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Thanks to a very nice man at a local-ish anime store, and some more very nice people who took crap off my hands on Ebay even though I know I should be saving my money for AB, dammit, I was finally able to take a SEGA Grell home. Unfortunately, should I manage profits, they may be partially blown at this store shortly after AB.
Knee is still being a bother and I still don't know why. It doesn't hurt most of the time (though occasionally it does have a pretty obvious, semi-sharp pain, admittedly) it just feels... wrong. Noticeably wrong. Particularly when I've been down stairs. Ha ha, nothing extremely worrying about that. I did wrap it with an Ace bandage for a little while this morning and it felt better, though. It's just remarkably annoying to sit here with my knee wrapped.
This is clearly the start of the Great Spider Exodus: Part 2. I've had to remove more spiders from the house the past two days... but I'm keeping the little ones in. I hope they'll help get rid of the damn gnats. I did have to completely eradicate a house centipede, though. Normally I would let one that small be because they are fantastic at getting rid of ants and larger, more aggressive spiders... but I sleep on the floor now. And Cassie is highly allergic to pretty much everything. I can only imagine what a house centipede bite would do to the pup, so the little fucker had to die. ...The bug, not the dog. To make that clear. I've tried putting house centipedes outside. It doesn't work. I guess I haven't driven them across town and tried that, no... yes, I'm weird for not even quite liking to kill insects. Killing human beings who should have brains enough to "know better" in self-defense, though, no problem!
Oh my god the dream I had last night. I don't dream very often these days, sadly, but when I do they tend to be pretty good. This was fucking epic and will probably turn into a short story (not another novel, not another novel, not another novel...) just because... damn. I love taking cliches and only partly intentionally fucking them up. This was... beyond that. I fear I may start writing it well before I'm prepared to. Damn. But yay. But damn. I have no idea where it came from, which is really part of the fun. Still tying to think of how to describe it... like if you took Forever Knight if you threw out the redemption part, tossed in some very patient humor and bashed it multiple times with a nailbat so that no one would ever recognize it. ...Kind of. I know, a big help.
I still am not caught up. So, have
17 - A game the disappointed you the most
Fuuuuuuck Devil May Cry 2. That doesn't exist. Does not exist. It was mis-numbered. That's all there was to it. To be honest, some of the combat in this totally imagined game was pretty cool, but... ugh. Plus that obviously not being Dante. Familiar?
18 - A game that you wish you more people would’ve played
Godhand. I know it's my answer for everything, but it's still such a hidden and sometimes hard to get hold of gem. It's brutal and hilarious with an awesome soundtrack and nothing makes sense. How can you go wrong?
19 - Favorite game based on a movie/book/comic/etc.
TMNT: Turtles in Time. Leave me alone. Though, I will say that I get a sick thrill out of the Beast Wars fighter for the N64.
20 - Favorite stress relieving game
Relieving stress, usually Devil May Cry or Kingdom Hearts 2 in The World That Never Was, just hacking away at Heartless. For relaxing after, Flower or FlOw.
21 - Favorite fighting game
Argh, hard to choose... These days it's out of sheer cheesy merit that I still love Killer Instinct, and Soul Blade, the original, still holds more of a place in whatever dark spot my heart should be. But my favorite? ...........Ehrgeiz. Yes, I'm serious. Zack's my favorite, but I love playing as Django.
22 - Favorite RPG
Gee, here's a shocker: Final Fantasy 7. One of very few I can stand to play all the way through without cheats. ...Hell, even with cheats I've only managed to make it through FF7 and FF8 as far as I remember. It's not that I dislike Chrono Trigger, Earthbound, etc. The play style just isn't going to get me very far. I sincerely lack RPG motivation.
23 - Favorite racing game
ROAD RASH. 3-D or Jailbreak. So much brutal, sometimes glitchy, always zen-like loooooove.
24 - That one awesome game idea that still hasn’t been done yet
There are so many dumb game ideas in my head that are better off staying there. I will say that I want more play as the "bad guy" games--though redemption and regret should not be the only option. I'd love a game where you play all the way through as the "good guy" --only for the shocking surprise that you get to play all the way through as the "bad guy" only to discover they've got just as much of a right to do as they do as the hero. 'Cause I'm fucked up like that.
25 - The most hilarious game you’ve ever played
Here we go again: Godhand. There are so many "What the shit?" moments. And actual verbal cries of, "What?!" It is poetry in motion. Heh.
26 - A game that you can beat everyone else at
I tend to have not played video games competitively for many years. I just don't have any interest in it. (Fighters and racers are always against the CPU these days, yeah.) Kind of turns people into assholes. I'm kind of unbelievably, unapologetically abusive to people who act like assholes. See why this is bad?
27 - A game that you wish you could play, but suck at
Silent Hills and Resident Evils with tank controls, dammit. I just, can't, do it. My brain will never work that way.
28- A game that makes you feel guilty
I'm not sure if it's actually guilt I feel for killing the Colossi. It's... deeper than that. Something far more aching.
29 - A game from your childhood
Super Mario Brothers was the first game I managed to "master", to get all the way through multiple times. But boy did that take a while. For a long time I couldn't manage to get past 8-2. When I finally beat it, I was just ecstatic. After a few years, I could play up through 8-3 upside-down. Yes, really. 8-4, no way. Not at the end.
30 - Your favorite game of all time
I think it'll probably always be Ocarina of Time. It's not so much the "don't make 'em like they used to" thing (though that is worryingly true all too often), it's just... such a sense of wonder with such simplicity. It wasn't the least bit simple at the time, no, and if you happen to be an Ocarina nerd like me, you'll know how sincerely advanced the actual program and structure still is. It's "simple" now only because we have all of these other games with pretty bells and whistles that are almost enough to hide the fact that there's very little underneath. Ocarina haunted me. Awake and in dreams. Every night in the dark we gathered together for what seemed like months to take this journey. Those were not snacks, they were rations. Those were not mere pixels on screen, but a young hero who needed our help and a world that had to be saved. That was our fight. Us staring in wonder at temples and bosses, getting shivers at the Fire Temple music, feeling sick at the idea of how far we still had to go in the Water Temple, climbing to the top of Ganondorf's tower with breath held; we were there. I've had the sincere joy to behold this for a number of games, but Ocarina of Time was the first. The start. The one that assured me that these things will stick with me, will be part of me and my pantheon of gods, my mythology, for as long as I live. There is no greater thank you and no better evidence than the fact these experiences, characters and worlds still manage to inspire and fuel me in everything that I do. For me personally, games are what allow me most often to brush fingertips with something greater. It was realizing that for the first time, through Ocarina, that clearly scarred me for life. *grin* I speak passionately out of love. There is nothing greater.
Prompt list.
And because you guys need a fun (NSFW) link: The Whores (And Man Whores) Of Fable III.
Yeah, I'm pretty shit at catching up, but you all know this. Busy + catching up = probably not going to happen anytime soon.
Knee is still being a bother and I still don't know why. It doesn't hurt most of the time (though occasionally it does have a pretty obvious, semi-sharp pain, admittedly) it just feels... wrong. Noticeably wrong. Particularly when I've been down stairs. Ha ha, nothing extremely worrying about that. I did wrap it with an Ace bandage for a little while this morning and it felt better, though. It's just remarkably annoying to sit here with my knee wrapped.
This is clearly the start of the Great Spider Exodus: Part 2. I've had to remove more spiders from the house the past two days... but I'm keeping the little ones in. I hope they'll help get rid of the damn gnats. I did have to completely eradicate a house centipede, though. Normally I would let one that small be because they are fantastic at getting rid of ants and larger, more aggressive spiders... but I sleep on the floor now. And Cassie is highly allergic to pretty much everything. I can only imagine what a house centipede bite would do to the pup, so the little fucker had to die. ...The bug, not the dog. To make that clear. I've tried putting house centipedes outside. It doesn't work. I guess I haven't driven them across town and tried that, no... yes, I'm weird for not even quite liking to kill insects. Killing human beings who should have brains enough to "know better" in self-defense, though, no problem!
Oh my god the dream I had last night. I don't dream very often these days, sadly, but when I do they tend to be pretty good. This was fucking epic and will probably turn into a short story (not another novel, not another novel, not another novel...) just because... damn. I love taking cliches and only partly intentionally fucking them up. This was... beyond that. I fear I may start writing it well before I'm prepared to. Damn. But yay. But damn. I have no idea where it came from, which is really part of the fun. Still tying to think of how to describe it... like if you took Forever Knight if you threw out the redemption part, tossed in some very patient humor and bashed it multiple times with a nailbat so that no one would ever recognize it. ...Kind of. I know, a big help.
I still am not caught up. So, have
17 - A game the disappointed you the most
Fuuuuuuck Devil May Cry 2. That doesn't exist. Does not exist. It was mis-numbered. That's all there was to it. To be honest, some of the combat in this totally imagined game was pretty cool, but... ugh. Plus that obviously not being Dante. Familiar?
18 - A game that you wish you more people would’ve played
Godhand. I know it's my answer for everything, but it's still such a hidden and sometimes hard to get hold of gem. It's brutal and hilarious with an awesome soundtrack and nothing makes sense. How can you go wrong?
19 - Favorite game based on a movie/book/comic/etc.
TMNT: Turtles in Time. Leave me alone. Though, I will say that I get a sick thrill out of the Beast Wars fighter for the N64.
20 - Favorite stress relieving game
Relieving stress, usually Devil May Cry or Kingdom Hearts 2 in The World That Never Was, just hacking away at Heartless. For relaxing after, Flower or FlOw.
21 - Favorite fighting game
Argh, hard to choose... These days it's out of sheer cheesy merit that I still love Killer Instinct, and Soul Blade, the original, still holds more of a place in whatever dark spot my heart should be. But my favorite? ...........Ehrgeiz. Yes, I'm serious. Zack's my favorite, but I love playing as Django.
22 - Favorite RPG
Gee, here's a shocker: Final Fantasy 7. One of very few I can stand to play all the way through without cheats. ...Hell, even with cheats I've only managed to make it through FF7 and FF8 as far as I remember. It's not that I dislike Chrono Trigger, Earthbound, etc. The play style just isn't going to get me very far. I sincerely lack RPG motivation.
23 - Favorite racing game
ROAD RASH. 3-D or Jailbreak. So much brutal, sometimes glitchy, always zen-like loooooove.
24 - That one awesome game idea that still hasn’t been done yet
There are so many dumb game ideas in my head that are better off staying there. I will say that I want more play as the "bad guy" games--though redemption and regret should not be the only option. I'd love a game where you play all the way through as the "good guy" --only for the shocking surprise that you get to play all the way through as the "bad guy" only to discover they've got just as much of a right to do as they do as the hero. 'Cause I'm fucked up like that.
25 - The most hilarious game you’ve ever played
Here we go again: Godhand. There are so many "What the shit?" moments. And actual verbal cries of, "What?!" It is poetry in motion. Heh.
26 - A game that you can beat everyone else at
I tend to have not played video games competitively for many years. I just don't have any interest in it. (Fighters and racers are always against the CPU these days, yeah.) Kind of turns people into assholes. I'm kind of unbelievably, unapologetically abusive to people who act like assholes. See why this is bad?
27 - A game that you wish you could play, but suck at
Silent Hills and Resident Evils with tank controls, dammit. I just, can't, do it. My brain will never work that way.
28- A game that makes you feel guilty
I'm not sure if it's actually guilt I feel for killing the Colossi. It's... deeper than that. Something far more aching.
29 - A game from your childhood
Super Mario Brothers was the first game I managed to "master", to get all the way through multiple times. But boy did that take a while. For a long time I couldn't manage to get past 8-2. When I finally beat it, I was just ecstatic. After a few years, I could play up through 8-3 upside-down. Yes, really. 8-4, no way. Not at the end.
30 - Your favorite game of all time
I think it'll probably always be Ocarina of Time. It's not so much the "don't make 'em like they used to" thing (though that is worryingly true all too often), it's just... such a sense of wonder with such simplicity. It wasn't the least bit simple at the time, no, and if you happen to be an Ocarina nerd like me, you'll know how sincerely advanced the actual program and structure still is. It's "simple" now only because we have all of these other games with pretty bells and whistles that are almost enough to hide the fact that there's very little underneath. Ocarina haunted me. Awake and in dreams. Every night in the dark we gathered together for what seemed like months to take this journey. Those were not snacks, they were rations. Those were not mere pixels on screen, but a young hero who needed our help and a world that had to be saved. That was our fight. Us staring in wonder at temples and bosses, getting shivers at the Fire Temple music, feeling sick at the idea of how far we still had to go in the Water Temple, climbing to the top of Ganondorf's tower with breath held; we were there. I've had the sincere joy to behold this for a number of games, but Ocarina of Time was the first. The start. The one that assured me that these things will stick with me, will be part of me and my pantheon of gods, my mythology, for as long as I live. There is no greater thank you and no better evidence than the fact these experiences, characters and worlds still manage to inspire and fuel me in everything that I do. For me personally, games are what allow me most often to brush fingertips with something greater. It was realizing that for the first time, through Ocarina, that clearly scarred me for life. *grin* I speak passionately out of love. There is nothing greater.
Prompt list.
And because you guys need a fun (NSFW) link: The Whores (And Man Whores) Of Fable III.
Yeah, I'm pretty shit at catching up, but you all know this. Busy + catching up = probably not going to happen anytime soon.
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Fuuuuuuck Devil May Cry 2. That doesn't exist.
Er... would I be better off skipping straight to three?
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Yes. --Well, I guess that depends. Some of the play really was fun, and then it just got... eyes glazing over dull for me. Add that to the fact that the main character is sort of like Dante with a massive head injury or some chick that might have a personality somewhere if you squint, and it was worthless. The series has never been a bastion of storytelling, but after forcing my way through enough annoying games to get to things that resembled plot, I know a lost cause when I see one. At least the third game rewards you after it punches your face in multiple times.