by Ice Cream Jonsey » Thu Nov 04, 2004 11:33 am
I feel like a moron for even writing this.
I had a dream where a guy I knew in dream world had a copy of Half-Life II that was wholly legitimate. Only, none of us had a computer that could run it, so it showed up in black and white. In my dreamstate mind, apparently, there's no frames per second drop or heavy chugging of the graphic engine or anything like that, you just lose colors. So the game was in black and white.
Well, we were playing it, and the guy tells me that I will just flat-out lose it when I get to the first jaw-dropping scene. Suddenly I am in an elevator (can't tell if it's the game or real life) and -- all in black and white, more white than black -- I get out of the elevator and go up some stairs and a bunch of people are fighting aliens in a large office room.
I had to leave my friend's house, so I took my save game home and then realized that *I* did not have a copy of Half-Life II and I did not have a computer in the dream.
Then I woke up.
Nothing I even remotely associate with Half-Life II or Half-Life or Counter-Strike or the game where you play the Barney was depicted in the idiocy of my slumber. And I'm not even that psyched for Half-Life II, especially due to the requirement for an Internet connection, which will bring my network to a crawl. (I hear people saying, "You only need it to start the game! Yeah, fantastic, I'm sure there's no chance that Valve will accidently try dumping a whole bunch of shit on my machine the first chance it gets. Give me a break. It's inevitable.) I think the only HL2 "things" that had anything to do with anything else is that it's a big release coming soon.
I feel like a moron for even writing this.
I had a dream where a guy I knew in dream world had a copy of Half-Life II that was wholly legitimate. Only, none of us had a computer that could run it, so it showed up in black and white. In my dreamstate mind, apparently, there's no frames per second drop or heavy chugging of the graphic engine or anything like that, you just lose colors. So the game was in black and white.
Well, we were playing it, and the guy tells me that I will just flat-out lose it when I get to the first jaw-dropping scene. Suddenly I am in an elevator (can't tell if it's the game or real life) and -- all in black and white, more white than black -- I get out of the elevator and go up some stairs and a bunch of people are fighting aliens in a large office room.
I had to leave my friend's house, so I took my save game home and then realized that *I* did not have a copy of Half-Life II and I did not have a computer in the dream.
Then I woke up.
Nothing I even remotely associate with Half-Life II or Half-Life or Counter-Strike or the game where you play the Barney was depicted in the idiocy of my slumber. And I'm not even that psyched for Half-Life II, especially due to the requirement for an Internet connection, which will bring my network to a crawl. (I hear people saying, "You only need it to start the game! Yeah, fantastic, I'm sure there's no chance that Valve will accidently try dumping a whole bunch of shit on my machine the first chance it gets. Give me a break. It's inevitable.) I think the only HL2 "things" that had anything to do with anything else is that it's a big release coming soon.