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Monday, August 25, 2003 » gaming update

My first full day back home and I devoted much of it to dumb Movable Type. Actually, not even that. The majority of the time I used rigging up a new links page setup. It works quite nicely I think. It, along with Movable Type and all the other enhancements I'm working on, will all debut with the new site, once I hammer the remaining bits of MT together. I've actually begun to think that I may never get absolutely all of it configured the way I want; I'll just reach the point where I feel the clump-in-progress is passable to the public, and then I'll shove it online and immediately return to work managing the countless templates. Oh well. It ensures that I'll still have a hobby when I'm retired and all art can be handled through Photoshop layer effects and the only new games out on the market are Tomb Raider MCLXVII and Dead or Alive Xtreme Taffy-Pulling.

On something of a tangent, I'd really like to start playing Silent Hill 3, but I'm currently making my way through Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance. The earlier Circle of the Moon has it beat as far as difficulty, music (not sure what happened here), and the original and wildly useful DSS system, however Harmony does feel a lot more like the legendary Symphony of the Night, just through minor gameplay additions and graphical references, and on top of all that, the castle is huge. IT IS ABSOLUTELY ENORMOUS. At first I suspected the game might be on the short side, but now I'm actually a little scared of how long it'll end up taking.

These new speakers are terrific.