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Yesterday was a day off, the first in eight days, though we did little but spend some time at the Emory Library. I'd thought of going to see Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle, but it never happened. Day before yesterday, I started Chapter Five. It's off to a very good beginning, and I did 1,238 words on Saturday. I'm thinking this chapter will be shorter, probably only 8-10K words, and I hope to have it done shortly after Father's Day. Daughter of Hounds has finally managed to pull free of that part of the book that's all about getting things started. It's a lot easier to keep up the momentum when things are unfolding, and you know the only way you'll ever understand how it all turns out is to keep writing. Gods and goddesses would probably do the same thing.

Spooky and I have been watching Season Five of The Sopranos. We should have been reading Shardik, but whatever. We'll have breezed through the whole season in another few nights and go back to reading. Last night, I played what may well be the dullest videogame of all time. Oh, I've played videogames that were worse (recently, Stolen, for example), but LucasArts' Gladius, which looked like a nice mindless hack-and-slash filled with gore and violence, beats pretty much everything else I've played for sheer frelling dullness. I don't understand these games that are meant to simulate pencil-and-paper d20 rpgs, where one has no real control over one's own characters, where the computer moves them about for you. This was the main thing that drove me away from Knights of the Old Republic and The Sith Lords. When I play a videogame, I want my thumbs to hurt. I want to have to perform all manner of dexterous acts with my actual RW fingers. I want issues of hand-eye coordination to come into play at some point. Add to this the fact that Gladius looks like crap, is jammed with badly animated cut scenes, and characters with the most generically Nordic sounding names imaginable, and you get the picture. This game made me want to hurt someone, for real.

If you haven't checked out the latest eBay auctions, please do. This ARC of To Charles Fort, With Love may be the last I sell. And after that, you'll have to wait until September to read the collection. Also, if you've always meant to read Silk but have just never gotten around to it, we have copies for only $9.99 (and I'll write in them and everything). And there's other good stuff, too. Okay, time to get back to Chapter Five...

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robyn_ma
Jun. 13th, 2005 03:28 pm (UTC)
'I'd thought of going to see Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle, but it never happened.'

You...you had it within your power to see Howl's Moving Castle...and you did not?!? *choke* *sputter* And I had to content myself with a choice of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, The Honeymooners, and The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl (in 3-D), with no Howl's Moving Castle in sight? Truly, I rail to the indifferent sky...
greygirlbeast
Jun. 13th, 2005 03:53 pm (UTC)
the indifferent sky...

Does that mean I got a promotion? Or are you only railing to the indifferent sky on myh account?
robyn_ma
Jun. 13th, 2005 03:56 pm (UTC)
Yes, it means you're the indifferent sky now. Congratulations. Now you get to wreck trailer parks with tornadoes.

Caitlín: 'I do? This is gonna be the funnest summer ever.'
greygirlbeast
Jun. 13th, 2005 03:57 pm (UTC)
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Frell yeah!
mb2u
Jun. 13th, 2005 06:26 pm (UTC)
Can I send you a list of trailer parks I'd like to see devastated? Thanks.
greygirlbeast
Jun. 13th, 2005 06:54 pm (UTC)
Can I send you a list of trailer parks I'd like to see devastated?

Sure. I take requests.
brokensymmetry
Jun. 14th, 2005 01:40 pm (UTC)
On the subject of games, have I mentioned nethack to you yet? On the surface it's everything you hate: there's no plot to speak of, no characters, no graphics, and it needs no reflexes. But, that said, it's my favorite game ever due to the huge variety of objects and creatures and choices available to the player at each turn, and the way all the possible combinations of these have been considered and implemented.

I would almost say that it's a game by and for programmers, except I have friends in very different fields who have also become addicted.

Anyway, it's free if you want to check it out.

greygirlbeast
Jun. 14th, 2005 02:11 pm (UTC)
Anyway, it's free if you want to check it out.

Free is good (if there's a Mac version), but it really doesn't much sound like something I'd like.
brokensymmetry
Jun. 14th, 2005 02:54 pm (UTC)
Free is good (if there's a Mac version)

There is.

but it really doesn't much sound like something I'd like.

It occurred to me after posting the comment that in addition to not having any of the things you like in videogames it isn't, in fact, a videogame at all. I probably shouldn't even have brought it up, I blame brain damage brought on by workplace ennui.
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