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terrycloth) wrote2005-05-23 10:23 am
terrycloth) wrote2005-05-23 10:23 am
zzz
The meet was strange yesterday... people kept popping in, then leaving, then coming back... at one point it was down to four of us, and we were about ready to leave, but then six more people showed up, all of whom had been around earlier, like an hour earlier -- they claimed they'd been getting food the whole time. Yeegads, don't pick the place with the hour-long line!
Kitsunetaur had a few cards from the prerelease, but he hadn't won any packs or anything. I'd thought about going over the weekend, but decided against it based on how tedious it'd been last time. Don't get me wrong, the actual games were fun, but there were four sets of three spread out over an eight hour period. So much waiting! Plus, the promo card this time was one of those crappy Maros.
Aaaanyway, we went to Legend's afterwards, and people spent a long time failing to figure out how to use his steering wheel/pedal setup to play this 'realistic' racing game. "Look, I'm turning the wheel, but the car's still just going straight!" was a common complaint. Turns out (just before I left, someone showed us how to actually race using it) it was realistic enough that you had to slow down to like 40 before you could make even the slightest turn.
I played a little City of Heroes on Legend's computer -- better graphics card meant a higher display resolution (which ironically made it harder to play, because the UI was smaller), but the big difference was a solid broadband connection meaning no random lag-outs. Although the reported ulta-low ping time was bullshit -- there was more of a delay between hitting a button and having my character do something than I get on dialup.
I left early, though, because I was pretty bored. I mean, I didn't want to monopolize the computer the whole time, and there was really nothing else to do.
Kitsunetaur had a few cards from the prerelease, but he hadn't won any packs or anything. I'd thought about going over the weekend, but decided against it based on how tedious it'd been last time. Don't get me wrong, the actual games were fun, but there were four sets of three spread out over an eight hour period. So much waiting! Plus, the promo card this time was one of those crappy Maros.
Aaaanyway, we went to Legend's afterwards, and people spent a long time failing to figure out how to use his steering wheel/pedal setup to play this 'realistic' racing game. "Look, I'm turning the wheel, but the car's still just going straight!" was a common complaint. Turns out (just before I left, someone showed us how to actually race using it) it was realistic enough that you had to slow down to like 40 before you could make even the slightest turn.
I played a little City of Heroes on Legend's computer -- better graphics card meant a higher display resolution (which ironically made it harder to play, because the UI was smaller), but the big difference was a solid broadband connection meaning no random lag-outs. Although the reported ulta-low ping time was bullshit -- there was more of a delay between hitting a button and having my character do something than I get on dialup.
I left early, though, because I was pretty bored. I mean, I didn't want to monopolize the computer the whole time, and there was really nothing else to do.