Simple is Beautiful

My favorite games reviewer, Jeff Gerstmann, along with Greg Kasavin, was let go from Gamespot for various corporate reasons. Farewell Jeff.

I setup bootcamp and installed Windows XP and Visual Studio 2008. Thanks to the wonderful functionality provided by VMWare Fusion and Leopard 'Spaces', I have a single desktop dedicated to a fullscreen Windosws XP environment where I can code away on VS and use PIM ( an instant messaging application ) and another one for all things Mac OS-X. Switching from one to another is a matter of ctrl-(left|right)cursor. I can even get to play some DirectX8 games on it just fine and reboot to that said Bootcamp setup for DX9 games and full-speed windows applications performance. Super sweet.

My brother got this sexy-looking Dell M1330 laptop. Its nice, not Macbook nice, but by far the nicest non Apple laptop I ever laid my eyes on. Its pretty powerful too, yet it runs Windows Vista. Enough said.

I am done with console (Xbox 360 mostly) gaming for now. All that time will go to reading(wikipedia+books) and practice(programming) and spending time with my loved ones (mon, bro, my other half). I am going to go back to Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights though, thanks to Bootcamp. Enough with FPS. Speaking of console gaming, Assassin's Creed and Mass Effect are pretty nice looking, both having a great set of impressive features. In the end of the day though, they are both too repetitive for my liking and I eventually gave up on them in a matter of 2-3 days. Perhaps I will revisit them when I get back to console gaming.

Lately I have been feeling extremely depressed, stressed out, tired and ever-sleepy. I hope I can somehow undo this state soon for it sucks being stuck into that sort of loop.