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Jan. 3rd, 2004 06:08 pm15 minutes while a week's worth of food is in the oven. I'm testing iJournal as a possible OS X LJ client. I've become so acclimated to Semagic, but most of the time I use about 10% of it's capability.
I'm posting from the mac today becuase my Pc is spilled out all over the left room. I finally decided to deal with the obnoxious intermittent crashes that have plauged this machine since mid-summer. I had written them off as the price of Windows, but had started to suspect that the PSU was the root cause. It does a semi-controlled power down at selected moments. Normally it's within the first minute or two of running a game that uses the 3d chunks of the video card (Kotor, Serious Sam) but that's not always true (Monkey Island 4 runs, although that's hardly taxing). And it also bombs out during CD rips/burns. All of which led me to believe that the generic PSU that came with the case was not up to the task and when some extra device came on (multiple spinning optical drives, mutliple grinding HDs or power hungry nVidia card) it tucked its tail and turned off. But even after a trip to Central Computer and a shiny new 480W Antech beast, I hit the exact same crashes (Specifically kotor and Serious Sam). So the PSU came out and is back in the box, more out of spite than a rational reason for returning it. I keep staring inside the box, hoping for that visibly gnarled wire leading to some ancillary fan. Something to allow me to keep my excessive power drain theory alive. Becuae, you know, at least that was a theory. Theories suggest plans. Otherwise...Ugh. Why I own consoles, part 14.
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hvyhvymonster asked (at that strange multi-level new year's party that jodisays mentioned and everyone was at, asked me why i was futzing with Deadlands and Savage Worlds when planning the Vurt game, rather than using something obvious like Gurps. When I saw a used copy of the core Gurps book at BookBuyers yesterday (in the annual anniversary trip to Mountain View) I thought "You know, maybe he's right. They do seell a metric fuck-ton of these." and now I have a very clear anwser. I'm not using Gurps becuase I don't want to playa game where sentences like the following occur:
Throwing:
Anyting you can lift, that is anything with a weight that is less than 25 more than your ST or 3X your DX...
I know I can ignore it. I know there's no GURPS god standing over me making me use that rule. But why would I buy a book that's filled with rules I don't want to use? A system that is builta round the need to have rules spelled out for these things. if anything, that's why I'm really liking the FUDGE ethos so far. if you don't nee da rule, don't have a rule. If you don't need a stat, don't have the stat. The reason I'm leaning towards the basic DL set-up is that I feel very comforatble making complicated situations boil down to simple DC's using that system. With GURPS, even I'd be confused all the time. And the goal is to make the Vurt game less gamer-dork exclusicve.
I'm posting from the mac today becuase my Pc is spilled out all over the left room. I finally decided to deal with the obnoxious intermittent crashes that have plauged this machine since mid-summer. I had written them off as the price of Windows, but had started to suspect that the PSU was the root cause. It does a semi-controlled power down at selected moments. Normally it's within the first minute or two of running a game that uses the 3d chunks of the video card (Kotor, Serious Sam) but that's not always true (Monkey Island 4 runs, although that's hardly taxing). And it also bombs out during CD rips/burns. All of which led me to believe that the generic PSU that came with the case was not up to the task and when some extra device came on (multiple spinning optical drives, mutliple grinding HDs or power hungry nVidia card) it tucked its tail and turned off. But even after a trip to Central Computer and a shiny new 480W Antech beast, I hit the exact same crashes (Specifically kotor and Serious Sam). So the PSU came out and is back in the box, more out of spite than a rational reason for returning it. I keep staring inside the box, hoping for that visibly gnarled wire leading to some ancillary fan. Something to allow me to keep my excessive power drain theory alive. Becuae, you know, at least that was a theory. Theories suggest plans. Otherwise...Ugh. Why I own consoles, part 14.
Further dork rants:
hvyhvymonster asked (at that strange multi-level new year's party that jodisays mentioned and everyone was at, asked me why i was futzing with Deadlands and Savage Worlds when planning the Vurt game, rather than using something obvious like Gurps. When I saw a used copy of the core Gurps book at BookBuyers yesterday (in the annual anniversary trip to Mountain View) I thought "You know, maybe he's right. They do seell a metric fuck-ton of these." and now I have a very clear anwser. I'm not using Gurps becuase I don't want to playa game where sentences like the following occur:Throwing:
Anyting you can lift, that is anything with a weight that is less than 25 more than your ST or 3X your DX...
I know I can ignore it. I know there's no GURPS god standing over me making me use that rule. But why would I buy a book that's filled with rules I don't want to use? A system that is builta round the need to have rules spelled out for these things. if anything, that's why I'm really liking the FUDGE ethos so far. if you don't nee da rule, don't have a rule. If you don't need a stat, don't have the stat. The reason I'm leaning towards the basic DL set-up is that I feel very comforatble making complicated situations boil down to simple DC's using that system. With GURPS, even I'd be confused all the time. And the goal is to make the Vurt game less gamer-dork exclusicve.
