Sins (the debauchery continues)

Again this is not a confession, but simply a follow-up on my previous post about Sins of a Solar Empire. And I can see why they called it one of the best games of 2008. It's epic, it's full-scaled, it really has it all. The one thing it does lack is a single player campaign that encompasses all three factions. But in any case nothing can compare to getting your first capital ship, renaming it and then going out to kick some very serious butt. For the time being I'm sticking the TEC since its the more simple and rounded faction to play with. Later on I will examine the Advent and the alien Venteri (I think I may have misspelled that).

Hunting for a new Phone

Every couple of years a special moment is presented to me: the purchasing of a new cellular telephone. Now any normal customer and shopper will of course jump at the opportunity of getting the first phone they deem to be cool and hip and totally adequate to their needs. I on the other hand are a more picky shopper. I first conduct a recon run to my provider's main shop, to see what phones they have on sale, and then conduct a thorough sweep of what I deem to be appropriate phones for my needs and wants (right now my focus is mainly on media with simple Wi-Fi and internet access). After having done this I go back home and begin poring over the countless reviews and comparisons for the phones I'm interested in and thus conduct a thorough research of my next phone.

For the time being it's slim pickings and I'm hoping that I can get an iPhone for less than the retail price. That would be a major score.

Sins

It's not what you think. I'm not going to start confessing my sins with intimate detail, it's simply that I got my hands on a copy of "Sins of a Solar Empire" and now I want to play it and see why it was deemed to be one of the best games of 2008.

How to Play Prussia

So I joined up in a new game on my old geopol watering hole; it's the fourth reincarnation of The Boundless World (known as TBW amongst us). This time around the setting is in Europe in the 1980's and the alternative history primer is quite a good one. I've come to realize that the strength and endurance of these games is not solely on the player's input, it also has a lot to do with how far the moderator is going to take it. I mean, we had an incredible run with TBW 2 which lasted approximately a good fifty two game years! That is to say around two years real time. I'm proud to say that I joined that game around midway through and found myself sucked in by the scheming and planning, as well as the outlandish stories you could write about your nation.

In the meantime whilst most people in the forum wait for the coming of the next great game, I've found myself joining a couple of offshoots: Age of Imperialism (9th version) which lasted a bit and was a good run, Pale Blue Dot, Legacy of the World and even a spin-off TBW game entitled Infinite Futures (which again didn't last very long). The games I find myself playing now are this new incarnation (as Prussia) and the slowly-developing Boundless Imperialism in which I've been playing Argentina for the past twenty game years and am cradling it into the next South American superpower. Hopefully the game won't stall and I'll be able to conduct all of my schemes into their full capacity.

Bookmarked Beyond Belief

In my continued explorations on how to run my browser better, and become increasingly Googled in the process, I've been fiddling around with my bookmarks bar and have streamlined the process of opening several web pages at once with just one effortless click. Should shave off valuable seconds on my web browsing time I must admit.

Googled Out

I've been perusing most of Google's free swag and I must say that it's worth it. Having everything centralized could really help me. Though I have to admit that there is nothing more painstakingly annoying than having to manually sort through my infernally long list of contacts. But then again, if I get through it then it's much easier to get through everything. Listing, filtering, labeling, archiving...it's all quite clear cut and easy to do. Life soon enough will be indexed via Google. I must gather more followers to convert to this great system.