When I opened my eyes today, one thought ran through my mind: "What the hell was that?" I got info about Star Control II from giantbomb. Quite weird actually. I watched the last "Building a Bomb" video and the video was linked to SCII. Curiosity took me, I looked the game up. I got interested and thanks to a review in YouTube, got the game for free. Thank god for that... I downloaded The Ur-Quan Masters and started playing it on my old laptop about twelve o'clock midnight.

The story hooked me. It sounded interesting. Also, the shere scope of the game astounded me. It's so freaking big... so big infact, that I'm starting to belive, that I don't have time for this game.

Basically, the game boils down to collecting minerals while avoiding hazards and collecting data, dog-fighting with other space-crafts and exploring the whole f-ing space... It's a simple game, in design at least. And addicting as hell... But there is hardly any story now, you know your mission pretty much straight away. If there are twists, which I hope, I'm in luck...

But yeah... collecting dots and upgrading my ship, that was how my night went. I came across few threats, but thanks to the save anywhere option, the strategy part is stolen away.

When I finally came to my senses, it was five o'clock in the morning. I saved and tried some hair-brain schemes and went to bed. With a weird feeling... I don't get my condition. Am I awestruck or something? Is the dot collecting game that good or have my standards flewn away? I don't get it.

Like any other, I was devastated by the fact that Jeff Gerstmann left GameSpot. Time went by and yesterday I embarassingly discovered, that Jeff was back in a new site. I googled Jeff and found a Wikipedia page of him. Love the fact that a great guy is in there There was information about the new site. Now I have to gaming related sites on my Bookmark and an account to each. If anyone hasn't yet discovered this... unlikely, but still: http://www.giantbomb.com

So once in a while I get happy stuff too, and this time it was my birthday. The day itself (last Friday) wasn't that special. There was a physics test and I pretty much failed it. This was the first time in years, that I was kinda anxious about presents. I told my mom that I would want Stephen Kings "Gunslinger", "Drawing of the Three", and "The Waste Lands". (in estonian of course...) My father also gave me 1000 estonian money (kroonid, kui keegi veel ei tea). My mother got me the first two books, saying that it was a start and the second one was from my brother and his girlfriend. I don't really mind, I love the books, although I've never read them. I did kinda know, that they would be awesome. I'm really enjoying "The Gunslinger", I've read half way through, which is good, since I don't read that often. I didn't know what to do with the money first, actually. In the afternoon I surfed the internet and found a site, that transported books from the USA to Estonia. I ordered Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" and Clive Barker's "Imajica". Since I have read all the Garry Totter books besides the seventh one (in english), I thought I'd give the two authors a chance. I actually wanted Clive Barker's "Weaveworld" too, but you don't get that much with 800 EEK. (I bought a christmas present for my classmate for 200) I can't wait until they arrive. Has anyone read either of those books?

Good things don't come always with bad, but this time it did. My dad has been drinking alot and yesterday my mother finally threw him basically out. Haven't seen him since Monday evening... I wonder what will happen...