Ready For Spring?

[caraig]

So I woke up not long ago to thunder. That's cool, I thought. I like thunderstorms. I hear the pitter-patter of rain, a few more peals of thunder. I make shower, a spot of lunch, wrestle with the net a bit, and then pop upstairs to take a look-see if the mailman dropped off anything.

It's snowing. SNOWING.

Let me repeat that: SNOWING in APRIL. With THUNDER.

Okay, the thunder stopped earlier but still. What the heck?

To the best of my memory, in the past thirty years it has snowed only once in April, and that was not the monster snowdrift that's happening right now. This is really verging on blizzard status, if the wind was a touch stronger and if it was sticking. As it is, there's gonna be a lot of hazardous driving.

Last night's dreams were strange and disturbing. Whenever I see Mom in dreams these days she's always on the verge of going away, and when I wake up I have to remind myself that it's all right since she's already gone and that makes me feel a little better but how messed up is that?

Well, I need to go here. Heading once more into work. if I'm lucky it'll be a quiet day, I come home at a ridiculous hour and go to sleep almost immediately in order to wake up for the early shift tomorrow; lather, rinse, repeat for the next six days. If I'm unlucky... then we get the frickin' customers from Hell and by the end of the day I want to bang my head against the wall to make the hurting stop, I come home and go to sleep almost immediately in order to wake up for the early shift tomorrow; lather, rinse, repeat for the next six days. I keep saying 'eyes on the prize' but that prize is damn far off. I can't help but feel that this job would be much easier if people didn't suck.

Darth Nukus feels I should bring in the lightspork and eviscerate the fools, but then he'd say that if someone overcooked the soup.

Speaking of Hell, if you're looking for a game recommendation, then it's Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Lots of quests, lots of things to do, and a wide-open game world. It's Privateer for the fantasy set... multiplied by, oh, three hundred. It's like X with swords and sorcery. If you even remotely like World of Warcraft then Oblivion will interest you. It's the last word in fantasy computer RPGs, and it will rock your overworld and your underworld.

Pax.

Comments

[ruggels.livejournal.com]

About Oblivion, You need to warn folks that the game has some fearsome minimum specs, and that you need a top of the line video card for maximum immersive pretty. However the forests and grasslands are worth it. I have been getting recommended from all side for this game. maybe after a couple of weeks of settling down.

Scott

[rantmaster.livejournal.com]

Is a Radeon x800 XL sufficient?

Probably should get some more RAM, though...

[ruggels.livejournal.com]

I don't know, but I'll find out, as I have a ATI 9800 Pro on one of my machines. But any of the top of the $300 and up, PCI Express socketed cards should do fine.

Scott

[caraig.livejournal.com]

Good point about the minspec; this is an extremely herc'y game, and if I didn't have a new video card it would probably bring my computer to it's knees, and then through the floor. (FEAR also hit my system pretty hard, too.) That being said, the game still looks reel purty at 800x600; it's actually a touch nostalgic, the size of the font reminding me of games like Ultima VIII and Diablo.

Someday, I'll see about meeting the recspec and see what kind of pretty this game can really do!

[ruggels.livejournal.com]

For a couple of folks on Polycount with real screamers of boxes, they say the environmental effects and the draw sdistances make you think that you have fallen into a real place, until you see a character. The beauty of the world and the attention to detail, really make the allready indifferent character animation look worse, but then if you aren't an animation officianado, then it may just be one of those things you ignore, like the black clad bunraku players who manipulate the puppets. The character models are so-so, but the texture mapping is wonderful, but the "Face Gen" technology just gives all the minor NOPC's a doughy similarity. Those have been the complaints. All pale in comparison to the fun folks seem to be having with the "Dark Brotherhood" quests, and Thieve's Guild Quests. And fun, really is what it's all about.

Scott

Scott

[rantmaster.livejournal.com]

It was snowing for a while where I'm at too. :}

I've heard good things about Oblivion...tell me, do they have better dialogue trees than from Morrowind?