Morning Post of Joy!

[themostepotente]

Not in binary today, kids :P *supplies coffee and sweets and congratulatory party favours*

1.) My niece is pregnant. It was a bit of a shock, but I am so happy for her. And I suppose that makes me a great aunt more in ways than one. *g*

2.) Dragon*con next week. So excited!!! And there's a mini Merlin meet-up planned, so more yayz!

3.) Multi-fandom art recs tomorrow \0/

4.) My PS3 took a crap last week, so as a last ditch effort to fix the damn thing, I called Sony customer service. Needless to say, my faith has been restored in technical support. I CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT MY PS3.

5.) Writing progress meters courtesy of marguerite_26!

hd_holidays

1000 / 20000 words. 5% done!

Merlin Ponyplay for KMM (How elated am I that someone pointed me to the prompt?)

500 / 5000 words. 10% done!

Harry/Draco fic from Birthdaybash I should have finished ages ago

500 / 2500 words. 20% done!

How's everyone's morning going so far?

--P

Comments

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Video gaming has come a long way from Atari 4 bit systems. And Atari was $$$ back in the day. One hundred bucks for the console, I think?

I remember I begged for this game called Adventure. It was like thirty bucks, and the graphics were horrid. Your guy was a dot and your sword was an arrow, but I thought it was the shit back then :P

And now the graphics are so unreal, it's like watching television.

Okay, yes, DOOM people, what the fucking fuck. I WANT NEW DOOOOOOOM!!! I'll be old and grey before it's out, I swear! And okay, why did they stop making Duke Nukem games? That was fun as hell, too. ARGH!

You know what game does nothing for me? Grand Theft Auto. I don't get the appeal. What do you think of that?

[dysonrules.livejournal.com]

I know! I never had a gaming system until I got a PS1. Before that I always played computer games. LEMMINGS OMG! HAHA And Doom, of course. And Myst,although I had to cheat on that one because who the fuck has the patience for some of the puzzles? NOT I.

And some of those pixellated games are still AWESOME. My kids played Dungeon Hack for MONTHS and if I pulled it up I think they would still play it, even though it seems cheesy. That game was so awesome. I still have Duke Nukem!! I think it will even play on my new system.

The graphics are incredible. The kids hate watching me play Oblivion because I keep going to mountaintops and admiring the view. BUT IT'S SO GORGEOUS.

Yeah, I was never interested enough in GTA to bother. It seems like Motorstorm with blood. Meh. I just like to drive.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

You know, I think I actually bought a PS1 for Doom specifically. I'd been playing it on Super NES and was overcome with joy (ha!) when they made a disc for PS1. The graphics, of course, were infinitely better.

I will always love the classics. It's what we grew up on. Tempest. Defender. Joust. Robotron. Berzerk. And OMG Galaga ♥ ♥ ♥

What's your fave video game of all time? Can be system, computer or arcade.

Mine's definitely Mortal Kombat. I wasted so many rolls of quarters trying to perfect my game. LOL! Pity, it never translated well to the home systems. Too hard to roll out a combo :P

[dysonrules.livejournal.com]

HAHAHA My fav video game of all time is still Dark Forces. It was a DOS game and even though I have the disks I'm sure it would never run on any of the newer systems, which is a crying shame. I do have an ancient computer that I've held on to that I'll probably hook up one day and use for Dark Forces and Dungeon Hack. My son's first introduction to Star Wars was through that game and we had such an awesome time going through the Star Wars universe. When he finally watched the movies he was crushingly disappointed that Kyle Katarn was not in the movies, but had been invented for the game. :D

First person shooter in the Star Wars universe? FUCK YEAH.