Special Honorable Mention for Best Pole Dance in an ED goes to High School DxD. I mean seriously, damn. The animators went all out on that even if the rest of the animation was… mediocre. I would love to have seen the research and modeling that went into making it work. Check it out over at Arodouc’s
I predict Steven’s not getting a lot of top rotation candidates from this one. Below-the-fold eye candy, maybe….
You’ve probably seen posts over at Steven’s or here talking about an all-book, no-ability build. But what about a minimum-book build, with lots of retorts? Since the number and level of spells you can get is determined by your books, locking oneself out of the higher spells can make the game rather challenging. Can the abilities make it up? This is on Hard level:
The answer is: I doubt it, but it’s working so far. I started with High Men, so I could have paladins. Alchemy is one of the best abilities, warlord gives my armies a huge edge, and then I picked Chaos Mastery and Archmage to make up a bit for the lack of spell power. Somehow, I never realized Archmage gives all the wizard’s units magic weapons automatically. Charismatic is supposed to keep the enemies off me, but it hasn’t worked out as well as I hoped.
I got lucky, not only did I have a fair-sized continent to myself, there was another small continent right next door, and I used Magic Spirits to overwhelm an orc town quickly. Add that I also took out a gnoll town early, and I’m off to a quick lead. I’m gaining an all new respect for the gnolls. They suck in the late game, but the Wolf Riders are cheap, powerful, and fast in the early going. Add Flame Blade and Eldritch weapon and these guys are quite respectable. And more importantly, numerous.
I’ve summoned only one Champion, and that’s DethStryke, who has the greatest ability over the long run: Armsmaster. So now that I’m producing paladins, I’m letting them sit until they become elite, then moving them out. I’d like to wait on ultra-elite, but I just don’t have the luxury. I’m at war with everyone, but they’re not attacking aggressively due to the need for a navy. This will change as they get air units, so I am getting the orcs set up to produce flying creatures. Meanwhile, my Wolf Riders and Paladins are all moving into Myrror, as that’s where my hottest war is. I popped out of a tower close to Ssra’s fortress, and managed to take it with a stack of Wolf Riders. He’s already managed the Spell of Return while I was trying to consolidate my holdings, but I think I’ve got the upper hand. If I can conquer him, this game’s probably mine for the taking. If it takes too long though, the others will overpower me with high-end spells.
Personal Note: due to events, my blogging time may be seriously limited for the next several weeks, so I may not be able to update you on the progress of this game. Or anything else. Sorry all.
..than a Fate/Zero series, I just did my part to support the more reasonable members of the Japanese Anime-Dan. Delivered today were three series:
Tenchy Muyo GXP: This is a favorite of mine — I saw it borrowed from Dr. Heinous and wanted my own copy to go back and watch my favorite parts, or just Amane vamping Seina. Wait, that might hve been redundant.
Xam’d: I’ve heard good things about this series. I’ve heard bad things about this series. It was reduced for closeout, and now I’ll see for myself.
Elfen Lied: Because it’s Elfen Lied, dammit. Do I really need a better reason? No? I didn’t think so.
You’ll note however, there is not one obligation buy in this order. I suppose I’ll have to fix that next time, but this was sort of an impulse buy; a Christmas present to myself. Yay me, Merry Late Christmas.
And now, the awards that were just not quite bad enough to be in the Worst list.
10. Worst Business/Marketing Decision: Fate/Zero, $350. ‘Nuff said.
9. Worst Angstfest: Be serious. Shanna F has to get this. Once again, what could have been a great horror series is nothing but a horror-flavored romangst show. I am going to have to rename this as “The “Shana” Award” in future years, it’s that bad.
8. Worst “Should Have Been Hentai: Award: Usually, I give this award to a show that is adapted from a hentai dating sim. Or R-15. Not this time, no sir. Maken-ki takes this one in a cakewalk. With source material this weak, and more T&A than you can shake a six-inch pole at, what was the point anyway? Showing yet another looozar male among tons of beauties? Who cares? Let’s see those milk jugs bouncing in a reverse cowgirl! NSFW: ( Such a sensless waste...of panties.!
7.Worst Should Have Been Was Hentai: HenZemi, the show that did more to put the ‘R’ in Raunchy than any show since High School Girls Poor R-15, dissed again.
6. Worst Concept Description: Pretty Sunshine Brawlers ZEXAL 4D “One day, a regular girl finds a magical pet that transforms her into a singing top, and now she must collect all the cards to battle against the alien invaders who have come to Earth to steal the world’s rhythm.” Can’t…stop…laughing…ack! Sorry Hidan no Aria, you got whupped, but don’t worry, the next one’s all yours.
5. (Timeline A) Worst Technological Gizmo Steins; Gate, for proving that attaching a cell-phone to a microwave creates a time-machine. Wait, I thought Hidan no Aria was next?
5. (Timeline B) Most Absurd Show: Chicks that are all the descendants of famous historical or fictional figures. Sedgeways with Uzis — and unlimited ammo. Speed x 3. Stewardess uniforms that double as parachutes. Para-sails that can climb or hover indefinitely. What else? Hidan no Aria.
4. (Timeline A) Worst Sequel to Revolutionary Girl Utena: Manwaru Penguindrum, of course. Also gets the “Worst Mind Screw” award. Just because.
4. (Timeline B) Worst Schlockfest Highschool of the Dead. Seriously, Freezing made a play for the title with all the blood n’ tits, but how the hell can you beat zombies and sex for this award? Ain’t happenin’! The bullet-caressing tits were just icing on the cake. I’d call it a scene you just have to see… but it’s not. Really.
3 . (Timeline A) Worst Harem: Infinite Stratos, for having two childhood friends, a loon, three tsunderes (at least one of whom converts to dere-dere), and a reverse trap. Oh, and a male lead who is totally oblivious to the fact that all of them are chasing him, and the only female he seems to notice is his older sister. Even though he rooms with two of the harem at different times, and one turns up naked in his bed, he never even seems to notice them. Neutronium — it’s what’s for dinner.
3. (Timeline B) Worst Harem: Maken-Ki, for having all three haremettes living in the same tiny dorm suite with the protagonist, and having less hanky-panky go on than in the average church. I mean, damn, they’re all there to cockblock each other, but you’d think there would be some time for a little grab-ass and spooning at some point, right?
2. (Timeline A) Worst Gender Confusion: Three-way tie: characters from Baka to Test, Maria+Holic Alive, and Steins; Gate. I should probably give the latter the edge, since he actually did become a girl for a while. But each of the other two have female twins, so it’s never quite certain whether or not you need to pull an Admiral Ackbar to warn your friends.
2. (Timeline B) Worst Abuse of Punctuation: And Steins;Gate beats out Maria+Holic, since a + sign is a mathematical operand, not punctuation, per se.
1. (Timeline A) Worst Technological Gizmo Steins;Gate, for proving that attaching a cell-phone to a microwave creates a time-machine. Wait, why do I have a feeling of deja vu?
1. (Timeline B) Worst Refrigerator Moment In the last episode of Steins;Gate, it is established that absolutely nothing can be changed from what was observed in the first episode. And yet stopping WWIII depends on something being changed – specifically, substitution of the plastic toy for the metal one, so the package will remain in the cargo hold and be burned before landing.
El! Psy! Congeroo! Muahahahahhahhaahaha!
(And for those of you who are wondering, Rio didn’t make it in either list because it would break my brain to even contemplate that show enough to give it an award. That’s how bad it was.)
Here it is once again, my annual attempt to prove I have a sense of humor by bagging on bad anime. You know, just because I can. For those of you who need reminding, the rules are this: these are my opinions and mine alone; if you don’t share them, then so be it. I do this because I like snarking, not because I have any pretensions to being a professional anime reviewer. Another thing to keep in mind is that the ranking, or even appearance in this list (and the Honorable Mentions, when I do those) has nothing to do with how much (or if) I enjoyed the series. Sometimes, I pick on a series just because some aspect of it deserved picking on, even if the series overall was one I watched regularly. And this is a year in which a lot of anime deserved picking on. The “Worst Concept” category was insanely competitive, but I had to really work for candidates in the “Worst Pacing” and “Worst Direction” categories. Either I’m getting pickier about what I watch, or the overall skill level of the studios is getting better, even as the source material gets worse.
This was “The Year of the Light Novel.” While it’s been more and more popular to adapt light novels over the last few years, this is the one in which just about every anime series was adapted from a light novel series. The notable exceptions, such as Guilty Cross and Fractale, only served to remind us why that is. I grant you, not every original series can be a Puella Magi Magical Madoka, but at least most can tell a coherent story from start to finish. The major problem with light novels is that they rarely sustain more than a three-episode arc at best. Stretch it and you end up with a bore-fest like Shana. Compress it and you lose so much of what makes it good, like Ichiban no Uchiro Daimou. This means that any adaptation, be it 12 or 24 episodes, tends to be rather acoherent and of uneven quality, where weaker stories got used. That’s not to say an original 26-episode series will have an even level of storytelling — there’s always the “teen slump” wherein time has to be killed because there wasn’t quite enough material to run the full two cour. But at least it’s an obvious time-killer in which nothing is supposed to happen (episodes 13-17 of Railgun, I’m lookin’ at you), not a terribly sub-par story that doesn’t fit, shoehorned into the middle of stronger segments. (Helmijistan arc from Full Metal Panic, anyone?)
This year is a little different; with the problems of my computer system and loss of about 3/4 of my library to computer woes, I can’t go back and get as many screenshots as I’d like, nor can I check my recollections. I’m writing this only the day after getting my system back up with XP, and don’t even have viewers and such installed yet. So this is going to be text-heavy as it will be several more days before I’m fully up and running.
In case you’re interested, or just feel like inflicting pain upon yourself, here are past entries in the series:
Worst of 2010 No Honorable Mentions in 2010
There was no Worst of 2009 — It was that bad.
Worst of 2008 Honorable Mentions
Worst of 2007 Honorable Mentions
Worst of 2006 Honorable Mentions
And now, without further ado, the Worst of 2011.
10. Worst Sequel Award: While Squid Girl tried – it really did – the major problem that it had wasn’t that it was a bad sequel, it was that it was a bad show to start with. A concept ripped off from Kerou Gunso, only the stupid squid girl invader gets (effectively) enslaved. I don’t like that sort of psycho torture, so it was always on my “hell no” list. Then there was Shana III, or F. Oy. It deserved the prize for Shana II, but that was last year. Instead, I’ve got to go with Baka to Test 2, given that while the first show was occasionally funny, it seemed to forget that the plot (such as it was) involved the pathetic class F trying to climb the ranks and take class A’s room away from them. The second show dispensed with any semblance of a plot, starting with a three-episode beach arc. That’s right, not one episode, an entire arc. Which wasn’t even that funny.
9. Worst Train Wreck / Spaghetti Bowl of a Plot: Gosick. Another set of light novel adaptations, and despite all the weaknesses that implies, a strong middle-series set of arcs was wasted by a bizarre and barely coherent ending arc, in which four years of WWII were compressed into thirty minutes — and it happened in the 1920’s. This leaves aside the whole multiple back-stories, miracle substitutions, convoluted history, occultism, convenient appearance and disappearance of characters, and truly terrible mysteries that anyone with half a brain could have solved.
8. Worst “You got Your Plot in My Fanservice” Award: So.. Maken-ki. H.O.T.D. or Infinite Stratos? Maken-ki gets the award. Not that it had much of a plot, which really should have disqualified it, but I had to give this one to something, and H.O.T.D. just couldn’t carry the concept of “plot” anywhere. “Let’s survive the zombie apocalypse!” isn’t a plot, it’s a scenario. And both of them had more plot than Infinite Stratos ever dreamed of having.
7. Worst Concept: What a competitive category this year! Horizon on the Middle of Nowhere made a strong bid for this one. In the end, I think it was less the concept than it was the explanation of a setup so complex as to defy anime explanations, and a really, really bad first half of the series — especially the atypical, idiotic first episode. Then there was Ben-to — recreational rioting for cheap eats. Problem was, it was actually funny for a while, until it started trying to develop a plot — and fall miserably into incest twin hijinks, yuri stalker hijinks, and…. oh, never mind. Guilty Cross gets DQ’d for this award, because, frankly, it didn’t have a concept, just a huge pile of tropes and stupid people all around. Moshidora, aka What If a Female Manager of a High School Baseball Team Read Drucker’s “Management”? Whaaaaaa? Then there was Astalottes Toy. Semen-drinking succubus…age 10. Ewwwww, I said worst, not “most disgusting child porn” concept. And Qwasar no Stigmata had a sequel too, but hey, since they ramped up the sex and toned down the violence in the first series… I mean, fueling heroics with breast milk? Schwing! What’s bad about that? So, yes, Oppaidaisuki aka Tale of the Secret Blade of Witch’s Milk gets to walk, er, jiggle off with the prize. I mean, seriously… women being valued based on the size of their mammaries? Never happen.
6. Worst Pacing: A Dark Rabbit has Seven Lives. Or was it nine? I lost track. Dark Rabbit seemed to introduce antagonists almost at random, dispense with them too quickly, and then drag out the most mundane, time-wasting nonsense. The onsen episode was bad enough; the two-episode “beach training camp” was worse.
5. Worst “Was There a Point to This Show?” Award: Dantalian No Shaka… also a serious contender for “Worst Disappointment.” A haunting OP and terrific visuals give way to a show that ultimately goes nowhere, and spends its last few episodes tossing in new mysteries, even to the point of wasting an entire episode on two characters never before seen (and only once afterwards). Not explaining Huey’s connection to the librarian was also pretty cheesy. I’d say something about a protagonist that wins battles by reading books, but I actually kind of liked that aspect; it beat the hell out of missile spam.
4. Worst Disappointment As noted, Dantalian no Shaka was a contender. So was Fractale, but in its case, I was half-expecting it to be a disappointment; it makes the list mainly because, for a brief moment around episode 4, I thought it was going to be something good. Then there was YuriYuri, which should have been titled TeaseTease due to lack of explicit yuri. No, the prize has to go to Gosick. Besides a title I never quite got, it was replete with mysteries that weren’t, drama that wasn’t, and suspense that was more tedium than tense. And that was just the first five episodes. This show kept throwing up impossible, illogical and inexplicable events and settings, such as the seaside convent built below sea level behind a series of dikes, with gates that could have no other purpose than to let water in to flood the place….An academy that might as well have had three students for all that any others ever mattered….and not one but two bizarre backstories. The flavor felt wrong at times too, mixing science and mysticism in ways that were more suitable to the Victorian world rather than the post-Great War one the story was set in. But the worst failure of the story has to be reserved for the male protagonist, who seemed to have only three functions: serving as a target for Victorique’s abuse (and later, poorly expressed affection), being the target of the inspector’s expository rambles, and screaming “VICTORIQUE!!!” at the top of his lungs. I submit that a well-trained parrot could have performed all these functions just as gallantly as “the third son of an Imperial soldier.” Which, as Kujo (“Arf! Arf! I’m a devil dog!”) later admitted, meant nothing at all.
3. Worst Animation (of An Unripe Cantaloupe or Otherwise). Viewer’s choice award — post your selection in the comments. Due to the loss of so many series, I can’t do an honest job of reviewing everything I saw earlier this year. Not that I ever do, but I like to refresh my memory, at least. (If I have to pick blind, I’ll pick Freezing).
2. Worst Direction: A Dark Rabbit has Seven Lives Where to begin? Where to end? Maybe its problems were really with the source material? I’d have considered it for Worst Concept, but I don’t think this show had a concept. Like Guilty Crown, it was a random collection of tropes tossed together. And of course, a vampire that never sucks blood, but creates a zombie out of some kid she just met. And then spends nine years sealed in an alternate dimension, yet has no problem joining high-school and keeping up with the lessons. And rules that keep changing as to where/when she’s safe from her enemies. And the guy gets a power-up that doesn’t do anything. And training that doesn’t seem to help. Annoying secondary characters and a technicolor-haired lead female round out the cast beside a cardboard protagonist whose primary battle tactic is to charge ahead and die repeatedly until he someone else wins. (Prize bit of wisdom from the SSB: “If you die, you lose the game, right? So doesn’t that mean everyone in Rift lost the game before it began?”)
1. Worst Show of 2011: Now this was a competitive category. I was tempted to hand it to Dark Rabbit, but how can I give such an award to an anime that never had any pretensions of being anything other than light entertainment in the first place? There was Dantalian no Shaka‘s incoherent non-ending. Bad, but not enough. And I just can’t give the award to H.O.T.D..; it wanted to be a B-grade schlocky series, and it succeeded wonderfully. And by ‘wonderfully,’ I mean terribly. Then there was Hidan no Aria, a very strong contender, which ramped absurdity up to, well absurd levels. But again, it never took itself seriously. Maken-ki? Oh, so deserving, but again, it wasn’t pretentious enough. Fractale? Pretentiousness to spare and I don’t like the director. (Is ‘pretentiousness’ a word? Whatever.) But it lacked that certain something… No, I’ve got to give the “Worst Show” award to the far more pretentious and deserving Gosick, a show in which any random woman can be hired to be the queen for ten years but prophet figureheads have to bred in accordance with prophecy, dismembered heads can be kept perfectly for a decade, tiny girls weighing 50 pounds (soaking wet) can pull a teen boy up a cliff, two people can aim a pistol better than one, governments have a “Ministry of the Occult”, little girls can be Sherlock Holmes, and police detectives can’t see what’s right in front of them. Well OK, maybe the bit with the cliff….
And onward we go, for the Honorable Mentions shall follow later this evening…
I mean, seriously, dammit.
So I decided that the easiest solution was to just say the hell with Win 7. Between the bad memory causing Hearts of Iron 3 to crash constantly and not being able to see Misaki necessitating a tedious workaround, I figured screw it, let’s just roll back to XP; I’ll wait for the new computer to use Win 7, and the bad memory won’t be visible to XP. (I thought I had it when I noticed one of the sticks wasn’t firmly seated, and fixed that. No luck, though.) And by roll back, I mean “re-install”. If only life were so simple…
So I whipped out the disks (plural) and went to it. Plural, because my copy of XP is an upgrade, and I have to put in an older version first to validate that yes, I can install it. Of course, I long ago discarded all the older cd’s in a fit of random orderliness. Or a random fit of orderliness. Whatever. Fortunately, I found an emergency backup disk for a computer I no longer own. I found it in the trash, that is, as I had not an hour before, decided to throw it away. So I got it back, and went to work. To make sure I had a clean drive with no prior OS in the way, I deleted the C: drive’s partition and recreated it, then went to format the new partition.
Error, unable to format drive. Drive may be faulty.
Errrrrrwhat? Retry for quick format. Same result. I had no problems before — during my screwing up by the numbers, I had already loaded Win7, deleted it, reloaded XP, deleted it, and reloaded Win7. So WTF? Ok, lets test this crap… I grabbed Win7 and started to reinstall it. No problems, it was able to format the drive, so I pulled the Win7 disc at that point and I went back to it with XP. Just for giggles, I tried again, and it still couldn’t format the drive. So, ok the hell with it, I told it to install, and it merrily went ahead and did so.
Until it got to 8%, that is, and claimed it couldn’t read one of the files. Hennnnnhwhatnow? I pulled the CD and look at it closely, then polish a few spots off. No good. I look at it really closely, this time with my glasses. Dozens of tiny scratches on the bottom. Apparently during the back and forth, I’d gotten careless. Wonderful. Just effing wonderful. I told it to go ahead and skip the file. And then it hit another one it couldn’t read, and a third, and a fourth. It should come as no surprise that the install failed.
Fine, wonderful, I go back to Win 7, at least it isn’t scratched up. And then it fails to install.
HolywhatthefuckisgoingonhereBatman? Seriously. W? T? F?
Ohhhhhhhhhhkaaaaaaaaaaaaay then. I use my D: drive for the boot, and install XP there. Absolutely No Problem. The disc is fine, so my drive C: may really be fubared after all. So D:, here I come, except that apparently it’s got an old installation on it (where did that come from?), so now the system thinks I’m dual booting again and stops for a bit on the selection menu. Every single time I boot. Sigh. So I grabbed the disc with the motherboard drivers, and it does its number, but for some reason, the sound chip isn’t satisfied, and even though I have sound, it keeps demanding drivers, and XP’s “Found New Hardware” wizard keeps triggering. I finally got that shut off, and re-downloaded the video drivers. However, they must be the wrong revision, as dualview refuses to work. Oh come on, I haven’t had a single video problem with any of the other installations, but now this goes haywire?
Oh well, at least I’ve got connectivity with Misaki again.
Except….. I don’t for some reason. The LAN drivers are all loaded, and I can use the internet, but I can’t see any computer on the local network but my own. /headdesk
I go sort Magic: The Gathering cards for about 30 minutes.
So finally I start to download some of my games from Steam, and also Rift from TRION. Which I didn’t really want, but since I got 3 free days thanks to TRION getting hacked, and the thieves getting about half my credit card number, my birthdate, and the expiration date of the card, I figured what the hell. I mean really 3 free days of game time and a bonus to my coin loot is just an amazing apology for potentially totally fucking up my credit rating, don’tcha think? This is why I always check off the option to save my credit card information on the seller’s server, but when it’s an MMORPG, they don’t even give you that option so they can auto-renew. Bastards. Convenience has a price.
Of course, Rift’s installer promptly fails, because I haven’t updated XP with all the patches yet. Fine, fine, OK, I’ll INSTALL THE DAMN PATCHES ALREADY!!! And not only does that work, it also fixes the network problem and I can see Misaki now. Oh, yay, something finally works. I could just sh*t, I’m so damn happy. Still no dualview on my other monitor, but I might have downloaded the wrong driver… maybe I have revision 2? Must have guessed right last time, would have been nice if I’d saved it…. somewhere besides the C: drive. Which, by the way, still has a partial installation on it that I can’t remove, as does D:.
Fuck it, the damn thing works and I can start emptying hard drives on Misaki to make more room. I’ll declare victory, and never touch any piece of technology more complicated than a calculator again. Four-function, at that. I have NOT been having a good time with electronics lately.
UPDATE: And the problem with the dualview is that I had dislodged the cable when I pulled the computer out to get a look at the motherboard and graphics cards, so I’d get the right drivers. Heh. Where’s my calculator?
Well, since it’s not unusual for me to not post around here for four to five days at a time (or longer) I doubt anyone’s been worried about my absence, especially with the holiday season. And there’s no reason for you to be worried, I’m fine. Lyar, my computer, on the other hand, is feeling a bit put out, and I’m pretty unhappy about it.
Seems I was chilling on Mangafox and I accidentally clicked on an ad — I think it was for Nissan cars. That alone should have hit alarm bells, but the McAfee popup really should have alerted me. But no, it was late, I was bleary-eyed, should have been in bed, and generally not at my most alert. And I’m used to McAfee putting annoyware messages on the screen. (Apparently I installed some of their crap with a browser add-on a while back). So I blew it off without reading it.
A few minutes later, the system starts acting cranky, and I get a Windows pop-up alerting me to a problem on one of the drives. Really bleary-eyed, really not alert. So I start looking for a scandisk utility. “Hmm, that’s odd, I don’t remember that directory of tools being empty; let’s check the next one…. Oh, here’s this handy ‘Fixdisk’ utility…”
I think you can see where this is going. When it started telling my my memory was bad too, I got suspicious. (The irony is, it appears to have been correct about that.) At least I was no longer bleary eyed and half-asleep; rage has a way of fixing those problems.
Between the malware going after the file allocation tables, and my ham-fisted attempts to recover them once I realized I’d been had, I managed to fubar EVERY single drive beyond recovery. Almost. I picked up a utility that was able to recover one of the drives, so I got my music collection back, but beyond that, I lost EVERY file on every other drive, because I didn’t leave bad enough alone before Dr. Heinous talked me into risking it.
All the downloaded anime.
All my games/saved games.
All my screenshots.
All my .mkv viewers and 10p codecs.
All my files involving various creative endeavors over the years, including 50,000 words of a novel I started and never finished (and the 6,000 pages of background and outline), plus about 10,000 on a second one.
All my backups. It didn’t matter that I’d backed them up across multiple drives; they weren’t raid formatted or backed up on multiple computers. The only bright side is that some of the recent stuff survived on Misaki, as I do the bittorrenting on it, and then transfer to Lyar. And of course, I later delete it from Misaki, because it’s got such a small drive. So nowhere near the full 1TB I had downloaded; maybe 10% of that.
So after I got what I could out of the C: drive (damn near nothing), I installed Win 7. But then I decided, no, I’d go back and install XP and try one more time to recover the files. But not only did it not work, somehow it seemed to reactivate the malware (I hadn’t formatted, hoping Win 7 would be able to recover the files). So I gave up and reinstalled Win 7, only now I’ve got a fubared drive that thinks it has two installations for dual booting, and I’m going to lose everything I reinstalled. I said “ham-fisted” didn’t I?
The brass lining (not quite good enough to qualify as silver) is that a lot of the games can be re-downloaded from Steam, GOG, and GG, or their publishers. Of course, that means I’ll be downloading several hundred gigabytes over the next few weeks. And I have to re-format the C: drive and reinstall Win 7 again.
But the dark cloud to that brass lining is that now that I have a 64-bit OS installed, I’m using all 8 GB of my RAM, and one of the chips appears to be bad, as I’m getting random crashes during high memory usage. I may try to swap it around and see if that helps.
Merry f’king Xmas to you too.
