'Nother update
Aug. 7th, 2010 08:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amethyst73• Huz is back! We are both pleased.
• Many many thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nezumiko , who let me hang out with her Thursday night and Friday during the day. It was awesome and excellent, and we need to do it again sometime.
• Thanks also toorichalcum and cerebralpaladin , who were kind enough to let me come over Wednesday night. Really, it was as much for their sake as for my cats' that I didn't spend the night, much as Mac might have liked me to.
• Rest in peace, Christopher Booth (icyjumbo on the Librivox forums). You were a brave, funny man who wrote eloquently about living with cancer on your blog, A Mammoth Undertaking. I am grateful that you were not just functional but able to enjoy activities and friends until such a relatively short time before the end. May God bless you and be with your wife Gillian as she mourns you.
• Congratulations to the Choice of Broadsides team in getting a nice critical mention in the Guardian!
• Crystal Bearers is growing on me, at least some. The camera, while annoying, is manageable: I'm getting used to nubbing the D-pad as I move to orient things properly. The save business isn't actually so bad: in addition to the scattered Save Points, the game autosaves pretty much every time you enter a new area. This generally means that your saves aren't more than 10-15 minutes apart, depending on how fast you cover ground and how much time you spend noodling around playing (for example) the requisite fishing minigame. (It would still be really nice to just have the option of saving anywhere!) No... If I could change any single thing about the game, after ~3 hours in, I'd add a map. No map = really really annoying and easy to get turned around in Hyrule Field - oops, I mean the Wildlands - and in cities.
• Done with going to Berkeley for the moment. Sure I'll be back in another couple of weeks with a new batch of clones to sequence. Yay?
• Many many thanks to
nezumiko , who let me hang out with her Thursday night and Friday during the day. It was awesome and excellent, and we need to do it again sometime.• Thanks also to
orichalcum and cerebralpaladin , who were kind enough to let me come over Wednesday night. Really, it was as much for their sake as for my cats' that I didn't spend the night, much as Mac might have liked me to.• Rest in peace, Christopher Booth (icyjumbo on the Librivox forums). You were a brave, funny man who wrote eloquently about living with cancer on your blog, A Mammoth Undertaking. I am grateful that you were not just functional but able to enjoy activities and friends until such a relatively short time before the end. May God bless you and be with your wife Gillian as she mourns you.
• Congratulations to the Choice of Broadsides team in getting a nice critical mention in the Guardian!
• Crystal Bearers is growing on me, at least some. The camera, while annoying, is manageable: I'm getting used to nubbing the D-pad as I move to orient things properly. The save business isn't actually so bad: in addition to the scattered Save Points, the game autosaves pretty much every time you enter a new area. This generally means that your saves aren't more than 10-15 minutes apart, depending on how fast you cover ground and how much time you spend noodling around playing (for example) the requisite fishing minigame. (It would still be really nice to just have the option of saving anywhere!) No... If I could change any single thing about the game, after ~3 hours in, I'd add a map. No map = really really annoying and easy to get turned around in Hyrule Field - oops, I mean the Wildlands - and in cities.
• Done with going to Berkeley for the moment. Sure I'll be back in another couple of weeks with a new batch of clones to sequence. Yay?
