Yes, Friday is here at last, and the good news is: Â someone is getting married to a person! Not only that, but big DC, the President of the Great British Kingdom has given everyone permission to have street parties. Cheers Dave, you really are a brick. I’ll probably be busy this time but next time someone gets married to a person, I’ll make sure I’m drunk in the middle of the road and waving flags at people. Â Even as I write this very sentence, I’m unsure if a more relevant topic for this post is ‘Great British Games’ or ‘Best Weddings in Games’, the former is more of an interesting debate point, but the latter is a great opportunity to discuss Fallout 2. I probably would watch the Royal Wedding if it had anything in common with my character’s Fallout 2 wedding, but somehow I doubt drunk priests, shotgun-wielding inbred lunatics and years of spousal prostitution will… hold on…actually, come to think of it there are more similarities than I first thought.
For the record, my favourite British-made game is probably Magic Carpet. I keep meaning to pick that up for the PSP from the PSN store, but, uh, maybe next week, once I’ve finished cancelling all my credit cards and changing all my passwords.
The other exciting news is that my stupid laptop has finally stupided itself into a coma, so the inevitable replacement has been ordered. To save on cost and avoid giving Microsoft any more money than they deserve, I’ve opted for a laptop that comes with Ubuntu instead of Windows. So that’s it then, I’m using Linux. I didn’t think there was much more nerd to discover within me, but apparently there’s more where that came from. I thought I’d hit the pinnacle of nerd-dom that time I constructed a remote-controlled robot buddy to help me steal my propeller hat back from Mr. Belding’s office, but nope, it was Linux that tipped me over the line. If anyone knows any decent cheap/free games I can install on it and play without a mouse, let me know. If nothing turns up, I can always resort to Heavy Rain on YouTube, consider it a tribute to the weather for the big wedding.
Okay, I have to stop now. I’m writing this on the old stupid laptop and it’s flashing the 2% battery warning at me. Seeing as how this battery will no longer charge, and I’m not buying yet another new one, I guess this is it. The end of a laptop, and the end of this post. It’s been a fun five years (that’s referring mostly the the laptop, I haven’t been writing this for five years). Ooh, this is a bit like a computer game having to type really fast before it all dies on me. I’ll join you in the comments thread for your favourite British gaming triumphs, assuming I get the new machine on time.
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5 responses to “It’s Friday – British flags everywhere but I’ll be wrestling with Linux”
Beautifully sarcastic post, from Sony, to Microsoft, to the British royal family. Man, simply beautiful.
Games on linux? I almost lol'd even harder than if you'd said games on Mac, but then I remembered the good times playing Heavy Gear II on my Linux box and Eve Online, although I think they've dropped support for Linux now (and their support was basically an installer for the game and WINE wrappers that let you run windows programs. So look to wine and just run windows games.)
It's interesting that you mention marriage too. Many people this evening were asking me what I thought of the wedding. Now I know I was drunk on Thursday (at least I'm going to assume I was; having woken up fully clothed and sort-of-aimed at the bed) but I'm pretty sure I wasn't pissed enough to tie the knot with anyone.
Lastly: Fuck yeah Magic Carpet.
I might look into DOSbox, but it's important to bear in mind that without very slow help files written for children, I fail and burn when attempting to set this kind of stuff up.
Dylan, you may be interested in this: http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/gog_games_tha…
There's stuff on Steam that is Linux-ready too.
"actually, come to think of it there are more similarities than I first thought." Brilliant!
Surely Heavy Rain on Youtube would be pretty much the same as playing the darn thing.think of it there are more similarities than I first thought." Brilliant!
Good luck with Ubuntu gaming. No, I mean that. Good luck.