Aspirations, thoughts, and Operator overloading

It’s been an interesting enough week and I’m sure I could ramble about something half-way interesting, but I’m going to ramble on about Steam and other digital download options instead.

I’ve a friend at work who occasionally brings up Team Fortress 2 and part of me always cringes, as the requirement for me to play would mean that I would have to finally bite the bullet and get a Steam account. That or camp out as his house for weeks on end.

I think the former would work out better.

Steam in itself isn’t evil, and buying something off of Steam isn’t akin to throwing away your money, but it just hasn’t made a lot of sense to me to get an account and purchase any games from them.

As I mentioned back in Oct 2008, I’m a fan of hard media for games. This is/was for two reasons:

1. I want to be able to install/reinstall without limitations.
2. I support the right to resale/trade/give away used goods.

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Another day and some progress. A Wiki has been started, groceries purchased and a Cordon Bleu lunch a week ahead of my birthday. Not a bad way for the day to go.

I think I’ve managed to read another page of a C++ book I borrowed from the library but I still feel pretty good about my progress. I can see how I could overuse that word, but it’s really been a concern of mine lately. I’ve read C++ books in the past but felt pretty overwhelmed. I also got distracted a bit by other things, namely video games.

Of course with me being ‘me’, I don’t tend to stay on one topic for too long. Something usually comes along and grabs my attention and I’ll be derailed by it for a while. I suppose that could be called fickle, but I like to think I’ll get back to it eventually.

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