Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:27:00
Absentee Bloglord, part “a lot”
I know. I have been really lax with this site over the last few weeks. I have excuses! ;)
Moorewatch is sucking all the blog-energy I have...and by the way if you haven’t stopped by lately, check out the last few weeks of posts. Everyone who writes for the site now is kicking major ass and doing some real investigative blogging. Donna’s even writing for us now. It;s coming together as a place to discuss all sides of the health care debate - as well as of course continuing to watch the bloviating hack and everything he says.
Anyway, the other thing that sucked a week of my life with no payoff is the Eidos game Just Cause. Fuck Eidos and fuck that game. Oh, I don’t mean to say the game is bad; on the contrary it was fun, so thanks to the person who suggested it. It was fun right up until I ran into a bug that prevented me from advancing the storyline and completing any more missions. I’m not the only one either - the intertubes are full of people asking how to use the remote detonator for the triggered explosives. See, there’s this mission: You have to parachute or drive in to this power plant and blow up three different areas. As you leave, you find that the dictator guy is building a nuke plant, and you have to set explosives and get really far away before they blow up. A timer starts as soon as they explode and you have to be at an extraction point 60 seconds after the explosion or you die. Triggered explosives would obviously be the only way to accomplish that...but my equipment list did NOT contain the detonator for them. I went to each and every safe house, to the mission briefing area, anywhere you can get weapons. Once I discovered so many other people with the same bug...I gave up and sent the game back to Gamefly. That kind of thing pisses me off. I don’t mind finding out I screwed up or I don’t have the skill to beat a game. What I refuse to accept in a game is when the code is so bad that I can’t finish the game due to bugs. Eidos never patched this thing, and they’re busy on Just Cause 2, so they never will. This bug is in all versions of the game, BTW...just not in everyone’s copy. or maybe it is, but only certain events in combination trigger it. No one knows. One thing I do know is Eidos can kiss my ass.
So now I’m all Splinter Cell-ing it up with Double Agent. I forgot how patient you have to be in a Splinter Cell game. I’m so used to Crackdown - which is violence that is just cartoonish abandon - and Rainbow and Gears, which are “run to cover and gun.” Splinter Cell is a whole other style of play, very slow, very patient.
Anyone have any suggestions for a sandbox-style game like Crackdown or Just Cause? I love those kinds of games, and GTA4 won’t be out for awhile. Is Saint’s Row really any good? It’s hard to tell from the demo.
The last thing that has been sucking time is I cook virtually every day now, meals from scratch, not quick shit like before. It really is time consuming, I forgot what it was like to cook this much. It’s fun, though, finding all these different ways to use veggies and lean meats. My kebabs are freaking spectacular, beef, pork or chicken. All that zucchini and onion and pepper and mushroom, with garlicky cajun-spiced marinade...mmm. Grilled sweet and regular potatoes are becoming a favorite. Grilled asparagus is awful for the smell that comes out in the wee, but divine for the taste as it goes in. I’m putting cajun spices on frigging everything.
The worst part of cooking is the damn dishes. I need an illegal to clean my kitchen for three bucks an hour. Maybe I could hire a super-hot Ukrainian girl. According to Hostel and Hostel II, all Ukrainian girls under age 30 are disarmingly beautiful and full of sex appeal. Of course they also work for murdering gangs of criminal businessmen who kidnap Americans for torture, so maybe I should stick with cleaning it myself. ;)
Good news is I have actually lost 4 pounds (off that ten pound gain since I started exercising) since I started tracking calories at My Calorie Counter. Cap, that site was a real help...thanks again. I love that I can add whole meals in there, and then later just select them if I eat them that day. It makes it a lot easier to track what is going on.
Now...the big question is, should I get the NSA or the JBA to trust me more? ;)
Posted by JimK at 04:27 PM on July 14, 2007
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#2 Posted by Drumwaster 
on 07/15 at 12:07 PM -
I have excuses!
I always tell the kids and grandkids the same thing.
“The world’s best excuse is still just an excuse.”
Of course, that isn’t a moral judgment - it simply acknowledges that we are all human and prone to error and forgetfulness.
Hell with it, let’s forget it all and go Impeach Bush! It’s what all the cool kids are calling for nowadays… :-)
#3 Posted by JimK on 07/15 at 12:46 PM -
I keep telling people whenever I see the impeach crap - DO IT. Push your congresspersons to bring the proceedings.
I don’t think that the impeachment crowd realizes how fast the splintered right will unite against the idea of impeachment. You want to absolutely guarantee a Republican presidency? Try to impeach Bush or Cheney. I make no judgment on if that is a good or a bad thing. I just know it is 100% true. :)
#4 Posted by cashin on 07/16 at 05:34 PM -
Battlestations midway has consumed my time… Just a thought though. ;)
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Now that’s a shitty bug… one I didn’t hit.
I actually did that with a timed explosive, then jumped on the motorcycle that was sitting next to the steps.. ran off the side of the hill right there, and parachuted down to the checkpoint to end the mission.
Took me about 8 tries to get it right… 3 at that part, the rest to get past the power station (that part was easy as pie with a rocket launcher.. I’d parachute onto to the top of the left “tank” or whatever the 3 huge things were, hit the 2 targets on the smokestacks from there, then drop a grenade next to the middle tank to get the 3rd spot.. took maybe 20 seconds).
I actually destroyed the nuke area on my second try, but didn’t pay attention to where the next checkpoint was and was just leaving the blast zone before I realized I was going the wrong way and had wasted too much time to make it.