Gran Tourismo 3 isn't going well, I'm afraid. My poor little Trueno still too underpowered for me to win any more races,
but too powerful for the lame "sports" tires to hold to the road. And for some stupid reason, real soft racing tires
cost about as much as I'd pay for a (marginally) better car.
Gran Tourismo also has questionable physics when it comes to things like collisions. For instance, when I'm drifting
through a turn, the slightest nudge from another car sends me spinning out of control. The best I can do to any other
car, however, is maybe nudge them into a wall, if I'm lucky. If I'm unlucky, I just spin off myself. (Yes, one of my
favourite tactics in car racing games is running people off the road. It's just so much more fun. GT3 refuses to let
me do this, however. :`( ). My main problem is that, after doing so well during my all-nighter, I forgot how to drive
after my 18 hour nap.
I still haven't really delved into Havest Moon yet. I'll probably get to that next week sometime. That's when GT3 will
have sufficiently frustrated me. It requires more concentration. It really is something to be savoured.
I think I want to get Grand Theft Auto III. Now there is a car game. Why race
in circles when you can run over pedestrians and evade police. That's cool!
Yes, this page may shortly degenerate into a series of cheap video game references. That's because I bought a PS2
yesterday.
Like an idiot, I stayed up all night playing Gran Tourismo 3. As a result, I'm not all here right now. I'm hoping nobody
shows up at my cubicle expecting me to do something. That would be more than I could handle. I'm (barely) staying
awake by typing this nonsense and listening to CBC radio online. Usually, listening to CBC at work means I don't get any
work done. Today, however, I don't think I'm going to get any work done anyway. At least this way, I stay awake (should
anyone visit) and encouraging typing noises are coming from my cube.
I also bought Harvest Moon: Save the Homelands yesterday. Shamefully, I didn't stay up all night playing that. Probably
because there might be a little more thought involved than driving my Trueno in circles for hours. Not much, but a
little.
Last night was our company Christmas party. I'm just recovering now. And I'm not talking about alcohol, either. Too many
people, too much stuff going on and me just not knowing what to do with myself. Blah.
Nothing disasterous happened, but nothing much good happened, either. I kind of shut down shortly after dinner. I had
the opportunity to chat up this rather attractive female person who seemed to be having about as lousy a time as I was.
But I didn't, of course. I blame the music. And the fact that my brain had stopped working about the time they were
handing out gold watches. Actually, that's not true. My brain was working well enough. It just wasn't connecting up
properly.
I did win a lovely gift basked as a door prize. Now I need to find a use for sun-dried tomatoes...