Cool shot of the day

Brothers in Arms

The state of the gaming art (imitating life) manifests in strange ways sometimes... including scenes of apparent mundanity.

Hero-us Interruptus

Having been convinced to join those already playing City of Heroes, I rode over to the local Software Etc/Gamestop this afternoon, gift card (from my birthday some months ago) in hand, or rather in wallet. But when I got there, I found no CoH; only pre-paid subscription cards, mocking me in their boxes. "We might get some more in at the end of the week," I was told. "Maybe."

I was almost frustrated enough to go buy it someplace else, today... and I might have, if I'd actually had any money left in my account at this point.

The ride back was no fun either: a thousand little annoyances and delays. About the best thing I can say is that I was not run over. (I should probably take the bike in tomorrow to have the rear spokes checked and tightened, though.) And of course I returned too late to deposit my paycheck this afternoon, so I'll have to do that tomorrow as well.

I must either be burning off a lot of bad karma today, or banking a lot of good.

Plus ca change

So I'm sitting here, watching Certain Newsgroups go absolutely nuts over the release of DOOM 3 (which amuses me more than anything, since I'm not a big FPS fan) ... and remembering all those years ago when the first one came out, and the Net nearly ground to a halt for the better part of a day.