I spent a good deal of time trolling
for deals on the newly-implemented Steam Market. This feature allows
one to purchase in-game items from other players, trading on Steam
Wallet funds. The brilliance of it is that since Steam gets a cut of
the sale, however small, they're making money on a product that they
already sold. (With the exception of crates and other randomly
dropped items, which would be free
otherwise.) TF2 is currently the only game supported, which suits me
well enough. Alaric and I had a brief argument about the expected
utility of waiting to snag deals on items; his position centered on
considering the matter in terms of utiles, while mine was more of a
cost-benefit analysis. It was an enjoyably intellectual exchange
granted the inane subject matter – description tags for virtual
weapons
pixels. I did snap one up for $.06 when the average going rate was
$.58 or so, and trending upward slowly but surely.
At the library, I met my friend Andrew from RRE to study for our
final tomorrow. The library always sucks, but especially at this time
of the semester. We reviewed the year's material, crossed our
fingers, went off topic quite a lot, and finally hit the road after
sufficiently wearing ourselves out. We share the high
school-cultivated habit of never studying unless it's known to be
necessary.
Some
of us gathered at Eric's behest to watch The
Man With the Iron Fists,
written, directed, and starred in by RZA (yes, of Wu-Tang Clan.) His
performance was solid, if not amazing; Lucy Liu as Madame Ninja (not
her name, but you get the picture) was enjoyably corny; and Russell
Crowe was quite entertaining as Mr. Knife, though I wish he had been
the villain. Much time that might have been allocated to character
development became more fight scene material, which carries an
obvious set of pros and cons, but the movie was rather watchable
overall. Not to mention, pro wrestler Dave Bautista made a fun
appearance as Brass Body, which prompted us to watch some wrestling
after the movie finished. Alaric demonstrated remarkable proficiency
in pro wrestling knowledge, and we decided that drunken
wrestle-watching might be a wonderful time waiting to happen.
Quote of the day:"Your descent into madness is tangible today." - Alaric
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