Pharaoh
- May 23, 2008 - 6:01pm
- Drinking: Earl Grey tea
So I have this super old game called Pharaoh. It's a civilization building game, with more emphasis getting your city running properly than on war. The graphics are really corny, the game automatically changes my screen's resolution from 1920x1200 to 800x600 (but it at least does it properly and fills the entire screen; I tried to change my res to 1600x1200 and it just shrunk the viewable area).
But I've been playing this game. I really enjoy it, even if I can only play on the easy/very easy difficultly settings (I go bankrupt too much on normal and then the Pharaoh's army comes and attacks my city). I think my hand is starting to complain, 'cause I cracked it/my wrist (which I do a lot) and then tried to pick up my nearly full 15oz mug of tea, had some nice pain appear out of nowhere and had nearly all of my hand strength disappear (not that I really have any).
Speaking of hand strength, I finally got tired enough of the pain I have in my back, neck and shoulders that I went to my mom's (very expensive) chiropractor. I have like a page long list of shit that's wrong with the bones in my body. Some of my wrist bones are misaligned (which is why I have no hand strength), my elbows are misaligned, the curvature of my spine is totally fucked (the upper part of my spine is just about straight, instead of curving), some other stuff about my spine that I can't remember, my right pelvic bone is pushing forward and out - which is also causing stress on the left pelvic bone, and I might be borderline anemic (which I already knew, because I know how much red meat I don't eat).
Unfortunately, my health insurance doesn't cover this chiropractor. They have a list of chiropractors that they cover and when my mom tried to get Kaiser to cover this chiropractor for her, they said no. Which kind of sucks. Because he's expensive, but I suppose you get what you pay for (my mom can actually get out of bed now without being in pain).
Back to games. I found my Warcraft III disc after it went missing EIGHTEEN MONTHS ago. Apparently, at the time I took the disc out of my computer (or was cleaning my desk), I couldn't find its jewel case and stuck it in a DVD case, underneath the DVD. I only found it because I decided I didn't want to carry (some of) my DVDs back and forth across the country anymore, so I started copying them to my external (I need a big one... I'm almost out of space on my WD Passport 160gig). Unfortunately, I didn't think I even had the slightest chance of finding it, so I left my license key in my storage locker at school.
I will end my exceedingly long blog entry now. For those who actually read the whole thing, I'd give you a cookie if I could.
Comments
ӝNirach
Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra
Are there any plans for dealing with some of it, or is it pretty much a painkiller job?
Keep your eyes peeled for the average gamers.
Nothing's broken, it's just functioning differently.
ѻyashachan
Never Played Half-Life
ӝNirach
Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra
Except the x-ray part. Those're fun. Nothing like an abnormal dose of radiation!
Hope you get it all sorted out, though.
Keep your eyes peeled for the average gamers.
Nothing's broken, it's just functioning differently.
ѻyashachan
Never Played Half-Life
ӝNirach
Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra
Good luck with it!
Keep your eyes peeled for the average gamers.
Nothing's broken, it's just functioning differently.
ӝspot
Chief Instigator
I have Pharaoh as well, and you are right... really bad graphics, but surprisingly fun. Just really hard at times too.
So did the expensive doctor actually help? You didn't say.
And WC3 rocks!
I, Gamer!
ѻyashachan
Never Played Half-Life
I had no idea anyone else had ever actually heard of Pharaoh. The graphics look worse than I remember (probably because they're getting a bit stretched), but the little videos aren't terrible, graphics-wise. I think I've given up on playing at the "normal" difficulty. I don't get why it's so freaking hard! Isn't normal suppose to be not-hard-but-not-easy?
ӝspot
Chief Instigator
Keep us updated when you find out if the new doc is working.
I, Gamer!
ѻyashachan
Never Played Half-Life
ӝspot
Chief Instigator
Toast is lovely!
Toast is wondrous!
I, Gamer!
ѻyashachan
Never Played Half-Life
ӝspot
Chief Instigator
I, Gamer!
ѻyashachan
Never Played Half-Life
ӝspot
Chief Instigator
I, Gamer!