Pints of Guinness don’t actually make you strong BTW
I’ve felt pretty shitty for the most part of the day. I spent last night drinking hard and watching Thumbs Up!, which is pure quality and a pretty good example of the dumb shit I’d love to do. Being a super middle-class whitey cracker means I pretty much don’t end up doing jack shit, which is a problem that seems to plague the States these days.
Then again, I’m also a gamer, so a lot of my time is spent doing ridiculous things at the behest of a bizarre GM, things like grabbing coins and finishing quests and the occasional spray n’ pray on Counter-Strike.
(Seriously, four hours of play and three kills? Have I been shooting toes off this whole time?)
But yeah. A Double Bastard in a large beaker, occasionally topped off with a plain Arrogant Bastard and a shot of rum? That’s quite a lot of alcohol for someone like me. I woke up and dry-heaved a bit, fell asleep next to the toilet and eventually settled down enough to drive home and puke over here instead.
Fortunately for me, I had something running in the background while I was gone, and when I returned the seven-day trial of Tabula Rasa was downloaded and installed! I don’t really care for current events or condone the act of talking about current events on the Injun, but the fact that they’re launching Lord British into space and he’s taking our save game with him is pretty nice. Remember going up into space in Ultima 2? Nothing like the real thing, I hear.
So, I decided that I needed to get in on it, and went ahead and created a trial account. From there, the rough and tumble soldier-man Bill Estallion tore across the alien landscapes and pretty much just beat down everything with a small arsenal of guns! Only he didn’t, because my computer is out of date as shit and the game ran at ten frames per second on all the lowest settings. I sorta just stuttered across alien landscapes and found myself thinking Wow, this is an MMO I’d invest three months of time in if my computer weren’t so shit. But you know, that’s the kind of stuff that pops up when you can’t afford to completely replace your five-year-old rig in a world of high-spec games.
Well, that and a fondness for Nethack.
August 1, 2008 at 8:45 am
You know, for someone with no money, you have a curious tendency to gravitate towards games that make you pay money! What’s up with that, holmes?
August 1, 2008 at 9:15 am
It’s strange, I know! I think the big reason I do that is because of my misguided belief that there has to be at least one MMO that doesn’t totally suck after a month or two, when in my heart I know I’m too much of a lone shark to actually get anything out of an MMO.
Back when I was a stupid young’un, I tried Everquest for about five minutes. Well, more than five minutes, but it was long enough to know that Everquest is kinda boring! Also, though I’d talked to people, I never really teamed up with anyone. I soloed up to level ten through dubious means.
Then, years later, a friend and I ended up playing Dark Age of Camelot, which was pretty much the best one. Jumping off horses, running back to gravestones, getting ganked in PvP, and being a goddamn Viking, what fun! Eventually we even grabbed the expansion, and I managed to work my way up to ten levels below the cap, which is when you started getting mini-levels every half-level since levelling was so slow.
Once, I joined a one hundred man raid of one of the frontier castles, only to have my computer seize up due to the sheer size of the army.
But yeah, I stopped playing that somehow. Sometime later, I upgraded my computer, and some time after that we started with City of Heroes. I fucked around there for a while, dug the crazy herodom, and stopped just before City of Villains came out. Later I actually bought a copy of City of Villains for cheap and did all the fun social-type things I’d dreamed of doing all those times before, but quit mysteriously after a month.
So, uh, yeah, I don’t really know what’s up with that.