Thursday Braindump - Sauce Plox
I just had a pretty decent game of Supreme Commander with Ryan… us against two Supreme AI. We got creamed in short order the first time, but got our revenge the second time, with the assistance of T1 bomber-rushing on one of the two AI to take him out of the running early. The rest of the game amounted to us stalling the other AI with suicidal base attacks while teching up, taking his infrastructure apart with T3 artillery, and striking targets of opportunity with T3 strategic bombers and T3 gunships. We may suck (especially me) compared to serious SupCom players, but it’s fun for us! I managed not to let my base stagnate this time around… usually I start forgetting to build upon reaching T3… I’ll set a bunch of things with long build times going, and then I’ll forget all about my base and run around like a maniac with a small group of units, get them killed, get my base attacked, and sit back until I die or Ryan saves me.
The Transformers trailer… wow. It looks like it’ll be a fun action movie (as expected of Michael Bay), with no substance whatsoever. And forget about adhering to the source material… Megatron isn’t a gun, and you can’t even tell what any of them are supposed to be when they’re in humanoid form. Half the fun of the old Transformers was that you had a robot with distinctly recognizable car (or whatever) parts as arms and legs. Bumblebee as a new Camaro, though, I can live with that. And Megan Fox… I’d like to have a relationship all over her face.
The Alvin Maker books (Orson Scott Card) are pretty good, as expected of Card. I’m going into the fifth book (Heartfire) soon. My favorite character so far has been the judge who presided over Alvin’s trial… pity he didn’t get a bigger part. Judicial pwnage ftw!
It looks like we’re not having that comment contest, since nobody seems interested.
Oh, and I’m now officially enrolled at Wyotech, in their chassis and powertrain program. I start in October. Nine months of eating and breathing cars, and doing terrible things to make them go faster. You can bet Faye won’t come out of it stock.