Games, Games, Sweet Antiquated Games

Counterstrike!

I've never really had a gaming PC before. That is to say, when games like Half-life and Warcraft 3 (and present-day examples like Doom 3 and Bioshock) came out, I was nowhere close to being able to run them. The machine I'm using right now... well I guess a 2.5GHz Celeron isn't so bad. About eight months back, I put a "new" Radeon 9250 video card in there, and upgraded the RAM to a dazzling 512Mb. So now I can run Windows XP without too many problems.

But Counterstrike is where it's at, and I can run it with much less than I've got. I play with, or more often, against Mindesyn, and I would say I'm able to kill him about one in four times, on a good day. He's quite good, and I'm a rather horrible shot. That said, when it comes down to melee combat, things become a little more even. ;)

I never played System Shock 2, because at the time I was running a Pentium 75 with no video hardware at all. I've never heard anyone say anything bad about the game, so I'm doing my best to find it. Getting my hands on the disc is only half the battle... I'll still have to figure out how to get it to run on this machine. As always, Google and eBay are my faithful companions on this exciting journey.

I guess the only other "video game" that will get a mention in this entry is the PartyPoker.net client software, where-in I made a recent, horrifying discovery; I can only win a sit-and-go if I'm fuckin' stoned. Sober, I never place higher than fifth. Figure THAT one out.

Also, I flopped a straight flush the other day. Won 9,100 chips with it. Pretty stoked about that.

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.....look, I'm going to have to find ways to make these entries more interesting. The fact is that I don't have a very interesting life. I work a shitty job. I skipped a staff party this weekend because there was a thunderstorm.

It doesn't much matter, anyway, because nobody's reading these. Or if you are, don't you fucking dare outbid me on SS2 you bastards.

~G
;p