tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88941279506536329082011-04-21T20:52:19.046+02:00Rantings and ravings of a mid-level nerdNegrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07595440490002664308noreply@blogger.comBlogger161100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894127950653632908.post-9698570998861827062007-08-08T19:54:00.000+02:002007-08-08T20:09:09.650+02:00

I do have a good reason for not having blogged a good while, I really do. I've been vacationing on and off since ate June. One of the perks of the job, you know... Too bad I'm not getting paid, though.Anyway, this is just a brief update to say I've finally gone through with it and bought my new PC rig. Yeah, I know I said I would hold out till DirectX 10 is really here but oh well. Call me

Negrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07595440490002664308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894127950653632908.post-74412837324472160442007-06-17T11:46:00.000+02:002007-06-17T12:48:24.676+02:00

No computers this time and no games. Just a few words about why I dig the British show Doctor Who. I'll go ahead and admit I had never heard about it except for the title itself until really quite recently. So perhaps ironically this over-40-year-old franchise is a new discovery for me. Naturally, though, I'm talking about the current, "modern" incarnation of the show, currently in season 3 in

Negrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07595440490002664308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894127950653632908.post-35968953435708073132007-06-16T23:44:00.001+02:002007-06-17T17:30:24.006+02:00

One question before we start. Does anyone know what the geeky, strictly non-gay equivalent of "cute" should be? Well I don't, but it would sure come in handy right now. Here's why.Just yesterday I received a package from my good long-time friend Lex Mortis from the Netherlands. He was getting rid of hardware from his old PC and was kind enough to send me some of the items, since sadly they turned

Negrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07595440490002664308noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894127950653632908.post-86434055650767858272007-06-07T11:21:00.000+02:002007-06-17T00:11:39.573+02:00

What? Four months? No way... Oh, wait.So here in short are just a few things I didn't write about on the blog over that period, in no particular order:6 months of playing Wii (with Mario Strikers Charged hitting my collection just last week)finally starting exploring GameCube capabilities (Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader being the first game I'm trying out)getting an R4DS flash cart for

Negrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07595440490002664308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894127950653632908.post-58758056785103056742007-02-08T17:38:00.000+02:002007-02-08T17:40:31.089+02:00

Old computers, right? Garrrgh... See, I just came back from my girlfriend's appartment, where I tried to work magic with her old desktop PC while she's at work. How old? Forty-something megs of RAM kind of old, that's how old. So why would anyone... and so on, right? After all she has the laptop. Yeah, about that. The laptop itself also isn't a new thing, to put it mildly. It's actually my mom's

Negrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07595440490002664308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894127950653632908.post-23807124987040406752007-02-07T14:29:00.001+02:002007-02-07T14:29:37.702+02:00

Every now and then comes a time when you have to reinstall your XP. Wish it wasn't the case -- and maybe some day I'll manage to protect myself from all sorts of crap and be careful enough not to stuff my system with junk to boot -- but the way things are now, it's not very surprising that sooner or later (luckily, it's usually later) it's necessary to finally wipe it all off. Now, obviously it's

Negrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07595440490002664308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894127950653632908.post-12256115337866616972007-01-22T14:10:00.000+02:002007-02-07T13:57:14.647+02:00

So I had the bright idea last night to start looking for new earbuds for my trusty Creative Zen Touch. After a good year and a bit of using the player, the pack-in earbuds (not that horribly bad themselves, incidentally) just started giving up on me. (By the way, don't even ask what made me think of my mp3 player's earbuds while sitting at my computer at night.) Still last night I did some

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So it seems I can't escape my fate, eh? Do I hate myself more just for not updating or for thus making this blog another one of the countless half-a-dozen-notes-before-it's-all-over blogs. Oh well. Actually I can sort of understand why I kept silent for most of November: I was way too much excited about counting days before the European Wii launch. But then came December 8, the big

Negrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07595440490002664308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894127950653632908.post-21229461361953135482006-11-11T19:34:00.000+02:002007-01-22T11:44:05.145+02:00

I'll keep it short and sweet this time round, since I still have a couple of pages to translate today before I can call it a day.Big Brain Academy arrived a couple of days ago and I've been having real good time with it since then, as it's just a damn fun app. Mentioned it to my mother in passing a few times, but only today I could actually show the thing to her properly and let her have a go at

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Perhaps I'm rushing things, but I might have just found a game that's too retarded to play. And I'm talking story, not gameplay. But let's take it one step at a time.A while ago my curiosity made me download the PC version of Onimusha 3. The thing had been idling on my hard drive (very much like many other games, I must say) until my latest gamepad purchase (a very sweet Logitech Dual Action with

Negrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07595440490002664308noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894127950653632908.post-84753849518885678202006-11-03T00:12:00.000+02:002006-11-03T11:14:39.121+02:00

Yes, I am holding my breath for the Wii. Never a console user till DS, I'm nonetheless excited about this thing. Some might say it's actually the reason I'm excited about it. Well I don't know. All I know is that December can't come soon enough. I'm aware that it's not gonna be the best thing since sliced bread -- and I even have to say I'm just a tad bit bothered by just how much behind the "

Negrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07595440490002664308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894127950653632908.post-69236754465716556302006-10-07T18:40:00.000+02:002007-01-22T11:41:13.366+02:00

Wow... I honestly had no idea as much as a month has passed since my last post. Time flies when you're having fun, I guess. Or time flies in general, too. The last few weeks, when I wasn't busy with more pressing issues, I've been busy trying to figure out what new TV shows I want to follow. Problem is, I can't seem to drop any of them yet, so right now I have a whopping 13 shows on my weekly

Negrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07595440490002664308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894127950653632908.post-78505158432410658662006-09-08T14:28:00.000+02:002006-09-08T14:32:26.648+02:00

No talk of gaming nostalgia this time, I promise. So now for something completely different: open-ended vs. linear.Why that? How do I come up with this crap, you ask? Well, yesterday I bought Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow in one of those cheapo classics editions. (Oh, hit games, barely 2-year-old, released for just over 6 euros, how I love thee.) Considering the price, I didn't think to much

Negrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07595440490002664308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894127950653632908.post-2296992022716945642006-08-31T13:39:00.000+02:002007-01-22T11:45:13.980+02:00

Well here's a new look at the whole nostalgia issue. Apparently there are two kinds of gaming nostalgia: "classic" and "modern," if you will. Might sound weird, but bear with me. Here's how I found out.The last two nights I played Quake co-op with my friend. Neither of us had played it in oh-so-long, and let me tell you, it was quite a surprise to look at the game again after all this time. Don't

Negrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07595440490002664308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894127950653632908.post-30054378345243421612006-08-29T17:07:00.000+02:002006-08-29T18:17:16.294+02:00

Let's get things straight: when it comes to old games, I'm as nostalgic as the next guy. The moment New Super Mario Bros. comes out, I go out of my way to get it as fast as I can. I'm a sucker for all things Mario, I'm a sucker for Pac Man, Space Invaders, all of that jazz. The thing is, I didn't use to play most of those games when I was a kid. You could say that's part of my class B status.

Negrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07595440490002664308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894127950653632908.post-13748816535520377742006-08-28T00:29:00.000+02:002007-01-22T11:39:37.449+02:00

Right then. It's finally happened and I'm now writing this blog. Granted, it's not like I'm losing my blogging virginity in here, but still, a new step is a new step. So, let the writing to a non-existent reader commence!Who am I and what's up with the blog name and everything? For starters, yes, I do take pride in being a geek, and that is I've been feeling the urge to start writing something

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