Back to the topic of “video” games. Gawain has his own ideas and I don’t disagree with his overall point. But I do disagree with what he’s forgetting to say. Here is a sample from his post:

The reason is very simple. Like popular music, video games are now tailored to the lowest common denominator. The same people who think Fred Durst is cool also really really like polygons and lens flares and as many high quality particle effects in their video games as possible. And like all of Limp’s music, these games start off really great on the outside, and then go straight to shit when you realize that all they have is “outside.”

While the above could be very well true there is one thing he forgets to bring up. Why are the developers making these kinds of 3d over accelerated games? Other than the fact that the general game buying audience want’s that kind of drivel. I think the developers of these games are lazy. It’s to easy to have the 3d accelerated graphics be the star of the game.

Now I don’t think all of the game developers are like that. I would have to point you to the guys at Bethesda who have a game called Morrowind. You can’t say Morrowind is a cookie cutter 3d accelerated game. It’s a work of art and it has all the gameplay you would need. And I can think of a few other games that have 3d graphics and good gameplay. Granted there aren’t a huge number of them that I could list, so maybe Gawain is right when it comes right down to it.

I still think he’s overly harsh on Warcraft 3. I like that game and have to disagree on all the issues he has with the game. Of course I could be basing my judgment of Warcraft 3 by my wanting of World of Warcraft. I also have high hopes that WoW will fix all the issue he mentions about Dark Age of Camelot. We just have to wait for the game to come out to see if it fixes the treadmill problems of all other mmorpgs and I think it will.

After iming me every day since the initial conversation the kid finally got on my nerves:

Session Start (Turk:Wannabe Webhost): Fri Feb 27 04:52:25 2004
[04:52] Wannabe Webhost: hi
[04:52] Turk: hi
[04:52] Wannabe Webhost: can you host my forum
[04:53] Turk: no
[04:53] Wannabe Webhost: why
[04:54] Turk: have you even been to my site/forum?
[04:54] Wannabe Webhost: can I see it and what is the link
[04:54] Turk: so you don’t even know my url?
[04:54] Wannabe Webhost: can I see it
[04:55] Turk: you just picked me off the phpBB forum list?
[04:55] Wannabe Webhost: nope.
[04:55] Turk: so how did you get my aim name?
[04:55] Wannabe Webhost: phpbb forums
[04:55] Turk: just at random?
[04:56] Turk: or have you bugged others as well?
[04:56] Wannabe Webhost: nope. I didn’t
[04:56] Turk: so I’m special then
[04:57] Wannabe Webhost: I will block you if you say something else bad
[04:57] Turk: I’m not trying to be mean
[04:57] Turk: you imed me
[04:57] Wannabe Webhost: ok. so tell me… can you host my forum
[04:57] Turk: no
[04:57] Wannabe Webhost: why????
[04:57] Turk: because I said no
[04:58] Turk: I think blocking is a good idea
[05:02] Wannabe Webhost: ok
[05:02] Turk: Hotelblues.com is my site, learn about someone before you try to con them
[05:04] Wannabe Webhost: you put a conversation of me in your update
[05:04] Turk: yeah
[05:04] Wannabe Webhost: why?
[05:05] Turk: do I have to explain everything to you?
[05:05] Turk: how old are you?
[05:05] Wannabe Webhost: 11. and you are an idiot
[05:05] Turk: yes that could be
[05:06] Wannabe Webhost: you are AN IDIOT
[05:06] Wannabe Webhost: IDIOT
[05:06] Turk: I agree
[05:06] Wannabe Webhost: IDIOT
[05:06] Wannabe Webhost: IDIOT
[05:06] Turk: yep
[05:06] Wannabe Webhost: IDIOT
[05:06] Wannabe Webhost: IDIOT
[05:06] Turk: yep
[05:06] Wannabe Webhost: IDIOT
[05:06] Turk: sure am
[05:06] Wannabe Webhost: IDIOT
[05:06] Turk: I’m an idiot?
[05:06] Wannabe Webhost: and delete my conversation
[05:06] Turk: no
[05:07] Wannabe Webhost: ok. diiiif
[05:07] Turk: huh?
[05:08] Turk: remember I’m an idiot
[05:08] Wannabe Webhost: I’m blocking you **** idiot
[05:08] Turk: ok
[05:08] Turk: bye

All this is making think about toggling that setting in Trillian that only let’s people on my list im me. Oh and I’m an idiot. I shouldn’t let this get me mad, but it does. I’m getting to old to have to deal with a 11 year olds shit. He’s blocking me? Jeez that is ironic.

Well after 32 days, 18 hours, and 14 minutes of total played time in Dark Age of Camelot I finally dinged 50. I’ll update my little picture later (it still says 49) because I’m still playing. I oddly enough feel pretty happy for finally dinging. I guess I should be happy. Anyway now all I can say is “bring on World of Warcraft!”