IxnayOnTheTimmay (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ixnayonthetimma) wrote,@ 2008-05-07 22:56:00 |
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| Entry tags: | car, cat, circus mexicus, life |
Still Waiting for my Stim Chex
The car is still broke, but I have made progress. Lo and behold, I have to remove the central driveaxle hub nut, which I didn't know before. I have to buy a 35 millimeter deep-enough-well socket, and hope to Zeus that it fits on the superfied long wrench bar I have.
roytheboy, I am done with two of the three card layouts you requested. Again I apologize for the delay, but as soon as I am finished with the third, I will email them to you for your review. I'd email you the two I have done now, but I am a jerk and want to keep you on the edge of your seat brimming with anticipation. Yay for the semiannual Trip to Puerto Peñasco coming up in a week and a half! I am excited to travel to the wonderful land south o' the border, where the police have AK-47s and the children come up to you and ask you if you want 'dulces o helados' or maybe some cheaply made metal trinkets. I think I should get my dollars converted to pesos and bring them back, so I can exchange them in a few months and have more dollars.
So it seems Spore will have some kind of convoluted DRM scheme such that you will be required to have an internet connection so that it can "phone home" every 10 days. If it can't, you can't play the game. Sure, this game is pretty much being designed for online play, but it just shows that the days of "buy something once and play it whenever" are slipping away. "But Tim, you have to pay fifteen bux a month for WoW of Warcraft!" I know, so that's why I don't play World of Warcraft. I can still hope for a reversal in trends when enough gamers out there have basically had it with all this and so migrate toward the games that 'hearken back to the good ole days' and let people just play them without all the bullshit.
It's a shame, because I really wanted to check out Spore. But frankly, my ISP doesn't have the most stellar record with providing me an "always-on" connection and so I am not going to pay for that hassle. EA, you just lost a sale because of this.
