Wednesday, December 16, 2015

The Game of Life: A Critical Review.

My wife thought this was funny. She printed it out and left it on our 19 year-old's gaming-computer keyboard.  

Here's what he wrote along the margin:

 NOT RECOMMENDED.
(19.5 years playing time on record)

The graphics are phenomenal, and the NPC AI is great, but the gameplay is awful. It's just a repetetive grind, and you're constantly getting dominated by the players that are better than you.  There is no save feature, and you only get one life, and since there is danger literally everywhere, this is not a good feature.  The only real way to succeed at this game is to be part of the "Rich Family" closed beta, which only a select few were able to get into.

2/10, would sell to GameStop.

Almost There!

Two months & many heartaches later...

Kitchen remodel is coming along - would have been done last month but one of the cabinets was damaged in shipping.  The dishwasher should have gone in yesterday but - guess what? Damaged in shipping.  That's right, most of you probably aren't aware of the "shipping orangutan", a low-level employee (no benefits) who's tossed into the trailer with a length of iron pipe just before the doors slam shut for its long-haul.  At least that seems to be accurate, based on the evidence.