{"id":356,"date":"2007-07-23T11:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T11:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/23\/basement-games-tomb-raider-movies-nightmare-scanner\/"},"modified":"2007-07-23T11:24:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-23T11:24:00","slug":"basement-games-tomb-raider-movies-nightmare-scanner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/23\/basement-games-tomb-raider-movies-nightmare-scanner\/","title":{"rendered":"basement, games, tomb raider, movies, nightmare, scanner"},"content":{"rendered":"

It started with me looking for something in the basement. I can’t even remember what it was at this point, but it annoyed me that I couldn’t find it. So, on Saturday morning and on into the afternoon – I worked on cleaning out part of the basement. Mostly just sorting things and trying to put some order to the stuff there, but I did manage to fill the garbage can. This lead to sorting through video games and movies to resell – which is always a good thing. I also gathered together all the loose change in the house and between my room-mate and I, we had nearly a hundred bucks. Not too shabby – and we turned it into a gift card for borders at the coinstar location. <\/p>\n

I also tried to play the demo for Overlord this weekend – it took multiple download attempts and an update to some software – and then change the display settings before it would run. Turned out to be a pretty cool game, but the computer doesn’t have the processing power to keep the frame-rate consistent and the lag is annoying. So, I won’t be buying that one.<\/p>\n

Played a little tomb raider, made it through some really freaking evil puzzles. The “swinging from a rope while avoiding narrowly timed spinning blades” really sucked. Still, overall, a good game. <\/p>\n

Watched some movies this weekend. “It’s Alive 2” – the sequel to the 1970’s “It’s Alive!” – and every bit as bad as the first. My room-mate got the trilogy (!) and we’ve been watching them as penance for going to the movie theater and spending too much money on popcorn.<\/p>\n

I also watched the remake of “The hitcher” – which was pointlessly gory and dumb. I felt nothing for the characters. Live, die, didn’t matter. Waste of film.<\/p>\n

Also saw “The Thirst” – a direct to video (I think) waste of a DVD. I couldn’t even watch the whole thing – even speeding it up to skip to the interesting parts put me at the end credits.<\/p>\n

I’ve also got Brazil on DVD – haven’t seen it yet but I’ve heard good things about that one. It would have to be better than the rest of them I’ve seen recently.<\/p>\n

I had a nightmare fueled by “it’s alive!” and a passing comment that my room-mate made over the weekend. The movie may have been lame, but the nightmare was a full-on terror ride. It was too disturbing to go into in detail.<\/p>\n

Finally, I found a bunch of letters and cards that I had saved in an old box. I decided that I wanted to preserve those electronically and I went and bought a scanner at BestBuy. Got a pretty good deal and made it through the install without any problems. I think I want to start archiving these things so they don’t get lost or damaged.<\/p>\n

Well, it’s Monday, so it’s time to get to work. Been trying to clear off one of our servers and I’ve just about got everything moved – hoping to wrap this up this week. later…<\/p>\n

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