So my manager ends up accelerating the process and enables me to get a new monitor within half an hour. It gets here... it's dead out of the box. So we go and get another one... also dead out of the box. Am I lucky or what ( Read more... )

So today I managed to Force Lightning my monitor, effectively shocking it into non-existence. Was unable to get any work done today, so it's a good thing most of my day involved meetings.

Then I got the call that Rock Band 3 with the keyboard bundle was going to be delayed due to a manufacturing defect. Sigh.

( Day 23 - Game you think had the best graphics or art style. )

So Fallout 3, storywise, is offically completed. It might just be me, but I found the extended ending via Broken Steel to be rather underwhelming, worse than the original one even. I liked the theme of sacrifice at the end, and making the main character survive... alright, that's something, fixes an issue some people had with the ending. But then ( Read more... )

So New Vegas isn't coming until next week. Gives me time to beat The Pitt and Broken Steel, at least. Also, The Pitt is still bullshit. Five people just beating on the main character and s/he falls over? Just fire a grenade and boom, problem solved and I get to walk into the Pitt with Power Armor and messed up powerful weapons. That said, I have ( Read more... )

So my capture card arrived today, only for me to find that the power supply was missing. Sigh. That'll get to me either Saturday or next Saturday, but still. Disappointing. Did get a lunchbox, though, so now I'm wondering what I should take to have a more filling lunch, since previously all I could manage was a drink and a sandwich.

( Day 20 - Favorite genre. )

hezul: 1) I always want to start off some Hey Jude parody every time I say that name in my head, and 2) I ended up doing a practice run of that Protomen drinking game you mentioned, the one where the rule is to take a drink every time someone says "this city." Did it at work with a bottle of Coke just to see how fast the bottle would go. First song wasn ( Read more... )

There hasn't been too much to report on. I've been playing Fallout 3 like mad, trying to get the last few achievements before New Vegas arrives next week, hopefully. Blazed through Point Lookout, although I was told there was a creepy sidequest I hadn't done that I'm not sure I want to go back and do. It was decent, not as good as Operation ( Read more... )

I've been worldbuilding a memory loss game recently. I should probably post some sort of pitch over the weekend if I can find it in myself to actually write down everything. I've got a basic idea and a short term plan, but making sure it's all down in one place rather than just trying to piece everything together from my mind on a whim is pretty ( Read more... )

In my opinion, I was granted the highest praise at work today. My superior came over to see what I was up to and how I was solving this problem. His comments went like this: "Okay, let's see what's going on... wait, what is this even doing? What is he trying to accomplish with... oh. Oh. Damn, that's clever ( Read more... )

I've always been told that having large headphones (which these days means "non-earbuds"), especially in a public place, conveyed a message of DO NOT DISTURB. As in the sort of "Do not even look at me for more than two seconds because I am not in the mood for this shit" do not disturb. I disagree! I am of the opinion that having visible headphones ( Read more... )