I’ve been meaning to post something here for a while and today felt like the day. I’ve been a bit sick since getting back from the Armageddon expo and spent about three days in bed recovering at the worst of it. It’s improved a lot now thankfully, but as is often the case the last dregs seem to hang on a long time. *coughs*. Armageddon itself was a bit of a waste of time, but it was good to catch up with friends and the weather was beautiful.  In regard to Armageddon I don’t feel that it’s me that’s changed at all. I’m still into the same sorts of things (perhaps moreso in some cases), but Armageddon today feels far more parochial to me. The event is technically bigger, but feels smaller if that makes any sense. There’s a world of interesting things out there, but Armageddon seems to be limiting itself to the staid, predictable and boring. 10 seconds browsing my RSS feeds provides more stimulation. Really meeting up with friends is the only reason I feel like going anymore. I kind of regret not staying an extra day or so, but had quite a lot going on at the time and had a dental appointment to come back to. I ended up delaying that due to getting sick so didn’t really need to rush back as it turned out.

I haven’t really found any time for gaming lately. I want to play more Aion, but simply haven’t been able to find the time. It’s not that I’m playing anything else instead even though I do have a bit of a backlog currently. That said, I’m finding the wait for the PS3 release of Dragon Age really painful. Really looking forward to that one. It seems there’s not much on the pre-order lists currently as hardly any games want to go head to head against Modern Warfare 2.  I disliked the previous game in the series personally so have zero interest in this one, but thankfully Assassin’s Creed 2 has bucked the trend and should be out late November. I really enjoyed the original Assassin’s Creed faults and all so am really looking forward to this one.

I’m still a bit unsure what I think of the current Anime season. It looked very weak based on the early information coming out, but there’s a few I’ve been enjoying. Most feel like that could fall of the rails at any time so I don’t want to get my hopes up. I’ve been having some Blu-rays of shows from the previous season turn up. The anime companies are really starting to hang of Blu-ray mastering I must say. Putting their extra content on DVDs though does nothing for me. Nothing makes DVD look worse than watching it straight after finishing a Blu-ray.

It’s really been the time for new Operating Systems with Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6), Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.10 all coming out in the last month or two. I’m using all of them in some form. Ubuntu 9.10 was a bit disappointing with as many backward steps as forward ones, but the other two were reasonably solid upgrades.