Merry Christmas and some happy new gear.
Man, that was terrible. Even for me.
My time at home over the break has been inanely sedentary. It is difficult to believe how little I've done anything that resembles work (other than Final Fantasy XI). Christmas Dinner (lunch) is about to begin. So stoked.
Non-game related:
16pc Dinnerware set
Pajama pants
Miscellaneous coffee flavorings
Two hats (toboggans, or whatever; I wear them all the time)
Gray military jacket
Various junk foods
Game/Tech related:
Call of Duty 4
Lost Planet (PC)
Battle for Middle Earth
Earbuds/plugs
The non-tech gifts were quite pleasing. I’ve been drinking my coffee with only cream for about a year (unless I go to Starbucks, and then I get something that I’d wager doesn’t actually have coffee in it), but I will use the various flavorings, nonetheless. I wear those hats year-round, excepting summer (mostly). The more pajama pants, the better. Especially comfy ones. The dinnerware set will be used eventually, though Dad’s wife did mention that it seemed a bit random when she bought it. While it is a bit random, I will certainly find use for it sooner than when I get my first apartment. At least I didn’t suspect that there was a PS3 inside that roughly console-shaped package. It was heavy, too. The gray jacket is quite nice, as well.
As for the game-related stuffs, I’m even more stoked. CoD4 was the highest priority item on my Amazon wish list (from which my relatives usually get their gift ideas...or the gifts themselves). Battle for Middle Earth is an RTS, and was the $10 item on the list. Lost Planet was actually from me to myself. It was at Target for $15 (half off) on Sunday. I didn’t bother resisting. It runs much better than the demo did, too. The earbuds are interesting. They have the sealing plug thingies, but the frequency response at 20-20k Hz is lower than I usually accept for earbuds. They'll do, though, I think. They do isolate the sound nicely.
Hard drive space is really low. Eight gigs to install Lost Planet and CoD4; four to install BfME. I uninstalled Doom 3, Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, Battlefield 1942 (which I didn’t like, anyway), and backed up and deleted several ISOs and things. I still have Vanguard: Saga of Heroes installed, though I’ve not played it in two months. 17.5GB. Just for that game. FFXI is around 8, Guild Wars is around 2, and WoW, I’m told, is around 8 or 9. Vanguard is twice any of that. Jeez. MMOs take a good bit of hard drive space, but Vanguard sets a new record. It is likely the most space consuming game in existence. It may also be the most demanding, as it runs terribly on every computer. But anyway...
If you will excuse me, my post-installation defragmentation is finished.
STOP. Patching time. (For non-gaming nerds, I’m downloading updates for my “new” games.)
2 comments:
For some reason I read "inanely sedentary" as "incendiary." Needless to say, for at least a few seconds I thought your break sounded a lot hotter than it ended up.
The only thing "incendiary" has been my grenades. You know, the virtual kind. Although, as of right now, I am doing no grenade-ing on three laptops with integrated graphics, despite their quite potent processors.
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