purpleyin

Tried to play Broken Sword 4: Angel of Death again. Birthday pressie from my bro, that I requested. Death to pc more like. I'm gonna have to put that other memory stick back in, the one that potentially causes crashes but I could never verify 100% that it did, it having no issues under numerous memtests. The game just doesn't not play well on my current setup, even meeting minimum requirements supposedly.

( A bit of games critique )

For now I will retire to the less frustrating Caesar III and hope the later reboot and adding memory will solve the performance issues, allowing me to get somewhere in order to save and not endlessly repeat my actions.

Not really got much done this evening. Had some discussion on skins for The ARC and I downloaded a few more readymade ones I think will be good to modify., but my foray into DVd ripping went a bit off. VLC does do what I want but bizarrely with the wizard it gives it in 4:3 whereas playing about with the open disc and stream/save option results in a nice 16:9 file though I need to try again to get it higher quality as it looks somewhat too grainy for my liking. Only trouble is if you want to stop party way through it you have to force quit and a couple of times I set it up to convert a chapter it did it once and then started doing it again, with the file playing but not displaying the right time info. Ah well. Shall investigate more tomorrow evening.

I tried out The Elder Scrolls of Morrowwind III and not currently impressed. It's more than a bit dated. This is the trouble with 3D stuff before it got much good, it dates so easily and then looks dire. Sometimes I wish for certain types of games they might consider sticking to the original styles. I liked the Baldur's Gate isometric view for RPG's and miss that. Also, RPG's are always so gui complex with stats pages galore etc and I don't like the layout for those much in this either. Again I keep comparing to BG which I thought did most things well; I've been spoilt by that.

I did watch Dogma though. Had previously only seen half the film and was fab to see the rest because I hate not finishing a film. Alan Rickman was so cool in it, very smartly dressed. :D And bizarrely for a film that is handing it to Catholicism it makes a fair few decent points on theology that aren't necessarily against the idea of an omnipotent compassionate God. I enjoyed it in its entirety. I did end up wishing Loki hadn't died though.

In a couple of weeks, once I'm more organised and have gotten my secret santa stuff done, I was thinking of doing a couple "7 days of" events on my journal. That'd be me making sure to post something on the fannish topic for every day for a week. I've got a few ideas for what I'd like to do it on but not sure which to start with, so thought I'd see how popular each of them is. Bear in mind I'll probably take prompts for them.

( Vote behind here )

Well, weekend has been both good and bad. Pretty sick yesterday, spent all day in bed sleeping, trying to sleep or reading. Finished Terry Pratchett's "Making Money," which as I'd heard suggested was not as good as "Going Postal". Still entertaining but not quite as good as expected. I've actually got through nearly all his books now, bar spin off Discworld ones, Strata and the rest of "Small Gods" I think. Recently read "Wee Free Men," "Amazing Maurice and his educated rodents," plus "Wintersmith" - all quite enjoyable even if technically classed as kids books.

Board games was good. No Seafarers of Catan sadly for me but we played Warrior Knights, took 5? hours including several food breaks but most was spent on learning rules and as complicated as it seems it starts to make sense fairly soon after the first round and I wouldn't mind playing again. Had a quick game of Fluxx before ordering takeaway, reminds me must fill in the blanxx for that amusingly, and after dinner we tried Sin City, the board game - possibly the second worst board game I've played, beaten only by The Invisible Man boardgame from 1940/50's that I cannot infact find mention of on the net.

( mimi-review for Sin City boardgame )