Straight Jacket Type Fun
3/26/2005
The Sanitarium's moving to a new, more padded cell in the next day or so and so I won't be able to get my usual dosage of news and innuendo. You'll survive without me here I'm sure. Should be back online later next week.
3/23/2005
If you're about my age then you know there were two cool things growing up: Legos and Star Wars. Now someone converged them into one game. Ships April 2nd.
Gotta like the Dan's Data site. Now he's talking about SLI cards running side by side. Here's the big problem with SLI:
Unfortunately, though, SLI-ed cards can't access each others' RAM, so texture and other memory-hogging data is duplicated on each card, and two 128Mb cards will choke on anything that'd choke one of them.
3/22/2005
Well, I guess we can chalk up this patch to the better late than never department. A new patch for Enemy Territory even though the last one was nearly 18 months ago and the game came out in 2003. The gargantuan list of fixes can be found here.
And damn, you Mac people are just lucky today aren't you? First a client for Enemy Territory today and now Doom 3 for you jokers with the stupid one button translucent cases.
Ask Jeeves how it feels to be 2 billion dollars richer. In fact, here's the results.
3/21/2005
So the government spent some of our taxes on a study regarding IT infrastructure here in the U.S. What a shock they found problems. Gimme $250 and I could have told them that!
Expansion for Halo 2? Perhaps it will include something important in a game like fun and entertainment.
Your KoTOR2 giving you a few fits here and there? Well do what any good gamer does and tweak that game! Because, y'know, putting out patches is just too much trouble for a game developer.
3/19/2005
Now I've seen everything.
3/18/2005
Sorry folks, family stuff came up and so updates were put on hiatus. I'll try sometime this weekend. KoTOR2? Yeah, I keep going back from time to time to get a little further in it.
3/14/2005
Where's my KoTOR2 review? Sorry, I haven't played much. I keep going back to EQ2 for some perverse reason.
WoW Gold for real money in WoW? I've read of similar things in MMORPG but it still befuddles me why, when you're already paying for a game, that you'll pay even MORE to get slighlty ahead. Or is gold the only means of transactions in WoW. Holy crap I'm a wuss talking about MMORPG games. I need a good shooter.
3/12/2005
Now we've all been down the path where we get a great trailer for these latest Star Wars movies and then some walk away disappointed. But g'damn, this most recent trailer makes it look like Lucas woke up from his coma of the past 20 years and started whipping some more ass.
3/11/2005
Ok so I messed up. The Sparta game is going to be on console but Total War won't be moving to console. Thank goodness.
Eidos made their money on digital breasts and now they face bankruptcy.
Ring moans? Now my phone is faking it. As if real life isn't bad enough.
3/9/2005
So I open up BluesNews and see an article that Sega purchased Creative Assembly, the RTS/strategy gurus behind the Total War series. No bones about it, I love Total War. The latest patch brought Rome:Total War up to the same level as the past two iterations, Medieval and Shogun. But now, Sega -- henceforth known as "those dirty dirty bastards" -- have put Creative Assembly's talent towards making a purely console game in the vein of Prince of Persia. BAH!! Let me reemphasize that point. BAH!!
Duke Nuke'em Forever has good physics? Bullshit!! Has anyone seen screenshots? I call bullshit. The last screenshots for Duke I saw were a few years ago when the game was going to use the Quake 2 engine. That's 10 years ago. Don't believe any of this crap!
A case modding site which discusses for the billionth time about the ugly beige case. You know what I say, who cares?! It's functional and it works and it's one less expensive piece for the do it yourself crowd. Fan in the front, fan on the back, fan on the processor, and fan on the video card and you don't need to worry about anything. Aesthetics be damned.
And now for something to feed your inner child who demands to see stuff being destroyed or mutilated. Enjoy!
3/7/2005
Reviews for Republic Commando have begun their appearance on the Internet and so far they appear to be positive. Now I gave the demo a shot but to be honest I did not get that much into it. Sounds crazy I know since it contains two elements I greatly enjoy: Star Wars and shooting stuff. Now g'dammit I better not be growing up or something!
3/3/2005
So you want a patch for KoTOR2? Well, just wait. Honestly, not getting into this one as much as the first one. Ah well, it's still fun but only just so much.
I know what you're thinking. "Hey Sphinx, would there happen to be a site for Spider-Man where he takes direct action in some of the more impressive parts of the Bible?" Fear not true Believers, there is!
Toy Robots to watch your kids? Naturally by Microsoft so when you're not looking they will brainwash your offspring into chanting Microsoft slogans such as: "A reboot a day keeps the blue screen away" or "Developers Developers Developers!"