Settling in to the new job nicely now. Getting to know people and enjoying the fact that although the company as a whole is one of a reasonable size, there's none of the "big corporate" feel that frustrated me so much at the last place. We have meetings and conference calls, but they last for two or three minutes. No-one wastes their time reading out project management tools; it's just a quick and efficient "hello everyone, anyone got anything that everyone else needs to know?" before letting everyone go on their way.
Anyway. I shall refrain from talking further about that for now because that's not why any of you are here. Suffice to say for now that things are going well and — hopefully — this will be a good thing for me in the long term. Fingers crossed.
I posted a full playthrough of one of my all-time favourite adventure games over on YouTube today. Rise of the Dragon is one of the first DOS PC games I remember playing, and it's one that I'm pretty sure most of my family got involved with — I certainly remember playing it with my brother, and it would be unlike my mother not to get stuck in to an adventure game of some sort. I also remember playing it with my school friends.
I find it quite amusing how short it is. I remember us getting stuck for weeks at a time on it, though I do remember beating it — I have an oddly vivid memory of my friend Ed and I shouting "I AM BAHUMAT" [sic] at one another, in reference to the game's finale sequence. I do not, however, remember successfully beating the "arcade" sequences in the game before; I'd normally just die deliberately five times so you can skip them, but on the video I actually cleared them both legitimately.
I'll have to revisit Heart of China, the other game from the same people using the same engine, at some point. I definitely beat that one back in the day, too, though I don't remember it nearly as well as I do Rise of the Dragon for some reason. I do remember thinking Nurse Kate was hot though.
Anyway. It may not be late, but I think it is bedtime. Hope you've all had an acceptable Wednesday; now we're all halfway through the week, hooray! S-Rank Patrons, I haven't forgotten about you — I've been a little distracted getting settled in to the new day job though 🙂
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