Site Redesign and stuff

I have been staying pretty busy over the past week, but sadly not much of it has involved gaming. Well, not directly.

I made the new site design for fortuente.com live yesterday. Originally it had a CSS-based dropdown menu system, but it didn't work in Internet Explorer so I just shoved the sidebar to the bottom of the page and relased it in a pique. I'll be refining the site little by little, I will probably end up using a Javascript menu or switch to a regular two-column layout.

It did prompt me to be frustrated enough with IE to include a "Get Firefox" button at the bottom of the page. I should probably be fair and have an Opera button as well. Lol.

The past week the only two games I have managed to log any time into are Colonization and Team Fortress 2. I think I am beginning to understand my Team Fortress 2 fascination: I seem to really get into TF2 mode when I am working on something like designing or developing a web site. I mean, after staring at numbered lines of colored letters on a white screen for six hours what is really better than sparking up a fatty, putting some Prince Jammy on foobar and blowing people up?

Colonization, however, is what gets me pumped up to tackle the projects. I have to say, however, some of it's imperfections have been showing. But it matters not, it's still a really interesting take on Civilization 4 - in fact it has me pining for a mod that plays like Civ4, but includes the economics and logistics of Colonization. "Civilization Ultimate" or some such thing.

I plan on starting a new Colonization game tonight or tomorrow, and hopefully this time I will beat it. In fact, I think I'll post my save games for anyone who would like to see in-game what I'm writing about.

I haven't even got around to buying Fallout 3 yet, there is so much to do. As much as I have been looking forward to this game, I've decided to put it on the backburner for now. I really want to get my LOTRO Champion (still 37) to 50 before Mines of Moria comes out.

I fear that will never happen, though. Which brings me to a predicament I have been having lately: swearing off MMOs for good. As in all MMO-type games. The reason, I think is that I am simply not a social person. I have had a great amount of fun playing with other people in non-MMO environments - Neverwinter Nights 1 and Team Fortress are two good examples - but those experiences are less about chatting and more about playing the game.

I enjoy exploring, which is probably what attracted me most to these games in the first place, but the perpetual grinds they seem to be comprised of has really worn on me. I suppose I lack the time and people skills to really fill in the blanks. But I will keep plugging along - why not?

Which leads me to Wrath of the Lich King. Will I buy it? Will I resub to that pit of insanity known as WoW?

The sad, sad truth is that I will. I had my finger on the renew subscription button just an hour ago, but fortunately I gave the girlfriend my plastic. Gives me even more time to think, lol.