Robin Williams plays DoD?! Hmm…I wonder if I’ve killed him…That’s for Patch Adams, n00b.
Category: Gaming
Send in the Clowns.
A gang of clowns rob a Manchester wine bar, getting away despite three accidents en route. Probably wouldn’t normally blog this if I didn’t currently have Grand Theft Auto III (which I borrowed from my sister over the weekend) on the brain. (Via Triptych Cryptic.)
Shovels at the ready.
Booyah. After the long wait for 2.0, Day of Defeat 3.0 is just around the corner (next week), with all-new paratrooper classes.
Oh, shut up already.
Normally, I just stay out of the computer wars, since (a) Mac people tend to be so vehemently evangelical and since (b) – even though I’ve been using ’em since my dad bought a TRS-80 back in the day (on which I used to play the hell out of a game called “Sword of Zedek,” which for some reason I can’t find anything on the web about )- I’ve never been much more than a moderately informed user (which, in blog circles, makes me ridiculously uninformed.) That being said, every time I catch one of these annoying new Apple ads, I become ever deeper entrenched in my fondness for PC’s. “Using my PC was like being stuck in a bad relationship?” Please. Like I want to wait an extra eighteen months for new games to get a Mac port.
While I did have an Apple IIc as a kid (Mmmm…”Old Ironsides,”) I didn’t really use Macs until I was forced to in high school and, to cut to the quick, I thought they were crappity crap. When a PC goes down, even a rudimentary user like myself can try to ascertain the problem in DOS. When a Mac went down…well, you were stuck looking at that stupid icon. It’s a glorified calculator. It’s no doubt true that the Windows OS is and has been a complete facsimile of the Macintosh, but I’m kinda hoping we move past GUI’s eventually. Ok, I’ve probably betrayed my ignorance a few times over in this post already, so I’ll close it up. Suffice to say, those Apple ads irk me to no end.
For Freedom!
My brother and sister-in-law left a copy of Freedom Force here on their recent sojourn, and I can feel it calling to me as I write. Doesn’t seem as addictive as Civ 3 (yet), but it’s clearly working with a very playable engine. Definitely makes a nice break after making Powerpoint slides all day.