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| Saturday, December 5th, 2009 | | 11:12 pm |
| | Friday, December 4th, 2009 | | 7:17 am |
| | Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 | | 5:01 am |
Flames, shooting into the sky.
The newspost, Gabe's newspost in specific, on today's Penny Arcade reminds me why I enjoy that comic in the first place. ... Actually, I guess I lie. I don't really enjoy the comic as much as the news posts, which are alternately thought-provoking (Tycho's) and usually kinda AWESOME. (Gabe's). Today's just makes me weirdly happy that... somewhere out there, people are taking stuff and at once taking it seriously and NOT seriously. At the same time. This is all I've ever wanted out of life. | | Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 | | 7:03 am |
Gundam Wing Episode 10 Summary
Boy howdy, it's been a long time since your transcriptionist and jokemeister, me, opened up notepad.exe (THE BEST WORD PROCESSOR ... EVER MADE) and started logging out an episode of Gundam Wing for you guys. If you need a refresher on the series, it's under the "summary" tag on this post and others like it. Here's a quick catch-up anyway: Year: After Colony 195 Gundams: Still indestructible. Wing Boys: Universally crazy to a man, even Quatre (who until recently was suspected of being possibly neither). Heero Suicide Watch: 5 Counts, 10 Episodes. Bad Guys: Completely fucking incomprehensible, still working on causing a war to show off what peace is. Treize is like Mega Man in reverse. Zechs: The Lightning Count Baron, the Prince of Peace. Relena: The Raging Thunder Eyebrows, the Princess of Peace. Colonies: Retaliating. Oz: Retaliating to the retaliation. Earth Alliance: Possibly retaliating to that. Retaliation: All over the place. Sense: Not happening here. Theme Song: STILL NOT WHITE REFLECTION. Let's roll. ( EPISODE TEN -- Heero, Distracted By Defeat... ) | | Monday, November 30th, 2009 | | 7:51 pm |
That gnawing feeling.
Woof, returning from shopping: "...And some burger with noms, for you." Sqrl: "Thank you! Did you check the mail?" Woof: "Yeah. Just a message saying we had too many flyers and junk papers, so they're keeping it at the post office." Sqrl: "Mm. We'll have to go get that and throw it out." Woof: "Yeah. So they'll start giving us our junk mail again..." Sqrl: "So we can throw it out." Woof: "Heh. Sigh." ... Sqrl: "...do you ever feel like there's this part of the whole 'civilization' thing that... maybe you-slash-we just don't -get-? I ask merely out of personal curiosity..." A question which has been much on my mind of late. | | Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 | | 9:57 am |
I hurf and I durf and I build the platform up.
I think it should be pointed out that I have a super power. I can enjoy things that are mediocre. I mention this because I bought a PSP recently, and to have something to play on it while I await the arrival of the various tools I'll need to hack it all to hell and back, thus turning it into a portable Cave Story machine, I bought a game called "Rengoku: Tower of Purgatory". I want to make it clear, of course, that this IS a fairly bland game all around! It's Dark and Grim and Gritty. It has somewhat questionable controls. There are big ol' typos in the tutorial. It has jagged difficulty spikes. It's also a roguelike. I am traditionally weak to roguelikes. So I bought it. Mmmm, randomly generated loot. Randomly generated dungeons. ( In which I just babble on about a fairly cruddy game. )There is a sequel. It is like $12 because nobody bought it. I think I will have to. (ALSO YOU GUYS. Why did no one tell me the PSP was the 2D sprite-based RPG machine?) Current Mood:  GUNFACE | | Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 | | 5:44 pm |
| | Friday, November 20th, 2009 | | 12:07 pm |
It doesn't mean things, it's just a bunch of sounds.
Hrm. One downside to having a last.fm account that's in active use is that now I have a nice visual record of the times I get depressed and random-walk through my MP3 directory. It also makes me acutely aware that so many of my MP3s are enormously mistagged. Oh, if only there was a way to solve that without any effort on my part. Oh well. Lately I've been poking at Final Fantasy 12 International Zodiac Job Edition, because someone's translating it into Proper English, as opposed to a mix of Japanese and English I would not otherwise understand. That's about it, really. I -was- scheduled for jury duty, but I had to postpone because I am led to believe they frown upon you showing up, sneezing on everyone involved, and then leaving. The whole "sick" thing, you see. I don't do that for fun. | | Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 | | 8:13 am |
Social Notworking.
Behold my pun. It is clever. Ahem. The 360 downloaded an update today, while I was playing Burnout Paradise (AKA "The racing game where it isn't cheating to turn rival drivers into hurtling chunks of squealing scrap metal"). So I now have access to Facebook, Twitter, Last.fm, and crap! Except, uh... I don't really want to use Facebook for anything, Twitter I could do via my IM client but have not out of politeness, and it turns out I already HAD a Last.fm account I hadn't used since 2005 when they were Audioscrobbler. ...Well, I cleared out the Last.fm account and started it fresh again anyway. I don't know what good it is, since it won't even stream music so I can play it in the background of my games... and trust me, an entire rotating plethora of Scandinavian longboat metal is totally what I would want while I'm playing Viking: Battle For Interest. Seriously, did they really overlook the one feature that would make the whole thing worth more than a passing curiosity? You have to sit there on the Last.fm fullscreen console app thinger, just watching the little bar as it plays music at you. That's all you can do. You can't even use Mintervision to visualize it up a little. What the hell, Microsoft. What the hell, Last.fm. ...oh well. At least it gives me something to do with my music while I cannot broadcast Sqrl Radio. Current Music: Dark Moor - The Hanged Man | | Monday, November 16th, 2009 | | 7:04 pm |
So close.
Dear Square Enix: It is not quite as creepy when you target the day AFTER my birthday to release your blockbuster game. If you wish to make me feel stalked by your marketing empire, please look to Atlus or Blizzard, both of whom have done it well recently. Buying FF13 anyway, Sqrl. | | 7:35 am |
Did you bring enough POWER?
Dream of last night: Irritating little space alien with an invincible force field. Every hero from the Marvel and DC universes showed up to beat on him. Mostly my brain going "HAHAHA YOU THOUGHT I'D FORGOTTEN (HERONAME) DIDN'T YOU BUT SHE'S RIGHT THERE ALONGSIDE (OTHERHERO) AND (HERO3)." -- Other news. Finally edging on the end of Dekaranger. Not sure what to do when that's over. Need something else that I want to watch, but the woof doesn't. Maybe Digimon. I dunno. We are at least still working through YGO Abridged, Patlabor, and ...okay, we need to watch more Being Human. We've also taken to watching Stargate Universe weekly on ACTUAL TV, because Eli = ultrageeklove. Have had a cold or maybe the flu for like two weeks now. It is KICKING my ass. I am all full of GOO and HATE. Seriously, fuck you, Winter. The ENTIRE ABSTRACT CONCEPT OF WINTER. I hate it. Moreso here in Massachewzits, AKA The FUCKING HOTH SYSTEM. Hate. Hate. Hate. Sneeze. Hate. Cold. Sneeze. Hate. Okay, I'm over it. Gamewise, played through Ace Combat 04. That was freaking amazing. I hadn't realized I was functionally capable of enjoying a war story told with planes, but there you go. Although there were a lot of "You want me to what. What. NO. That is STUPID. That is IMPOSSIBLE. ... Wait, how did I do that?" moments. I am led to believe, as I watch the woof play the sequel, that this is the major appeal of the series! Sort of foundering, really. Having a lot of moments of "Well, I could (watch something/play something/read something/do something), but why?" and having no answer that feels acceptable. Oh well. | | Saturday, November 14th, 2009 | | 10:01 pm |
| | Friday, November 13th, 2009 | | 4:34 am |
| | Monday, November 9th, 2009 | | 12:54 pm |
Record of Failure to Learn
Two days ago: Leave house, go to mall. Yesterday: "...bleah, throat feels weird." Today: *snrrrrf cough ow gaaack blaaalalalalagh...* You would think I'd REALIZE by now that unless I am fully enclosed in saran wrap or somesuch, I am going to catch the dreaded snirfblaughs when I go out. SOLUTION: SEAL APARTMENT, NEVER LEAVE. Alternately, invest in encounter suit. -- Side annoyance: No, mister spammer. I have british friends. I watch british TV. I am pretty sure british telecom does not want to give me one million pounds. I am 99% sure they do not give ANYONE ANYTHING, including service. Why would they give a random american moneys? Go away. Current Music: Ace Combat 04 - Megalith ~Agnus Dei~ | | Sunday, November 8th, 2009 | | 2:25 am |
Semi-Generic Entry.
Dear Internet, Today I did some stuff and ate some things and played some games. At no point did I cease to exist. I also talked to some people online. Then I sat around for a while. That is likely what I'll do tomorrow, too! ... On a more specific note, the BF and I sampled a show called Psych, which was pretty amusing. It's in the "Dysfunctional Detective" genre, I think it actually runs alongside Monk. It's on the list. A lot of things are on the list. I need to plow on through Patlabor and Being Human and YGO Abridged so I can watch other stuff. Oh, and Dekaranger. | | Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 | | 12:26 pm |
The Fingers of Evil.
Woof, watching Cash in the Attic: "Huh. So gunmetal is actually an ALLOY, but not of the sorts of things I expected. Copper, tin and zinc don't seem like they should make a sort of grey col...or... Are you actually playing a CATGIRL in Titan Quest?" Sqrl, sulky: "...maybe. Yes. Don't judge me." Woof: "I'm not." Sqrl: "Well, good. Becau..." Woof: "I'm going to play with your ears!" Sqrl: "GAAAUGH." Woof: "Bwahahaha." (There are times even I don't understand what's going on over here, you know that?) | | Sunday, November 1st, 2009 | | 6:50 am |
Bad mood, again. Things making me feel better: a large pile of music by Susumu Hirasawa, and the fact that a spammer decided to send me an email addressing me as "Mrs Ying-Bobbly Wotcha". | | Friday, October 30th, 2009 | | 8:18 am |
Metaphor Violation
Some of you may have heard me, in the past, refer to my love for dungeon crawling action-RPGs. From Nethack and ADOM to Diablo 2 and Titan Quest, my odd fling with the Sacred series, the Champions of Norrath and Dark Alliance games, out to games like Fate and Shining Soul and so on and so on... Look, what I'm saying is that I basically tend to LOVE these games. The reason why is fairly simple: I love getting random loot. I make out with materialism. I fawn over minute differences in item stats as they cascade to my feet from the bodies of the slain. I love killing a fruit fly and having a suit of plate mail jingle to the floor inexplicably. I love wearing hideously mismatched armor and carrying thirty swords, two axes, and a shotgun. I am a total slut for video game materialism. Then I got Borderlands and Torchlight. And vanished offline for like three days. I am no longer a slut for materialism. Materialism and I are married now. We have 2d6 children. 75% will be normal kids, 20% will have some desirable modifiers, 4% will have an unfair advantage, and 1% will be a complete game-breaker of a kid and solo college courses at level 12 before knocking over a bank and reincarnating to New Game Plus the whole childhood arc again. ... I don't remember what my point was, but I really like these games. A lot. EDIT FOR QUOTE: "If you had no externalities to manage - that is to say, if you were not a father of two, for whom sleep is a rare thing, and precious - I don't know what could make you stop playing Borderlands. I honestly don't know how you could sever the thick roots that seem to grow out of the screen and claim the body, whose novel barbs anesthetize and then pierce the meninges, seizing control." -- Tycho, Penny Arcade. | | Monday, October 26th, 2009 | | 2:06 am |
Who are you?
The boyfriend was apparently playing a horror game on my Steam account earlier when someone messaged him. Since the Steam Message Beep is like six billion decibels loud, this scared the crap out of him. He tells me it was someone "weasel-esqe" or "ottery". I have messaged the weasel and otter I know! They were not it. Also it was likely not the large wolf, the rather more compact wolf, the fox, the dragon, the other dragon, the giant smiley face, the skunk, the deer, or the swirly thing. I am slightly at a loss. Did YOU try to message me, get the boyfriend, and scare the living crap out of him? ... Good job! | | Saturday, October 24th, 2009 | | 6:32 am |
*whomp* Ow.
Somehow I just gave myself a fat lip with a soda can. I swear I wasn't drinking that hard! Okay, what have I been doing. Uhm. Borderlands unlocks in three days. I am excited. I've been watching a lot of stuff, but nothing I've been writing about here. The only SERIES COMPLETE I got was something called Denpa Shonen. It's a Japanese reality show on Hulu. I watched a full season, which was six episodes, about a Japanese housewife who was being tested on how far out of her way she'd go to save money. She was given a big stack of newspapers every morning and she HAD to buy the cheapest price for whatever the day's meal was. She ended up riding several thousand kilometers over the course of the show, and there was a huge Twist Ending. That was basically the story of the MOST HOT-BLOODED, NEVER-GIVE-UP HOUSEWIFE EVER. It made me feel like the laziest fucker ALIVE for actually having food in the freezer and feeling too sleepy to cook it, at the time. Aside from that, not a lot going on. Been trying to play Civ 4 BTS as the Vikings, because RAAAAR. I am really bad at combat-oriented play. I just end up with no idea what to DO, really. So usually I just show up and people are like "HOLY CRAP PEACE?" and I'm like "...yeah okay peace." and leave. I am a bad warlord. |
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