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New installation, new system
Apr. 1st, 2007 01:25 amAs predicted, my PC failed catastrophically this morning, getting three seconds into the startup procedure before giving up and resetting itself. So I had to reformat and reinstall everything, then restore bits and pieces from the backup I'd taken. I'd forgotten just how stupidly Windows XP is set up when you install it, but I'm just about back to normal now - it's amazing just how much faster it runs without the bloat of four years on the same installation clogging it up.
The PS2 we ordered arrived today, though, along with one of the games for it. It's one of the newer "slimline" models that's the size of a stamp. So we've been going through Kingdom Hearts - it feels somewhat like those films that come out every so often that just have everyone in the entire British acting world in them (like Love Actually and most of the Harry Potters) as you're always waiting to see another recognizable character from somewhere else to appear. Notably, Squall has been given exactly the kind of miserable emo voice that you'd expect from him. And battling the forces of darkness alongside Goofy and Donald Duck is a surreal experience.
Trouble is, of course, that our memory cards haven't arrived yet, and I've just received word that they've been shipped this evening from Hong Kong. As we made rather more progress on the game than I thought we would today, the only non-game-restarting option we have is to leave the thing on running in the background until they arrive, so I hope we don't blow it up within the week.
The PS2 we ordered arrived today, though, along with one of the games for it. It's one of the newer "slimline" models that's the size of a stamp. So we've been going through Kingdom Hearts - it feels somewhat like those films that come out every so often that just have everyone in the entire British acting world in them (like Love Actually and most of the Harry Potters) as you're always waiting to see another recognizable character from somewhere else to appear. Notably, Squall has been given exactly the kind of miserable emo voice that you'd expect from him. And battling the forces of darkness alongside Goofy and Donald Duck is a surreal experience.
Trouble is, of course, that our memory cards haven't arrived yet, and I've just received word that they've been shipped this evening from Hong Kong. As we made rather more progress on the game than I thought we would today, the only non-game-restarting option we have is to leave the thing on running in the background until they arrive, so I hope we don't blow it up within the week.
