Pardon this rather rambling post. I just needed to get something off my chest…

I spent quite a while tonight browsing newegg.com for computer parts, for an upgrade to my system that I’ve been desiring. This is something that I’ve been giving passing consideration to for a few weeks now, but have been paying much more attention to the past couple of days, since I now actually have the cash to buy stuff. There’s so many options, its difficult to decide, and as I went through my options, with each consideration, what I was planning to purchase because… Well, bigger. More powerful. More money that I really want to spend, and more system than I really honestly need.

As I made up the list of parts to consider, I felt disturbed, though I couldn’t place my finger on why at the time. The reason came to me later, as I was putting away a few of the things that I got for Christmas. I got quite a few things for Christmas, and the thing that struck me about them is how much of it is garbage.
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Welcome to a new feature on my website, one that I hope to make a semi-regular feature, called ‘What I’m reading’, though the title ‘what I just read’ may be more accurate, since I’m probably going to have read the book before I post about it… I mean, if I haven’t read the book yet, I won’t really have much of anything to say about it yet, making writing about it rather pointless, right? Anyway, I just finished reading Silverthorn, by Raymond Feist.
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Continuing my previous discussion of things that annoy me about Civilization 4… The first thing is the massive jump in difficulty between the different difficulty levels. There’s 9 difficulty levels – that should be more than enough to find an appropriate level of difficulty for anyone. Instead, the difficulty seems to break down like this: Read the rest of this entry »

Guess it’s probably about time to write a new post (not that there’s really anyone who cares, I suspect ) I think I’ll take this opportunity to complain about Civilization 4, since I’ve been playing it quite a bit recently. The more I play it, the more it annoys me, mostly because I feel like its *almost* good, but not. The thing that’s annoying me the most at the moment is the war system. Lets list my major complaints about it.
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