Headflid

Posted by oddbob on October 3, 2008 · Lovingly Filed Under Personal 
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Gah, I’m all over the shop with stuff.

It’s more than a little frustrating as at the moment, thanks to C4 starting school I’m actually starting to get some time back - which has been curiously absent in the 6-8 months prior. He’s off out most of the day and in bed at 7:30 at the outside these days, so in theory I’ve got all that time to do stuff. And in many ways I am doing stuff, it’s just my concentration for single projects right now isn’t really lasting out.

Normally, I have 2 projects on the go. One to fiddle with and one to plug away at in a relatively serious manner but the past month I’ve started and stopped more stuff than I have in about 5 years.  It’s not even a flailing around trying to find something that interests me sort of thing, it’s just a very odd funk whereby I’ve got the urge to do something and write something but haven’t got the attention span to see it out.

I’ve got 4 games a gnats breath away from being completed, but it’s just not happening right now. I knew something was especially odd when I was doing some under the hood stuff on RR last week and I’d found I’d pixelled half a sprite set for one level and a title screen for a game I’ve been meaning to do for years, saved it and found it again yesterday tucked in a folder labelled something absolutely nothing to do with the game. Much to my own befuddlement.

I guess it’s that autumnal shift I tend to get where everything goes a little bit wonky. Traditionally whenever things have gone majorly tits up in life it’s always been around this time. I’ve had now the best part of 8 years of comfort with no major crises (last years house rubbish really doesn’t count) that I’m becoming increasingly convinced that my brain goes onto some sort of strike come the autumn and doesn’t really come out of hibernation until we’re into winter proper just in case.

Naturally, there’s only one cure for such a funk. Fuck it all off and play some games.

Gravitron 2 has just landed on Steam at a bargain bucket price, so I bought that again (and got a verbal from X-Out for buying it twice) and ploughed through 6/10 of the achievements. I’ve been running around in Burnout Paradise for a week and a half and quite enjoying that, well, until I realised how much of the game wasn’t so much about having and making your own fun but pandering to bizarre OCD habits. I tried Pure after someone described it as “the next best thing to Excite Truck” only to find out they fucking lied big time and it’s not really even in the same league, never mind ballpark and umm, yeah. That’s about it.

With Gary being too busy to try and lay waste to my Galaga Legions score, I’ve not gone back to that in a few weeks despite loving it to bits and I’ve finally come to the realisation that I’m not enjoying Geometry Wars 2 half as much as I should as some of it is just too fucking random and I get a bit pissy with things spawning too close for me to avoid. So I can’t really play it of an evening when C4 is around as he’s picking up words a plenty at the moment and I don’t really want him going into school shouting “fucking shitbollock cunting blackhole twat blue thing arse fuck”. It was bad enough earlier when I was doing a Frank Finlay Witchsmeller Pursuiveant impression and he proceeded to spend the next ten minutes shouting “MILK! BLOODY MILK!” at the cat.

On a lighter note, Ian Blair is out of the job and someone is making Sigue Sigue Sputnik: The Game for the RR competition. Both of these things make me very happy indeed.

Oh yeah, I also transcribed the lyrics to The Imperfect List and dumped them up here for some ill apparant reason.

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