i'm going to pax next year
11:59 AM hell or highwater
Marty: Niceeeeee!
I like your moxy
Bring me?
me: you're always welcome on my trips to nerd meccaas
meccas
Marty: That means a lot
Hey, funny story
I wanted to text you last night, but thought it would be weird
12:00 PM me: how so?
you text me all the time
Marty: It was hard to describe over text
Anyways
me: o...k...?
Marty:
I was playing Mass Effect 2 on insanity last night. If you know
anything about insanity, you know Horizon is pretty much the worst
gaming experience ever
(apart from later sequences)
12:01 PM So after a couple hours, and one exploit, I finally beat it just as my wife was coming home from her shift
I swear to god, I honestly had flashes of health bars for the rest of the night
me: mwahahaha
Marty: Not, like, "thinking about them", but I would turn my head and see a health car for, like, a microsecond
I was actually concerned
12:02 PM I've never had that happen
me: is this kinda like the Tetris Effect?
Marty: I think so
me: i used to sort of have that with street fighter combos when SF4 came out
Marty: hahaha
Weird, right?
12:03 PM me: i couldn't sleep because i was constantly thinking "LOW FORWARD TO FIREBALL"
yes
weird and annoying
Marty: I was really proud of my accomplishment though
me: yeah, now you're a man
12:04 PM Marty: I think BioWare didn't plan its game based on insanity, so there's parts that are next to impossible
Coupled with the fact Shepard just decides to stand up at random from cover, it's a real bitch
me: i think a lot of developers are like that
balancing different difficulty settings is still kind of a foreign concept
12:05 PM it's not as easy as "give the bad guys more HP and more damage capability"
Marty: Agreed...and it seems very artificial...like "just give them more shields and take away health"
hahaha
me: i remember discussions like this came up around the time that Torchlight came out
12:06 PM it was kind of an easy game so people were playing it on harder settings
the devs noticed this and brought up difficulty balancing in a few interviews
that i can't possibly cite for you right now
Marty: I want notations!
Sources!
12:07 PM me: trust my encyclopedic knowledge
or faith
or whatever
anyway, i have a different problem
Marty: Which is?
me:
xenoblade comes out today, but now that i'm a dude with a wife and a
8-5, i'm now thinking there are problems with games that come out on
fridays
12:08 PM Marty: Hold up, you're working today?
Don't you guys get Easter off?
me: i'm going to leave here and probably go to the gym. but even if i didn't, i'm picking up the game on my way home
yep. church and state, man
i work for a public institution
Marty: So you do....or don't
me: oh i'm working
12:09 PM Marty: Effing heathens
me: or i'd be playing the game right now
Marty: Everything is closed here
That is a dilemma
me: anyway
Marty: You'll have plenty of time to play when the rapture comes and you are left behind, though
me: i'm going to grab it just
wow
got me there, kirk cameron
Marty: hahahahaha
Please don't
12:10 PM Tell me how that game is
I'm itching to use my Wii
me: ANYWAY
the problem is that i can't even play it today
i'll get it, go home, and my wife will immediately expect that i get in the shower and we go get dinner
which is fine, i'm not complaining
12:11 PM but usually with dinner comes a few drinks. then we come home and watch tv or a movie
then i'm too tired to care and go to bed
Marty: Whoa whoa "get in the shower"
You live a troubled life
me: i'm coming from the gym
imagine that i have the stankies
Marty: So you have all weekend
me: easter
12:12 PM i have to go to her grandmother's place!
Marty: Ack
me: SHE'S 9-EFFING-7
Marty: That's crazy
me: yeah
Marty: She won't know if you are playing Wii
Just say its how you celebrate Easter
me: ha
so you're saying that ___ is shut down for the day, too?
Marty: No, they work too
12:13 PM I'm in disbelief with you US folks
I got up early to do ___ stuff, cause I'm headed out for an NHL 2012 tournament at my buddy's house
Everyone else in Canada has the day off, so we're making it a boys day
me: sorry that we don't live in your puritan canadian utopia
12:14 PM Marty: Free Health Care, open values, AND more holidays
me: open valuse?
*values?
Marty: err...less "beating of gays and minorities"
me: is it still the swingin' 60s up there?
Marty: Dude, we're home of the gay parade
And yes, many orgies
12:15 PM me: there are quite a few gay parades here, i'll have you know
stupid
trivia: the town that i live in was the answer to an original trivial
pursuit question about the largest gay population in the US outside of
san fran
Marty: True dat. Which is good (honestly). I'm confounded by people who just can't let people enjoy life on their own terms
hahahaha I think you told me that
Very interesting
12:16 PM me:
i find it ironic that you are living in a country that gives everyone
off on the highest of high christian holidays but is much more tolerable
to gay rights
is gay marriage a-ok up there, too?
Marty: Absolutely
12:17 PM me: wow
utopian indeed
Marty: I mean, look, there's still push back, but we're like a progressive sitcom up here
If you DON'T have a gay friend, you aren't cool
me: well, you're certainly easy to laugh at if that's what you're saying
Marty: ...
me: LAY UP
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