Desert Planet
Life has been, and continues to be, incredibly crazy currently. Obviously that has meant ‘regular updates’ has become ‘no updates’. I’m not going to apologise though, as I update this for me anyway.
What’s new? The job front remains as stressful as ever. I am getting incredibly excited about a new venture I’m am entering into. It’s an attempt to get back to my roots and I’ll have more to discuss about it at a later date.
Other things:
- Finished Star Trek: Legacy (about a month ago). It was entertaining albeit somewhat annoying. The story could have been better. It lacked punch (it also fucked with the Trek timeline a bit, which annoyed me). The control scheme was fine but annoyingly unresponsive. When I tell a ship to do something, they should do it, not take a coffee break and get back to me. The number of missions I lost because I needed someone to get to a certain place quickly and they just wouldn’t. Other aspects, like selecting multiple ships (or trying to select just one) seemed to be incredibly random.. but maybe I was just doing it wrong. Anyway, I finished it on Captain difficulty, and I’m trying to well up the energy to replay it on Ensign and Admiral in order to unlock some more achievements - but I know some are going to be impossible (as I had enough trouble on Captain… Admiral is going to be a nightmare). I’ll give it a 8/10, but only because it’s Star Trek.
- Finally found a DVD replacement for my VHS copy of Thursday (which I left in NZ). Watched it last night, and it’s still awesome. Had to order it from Germany, as it’s out of print in the US and UK. Thankfully it’s got a Dolby Surround 2.0 English track, so there is only German in the menus and cover. Only cost me €11 which was nice.
- Also on the replacement front, I finally bought a widescreen collectors edition of Dune (replacing my 4:3 version from NZ that looked like it was ripped from a VHS tape). Was incredibly awesome watching on the big screen with everything intact.
- Watched Jumanji again after about 8-10 years. Still a lot of fun.
- Played a lot of Crackdown on the 360. Was initially apprehensive, but it looks like it could be a lot of fun.
- Supreme Commander is out soon (16th). Looking forward to it.
- Currently reading Programming C# which has been interesting. It’s filled a few ‘why’ gaps I had from when I taught myself C# a few years back.
That’s all I can think of right now.