Simon Cook » uni http://simoncook.org Home Page of Simon Cook Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:41:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Spore, spore, spore, spore, spore http://simoncook.org/blog/2008/09/spore-spore-spore-spore-spore/ http://simoncook.org/blog/2008/09/spore-spore-spore-spore-spore/#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:24:27 +0000 Si http://www.spcook.co.uk/?p=40 Is it just me or is every other advert on TV for spore at the moment. Apparently it is the best game in the universe or something. And yea, I want it, but I can’t afford it. Cheapest I can find it is £26.99 on Play.com and I can’t afford that dammit. So, I’m still stuck with the free creature creator until I can either find some money or it comes down in price (both happening would be the most ideal situation).

However, I sense the curse of buying games will follow me. It seems any game I buy on release is almost half the price a month later, and any game that I don’t buy in the first month will remain like that for the next million years or so. Being I haven’t got spore, chances are it is going to be one of the latter, especially with it being the huge hit it appears to be. I mean half my Steam list is on spore, and well it’s not even on Steam, thats just people that launch it through there. It’s currently 4th on the Xfire most played game list, and being it’s not even been out for a week, thats some feat! Only trailing between COD4,2 and WoW (wow that rubbish is popular).

My computer is running well, apart from I only get a framerate of 5-10 when I forget to turn folding@home-gpu off (6 hour work unit ftw!).

Left4Dead coming out in October, that shall also be awesome, can’t wait to see what Valve have done to pimp the Source Engine some more, though it seems that soon Source might be having a huge graphical upgrade, so DX10.1 might come in useful for ep3 :D More games to buy, just great. Now let me work this out, if I don’t eat for the next 3 months while I’m at Uni, I can afford to get spore and l4d. I know, I’ll try this new votey thing and see what the two people who read this thing I should do!

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In other more home news, my photos site is down (noooooo) while I upload all 1 million gigabytes to the new server. It’s about 40% done so should be back up and running by the end of the week. And don’t worry Reedy, your blog’ll be back up soon enough!

Moving to Uni on the 27th. That is going to be one heck of a shock when I move in, though a bit of TF2 or HL2DM might take the edge off ;) No more matches though, I think last night set that we are screwed with that, and with the admin plugin kicking the wrong person :/ yeah, I think we need a bit of work all round,

That’s about it, hopefully enough for you to spam comments on Skillers ;)

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