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jecca_mehlota) wrote2011-04-13 10:07 pm
jecca_mehlota) wrote2011-04-13 10:07 pm
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wtf, body
Oh, goodness. I had a bizarre work schedule today, in that I went to work but then did not close (THIS NEVER HAPPENS). Just a four-hour shift in the morning/early afternoon. So I got home and went to check a few things online, and then, since I got up at 8 am and didn't get to bed until ... later than I should have, I decided, since I am tired and have half the afternoon and all evening ahead of me, I will take a nap! And I set my alarm clock and set it a few feet away and curled up in a blanket and ... woke up at 8 pm. Ugh! What the hell?
I keep having things I mean to write about but I never remember what they are once I'm actually sitting here. It's annoying.
30 Days of Video Games
Day 04 - Your guilty pleasure game.
Sometimes Final Fantasy VIII fits this bill pretty well. Sometimes I feel kind of embarrassed for liking it as much as I do when I am around or see people really ripping into it. Saying the plot didn't make sense, or saying how stupid Squall was, or going on about how the whole romantic thing with Rinoa came out of nowhere, and how stupid Rinoa was and why couldn't she just die, or on and on and on about… whatever else about the plot they hate. And, I mean, I can admit the game has its flaws, and Ultimecia maybe is kind of WTF (but I can roll with it, and it's fun to, you know, consider how that future even came about, and her actions in our present probably being largely responsible for it and WHEE TIME LOOPS etc), and maybe the protagonists are all teenagers, most of whom were raised in a military academy, no wonder they have problems, okay?
Actually, Crisis Core will probably join it someday, because I see an alarming amount of hatred for that game being flung around, and I loved it so much, even as it broke my heart more with every second I logged in it. ALSO I LIKED GENESIS. I thought he was an interesting character, and I'm going to waste everyone's time pimping this fic again (I KNOW NO ONE WILL EVER CARE, NEVER MIND ACTUALLY READ IT, BUT I APPARENTLY LIKE TO BE DISAPPOINTED, SO I KEEP HOPING AND NO I WILL NEVER SHUT UP ABOUT THIS FIC GET OVER IT), 'cause he's awesome there, too (there's also a podfic version, for those without days to spend reading 178k words of amazing and epic FFVII time travel fix-it fic), sooo… too bad?
... the fact that both of these are from the same incredibly successful series of games is not lost on me, by the way. I am not good at feeling guilt over things I enjoy (just sometimes over the actual act of feeling enjoyment OH BRAIN I am glad that is not common, though. More often I just do not feel enjoyment of things at all), but, like I said, I see so much hatred for both titles that I am sometimes ... not embarrassed, but afraid? To admit that I like them. Because sometimes I see/hear people being like, dude, you like that game? WTF do you know about anything, GTFO.
(Alternately: fucking MINESWEEPER. I CAN'T STOP. Just mindlessly clicking for hours... @_@)
Anyway, y'know. Ghosts. Some people believe in them! Some people do not! Some people, like my father, are very confusing in that they fully admit to having had a ghost encounter and yet still do not believe in them. (Very strange.)
In the basement of my parents' house, for a very, very long time (as far back as I can remember), I did not like to go down there alone! I always felt like I was being watched. It was creepy. Hairs standing up on the back of my neck and all. Didn't like it. Other people would ask about it (without my having ever mentioned it to them) sometimes, if we were ever down there for some reason. One time, my father had a friend over and they were down in the basement, I dunno, playing table tennis or something, and the guy said, did you know you have a ghost living down here? And we were like, well, I guess that explains a few things, anyway, but, no, we didn't know that!
Years later, one of my mother's brothers and his wife were visiting, and she says she is very connected to the spirit world and stuff, and she was down there with my mom once and was like, did you know you have a ghost named Robert down here? And then she spent a while talking to Robert the Ghost. And then someone else did the same thing (also using the name Robert) later, still. And none of these people knew each other, and I know we hadn't mentioned the ghost to two of them (the first guy and the last guy, I suppose my aunt may have been told), and they all pointed to the same area of the basement...
Then, several years back, my parents did two things. One, they got rid of the freezer down there and replaced it with a smaller one. Two, they burned a lot of the scrap wood that hung around in the same approximate area. Now, I never go into the basement if I can help it (creepy-feeling + FULL OF SPIDERS = double avoidance), so I didn't notice for a while, but I was down there once and was like, I feel Not Stared At. ... Weird. Mentioned it to Mom and she said, yeah, I've noticed the same thing. A bit later, unrelated, one of the guys was over again and he said, hey, your ghost is gone. (So either we burned him away or shipped him off with the unsuspecting people who took the freezer. I kind of hope it was burning, because the only reason I can imagine someone haunting a freezer is if they died in it or something, which, uh. KIND OF CREEPY.)
...This is just coming out 'cause I was reading some stuff earlier that basically was one group of people going THERE IS A LOGICAL EXPLANATION FOR EVERYTHING and the other group of people going WHY CAN'T IT BE GHOSTS SOMETIMES and me just thinking of that and wondering what rational explanation there would be for Robert the Basement Ghost.
I keep having things I mean to write about but I never remember what they are once I'm actually sitting here. It's annoying.
30 Days of Video Games
Day 04 - Your guilty pleasure game.
Sometimes Final Fantasy VIII fits this bill pretty well. Sometimes I feel kind of embarrassed for liking it as much as I do when I am around or see people really ripping into it. Saying the plot didn't make sense, or saying how stupid Squall was, or going on about how the whole romantic thing with Rinoa came out of nowhere, and how stupid Rinoa was and why couldn't she just die, or on and on and on about… whatever else about the plot they hate. And, I mean, I can admit the game has its flaws, and Ultimecia maybe is kind of WTF (but I can roll with it, and it's fun to, you know, consider how that future even came about, and her actions in our present probably being largely responsible for it and WHEE TIME LOOPS etc), and maybe the protagonists are all teenagers, most of whom were raised in a military academy, no wonder they have problems, okay?
Actually, Crisis Core will probably join it someday, because I see an alarming amount of hatred for that game being flung around, and I loved it so much, even as it broke my heart more with every second I logged in it. ALSO I LIKED GENESIS. I thought he was an interesting character, and I'm going to waste everyone's time pimping this fic again (I KNOW NO ONE WILL EVER CARE, NEVER MIND ACTUALLY READ IT, BUT I APPARENTLY LIKE TO BE DISAPPOINTED, SO I KEEP HOPING AND NO I WILL NEVER SHUT UP ABOUT THIS FIC GET OVER IT), 'cause he's awesome there, too (there's also a podfic version, for those without days to spend reading 178k words of amazing and epic FFVII time travel fix-it fic), sooo… too bad?
... the fact that both of these are from the same incredibly successful series of games is not lost on me, by the way. I am not good at feeling guilt over things I enjoy (just sometimes over the actual act of feeling enjoyment OH BRAIN I am glad that is not common, though. More often I just do not feel enjoyment of things at all), but, like I said, I see so much hatred for both titles that I am sometimes ... not embarrassed, but afraid? To admit that I like them. Because sometimes I see/hear people being like, dude, you like that game? WTF do you know about anything, GTFO.
(Alternately: fucking MINESWEEPER. I CAN'T STOP. Just mindlessly clicking for hours... @_@)
Anyway, y'know. Ghosts. Some people believe in them! Some people do not! Some people, like my father, are very confusing in that they fully admit to having had a ghost encounter and yet still do not believe in them. (Very strange.)
In the basement of my parents' house, for a very, very long time (as far back as I can remember), I did not like to go down there alone! I always felt like I was being watched. It was creepy. Hairs standing up on the back of my neck and all. Didn't like it. Other people would ask about it (without my having ever mentioned it to them) sometimes, if we were ever down there for some reason. One time, my father had a friend over and they were down in the basement, I dunno, playing table tennis or something, and the guy said, did you know you have a ghost living down here? And we were like, well, I guess that explains a few things, anyway, but, no, we didn't know that!
Years later, one of my mother's brothers and his wife were visiting, and she says she is very connected to the spirit world and stuff, and she was down there with my mom once and was like, did you know you have a ghost named Robert down here? And then she spent a while talking to Robert the Ghost. And then someone else did the same thing (also using the name Robert) later, still. And none of these people knew each other, and I know we hadn't mentioned the ghost to two of them (the first guy and the last guy, I suppose my aunt may have been told), and they all pointed to the same area of the basement...
Then, several years back, my parents did two things. One, they got rid of the freezer down there and replaced it with a smaller one. Two, they burned a lot of the scrap wood that hung around in the same approximate area. Now, I never go into the basement if I can help it (creepy-feeling + FULL OF SPIDERS = double avoidance), so I didn't notice for a while, but I was down there once and was like, I feel Not Stared At. ... Weird. Mentioned it to Mom and she said, yeah, I've noticed the same thing. A bit later, unrelated, one of the guys was over again and he said, hey, your ghost is gone. (So either we burned him away or shipped him off with the unsuspecting people who took the freezer. I kind of hope it was burning, because the only reason I can imagine someone haunting a freezer is if they died in it or something, which, uh. KIND OF CREEPY.)
...This is just coming out 'cause I was reading some stuff earlier that basically was one group of people going THERE IS A LOGICAL EXPLANATION FOR EVERYTHING and the other group of people going WHY CAN'T IT BE GHOSTS SOMETIMES and me just thinking of that and wondering what rational explanation there would be for Robert the Basement Ghost.
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I also took a nap today
My brain is frazzeled >_< I'm hungry!
Also I skipped over the FFVIII part cause DAMN IT WILL FINISH THAT GAME SOMEDAY!!!
*ahem* but ... having crisis core up there.. I hope you don't mean that it will be your guilty pleasure game... because that makes me think that you will play it again and.. DONT DO IT! the sobbing.. omg just thinking about... *runs away*
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Oh, right! Geez, I'd forgotten you still hadn't beat that. I've got another entry coming up you're going to want to avoid part of. I'll be sure to mark that one.
Crisis Core is on there more because sometimes I feel awkward for liking it. I still have no plans to replay it (though I did find myself rewatching it on YouTube a bit ago... I wimped out around Nibelheim. Got halfway through Sephiroth's speech in the reactor and self-preservation kicked in and I found that the tab had mysteriously closed somehow).
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can't believe you'd do that to yourself >_
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Well, you know, the first half isn't so bad. It's mostly the looming disaster that makes you so freaked out, and now that I know all those details, the first half really isn't too terrible. (To watch. I don't know about replaying, I might start stressing out then.) (ALSO ZACK AND AERITH BEING ADORABLE HOW CAN I SAY NO.)
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Also, I love your support for Final Fantasy VIII. It may not be my favourite Final Fantasy game, but it was my first and it will always have a place in my heart. And it probably has my favourite of the casts.
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That is actually one of the few things I would probably feel capable of declaring a favourite of, a video game cast, because, yeah, Final Fantasy VIII! (Too bad for me, "favourite game cast" is not on the meme list.) Why so much hate for them all, fandom?