I Hate It
Not Ft. Campbell. Not even Kentucky or Tennessee. I hate the little box of a hotel room we live in. It sucks. Thankfully, we're moving into housing within the next two weeks. 900+ sq. ft. of goodness to settle into.
I also hate the lack of good computer+internet time. Without an internet connection and a general lack of just TIME, not bored-time or game-time, simply unoccupied productive time, it's impossible for me to do such things as make a new layout for this site that takes advantage of new Movable Type features or even secure it against comment spam, which is why the comments are still off.
I can't wait to move. I can't wait to unpack EVERYTHING. I'm making a list of magazines and a newspaper to subscribe to because I'll finally have an address. And when I order things online, I'll be able to get them as soon as they arrive because they'll come straight to my door, not my parents' house to wait for me to come get them.
Nothing can ever be perfect for me. I'll always find something to complain about.
Hey, how about some positive news! White Wolf is have a 60% off (almost) all their Ravenloft D&D material. I've ordered everything in two shipments. And it's not the old stuff either, this is the new updated Ravenloft material. All three core books are $14.00 and they're the priciest books in the collection! And in more D&D news, a local gamestore (local to Ft. Campbell that is) is affliated with the RPGA (a d20 role-playing association) and are running two sanctioned events in March. So I can register as a player and score some reward points AND get in some D&D time! The shortfall is that there's two gamestores in the area and this one isn't the nice one. I mean all the people there were actual role-players, not Warhammer nutsacks or paintball goons, but their inventory was kind of out-of-date and (this probably only matters to me) I think they allowed smoking indoors. But I'm still going. To both events.
And once I get moved into housing and get all my necessities set up, maybe I'll be happy.
M-Day
Yes, tomorrow is the unofficial M-Day. Moving Day. The day when I pick up the UHaul, we load it with our crap, and then drive it down to Clarksville, to be put into storage until our name comes up on the housing list and then it's the Official M-Day.
But that's boring. I downloaded the Star Wars: Republic Commando demo and it's awesome. It's EASILY the best Star Wars product since Jedi Outcast (except maybe Knights of the Old Republic) and it's DEFINITELY the best thing to come out of the pre-Holy Trilogy era. You're part of a four man commando squad and the mission in the demo has you doing all kinds of cool stuff like the air assault insertion (where you rappel out of a helicopter into the dropzone, or in this case rappel out of a dropship), you can order your squadmates into firing positions, and if you die and your squadmates live, they can revive you and the mission just continues from there.
The demo's pretty short and the weapons lack punch but Unreal fixed that problem when it was first released and maybe Republic Commando will too. Oh and you can't not like a game where shanking a bad guy (using the well-placed melee attack button) with wrist-mounted retractable punching knife leaves green blood splatters on your helmet.