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| Friday, April 27th, 2012 | | 11:57 pm |
| | 4:01 am |
Yet another MMO beta, yet another squee.
So in about ELEVEN HOURS from this post, the Guild Wars 2 beta weekend starts up and I am -super hype-. I am a level beyond hype. I recognize that not everyone shares my hype. So I must ask: Should I make a special effort to document this? Should I post about it here at all? Or does no one much give a damn?OKAY it looks like I am TOTALLY going to be at least writing some of my thoughts up on what this game is like. Thank you for the outpouring of support. I should totally be asleep. I actually can't sleep. This doesn't usually happen. *fret fret* ( Mostly me rambling and talking to myself. )Obviously this is all subject to change. I know someone who'd probably want to see some rangery stuff. I could maybe do that. But... in three days? Maybe a little less than three days? This is enough. That said, this is a -beautiful- game and I will try to take some nice screenshots for people. There will be more about this in future as I actually -play the game- oh my god I haven't touched it and I'm BABBLING what the heck sqrl. This entry was originally posted at http://xyzzysqrl.dreamwidth.org/291494.html. Please comment there using OpenID. | | Saturday, April 14th, 2012 | | 10:06 am |
Lazy Bastards of the Old Republic.
So the BF and I have taken up playing Star Wars: The Old Republic. It's PRETTY GREAT if you like this kind of game, and I really like this kind of game. However, while he's off asleep and I don't want to outlevel him, because we're rocking as a pair cross-galaxy, I hang out on my Bounty Hunter ship and be lazy. "Mako, we're out of brazing flux. Can you pick some up at the store for me? Thanks." "Oh, Gault. Hey. There's this swirling nebula deep in the heart of the galaxy. Nobody's ever returned alive. I hear they have metals there. Take this shuttle ticket. See you in an hour." "Torian, sweetie, do you like guns? Good. Here's a large pile of random metals and plastics. Make me a gun. When you're done I'll take it apart and see what I can learn from it. Thank you, hair boy." Then I put my feet up on the dashboard and watch some ponies for a half hour while they run around and construct things. None of them can call me on this bullshittery because I own a wrist-mounted flamethrower. It's fantastic. This entry was originally posted at http://xyzzysqrl.dreamwidth.org/291162.html. Please comment there using OpenID. | | Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012 | | 5:43 am |
"Rubber".
So I just finished watching a movie called "Rubber" on Netflix, and I was kind of intrigued by it in a lot of ways, but you shouldn't actually -watch- this movie I think. It has a weird murderous disrespect for its actors, its characters, and its audience. And I think all of those were the same people. It's a movie about a car tire who kills people with its psychokinetic powers. Meanwhile, an audience watches through binoculars. The audience receives a speech at the start of the movie about how a lot of things in movies happen for absolutely no reason. This movie is a homage to that ideal. ...I sort of liked it. It was deeply metafictive. It was also rather cruel-spirited in places. It's certainly the best movie about a murderous psychokinetic car tire I suppose I'll ever see, but also the worst. ... So yeah! Rubber. It's on Netflix if you want to see it, but probably you shouldn't unless you're really into the idea of a movie about a movie -about- a movie about a killer tire. Just, y'know. Don't blame me. This entry was originally posted at http://xyzzysqrl.dreamwidth.org/290939.html. Please comment there using OpenID. | | Monday, February 27th, 2012 | | 11:12 am |
Vision Quest.
Sqrl has LEVELED UP. Sqrl gained HIPSTER GLASSES. Aw yeah, folks. Big thick black plastic frames. The ability to fucking see. Uh-huh. And you know the best part? I liked them only after everyone agreed they were no longer cool. *strut* ...okay yeah I had my eyes tested and got new glasses today. After like five years of being without them. So now I can see. (My right eye is apparently in a position where it can no longer be corrected to 20/20 with the use of glasses, which is worrying, but ... mmh. What can one do?) Also a bonus Woof & Sqrl Do Breakfast moment: Waitress: "So these pancakes come with pure maple syrup, which is the taller of these two vials." Sqrl: "Mine is impure maple syrup." Waitress: "I wasn't gonna say it, but yeah." *Sqrl stares at syrup vials* *Woof eats* *Sqrl staaaaares* Woof: "What?" *Sqrl reaaaaches out, picks up impure syrup, gently splashes a bit into pure syrup* Woof: "You TAINTED it. It's CORRUPTED." Sqrl: *Smugface!* "Yes. Yes it is." Woof: "...you are seriously way too proud of yourself for doing that." This entry was originally posted at http://xyzzysqrl.dreamwidth.org/290610.html. Please comment there using OpenID. | | Thursday, February 23rd, 2012 | | 1:55 am |
For no reason.
"Dear Princess Celestia, today you were pompous and your sister was crazy." *turn page* "Today I went to Ponyville, never to be seen again. It was the best day ever." This entry was originally posted at http://xyzzysqrl.dreamwidth.org/290520.html. Please comment there using OpenID. | | Monday, February 13th, 2012 | | 9:08 am |
Say...
Any of you out there happen to have a spare Wii what might be for sale? I am hunting for one that's reasonably cheap and/or comes with a decent game library. This entry was originally posted at http://xyzzysqrl.dreamwidth.org/290083.html. Please comment there using OpenID. | | Sunday, February 5th, 2012 | | 5:19 pm |
Murder.
( Method of killing someone for a story or somesuch, perhaps. )My brain came up with this while I was asleep, as a solution to a murder mystery I watched on TV. I'm sure there's a tiny old lady somewhere who is ROLLING HER EYES SO HARD and can tell me which SIX stories I subconsciously stole this idea from and why it doesn't actually work, but it's new-ish to me. If I have any murder mystery authors in the audience maybe you guys can use it, I dunno. This entry was originally posted at http://xyzzysqrl.dreamwidth.org/289868.html. Please comment there using OpenID. | | Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 | | 8:14 am |
Dream log!
Wow, been a WHILE since I dreamed of anything. Uhm. I was a female journalism student (maybe!) infiltrating a hospital for reasons, possibly involving a sick girl and something about a mutant population. As I was just about to get into her room, an impromptu press conference formed up outside it, with the Evil Corporation Head talking about how TOTALLY FINE she was. To hide from him, I quickly scrunched into the corner, pulled my black coat and big tail around me, hid my face, and pretended to be the wall. This actually worked. (?!) As a matter of fact, I became aware partway through the conference that there was a girl beside me doing the same thing, somewhat less successfully. So I quickly gave her advice in pretending to be invisible and she pulled it off better. Then rushed the Evil Corporation Head the moment things were done, yelling about her sister. Oops. I knew I could either stay hidden and accomplish my goal (whatever that was) or... I tripped him as he was in the middle of capturing her, and he whipped out a radio to call security. So... ...Well, I led a hasty song and dance number about how the quick brown fox -was- jumping over the lazy dog, and the mayor was beside his horse, and pre-rendered teapots were inside the Cornell Box, and other "test" sounding phrases, which made security think that "two girls tried to jump me" was just another test. This was aided by my journalistic compatriots who were still there for the press conference. But they wouldn't help unless I managed to throw them vending machine food, which led to a quick game of "spot who isn't singing and feed them in a hurry". So that got us out of the building! Minigame success! Okay, now we can talk about what exactly was GOING ON... ...Ooops, enormous fleet of black vehicles. Dream cliffhanger! Sigh. I was getting to like that one too. This entry was originally posted at http://xyzzysqrl.dreamwidth.org/289692.html. Please comment there using OpenID. | | Wednesday, January 25th, 2012 | | 4:53 am |
In Which I Was, In My Youth, A Dumbass On The Internet.
Man, you remember when I used to just post stuff here because I felt like it? Mmm. Nostalgic. Good times. Actually, I was thinking about some exploits from my past, and playing Seiken Densetsu 3 recently. Still a kind of gem of the romhacking scene, with a great fan translation. Still hasn't gotten a US release, 17 years later. But y'know, thinking about quality romhacks reminded me of the time I was almost a romhacker. Oh yes, it's true. I call it: The Adventure of the Time I Was Almost A ROM Hacker.Catchy title, isn't it? Here's how it went down: I was on IRC, in the... I believe 1996/97-ish time period. This is pretty much how like 90% of my stories from that time period start. A friend and cohort of mine (who will remain nameless here but I'm pretty sure she's reading and can chime in if she wants) was learning Japanese at the time, so she'd downloaded a pack of SNES ROMs in Japanese to prod at. She'd found a copy of Illusion of Gaia (a classic SNES RPG in which you are a dude who beats monsters to death with a flute) which purported to be a Japanese ROM, but which was (mysteriously) already completely in English. Being intimately familiar with the game, she picked out a difference: In the Japanese ROM she had, the main character was named Tim. In the US release, he is named Will. This, as far as we could tell, was the sole difference between them. Tim. One name change. At this point, because we were goofy little smart-asses, we hatched a Plan. Romhacks and fan translations were just getting big, and we were very approving, but also we were on the cutting edge of ridiculous bullshitting. So, we thought... We'd release a rom hack of our own, to change the name in the Japanese ROM from Tim to Will, and call it our UNCENSORED TRUE TRANSLATION PATCH. It'd be a big satire. A prank to let the wind out of the sails of the whole puffed up romhacking 'scene', because a lot of those dudes were -really- full of themselves and there was at least one huge public blowup a month where someone QUIT THE SCENE FOREVER and so on. We drafted and sent out press releases overnight. This big sprawling I think -nine- paragraph press release about Fox&Sqrl Translations, who were coming to KICK SOME ASS in the romhack scene and reveal the TRUE NATURE of this HIGHLY BELOVED CLASSIC and also to EAT SOME PIE and LET WIND out of a BAG, where WIND was WIND and A BAG was NINTENDO. And so on and so on and so on. We even put up a web page with 'comparison screenshots' of exactly the same scene, but with "Tim" on one screen and "Will" on the other. We sent our press release out to the news sites of the day. Then we sat back and giggled a lot and waited for people to get the joke. We didn't imagine they'd actually take us SERIOUSLY. Oh, we didn't get bombed or anything, but those sites put the press release up (most of them edited it down first) and we even got emails asking curiously when the patch would be out and if we needed translation help, or mocking us for not having released already. We looked at the webpage again. Yeah, we were pretty clear about the Japanese version we'd found already being in English. We looked at each other and shrugged. ...now in the story I'd LIKE to tell you, we released a giant multi-megabyte IPS patch to change one name and learned a lesson about not trying to mock a community that far up its own ass to start with. Actually, we just sort of ducked down and forgot the whole thing, and wrote silly fanfic, and went back to using the ZSNES internet-play feature to do real-time MST3K of video games. Also later I found out that the ROM we thought was the Japanese version of Illusion of Gaia was actually a pre-release beta version of the English ROM anyway. So if this story has any morals, there's "There is no way to write a parody so obvious that its intended audience will realize they're being made fun of.", and "Don't think you're more clever than you are." However... I will admit, I still daydream about learning IPS hacking and just re-inserting the entire English script of Illusion of Gaia into a Japanese ROM, with one name changed. It will be a patch more than ten years in the making, at this point. That'd be a hell of a release pedigree. This entry was originally posted at http://xyzzysqrl.dreamwidth.org/289416.html. Please comment there using OpenID. | | Sunday, January 22nd, 2012 | | 10:09 pm |
In Which I Do Not Understand Things.
It's something of a catchphrase here in The Home of WoofAndSqrl: "I don't understand (X) anymore.", said in a vaguely despairing and giving-up way. It's a term of surrender, a "this makes me sad right now." It occurred to me to write down all the things which I do not understand or have not understood lately. ( Read more... )This entry was originally posted at http://xyzzysqrl.dreamwidth.org/289276.html. Please comment there using OpenID. | | Saturday, January 21st, 2012 | | 6:49 pm |
Me, My Brain, My Treadmill
So while I've got a mug of hot soup and am thinking of it, let me note here that I think I've finally worked out what's wrong with me. This process only took about 29 years and in retrospect is the most obvious thing in the world, but hey. The thing is... Past a certain point, I lose all focus. The problem is, where is that point? When I was in college, I used to hurl myself energetically into my classes... until a point, where I wandered off to the library and checked the same three websites over and over again until I failed a class. Nowadays, I seem to have about one to three weeks to make the most out of any project until my interest defocuses and I wander off to do something else. This -irritates me-. Deeply. Because often one side of my brain is still going "HEY. HEY. I WASN'T DONE." while the other side is going "Yeah you are." dismissively. So what can I do about my new revelation? Not a lot honestly. Treatment for the depression comes before treatment for "I get bored.", and since all forms of psychiatric care have inexplicably fucking vanished from our local area, I can't even get help with that. But it's good to know. Unless I already realized this before and wandered off and forgot about it, in which case, double-fuck you, oh psyche, my psyche. This entry was originally posted at http://xyzzysqrl.dreamwidth.org/288894.html. Please comment there using OpenID. | | 12:03 am |
| | Monday, January 16th, 2012 | | 12:11 am |
Continuing my Media Binge...
Back from seeing Tintin. Huh, seventy percent of all adventure game protags I've ever played have been channeling this dude. I should look into the comics. The movie itself? Good. The more I think about it, the fonder I am of it. And I think that pesky "Uncanny Valley" thing is finally done with, which is nice. This entry was originally posted at http://xyzzysqrl.dreamwidth.org/288391.html. Please comment there using OpenID. | | Sunday, January 15th, 2012 | | 1:20 am |
With Regards to Ms. Alice
I've wanted to do a bit of a thing about Alice: Madness Returns since I finished it. But my brain twists and my stomach knots at the idea of "Writing a review". So here are some THOUGHTS I have about the game, spoiler-rich thoughts I want to add ATTENTION THIS CONTAINS SPOILERS, and maybe you can read them or whatever. ( Read more... )That's all. This entry was originally posted at http://xyzzysqrl.dreamwidth.org/288081.html. Please comment there using OpenID. | | Monday, December 26th, 2011 | | 12:04 pm |
Three two one let's jam.
Okay. Uh. TEST. Test test test TEST. This is me posting on Dreamwidth, because the latest round of custom-fashioned bullshittery on Livejournal finally got to me. I'll continue to use LJ for reading friends-lists, but the bulk of my posting will be transplanted from DW from now on. If only I could make it look not-hideous. Oh well. | | Thursday, December 8th, 2011 | | 12:24 am |
WATCHED: The Muppet Movie.
There were so many ways this could've gone wrong. I thought I saw some of them, creeping up. Let the audience self-insert character do everything. Layer the sentiment on too thick. Get lost in cheap throwaway gags. Vanish into the collective fuzzy navel of the Muppets cast. They pulled it off. I feel... I feel really good about this film. I'm glad I saw it. It worked. ( Scattered spoilery thoughts. ) | | Saturday, December 3rd, 2011 | | 2:59 am |
I always feel weird about this...
It's the time of the season where, to my alarm, posting my holiday wishlist has become a tradition. "Feeling embarrassed and guilty about it" is also a tradition, less strongly held. So! If you want to give a gift that keeps sqrls bouncing, have a look here: The Official Wishlist of Holiday Doom. I add basically everything that I see and might want to this list, so it is long. Here are some pointers: A: Sort the list in various ways. Price "low to high" works well. Shuffle it around. There's a lot of stuff buried, there's no need to just grab off the top of the default view. B: Please please please please do not pay the default Amazon price. That price is a big load of CRAP. It is almost always too expensive. The "Used" items are often much more reasonable. C: If at any point you hesitate and think "Wait, can I afford...", please skip buying anything for me. D: I accept demands. "I bought you STUFF. When it gets there, post about it. Do a review." or something. I'm good with that. I will attempt to entertain you. So that's about it. | | Friday, November 25th, 2011 | | 8:18 pm |
You know what they say: All toasters toast toast!
We bought a new toaster, because ours had been making funny noises and had been worryingly not popping up and such. As with everything else in our lives, this became an Event. Sqrl, looking at brushed-steel-and-black-accents toaster: "Did you honestly buy just... the MANLIEST toaster in the store? The one that looked most GUY to you?" Woof: "NO. I bought like the middle of the road toaster. Although look at these -slots-, you could..." Sqrl: "I could put my hand in there. Look at the BOX." Woof: "Look at that bagel! It's the size of a full cake, if you put both halves together again. Who MAKES bagels that big?!" Sqrl: "Yeah, but... seriously, it's all brushed..." Woof: "I could've gotten the Gordon Ramsey toaster." Sqrl: "Oh fuck. Thank you for not." Woof: "Yeah. If we used plain white bread it would have bitched us out. WHAT'S THE BLOODY MATTER WITH YOU? YOU DON'T LIKE _FLAVOR_?" ...and so on. | | Tuesday, October 11th, 2011 | | 5:03 am |
Mobile Suit Gundam AGE Episode 1: A Tedious Old Beginning.
Okay SO. I was sitting around and happened to notice that the latest piece of the GUNDAM MERCHANDISING EMPIRE has arrived, and while it is sadly not a Gunpla Builders series like I really craved (because Gunpla Builders is deliciously fucking berzerker) I decided for the heck of it to grab the first subbed episode. When I mentioned this on twitter and in my IM status message, I was belted with many requests to blog it. So, come with me, my Internet friends. (Not that I'll tell you where to download the show nyaatorrent) as I watch a single episode of a giant robot cartoon DIRECT FROM JAPAN and then take four fucking hours to document it! THIS! IS! GUNDAM AGE! ( Episode 1: The Savior, Gundam. )I doubt I'll keep blogging it unless it does a massive turnaround in episode 2. I hope you all enjoyed this one, though! |
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