caffeine: (beer)
2020-07-30 07:06 pm
Entry tags:

So, I just drank a lot on my deck

Don't judge me; you don't know my life.

Ok, actually if you can read this you know it pretty well. Anyway [personal profile] spiderplanet and I have a new summer ritual. After work we sit out on the deck and drink a beer, to celebrate that we are both still alive and able to enjoy said beer. I might have had a wee bit more than beer of a higher ABV than would leave me sober.

GenCon is underway and there are games, Games, GAMES!!! I only ended up with three, but I enjoyed one greatly today. The inaugural D&D (5e) Season 10 Adventure League. Up in Icewind Dale, for those of you familiar with the Sword Coast of the Forgotten Realms. Tomorrow is a new world with D&D 5e rules, and Sunday is StarFinder Society. Now, I have played StarFinder before, but not SFS.
In the middle of that, is my usual group playing Eclipse Phase 2e on Saturday. Our group is on Mars after traversing the Titan/Exergent Zone [bad place] to rescue some scientists from their bunker.

GenCon has a thing called the Looking Glass, which lets you look at the dealers that would be there, and three different streaming channels, in case you want to stay involved while you don't have a game. For taking something the is 60k+ people in person and spinning it into an entirely online event, they are doing a heck of a job.
caffeine: (Default)
2006-06-15 03:51 pm
Entry tags:

Crossword

I was working on a crossword puzzle, and found this:
A game with rooms and weapons.

I looked at the puzzle and thought, hrm, DOOM doesn't work...

Answer )
caffeine: (Great Wall)
2006-01-30 03:41 pm
Entry tags:

Um?

My "Be" protein bar lists NutriSoy as an ingredient. Some of you may be thinking, I have heard that term somewhere...

Life immitates art:
Quotes from the Shadowrun Official Rule Book:
The nutrisoy may not taste great, but at least it's hot.
And from Shadowrun Slang:
Nutrisoy n. Cheaply processed food product, derived from soybeans
caffeine: (PSP)
2005-11-22 02:01 pm
Entry tags:

Xbox 360

No, I don't own one. No, I do not intend to own one. But, sadly, I do believe the reports of people waiting 16 hours in the rain for so they could buy one at 12:01 this morning. For $399.99 plus tax. Eek! And the games are selling for $59.99. Double Eek!

Ok, I did go to our internal launch thing in the Hall. I wandered down there a few minutes late, got a keychain, watched some people play the new Madden 2006, Project Gotham 3, Need for Speed, Tiger Woods, and Tony Hawk. Looking at the games (all shown on brand new HD Widescreen LCD TVs), I noticed the same thing I noticed with my xbox - Where is the f'ing gamma control? If tony hawk were one notch darker, it would be freaking dark greyscale. The racing games looked good, but neither had realistic damage models. Madden was fine; the people playing were reliving last night's Monday Night Football by playing Vikings v. Packers. Looks like every other Madden I have ever seen, albeit with better graphics. Which brings me to my point. It is pretty. Well, not the unit itself or the OMG huge power brick, but the graphics. They are good. BUT, nothing I have not seen on a high-end PC. If I upgraded to the next flavour of video card (something newer than 2+ years old), I could get those graphics on my box. I am sure that [livejournal.com profile] jschmidt already has comparable graphics on his PC.

It is just launch, but I think the PSP had more games out for it at launch. I am underwhelmed by the number of titles, and the price for the games is really up there. For the console and two games you have passed the $500 mark and then some and then taxes or s/h.