I don't care about the election personally, but a lot of people do, and it's hard not to hear what's going on, so I figured this was worth a short update.

I have a lot of stuff to write about right now, but it will have to stay on my TODO List until I finish getting Windows back up to speed :(. Suffice to say, I was troubleshooting for about 2 weeks, and then an NVIDIA ForceWare update hosed my installation of Windows XP Pro.

Later.

In case you didn't know, the NVIDIA ForceWare v178.13 drivers for NVIDIA GeForce video cards was released back on September 25th. It includes the latest version of the PhysX System Software.

I got Iron Man from Netflix yesterday (it's 4:41 AM). I was checking it out and ended up watching most of the movie.

Just wanted to say that the Iron Man scenes are amazing :D.

Project Origin, the real sequel to F.E.A.R., has officially been renamed to F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin thanks to Monolith getting the rights to the name back.

Also, F.E.A.R. 2 has been dated! It's coming to North America on Feb 10th, 2009, and to Europe on Feb 13th.

I don't know if this is a recent change or not, but the "Game Details" block on a game's Steam Store page now lists "3rd-party DRM."

Edit: BioShock's SecuROM isn't listed, so only certain games will list the 3rd-party DRM. Hopefully all games added from now on will have it listed.

Example: Crysis Warhead.

Secrets of Great Art (2007):

Secrets of Great Art is a good point-and-click puzzle game where you're either finding hidden objects in a picture, or finding the differences between a picture and a modified version of the same picture. There are 60 levels, and while the objects and differences in every level are random, the gameplay mode is not. Every level uses one gameplay mode or the other and it never changes, not even on different playthroughs.

Koroush Ghazi's TweakGuides Tweaking Companion (TGTC) for Windows XP and Vista has been updated to v4.2 and v2.2 respectively.

In case you didn't know, Silent Hill 5: Homecoming was released on September 30th, though I think you could only buy it starting October 1st. In any case, it's also being released on the PC, a Steam exclusive in North America.

It was assumed that it would be released on Steam on September 30th as well, but it wasn't. Apparently it should be coming sometime between now and December 30th.

A week or so after I signed up for GameTap, the trailers stopped working :(. But now they're back :D.

I don't know what happened to them, but I think it was around the time that a big change was made. I don't really remember, I'm just glad they're back since they're pretty cool.

I made Tea...yay :P.

I've been trying to figure out a good process for recording -> editing -> encoding video for a while now, it's annoyingly confusing, hopefully I've pretty much worked it out now.

Time to eat. Later.