This One's For All The Gamers

God I feel like crap.

I'm coming down with a summer cold and I hate that. Colds are nasty as they are, but they're supposed to come in the winter, you know, when it's cold? I know I said I was trying to keep cool and out of the warmth, but this is ridiculous.

Now, to bring this away from me, and more towards, well, me, I have a question for all my gaming friends out there. I've found that I don't do well on the regular first person shooter games, or most player versus player games at all, to be honest. I find them fun for a while, but after a relatively short time just give them up and go back to stupid little games like Splash Back or The Yeti Olympics (what's your highest score?), and when I'm feeling particularly masochistic I play this typing game I found, because typing for my job for hours on end just isn't enough. I was in the top ten on that last game a couple of times. I'm strangely proud of that, it's sad.

Then I found games in outerspace, flying a spaceship and dogfighting, blowing other fighters out of the sky while also setting Capital Ships aflame. This interests me as much as it did when Star Wars Trilogy (the big game you could sit in and fly around in different scenarios in the Star Wars universe) came out in arcades and I got to the point where I could devastate any high score that was previously made. On one quarter.

So, I like these games.

Here's where the questions come in:

1) What is the best joystick out there for these kinds of games? It's just not the same without a good joystick, a mouse doesn't have that kind of control.

2) What are some good games in this genre? Note, I don't necessarily care about planes, I like the 3d aspect of a fight in space or something similar.

2a) Does anyone know if Star Wars Trilogy came out for the computer? Because that would kick ass, and I would pay a lot of money for it.

Thank you for any thoughts, comments or suggestions. I promise that later I'll write an entertaining post, and it will probably be about zombies, ghosts, or an amalgamation of both.

Friends, Romans, Livejournaliams, Lend Me Your Thoughts

I have started a rough draft on a zombie book! This excites me very much, and gets me hopeful for the future because we all know that the Zombie Apocalypse is more than just serious business, like the internet, it is also a topic that enthralls the masses, making us into slobbering zombies who will do anything to sink our juicy brains into the teeth of the genre.

Or something like that, I may have it backwards, I never can remember because I try not to think like a zombie, but like a Survivor instead.

So - what the hell do I do? Do I get an agent to help me promote the book? Do I get an editor first? Do I go to one of those "print it yourself and save the hassle of those companies and silly things that do nothing but cost you money when in reality they might help you make money because they know about things about marketing and the like?"

I know I have a few published authors out there, and also some very intelligent people that have given me advice in the past that I have, unfortunately, set aside as I realized my tasks previous to this weren't doable at my current level. This project? Completely doable, and I'm really really excited.

Once the book becomes overwhelmingly popular (like, I sell 50, that's popular, right?) I will go on to make my camp because I'll have some weight behind my name! Like...social weight...not fat weight.

What?