Projects in Procrastination

I have come to the conclusion that Sid Meier is an evil drug pusher.  For those of you who are fortunate enough to not know who this man is, Sid Meier is a game developer and overall genius.  He is known best for his game series called Civilization.  It is one of the most well developed, involved, educational, and at time challenging games I have ever played.  Start with simple cave dwellers, struggling for survival in the Neolithic Era, to a highly advanced and sophisticated society.  Everything from developing the wheel, to constructing giant, death robots are part of this game.  One single game can take hours and hours. 

So this is why there has been no blog entry for the last few weeks. 

Now I have been asking for trouble for a while now.  I had been on a quest to find and locate a new game for weeks.  Now this is a lot more trouble than you might think.  I have a Steam account and there is no shortage of games out there.  But like everything we all have our tastes.  Now first I had problem after problem getting Steam to understand that I wasn’t a scam artist who was trying to get a free copy of Batman: Arkam City.  After that, it turns out that the game I bought ran so slowly on my computer that it wasn’t even worth it to play.  Well I have a copy now and I’ll play it at some point. 

Now South Korea has a number of obsessions.  The most famous of these digital addictions is the game Starcraft.  The people who make this binary cocaine are the same ones who are responsible for things such as World of Warcraft (which has worked both as the greatest contraceptive since the birth-control pill, and as a vehicle for pairing nerd couples), and most recently Diablo 3.  Now I assumed that I could walk into a store and buy a copy of Diablo 3 and select the English language version (just like you can select Korean in the US version)… foolish man.  You can select multiple languages for every version of the game, except for those purchased in China, Russia, and South Korea.  I was not happy. 

Back to stuff about Korean adventures.  A lot has happened since the last entry naturally.  Some of it has been downright terrible.  But as I said Sid Meier has been devouring a large amount of my time.  So I have a whole mess of entries that I have half written and will compile into one or two large entries.