Been a long time since I wrote anything here, and I've forgotten if anything interesting has happened.
I've played through Alan Wake, which I thought was a great game. It's a tiny bit repetitive at times, and the ending is weak compared to the plot points that have been raised earlier (possibly resolved in DLC?), but yes overall I had a good time playing it. If you're just playing it for the environments I can heartily recommend that as they are thick with atmosphere.
Am currently playing through the new Prince of Pepsi game whose subtitle I can never never remember. It's pretty good, but I am kinda tired of the freeze-water puzzles now as they're all just variations of the same timing challenge. I just got to the area called 'Aqueducts' and saw all the water features and kinda decided to take a break there. I think the game is a bit cheap with the blue orbs. I'll probably (hopefully) finish this one though.
New (not so much anymore) Autechre is
fucking awesome.I (still) need to buy a speaker setup for PC/TV. The old logitechs I've got for the PC now are a bit tinny and the TV speakers crackle whenever there's loud bass.
The back "burner" on my stovetop stopped working for some reason and now I've got to replace it but I fear it is going to be a massive hassle so I'm putting it off as long as I can stand. The people who I bought this place off redid the kitchen with an cooker island, and I have trouble figuring out how they did the wiring and I might have to tear down half a wall to pull out the old stove. I'd like to redo the whole kitchen so I could fit in a dishwasher actually, but, meh, effort.
I'm thinking about buying a netbook. I'm not sure what for to be honest...