Q: Okay, so what’s more frustrating than waiting over a year for Half Life 2 to finally be released?
A: Having it on your computer and not being able to play it yet.
Players prepare for Half-Life 2
I preloaded it yesterday a la Steam, and the big fat binary wads are just sitting there, taunting me. Hates the waiting we does, precious.
- M
D&D has a big anniversary this year. Wow, to think of all the hours spent by all the geeks in the world looking for loot instead of talking to real life girls.
To celebrate the time spent and love lost,
I died laughing reading this article on GameSpy:
Top 10 Least-Played D&D Classes
Here’s a highlight:
Dungeon Master: That’s a static maneuver with a -3 difficulty.
Keebler Elf: [Bites lip and rolls dice]
Dungeon Master: ooOHhhh … I’m sorry, looks like you were only able to get three fudge stripes on the lembas wafer.
Fighter: THREE fudge stripes? What kind of half-assed cookie is that? We killed ORCS for you, man.
Anybody got any D&D personal anecdotes to share?
- W
In a news story fit for a movie plot about The Boy Who Stopped The World, it seems that much of 2004’s virus woes goes back to a German teenager.
Internet chaos was caused by one boy
German parents and commentators are going to get a lot of mileage from this one. I can hear it now. “If you kids spent more time kicking a soccer ball, and less time writing viruses on the computer, the world economy would be a better place.”
I miss the good old days when kids just hacked into NORAD.
Interesting article reported by the Register today about digital memory cards… the bloody things are practically indestructible:
It’s OK to boil your memory card: official
So the question has to be asked: Why not use the same technology to build solid-state hard drives for laptops? I know many people who have lost everything on laptops due to drive failures from wear-and-tear.
Better wait for the chip guys to come up with something for you; I wouldn’t recommend building a custom SD-card bus for your laptop just yet… 60GB of memory space on SD cards, even at their best pricing, would be over $5700. (Based on $24/256MB at TigerDirect.) Yeah, I’ll wait.
