Games and Maracas

[chrisvenus]

So, interesting things recently? Swordsmaster on sunday was great. For the first time since the game started I am at full magic points which is nice. It meant I could do frivolous magic and things. Also getting closer to a few personal goals. Contacted my granfather telepathically in a 20 focus test extravaganza (although dawn did change it and only require 12 I managed 20 anyway). Oh, and for reference passing a focus test involves rolling 84 or less on percentile so there was approcx 1 in 32 chance of passing 20 focus. Its a shame really. With that many focus tests I might have managed to contact my brother. :)

I have managed to get myself quite scarily addicted to a silly computer game whose name escapes me but is basically to do with playing maracas in time with music. It is fantastically fun but I am not sure I can explain why. For those wondering the game works by having six positions in which you can shake maracas. They are high, mid and low on the left and right. You basically shake them in time with the indications on screen and occasionally have to strike poses (which involve holding the maracas in a given position at the specified time). It has some great songs including tubthumping, Macarena and Take on me (dodgy but fun version).

Last thing for this entry is starcraft. I hadn't played it for a while and gave it a go tonight with TFM (housemate). First game was a multiplayer 2 vs 2 (humans vs computers). We were doing alright for a bit I was being relatively cautious and just denying the enemy some nearby supply points while slowly building but TFM was a bit over bold and invested resources in a base that got trashed leaving him with litle defences and little cash. He got overrun so we quite since me against two would have been a) dull and b) far too hard. :)

The second game we do a one on one (human vs computer) which involved two of us controlling one army. This is quite dull in the early game since there is little enoguh to do for one but quickly picks up as he develops the base and I take our first few units off exploring. Later on it is wonderful to be able to have perfect planning in battles because the Reavers (for example) come into the battle at the perfect moment, or that when my dark templars are withdrawing to recover his units come out to cover them with perfect timing.

Its really good fun and I must play it more often. Same goes for all of the games I've talked about actually. Swordsmaster is unfortunately not as often as I wished. Oh, and on similar thoughts I am getting through my exalted stuff ready for my next game. Half way through anyway.

Anyway, that'll do for now. I should head off to bed or something. Am watching eurotrash now but I am not particularly bothered right now. It is currently telling me how to say "I want you to lick me right there, right now!" in swedish, french and italian. Don't ask me to transcribe that, I really can't be bothered. :) The best thing about eurotrash has to be there silly voiceover voices and silly sound effects. Its now talking about somebody whose occupation is "Factory owner/erotic actress". Really heavey welsh accents dubbed over the porno script are great. And being described as a political porn star is why this program is so strangely addictive... Anyway, that'll do for now. :)

Comments

[chrisvenus]

Yup. That's the bunny. Very cool game. :) mp3 of that tubthumping verison might be entertaining. You got bandwidth and what is the best way for you to get it to me?

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Would e-mail work for you - chris at pla.....nus org uk , n'est-ce pas? It's 1.7 MB, so the mail would be a shade over 2 MB. My web space isn't letting me upload it right now - maybe it's a .mp3 thing.

[chrisvenus]

e-mail will work for me. Alternately just put a different extension on the file to upload it to the web server. And yes, that looks like the right e-mail address assuming you have the correct five missing characters. :)

Cheers dude.