stinkin' thinkin'

well that was odd
I woke up this morning and my left ankle was painful. It felt like I'd bashed it or pulled a muscle or done something to the joint, although I don't recall anything happening to it the day before. I was hobbling about a bit during a lot of the day. Seems to be getting better now though. Maybe I did something to it when I was feeding the sheep or something. Oh well, whatever, seems to be going away now.

Accordingly I haven't really done that much today apart from sit around playing Burnout Paradise on the xbox (no bad way to spend an easter sunday really). I've always enjoyed the Burnout series and I'm liking this a lot - it's a bit more pure than that previous version where you could shove all the traffic around like snooker balls. I sometimes get the arse with having to choose the route, I don't know the city innately enough yet to make choice of route second nature, and taking your eyes off the road at 200MPH to look at the satnav map will not uncommonly result in finding yourself embedded in the backside of a bus. Mind you there have also been awesome races where i have got totally lost and then gratuitously lucked out finding an odd route or shortcut enabling me to hurtle to an undeserved but satisfying victory, so I guess that works both ways :).

Makes you realise how far gaming has come in some aspects. I remember when the likes of Pole Position were the cutting edge.

Simple things like there being perspective on the road! and cars that got bigger as you got close to them! were AMAZING back then. Never mind that really the game played a bit like arse. It was entirely lovable, though, for its bright colours and spinny steering wheel - but yeah, when you look at the new Burnout it reminds you how far we've come...

It's beautifully seamless, too, with a large city and surrounding countryside to explore. I even spent a good time this afternoon racing through the city with a friend who happens to be in Tokyo. We take the online stuff for granted these days but when you stop to think about it it's actually pretty awesome. Yeah, we've come a long way since Pole Position. It's ace living in the future sometimes :).