Currents of Time

Internal calendar has stopped being a day ahead and is now just confused. Is this a step up? Step back? Step sideways? ALSO I keep forgetting Monday is Memorial Day and the post office will not be open so no, I cannot mail this. Frustration.

Anyway, I accidentally got dragged around to lawn/yard/garage/rummage/barn/INSERT TERM HERE sales by my parents this weekend! It was not a waste! For example, we found an awesome sewing machine! And I got a neat map of Lake Champlain (or, uh, half of it, at least. The top part is on another piece of paper that they did not have)! And some thread, and a dumpling steamer. And some other random stuff!

Also, last weekend, for twenty-five cents, my mother found me this! So okay, he's not got... a fair bit, actually (no accessories... or arms, haha), but whatever. The body is in great shape! Maybe I will try to collect all the missing pieces. It can be my project! Or. Something!

Now that I have turned over to robots, I am going to tell you: the All Hail Megatron Coda story "Everything in Its Right Place" is delicious and amazing and I want more. TOO BAD I CAN'T HAVE ANY. Moving on to Wreckers now, which I am fairly confidant will also be amazing. And slightly more death-filled. But then I will be all out. Unless I decide to actually start reading the ongoing. Is anyone following that? Is it better than it looks and sounds to be? Do you stop noticing the weird new faces eventually?

(Also, for a good example of Things You Don't Expect To Find On The Transformers Wiki: Daleks.)

And speaking of Doctor Who, a couple things in this Saturday's episode made me unreasonably angry. Aaargh. *punches everyone*


I can't think of a way to bring this one up. OH WELL. I had this secret/comment thread brought to my attention! And I laughed and laughed and laughed and then went and wept a little. Oh, that damn dolphin.


THIS IS NOT THE ENTRY I CAME HERE TO MAKE but I guess that will wait another day.

On ...Tuesday? I was poking around with my PSP edition of the Sega Genesis Collection, and instead of pressing Triangle or whatever it is to read the "museum" blurb about the game, I accidentally pressed the confirm button, instead. And then, because I am an idiot, I decided to not just restart, but kept going, and somehow found myself starting to play through Ecco: The Tides of Time. Oops. Vacation put a bit of a delay in it, but then I came back and had to finish. I will share with you.

MY LIFE AS ECCO
( Tides of Time edition. )

On the positive side, I now no longer desire to play Defender of the Future.

Does anyone have a Sega CD? You know, this thing.


Because I totally have a game for you.





...HINT: THE ICON IS A CLUE. so are the tags


(You may remember my brother bought me this game for Christmas last year. Well, apparently my mother accidentally bought two copies, and they've finally told me this and given me the second copy. Because I totally need two.)

THIS IS ME NOT TALKING ABOUT THE USA Life on Mars PROMOTIONAL VIDEO/TRAILER/THING THAT IS OUT NOW.


Here.

Have some more Ecco haiku that I will probably upload to FF.net if my account ever starts working properly again. (Maybe it's working now. I think I stopped checking about a month ago.) And, you know. If I finish them. HOW DO YOU HAVE UNFINISHED HAIKU?

... What, I'm supposed to have an answer for that?

( DOLPHINS )

ffffff* my brother suggested I try to do speed runs of Ecco levels (he's been timing himself for the final level of Sonic 2. He can beat Metal Sonic - 8 hits - and Robotnik's Death Eggwalker Thing - 12 hits - both of which can kill you quite easily as there are no rings in the final level - in 49 seconds) and dolphins got in my blood and I cannot get them back out.

* When did I get into the habit of hissing air out through my teeth in an "fffssss" sound when frustrated? Seriously, what is this?

WHOEVER INVENTED "THE MACHINE" NEEDS TO BE SENT THERE. DON'T EVEN TALK TO ME ABOUT "City of Forever." Unless you want to watch me, I don't know, explode or something.


...I DON'T FEEL BETTER NOW.


Edit:
To entertain myself, I just went browsing on GameFAQs for Ecco walkthroughs. This one is hilarious and contains the truest line ever:
Ecco's Likelyhood of Survival (against Trilobites)- So bad, if I represented this on a numeric scale, the number is so low it hasn't been invented yet.

Someday, I am going to invent a word for how much I both love and hate these games. Today is not that day.

Today I was flung from the Tube of Medusa no less than twenty times! Then I stopped counting. (That is only flingings, that is not me charging blindly in my mad dash to escape the medusa and missing the next series of water tubes.) Clearly, I am a bit out of practice. That I am playing with a keyboard instead of a system controller probably is not helping, as I have never found a key set-up that I like. Also, it is a lot harder to button-mash on a keyboard, or at least it is for me. Less with the moving dolphin, more with the being thrown.

Supposedly, in Hard Mode, there are multiple medusas. I have never attempted it. One is bad enough. (I have been struck by enough lunacy to play Asterite's Cave on Hard, which mostly means there are, like, FIFTY THOUSAND lost baby orcas, as opposed to just twenty, or whatever. I do not recommend ever doing that.)


Dinner was Thai, and my mother and I were going to watch a DVD, but the DVD-player is ridiculous and we could not get it to work. (After we finally got the DVD menu up, the system refused to accept commands from the remote, so we literally couldn't get it to play. This is just another reason why I like my PS2 - it is very easy to play DVDs on it.)


And one of the crucial missing points for "GT" may have fallen into place at work (in between radio commercial jingles and Girl Scout campfire songs - my brain appears to be set to "shuffle"). Wikipedia is failing my fact-checking, but whatever. The "American Holiday" was summer, 2006, and the GT went in... autumn. And if not, well... That's how it goes here. SO THERE.

I am supposed to be making a poster on Why I Think Seahorses are Awesome for my psychology class (weird story). Never mind that I don't especially think seahorses are awesome. Though there are certainly worse things.

Like trilobites.


Which brings me to the real problem here. I have ... not a vendetta, certainly, but there's some bad blood between me and the seahorses. You see, in the prehistoric levels of Ecco the Dolphin yes, it all really does come back to Ecco eventually, there is a giant seahorse. That in itself is not so bad, except that it shoots seahorse babies at you and the only way to escape the onslaught of killer seahorse babies is to swim away, which also isn't so bad except it then leads you straight into a trilobite ambush where you DIE. HORRIBLY!


Man, I hate trilobites. Evil little buggers. Plotting to take over the world or something, I swear. It's a good thing they all died out, or vanished, or whatever they really did. Dug holes and are asleep, awaiting the day of the Great Arising, when they shall rise and once again terrorize the seas.

Why did no one tell me that this had all the Ecco games for the Genesis!?

ITS GLORY IS MINE.

Oh, you crazy dolphin, you. Once more you are in my possession! Once more you can torment me! Once more I can find millions of baby whales / globes / fish!

Now I have all the Ecco games for PS2! >D


... I mean, I still have them all and their original systems, but now I have easy access to them all. This will only end in tears of frustration and screaming rage.

I have no idea why I love these games. D'you know what I say at the loading screen of every single level in every single game?! I say, in all seriousness, because I really do mean it; "I hate this level! =\"

EVERY. SINGLE. LEVEL.



I am so. SO. So cold. It is cold outside. It is cold inside. We do not heat the house. It's like 50 degrees in here. askjfdgfl *shivers*



So, uh, in advance. Happy dead-turkey day to all my fellow USAns. (That, by the way, is pronounced oo-sans, not us-ans, though I suppose you could say it that way, too... I mean, I've never heard anyone else ever say it, though, so I say it's oo-sans. Because referring to people from the USA as strictly "Americans" is very silly. What about Canada and Central and South America?)