~tipani

My journal can be read at [link] ... old entries copied there.

The fall has come and I've been in the army for a couple of months. Still enjoying it, but always looking forward to the date I'll be commissioned back home, which is still roughly a year in the future. :S

now that my cousin has taken her camera away I might
just take a small pause and concentrate on school and stuff

happy new year folks!

By now I've finished maybe the most anticipated PC-game ever created.

All I can say that it's worth the wait and definitely worth its price-tag as I've seen much worse games sold with higher price. Until now my fav game was Far Cry, which of course is an exceptional piece of art itself, too. Now this place has been taken by Half-Life 2

The graphics is absolutely stunning but what makes me, as a gamer, grasp is the smoothness of the flow of the story as it unfolds.

I find character animation and dialogue superb to any other titles so far - well, maybe quite even with Deus Ex's. Quoting some review I read today, something like "Valve has managed to create proportionally natural female characters", with which I totally agree.

It's actually not Alyx I found myself interested in but the poor research scientist dr. Judith Mossman and her indecision that made her character so alive, so human-like. Especially the scene at the end where mr. totalitarian, doctor Breen, actually holds her by the elbow - it really made me feel a type of anger.

The feeling of unity and attachment... it was a new emotion to me as a gamer. Until now I've only felt fear, running in dark alleys with zombies chasing me, but attachment...

You just gotta play it yourself. Soon you'll not even notice you're playing.

just wanted to write something to get rid of the last entry since it's obsolete

be sure to check this awesome online soccer manager at [link]

only a few days before hl2 is due release.. can hardly wait