Now with new hat

This is another off-week, time to pick up some more silly things. The only stuff I have marked down in my calendar are the release date of the newest version of the Fedora Linux distribution, version 12 nicknamed Constantine, and the new King's Bounty game. Fedora 11 has been finicky since day one, so I hope 12 can iron out the kinks. The first ever Linux distribution I bought (as in a store, using real American money) was Red Hat's 6.0 Linux distro, back in 1999, along side maddog's Linux For Dummies. Long story short, it didn't live very long inside my Compaq Presario 1230 laptop, but it got the party started. I use Ubuntu mainly on various laptops and virtual machines both at home and at work, but my main desktop will always be Red Hat/Fedora.

As for King's Bounty, I always heard the PC guy's talk it up, but never had a PC capable of running it at any sort of playable state. Things have changed recently, so I'm sort of back in the PC game for the first time ever, actually. And look, here's a new PC game coming out, that doesn't have rednecks in space, or rednecks in jungles, or inner-city gangsters, designed by rednecks. I gave the demo a quick spin and was shocked to find a colorful, deep, turn-based RPG, starring a girl who doesn't look like Marylin Manson. Doubly so since the game is developed by a small Russian software house. The last time a small-time Russian developer was allowed to release a game into the world we got X-Blades for our troubles. You can see why I was skeptical at first. But King's Bounty Armored Princess did the trick, I salute you crazy Russian dudes, and will buy your game. If I can get my hand's on it. The last time I tried to buy something from Gamer's Gate I was curb stomped back into my own hemisphere. The exchange rate's have shifted a little since then, maybe my dollar is worth a little more than toilet paper these days. Last time I checked, though, they can use the toilet paper in Russia.