Failed The id Software Test
188 words.
Well I installed Quake 4 tonight and found that, not surprisingly, my computer is obsolete.
Through the years, all id software games have been extremely reliable benchmarks of a computer’s horsepower, or lack thereof. Every single new id software game that has ever been released, starting way back with Doom, has required some kind of computer upgrade in order to run it smoothly. It’s almost as if there is some evil conspiracy between id software and the computer hardware manufacturers.
My motherboard is over 2 years old anyway, so it’s clearly outlived its usefulness. (Strange, though, how Half-Life 2, a similarly intensive game, runs fairly decent on my system.)
In other news, I’ve written a “mission statement” for my portal. This will guide me in future development. It has guided me in past development too, but now that it is recorded for all the world to see, I won’t be tempted by any of that nasty “scope creep.” To see the mission statement and be amazed at how boring a mission statement can be, scroll down to the bottom of this page and click the tiny “uvPortal-PHP” link.
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