tekHedd – the blog

I just got the Amazon notification that my copy of DNF has shipped. I’m excited, and of course scared. Reviewers don’t like him, but of course he wouldn’t care about that. He’s stuck in the 80s, which is bad and good.

Bad, because it means no cover-based shooting, no “realistic” gore, minimalistic puzzles with switches to push… now that I start talking about it I don’t really care too much about the bad part. Is he puerile? Does he kick ass and sometimes remember to take names? Hmm, so I guess that’s OK.

And it’s good, because it means no cover-based shooting, no realistic gore… but it also means he won’t try to be “cinematic,” a word I have learned to hate. I can only hope this also means he will avoid other things I have learned to hate like “press X to not die,” cheesy moralism, fake good/bad moral choices with no real consequences… I figure it’s too much to hope that there will be no turret defense sequences of any kind, but maybe we’ll be lucky there too.

All in all, it could be worse. Let’s hope it isn’t.

It’s hot and I clearly have a low grade fever from this head cold. It’s hot enough that I’m sweating, but this is more than just heat. And I just brewed a pot of decaf, which I am going to drink hot. Yes, it’s not even caffeinated–I don’t do that any more. So I know I’m not drinking it for effect.

Man I love coffee.

Actually, they *do* still make them like this, but for some reason they don’t come with instructions like this any more.

Setup Instructions...

Original case is getting a bit ragged

G&L In Case