WOO-HOO! WOO-HOO! WOO-HOO!
I BEAT TROGDOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THIS IS THE BEST GAME I’VE EVER PLAYED!!!!!!!
OK. Phew.
It’s a real bear because there are 100 levels, and there’s no way I’m doing that in one sitting. And there’s no way to save the game. So I had to do 5 levels here, 10 levels here over the course of a few days, pausing the game every so often (wasting precious electricity while I’m at work not using the comp, since turning it off would obviously wipe out all progress).
Maybe it’s not a true victory, in that I used the cheat code to get 27 extra mans in the beginning (you normally get 3). And I needed 23 of them to win. Even so. Around level 92, it looked like I was going to fall just short:
And at level 96, I was down to 4 mans. Fortunately, that was the last difficult level, as level 97 cycled back to the start of the cottage placement cycle. (There are 32 cottage placements, more or less trending easy to hard)
You get a free mans every 300 points. That means I earned 48 mans, for a total of 78 (including the ones I started out with), and burned burninated through 72 of them.
The ending was pitiful (undoubtedly on purpose):
It shows the characters, says “Keep Playing” at the end, then sends you to level 101.
Enough of that. Time to do work now.
August 8th, 2007
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Posted by Donnie
Filed under Gaming
Usually, I don’t like getting political, as there are hundreds of thousands of other blogs that deal with that stuff (Expat Yank can be interesting). Except maybe for taking the occasional jab at Bush the Lesser or “JFK” Kerry, undoubtedly two of the worst presidential candidates in my short time on this Earth. (I wonder how Perot would have done had he run in 2004 instead of 1992? He probably would have won a few states.)
Dahlia Lithwick wonders in this article why the Democrats don’t stick it to the shady Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales. The best she can figure is spinelessness and/or political expediency.
So here’s my idea: make sure more and more Americans hear this stuff and get sick of our current state of affairs. Every few months, I’ll post a poll asking America if they want me to rule the country by fiat instead. Eventually (if Alex Chiu’s rings really work–it may take a while), at least 51% of the people will say, “Aye.”
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(I already gave myself one vote for “No”.)
August 8th, 2007
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Posted by Donnie
Filed under Patently Ineffective, Weaksauce Losers
- Fall asleep at 9:30pm last night
- Wake up at 4:00am this morning
- Realize I need to do wash because I have zero pairs of clean underwear
- Stuff wash in washer
- Do some work and “work” until 7:20am
- Take a shower, etc.
- Realize I never put clothes in the drier
- Put on clothes and grab a pair of soggy underwear
- Hang aforementioned pair of soggy underwear in the car, hoping it will dry out before getting to work
- Attempt to stuff underwear in pocket so no one sees it
- Dash into restroom and quickly change
- Vow never to let this happen again
August 8th, 2007
4 comments
Posted by Donnie
Filed under Grilled Cheese, Weaksauce Losers
