Really haven't had that much to say. Oblivion has basically fallen by the wayside at this point, between game-installing and American Gothic watching, and most importantly, the discovery of www.underground-gamer.com.
It is essential that I build my ratio there, which means making torrents, uploading them, and then seeding the stuffing out of them. And if there's one thing I'm sure of with Oblivion, it's that it wouldn't appreciate Azureus running underneath it. Also, fragmentation makes it perform noticeably worse, and I'm sure I'm fragmenting the hell out of that drive, and I don't want to defrag while simultaneously doing a lot of accessing of the drive with Azureus. Bad things could happen.
So instead, I've been playing Half-Life 2 (again. Only I'm much further this time than I've previously been. All the way up to chapter 11: "Follow Freeman!". Though I'm cheating my ass off.). It really is quite a game. I've never been sold on the first Half-Life, but if they keep making 'em like this one...hoo-boy. Not that it's perfect. I've been annoyed by some sequences, reduced to gibbering terror by a couple of others (please no more navigating on the underspars of a bridge. PLEASE. My fear of heights will hate you forever if you ever do that to me again.), and I really wish some of the weapons handled a bit differently: for example, grenades bounce so much that they're practically useless to me outside of the very specific circumstances you're forced to use them in. And the rocket launcher...well, laser guiding is all well and good, but the end result is generally that I either do a tight corkscrew directly at a gunship (in which case, why bother to make me maneuver it?), or I waste a lot of time circling hither and yon trying to line the rocket up with the gunship in spatial directions I can't really perceive from my position. I shudder to think what the misses would cost me if I weren't in god mode.
It is essential that I build my ratio there, which means making torrents, uploading them, and then seeding the stuffing out of them. And if there's one thing I'm sure of with Oblivion, it's that it wouldn't appreciate Azureus running underneath it. Also, fragmentation makes it perform noticeably worse, and I'm sure I'm fragmenting the hell out of that drive, and I don't want to defrag while simultaneously doing a lot of accessing of the drive with Azureus. Bad things could happen.
So instead, I've been playing Half-Life 2 (again. Only I'm much further this time than I've previously been. All the way up to chapter 11: "Follow Freeman!". Though I'm cheating my ass off.). It really is quite a game. I've never been sold on the first Half-Life, but if they keep making 'em like this one...hoo-boy. Not that it's perfect. I've been annoyed by some sequences, reduced to gibbering terror by a couple of others (please no more navigating on the underspars of a bridge. PLEASE. My fear of heights will hate you forever if you ever do that to me again.), and I really wish some of the weapons handled a bit differently: for example, grenades bounce so much that they're practically useless to me outside of the very specific circumstances you're forced to use them in. And the rocket launcher...well, laser guiding is all well and good, but the end result is generally that I either do a tight corkscrew directly at a gunship (in which case, why bother to make me maneuver it?), or I waste a lot of time circling hither and yon trying to line the rocket up with the gunship in spatial directions I can't really perceive from my position. I shudder to think what the misses would cost me if I weren't in god mode.
I only game on the computer a very little.