Extreme Domination

Happy Thanksgiving! (later this week) Also, let me say merry Christmas and happy Hanukkah in advance since my posts are rather infrequent.

Quake 4 was released last month. It takes either a monster computer or a supremely tweaked-out config to be playable. So far I've relied on the latter approach. However, I may upgrade soon since it's been 2 years. For those needing help, this is my config: download. Although a resolution of 640x480 qualifies as legally blind on some maps (especially with the 110 fov I'm using), I seem to rail as well as I did in Quake 3. The game itself feels like a deliberate Quake 3-Doom 3 hybrid. There's a lot that I like about Quake 4--mainly because the gameplay is almost identical to Quake 3. The physics are excellent. When players are hit by projectiles they move in much more sophisticated ways than in Quake 3. The most frustrating thing about the multiplayer is simply the fact that so few people seem to play it. There are tons of empty servers. I can only assume that it's partially a result of the extremely demanding hardware requirements. For team games such as CTF the colors of the two teams seriously need to be rethought. I can't even count the number of times I've shot my own flag carrier because the giant, glowing flag is the enemy's color. Orange and green? Who thinks these things up? Use some common sense, bring back the red and blue, please.

After getting Q4, I bought a new mouse, the 2000 dpi Razer Copperhead, and a new mouse pad, the Razer eXactMat. I highly recommend both. The eXactMat is essentially a func pad with a better base and larger surface area. The Copperhead is easily the best optical mouse I've ever had.

As I write this, a tv-movie remake of the Poseidon Adventure is airing on NBC. Though I've only seen the first 10 minutes, this could very well be one of the worst things to ever air on television. It's rare that such bad acting, poor production values, and cheesy dialogue all coalesce into a single work. Just so you know, a theatrical remake titled simply "Poseidon," is being released next year and should be vastly superior to this piece of garbage. One film stars Steve Guttenberg and C. Thomas Howell. The other stars Kurt Russell and Richard Dreyfuss. You do the math.

In other news, I've been accepted to a few medical schools located in Philadelphia, St. Louis and Milwaukee. It's still too soon to predict where I'll end up. I'm still waiting to hear from many schools.