barely fatal

It took me two nights – TWO nights – to fix my XP. Something – probably the HDD cloning – broke my DCOM+ and System Restore services. Along with that I couldn’t install any Windows updates anymore. I had to comb the registry back and forth, register DLLs and whatnot. What a waste of time! Especially when Windows kept telling me that a certain fix wasn’t working when it actually was. Bleh.

I’m writing this using Internet Explorer 7. So it finally can do tabs. And RSS. Gee, I’m amazed. I miss my Extensions, so back to Firefox for now.

And Vista, have you heard about/read the License agreement they want to sell it with? My biggest complaint: You can change your hardware once. ONCE. Then, to re-activate Vista, you have to buy a new copy. I regularly update my hardware, usually I exchange my processor every two years (at least). Do you really think, I will buy Vista twice? If you could, you’d see my finger now.

Gothic 3 is great. I even got used to the combat system. If it wasn’t for the mentioned OS troubles, I’d be playing right now, but it’s too late already. When you compare the graphics to Oblivion I’d say it’s a draw. You can see farther in Oblivion, but Gothic’s woods and hand-build cities look much more ‘real’ and not half as cold and static. Gothic also spares you some work – no equipment decay or complicated lockpicking, I prefer it that way. Quests are fun and the guilds play much more dynamic and also deeper – your actions have much more noticable consequences. The game feeds on hardware, granted. But no loading zones, yay! I’ll post a few screenies soon.

One more day of work, then I’ll spend the next two weeks with, hm, playing games, sleeping, more sleeping, and even more … sleeping. And I’ll travel the world. A bit. And sleep. Yay! Ohmegosh I’m so boring.