What a Difference 10 Gigs Make.

I've finished Machinarium.  Past the demo hints I mentioned, I actually never used the hint system even once, which I'm pretty proud of.  I'll have my reflections about the game up eventually, and maybe log a review of it just for fun.
 
When finished with that, I wondered where my gaming eyes would fall next.  We managed to clear like, 10 GB (gigabytes, not Game Banshee or Giant Bomb) of hard drive space after a long overdue purge of old files and defragmentation, and it was sorta like getting a bunch of money.  The first words out of my mouth then were pretty much "I wanna re-install Diablo."  All this talk of Diablo III and Torchlight (the name keeps making me think of Doctor Who spinoffs) had me wanting to kill things, take their stuff, and possibly repair it.
 
Since the purge I had to make sure I had the latest Diablo II patch just in case they'd updated, and apparently they nearly had.  In that, they were still actively working on patch 1.13, something that has yet to be released.  First it was an issue with Warcraft III that forced the "legacy" team at Blizzard to reorient and stop whatever madness that exploit was allowing; then when they got back on the Diablo patch they realized that adding more space to the cache threatened game performance!!  I still can't quite wrap my mind around that one, but I guess keeping track of all these extra items would be brutal on the already optimized multiplayer servers and ladder tracking thing.  I doubt it would have much impact on single-player--  regardless, they said that they had to hammer that down to see if it was even possible to implement it NOW, rather than put out 1.13 as-is and then try to add the cache upgrade later, since that would likely be even harder to implement.
 
All this had my eyes bugging a bit.  It also had me hesitating to install Diablo II, since I have a completist mindset when it comes to game versions.  I know that a better version of Diablo II is out there, so I'm going to wait for it!
 
So, I get up this mornin' and see that my go-to GOG (Good Old Games, not Gog from the land of Magog) is selling a game I regretted not getting when I passed by in the bargain bin.  After watching Greg Kasavin's love letter* on Gamespot (for like the third time, I think) I decided it was time to go for it.  More than a gig of game in that purchase, and it's taking a while to download, but I think I found something to do with my spare time (and something to occupy all this spare space). 
 
Download 44% complete.  It's going to be a long day :)
 
*Note: Thankfully, a Greg Kasavin-style love letter is not the same as a Frank Booth-style love letter.  At least as far as I know.
 
P.S. Download 100%, but apparently this machine is outpaced by [the game I downloaded], which I didn't think was possible considering how old it is.  Looks like yet another game is going to get exported to the laptop.  Too bad I didn't think to download the demo first! :P