Wow
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
A photo on Flickr that just blows me away. I love Flickr. Wish I could take photos like this.
Visual candy aside, I think today might be one of those days… That groggy feeling after you wake up? I read that it’s called sleep inertia. Last week I almost got into an accident on the way to work because I was so out of it. There is a long skid mark on the 55 South because of me. I’ve left my mark.
Been thinking more about the future… When to buy a house, have kids, what kind of family I’m going to have. I don’t want kids enough to actually start planning for them yet. Financially we’re not ready, and often I feel like I’m still a kid myself.
Like last night after dinner, I couldn’t wait to get back to playing Psychonauts . I was on this level (looks pretty crazy huh?) –
Psychonauts is about a runaway circus performer, Raz, who wants to become a psychonaut or psychic master. He joins a training camp and starts learning different powers like telekinesis and pyrokinesis, and collects various objects to power up. But things start getting weird at the camp and other kids’ brains start disappearing, so he has to maneuver around the physical world and also inside people’s mental worlds to save the camp.
The world pictured above is inside the mind of an asylum patient who is a descendant of Napoleon and trapped in a chess game of sorts. The green hexagons are the board spaces and the purpose was to recruit villagers to become game pieces to battle with the enemy’s pieces.
I couldn’t figure that out at first, so it was the first level that I needed to use the walkthrough a lot. If I wanted to be a perfectionist about the game, or if I was really insecure like I was with Kameo Elements of Power, I would follow the walkthrough step by step. But I found that it’s much more fun to just play and follow my instincts and see what I can figure out on my own. It’s like problem-solving, but actually fun.
Dave was like, “What about when we have kids? Are you going to dominate their video games?”
Trying to envision my mother playing video games…
I think when you children hit the adolescent rebellion phase, they will become Amish.
Amish, as in, no electricity or media or other evils of the modern age? hahahaha
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