I thought I would get worked way ahead over the weekend, but instead I actually dropped behind on saturday and had to scramble to catch up yesterday. I'm past the 10,000 word mark and still more or less exactly on pace to make 50,000 by month's end, if I keep going for 23 more days. It's tough.
Even tougher because I did some shopping with birthday money at Best Buy the other day and picked up a free demo of City of Heroes. I've wanted to play a good superhero game for a long time, so I thought I'd give the demo a try.
What a pain in the ass. I installed the game disks, then tried to use the automatic log-in to register an account (CoH is an online game). The URL that the disk tried to access was no longer valid. So I hunted online and found the new official site, created an account, and then launched the game.
It downloaded updates for almost TWO FREAKING HOURS before it would let me create a character. Once my character was created, I attempted to enter the tutorial and actually see my character in action.
The game locked up as I was trying to load the tutorial level. I had to reboot my computer get out of it. Tried again. Same thing.
AAARRRGGGHHHH!!!!! as Charlie Brown would say. What a pain.
Monday, November 07, 2005
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Don't do it. Step away from the MMPOG if you want to hit your word count this month. Take it from me. Evercrack and Star Crack Galaxies were my writing bane. Don't do it. If you must, get a game that is self contained. Freedom Force is an older release that you can pick up on the discount rack and run on a slower computer.
Did I mention that you shouldn't do it?
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