having written some software in my life, i'm always amazed when i play console games and never see them crash.
well, after having to fail a vice city mission because the car with the stuff in it that i'm supposed to steal got stuck in such a way that i couldn't get the stuff out, so i had to blow it up (which fails the mission) it locks up!
since i had given up on the save-after-every-mission (reverting to a saved game every time you fail a mission is pretty lame, imho), i didn't have a saved game for the last 6 or 7 hours - in which i had passed many missions (including quite a few tough ones).
so not only do i lose all of that time and stuff, but all trust in the game's ability not to crash is gone, and so i have to save after every (successful) mission. blah.
other than that it's still pretty sweet. i stole a police helicopter.
oh and i put the gta3 dvd in my laptop, and it came up with a bunch of files. when i ejected i got a kernel panic.
last night joe and i went over to phil's since we hadn't seen him in almost as long as he hasn't been updating his web page. and, we found out why - evidently he's been practicing sniping in halo quite a bit.
anyway it's getting pretty light out so i should probably go to sleep. i have a lot of missions to redo tomorrow.