99 Steam Games
I have 99 steam games. That is significantly larger than I have physical games. There are two reasons for that:
- Steam offers me many, many deals, especially on older but still relevant games.
- Steam offers large packs of games at discounted prices.
I began using steam back in 2004 when they were throwing around Half-Life 2 with every video card, but before it came out you could play the older games. And a $10 upgrade got me Day of Defeat: Source and I could keep the back catalog. $10 for Half-Life and all associated mods PLUS a new game that I was waiting for? Sign me up. Read the rest of this entry »
Add This to the Bookshelf
I bought a few new books. Or at least it started as just a few new books. I wanted to catch up on classic sci-fi books that I had never read. And then it turned into some classic fantasy as well. And then a few classic cyberpunk books. And after that I had to get some random fantasy to try out something new. And then a few classic books. Oh and a graphic novel.
Book Reading
A few weekends ago I finished the Diablo trilogy I was reading, Daemon and V for Vendetta all in the course of three days. One weekend at a cottage without internet connectivity can do wonders.
But more importantly, thanks to spending over an hour on the train every day, I recently finished Neuromancer which is a much harder book to follow than any of those. It started because Gibson throws a ton of details at you all at once at the beginning in a quick rush to explain everything. A few chapters in it is apparent that this first stuff doesn’t mean all that much except to serve as a nice back story. It does come up again later though.
The hardest part of reading it was the fact that he rarely states who is speaking which becomes incredibly confusing when there are three characters talking at once. It is just assumed who is talking by what they are saying as if I know the characters well enough already. Daemon and Diablo are very explicit in who is speaking and as a graphic novel V for Vendetta can’t help but be explicit.
Apart from that I found the overall plot fairly simple, except near the end where he throws in some weird loops and I’m not quite sure what has happened. I’ve heard this is a book that grows on you with re-reading so I may just do that in the coming months.
Next up: Ender’s Game then Dune and I’m considering buying Cryptonomicon after that.
Silly Accents
I have recognized after many years that every time I think or say something extremely ridiculous I think or say it with a Monty Python accent.
This subsequently feeds the whole silliness thing and makes the accent grow even more ridiculous.
I don’t think this is a problem but it might get me in trouble someday.