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.

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[ebenezer.livejournal.com]

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