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psyched_out, phatjoe, Krug and the GMA. But lets work up to that, shall we? Anyways, spent most of the day yesterday doing the normal stuff and working on my LDAP project. Came to the realization that I need another machine to do what they want me to do. Something running Solaris 9, preferably, so I can get a better grasp of what I'm doing before I start toying with clients using a different OS. After work, went home, started up laundry, and killed some time with DW4 before peeps came over.
Worked some more on Huang Gai. I only started playing him to get the Elephant saddle, but he's actually a monster. His charge 3 is a series of hits, followed by a grab. The thing is, unlike other peoples grabs, it tosses them straight up in the air, making it easy for you to hit them with another combo. And his c4 hits thrice in the air. However, he doesn't seem to be decimating an opponent's life bar like Diao Chan does. But it could be because he's not fully powered up yet. Or Diao Chan could be that good. She has a lot of element attacks on her charge moves, and her luck may be high enough that vorpal comes off a lot.
So after everyone gets there, we hit the Righteous Room for dinner. End up finishing with 20 minutes to spare, but I mentioned the old 80s arcade games next door so Joe was all excited. I tried out Centipede and Defender. Was centipede always set up so the fire button was on your left and the ball was on your right? I find that awkward, because I had to cross my hands so I could fire with my right and move with my left. Why? Because standard video game controls nowadays have you using your left hand to move, and your right hand to attack. I couldn't fire nearly fast enough with my left hand then I could with my right. (When time crisis was getting too easy for me, I used to start playing it left handed to make things more challenging) Anyways, it did make my arms sore playing that way though. And my legs are still sore from Police 911.
The game wouldn't be so bad if all of the dodging was sidestepping. But at least two of the bosses have you ducking, so its like doing squats while playing a shooting game! It did help me work on my index finger speed though, if only to kill bosses before I had to duck. For speed, I normally switch to my middle finger, though when I do that my ability to aim accurately diminishes slightly. Usually, its not a big problem since I'm firing so fast I'm basically getting a shotgun effect. But being able to focus more shots on a smaller point would be more useful.
And what's up with defender? Did it always have a thrust button and a reverse button to change directions? Why not just let the stick do all that? Makes it very akward when you want to turn around. I guess eventually you get used to it.
Owning Mahowny was pretty cool. Its a story about compulsive gambling. Phillip Seymour Hoffman plays a banker with a gambling problem and starts embezzling money from his bank to pay for his habit. The whole compulsive gambling thing is crazy. I mean, I guess I'm not much of a gambler, so I can't fathom how one can do the things he does. But I guess for some of them, they derive more pleasure from the thrill than any actual money they make. Its like they could be up $4 million but they don't care, they'll keep playing. And since winning is really knowing when to walk away, you will always lose if you play long enough.
psyched_out, phatjoe, Krug and the GMA. But lets work up to that, shall we? Anyways, spent most of the day yesterday doing the normal stuff and working on my LDAP project. Came to the realization that I need another machine to do what they want me to do. Something running Solaris 9, preferably, so I can get a better grasp of what I'm doing before I start toying with clients using a different OS. After work, went home, started up laundry, and killed some time with DW4 before peeps came over.Worked some more on Huang Gai. I only started playing him to get the Elephant saddle, but he's actually a monster. His charge 3 is a series of hits, followed by a grab. The thing is, unlike other peoples grabs, it tosses them straight up in the air, making it easy for you to hit them with another combo. And his c4 hits thrice in the air. However, he doesn't seem to be decimating an opponent's life bar like Diao Chan does. But it could be because he's not fully powered up yet. Or Diao Chan could be that good. She has a lot of element attacks on her charge moves, and her luck may be high enough that vorpal comes off a lot.
So after everyone gets there, we hit the Righteous Room for dinner. End up finishing with 20 minutes to spare, but I mentioned the old 80s arcade games next door so Joe was all excited. I tried out Centipede and Defender. Was centipede always set up so the fire button was on your left and the ball was on your right? I find that awkward, because I had to cross my hands so I could fire with my right and move with my left. Why? Because standard video game controls nowadays have you using your left hand to move, and your right hand to attack. I couldn't fire nearly fast enough with my left hand then I could with my right. (When time crisis was getting too easy for me, I used to start playing it left handed to make things more challenging) Anyways, it did make my arms sore playing that way though. And my legs are still sore from Police 911.
The game wouldn't be so bad if all of the dodging was sidestepping. But at least two of the bosses have you ducking, so its like doing squats while playing a shooting game! It did help me work on my index finger speed though, if only to kill bosses before I had to duck. For speed, I normally switch to my middle finger, though when I do that my ability to aim accurately diminishes slightly. Usually, its not a big problem since I'm firing so fast I'm basically getting a shotgun effect. But being able to focus more shots on a smaller point would be more useful.
And what's up with defender? Did it always have a thrust button and a reverse button to change directions? Why not just let the stick do all that? Makes it very akward when you want to turn around. I guess eventually you get used to it.
Owning Mahowny was pretty cool. Its a story about compulsive gambling. Phillip Seymour Hoffman plays a banker with a gambling problem and starts embezzling money from his bank to pay for his habit. The whole compulsive gambling thing is crazy. I mean, I guess I'm not much of a gambler, so I can't fathom how one can do the things he does. But I guess for some of them, they derive more pleasure from the thrill than any actual money they make. Its like they could be up $4 million but they don't care, they'll keep playing. And since winning is really knowing when to walk away, you will always lose if you play long enough.
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Date: 2003-06-27 09:53 pm (UTC)