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Oh, and I installed Elvira. Had to manually copy all the files over into a directory I made, and run the installer there. I don't think I've ever encountered an installer before where those steps weren't automated, but I think it has to do with the game also having a version that runs off floppies (not for PC, but for Amigas or somesuch.). I was...
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Well, I did go on a bit of an "old computer" kick. More or less beat the first deck of System Shock and haven't gone back to it because I'm not really sure what to do next. I don't even remember where the elevator was, and I forgot to add a message saying. I think I'm something just short of halfway through Strife, but it's...
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Windows 3.1 is such an amazingly useless OS. Every time I go in I keep stumbling over the fact that you really can't do much of anything you can't do in DOS, it's just slightly easier to remember how. And one thing I can't figure out how to do in either is identify what's eating up all my hard drive space. Since neither DOS nor...
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The part that sucks the most about not having a car is grocery shopping. Doing it by bus means carrying a lot of very heavy stuff several city blocks not to mention balancing it around the bus, making sure the bag doesn't rip, etc.
And that's in normal weather. In hot weather, much sweating is involved. In rain...well, let's not go there. In snow...well, who...
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Got to go home from work early today thanks to the incredibly random paid holiday system we have. Apparently the day after Thanksgiving is also a paid holiday, even though we're open, and even though there is no other point in the year where we have two consecutive days of holiday, not even at Christmas. I'd never noticed before because previously if you didn't work...
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Owowwowowowowowow, my *thumb*. As usual after playing Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, it is weary and verging on blister, fruits of making the Hulk perform massive leap after massive leap, while targeting, charge-throwing stuff, etc.

And it just got a particularly intense workout, in the form of the final boss battle. Yep, I beat the game...though not without failing repeatedly first. Still, each failure was closer...
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Man. Today I had, like, the Nightmare on Elm Street of dreams. I dreamed that I was dreaming that my teeth were falling to pieces and I was plucking out the pieces until most of my teeth were lying in bits on the floor. (something along these lines is, unfortunately, a quasi-common nightmare for me.) And then I noticed some weird greenish stuff in my...
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All right. It goes like this: back in...some class or other, in high school, we were made to read Mark Mathabane's memoir Kaffir Boy. As my mom was generous about these things, I was purchased a copy of said book. I kept it thereafter, like I do with most've the books school makes me read, because generally they've been pretty good. And it's been assigned...
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Another lovely Friday evening full of gaming. Particularly of note was a little John Kovalic illustrated game called Dungeonville. Play involved assembling a small party of adventurers, each having a class, a color, a rating, and skills in each of the five dungeons. The lower the rating relative to the other adventurers available for recruitment, the more expensive. Low rating wins party vs. party combat....
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I continue to be amazed by early Fantastic Four comics. Apparently, Reed Richards is a brilliant inventor who makes millions in patent sales..and still stupid enough to invest ALL of their money in the stock market. Badly, too, apparently, since it was all lost. So how do they make the money back? Why, hitchhiking to Hollywood (since they had to sell their HQ and toys),...
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