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A Years’ PC Gaming : By The Numbers!

A while ago I wrote a script to record the running times of processes on a system (see here).  It was pretty useful for work but I also thought I could use it to answer one of life’s big, unanswered questions;

Just how much PC gaming do I do?  And what games do I play the most?  When?  Can I Top>really justify buying a decent HOTAS just for Elite:Dangerous?

So I ran the script for a year, with it recording all the processes started from my games folder and how long I played them for.  So…

Numbers!  Graphs!  A documented analysis of how to waste time on the PC! Continue reading “A Years’ PC Gaming : By The Numbers!”

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LAN Yarns : Apologizing for playing my race in Starcraft 2.

I played Starcraft 2 a great deal a few years ago.  After months and months of play I eventually got to Diamond league and promptly hung up Pneumatized Carapace for good.  Occasionally I’ll still watch a game or two but when I was dedicated to it I used to watch loads of them.

While digging through some old posts I made on the forums at the time I found the following about watching a game with my wife.  It’s a “my race is not as cool as the other races” whine but at least it’s by proxy! Continue reading “LAN Yarns : Apologizing for playing my race in Starcraft 2.”

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Things I Didn’t Expect from the Overwatch Beta Weekend…

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I lucked out last weekend and got invited into the Overwatch stress test.  Overwatch is on my “games that might make me giddy” list so I was willing to sacrifice myself to help stress-test Blizzard’s servers.

For the greater good, you see.

There’s plenty written about the game already so I thought I’d write down where I found the game surprising. Continue reading “Things I Didn’t Expect from the Overwatch Beta Weekend…”