Have You Heard The Good News About Xom?

[rax]

Warning: No real content here. Only talking about games. Real content when brain not fried. Maybe. (Translation: In another three months.)

Xom is a Crawl god, Crawl being this silly game that I sort of run the public server for because I am insane. If you check out my recent games you will see that I have a problem. Does anyone, uh, know any roguelikes harder than Crawl? Maybe I should try to beat 4.1.

Also, that 720 machine that I described getting a while back? It's fixed, it runs, we play anytime we go down and do laundry. Tonight I cracked the high score list for the first time. I hadn't entered "RAX" into a high score list on a standup arcade machine in a long time. It felt... good.

Are there enough places in the Camberville area with pins that a pinball crawl would be feasible? Because it would be awesome. But other than Good Times (SKETCHY [1]) and the MIT arcade, I actually don't know of any. Some googling suggests the bowling alley on route 2 at least used to have them... A pinball crawl that involved driving would be lame though. Maybe we can all hop on bikes and do it that way.

I don't think I have the time to focus on chess the way I want to right now, sadly, and I can't decide if it would be better to put limited time into it and hope I didn't learn bad habits or just suck it up and study go half-assedly instead. (On the largely correct grounds that some number of my hours a week will go into games no matter what else I do, and I might as well roll with it.)

Maybe I should try to convince myself that the Simon novel is a game.

-r.


[1] I had my purse stolen there a couple of years back. Still bitter.

Comments

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[androidqueen.livejournal.com]

You and C were in my dream the other night. We were at a party where we had only one friend in common.

Re: OT

[rax.livejournal.com]

I can tell that's a dream because it had me, in it, at a party. :/ Stupid grad school.

We should hang out sometime! I haven't seen you in forever!

Re: OT

[androidqueen.livejournal.com]

Ditto. You were in my dream *again* last night. In this one, I tried to get you to help me fix my knitting while we were both in the middle of the street and then, after you walked off, some asshole came swerving around the corner and ran over your foot. I tried to get his plate number, but the plate was covered in Patriots stickers.

[maekern.livejournal.com]

You should totally make little pamphlets on the subject and leave them in public places.

[kayunderscore.livejournal.com]

"Maybe we can all hop on bikes and do it that way."

I'd be up for that!

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Not that I get out all that much, but... I don't think I've ever seen a pinball machine since coming to Boston. I see old arcade games in laudromats and restaurants, but pinball? That requires someone to love the game and maintain it in a way video games don't...

[circuit-four.livejournal.com]

Hmmph! The aforementioned (and yes, extremely skeevy) Good Times has several! You just need to get out with us more, Peg! :D

And seriously, let me do some research. For one thing, I don't think there's much pinball in town, but if someone can get car access... didn't that Funspot place up in NH have pinball? I wonder about that mostly-Japanese-bemani arcade Alicia mentioned, too?

Sigh. I miss Seattle. Almost every cafe up and down University Way had a pinball machine -- and some had a dozen.

[rax.livejournal.com]

I do have a Big Red Van, and could haul a bunch of people off for pinball madness if necessary. It sounds like, if Peg hasn't played pinball in a long time, it might be necessary :)

Also I have finished my classwork of doom and we should hang out!

[ebenezer.livejournal.com]

It is hard to see "XOM" and not think of Exxon-Mobil.

[badoingdoing.livejournal.com]

I read "pinball crawl" as "crawl-themed pinball" at first.

That would be hilarious.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

Rogue? There's some reasonably sensible modern implementations.

Ironman Angband? Yes, it's Angband, but Ironman fixes the grinding problem as well...

[baniszew.livejournal.com]

The NH beach I went to last summer had an arcade with a bunch of pinball. We should go there sometime.

Also, yay Simon novel!

[iankeith.livejournal.com]

Hey, better than my lists of games on crawl look. XD

Also, sorry I haven't been around as much. Life came up. Oh, and my computer died, again.

[kiya]

Honestly, Dwarf Fortress is my favorite roguelike, but I've never played it on adventure mode ....

... I wonder i I should get a DF icon. Hmmm.