Too Many Games
May 7, 2008 by dave
So, I woke up this morning with a monster headache and a line of dialogue stuck in my head.
“You get the dinosaur, I’ll get the gun.”
Now, I don’t remember what the hell I was dreaming. I have to think that it was something to do with the game that I play regularly because the game does indeed have both dinosaurs and guns.
What I am trying to puzzle out in my mind is how that particular line could apply to the game that I play. It doesn’t quite fit perfectly.
But I think it’s a spectacular line of dialogue none the less.
It bothers me that Firefox is screaming at me that I am spelling dialogue wrong and wants to spell it dialog.
I upgraded my work computer to Vista to correct a horrible issue that has been happening with the backup on my Windows XP workstation. I have discovered my backup software will not run on Vista. It’s a whole watch chain and the hair comb situation.
In doing this I started thinking of more upcoming upgrades soon to happen at work and thought of a monster problem coming my way. Now on one hand my boss is happy I thought of it before we got slapped in the face 2 seconds too late to do something about it. On the other hand, she is really pissed that it’s one more crappy thing we have to deal with. I’m with her.
This is going out turn out to be a very long week.
If you were here in Windsor, I could help put that phrase into a practical application for you Dave. On Sunday, Barney is doing a live show at a local shopping mall with special guest “Fifi”? My 4 year old daughter was very excited to hear this and expects to go. So let me just say if you get the gun, I’ll get the dinosaur.
Dave you haven’t been watching Barney again after a night of drunken game playing?
I love it free online dream analysis.
It just means that you are normal. Any normal person wants to put that purple dinosaur menace out of our collective misery. Hmmm maybe a catapult would work.
I think the wording impleies that the dinosaur “you” has to get is some sort of weapon. Like perhaps a guy riding on the back of a just-trained-enough T-Rex might be able to do some serous damage.
David, did you not read the data about Vista? I don’t care that they said they fixed the problems…they haven’t. Vista has a back door where they can go into your computer and erase programs that they don’t like! Also, if you’re working on something it will all of a sudden say “We’re shutting down your computer now, so don’t even think of saving anything as you are out of time, byebye and it has the option of shutting you out of your own computer! Plus, it is not compatible with XP!
@Dmarks
The game I speak of is World of Warcraft. Indeed you can ride dinosaurs and the “Hunter” class can train dinosaurs to be their pets and have them attack other people.
My character can make guns for the Hunter class so it could fit if I was saying, you get the dinosaur (as in train it to be your pet) and I’ll get the gun (that I made for you)
It’s all coming together now
@Kim
Trust me I know all about Vista. I do this computer thing for a living you know. Some stories get blown way out of proportion though.
Unfortunately I live in a world where sometimes I have to move to an OS that I don’t like because it ends up being the only thing supported.
In the lifecycle of an office environment I don’t get final say over which software we use. Also sometimes you are forced to upgrade certain software packages when they reach hte end of their lifecycle.
For example although I hate Vista with the burning passion of a thousand suns, I may have to upgrade a bunch of computers to it, if say my accounting software upgrades to a new version that will only run on Vista.
It’s not really overblown, vista that is. I know a few people who have it and it has shut down on them without warning, threatened to lock them out of their computer and a few other things to boot! Maybe it’s different in the States. In Canada, this is what vista does. Good thing yours doesn’t have a backdoor for it to go into and wipe your programs…World of Warcraft you say?…
@Kim
Vista does have an antipiracy feature that shuts down certain aspects of the program if it is an illegal copy.
I have no problems with this. While I have used unauthorized software (I am human after all) I don’t think I have any right to complain when a piece of essentially stolen software malfunctions.
Ask the people who you know that are having the problems where they bought it. They could be victims of counterfeiters or they could knowingly be running copied software.
While I hate Vista I’ll never blame it for things that are not its fault.