The Need of Alternating History

If there is one thing I enjoy from the forum games I take part in, it's the willingness to change history and turn things either for the better or for the worse. I for one feel a sort of pride in playing these games and thusly always end up choosing Argentina. Probably due to time constraints and other factors, playing my homeland (in this case in the 1920's) allows me to invest enough time to make it manageable, but not turn it into an obsessive hobby where I have to keep track and mass produce posts 24/7.

Also it appeals to my "Khanite" necessity to expand and conquer; something any gamer of my age will do after being brought up playing Command & Conquer and Age of Empires. Expansion, expansion, expansion. That is the only true method.

A New Direction

In the past weeks I've received some academic news that has necessitated me to change my headings and replot my course for the next couple of months. Nothing drastic, but the calls of academia have a higher priority right now than either sports (rugby), or games (anything installed on my PC). Therefore my life for the next couple of weeks will be dominated by thick textbooks, court cases, artistic analysis and other educational endeavors that will see to my safe passage to a bigger and brighter future.

On a small note I've reduced my gaming time to three major games:

1. Fallout 3 (with all 3 DLCs installed...and 2 more coming in the next few weeks...)

2. Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts (for my RTS fix, nothing beats a WWII extravaganza)

3. Mirror's Edge (fast-paced, colorful and a pleasant surprise from this innovative FPS).

That's all she wrote for now folks! Hopefully my activity will increase in the upcoming weeks.

On a final note, I've gone over some of my old RPG storylines from an old Star Wars game I used to play. Apparently over the sporadic year I played that game I managed to write an astounding 95.000 word novella. I still however need to write a couple of more transcripts so it should be interesting to see where this leads. I hardly doubt this will end up in a publishing house since it's run of the mill stuff. The positive side is that it gets my creative juices flowing, so it helps with the writing process at least.

On a truly final note I finished reading "Oracle Night" by Paul Auster. Very interesting short novel which got me on the writing wagon again. So that's one of my leisure list books crossed off my list, here's the rest:

1. The Ringworld Throne by Larry Niven (Part 3 of the epic Ringworld Saga)

2. The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski (First book with Geralt of Rivia the Witcher)

3. Witches Abroad by Terry Prattchett (A must for my Discworld fix)

4. Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler (Second crime novel with PI Marlowe)

5. The Lost Road and Other Writings (Fifth or Sixth book in the History of Middle Earth Compendium. A Tolkienite must)

6. Dune by Frank Herbert (I heard it was a classic and therefore I have to read it)

7. The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan (First of the extensive Wheel of Time Saga)

8. Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling (A bit of jingoistic imperialism never hurt anyone)

The Mothership Has Landed

Nope not an alien invasion or something of the sort. This has finally arrived at my doorstep:

This new internal SATA hard drive with its overwhelmingly 1 Terabyte capacity signals a new era for me both in space and gaming. I installed this baby and right off the bat started installing every game I had on hand. So far I've installed a good eighty gigabytes worth of games, and that doesn't even brush the 10% capacity!! I'm in gamer heaven! And I can kiss my social life goodbye.