Sinning in a Solar Empire

Not sleeping for 3 days straight has to be a sin somewhere, but when its this fun to sin, who cares?

It started out small, a 2 player map with a few planets, maybe 4 maybe 6? It then slowly degenerated into gigantic maps with 20+ planets and multiple solar systems. By yesterday night/this morning, I was halfway through my new pitting 3 of my fleets against 4 of the AI's. Had to save midway because I had to get ready for work.

Today is my 3rd day awake without sleep, I feel like a zombie and my eyes are probably all red. I'm probably going to skip gym and head on home for some well earned rest and maybe some sinning?

Examples of Visual Marturbation

When a designer gets ahead of himself, he is doing what as known as visual masturbation.

Having a new section on a website to fill out the navigation bar is right up there in terms visual masturbation.

Another example of Visual Masturbation?

Check these two sites out:-

http://www.rechargeroom.com/

http://www.mystudioc.com/

Yeap, Visual Masturbation. All good design follows one rule:-

FORM AND FUNCTION

One without the other is like masturbation, it isn't as fun as sex.

Games galore!

I got

Boiling Point : Road to Hell
Dawn of War : Soulstorm

And

Sins of a Solar Empire

last weekend....talk about gaming overload.

Playing Boiling Point and Dawn of War now, I'm afraid that if I start Sins, I won't put it down so the plan is to finish the lesser games first and then drown myself in the gaming goodness of Sins.

The Polite Fuck-Off

http://kotaku.com/364195/ea-tells-jack-thompson-to-get-bent

The above link is EA telling Jack Thompson to fuck-off when he proposed to help them acquire Take-Two.

Lolz.

X3: Reunion - My first Xenon LX

Yay!

I capped one last night after about 10 retries in a Mamba Raider armed with 4 BPACs.

It's a thing of beauty with 4 AHEPT cannons, 4 BPAC cannons and 2 BHEPT turrets, this heavy fighter craft is so powerful that corvettes and even some capital ships have to be wary of it.

After fixing it up, I took it for a drive around the neighbourhood. The speed is a bit of a put-off after being used to the Mamba's 200 m/s but I eventually got used to it in combat. The Xenon LX and the Mamba Raider fly different in the sense that in the Mamba you blast in and charge out, but in the LX you blast in and kinda just engage everyone in a furball.

Now that I have an LX time to check up what other ships I want, maybe a Pirate Falcon Vanguard? If so, I need to start hanging out in Pirate Alley which is heck far away from where I am now.

X3: Reunion is like crack to me

I am playing an old game released in 2006, its called X3: Reunion.

I am playing it like most people play WoW or Evercrack, since its the only game I am playing right now and I've played it for 2 weeks straight.

Most modern games don't hold my attention span for more than 3 days, but this game has a depth of gameplay to it that is just out of this world.

5 out of 5 easily, and I got it for 50 ringgit on Ebay! Compared to Shitgate that I bought for fullprice @ > 150 ringgit!