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Oh, no, this can't be good...
16 years ago
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MOST RECENT STORY: Friends With Benefits
IN PROGRESS: Therapy: Chapter Six: Destination, Part II
CURRENT DISTRACTION: Half-Life 2
Yesterday I was attempting to update my video drivers, because it had been something like two years since the last time I did it.
For those who are curious, I own a Lenovo ThinkPad T42 that was made back when IBM was still putting its label on the ThinkPad brand. It's a pretty good laptop, even being five years old. It has a 100GB hard drive, 1.25GB of RAM, a 1.7GHz Pentium M processor, Windows XP Professional, and an ATI MOBILITY Radeon 9600 graphics card, which was top of the line for laptops when I purchased it. The whole thing cost me around $1600, and it's been completely worth it. I try to take really good care of it, running virus and spyware scans twice a week.
The problem arose last night, when I went to the Lenovo support site to download the driver updates for my graphics card, and found that there had been no updates released since the last time I updated.
"Oh, shit" was the first thing out of my mouth. I was kind of scared about that. What if some of my favorite games would no longer function because my video drivers were out of date? In a panic, I started Steam up and fired up Half-Life 2 to see if it would still work.
Imagine my relief when I found that the game still functioned perfectly, even with everything set to the highest settings. No lag, no clipping, no sound garbling, nothing. All was well in the world of Gordon Freeman.
So, why the bleak journal title? Well...I've become addicted to Half-Life 2 once again.
Yeah.
This can't be good.
Folks who write purty good:
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ysrnty
IN PROGRESS: Therapy: Chapter Six: Destination, Part II
CURRENT DISTRACTION: Half-Life 2
Yesterday I was attempting to update my video drivers, because it had been something like two years since the last time I did it.
For those who are curious, I own a Lenovo ThinkPad T42 that was made back when IBM was still putting its label on the ThinkPad brand. It's a pretty good laptop, even being five years old. It has a 100GB hard drive, 1.25GB of RAM, a 1.7GHz Pentium M processor, Windows XP Professional, and an ATI MOBILITY Radeon 9600 graphics card, which was top of the line for laptops when I purchased it. The whole thing cost me around $1600, and it's been completely worth it. I try to take really good care of it, running virus and spyware scans twice a week.
The problem arose last night, when I went to the Lenovo support site to download the driver updates for my graphics card, and found that there had been no updates released since the last time I updated.
"Oh, shit" was the first thing out of my mouth. I was kind of scared about that. What if some of my favorite games would no longer function because my video drivers were out of date? In a panic, I started Steam up and fired up Half-Life 2 to see if it would still work.
Imagine my relief when I found that the game still functioned perfectly, even with everything set to the highest settings. No lag, no clipping, no sound garbling, nothing. All was well in the world of Gordon Freeman.
So, why the bleak journal title? Well...I've become addicted to Half-Life 2 once again.
Yeah.
This can't be good.
Folks who write purty good:
incog 
jewelwriter 
sanuramosi 
thewanderingpikachu 
ysrnty
...Gonna go ahead and assume its the original seeing as you said simply "half-life 2"
Now how can I fit the phrase "Half-life 2" into here anymore? I've got one more.
Half-life 2: Fuck you poison headcrabs.
Let's give you 1HP, NOW A FEATHER SHALL KILL YOU!
careful....careful.....
*POISON HEADCRAB ATTACK*
AGH!
*stubs toe*
*eet eet, eeeeeeeeet....*
*me at controller* ......F***!