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Throw and Throw [Apr. 3rd, 2009|10:15 am]
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Me: Say, you know those throw moves in Street Fighter?

My Brother: (while playing) Yeah?




Me: What if the character doesn't have a shirt on?





My Brother: Haha, I thought of that too. I guess they get grabbed by the chest hair or something.

Me: But wait a second-- some characters don't have chest hair.





Me: I guess Sagat just always gets grabbed by his nipples.

My Brother: ...

Me: No wonder he seems so angry all the time.

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Russian Wrestling Is Always Number One!! [Mar. 13th, 2009|07:57 pm]
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[the knight rests |mosh pit, baby]
[the knight hears |Foo Fighters - DOA]

I enjoy a lot of things by proxy. This is particularly true for things I can't be bothered to do, watch, or play, but I appreciate it by virtue of someone else enjoying it. Take, for instance, my brothers and the videogames they play; just watching them go through a game is usually enough for me.

Currently, my brother has been mastering the very character I thought I would regularly use in Street Fighter 4, Zangief. You see, the analog stick isn't very kind to his preferred character Ryu, and consistently conspire to corrupt his commands, especially during online play, which just drives him up the wall. He's since moved on to the more responsive Russian bear-hugger, and his track record's steadily improved for it. In fact, he's much better at using Zangief now than I am (which isn't surprising-- I must have played about an hour of the game in the past two, three weeks).

I can't say I particularly mind-- Zangief is absolutely fricking hilarious whenever he pulls off any of his throw moves, no matter who uses him.

Right now, I'm 'playing' Rock Band 2 by putting it on No Fail mode, using the controller to get the microphone interface-- the most unobtrusive one-- and then going to the tour gigs that let you make setlists. Now I can sit back and watch 'music videos' where my band characters cavort about the screen, and I don't have to play at all.

AWESOME!

Now for some way to record this shizzle. I pray part three has some way for you to control the behaviour algorithms for the avatars.

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Anyone Keeping Track of My Heads Batted In? BONK [Feb. 25th, 2009|02:57 pm]
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Life, while not idyllic, is wonderful. Twelve hours on my feet makes me tired and weak, but I have more days off now. [info]allisino has been downsized from her employment, but that just means we get a little more time together before she finds another assignment. A number of family and friends are experiencing infirmities of health and spirit, but I can pray for them, and not alone this time, as ma belle has been my spiritual partner for almost as long as she's been my romantic one now. \(ºwº)/

I cooked goulash for the first time for her and my brother last week, and nothing bad happened to any of us! So yay! Mads: 15 - Food Poisoning: 0!

My brother got Street Fighter 4 for the PS3 a few days ago, and I still suck at fighting games. Mostly it's because I can't be stuffed to spend the time necessary to be good at anything on a videogame (the next iteration of which will have an almost completely different learning curve altogether for itself anyway), but also because I tend to pick lower tier characters whom I feel deserve a little more love, thus ensuring that I can't train on the stronger ones more, while becoming only moderately competent on the weaker ones who can't do much against the stronger ones anyway.

Come to think of it, that's not entirely accurate; for Street Fighter 4, and the series in general, I've always favored M. Bison (or Vega, whatever translation you're working with), and he's a pretty decent hitter, even when not in Boss mode. I've taken a liking to Zangief too, especially now that I can actually get his special throws with the analog stick.

On the whole, I have some hope of actually learning this game to some level of respectable skill, if only because the aesthetic does not appeal to me at all. For instance, my brother observed that while the faces on the females seem okay, their in-game models' hands are hilariously bigger than their faces. I suppose it's better than their tatas each being bigger than their heads? I honestly don't know. Anyway, what this means is that I can focus on playing better as long as I am not distracted by the graphics, unlike when I played... well... pretty much every sprite fighter I've ever played.

In fact, that's the primary manner I've derived entertainment from arcades as a youth; just roam around for hours watching people play. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that we were too poor in the Philippines to be constantly feeding money to the slots. Every time I did, I'd get my buttocks handed to me anyway.

The Team Fortress 2 Scout Update is out! Woohoo! Which is great timing, because I'm giving up Team Fortress, Street Fighter, and all other videogames for Lent anyway! WHAT A TWEEST!

Yep, for the next forty days, it will be no games, plenty of study, and eating and sleeping right, with plenty of exercise. Then I might even get to think about offering penances too! AWESOOOOOME lol

Godspeed! ¯\(ºwo)/¯

P.S. By the way, Capcom, what the hell is UP with Crimson Viper's character design? I can dig the business suit look, but please-- either lose the tie, or button up your shirt, girl; the having-it-both-ways thing does not work, and is only hypnotic in the way one might be unable to help but look at someone in public who appears to have forgotten how to dress themselves properly. All in all, her appearance seems to be another concoction of creativity by committee, a phenomenon I have seen entirely too much of lately. More on that when I get to talk about Kung Fu Panda! Adieu!

P.S.S. And her shirt's way too short too! Man!

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Valkyria Histrionicles [Dec. 12th, 2008|12:37 pm]
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[the knight hears |Kenichiro Fukui (Einhander Soundtrack)-- Assault]

Alright, I'll admit it-- I bought Valkyria Chronicles because some of the female characters seemed interesting to me. This interest was not enough to make me actually play the game, much to my own surprise. My initial gravitation towards the game seemed habitual more than anything, vestigial almost. True, the game has its weaknesses, but I used to be able to suffer through much more just to get to know some new and fascinating specimens of fictional femininity. However, in this case, not only am I not interested in Valkyria's offerings, but I am increasingly disinterested in seeking out or awaiting any other conceivable newcomer from any other angle.

There just doesn't seem to be any point anymore. You know of what I speak. I used to pursue. Now I have no need to pursue anything. At least in that department. True, I still enthusiastically create female characters hither and yon, but I think of them more as daughters than wishes, really.

Please don't bring up the matter of the attires I pick and choose for them. :|

Valkyria Chronicles is going to a different interested party, and may he derive the joy from it that is now happily lost on me.

In the meantime, my impressions from four missions + what I saw from m'amour's landlord's playthroughs; lol, war.

In a nutshell, there's no problem at all with its cartoony, pastel-colored aesthetic; that was a selling point for Advance Wars, and it works here too. The art style is clean and pleasant, technically robust, coherent, and conveys most of what it needs to (although I do have a personal little twitch about the main girl character's ribbon-headdress type thing that they couldn't help but add to what was already a fine design (interestingly enough, there is a character who wears pigtails, of all things, but I somehow do not have a problem with this, and am, in fact, rather amused by it)).

Now if only what it conveyed was any good. Don't get me wrong, I was weaned on many stories similar to what Valkyria seems to be trying to tell, but it is precisely because this sort is so much associated with my childhood that I am trying to get away from it. The trouble isn't so much in subject matter as it is in scale: they have an overly simplistic vision of war that works in the more abstract, chessboard approach of Advance Wars, but falls flat when you get to the trenches of Valkyria.

I can't speak to how it plays gamewise, or tactically; I only have impressions and preferences. Take this as coming from someone who played through Final Fantasy Tactics over six times, but lost interest in Disgaea after like, thirty minutes.

Advance Wars at least shows you units being blown away by the platoon, and little icons that explode, leaving no trace; you can imagine for yourself what actually happened in each individual skirmish if you're the sort. Valkyria leaves almost no room for the imagination, as it shows you exactly what transpires step-by-step, and that pretty much kills whatever proper spirit of war they were trying to capture. Or maybe they weren't trying to capture it, I dunno; all I know is that they might as well have made a story that had some concession to a 'bloodless' war of some sort, like in the old Lazer Tag cartoons, and I'm sure the story wouldn't have been hurt any. Well... except maybe where [SPOILER DELETED] dies.

And even then, me, [info]allisino and her landlord just kind of laughed, as horrible as it may seem. "Bummer," he says, followed by a spoiler for some of you, "now who's going to drive my tank?"

It's just too animu, complete with lol Empire, lol Resistance, lol tsundere, lol racism, lol disturbingly convenient superweapons ("Oh, by the way, we have a special tank in the barn!"). If you're going to play with war, at least take it seriously! Or something.

Srsly though, I'm getting kind of tired of the 'war happens only for materialistic and economic reasons' bull already. Just say that the Empire wants to conquer the world and be done with it. At least the Black Hole Army never pretended otherwise.

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WAR? Whaaat iiiis iiiit gooood fooor? LOLLIN [Nov. 21st, 2008|10:01 am]
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[the knight rests |lolopolis]
[the knight hears |nom nom nom om nom]

Real quick entry before I actually have the time to sit down and yap about anything. I was going to keep quiet, but heck, I paid a cool sixty dollars for Valkyria Chronicles on a whim, so I should have the right to make some fun of it.

Hahahahaha, what the heck is this, Baby's First War? This stuff is so watered down, they might as well be fighting with paintball guns for all the 'horrors' of war they're trying to convey.

Not that I know anything; I hear paintballs hurt.

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Let There Be Rock! [Nov. 1st, 2008|09:50 am]
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[the knight rests |in yo face!]
[the knight hears |Cheap Trick-- Hello There!]

Reflection, respiratory troubles, and now Rock Band 2 have kept me from posting as much as I'd intended to this month, but I think my last couple of posts on SERIOUS BUSINESS have resulted in plenty as it is, and despite what I said in there, I suppose I got tireder of the subject than I thought I would be.

BUT NOT QUITE TOO TIRED YET

Don't worry though; I won't start talking about it again until tomorrow, and after November fourth probably never again, or at least in varyingly infrequent outbursts.

( ANYWAY, ROCK BAND 2 )

( Living Bread exclusive feature: The Spiral Knights! )

The title of the previous Rock Band post reflects what I first parsed the lyrics of the new game intro theme as-- in reality, he was actually saying, "Hello there, ladies and gentlemen!", and not, in fact, ripping off Aerosmith as I thought they were doing.

The new intro is the only real complaint I have; the intro sequence for the first game was one of the sweetest things I'd ever seen, and easily ushered the song Highway Star into my top five personal picks. The new intro is juuuuust a tad too over-the-top, overdoing it to the point of eliciting a meh instead of a WOAH I WANNA DO THAT. They get points for effort though, and I can dig the context; overall, Rock Band 2 feels exactly like a part two should-- more of everything you loved about the first game, without consigning the original to obsolescent oblivion.

I'll be rocking out until the third game, and hopefully that one will have backwards band file compatibility.

I need a bigger tv. :O
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HELLO, THAT LADY'S A GENTLEMAN [Oct. 28th, 2008|12:04 pm]
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[the knight rests |ON TOUR]
[the knight hears |Pa pa pa paaapa papa pa paaaaa]

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN

I INTRODUCE TO YOU

THE SPIRAL KNIGHTS





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Try Not To Die, Dumkof [Oct. 1st, 2008|11:21 am]
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Attention, teammates-- just because I am healing you, that does not mean you are invincible. You are only bulletproof when I press the special button that makes you so. You will know this by the special glow. Otherwise, if you run out to certain death, I am not following you in. I hope you understand.

For a little over four months now, I have been seeing [info]allisino most every day, barring here and there for the both of us to catch up on sleep. My brother and her landlord both think we're nuts. We think we're awesome. I'm seeing her tonight. AWESOME

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I Are Sith Nao [Sep. 22nd, 2008|10:44 am]
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I'm not really a fan of Star Wars, and I don't typically play action games, but Force Unleashed is looking miiiiiiiiiighty interesting. You play as the evil empire, you throw crap around and destroy everything you can, there's a good degree of control over what your combat style is going to be, and the graphics really aren't half bad. It's not terribly difficult to tune out the writing either.

I brought Kung Fu Hustle to [info]allisino last night, and there were two DVDs inside the case. One of them is the one the case came with, and some players ignore its region code. The other DVD is a pirated one that seems to play on anything.

Today my brother looked inside the case and found one of the Kung Fu Hustle dvds missing, and in its stead was Alliesaurus's landlord's copy of Force Unleashed.

WHOOPS

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(no subject) [Feb. 8th, 2008|01:26 pm]
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[the knight hears |Ballroom Blitz]



( cut for moe )

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I Am A Very Bad Man [Jan. 23rd, 2008|01:01 pm]
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LOL OTP

( Semi-spoilars: Days of Ruin )

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I Must Be Out of My Fucking Mind [Oct. 26th, 2007|05:18 am]
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[the knight's heart |NAAAARRRGH]

So the other day I went and got the Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions strategy guide. I mean, it's Final Fantasy Tactics, what am I going to do. I had the good fortune however of it being good and useful. I believe [info]lynxara and one or two of my other bosses at HGM had a hand in its making. Hey, you guys, do you have files of the new art you used in it? Any word on an artbook? Inside sources rock. :3

What doesn't rock was what I saw when I leafed through it and ended up in the Extra Scenarios section, sidestory stuff that they added for the PSP version of the game. Oh, lords, how I wish I could unsee that screenshot.

See, this is exactly the reason why I wasn't so sad when I heard about Days of Ruin, and was in fact kind of relieved. That's it, the story's over, it's done, they can't mess with it anymore. Until they make a remake somewhere down the line.

A screenshot by itself doesn't mean anything at all; it could still go either way, but every gut instinct tells me that they've gone in a direction surgically designed to give me an uppercut in the cajones.

It's moments like this that bring to mind just how much of a creepily hardcore shipper I can be for couples that I allow myself to form attachments to. And just how mind-bogglingly often I can be wrong about something I thought was inassailable.

Now, I remember many occasions when I'd tell someone else, like say, Racewing, that the canon can be subverted, that no couple has to be exclusive, eh, so I wonder perhaps if I'm not being hypocritical here. The difference in context though is that Racewing laments the passing of a shoujoai pairing that might have been an inevitable occurence anyway, especially if it was a mainstream story of some sort. I myself tend to latch on to largely canon, typically het pairings, sure bets that I put my stamp of approval on.

A kind of double standard is at work here, because I think that girls can play with each other all they want, but guys had better mind their own damned business as far as romantic pursuits go. I don't really care how twisted my view looks at this point, because it fucking hurts too much for me to care, and as it is, I think I finally know what it feels like to be backstabbed by my best friend, even if that best friend is a videogame character, doing videogame things, in a very innocent, actually kind of sweet videogame way.

And, yes, I can't believe any of this shit is coming out of my mouth either, I will likely regret it when I wake up some more. But fuck you, I have to go to work now, and nothing should ever have to make me feel this way, ever, but between this and the sudden flood of memories about every other pairing I've loved and been wrong about, re: Hitomi-Vahn, Tohru-Yuki, etc, I guess I'm just a big, romantic fuckwit that thinks about all this way too fucking much.

Godspeed.

link9 had faith|say a prayer

Saturday Evening Post [Jul. 22nd, 2006|06:38 pm]
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[the knight rests |the ZONE]
[the knight's heart |giddy like a schoolgirl]
[the knight hears |Disturbed-- Overburdened]

It's the City of Villains Double EXP Weekend! or it would be, if I didn't have to download the latest patches and fixes to the game. Seriously, I haven't opened the exe since January; in other words, I'll expire before the update does! OH NOES

It's like installing a whole new game, or this game all over again-- except infinitely SLOWER.

But I'm all good, all good.

( Did I mention that I took the day off on a whim to participate in a Cold Snap draft tournament today? )

I'm riding so much hubris from my beginner's luck that I'm actually going to go out and socialize tonight. Apparently, my siblings' friends have a little thang on, so, eh, why not?

Double EXP Weekend.

ARRGGGH, but I gave my word! My littlest sister tricked me into coming. She said 'please'. Hopefully, the patch update will be done by the time I get home.

Finally, I must make folks aware that my mom's been trying to pair me up with this girl from the Philippines. We're about the same age, and I've seen her picture, and she's pretty. She's no mental lightweight either, if the course she chose for college is any indication. But the thing is, she's in the Philippines. "Been there, done that," I says to my momma. She wasn't having any of it though-- forced me to email her and everything. Good thing she hasn't replied yet.

I mean, she's studying Microbiology over there. IT ALL SOUNDS SO EERILY FAMILIAR

Somewhat related, [info]schneeble once openly admitted that since meeting me in person, he had, without realizing it, started scoping out the young ladies and appraising them according to their 'Mads-worthiness', or the rate of appeal he'd think I'd find in them. Just last night too, [info]lirazel told us about her trip out of town, which included a specific observation for me about how the girls all seem to disdain belly-baring shirts and low-riding pants and skirts-- which of course reveals that, by necessity, she's been eyeing them in my stead.

WHEN DID MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY START PIMPING FOR ME? I THINK I MAYBE KINDA LIKE IT

-ish.

Godspeed!

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Time-Tested [Apr. 28th, 2006|12:25 pm]
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[the knight rests |shallow in thought]
[the knight's heart |all breakfasted up]
[the knight hears |Johnny Cash-- Flesh and Blood]

I am not what you would call a fashionable man-- I rarely make the effort to keep myself up-to-date on many things, and this includes such things as anime, comics, movies, and videogames, all of which things I ostensibly love. This sprang forth from the necessities of my circumstances at first, back when I couldn't afford to do any such thing. Now that I have the means to do so however, I feel little compulsion to change the trend, partly out of habit, and partly because the practice has served me well to date.

The way I see it, for every new thing out there, there are five or ten that I haven't yet tried that are worth my time, and furthermore, have been proven to be good enough to endure in the collective consciousness of the masses for as long as they have. So why jump in the fray when the world at large can become my quality filter? Take consoles for example-- if they become popular enough to be a 'must-have', I can get the improved version, like the PS2. If they are good but underrated, I can steal them at great bargains, like my Gamecube. If they are awesome but obscure, someone might even give me one for free, like the Dreamcast.

(In retrospect, maybe I should have held out on buying the DS until the Lite was announced and shipped... but then again, Phoenix Wright became a limited edition so damned fast, I'm glad I was around to pick up a copy when it was still new.)

It's not a terribly selfless approach, because some of the good things may have endured longer, if only they'd had the financing and support of people like me. It's even proven to backfire-- BADLY-- on several occassions, for instance, when I really needed to know what I was talking about before opening my mouth and letting things come out.

So I've made some effort to have stuff and know stuff. But as for things that haven't even come out yet, I reserve judgement for when the product in question has had time to go through the most rigorous stress test available in the world-- the public market.

Only time will tell whether the Wii will hold its ground.

( And now, for some Final Fantasy Tactics fan-wank! )

For some reason, I have another Advance Wars fanfic piece in mind. Will try to pen it all while it's still fresh.

Godspeed~

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Badger Badger Badger~ [Apr. 5th, 2006|11:31 am]
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[the knight rests |pie in the sky]
[the knight's heart |murgle burgle]
[the knight hears |Kingdom Hearts II voice acting!]

Spent April Fool's being completely oblivious and/or uncaring, and had a lovely brunch/lunch with The Nicest Lady In The Factory and a friend who was a temp at the same place, didn't get hired in, and has since moved on to better things (a similarly exhausting gig at a subcontractor for Chrysler, but with much more hope of becoming permanent). We ate at the local Denny's where I had a lemon-chicken something-or-other, and it was delicious. Mostly we yakked and joked, and exchanged revelations (which was where I learned about the nepotism thing at the workplace), and they basically helped me vent some of the pressure that's been building up in me for months. Well, weeks really. Ever since I decided for Lent not to... *cough*

ANYWAY, I'm watching my brother play through some of Kingdom Hearts II. HERE'S A SPOILER: the art style makes all the ladies look like total dishes. At this juncture, totally digging the group female friend, an Olette I believe, and that blonde chick in the slick white one-piece, Naminé.

Once I've sated myself on Final Fantasy Tactics, I'll pick up the first Kingdom Hearts and play through it. If nothing else, I'm tired of pretty much willfully keeping myself out-of-date when it comes to the latest games. I have no excuse anymore-- the stuff is in front of me. Same goes for Skies of Arcadia and some of the watchable stuff we have lying around here.

In the meantime, Meistin.org still appears to be down, but I've been occupying myself by finally jotting down in writing some of the concept art and most of the ideas I have for Dark Heart High on the nifty notebooks Lira sent me (which is the highest honor I can think of according them). If it's going to be my life's work, might as well put a bit of life into it...

HAHA

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Imeigination [Jan. 23rd, 2006|11:55 am]
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[the knight's heart |a wee bit funky]
[the knight hears |AC/DC-- Giving the Dog A Bone]

If enough people make an electronic noise, sure, people will listen. Or at least call the psychiatrists on me.

An update after twenty days, oh, wow, oh, yahoo, and all that sarcastic happiness stuff. And it's not even to finish the Christmas thing, oh, wow, oh, great. Doesn't really mean I'm 'back' in as much as I remembered I had a website, and sheepishly made something as kind of a 'placeholder' until I get my act together. Or something. Though of course, with my tendency to do the absolute exact opposite of what I say I will do, the chances are, I'll be making more comics, or writing newsposts. But because I just said that, it stands to reason that I won't do it anymore either. But having said that, five-hundred ton chinchillas will come crashing through my roof, smothering me under their cute oversized, fur-covered butts, making an end of me.

[info]markpoa, I got your package, thank you, and I'd reciprocate, if I was sure that the Philippine postal system wouldn't swallow anything I send into a black hole of government corruption and/or local mail looting. I just might anyway. How does postage by intercontinental ballistic trebuchet sound?

I'm rasslin' with a few things right now, real life stuff, family duties, self-imposed obligations, contractual demands, etc. It's a little like dancing on hot coals with bare feet, except instead of hot coals, there are enraged alligators.

EDIT ADDENDUM: You are actually rewarded for beating their stupid game. Weapon Edit Mode on Gradius V was fun at first, until I realized that none of the new weapons were worth a damn, save perhaps for Spread Bomb and Ripple, and Ripple only for its nostalgic value. I beat Very Difficult Mode using twenty-eight of the infinite credits provided me (and Ripple, just because I could, lolz), and I tried playing the Retardedly Difficult Mode (not actual name) provided afterwards. Here's an illustration of just how psychotic this game is: the first boss now has TWO cores instead of one to destroy, located at opposite ends to each other. This reminded me just how much I actually hate the game, and so I moved on to Skies of Arcadia: Legends.

It grieves me to report however that the camera makes me nauseous, in a motion-sickness kind of thing, which is rare for me. I'll get over it though-- the game itself looks very promising, and I'm already enamored of the world they paint for me.

lol Aika's favorite shorts lol

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Visions and Visitations [Jan. 22nd, 2006|09:36 pm]
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[the knight's heart |a bit woozy]
[the knight hears |Foo Fighters-- Tired of You]

( Yuffie-O's: A single gram outweighs any amount of Gackt and/or Sephy-chans! )

I took a day off yesterday to ride with my family down to a suburb of Chicago, where a niece of mine was having a birthday. It was an interesting trip, mostly for the talks that went on later, during the course of dinner. My cousin's fiancé's grandparents were in the apartment at the time, and they made me consider a career choice I'd never seriously given thought to before.

The grandma pressed me into becoming a policeman, like her other grandson, my cousin's fiancé's brother. She said I'd look sharp in a uniform, the pay was good, the dangers were overstated, and girls dig short cops with dark hair and cute smiles. That last one in particular made me blush.

Anyway, I'd once given thought to doing law, but abandoned it because there's too much litigation in the world already (though after Phoenix Wright, I just might be shallow enough to consider it again), but I'd never thought about going into criminology, much less considered ever being an honest-to-goodness law enforcement officer.

The perks are obvious of course. Aside from the ones mentioned to me, you get authority-- or power, if you prefer it that way-- they'll train ya properly, and they won't hold you by the balls for a certain number of years, unlike the military. It's like a regular civilian job as far as hours go, I hear, so I have the free time to pursue my other interests. On-the-job itself isn't bad either, the way they make it out to be-- who wouldn't want to be paid to sit in cars and coffee shops all day long?

I have several things that give me good pause though; for one, like I said, I'd never even thought about it before. I'd feel like a total poseur for getting among Chicago's finest with motivations any less than THE TIRELESS PURSUIT OF JUSTICE AND THE DEFENSE OF THE WEAK. For another, if I patrol the night streets of the city, I know my mother will never have a good night's sleep ever again.

Still, at the end of the day, it's not a direction I can dismiss outright, much to my surprise. I mean, who knows, right? Fortunately, I have a couple of years to ponder it, seeing as there's the whole 'you have to be a citizen to even get started' thing to think about.

Besides, do you really want to see me, Mads, with a badge and a gun?

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SO INCREDIBLY GANKED FROM [info]fandomgreen EEEEE [Jan. 21st, 2006|08:07 pm]
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[the knight's heart |uncontrollably aroused]
[the knight hears |adsgdfaffdagghhjjk]

Please excuse the outburst, but...

Holy fucking fuck fuck fuck, THE FIRST MINUTE OF THIS TRAILER, oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit--

For all its faults, Square really know how to make shit look hot-- the preview's implication that the 'game' is in truth going to be at least half a movie (lol Xenosaga lol) is actually a good thing.

Pardon me while I find somewhere quiet and isolated where I can... meditate on what I've just seen.

holy fuck fuck fuck fuck...

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Gradiusly Pleased [Jan. 20th, 2006|01:13 am]
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[the knight's heart |BWAAHAHAHAHA]
[the knight hears |Gradius V Credits]

HAH. Beat Gradius V on Normal Mode, using thirteen of eighteen credits earned. PHASE ONE OF BEING AWESOME AGAIN COMPLETE.

Now I leave you with The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (as shown to me by a pal on #iff) and HOLY SHIT, NINJAS!! (as shown by another pal)

Godspeed!

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Concise Conceptions [Jan. 10th, 2006|11:28 pm]
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[the knight's heart |kinda coasting]
[the knight hears |Kenichiro Fukui-- Beginning]

It's been a rumble-tumble week. So here a few thoughts about some of the things that have been going on, in various nutshells of differing sizes, shape, color and texture. Some may even actually have nuts in it.

Any thought that begins with or contains a movie or game title may conceivably contain spoilers for the same. Proceed with due caution, milords and ladies.

Nut #1: Failure is just an inability to modify initial plans to accomodate much more modest goals. Since it might appear that I probably fumbled a chance at a Mega Grand Super Birthday Bash for my mother, I'm realigning my options to allow for a Still Pretty Good Birthday Dinner contingency plan. Reorienting myself thus will foreseeably reduce my daily pulling of own hair out by the roots to only pulling them out by the halfway point.

Nut #2: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney is so much fun, it's criminal. It is to the legal practice what the Advance Wars series is to war. It has an eighteen-year-old character that I am ridiculously attracted to. It has personality archetypes that are simply beyond belief. Lastly, headwear with a riceball motif that manages to look good is the best thing in history since the Pope-Hat.

Nut #3: My brothers made some extremely astute observations about The March of the Penguins. First, it sucks being an emperor penguin. Second, that scene where a seagull starts beating on little penguin chicks, and the adults stand around and do absolutely nothing? Though they probably outweigh the gull, and most definitely outnumber him a thousand to one? I mean, I already knew that seagulls were assholes by nature, no matter the coast they inhabit, but to be left alone while he was harassing the young'uns... This was resolved when my brother said that the adults had probably all been traumatized as chicks themselves. This was so hilariously plausible, I laffed.

Nut #4: Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is a girl movie that convinces this boy that girls are different from boys. Also, leukemia = INSTANT TEARJERKER. Okay, so my eyes moistened a bit, but nothing actually fell, okay? D:

Nut #5: Hitch is funny and smart. I know, I was actually kind of shocked myself. Now if only it didn't dance on certain sensitive personal heartstrings towards the ending...

Nut #6: The Chronicles of Narnia was well worth the watch, if only for the novelty of seeing a beaver in chainmail.

Nut #7: The Kingdom of Heaven would probably have fared better under a... how do you put this... 'manlier' man than Orlando Bloom? *ducks* Still a really neat movie though, but I doubt any sort of catapult could really hurl projectiles at velocities and force that rival that of cannons'.

Nut #8: Received Ikaruga, Beyond Good and Evil, and Skies of Arcadia: Legends from the Ikaruga-Beyond-Good-and-Evil-and-Skies-of-Arcadia-Legends Fairy. Yeah, he's a pretty obscure entity, but it's a new department in fairydom.

Nut #9: I liken the PSP and DS to the comparison between a Megatank and a Neotank from Advance Wars: Dual Strike. One's big, powerful, and expensive, and the other's lower in price and power, but more elegant in design, and ultimately more useful. After a little persuasion, I managed to have a pal at least tolerate the analogy. My brother was having none of it though, and later stopped even pretending that he thought that the DS was at least the PSP's peer. I'm afraid he's a fanboy. :(

Nut #10: I like my women like I like my books; slim, intelligent, charming, and bound in leather.

I guess that's about it.

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