Mid weekend update!Follow

Tomorrow, The Man and I are headed to the other side of the island. I am taking an assessment test at the post office to try and snag a cushy government job. And we're going to laze on the beach the rest of the time.

Today, we bought a new futon mattress, which I am very excited about. I may get my first good night's sleep in this apartment tonight. :D

I was so confused by this post, because I had no clue tomorrow was President's Day. Don't get off for it, so my weekend isn't long. :(

Does anyone get President's Day off that doesn't work for the government?

Union peeps.

I'm off, for some reason. Or at least, I think I'm off. Now I'm second guessing myself. No, I'm pretty sure I'm off.

I'll find out otherwise if I get an angry call from my boss, I guess.

I wish that next weekend was the long one. I've got jack squat to do this weekend. Was trying to write a retort to this bit from David Jaffe, but it opened up too big a can of worms, so I tabled it for now. I'm reviewing Syndicate this coming week, and would have loved a long weekend to play it.

Between work, night classes, and MMA, I don't get home till around 10 each night. Gonna have to make some time to play for the review.

Edited, Feb 20th 2012 12:32am by Eske

That's a large portion of the problem. I'd find a point to harp on, then reread his speech and find that he contradicted himself just a few minutes later.

"Games are a terrible medium for telling stories..."

(Two paragraphs later)

"Now, I'm not saying that games shouldn't tell stories. I've played some games that tell some great stories."

Etc. etc. I think that I'm partly annoyed by the fact that I'm having to translate his own argument for him before I can even begin the rebuttal. Not a good way to start an editorial.

If you run it through some filters, it seems like you can distill his point down to saying that "if a designer's only goal at the onset of the design process is to tell linear narrative, then he should just write a book."

Dunno if I agree with that. I've been led to believe that the design process can be fluid and unpredictable from my arch. education. You can do your damndest to make something that achieves a particular goal, but have it succeed for entirely different ones, sometimes by no more than happy accident.

That's only one of the angles that I could take. Trying to sort out all the particulars got rather overwhelming. I feel like I could write volumes about this stuff, but it's all overkill for the hypothetical article. I'm having trouble focusing.

Probably best to let it marinate.

Edited, Feb 20th 2012 2:20am by Eske

At work here. A handful of our smaller clients are closed, but all the big ones are still open.

My mom was supposed to go down to Maryland to visit my ailing sister for the week, so my wife invited her brother up to the house for the week. Mom got sick the day she was supposed to leave. I got sick later that day. Jacob has a cold. Most everyone in the house is sick and miserable.

I have today off because the banks are closed and I keep bank hours.

Yeah, I could be completely off the mark. I assume he was more coherent in person, with inflections and so forth.

I tend to enjoy more open-ended games like Morrowind and Skyrim, both Elder Scrolls games. On the other hand, Dragon Age was one of the most replayable games I've ever had, and its story line was much more linear. The ending was ultimately predetermined, but the player still had a lot of input in how the story played out - there was going to be a ruler, no matter what; but you chose who that would be.

And the Thief line of stories were taken from an entire genre of books, arguably (as many games have been), and are among my favorites ever.

I played Skyrim!

31.

Apparently, according to wiki, the title of Maréchal de France is awarded as a distinction, rather than a rank. The marshals wear seven stars and carry a baton.

So congrats, I guess. Frenchie.

This would put you in the river, Inspector Javert.