Hic Sunt Dracones

I’m also on an aeroplane. I might be being totally American, but the other option looks to be French, so I’m skipping that on ya know the vibe.

I haven’t downloaded any games onto this bad boy yet and for the first time I’m wishing I had.   

Right, so now I’m really tired. Oh so tired, and I’ve hopefully taught myself a lesson about holidays, and sleep, and time, but with me – you never can tell (just like with bees).

The flight out of The* Gold Coast was delayed, so it doesn’t look like I’ll be home before one, which on the back of my action packed (well a bit) weekend will make for a very grumpy me tomorrow at work.

There is some significant risk that someone (at work) will try and fly me to Auckland tomorrow afternoon, and as much as that would normally be rocking and enable all sorts of shenanigans, I think right now it would wind up with a sad old knight telling my relatives that “he chose… poorly.” 

Landing soon so I’ll post this as I Skybus my way back to town. Vive la tecnology. 

*: to mental and tired for that, come back later. You nine thirty, you ten o’clock, bring a friend.

On the road edit: it’s almost 00:30 and I’ve just disenbarked or perhaps deplaned. Whatever the case the skybus train/tram combo can blow me, this man’s catching a cab.

Flat out at work. Very tired, both physically and mentally. Three day weekend coming up though, which is rocking. To Queensland with me. It’s 7:30, and I’ve spent the last two hours either talking to Telstra support staff, or supporting staff throught NSW/Vic/WA. My ears are melting.

I had completely forgotten about this:

I distinctly remember this song being played upstairs in the Chateau. I’m a rocker. I rock out. (Shitty version selected due to no embed from EMI. Whateva.)

Last edited by Luther on 9/4/2008 at 1:18 am
Contained three links. Made some text up to pad them… just now:

Link the first Europa Universalis: Rome. Most likely only of interest to Cardinal, Wostgheel, Keletra, Saint and Torshin.

Every so often when I’m laughing at the generally negative reviews of Mr Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw, and his ZERO (count it, nothing) Punctuation (and oh how I laugh), I consider the fact that he could well be considered just a god damn hater. But then I move on, because he’s funny, and lets be honest, with the exception of a brief session of Guitar Hero when I was home last, I haven’t played a non WOW computer game in some years. Where was I?

Oh yes, I ponder how the lolz is just coming from the dissing. As it were. Then I read stuff like this:

One moment it’s a sad little Eeyore of a game, and the next it’s the girlfriend from hell expecting you to read her mind and know exactly what to do. Until then: You. Shall. Not. Pass. That’s when you’ll yell at your cat.

…

Open-world shouldn’t mean inconsequential. Freedom shouldn’t mean aimless. And variety is never a stand-in for game design.

And I think, yes that’s exactly right. Grand Theft Auto is certainly a big enough sandbox for me (and the 20 minutes I spent playing it at Rup’s) but the stuff going on around you seems to matter (if you interact with it. And it’s cool) and my point is that at least this guy wasn’t completely “this game is shit, and now I’m taking pot shots at it to bring the funny.” He actually had some thought behind it. Which hopefully makes you ask “so who wrote that, was it that zero punctuation guy?”

No, it was Tom Chick whose website is really rather shit. But he seems to write reviews on assorted other sites (which aren’t so shit) and the review in question was for Prototype.

I came across him after reading a Europa Universalis: Rome that seemed pretty rocking to me. Perhaps Nic or JC sent it to me, for verily, they were EU nerds. I think. Well, Nic certainly is an EU nerd. (ha ha, nerd). I can’t think of a decent bit of it to quote, but to people who played the game / are interested in games of that nature, go nuts and read it yourself. Bonus, you’ll see just how shit his website is with the 404s for his adverts. Nice.

Conclusion: Man, I don’t play computer games no more no more no more no more.

An additional hater can be found in the form of Ted Dziuba who writes periodically over on El Reg. In case there is any doubt about how much of a hater he is, his column is entitled Fail and You.

Of course, the haters could just be bursting the bubble of marketing and general consumer driven wankery, which’d be nice. So ya know – hate the game, not the playas.

Then these two, can’t be bothered with words. Go, check them out, revel in their 2008/03-ness.

• stuff film geek graffiti
• wicked movie graffiti

OK, I made up a whole bunch of text for that EU link, but… so?