01.23.06
The Ego Report
Man, a lot of stuff has happen since my last update. It all just seems rather trivial, so I didn’t think I’d bother you guys with it. But of course, I just remembered that sharing your immensely uninteresting daily experiences with the Internet At Large is the entire point of having a LiveJournal, so now you’ll get the summarized version. Hey, at least I’m not whining about anything! …today.
First of all, we got snow. This is funny, because when they get 40 cm of snow in Canada, they shove it out of the way and get on with their day. Nothing under a meter is worth major notice over there. When we get 40 cm here in Denmark, the entire country grinds to a slow, cold halt. My mum was supposed to go to France to the Midem conference in Cannes this Friday, but instead she was stuck in Kastrup airport for 14 hours. She already has a bladder infection (I wonder if I’m allowed to say these things on the intarweb), and of course an episode like that could only make it worse, so now she ain’t goin’ nowhere. Hell, if I’d spent a whole day in an airport, I would’ve probably died of Internet Deprivation. Of course the benefit of the current situation is that I can get hot chocolate when I get home from work this week!
The subway got locked down too, not long before rush hour, due to the danger of electric wires falling across the tracks… Õ_o
I finally gathered the necessary momentum to actually pick up Volbeat’s debut album, The Strength / The Sound / The Songs. DAMN that is one nice CD. I’ve already pimped it to Ricemanu, “metaltyskeren” as he would be suffixed in Danish (no, I’m not gonna explain what that means, no translation would let it retain its Phunnay™). I do believe the world is ready for Elvis-inspired heavy metal.
I finished Fable. I don’t feel like a review, but you may get my opinion forced on you in the form of a quick summary when I finish my second playthrough with an evil character. I enjoyed it very much though, let’s see how it holds up on the second playthrough.
My first issue of PC Gamer arrived today! These things make me happy. It has some really nice articles, such as a couple of very interesting stories from the world of game development (I particularly enjoyed the first one, entitled “The Naked Programmer”). The reviews don’t look too interesting this month, but that’s because all the good games were either released shortly before christmas or pushed to the spring. Good thing too, that means plenty of time to play the games I’ve been piling up. I noticed with some dismay that Splinter Cell 4 has been pushed to an autumn release. Well, I don’t know if the February release date I had become aware of was ever official, but it sounded official-like.
I’ll live though, so long as Neverwinter Nights 2 makes its deadline. Although if it comes down to a KOTOR2-esque choice between cutting all the really cool parts of the story or pushing the release date, I’d rather they make me wait until christmas as opposed to mutilating the game in the name of the deadline as they did with KOTOR2. But I will not enjoy the wait. I have a plan, btw, I have decided to put aside some money to pick up whatever is the latest and best video card from ATi as soon as NWN2 comes out. I’ve never owned a state-of-the-art GPU before, and I believe the release of a game I anticipate this much is an occasion that calls for such a purchase. I say ATi because I have very good experience with their Radeon series, but if they haven’t gotten off their collective arse and pumped out a card that beats nVidia’s products by then, I may have to convert to GeForce (I DEMAND PIXEL SHADER 3.0 SUPPORT, YOU BUMS!)
I think that’s all. I hope at least one sentence in there was interesting or funny to you so that your time spent reading this post may not have been entirely wasted.
