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| 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. | | Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 | | 7:47 pm |
| | 12:50 am |
Roll back and punt.
There we go. Temporarily on Vista for the rest of the night, then tomorrow: SHINY UPGRADE PLANET WINDOWS 7: GET! | | Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 | | 7:18 pm |
Offloading sqrl data to external backup.
What, no reactions to that Korean animationy bit? Anything, comments, reactions? I'd hate for it to come all the way to the Internet just to get a great big "eh." and drift off again. I see it got nine downloads! Anyone watched it? Meanwhile, tomorrow is the Big Day, Windows 7-wise. So, I'm in the process of backing up various bits and bobs to the external drive. Later tonight... around 3, 4 AM I guess, I'll reformat everything (or try to. How do you make the system just completely format a drive again? It keeps complaining that that's my BOOT DRIVE, I can't REALLY mean to format it totally, and I keep insisting that REALLY I want it all GONE...) and install old-style Vista. Then it's just a wait until the UPS dude arrives with the software to upgrade. I am actually weirdly excited about changing my OS properly. Why the CRAP am I excited about updating my OS? Ah well. Anyway, if I vanish for eight days and then the state explodes? Totally my bad. | | Sunday, October 18th, 2009 | | 7:39 pm |
I would like, if I may...
...to invite you on a strange and vulpine journey. A friend of mine recently went to Korea, and ripped a DVD they found there. It has English subtitles, but they are a little dicky in places. This does not matter. I would like to invite you to download, via Bittorrent: Yobi, the Five Tailed Fox. Why should you watch this piece of Korean animation? (Anime?) Yobi is part of a race of magical foxes that live in the mountains. She lives alone. One day, space aliens crash land on her doorstep. These space aliens wear metal underpants and eat nails. Yobi is entering puberty, so she's getting snarky and cranky and is starting to look for other things to do. Meanwhile, at a nearby school for developmentally-weird children, Korean Steve From Blue's Clues is raising a class of awkward misfits. These two plot threads crash into each other. MEANWHILE, a grizzled old hunter is seeking the nine-tailed fox that ate his brother's soul. ALSO MEANWHILE, the afterlife opens up in a giant forest pool. When you die you turn into a bird and hang out in the celestial pet shop, raised by a conglomeration of spirit rabbits until you are reincarnated. FURTHERMORE, there is a confused bear who is very cute. NONE OF THIS EVER REALLY GETS TIED UP. I'm telling you that now. This is a movie where NOTHING EVER MAKES SENSE. The pacing is WRONG. The ending does not make SENSE. (EDIT: Okay, re-thinking it the ending kinda makes sense, but leaves a LOT to be questioned.) I haven't even MENTIONED the really WTF-y elements of the plot. Why am I recommending it? I like stories. And this is one that will BREAK YOUR DAMN BRAIN. It's also kind of cute, even if slightly depressing and UTTERLY BAFFLING at the end. It's also pretty if you care about that. But mostly, it is COMPLETELY NONSENSICAL. I approve of that, and so I present it to you. Go grab the torrent. Thank you. (Okay, it's probably not that surreal if you're used to weird kids animation, but there's enough of a cultural gap that it plays out like a weird Ghibli-inspired fever dream. That's a selling point, right?) | | 4:27 pm |
Wh-- NO!
*stands outside and screams at the sky* NO! NO YOU BASTARD, IT'S NOT TIME YET! YOU GO AWAY! GO AWAY! STOP IT! STOP IT NOW! CURSE YOU! GET OUT OF HERE! GODDAMN WINTER! STOP SNOWING RIGHT NOW! ....it won't stop.... | | Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 | | 6:23 pm |
Okay!
So that's four for Borderlands. What I'm gonna do is try to get in touch with you guys, get you to paypal the moneys all together. Then purchase on Steam, and gift the three games out to your accounts. I wish to thank you all for trusting me when it is massively bloody obvious I have no idea what the crap I'm doing. |
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