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Feb. 26th, 2005 01:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terryclothI didn't get any work done at work yesterday... but that's okay, because we were having a morale event, at Jillians, in Seattle. Since it was in Seattle, I had to get a ride, this time with Rick, who's into old cars, old computers, and old music and who smokes a lot. Typical joke: "I had this friend once, who got a custom plate '0XFE06'. Get it?"
Jillians has a variety of things to do... video games, billiards, ping pong, or of course just eating food and drinking alcohol. I spent the whole time playing Puerto Rico. I lost the first game badly, but in the second game we were playing with the expansion, and Doug (who won the first game) remarked, as I bought the aquaduct, "You know, there's a neat thing you can do with the aquaduct and the specialty factory..." So I basically followed his suggestion, added a few strokes of luck, and wound up winning the game by a ridiculous margin.
That ate up all the time we had there, which was kind of a shame, but I don't play board games all that often... I had to leave in a hurry, though (so as not to be left behind by the person who'd given me a ride), and forgot the copy of Munchkin I'd brought. Oops. Had to page my boss's boss and ask him to pick it up for me on the way out, eheh.
In other news, I'm getting sick of Shin Megami Tensei. It just goes on forever! And evolving monsters is so slow and tedious... >.< There are lots of good RPGs coming out soon (Jade Empire, Xenosaga 2), maybe I should set it aside.
I did get 'Viewtiful Joe' to try to take a break from it, but... god, it's a sucky game. Your guy staggers around the screen like a drunken slug, your attacks have a range of 1.5 pixels, and the weakest enemy takes ten hits. And it's so *ugly*! In other words, it's too hard, and I can't get past the first real boss -- some sort of helicopter that riddles you with bullets and takes, by my estimate, 500 punches to take down. Not that I ever got its health bar even halfway down before it killed me, in the six attempts I made.
EDIT: I checked gamefaqs to see if there was some secret strategy to beat the helicopter... only to find in the 'boss faq' that it wasn't even a boss. Gaah. Fuck this game.
Jillians has a variety of things to do... video games, billiards, ping pong, or of course just eating food and drinking alcohol. I spent the whole time playing Puerto Rico. I lost the first game badly, but in the second game we were playing with the expansion, and Doug (who won the first game) remarked, as I bought the aquaduct, "You know, there's a neat thing you can do with the aquaduct and the specialty factory..." So I basically followed his suggestion, added a few strokes of luck, and wound up winning the game by a ridiculous margin.
That ate up all the time we had there, which was kind of a shame, but I don't play board games all that often... I had to leave in a hurry, though (so as not to be left behind by the person who'd given me a ride), and forgot the copy of Munchkin I'd brought. Oops. Had to page my boss's boss and ask him to pick it up for me on the way out, eheh.
In other news, I'm getting sick of Shin Megami Tensei. It just goes on forever! And evolving monsters is so slow and tedious... >.< There are lots of good RPGs coming out soon (Jade Empire, Xenosaga 2), maybe I should set it aside.
I did get 'Viewtiful Joe' to try to take a break from it, but... god, it's a sucky game. Your guy staggers around the screen like a drunken slug, your attacks have a range of 1.5 pixels, and the weakest enemy takes ten hits. And it's so *ugly*! In other words, it's too hard, and I can't get past the first real boss -- some sort of helicopter that riddles you with bullets and takes, by my estimate, 500 punches to take down. Not that I ever got its health bar even halfway down before it killed me, in the six attempts I made.
EDIT: I checked gamefaqs to see if there was some secret strategy to beat the helicopter... only to find in the 'boss faq' that it wasn't even a boss. Gaah. Fuck this game.
