For anyone interested in adventure games you can buy Telltale's whole catalog for $50, saving you about $140. That includes the two Bone games from the incomplete Bone series, all the Sam & Max episodes, all the Strong Bad episodes, all the Wallace and Gromit episodes, and all the Tales of Monkey Island episodes. Awesome.
Finally got around to find a solution to my Steam - Xcom problem, seems a friend has a server with a remote desktop in Canada, we just installed steam and bought the games! so I was also able to get GTA IV!
It's christmas eve, where I'm from, so I thought I'd share this - It's old, I'll warn, but I hold it dear.
Twas the night before start-up and all through the net, not a packet was moving; no bit nor octet. The engineers rattled their cards in despair, hoping a bad chip would blow with a flare. The salesmen were nestled all snug in their beds, while visions of data nets danced in their heads. And I with my datascope tracings and dumps prepared for some pretty bad bruises and lumps. When out in the hall there arose such a clatter, I sprang from my desk to see what was the matter.
There stood at the threshold with PC in tow, An ARPANET hacker, all ready to go. I could see from the creases that covered his brow, he'd conquer the crisis confronting him now. More rapid than eagles, he checked each alarm and scrutinized each for its potential harm.
On LAPB, on OSI, X.25! TCP, SNA, V.35!
His eyes were afire with the strength of his gaze; no bug could hide long; not for hours or days. A wink of his eye and a twitch of his head, soon gave me to know I had little to dread. He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, fixing a net that had gone plumb berserk; And laying a finger on one suspect line, he entered a patch and the net came up fine!
The packets flowed neatly and protocols matched; the hosts interfaced and shift-registers latched. He tested the system from Gateway to PAD; not one bit was dropped; no checksum was bad. At last he was finished and wearily sighed and turned to explain why the system had died. I twisted my fingers and counted to ten; an off-by-one index had done it again...
On a somewhat related note, I learned that I will be going to Rome at the end of February with my Italian class. You can all stare at me with my awesome Italian goth teacher.
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On your second point: my thoughts exactly.
Can't wait till this comes out in 2010.
Which reminds me, I'll have to download that to play at a later date.
Twas the night before start-up and all through the net,
not a packet was moving; no bit nor octet.
The engineers rattled their cards in despair,
hoping a bad chip would blow with a flare.
The salesmen were nestled all snug in their beds,
while visions of data nets danced in their heads.
And I with my datascope tracings and dumps
prepared for some pretty bad bruises and lumps.
When out in the hall there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from my desk to see what was the matter.
There stood at the threshold with PC in tow,
An ARPANET hacker, all ready to go.
I could see from the creases that covered his brow,
he'd conquer the crisis confronting him now.
More rapid than eagles, he checked each alarm
and scrutinized each for its potential harm.
On LAPB, on OSI, X.25!
TCP, SNA, V.35!
His eyes were afire with the strength of his gaze;
no bug could hide long; not for hours or days.
A wink of his eye and a twitch of his head,
soon gave me to know I had little to dread.
He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
fixing a net that had gone plumb berserk;
And laying a finger on one suspect line,
he entered a patch and the net came up fine!
The packets flowed neatly and protocols matched;
the hosts interfaced and shift-registers latched.
He tested the system from Gateway to PAD;
not one bit was dropped; no checksum was bad.
At last he was finished and wearily sighed
and turned to explain why the system had died.
I twisted my fingers and counted to ten;
an off-by-one index had done it again...
Kill Puppies for Satan looks especially interesting.
I may or may not have started this thread...In the event that I did, you're welcome.
EDIT: Guess not.
Still waiting for tomorrow morning to see if someone got me Paranoia, Call of Cthulhu, and Dark Heresy books.
Rolling around in snow, naked.