Saturday, December 27, 2014

Progress

Wrapped-up Legend of Grimrock II; game of the year, right there. Almost done with Bravely Default. Slogging through Metro 2033. Started Alien: Isolation; surprisingly rough around the edges (occasionally awful animation and scripting), but otherwise stunning in its presentation; into it.

Found a great deal on a brand new Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon - Core i5-4300U, 4GB 1600MHz DDR3, 128GB SSD, 14.0" 1440p IPS multi-touch screen, and 64-bit Windows 8.1 Pro for $999; down from $1739... Mentioned it to my brother, an then my mom bought it for me... Holy crap.

Thursday, December 18, 2014

Vaguely

Bought LEGO City Undercover and Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker for Wii U, and Freedom Wars for Vita... Haven't had the time to play any of them, or Alien: Isolation, yet :( Finished Crysis 3; it was okay. Metro 2033 got really boring by the time I reached the Nazis; hasn't gotten better. Legend of Grimrock II and Bravely Default are still awesome.

I'm really not enjoying Symantec Backup Exec 2014.

Recently swapped a bunch of parts from various computers to assemble the following three:
  • Core i5 2500K
  • Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3 rev2.0
  • 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 (dual channel)
  • 1GB Radeon HD 5850
  • 64GB OCZ Vertex SSD
  • 1TB Seagate 7200RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s HDD
  • 64-Bit Windows 7 Ultimate
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  • Core 2 Duo E6750
  • ASUS P5K-E/WiFi-AP
  • 4GB 800MHz DDR2 (dual channel)
  • 320MB 550MHz GeForce 8800 GTS
  • 160GB + 3x320GB 7200RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s HDDs
  • 32-bit Windows Vista Business
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  • Core 2 Duo E6750
  • ASUS P5K
  • 4GB 800MHz DDR2 (dual channel)
  • 512MB Radeon HD 3870
  • 250GB 7200RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s HDD
  • 32-bit Windows Vista Business

...And now I feel vaguely productive.