As promised, the first in what I hope is a series… of how, um, “rustic” are the people of Fannin County…
Seriously, it took me a little bit to figure out what he’s trying to do here… but I’m pretty sure that his intention is to name his trailer house and yard after the 80’s TV miniseries Lonesome Dove.
So I’ve been on a(nother) retro emulation kick here lately, specifically Atari and Commodore home computers, and must say that, while I still have a thing for the Atari 800XL and believe that it was the technically superior machine, I think if I had to pick one over the other forever, I’d have to take the C-64, due to the fact that it had a much larger software library, and where the two machines both had a version of the same program, it seems like almost every time the C-64 version was more finely-detailed and better-written than the Atari version (an exception to this rule was any title by Electronic Arts, which really seemed to strive for polish with it’s releases, no matter the platform).
Anyhoo, I’m replaying Questron at this time, but on the C-64 instead of the Atari… and stuck in some god damned fog (that game has frustratingly hard fog to navigate). See all that area with the darkness and the minus signs? Well, it doesn’t matter which direction you try to go in it, it sends you in some random direction, and most of the time in this visible area, that means sending you directly toward the water and that means a sea creature attacks you. I’ve spent over half an hour now getting to the center of this screen (I’m hidden in the fog so you can’t see me in this screencap) from literally just below the bottom of this screen, like 5 spaces beneath.
I’ve also been kicking emulated TI 99-4/A around a bit… god damn that computer sucked. Sorry, Iron Saushish, but that computer sucked fucking retard balls. I challenge anyone to find a disk, tape, or cartridge image of a TI game that doesn’t just make you want to kick a TI 99-4/A to fucking bits. I submit to you: the abortion of entertainment known simply as…
…Alpiner: (Yes, next to the boots that represent how many lives you have left, that’s my username)
Ooooh, will Mr. Alpiner be able to navigate past the scary snake?
Crossposted from jazz13’s journal comments on last.fm:
I had an actual friend that drove a Zephyr and one time some of us camped out at the Monument (it’s a stone marker in the middle of nowhere to commemorate the first white settlement in the county (they were wiped out by natives), and we had like 28 cases of MGD or something like that, as well as some bacon and cheese dip it seems like, this was the night that we (I) discovered that it’s a bad idea to drop a fully-capped MGD into a fire and then stand around watching it start to boil until, well, you can imagine how ashy and beery and glassy we suddenly became, and the awful explody report that it made in our ears, and Adam wound up passing out on the ground and someone decided that he was dead and drug him under his pickup truck to keep the coyotes from eating his corpse and we were using the Zephyr headlights to light up the area even though there was a perfectly good campfire going so needless to say, the next morning AFTER the guy with the pickup drove off, the rest of us tried to get in the Zephyr and drive off but the battery was dead because we never turned off the god damned headlights and two of us had fucking band camp at like 8am and we didn’t make it on time that day, but rather made it several hours late.
Kind of a fun Flash darts game. It just uses the spacebar.
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