Computer Issues

We had a LAN last night that was cool. Played some UT2k4 and Rise of Nations for about 8 hours ... fun times. I know why I don't play RTS games - I suck at them. They are no where near as intuitive as FPS and no ones tends to inform you of how to play.

Case in point - my experience last night. This story was hilarious at the time and I just wanted to have it written down somewhere. We were playing above mentioned RTS with four players. After a while playing I am minding my own business in my cities when Brian begins to attack me. His tanks are shelling my cities so I send my troops and citizens to attempt to defend it. My troops have bows and arrows - thats it. Needless to say that city was lost very quickly - a complete slaughter. Thus I retreat my few remaining living people to my other city. My bow and arrow people are being attacked by bombers.... flying B-52ish bombers. I as also nuked a few times before I finally lost. I lost all cities very fast and in general had my butt kicked.

The reason for the uneven fight - no one told me I had to explicitly research going up an era in history. I was at era 1 but had research for the next 3 eras complete. The next game was better but the computer still killed me. I still prefer FPS games.

To get to the title of this post I lost a hard drive today, my 300GB Maxtor. Brian has lost 3 and now I have lost 1, all for the same reason. The Master File Table is missing so Windows sees it as unallocated space. So I get to recover my data and buy a new drive. Not going to be getting any more Maxtor drives any time soon. I just bought two new Seagate drives and will be recovering my data to one of them.

In other news, life is pretty good. Nothing really new to report so I will write again whenever.