Labadal

Playing Planescape: Torment. I'm mostly finishing up side quests I have ignored for a while.

It's funny that they spend so much time with this, but they can't finish a game they announced 6 years ago.

I bought KOTOR 2 just to have it in my STEAM collection.

That's the truest statement of the day. Some parents don't give a **** and others get ultra defensive when we bring up problems. It might sound like I don't like the job, but I love it. It's just that some days are crazier than you want them to be. There are a lot of great kids too. And even the kids that need to get their act together are fun working with most of the time. This guy needs to go to sleep if he wants to wake up in time for work.

You work with "troubled" kids, right? I work with them too...

I hope youn live for 100 years, so you get a lot of "family time"

Add to that poor and repetitive combat. Still better than Tomb Raider.

I was watching a documentary about how strong the Swedish education system is, its obviously due to people like you. So good work, you probably don't feel it but you are doing a really good service for your country. I wish my country had an education system like yours. In our public schools there are so many examples of complete ineptitude and lack of effort from teachers. They are more concerned with striking than educating the youth. We honestly get some people who finish school but they are unemployable, they can barely speak English. We have have a great educational system and I have to say the teachers really put in their heart and soul into their work. But, and this is a very big but, it's getting worse with every generation. We're getting more and more kids that finish school that you know will either end up as criminals/drug addicts or social cases or they'll get work as dishwashers (did that for 1 year myself). It hurts me like hell. I know what I do matters, but when I see kids that are only 6-7 years that are already messed up, then you want to cry. You'll be able to steer some of them in the right direction, but others... It only gets worse and worse. I'm seeing 12-13 year olds smelling cigar smoke when they come back after their breaks, and I know for sure that some of them have done drugs already (can't prove it). There are kids that when they get upset, start hitting teachers with fists, kicking or hitting them with objects, throwing objects or using swear words and breaking stuff. It's nothing like it was 6-7 years ago. It's like being in a movie where they have decided to blow stuff completely out of proportion, only this is the real deal. I don't know how many insults I've heard, or how many times someone's hit me. The great thing is that the teachers at my work are all great and we support eachother, plus the bosses are really nice too. Last year was good, with incidents now and then, but these last few months have been very tiring and frustrating. Today was probably one of those days that made me reflect at my work, because I've been able to handle most things this year, even if it's involved some really crazy ****. A day of in two days will most probably solve this, it usually does for me. Sorry for the rambling.

I use a DualShock 3 when I play PC games. My hands hurts after playing for many hours when using a 360 controller.

I'm beat. Today a kid ran away when we were on a school trip. I had to stay behind in the pouring rain for 2 hours while the other teachers had to go back to school. Scared, wet (I was wearing a freaking winter jacket) and cold as f***, I had to search for the kid on my own (until the school called the police). In the end, I said **** it, he's gone home. So I went to his house, and lo and behold, the kid walked almost 10 kilometers on his own. His parents weren't at home, so I took him with me back to school. First we ate, because we were both starving, I've never seen a kid eat that much, lol. Then we had a nice little talk, me, him and both principals. I had this crap happen to me last week too, only difference is that they were two, and they ran away from school. Working with kids isn't easy, and sometimes I wonder to myself what the hell I'm doing. I come home most days, absolutely exhausted, not feeling like doing anything. I'll sleep for an hour or two, browse the net with spotify in the background and watch any sports event currently on TV. I've got the day off on Thursday, because I've been working a lot of overtime, so I'm at least looking forward to that. Then I have until the 21 December, after that there is no more work for me this year.

HBD. I don't really care about birthdays anymore, but people keep insisting on forcing their way into my place when I have one.

Not playing much after having finished NWN2 and Dishonored. I turn the PC on, look at the gigantic backlog and then can't decide what to play. I end up browsing the net. Then I look at the consoles and portables and I think to myself that I won't be able to finish my backlog, ever.

If you guys TRPGs, the PSP has a crazy amount. I think half of my PSP collection consists of TRPGs. Add to that the possibility to play some awesome PS1 TRPGs, and you have a library to die for.

Minigames?

Q: Winter is coming? A: No, winter is already here. Looked out the window and all I see is a white nightmare. #winterisalreadyhere

I thought I was the only one that felt that way about The Witcher 2. Anyway, I just finished Dishonored. I did enjoy it and hope they'll make a sequel or a game in the same vein, but maybe they should try to balance the game better. The way it is now, the game is balanced in the players favour. I played on very hard and stealth approach, but even when I got detected, enemies could be neutralized fairly easy with long range weapons. The level design was good, and moving around the levels, finding different paths was very fun. This game did it better than Deus Ex: HR in that regard. There were different paths to take and it offers a sense of freedom, even if it might not be a sandbox game. The hub levels are big and varied, and when they start to get a little bit boring, they get changed up. Art was good, and I personally don't mind the way they chose to style the characters, wich I've read a lot of complaints about. The soundtrack did its job, there were a few tunes I really enjoyed, other than that, the music fit the setting, but nothing that will stick with me.

It's worth $20.

I'd like it to be skill based, and without mini-games.

I reached the 3rd or 4th mission in Dishonored. Having fun with the game, but once again, I have to say that doing the stealth route isn't very challenging. You just have to look for enemy patterns to avoid or choke them out.

The only redeeming factor of FFX-2 was the excellent battle system.

I might pick up a WiiU in a few years, if enough exclusive games gets released for it.

It's supposed to run well, but so were Thief 3 and Deus Ex. Both are unplayable on my PC. Still haven't played KOTOR 2 Steam version. I've only played the disc version.

I'm more of a vodka man. Although I don't drink much at all anymore. I'll settle for a few beers. But if I had to sit around all days programming, I'd drink a lot too. (Had to do a bit of programming at university some years ago, but did not find it fun. I had more fun with 3D modelling.)

KOTOR 2 is currently available for $2.49/€2.49 on flash sale.

It'll be cool to learn a little bit about each team member. I'd just like to say that whiskey isn't good, even if I drink it at very rare occasions.