Hardly Working | "DESTROY ALL FANBOYS!"

Yeah, there’s a bit of delay of game as I’m kind of stuck here for a bit with my slow connection and holding my breath for a package I was supposed to get maybe a week ago. Bleah. Anyway, I may take this waiting time to get in some more progress in Alien Isolation from an older save, as I made a rather interesting mistake that’s done nothing but made me curious as to what would have happened if I didn’t do what I did in that old save. PROTIP: don’t kill off ALL of the people shooting at you in one early area, as they’ll be fine Alien bait when you need to revisit that spot. Scope out the map carefully BEFORE you pick up that key item and plan a route to that exit, THEN pick up that item and make a mad dash for an upper hiding spot before working your way around to that temporary escape point.

Ehm, anyway… I’ll be posting hands-on reports for Dragon Age Inquisition (it’s fantastic, shut up and buy it), a bunch of Kabam’s incredibly addictive mobile games, and some great stuff coming from 505 Games including Ember, a mobile RPG that NEEDS to bee seen to be believed, a spiritual successor to the Puzzle Quest series by the same team, a super-cute matching monsters surprise and the updates version of How to Survive that’s going to make fans of that game run out and grab a PS4 if they haven’t already. Between that and some other stuff I’m fiddling with finishing, it’s going to be a mostly quite day in terms of posts. Hokay, let the boring begin! What’s the sound waiting makes again? Hmmmmm… I’ll ask that Alien when I see him, I guess.

Okay, it’s not THAT bad, but I do miss my portability which adds access to wi-fi. Anyway, the AMUSING thing is my anti-virus program has cloud storage that I used a bit of when I installed it, but as I’m on a crap connection here, I can’t access it to get to the stuff I was working on! Isn’t technology WONDERFUL? Nope. Anyway, the “good” news part one: my replacement power supply should be here by Thursday. The bad/good news: Verizon is forcing everyone in the area still on crap connections into an upgrade over the next few months, but is being kind of shifty when it comes to discussing what it will cost and whether it’s going to be one of those “pay by bandwidth” deals that’s NOT a deal for folks like me who shift words and games around in large enough quantities that we’re hit with fees and caps that make no sense. I hate when companies claim they’re doing stuff in the best interest of the consumers because it’s never, ever true when you get right down to it, grrrr.

(thanks, BlankTV!)

Eh, we’ll see where this new madness goes. I still want to keep the land line as long as possible because mobile phones blow in cases of emergencies around here while I can dial out and reach someone on the home phone. That and I can see nothing but grief from a connection that’s SUPPOSED to be more stable not being so stable, but hey – progress, right?