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jecca_mehlota) wrote2007-05-03 11:36 pm
jecca_mehlota) wrote2007-05-03 11:36 pm
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Let me prove my insanity to you.
I have been meme'd by someone I do not actually know (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thebaconfat)! I am that awesome! (er, I don't really mind. I am actually kind of bored.)
Three interests:
1 and 2.) Apocalyptic Fresh Floor Cleaners and Assimilate with the Cook!
Apocalyptic fresh floor cleaners and assimilate with the cook! actually go together. They both tie back to Final Fantasy VII, believe it or not. I was talking about those strange pairing names they give to different 'ships with a friend one day, and one of the ones that came up was "AeriSeph." One of us (probably her) commented that it sounded kind of like a cleaning agent. A floor cleaner, to be specific. There was an accompanying image, which I still have, and should dig out.
And who would sell this cleaning agent? Well, Jenova, of course. She'd have a whole line of products. "Mother Knows Best," you know. She would wear an apron, and rather than saying "Kiss the Cook" or something similar, it would say, "Assimilate with the Cook." There's an image for this, too.
This eventually ensued one night when I was up too late and bored.
3.) geezards coming... for you!
Well, they are!
No, um, besides that. Geezards and I have a strange relationship. I didn't actually encounter any of them until late on the third disc of Final Fantasy VIII (when I was running around trying to upgrade my weapons. Yeah, I made it to 'just before Lunatic Pandora' with the starting weapons. Shut up! I didn't know where to find screws!). I was running around the field rather aimlessly and stumbled across a few and, miracle of miracles, found out where screws came from! So there was Geezard Genocide. And geezards are kind of pathetic and die easily.
Geezards have, on my original VIII file, died in ... every way possible, I suspect. They were the first victims of Squall's Lionheart, Odin sliced them up but good, Gilgamesh has hit them with everything, and, my personal favorite, Rinoa has given them a heart attack.
No, seriously. After I'd obtained everyone's final weapons, I was running around aimlessly again and encountered a lone geezard. She had Initiative at the time, so I told her to attack it. She missed. It died anyway.
So, really, the geezards are coming for you (me), but they're not much of a threat.
I actually think I read a fic with a line similar to this in it once, too. I can't remember.
Three icons:
My default icon, though I'm not entirely sure why. It's my main Final Fantasy XI character, Hisime, leveling ninja (even though I immensely dislike the job), attacking a crab. I appear to have misplaced the original screenshot, but she's attacking. I could try to dig it up (it's on one of my back-ups) if there's any interest, but it's not that exciting of a screenshot. I just thought it looked neat. The weird colors and lights are just the attack-effects.
CUE DOLPHIN PROFANITIES
Ecco the Dolphin destroyed my life sometime ... er, ten years ago? Whenever I first played it. For whatever reason, I then played the sequel, Ecco: Tides of Time and, years later, I played the Dreamcast's Ecco: Defender of the Future. Because I really hate myself, I then bought it for the PS2, as well, and played it again.
Have you ever played Ecco? Don't. It destroys souls. I do not know anyone who has walked away from those games without having developed several new twitches. They're delightful and soul-crushing. They're impossibly hard and beautiful and you have no idea how good it feels to finally beat that Vortex Queen or whatever. It almost makes up for the screaming frustration. Almost.
Anyway, that's from Defender of the Future, the third part of the game. You're stuck in a series of underwater caves, so air's a problem. You're being chased by a bunch of evil dolphins and you've had to escort another dolphin (a really pathetic one who runs away screaming as soon as he sees one of the evil dolphins and then you have to lead him all the way back) and you get into a big cavern area and there is a giant crocodile. OH NO CROCODILE! You can swim up and fight it if you're brave, but I am not, so I use Sonar to drop stalactites on its head until it swims away. But sometimes it sees you and comes over to try and eat you, and those are terrifying moments, when you hear it growl or something and turn and swim towards you and it's faster than you and there's no way you'll make it to safety and...! Fortunately, it only takes half of your health bar, unlike every other giant sea-predator you've had to face prior. Those all eat you in one bite.
It's still terrifying.
But by this point in the game, insanity's bought the land, built the house, and is working on starting a family, so instead of wibbling at the giant crocodile, you start screaming at it. Or, in my case, you apparently start dolphin-chirping at it. I have several witnesses who tell me I chirp like a dolphin while playing these games. They're not good for me.
LOOK AT THIS. LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I START TALKING ABOUT THESE GAMES. I can feel my blood pressure rising.
"Dolphin profanities" actually started in the second level after this level. You have to travel via watertubes up in the sky for ever and you fall. A lot. And when you fall, you die. This bothers you a lot at first, but then you remember you're insane. You start spamming the sonar button as you plummet to Earth, so Ecco screams the whole way down. You? You're laughing maniacally. Or sobbing. Or both.
Your friend is laughing at you because otherwise she'd be forced to run away in terror. Eventually, she makes a joke. "And once again, Ecco fell to Earth, screaming little dolphin profanities the whole way."
Then you put down your controller and rest your forehead on the ground and twitch.
Oh, this will help me calm down. WATCH THIS! That is a baby chocobo from Final Fantasy XI. It is not mine, it is my brother's, but they are all that cute. They are adorable, and they wag their little tails at you when they see you, and they chirp, and if they get sick, it is the most heartbreaking thing in the world and you want to cry because your chocobo is sad and doesn't feel well! Then you break your wallet buying medicine for it, but it's all okay because then your baby chocobo is healthy again.
Seriously, I cannot imagine why they are allowed to be that cute. How is that legal? Awww, baby chocobo! ♥
er, I suppose I will ask about three interests and three icons of anyone who wants me to.
Oh, hey! The final BotCon exclusive's up! Dreadwind! Fandom called it, he's a Jetfire repaint. Which is fine, I really like the mold. Man! I can't want for June! Why is it not June! (We're at two months until the movie's theater release even though I will have seen it already by then, too! Hooray!)
thebaconfat)! I am that awesome! (er, I don't really mind. I am actually kind of bored.)Three interests:
1 and 2.) Apocalyptic Fresh Floor Cleaners and Assimilate with the Cook!
Apocalyptic fresh floor cleaners and assimilate with the cook! actually go together. They both tie back to Final Fantasy VII, believe it or not. I was talking about those strange pairing names they give to different 'ships with a friend one day, and one of the ones that came up was "AeriSeph." One of us (probably her) commented that it sounded kind of like a cleaning agent. A floor cleaner, to be specific. There was an accompanying image, which I still have, and should dig out.
And who would sell this cleaning agent? Well, Jenova, of course. She'd have a whole line of products. "Mother Knows Best," you know. She would wear an apron, and rather than saying "Kiss the Cook" or something similar, it would say, "Assimilate with the Cook." There's an image for this, too.
This eventually ensued one night when I was up too late and bored.
3.) geezards coming... for you!
Well, they are!
No, um, besides that. Geezards and I have a strange relationship. I didn't actually encounter any of them until late on the third disc of Final Fantasy VIII (when I was running around trying to upgrade my weapons. Yeah, I made it to 'just before Lunatic Pandora' with the starting weapons. Shut up! I didn't know where to find screws!). I was running around the field rather aimlessly and stumbled across a few and, miracle of miracles, found out where screws came from! So there was Geezard Genocide. And geezards are kind of pathetic and die easily.
Geezards have, on my original VIII file, died in ... every way possible, I suspect. They were the first victims of Squall's Lionheart, Odin sliced them up but good, Gilgamesh has hit them with everything, and, my personal favorite, Rinoa has given them a heart attack.
No, seriously. After I'd obtained everyone's final weapons, I was running around aimlessly again and encountered a lone geezard. She had Initiative at the time, so I told her to attack it. She missed. It died anyway.
So, really, the geezards are coming for you (me), but they're not much of a threat.
I actually think I read a fic with a line similar to this in it once, too. I can't remember.
Three icons:
My default icon, though I'm not entirely sure why. It's my main Final Fantasy XI character, Hisime, leveling ninja (even though I immensely dislike the job), attacking a crab. I appear to have misplaced the original screenshot, but she's attacking. I could try to dig it up (it's on one of my back-ups) if there's any interest, but it's not that exciting of a screenshot. I just thought it looked neat. The weird colors and lights are just the attack-effects.
CUE DOLPHIN PROFANITIES
Ecco the Dolphin destroyed my life sometime ... er, ten years ago? Whenever I first played it. For whatever reason, I then played the sequel, Ecco: Tides of Time and, years later, I played the Dreamcast's Ecco: Defender of the Future. Because I really hate myself, I then bought it for the PS2, as well, and played it again.
Have you ever played Ecco? Don't. It destroys souls. I do not know anyone who has walked away from those games without having developed several new twitches. They're delightful and soul-crushing. They're impossibly hard and beautiful and you have no idea how good it feels to finally beat that Vortex Queen or whatever. It almost makes up for the screaming frustration. Almost.
Anyway, that's from Defender of the Future, the third part of the game. You're stuck in a series of underwater caves, so air's a problem. You're being chased by a bunch of evil dolphins and you've had to escort another dolphin (a really pathetic one who runs away screaming as soon as he sees one of the evil dolphins and then you have to lead him all the way back) and you get into a big cavern area and there is a giant crocodile. OH NO CROCODILE! You can swim up and fight it if you're brave, but I am not, so I use Sonar to drop stalactites on its head until it swims away. But sometimes it sees you and comes over to try and eat you, and those are terrifying moments, when you hear it growl or something and turn and swim towards you and it's faster than you and there's no way you'll make it to safety and...! Fortunately, it only takes half of your health bar, unlike every other giant sea-predator you've had to face prior. Those all eat you in one bite.
It's still terrifying.
But by this point in the game, insanity's bought the land, built the house, and is working on starting a family, so instead of wibbling at the giant crocodile, you start screaming at it. Or, in my case, you apparently start dolphin-chirping at it. I have several witnesses who tell me I chirp like a dolphin while playing these games. They're not good for me.
LOOK AT THIS. LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I START TALKING ABOUT THESE GAMES. I can feel my blood pressure rising.
"Dolphin profanities" actually started in the second level after this level. You have to travel via watertubes up in the sky for ever and you fall. A lot. And when you fall, you die. This bothers you a lot at first, but then you remember you're insane. You start spamming the sonar button as you plummet to Earth, so Ecco screams the whole way down. You? You're laughing maniacally. Or sobbing. Or both.
Your friend is laughing at you because otherwise she'd be forced to run away in terror. Eventually, she makes a joke. "And once again, Ecco fell to Earth, screaming little dolphin profanities the whole way."
Then you put down your controller and rest your forehead on the ground and twitch.
Oh, this will help me calm down. WATCH THIS! That is a baby chocobo from Final Fantasy XI. It is not mine, it is my brother's, but they are all that cute. They are adorable, and they wag their little tails at you when they see you, and they chirp, and if they get sick, it is the most heartbreaking thing in the world and you want to cry because your chocobo is sad and doesn't feel well! Then you break your wallet buying medicine for it, but it's all okay because then your baby chocobo is healthy again.
Seriously, I cannot imagine why they are allowed to be that cute. How is that legal? Awww, baby chocobo! ♥
er, I suppose I will ask about three interests and three icons of anyone who wants me to.
Oh, hey! The final BotCon exclusive's up! Dreadwind! Fandom called it, he's a Jetfire repaint. Which is fine, I really like the mold. Man! I can't want for June! Why is it not June! (We're at two months until the movie's theater release even though I will have seen it already by then, too! Hooray!)
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Shut up! I didn't know where to find screws!
XD XD XD
She missed. It died anyway.
*LMAO*
I really like your Hisime icon! Looks very cool, with the about-to-kick-your-ass pose and the funky colors. THUMBS UP.
The Ecco games sound absolutely horrible. I kind of want to play them now.
screaming little dolphin profanities the whole way.
*ROFLMAO*
That chocobo is adorable!
I am friending you now. And I already did the meme, but if there's any of my icons or interests you want to ask about, feel free!
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Oh, dear, am I being creepy? I am, aren't I?
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ECCO WILL END YOU! They are addicting and you can't stop at first, and then when you should want to stop, it's too late because you are insane. Ecco's rage is, perhaps, contagious.
...I think I was going to ask about something, but then I was distracted by ReBoot and have been flailing with glee ever since because it is ReBoot and there are other people out there who remember it! Joy!
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ReBoot is seriously one of my favourite shows of all time ever. Seriously, season 3 = akljdlksdjlksklfglkdfg!!
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I have not seen ReBoot in forever! But it was such a great show! Season 3 was the one with Matrix and AndrAIa game-hopping from system to system, right? If so, HEARTS!
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It was! HEARTS FOR THE ENTIRE SERIES! (Which, er, you can download here (http://autophanous.livejournal.com/274060.html). And I've got YouTube links here (http://thebaconfat.livejournal.com/121241.html?thread=860569#t860569) and here (http://nano-moose.livejournal.com/32552.html?thread=101160#t101160).)
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asdgjf why am I on the wrong computer tonight? I cannot download anything! AWESOMENESS. Thank you so much!