I guess all those quizzes around the web are the next big thing. Not like ‘Hey, what a boner!’-big. I mean really big. Big like building your own spaceship or the space occupied by one mole of table tennis balls. Just wait and see. Over at planetdebianforum.de if one posts his quiz results, we’re all in. It’s herd instinct. And for I’m as stupid / weak / bored / <insertyoursuggestion> as everyone else:

I may not have the ultimate high-end gaming rig, but I’d consider my XPC decent hardware. It’s an XPC powered by a 2.4GHz P4 with 1GB RAM and an ATI X800XT PE graphics board. 3dmark & co support this statement. Anyhow, with Everquest 2, performance just sucks and you can’t even tell why. I started up the game today, and in zones where I had over 30fps with quality/performance set to ‘balanced’, I hardly got 10fps with q/p set to ‘very high performance’. I’m experiencing such issues with EQ2 quite frequently.

Anyhow, I tried to post the problem at SOE’s forums but found that I haven’t activated my account yet. I also didn’t receive mail from SOE with the activation-code like the activation page says. Further, I wasn’t able to request a new code on the appropriate page (actually I’ve been able to request a new code, but it never made it into my inbox). I also ruled out that any spamfilters caught the mail and used an unfiltered account. Still, no activation code. I tried to send a mail to the webmaster whose address was given on the same page, but the mail couldn’t be sent for there seems to be issues over at SOE. Great. That’s what I call support. You pay 15 bucks a month for a game that definitely has issues which are well known according to the forums, and SOE is not only not capable of fixing those, no, they make fun of their customers introducing new flaws every now and then using a mechanism called ‘update’ and then can’t even be contacted in any sane way.

Maybe re-installing the drivers or even use omega’s has some homeopathic effect on my box.. On the other hand, that might be total nonsense for I played the demo of F.E.A.R today, and it performed very well and looked pretty polished.

Hey, Sony, what’s up? Nice that you have this enduring engine that will draw neat graphics on our screens the years to come, but if that means that a PC like mine can’t handle it reliably and with at least some of the eyecandy turned on, you might as well keep it. The game is fun and everything, but I really consider not to extend my account in november. .

since my last post. That’s three weeks of vacation and four days of jet-lag supported laziness. Actually I probably wouldn’t even write this now if it wasn’t for a downtime of the EQ2 server I’m playing on. If this has anything to do with DoF starting today? Well, actually I’m pretty sure it has. I just wonder why such a cut-in can’t work smoother, it’s not like SOE has announced it just yesterday. The upside is that I spend too much time playing EQ2 as it is, so this forced vacation from Norrath might be a good idea.

Yes, I’m sure it is, sort of. Especially considered that today was my 2nd day in school. Nothing much to say except for the teachers aren’t getting tired telling us about how tough this year is going to be and how we can’t just take it easy but hang in there for it’s lots of stuff and about self-responsibility and blablubb. As if I’m 14. It sometimes gets creepy, literally. Ok, I might be one lazy fellow, but that they don’t know. At least not yet.

Damn, Innovation (that afore mentioned EQ2 server) is still down. I really should create a backup character on an alternative server. Oh, wait. Reason says I shouldn’t. Damn it ! Just checked that and this wouldn’t help anyway for it seems that all servers are down.

I probably could also write something about my trip to CA, or tons of other stuff, but I said it before and I say it again, L.A.Z.Y. Must be the jet-lag.. *cough*

(found via sv blog)

Kind of..

Well, what do those tests know anyway? Pffffft..