Just a quiz...

I decided to go walking a different route today, just west down NE 8th. Which meant climbing a quarter mile or so of hill on the way back.

It's probably better exercize, but I don't know if I want to do that ever day. >.<

( that doesn't look like sea green to me... )

Guhhh...

ToEE is being annoying, still. I might just stop playing it. I think I'm basically at the end -- I finally found the orb of golden death (which I'd bypassed accidentally earlier) which I've heard leads to the endgame, at any rate.

It's being annoying by (a) not telling me when a weapon is granting a negative level to the character wielding it, altough I should have noticed everything going down. I had to restore to an old save to not waste 54000 gold (and more than a thousand xp) upgrading it.

It's being annoying by (b) hanging randomly when I scroll the screen. I have to scroll the screen a lot. It usually, but not always, finishes doing whatever it's doing that takes 100$ of the CPU after five minutes or so, but sometimes I have to turn off the computer.

It's being annoying by (c) crashing instantly whenever I try to have my druid do anything in Wild Shape. I don't use wild shape much (they don't offer many good animals) so I didn't notice this until just now.

(b) is the killer. There's nothing I can do to avoid it, and unavoidable random crashes pretty much always make me stop playing games. They made me stop playing Pool of Radiance 2.

Maybe I'll go get KOTOR and see if it'll run on my machine. Maybe I'll go do that now, before Horatio Hornblower starts. }:P

sigh

Yay. I ran out to get Knights of the Old Republic, and Best Buy sold me an empty box. At least they let me exchange it, so I don't have to swear everlasting vengeance. I'm not good at everlasting vengeance.

But as I suspected might be the case, my computer can't run KOTOR either. It has a decent frame rate and all, but no *textures*. What kind of game requires more than 128 megs of video ram on the 'low texture' setting? KotOR claims to only need 32 megs, so I thought I was pretty safe on that count. In fact, my computer has at least twice *all* the recommended settings. Not that that's never stopped it from not running games before.

I guess I'll add it to the pile of games I can't play until I get a new computer. Which I can't do until I get e-mail working on this one, so that the old computer that's pretty much only around to read e-mail can be retired.

Or maybe I won't bother. I'm tempted to just say '#%^& PC games' at this point.