Macintosh Memories

There was a recent post on Destructoid about how SimCity 2000 is now available on GOG. I made this little comment, in which I reflect on memories past of gaming on a Macintosh.  Thought it was interesting, so I’m posting it here, too.

I LOVE THIS GAME!! I was just recently thinking about digging it up again… hm. SimCity Classic was fun too. I never got around to trying out SC3000 (I think it might have had something to do with my PC at the time just barely meeting minimum requirements), and when 4000 came out I had a better PC but it was still kind of a clunker. I’ve always intended to go back and try them but have never gotten around to it.

I owned SC2000 for both Windows and Mac, too. Our old Macintosh IIsi was the machine I first played SimCity, Warcraft II, and Doom on. Its funny. As much as I loathe Macs today, it really was the platform that gave life to my love of PC gaming today.

Oh, and the SCURK was fun for making really stupid building sprites. I remember being a dumb 5th grader making crappy drawings of the kids from South Park as those “Wonders of the World” buildings.

I have some more words to say on this subject, but its past my bed time and I need to get some sleep! I’ll try to write more, later.

A spoiler-free summary of the ending to Superman: Red Son

At first I was like “Lolwut?”

And then I was like “Lol!”

=D

I MADE TWITTER BETTER!!

I wrote a GreaseMonkey script that gets rid of the “trending topics” and other garbage from the Twitter website. I’ll post it up here later.

Chicago is pretty cool. You guys should check it out some time.

I just realized the other day that I’ve learned quite a bit more tips & tricks of my craft since working here. Skill++.

New phone. 4G. Oh man.

Thats it for now. Until next time.

WTFLIFE

So I says to Mabel, I says–

I’m moving to Chicago.

Wait, what?

I got a job in Chicago!

Whuuuuuuuuuuuuut

YES!!!

I’m actually at the end of my third week at my new job in downtown Chicago!  I’ll skip just the big long story, because if I started, I’d probably never finish it, and I am so bad at updating this thing as it is.  But anyway, here are the details!  Patrick is doing an internship at this company called Channel Clarity, and he asked if they needed any more developers.   They said yes, always.  I sent in my resume and got called in for an interview.  On the spot I was offered the job!

A great job.  A grown-up job. Doing something that I love, programming.  More specifically, web programming.  PHP / MySQL / CSS.

I’m almost 24, I don’t have a degree, and I turned my hobby into a high-paying salaried job.  What kind of voodoo witchcraft hebrew magic is going on here?!

So, enough gushing.  I’ll talk more about that later (if I can ever get off my lazy ass and post more).  ON TO OTHER STUFF!

These first few weeks at my job I’ve been staying with Patrick in his deluxe 18th floor studio apartment.  I think that, coupled with my new job being in a field that I actually enjoy, I’ve started getting back into the Linuxes and the Gentoo’s and the “gah fuck I hate computers” and “why won’t you work?!”  And… I like it!  After like 4 days, and 2 do-overs, I finally have a Gentoo system on my laptop with the fresh-off-the-shelf still fairly experimental and not guaranteed stable GNOME3 window manager compiled!  It actually JUST finished compiling a moment ago, so I’m eager to finish this post up and go tinker with that!

Oh, and I know I’m behind on my comics, but I’m slowly catching back up… I’ll get there some day!

<3

Edit: The damn Gnome3 didn’t work! Everything compiled and installed fine but there’s a bug with it and the stupid RADEON DRIVERS! gah fuck I hate computers

Ch-ch-ch-changes

Well, I missed another week of comics last Sunday… But I have a good excuse!

Last Friday I went into Chicago to interview for a new job–And I got it!

I’m moving to Chicago.