Spoke too soon. Encountered 3 storyline bugs, each on their own potentially game breaking, but together they are certainly game breaking. 1. I was trying to deal with the Great Khans. One of the sub-tasks was to talk to commander moore about making peace between the khans and the NCR. I went there, and the only option available was that “they won’t be bothering anyone further” and it pushed me to the next part of the storyline.

I’ve been listening to people and podcasts of people playing Fallout New Vegas. I think I’ve been fairly lucky so far. I’ve had 2 lockups and one crash to XMB, and I’ve observed a few instances where objects float above the ground, and a couple of instances of characters getting trapped in walls. I had almost no bugs the first couple of days, then somewhere in the middle I had a rash of bugs, but recently it’s been back to smooth sailing aside from that one lockup.

Books: 11. Primary Inversion. Second story I’ve read from the Skolia series of books. Was interesting. Strange ending. 12. Twilight at the Well of Souls. More of the same pretty much, except there’s no Com world portion, so it wasn’t as interesting to me. Games: 30. Costume Quest. Lots of fun, simple. You could probably stick a 7-8 year old in front of it and they’d love it, aside from the dialog going by too fast.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130297 $140 for a motherboard that can link two GPU cards from different manufacturers… This is unbelievably tempting for me, but it would require a major reshuffle of my computers. Not exactly an unwelcomed reshuffle though. Short term: I move the Intel Core i7 to the linux box. The current motherboard in that box goes to the Garage and powers Naoto. I stick my Athlon IIx3 chip on the windows box with this motherboard and put my ATI 5870 and Nvidia 460 on it.

I think I may have figured out the source of the shimmering I saw when doing the demo at Best Buy awhile back on 3d tv. I was looking past my monitor on Emusic’s site where they have a bunch of identical lines where only the album cover and title are different. When I focused in on two adjacent albums and matched up the stuff that fit, I saw the same shimmering going on with the covers of the albums.

I managed it… 24 games in 24 hours. Earned about $400 for the children’s hospital in Denver. Mostly fun, but I was getting really tired about 6AM. Here’s all the games I played. Blade Kitten (PS3) Recettear (PC) Demon’s Souls (PS3) Muramasa: The Demon Blade (Wii) Dragon Quest 9 (DS) Overlord 2 (PS3) Final Fantasy 4 (PS1) Folklore (PS3) Advance Wars DS (DS) Cladun (PSP) Persona 4 (PS2) Elder Scrolls Oblivion (PC) Etrian Odyssey 3 (DS) Breath of Fire 2 (GBA) ZAngband (PC) Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner (PS2) Dragoneer’s Aria (PSP) Iji (PC) Lunar: Silver Star Harmony (PSP) 3D Dot Game Heroes (PS3) Final Fantasy 6 (PS1) Advance Wars 2 (GBA) Final Fantasy Tactics A2 (DS) Odin Sphere (PS2)

Books: 10. Little Brother. It’s a libertarian left book, but a fairly important one for us libertarian right people to pay attention to. Games: 27. Sam and Max: The Tomb of Sammunmak. I realized that I missed this on the original count back when I beat it, so I’m tacking it on here. 28. Recettear. Definitely worth the $20. An item shop simulator. Very Japanese, silly, and a lot of fun.

Bitmob Game Hoarder This guy is much worse than I am… My suggestion to him would be to look at every game. Evaluate it on a few categories. A. Did you finish it? B. Will you ever feel like finishing it? C. Will you ever play it again? D. Did you consider it to be a game you really enjoyed? E. Can it be condensed down to where it takes up nearly no space at all?

Books: Started on Little Brother by Cory Doctrow, but haven’t finished it yet. Games: 21: Sam and Max: Moai Better Blues. Decent fun, not the greatest in the series. 22: Sam and Max: Night of the Raving Dead. Same as above. 23: Sam and Max: Chariots of the Dogs. This was actually an excellent episode. And full of exposition for the future of the series. :) 24: Sam and Max: What’s new, Beelzebub?

It’s interesting to watch the FF14 open beta start up. Different groups going to different servers and the like. So far, a large group of RPers have settled on the Besaid server, the Shirt Ninjas and the RPGamer groups have gone to Figaro, and a large number of JP people have settled on Mysidia & Figaro. Some are trying to make Cornelia into the EU server. It also seems like a large number of AU people have landed on Gysahl…