Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-5641163-20150522174501/@comment-5641163-20150525071324

And then you get eaten by a Grue.

These days I'd be surprised if many people even know what a text adventure even is. I have a folder somewhere full of the various maps, diagrams and notes that I used to make when playing some of the older games, can't see your average Black Ops player reaching for a pencil. Heh, as if.

I used to keep my own hours, sleep when I was tired, get up when I wasn't, I'd usually work my way around the clock over the course of a couple of weeks. Unfortunately, there's this crazy concept these days where people expect you to be available to solve their problems at reasonable hours of the day (I ask you), and preferably not 36 hours later. Spoilsports. Hence why by Monday morning I'm usually up around 4am. By the end of the week, however, (especially this week as we've a bank holiday so I expect it to be quieter than usual) I'm usually back into full nocturnal mode, as nature intended. Well, gaming nature, anyway. ;-)

The new Tomb Raider reboot is awesome, by the way, much better than I was expecting, feels a lot more like Legend or TR2 than any of the other more recent offerings, which I've been less than impressed by. I appreciate it's a far cry from your classic FPS (although Far Cry is a classic FPS!) but I was surprised how well they put it together.

I notice that we've kinda hijacked your Discussion page here, DS, hope you don't mind!

Why can't you save during recordings? Sheesh, I'm no slouch but I couldn't get through a Quake level beyond ep2 on Nightmare without dying at least once or twice. I doff my proverbial cap that you can.

Mystery of Wikia solved, I did wonder how they made their money. I started using an Adblocker when IMDB starting putting vile adverts showing abused animals on their front page. Being punished because other people are horrible is not my idea of acceptable, and I've never looked back. From the massive prevalance of ABP these days I reckon companies are gonna have to find new ways to make money (which may not necessarily be a good thing), but I think advertising is an obsolete and worthless concept that's far too open to abuse.

Got a client this morning, which is nice, have to drive halfway across the city to the guy's palatial mansion in the woods above the town, but he's a nice guy and always pays well and - in the nicest possible way - is also a complete idiot with technology so I'm not expecting the work to be too challenging! Plus the Bank Holiday means zero traffic. Not bad for a Monday.

Oh, I was wrong, Google haven't been completely idle with regards Gmail, they recently redesigned the (impossible to find) contacts system so that there's no way for me to keep my phone contacts separate from my Gmail contacts. If it 'aint broke, break it. *sigh*

My main issue with Outlook is simply its heritage. My e-mail address is in so many address books of clients with Hotmail that I had to abandon the alias and switch to a new one, the amount of spam and virus e-mails I was getting. I know it's a lot better now, but I have an instinctive distrust for it, and that takes a long time to shake.

Half the phones over here run Android so it's so much easier to let Google manage everything, but I always feel a bit guilty when I push someone away from Live Mail or Outlook Express and into the less functional Gmail. You're making me look bad, Google!

Right, time to inhale more coffee and prepare to face the daylight. "Ah! Ah! It burns, it burns!"