Well, this week has been fairly uneventful so far. Work has been steady, and that’s always good. On a whim, I installed Vampire: Bloodlines on my computer (yes, I know it holds a place of *ahem* honor in my Hall of Shame), and installed a fan-made 3.1 patch. I must say, that with many of the rampant glitches and bugs fixed, the game is fairly playable.
The game still eats resources like no one’s business, making an alt-tab to switch programs nearly impossible, and sometimes exiting out of the program takes an age and a half. As for the game itself… its serviceable so far.
The game has re-sparked my interest in the Vampire the Masquerade world, and I’ve been spending time reading up on the histories. Makes me want to run a Vampire game, but I know I never will, just not my style.
In other news, I’ve made a resolution to myself to take the stairs as much as possible. I must have climbed up 10 flights of stairs already today, and its an efficient way to work in some exercise in my day to day routine. I luck out in that I can only access the stairway from my offices, meaning only five floors at the top of the building, so I avoid trekking up eleven flights of stairs first thing in the morning.
I still walk down eleven flights going out to lunch and going home, though. While its not as aerobic as walking UP the stairs, you can still feel it in your legs when its over.
Zel-kun out.
David N. Scott | 29-Nov-06 at 4:40 pm | Permalink
Ah, Vampire. The books are so much fun to read, but then the tabletop games are always so meh, at least for me. Somehow all of the overwhelming darkness and whatnot just doesn’t translate to geeks around a table ™.
Zel-kun | 29-Nov-06 at 4:53 pm | Permalink
EXACTLY. The books are very fascinating, I’ve actually spent several hours reading up on its lore, but the games are very bland in practice. On the plus side, the rules translate pretty well into video games. Now if someone would only take the Bloodlines style and make a BETTER game, it could be pretty phenomonal.
Sabrejack | 29-Nov-06 at 6:27 pm | Permalink
Vampire and stairs. Two great tastes that go great together.
No, seriously. I’ve only ever had ONE good game of Vampire.. and that was with Alan (Dave may remember him.) The highlight was when I grabbed the overzealous son of a vampire hunter and held him hostage — and the hunter shot his own son. At that point I used him as a meat shield, and as I was retreating I fell into a trap door and slid down the chute riding his corpse.