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Jul 3rd, 2008 at 12:29:12 - TrackMania Nations Forever (PC) |
(10h) - Found out that TMNF was released the night before the finals of CCG, so i grabbed a copy of it to use as a demo for next CCG season. I also took my box in to set up and demonstratoe how the game should really be played. Essentially the same game with more variety of tracks and dirt too. Much cleaner interface to emphasize the competition too.
There is a steam version, but I've stuck to the standalone version as i needed it to burn to CDs as prezzies for the CCG kids, as well as poo-poooing steam and it's klunkiness. Nearly downloaded it again thru steam when I found out how hard it is trying to add friends that I know are playing thru steam :/.
(12h) - Afternoons and some sessions stretching on through the night as the desire for 'one more track' kicks in.
(5h) - New season of CCG will use this version, so I updated all the PCs in the school.
(3h) - relaxing after work + CCG
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Jul 3rd, 2008 at 12:19:28 - FuryBand (PC) |
(15h) - I'm back in the roguelike mood. Furyband has a gold release, but playing through the ironman mode as jedi there still looks liek there's some work to be done.
Installed a dev environment at work so I might look into the coding of one to see if there's any simple way of embedding meaning through Temporal ROAM.
(3h) - VRBones LX - persisting with the Favoured Maia Jedi build to get into the ironman version of FuryBand. I've been able to get up to level 20, but barely any depth, maybe 8 levels down. 60th variant is living well and has built up a nice rat army to swamp the enemy.
(1h) - VRBones LXI - Moved from Dwarf Fortress to FuryBand for downtime at work.
(3h) - VRBones LXII, Level 21 Beorning Jedi Mutant - Talking to Ben made me pull this one out of the closet again. I've been trying to get enough into gauntlet mode to get full identify working. Still haven't made it to lvl 24. Keep dying to silly pack situations.
(2h) - VRBones LXXI, Level 18 Mutant Beorning Jedi
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Jul 3rd, 2008 at 12:11:01 - Battle of Tiles (PC) |
(5h) - Saw this indie game on GameSetWatch. Liked it enough to pick it up for a fiver.
(3h) - Trying on "very hard" but I keep losing men to the group attacks. Got one save past the first boss, but lost my main lightning mage.
(1h) - Demo'd it a bit to others
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Jul 3rd, 2008 at 11:51:21 - Football Manager 2008 (PC) |
(20h) - The team is looking solid, but we just can't string together the wins needed to reach the playoffs. We're losing to poorly ranked teams, while decimating others with the same formation. It's frustrating as hell sitting back watching your team fail to fire and there's nothing you can do about it. After losing all chance of making the playoffs I pretty much autorolled through the remaining matches to finish 7th. Next season we'll go up for sure.
(16h) - Gateshead, season 2, 4th BSN - Back into Football Manager after a month or 2 hiatus after the sour taste of Gatehead's last season. The team is looking really solid now and a few more additions over the break has hardly anyone in the starting 11 ranked below Blue Square Premier ability. We're 11 games in with a 7-2-2 record to hold down 4th on the ladder. Could be a quick season.
For my birthday Sandy made a soccer cake with little dots as players in their right starting positions (albeit a 442 placement I'd been tinkering with rather than my usual 4312 tactic). The field was pretty much spot on for a copy of the game. Tasted nice too.
Figured out that the current save game has just passed 12 days. 288 hours over 3 seasons. I'm guessing others that get 20 seasons in are playing a little faster than me ...
(15h) - Gateshead, season 2, 1st BSN - Knocked out of the FA Trophy and Setanta Shield in 3 days. Pity, I was hoping for my first silverware this season. Powering on to the end of the season now with 5 points clear. Should be a shoe-in now that I'm out of all the cup distractions. Sold off Giles Coke for 60,000 to give me some bargaining money, but all my potential imports have vanished. Hope I don't rue the sale later on ...
(10h) - Gateshead, season 2, Winners - Cruised to victory with no cup to distract me. The team is looking solid with most rated at Div1 level. The end of year fire sale helped me get 40% under wage budget for next year with some better coaches into the mix.
Another secret to raising cash for low league teams is to get in early to arrange friendlies with high ranked teams. Even in BSN I was able to get Sheffield Utd and other Championship teams to come for a friendly at our place so we can fleece their supporters. +100K in one month is enough to get you into the good books financially.
(8h) - Gateshead, season 3, 12th - A dozen games in and it's a so-so result so far. Even though the team is ranked well individually the bookies still have us behind most matches, and there are some teams who pay pro's over 2000 pounds a week. Seems like some of the difficulty further up the league is flowing down this way.
(4h) - Gateshead, season 3, 15th - Still in the FA trophy and Setanta Shield, but not travelling too well in the league. Uni assignments and the arrival of Rachael made the week fly by!
(6h) - Gateshead, Season 3, 8th BSP - We played poorly to get dumped out of the FA Trophy, but we're up to the 1/4 finals of the Setanta Shield. Playing much better in the league now and sitting in a firm mid-table position with only 8 points shy of playoffs. I had ruled out a serious challenge for the title once I saw how poorly we were going in the first couple of rounds, but we might just jag a couple more and be in with a shot. Cook finally broke an 18 hour goal drought so we now have 3 strikers I'm confident with. Clarke really doesn't have the stats to be playing as well as he does, but he's the crowd favourite and keeps banging them in. Once he gets a goal drought I'll probably permenantly bench him.
(2h) - Gateshead, Season 3, 8th BSP. Semis for Setanta needed some extra help.
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