some pretty careful aiming, and the Demoman has a combination of those problems. The Sniper can be fun but you're out of the action a lot and it takes a special kind of evil patience to play it.

I guess the choice of classes boils down to which style of play suits your temperament. Anyway, if you do get interested let me know and we can go set people on fire or something.

[lediva.livejournal.com]

The part that really ticks me off about MS keeping around credit card info is that there's apparently no way to remove it.

I've got three cards on my account, two of which are no longer valid, but it keeps one of the invalid ones as the default... so half the time I go to add more points, I have a momentary "OMG what's wrong with my card?!" heart attack before remembering I need to pick the third one down.

At some point, we should arrange a TF2 night with friendly-type folks who are just there to have fun and know not of pwning n00bs. I know at least two other people who have the game and would love to play even teams.