6 August 2003
Woohoo, new Spiders episode is out — well, a preview is available to sheepmail subscribers — and it’s a good ’un. Spiders was the first E-Sheep comic I read, and after that I became hooked. So many webcomics are soap operas, and I’ve never understood soap operas, but Patrick Farley’s are actually stories.
I’m still not sold on the constant emphasis place on every other word, though.
For some reason, today I found myself reading an old copy of Edge. Inside, they previewed Republic: The Revolution, due early 2002. Oh, how naïve we all were. And that includes Elixir.
It’s too hot for films, books, or thinking games, so I tried out Bomberman Generation on the Cube. I bought it in Play’s 2 for £30 offer along with Smuggler’s Run, which only arrived today and I haven’t even unwrapped. So far, it’s boring as hell singleplayer, but since when did we play Bomberman solo? It’s the ultimate 4-player game — well, along with Mario Party, tennis games, and Goldeneye.
So I gave up on that and reinstalled an old favourite. Quake III is the only game for which I keep separate backups of my config files, because when I play, I like everything to be just so — as low detail as possible. (Speed is king.) I haven’t played it in at least a year, and I’ll confess that I found everything a bit dim at first, but after that…well, I can still play. Can’t use the railgun for toffee (only two ‘impressive’ s in a couple of hours of play) but I’ve still got good knowledge of all the levels.
Current fantasy football team:
| Sel | Name | Tm | Po | Pw | Cn | Cp | Ce | Ne |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| XI | Niemi | SO | 105 | 0 | 5.5 | 5.5 | 5.5 | LC(a) |
| XI | Tarnat | MC | 0 | 0 | 6.0 | 6.0 | 6.0 | CA(a) |
| XI | Svensson M | SO | 109 | 0 | 5.5 | 5.5 | 5.5 | LC(a) |
| XI | Gilberto | AR | 108 | 0 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 7.0 | EV(h) |
| XI | Barry | AV | 132 | 0 | 6.5 | 6.5 | 6.5 | PO(a) |
| XI | Okocha | BW | 136 | 0 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 8.0 | MU(a) |
| XI | Jensen | CA | 136 | 0 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 7.0 | MC(h) |
| XI | Reid | BR | 0 | 0 | 6.0 | 6.0 | 6.0 | WW(h) |
| XI | Henry | AR | 271 | 0 | 12.0 | 12.0 | 12.0 | EV(h) |
| XI | Anelka | MC | 169 | 0 | 10.0 | 10.0 | 10.0 | CA(a) |
| XI | van Nistelrooy | MU | 188 | 0 | 11.5 | 11.5 | 11.5 | BW(h) |
| Sub | Murray | WW | 0 | 0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | BR(a) |
| Sub | Senderos | AR | 0 | 0 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.5 | EV(h) |
| Sub | Higginbotham | SO | 7 | 0 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.5 | LC(a) |
| Sub | McEveley | BR | 18 | 0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | WW(h) |