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Nice, I spent the past 3 days on intensive gaming and watched lots of anime. I can better cope with Doom3 now. I suspect it’s the frame rates. When I reduced the quality and adjusted some settings for better performance, I could actually play the game for 6 hours straight and only feel a little uncomfortable.

Doom3 is no longer scary. I’m now able to dodge fireballs and go up close to the fire imps and finish them off with a click on my shotgun~ [XD] I only jump at some parts where the demons jump out suddenly, giving me a fright. I try to relax myself but my eyes keep opening wide while playing. The best thing I love about this game is it’s mixing satanic elements with futuristic technology.

I took a day off today to rest. Don’t feel well enough to work.

So today, I spent it finishing up the conversion of my blog to PHP, played a bit of Doom3.

Talking about Doom3, even though I had smooth framerates, I felt nauseous 10 minutes into the game. This happened to other games like HalfLife and Return to Castle Wolfenstein. And this sucks. [:(] I can’t enjoy FPS (first person shooter) games anymore. However, there’s an exception. So far I can cope well with CounterStrike. I don’t know the explanation for this…

Things are going a lot busier now with Doom3 installed on my machine. It requires a rather mean machine to run it at high quality settings and fortunately, my machine meets those requirements. [XD] . There are people who manage to run it on GeForce 2, getting 15-50FPS but at very low quality settings. So low it’s doing injustice to the game.

I got surprised and jumped at 2 scenes, when I open the door and the fire imp jumps right towards me. And another when I approached a control panel with a zombie soldier lying on it. That fuck woke up and started shooting at me.

Apart from the scary gameplay, Doom3 has it’s own revolutionary 3D engine that’s going to be the new standard in FPS gaming. The realistic lighting and impressive physics are the reason why there’s huge commotion in forums when the game got officially released, and it’s bittorrent having hundreds of seeders and went from hundreds of leechers to twenty thousands in just an hour.

Gahh… Right now I have a bit of fever coming up and a running nose. It’s just one of those usual sickness. If it gets worse, I might go see a doctor and get MC~

About time I tried something else and no more pretty females in my blog’s cover image.

Finally it’s Friday again. I feel so relieved. It’s been a tough week because of the hardware problems.

Nothing much to say now, I’ll be off to indulge myself in work to make time fly and then, it will be time to knock off and it’s another Friday evening to enjoy…

12.50pm: Skipping lunch again. The taste of coffee lingering in my mouth keeps my appetite away. I took a screenshot of my FinalFantasy 11 character last night, here’s my Frodo lookalike in an Onoko Yukata. There’s a Summerfest going on for 2 weeks in Vana’diel. From 6pm to 6am in Vana’diel time, Windurst and it’s outskirts have the background music replaced with a traditional Japanese festival music and fireworks can be heard and seen.

There’s also a special quest which requires a partner to participate. Upon completing it successfully, you get the Yukata! So I partnered with a friend and participated. The quests begins by transporting us to a faraway land that has very high level monsters. We were both seperated and have no maps. There, we had our equipment stripped, level reduced to 1, invisibility cast on us. The aim is to search the huge area for a hidden GoalPoint.

We didn’t know how to run this quest for the first time, so I had to logout and check up FF11 forums for more info, and we had a second try at it. Evasama found the GoalPoint in just 5 minutes. He happened to see someone remove the invisibility and teleported back. So I had to locate him, and we both got the quest items. Trade the quest items and give it to the moogle who then rewarded us with a Yukata each.

From shadowandy’s entry, I too get my fair share of FIRs.

The kind I encounter can be easily found in most forums, easily identified by their style of writing. A habit of theirs is not bothering to read other people’s text properly! [>(] And to make things worse, they misinterpret other people’s words. I’m gonna stop talking about this before anger takes over and I whack everyone in sight with this keyboard I’m mashing.

A month or 2 ago, I had dinner with a friend at Yoshinoya at Bugis Junction. They were playing some nice JPop songs at that time. I went to check out the counter and saw a picture of the album that they’re playing. Kokia was the singer.

Recently, one of her albums were available on the net. I downloaded a copy. And listened. It was good. Very good. Like Kotoko’s but with more optimism in most of her songs. As a matter of fact, I found most of Kotoko’s songs sad. But I still like her singing too. Like I said, I’m impressed with singers who write their own lyrics and music, which is what Kokia does. Or at least that’s what I found out on the net. I don’t know the words to describe how good Kokia is, but it’s good enough to make me add her albums into my shopping list. [XD]

Now, who said MP3s were evil? If the singer/band/whatever is really good, I WILL buy their CDs even though it means skipping a week of lunch.

With the launch of vPostJapan, I may consider buying CDs from Japan that can’t be fucking-found in Singapore~~~