{"id":922,"date":"2010-05-21T22:04:14","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T04:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=922"},"modified":"2010-05-24T15:35:47","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T21:35:47","slug":"i-am-tired-and-i-am-a-video-game-geek-and-the-world-must-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=922","title":{"rendered":"I am tired and I am a video game geek and the world must know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got off work at 2:30pm today.\u00a0 And that&#8217;s a good thing because I&#8217;m mentally and physically exhausted from Wednesday&#8230; and the rest of the week too.\u00a0 But mostly Wednesday.\u00a0 What a fucking day.\u00a0 And Wednesday is in honour of our god Odin.\u00a0 Praise be to him!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/odin-and-puppies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-923\" title=\"odin-and-puppies\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/odin-and-puppies-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/odin-and-puppies-198x300.jpg 198w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/odin-and-puppies.jpg 423w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nYou see, Odin had some crows to help him do stuff too.\u00a0 I forget the story behind all that jazz, but the crows help him see far away.\u00a0 And they also harass me while I&#8217;m walking to catch my bus in the morning.\u00a0 See two posts below for that.<\/p>\n<p>So honour Odin.\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t&#8230;. actually I&#8217;m not sure what happens if you don&#8217;t.\u00a0 Maybe it gets really cold.\u00a0 Wait a sec&#8230; it&#8217;s always cold where Odin is.\u00a0 Fuck, I&#8217;m just no good at this mythology thing.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Age_of_Mythology\" target=\"_blank\">Age of Mythology<\/a> was such a letdown for me when it came out.\u00a0 I play <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Age_of_Empires_%28video_game%29\" target=\"_blank\">Age of Empires<\/a> and its sequel <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Age_of_Empires_II:_The_Age_of_Kings\" target=\"_blank\">Age of Kings<\/a> religiously (pun intended), so when I read that there was a new game coming with better graphics and more expansive gameplay, I couldn&#8217;t wait.\u00a0 But the game never ran well on any of my computers, even my newest.\u00a0 It&#8217;s buggy.\u00a0 Hoarse and buggy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/hansomcab.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-924\" title=\"hansomcab\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/hansomcab-300x182.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/hansomcab-300x182.gif 300w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/hansomcab.gif 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIt ALWAYS crashed on my laptop, my Compaq R3000.\u00a0 And even now, when I can play it without crashing on my fast computer, I don&#8217;t like the fact that all the fun (for a true geek like me) micromanaging aspects of farming and resource gathering have been mostly automated.\u00a0 With AOE and AOK I can sit back and let battle take a back seat to my need to build and gather resources.\u00a0 But not in AOM.\u00a0 And don&#8217;t get me started on <a href=\" http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Age_of_Empires_III\" target=\"_blank\">Age of Empires III<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I will say is that the corny logo I made (copied) in MS Paint for the Wikipedia AOE article project is STILL in use by that project.\u00a0 That&#8217;s sort of nifty and a little sad at the same time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ProjAOE.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-927\" title=\"ProjAOE\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ProjAOE.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"96\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not making much sense.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going back to bed.\u00a0 Did I tell you I was tired?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got off work at 2:30pm today.\u00a0 And that&#8217;s a good thing because I&#8217;m mentally and physically exhausted from Wednesday&#8230; and the rest of the week too.\u00a0 But mostly Wednesday.\u00a0 What a fucking day.\u00a0 And Wednesday is in honour of our god Odin.\u00a0 Praise be to him! 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