So, I think this is as close to a meaningful post as I will be able to manage today.<\/p>\n
Firstly, my new LJ icon theme exists, thanks to chellez<\/a>. It finally dawned on her last night, while watching the Simpsons, that she is planning on making a life with “The Comic Book Guy”.<\/p>\n This weekend was more or less a lost cause. Not a bad one at all mind you, just nothing too noteable to speak of. Friday night was “The Hulk”, which I must say, I was pleasantly suprised with. The acting was well delivered, the plot was not watered down. There was a brilliant Stan Lee cameo (along with the bloke who played the hulk on the 70’s TV show). Nick Nolte totally stole the show, and the CGI, which I initally saw as winceworthy, was not as bad as I thought it would be.<\/p>\n I was very pleased, definitely worth the see in the theatres as well.<\/p>\n Saturday night I did not sleep well at all. Rich came home from his midnite Potter sales around 2amish, and went to leave the book on Richelle’s desk. Marley, however, thought him an intruder, so went Cujo, and woke me up groping for something to beat an attacker with. I did not get much in the way of solid ZZZ’s after that, so I got up warly, talked with Rich for a bit before he went off to work, then tried to play Shadowbane<\/a>.<\/p>\n Now, I followed this game for about 6 months before its realease. It sounded like an engaging innovative game. More PvP than PvE. Neat engine and character customization. A totally origonal role-playing invironment.<\/p>\n The reality is a shotty graphics engine (a la Diablo, the origonal) and similar gameplay feel. More D00d’s than roleplayers (though the roleplayers I met were all great, and the few guilds I courted were all lots of fun), and more PvE than PvP.<\/p>\n Given my relatively limited gaming windows, I figured it would be a pleasant waste of hours until Star Wars Galaxies<\/a> became a reality (it is due out on Friday!).<\/p>\n Alas, I was mistaken.<\/p>\n