Don't make 'em like they used to...

When I got home from work today, my monitor was dead. It just had no picture, not even the normal diagnostic stuff when you hit the appropriate buttons (which is how I knew it was the monitor). So since it was still early enough, even though I'd walked home, and then washed the bathroom and went swimming for a bit, I went out to the stores to get a replacement.

Couldn't find one. All anyone's selling nowadays are LCD monitors supporting 1280x1024 resolution. Sigh. I want a CRT monitor (so as it can change resolutions without looking like ass) that supports 1600x1200. No joy.

So instead I bought a cheap 17" LCD, since that's apparently ALL THAT ANYONE'S SELLING. Maybe I'll be able to mail order a new one or something, but urgh, CRT monitors are awfully heavy...

Man, windows is ugly at 1280x1024. It doesn't do antialiasing of its fonts, so while switching to normal fonts from large fonts makes them draw at about the same size as I'm used to (and it looks like other UI graphics were being similarly scaled), man... they're ugly.

EQ2, on the other hand, is a *lot* prettier on an LCD, so I sort of have mixed feelings about the whole thing now.

( EQ2 )