Back on May 13, 2011, GCA hit 4700 downloads at e23.
Today, May 23, 2011, GCA hit 4719 downloads at e23, triple those of the next highest product, GURPS Spaceships, at 1573. (Our previous such milestone was GCA hitting 1850 back on April 2, 2007, which was double GURPS Mysteries, the next highest product at the time, at 925.)
Way back on March 7, 2011, GCA hit 4600 downloads at e23.
I have been woefully remiss in posting here. Let’s just assume nothing has happened in the last few months, and move along.
Yesterday, after owning an XBox 360 for something like a year and a half, I starting playing my first XBox 360 video game. And I sure do suck. I starting playing Mass Effect, and I have found that it’s rather difficult for me. Luckily, I knew in advance that I’m not all that, so I set the difficulties to the easiest I could, and started playing. I’m enjoying the game so far, even though I haven’t played very long.
My biggest problem is controlling the camera. I’m always running the damn thing in the wrong direction, or too far in the right direction, so I have trouble seeing the enemy and shooting them. I also have trouble remembering the controls to use for various things. I know this will all improve with play and practice. After all, this is only my second modern video game, with my previous having been Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction on the Playstation 3.
I think I played for about two hours, yesterday, and stopped mostly because I was having some wrist/hand pain from holding the controller. Definitely don’t have the gamer training, there. And in those two hours, I didn’t advance the plot much, either, as I kept getting lost in the first scenario.
Anyway, that’s it for now.
Back on January 13, 2011, GCA hit 4500 downloads at e23.
And, since I forgot, again, back on November 5, 2010, GCA hit 4402 downloads at e23.
Today, August 24, 2010, GCA hit 4300 downloads at e23.
And, since I forgot it back when it happened: two months ago, on June 23, 2010, GCA hit 4200 downloads at e23.
Stress kills. Really. Here’s a fascinating article in Wired about it: Under Pressure: The Search for a Stress Vaccine. I thought it really interesting that the worst stress wasn’t even what many people consider to be stressful, but was instead from a lack of control over their situations.
Today, April 21, 2010, GCA hit 4101 downloads at e23.
Today, February 19, 2010, GCA hit 4001 downloads at e23.
Back on December 28, 2009 GCA hit 3901 downloads at e23. Oddly, sales have picked back up a bit again; currently hovering around 60 downloads every 30 days.