Alas, I'm not emo. "I'd be so happy… if I was emo" is what I came up with to describe how I felt after a failed (a pass or fail) exam at college. The oxymoron brings a smile to my face whenever I remember it and sort of describes my depression that grows with every resume that fails to get me a programming, never mind game programming, job.

Title aside, I'm much too happy of a person to rant so negative, so…

On to more positive, nostalgic topics though. I dug around my external hardrive and was rather surprised by some of the items I found. Formost were the various versions of Game Maker installers that I found, ranging from 5.3A to 6.1 Beta. I might even be able to find 4.x exe if I dug around enough. Not much in itself since you can get all of the installers I found from Marks website (save for the 6.1 Beta), but I also found my registation keys for 6.x and 7.0 in a file.

Now I knew that I had regisered GM back before 6.0 came out and that I had printed a copy of the email, fortunatly (or unfortuanatly) I keep a lot of stuff and was able to track the paper down in a matter of minutes. So for old times sake I installed 5.3A and 6.1 and regestered them. Then I figured, what the heck, I'll try installing 7.0 with the registation key I never got working. Well I installed it and after some work I got it registered. Turns out that when I had YoYo give me upgrade to 7.0 they took the liberty of not using my name for the registration (at this point I imagine everyone upgrading got the exact same code), my name was YOY, no wonder trying to use my name gave me the fail message.

So at this point I have three versions of GM regestered, so I decide to dig through the various games that I downloaded over the years. Found two versions of Bacteria 2 (H Unit and eo) added to the (sadly) GM7 version I have currently, the GM7 is almost twice the size of the older versions. If you haven't played Bacteria 2 yet, go download it, it's one of the best stratedgy/puzzle games I've come across. I also found several Shawn64 (god rest) creations. Multiple wonderful things from Dark Sirrus Games. And many other gems that make GM such a wonderful gift.

Meh.. guess that that.