Billy Young's Blog - Posts Tagged "games"

Autumn is officially with us though the leaves have hardly started to change colour, though I have begun to harvest my blueberries for Magz to make a pie with. I’m also hoping for enough to make some more wine with. I have decanted the gooseberry wine off of its leas last weekend again, hopefully for the last time before bottling in a week. I put it on to the cold-stone, yes you still find them in some houses, in our kitchen cupboard to help draw the sediment down to the bottom of the demijohn. This weekend I’ll just leave it to clear some more while I collect more blueberries for Magz then I’ll see if I have enough for myself, which is as long as the invisible man leaves them alone.
The reinstall of Windows went well, better than expected really. I was reconnected to the web within three hours which is good for XP. It did take a bit longer to get my system fully equipped with most of the main programmes that I use most. I did make or almost made a rooky mistake and forgot to put on my antivirus, firewall, etc. I only remembered as that self satisfied feeling of achieving the difficult began settling on me. At which point I felt a rising panic before reason took hold and guided me to the sites to get them download afresh. At that the crisis was over but it did teach me for being so self satisfied in future. Well maybe not.
I might have a game of Civ5 this weekend. I have that old yearning to conquer again. You know how it is, you don’t play a game for ages then suddenly the bug bites again and you just have too…

Gaming. It can be a joy. At least some times while not always. Some games are can be like watching paint dry. This how most people will see resource management games such as I have been playing recently. In some cases this is very true they can be. Yet not all of them. My son bought me a game called "Banished" which I began playing this week. There is no soldiers or warring other than to increase the little colony you are in charge of. Easy right. Well you can make it harder with adding natural disasters to the mix. I kept that switched of for now as I learn how best to play. What happened to that other game I was playing? Well I grew bored of the long waiting times of online play to get things done. If I want to upgrade building to level 5 it will take a week to happen and in that time the building stops producing goods. That means having another building of the same type to cover the upgrade. Plus you need to use a food buff to double production every day for a week so you don't slow your other industries linked to this building. Complicated but once you've done that there is little for you to do each day while you wait. Other than sort the usual of rebuilding the mine that have run dry. After a while you do wonder if it is worth the effort or time. I suppose you can say that about all games though some hold your attention better, so are more entertaining. At least for a time.