Kipworld

Friday, I went to get my last check from MacU (turns out he still owes me a bit more) and then I tried to cut across town to see Khai and his best friend Jenny, who was in town for the weekend. So that we don’t confuse roommate Jenny and visiting Jenny, I could apply the old standard Yenny and Wenny (yellow Jenny vs white Jenny) but that’s probably really offensive. how about New Jenny and Old Jenny? Still confusing. Is that old w/ respect to their relative ages? Or to our knowing them? (the latter, but how would you know?) I guess roommate Jenny and visiting Jenny work.

So anyway, I was going to meet them on Michigan Ave but Scott warned me that the loop was insane w/ traffic and I’d want to avoid it to preserve any holly jolly seasonal feelings in me so instead I decided to meet them at the Lakeview Borders, near where Khai’s mom lives.

I got there much earlier than they and I sat at Starbucks reading the Corrections (I would have gone to the Border’s to read but I felt weird reading an owned book there). They came and we drove out to MicroCenter so that Khai could buy some DVD-R’s. I picked up some PC games, of the 1999 vintage (that saucy time when game developers were just starting to require 3d cards and letting their hair down, gamewise). Prince of Persia 3D and Slave Zero. An average of 6$ each. Yeah.

We also saw some monks shopping there. I’m not even kidding. Robes and everything, pricing video games and digital cameras. I wish I’d had my own digital camera to capture that.

Visiting Jenny was hungry so we took in a Super Fast Burrito at Fast Super Burritos (after circling for parking, grr, hate parking in the city) and then went back to Khai’s to sit. Kuwie called and we invited him to dinner at the place (Khai’s mom was making seafood noodles when she got off work at nine). So he drove down, we tried to park him, but no, had to settle for the parking garage.

Watched Monster’s Ball. None of us really liked it and we were all sort of uncomfortable during Halle Berry’s sex scene. Cracked jokes about Billy Bob.

Dinner was excellent. Mmmm, crab, scallops, shrimp (double portion since Kuwie gave me his shrimp) and we sat around full afterward. Then we headed up to Evanston for an uncrowded bar.

It was a nice night, with just a bit of everything.

Slave Zero wouldn’t even run on my machine. Prince of Persia fared better (max res is 1024 x 768) although I had to get an FAQ to figure out how to get out of the water (felt guilty, haven’t looked at it since) but I returned to Milwaukee today so I’ll have to wait to play more of it.

I had a point here. Can’t really think of the words for it though. It’s like these developers tried really hard and put a lot of themselves into these games that launched and were bought or not bought and now they’re clearance items and they don’t even run and why should they? I mean Windows 2000 wasn’t even out then but maybe it should still work, I mean that’s the whole point of this whole PC thing (besides me getting to walk into MicroCenter and pick something off the shelf and think that it should at least nominally work and I just wanted to play this giant robot game smash smash). The point is that the stuff shoudl all be backwards compatible but in the end all this stuff I do and write (not games) one day won’t work when technology has progressed onwards and whose fault is that? I wrote to infogrames asking if Slave Zero would work with Win2k, with a Geforce 2 (which wasn’t around back in 1999, the TNT was considered the new scrappy competitor to the 3dfx giant and look at them now.

I hope these thoughts are worth 6$ cuz I don’t think I’m going to get to play Slave Zero.