Floundering is a weird word and a flounder is a weird fish. Anyhow this isnt really about Ave Imperator, hence the 1.5. It’s more about the process leading up to Ave Imperator. Which is fraught with distraction at the moment. Continue reading…
Rutger Hauer, Foreigner and all the girls I’ve loved before
No real insight here, just something that I’ve thought for a while that got shook lose earlier in the week. Someone asked me was I still in love with someone. I answered in the affirmative but thinking about it afterwards I think they misunderstood my answer or at least interpreted it in a way I didnt intend. I suppose its semantics or possibly just me being contrary. But I think theres an important difference between the question “Are you love with X?” and “Are you still in love with X?” The first question is explicitly asking how you feel about someone at the present and in the present. The latter question however is less clear. I think most people, fairly enough I suppose, interpret the answers as being the same. Actually I’m going to change my mind a little here. I think the answers are the same, its just the latter question gives me a little wiggle room to be a cunt. I shouldnt have answered yes, I should have said “It’s complicated” and explained myself. Which is what I’m doing now. This is probably going to be a deliciously adolescent mixture of wanky and whiny. You have been warned. Continue reading…
The Letter of the Law
As I said in my last post I want to try and make sure I get at least one blog post up a week. So to adhere to at least the letter if not the spirit of that goal I set up a small blog entry to autopost each Sunday. And I clearly set it up correctly which is why this is going up just over a day late. Yay, technology!
This week was marred by a fairly vile bout of flu which I still havent recovered from. Though around Friday I could at least think straight. I really need to do something about my general health. It’s annoying losing a week to that. I also ended up getting guilted into putting flatpack furniture together and fucked up my back again. Yes, yes, whinge, whinge, I know. I did get a bit of gaming done at the beginning and ending of the week. I finished off Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (amazing game, one of the best action games I’ve played in years and possibly the only game where it actually feels like you’re wielding a razor sharp lump of death) last Sunday and this Sunday I continued my initial experience with the new SimCity (really great game and I seemed to bypass the infamous server issues entirely).
So not productive, but at least it was unproductive in a tangentially productive way. This week has been going better. Still feeling wiped out from the flu but I got back to finishing off the initial draft of my novel. As I was reading through it to re-familiarise myself with I could see quite a bit wrong with it. Not sure if its entirely salvageable but I still want to get a complete first draft done and at least give it a once over. At that point I might abandon it and move on but at least then it’ll be properly “complete”.
Behind the times
In which I explain why I’m giving up manga and rewatching tv shows for march Continue reading…
(Upcoming) Games of 2013 – Prelude to the deluge
This list is likely to change/expand pretty drastically after E3 when its likely the launch lineups for the PS4 and XBox720/Durango are announced. I’m not sure if I’ll be jumping to next gen straight away because as I mentioned over here I’ve got back into PC gaming in a big way. Well, thats most likely a lie. Unless the launch line-up is absolutely shit I’ll probably grab a PS4. Though I am interested in how theyre going to handle backwards compatability, particularly considering the amount of donwloaded/PSN content I’ve purchased.
Even without the infusion of next-gen stuff 2013 is looking like a pretty amazing year for gaming. A large number of titles that were originally slated for 2012 got pushed back and a number of highly anticipiated sequels to popular franchises are coming out this year as well. As well as looking at whether or not I’ll bother with next gen consoles theres also the question of whether or not I’ll bother with the Wii-U. My luck with Nintendo systems is mixed. While I owned a SNES I preferred my Megadrive. I never had, or played more than once, a N64. I got a lot of play out my Gamecube (worth it just for Eternal Darkness, Super Monkeyball and Animal Crossing). I was excited about the Wii, bought one and played it literally twice. On the other hand there’s a number of Wii-U exclusives that I really like the look of (SMTxFire Emblem, Monolithsoft’s X, The Wonderful 101, Bayonetta 2, maybe Zombi-U). I might pick one up when the majority of those games are out and the systems dropped in price. Knowing Nintendo I dont want to get stung when they do an early hardware revision. Continue reading…
Stopgaps
I want to run or play in an RPG campaign. But its awakward both geographically and because I feel inordinately guilty about reaading rpg material or planning a game. No idea where the guilt comes from but it makes it difficult to plan anything. The fact that theres a general feeling that I’ll never get to run anything that I come up with doesnt help. While I now only buy one or two rpg products a year I still have a giant stockpile of unused stuff. Ideally I’d have a regular weekly session but even trying to plan a once a month boardgame night is proving a chore so that seems unlikely. Maybe move it online? Playing online with strangers just feels sort of odd though. So is this post just me whinging? Well to a certain extent, yes. Wait, no. It isnt. In my previous post I was complaining about time just passing idly by. So I’m going to combine my problems. Continue reading…
State of play
As I mentioned previously January was a write off. On the plus side I did get employed for the next six months. On the downside work this year is actually proving to be rather time consuming. Having to write notes about programs I’m not super familiar with will do that. My schedule is also dung. But they are just excuses. I dont know if Im simply out of practice or Ive lost any analytical skill but I’m finding it next to impossible to get going on my Best X of 2012 stuff. Its already a few weeks late as is and I cant see me getting it done. In terms of game design stuff this month was planned to be a month for intensive skillups but the terrible machine I have in work more or less fucked that plan. I broke and bought a new PC but have yet to get it up and running (because the parts have shipped in an order that looks like the suppliers are deliberately trolling me). Its not as if Im using my free time for non-constructive stuff either. I’ve played fuck all (lets be honest, only one) of the 108. I’ve only written a little more of the post-50K words part of my novel. I havent read any of the books I planned. When I’m not working time just seems to flow past me. “The sun is the same In a relative way But you’re older” Time to do something I think.
The Woeful 108
Well seems my decision not to pick up the Wii-U was correct as two of the three games I was interested in have been pushed back to “later in the year”. Pity, the Wonderful 101 looked great. Anyhow, onwards to the main point of this. I have a lot of computer games. Which isnt a problem. The problem is that I havent actually completed (or in many cases played) the majority of them. Yet I still go out and buy new games. So I decided that a change was needed. That change is The 108. Continue reading…
(Tardy) Return of the King
A month or so ago, way over here I posted a plan for upcoming content. As the old saying goes, man plans – god laughs (cause he’s a sick fuck apparently). Work finished a day or two before Christmas, which was total shit. So I decided that fuck it, I was just going to take some time completely off, from everything (in the later stages this frequently involved thinking and consciousness). Which is exactly what I did. I’m back in work today, but sill havent actually slept so being back to work doesnt feel real (this may not be entirely because of lack of sleep). What does this mean for you humble reader? Well it means everything I planned has been pushed back the guts of a month. I dont know if I’ll have a job for much longer as my contract runs out at some point this month (seriously dont actually know when which is terrible) which may occupy some of my time. So perhaps dont expect anything before February.
EVE and I – Part 06 – Can you hear me, major Tom?
Well its been two days since my last post on EVE. In that time I’ve done some more mining and finally got around to trying out missions. I’ve also completed my goal of securing a +3 version of the basic attribute implant for four out of five stats. Continue reading…