Anyone have any recommendations or see any problems with the potential setups I have? Compatibility issues? I've been out of the computer market for a while, and want to make sure the damned thing will work, will work well, and that I won't be paying too much for what I get.
Planning on 2GB memory, for the barebones that doesn't come with any, probably the same stuff from the other barebones.
Are barebones kits worth it, or are they just a handful of crap TD couldn't get to sell, wrapped up and discounted?
Ugh, just had what I think might be the worst vomiting session ever.
Cut, since most probably don't want to read the rest of this pointless post.
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Finished eating the caesar salad, chicken fettacine alfredo, then cake and ice cream my mother had made.
About 20 minutes later threw it back up.
The bad parts were that I must not have drank enough liquid with the meal, because the vomitus felt like Play-Doh squeezing out of my throat, and I actually and to bit it off and then spit out the chunks remaining.
The worse part was that I could still clearly taste the meal I had eaten, but in reverse order. The first couple heaves tasted like cake and ice cream, the next like the pasta, and the last couple salad.
It was the nightmare version of that full-course meal chewing gum from Willy Wonka.
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Other than that, today the guy at some car audio place in Vancouver replaced some fuse in Lorne's car and made the CD player work.
We had spent at least 2 hours the night before trying to fix the wiring harness we thought we had spliced wrong.
So I read up to Ch. 369, from about 335. It was nice being able to read a relatively sizable chunk at once. Helps the plot settle in my mind.
My main complaint is all the fan colorizations and crap they always throw into manga downloads. Especially with the volumes I read tonight, since the colored pages were ordered before the chapter they came from. I saw a couple things that should have been seen later.
Worked through some FFXII, took a break and beat GoW II and started Okami.
Those who haven't played GoW II don't read, I might spoil the ending, but not specifically.
GoW II was pretty good, but the ending pissed me off. I hate it. They pulled a Halo 2.
I don't like the way that the video game creation system works. A game is made, seemingly as a pure effort to make a good game, without knowing if it will be as good as hoped. If it isn't, it flounders, and tends to disappear. However, if it is indeed good, it becomes popular and sells well.
The first game is always a complete story. It has a resolution, an ending. At least it feels ended, although there may be some minor plotlines that may not have been closed.
The problem comes when the game is successful. They know their formula works. They make a sequel, which is all well and good. They tend to be good, if not as innovative as the first. Then at the end they pull some crappy cliffhanger bullshit.
I mean, the end of Halo 2? Crap, pure and simple. The end of GoW II is exactly the same. Exactly. Only substitute the Covenant with the Greek gods, and MC with Kratos. They didn't need to add some cheesy cliffhanger ending like the end of the Super Mario Bros. movie to make me buy another game, because with those two I was planning on it already.
Looks like I might watch a show that I have, in the past, considered horrible.
The Naked Trucker and T-Bones Show.
Reason: Tenacious D is guest starring.
I'll have to find out some information on what they've been doing as of late.
Both of them together, because I'm getting sick of Jack Black romping around on his own. The more I watch various "D" things I have, the more I think Kyle Gass carries them.
He is like the Dean Martin to Jack Black's Jerry Lewis.
I've been meaning to download a couple of good cartoons from my younger years, but haven't got around to clearing out the space for them. DinoRiders and Talespin.
There was a story arc in particular that I wanted to find in Talespin. It was in a desert, and there was a hidden city or something, that could only be reached by assembling this chime and ringing on a pyramid. Anyway, I never saw the last episode of that arc, and always wanted to.
So I was looking up some Talespin information to find the names of the episodes I was looking for, and found this, a brief synopsis of an episode that was aired briefly before being banned by Disney (allegedly):
"...starts with Baloo being asked to deliver a goodwill present (a cuckoo clock he is told) to the High Marshall of Thembria from Cape Suzette. Baloo is unaware until the end of the episode that the package really contains a time bomb planted by munitions manufacturers who wish to provoke a war between Thembria and Cape Suzette in order to boost weapons sales.
I hope that episode is easy to find. What a great plot for a kid's show. It makes me wonder what other more serious content that show had.
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