October 8, 2007

jimtyrrell · Post by **jimtyrrell** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 1:40 pm

It does not end today! Roll Call!!!

Today is a bullshit day at work. Mostly people not wanting to deal with problems, which just makes more problems. So, I'm gonna go home and have some dinner, and then maybe play some Halo for a while. A good shoot-em-up will work me right out of this funk.

Question Of The Day: What videogames (if any) are you playing these days?

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 2:16 pm

Work today has been REAL slow...probably due to the foe holiday. I have maybe taken 5 calls today.

qotd: speaking of slow work and only 5 calls... one guy called and asked if he could hook his X-Box up to his DSL account with us. I told him absolutely not and that it was impossible. Anyways, I'm not a gamer so this was my best answer.

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 2:35 pm

QOTD: I got Mario Bros. 2 for the virtual console (the japanese version - it's hard!). My sister got MySims, and that's pretty fun too. The framerate sucks a lot though.

I probably would have posted earlier, but I got to write a 4 pager on The Dream of the Rood for Rep. Lit. Works, and I hadn't even started yet. I'm done now, and I'll edit tomorrow.

Lord of Oats · Post by **Lord of Oats** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 3:02 pm

Today is the last day of the SUK cycle. I'm a procrastinator, so I've got a bit of work to do. The first day of the SF cycle is always interesting, especially when they get the timing aligned like this. Props to the mods. It's also the first day of voting in my sidefight. Check it out. We have a pair of good songs, though they're very different from each other. That's honestly about all that's going on in my life.

QOTD: Age of Empires III was cool. I've recently gotten a bit of a desire to bust it out again, but so far, I haven't. The only game I've played any more recently is probably SimCity 4. That was neat. I finally learned how to balance a budget. But then, my eyes really hated me after I played that. And I'd find that my day was over before I had time to start it. Video games and I don't usually get along. I just stay away so I don't get absorbed. It can become a problem, if I don't keep it in check.

The Weakest Suit · Post by **The Weakest Suit** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 4:56 pm

the phantom hourglass is pretty fun. if anyone has a DS, it would be worth your time to track down hotel dusk.

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 5:47 pm

Dang. A 4:40 start to Roll Call. Brutal.

I spent the whole day with my housemate in the ER. She's in pain but she's okay. Could've been worse.

Videogames I'm playing currently:
Marvel Ultimate Alliance
Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree
Rayman Raving Rabbids
Carnival Games

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 5:56 pm

Today has been great
Closed two major jobs that I started the bids on last week before I left out of town
Both gravy jobs with a lot of equipment that have huge margins *does my easy money dance*

QOTD:
I don't get into games. I used to, but I just don't like shooting games and such. I like driving games though. That splash down one with the Wave runners is pretty cool, and Grand Turismo type games, but I haven't played them in a couple years, lol. I just feel like I'm wasting my time when I play games. There's nothing gained "to me" in the end. That's just me, gamers, don't be hating.

veGetar Ianra Ge · Post by **veGetar Ianra Ge** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:18 pm

SHIT I MISSED MY LEVEL UP!

Ross · Post by **Ross** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:44 pm

Here.

I like splinter cell. Finished three a few months ago. Will Probably play 4 at winter break.

A Wii purchase appears in the near future at our house.

sausage boy · Post by **sausage boy** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 7:10 pm

Same shit, different day. At least we have bun today!

QOTD: I am alternating between Guitar Hero 2 and Dead Rising at the moment. I want to get a hold of either Halo 3 or Bioshock as well. I also just finished an old point and click adventure, Flight of the Amazon Queen, not long ago, and have started on Beneath A Steel Sky.

Post by **Spud** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 7:17 pm

I do not play video games.

c.layne · Post by **c.layne** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 7:51 pm

qotd: recently played through metroid prime 3, and then went back and replayed super metroid for the millionth time (still enjoy it a lot, though!) just started playing LoZ: phantom hourglass, and it's pretty fun so far.
i've played animal crossing on and off for the past four years.

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 8:37 pm

Nope. The closest I come to video games is some Nintendo stock, for some reason.

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:28 am

roymond wrote:Nope. The closest I come to video games is some Nintendo stock, for some reason.

Spud wrote:I do not play video games.

I wish I could say that it was a sign of my own intelligence not wasted on video games such as these two intellectual types. Unfortunately that isn't the case.

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:11 am

Hoblit wrote:
roymond wrote:Nope. The closest I come to video games is some Nintendo stock, for some reason.

Spud wrote:I do not play video games.
I wish I could say that it was a sign of my own intelligence not wasted on video games such as these two intellectual types. Unfortunately that isn't the case.

I make no claims that not being involved with video games has any correlation to intellectual type-ish-ness. Nor do I claim any alleged intellectualishness due to any other activities, avoidance of activities or ignorance of activities. Of any kind. Unless you count Google Earth.

Post by **Spud** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 9:09 am

I do.

king_arthur · Post by **king_arthur** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 10:44 am

My videogames of choice are freecell and, to a lesser degree, solitaire, both the standard Windows versions. For me, the problem is that whenever I'm faced with something that feels too difficult or scary to deal with, it's too easy to just fire up freecell and play a few games.

On the subject of freecell, though... I have reset my scores several times, and I always seem to wind up at an 81% win percentage by the time I've played a couple hundred games. It always seems to settle in on that exact percentage... anybody else noticed something similar?

The Linux version of freecell allowed unlimited "undo" moves, so as long as you caught yourself before you made that final fatal move, you could back out all the way and start the game over. I had a 1500 game winning streak going at one point on the Linux version...

Charles (KA)

LMNOP · Post by **LMNOP** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 11:37 am

king_arthur wrote:anybody else noticed something similar?

100% wins with like a bazillion in a row. 'Cause I'm so shallow I can't not use ctrl-shift-F10 if I know about it.

Billy's Little Trip · Tue Oct 09, 2007 12:24 pm

Spud wrote:I do.

I now pronounce you man and brain. You may kiss your ego.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 3:47 pm

I am playing a good bit of Guild Wars.
I picked up Half-Life 2 again recently for fun, and just discovered that Episode 2 is about to be released. Great!
I also pulled out Diablo II the other day.
I also like the card game Spider, it's challenging with 4 suits.
-bill

j$ · Post by j$ » Tue Oct 09, 2007 4:09 pm

On a tangent of my most-played games, as I am not playing anything currently, probably if you toted up game hours in relation to the time it takes to finish (if you see what I mean)

5. Resident Evil 1, 3 & 4
4. Pro Evolution Soccer in its many manifestations.
3. Final Fantasy VII
2. Grand Theft Auto III (over the others only because I also played Liberty City Stories)

and

1. Doom II. If under 'playing' you also include designing crappy MODs as 12 year old, and I am talking Paul Weller mod crappy.

No doubt this will change when I stop being so mean and get a new, better console than the ps2.

king_arthur · Post by **king_arthur** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 4:35 pm

LMNOP wrote:
king_arthur wrote:anybody else noticed something similar?
100% wins with like a bazillion in a row. 'Cause I'm so shallow I can't not use ctrl-shift-F10 if I know about it.

Oh, man... that is sweet.

Charles (KA)