Stuff, and More Stuff

First of all, I'm in the wrong fucking business. 'course, I don't look like a primary Final Fantasy character, so I might have some trouble working the proper angles. Oh, and I don't speak Japanese. Minor details, at best! For $50,000 a night, I'm willing to fucking learn!

In other news, Ultimate Spider-Man is fucking awesome. Just really good. It's been a long-ass time since I've read a comic that didn't make me want to vomit afterwards, and the two graphic novels I received for my birthday (thanks Kev!) have been a pleasant surprise. The character development has been pretty solid, and Spidey is just as Spidey as ever. Good times!

It's also kind of fun to read about a super-hero "learning the ropes". Spider-Man screws up royally several times in these comics and proceeds to wallow in embarrassed misery. It's quite entertaining.

I picked up Sins of a Solar Empire for PC early this week. It's an indie RTS game set in a freaking galaxy, and has received consistantly good reviews. To say that the game is "massive" would not be an understatement. I've beaten a single game so far (on Easy, of course...I'm a shitty RTS player on my best days [and on a very small map, consisting of only a dozen worlds]), and the scale of this game might be uparalleled. The tactics involved in this game aren't just about how many people have the most units. Placement plays a huge part, as it takes time to move a fleet of ships from one planet to the other. Movement is also restricted to Phase Jump routes, which can create small chokepoints. There's a lot of resource management going on, which is a little irritating. However, the AI of your ships is pretty good, which means that you needn't agonize over every action every ship takes. It's pretty micromanagement free, which is a huge plus in my book.

This game has also been making a splash due to the fact that it's selling like hotcakes despite the fact that it lacks any sort of copy protection. If you want to download updates for the game you'll have to register it, but otherwise you can share it amongst your friends. Despite this, people are buying it...maybe because it's a fucking good game and it was $20 cheaper than any other game on the shelf. Imagine that; people buying an excellent, cheaper game that runs on lower-end systems in favor of an overhyped piece of shit that requires a NASA rig to operate.

Guys, piracy isn't killing the PC gaming market. The PC gaming market is killing itself.

Anyhoot, that's all for now. Peace!