Thanksgiving weekend
Dec. 1st, 2003 10:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmazeIt was a very unproductive long weekend. Maybe this is for the better. Spent Thanksgiving proper with the ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
atsuketsu crowd. Played a fair amount of Soul Calibur 2 ("you know all the disturbing moves") and tried the Star Wars game they're playing, with somewhat minor success. Didn't play the board games I brought, no real surprise. Didn't fail tragically in the ways I was afraid of, yay.
I spent most of the day Friday figuring out Freeciv and Microsoft Train Simulator. "I get creamed by the AI players after 1 AD" is in fact a Freeciv FAQ. And the MSTS downloads I was having trouble with were depending on cars in Microsoft's official update. Oops. The "good" NECv4 Northeast Corridor implementation has better signalling than Microsoft's implementation. But it never displays approach aspects on interlocking signals, which is irritating; you wind up having to guess whether an advance approach (flashing yellow) signal really means "the next signal is yellow" or "the next signal is a diverging interlocking signal". One of the routes, from the "NEC summer pack" download, was a commuter run, which ended with approach limited (yellow over flashing green), then a mile later medium approach (red over flashing yellow), and exiting the interlocking was a restricting (red over white) signal. One other quick run I did last night also had a similar configuration. Wouldn't it be restricting entering the interlocking? Failing that, shouldn't the approach signal be approach medium?
Saturday I got talked into brunch at S&S. Went from there to SIPB, was reminded that users can be irritating, but then got dragged off to dinner at Texas and shopping at Target. I got pants! And a couple of shirts, and a sweater, and toilet paper, and laundry detergent. And on an impulse buy, I bought Railroad Tycoon 3, which managed to eat up all day Sunday too. It's very much like Railroad Tycoon 2, but with prettier graphics. If you liked 2, you'll like 3, but I probably wouldn't feel compelled to buy it now unless I felt like I had a nice computer with nice graphics hardware that was going to waste.
atsuketsu crowd. Played a fair amount of Soul Calibur 2 ("you know all the disturbing moves") and tried the Star Wars game they're playing, with somewhat minor success. Didn't play the board games I brought, no real surprise. Didn't fail tragically in the ways I was afraid of, yay.I spent most of the day Friday figuring out Freeciv and Microsoft Train Simulator. "I get creamed by the AI players after 1 AD" is in fact a Freeciv FAQ. And the MSTS downloads I was having trouble with were depending on cars in Microsoft's official update. Oops. The "good" NECv4 Northeast Corridor implementation has better signalling than Microsoft's implementation. But it never displays approach aspects on interlocking signals, which is irritating; you wind up having to guess whether an advance approach (flashing yellow) signal really means "the next signal is yellow" or "the next signal is a diverging interlocking signal". One of the routes, from the "NEC summer pack" download, was a commuter run, which ended with approach limited (yellow over flashing green), then a mile later medium approach (red over flashing yellow), and exiting the interlocking was a restricting (red over white) signal. One other quick run I did last night also had a similar configuration. Wouldn't it be restricting entering the interlocking? Failing that, shouldn't the approach signal be approach medium?
Saturday I got talked into brunch at S&S. Went from there to SIPB, was reminded that users can be irritating, but then got dragged off to dinner at Texas and shopping at Target. I got pants! And a couple of shirts, and a sweater, and toilet paper, and laundry detergent. And on an impulse buy, I bought Railroad Tycoon 3, which managed to eat up all day Sunday too. It's very much like Railroad Tycoon 2, but with prettier graphics. If you liked 2, you'll like 3, but I probably wouldn't feel compelled to buy it now unless I felt like I had a nice computer with nice graphics hardware that was going to waste.
