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I'm an idiot.

I heard & read so many great things about City of Heroes, and I thought it sounded so cool, that when I bought the pre-order, I forgot the most important part of buying software: Check The Specs. It turns out that my Pentium II is too slow for even the minimum recommended requirements, and I can't really afford the $150-$200 dollars it would take to get a newer one. So while I'm upset that I won't be able to play the incredibly cool-looking game, I also realized that I won't have my free time totally absorbed by it either. 'Cause really, knowing myself, I'd enter the game and never come out. And at least I'm only out the $10 the pre-order cost.

In other news, my mother & I went to the annual UTA Glass Sale last Wednesday, and I got my pics back yesterday evening. Got the Kodak pix-on-disk option too, which gave me really high-quality, but large, digital photos. I'm shrinking some of 'em down, and they'll be put up for public consumption later today or tommorrow.

"Naked Truth"

I'm currently reading "Naked Empire" by Terry Goodkind, the 8th book in his "Sword of Truth" series, and I've gotta say that it's getting tiresome. The first few were entertaining, but both this one and the previous one ("Pillars of Creation") are just chock-full of pages and pages of his personal political feelings dressed up in exposition. When I can skip 3 pages of pure dialog, in which one or more characters expounds on the delights of libertarianism (not explicity stated, but in essence) and other characters are immediately swayed to that point of view, and still miss none of the plot, there's a problem. Of course, with a 700+ page book, you need filler, right?
( Rant on publishing... it wanders a bit )

...okay, I don't know where that came from. I stand by everything I said, but I honestly only intended to write my impressions of "Naked Empire". {reading back over it} Okay, I want your comments. Tell me if you agree or disagree, tell me what alternatives you can think of, tell me about the good/crappy stuff you just read. Talk to me people; it's that feedback recognition thing I talked about earlier.

for notdagulf

Ganked this from pdi, thought you might be interested: Ossuary