Currents of Time

My power-hungry laptop is on battery power right now, so let's see if I can actually get this entry up before it passes out on me.

Anyway! I hope everyone had a good Sunday / Christmas! Full of awesome things and stuff not being on fire (my current personal favourite, that last one). I will write up a longer entry on that whole drama later, but since my computer is a BATTERY VAMPIRE, and because it is late and I am tired, I am going to be quick!

GUYS.

GUYS I GOT MY #1 CHRISTMAS LIST ITEM.


PLAYSTATION 3


(Just in time for them to announce the PS4, I am sure, but WHATEVER.)


SO EXCITED.

And I wanted to share my **EXCITEMENT**

Aaand, as I always do when I get a new gaming toy, I would like to request some game recommendations! I own a few already (I will list them below), and I have a list of stuff I want to get already (though they aren't all out yet), but what are your thoughts, you people who might have some?

Games owned:
Final Fantasy XIII
Ico and Shadow of the Colossus Collection
Little Big Planet 2
Ratchet and Clank: All 4 One
Sonic Generations
Transformers: War for Cybertron

I guess Chicago and the following week+ of superstress burnt me out more than I'd thought? Actually, Chicago was amazing. I meant to write up a post about it earlier. Oops. (I've meant to do a lot of things lately. None of it's been happening. It's troublesome.)

( Not actually image heavy, but still long. )

In short, if you ever get a chance to attend a Final Fantasy concert - ie, if they're ever anywhere near you (and assuming you care about the games/music) - DO IT DO IT DO IT RIGHT NOW WHY HAVE YOU NOT BOUGHT YOUR TICKET ALREADY.


And now I need to go to bed. Hopefully tomorrow I get about catching up on things, eh? (And maybe I'll have the energy to tell you all about my exciting - that is, stressful - that is, SE dropped the ball again - weekend! And maybe Dark of the Moon, which I keep typing as dork...)

I have a thing.

( I need name suggestions for it )

I've had, like, no sleep the last couple days, and I have a full shift tomorrow. uuugh. Hopefully I can pass out quickly tonight.

If all goes according to plan, I will be mailing everything tomorrow! I... I must say I am sorry in advance to one of you. Y-you will probably know who you are when what I am sending you arrives.

(Sometimes I think I might be a bad person, and then I do things like this and confirm it but I can't entirely say I regret this. So actually I'm not entirely sorry.)


IN OTHER NEWS, since I didn't mention this last entry 'cause I forgot somehow, I - I. omg. I know it's still waaaay to early to make any assumptions, but eee! (On Cybertron?! SO AWESOME. Also, it seems that we'll be getting toys - or at least toy - based on it!)

(I nearly dropped my copy of Game Informer when I got to the article in it, since I got my copy before seeing the thread at the Allspark. WHAT? IS THIS REAL?) (The subtitle of the article is, "The hunt for a good Transformers game travels to the robot homeworld" and I admit I laughed a bit too much at that "good" part.)

Hopefully it is better than the movie games have been. (I've heard the second game was better than the first, but I couldn't be bothered to buy it.)

I’ve been playing Dissidia: Final Fantasy. Rather than post after a session, I collected everything from the first “section” of the game. (Since some sessions were literally only one battle long, it seemed silly. And after I’d gone through a bunch of characters without posting anything, I figured, what the heck? And just kept going.)

( REALLY LONG )

THIS IS 18 PAGES. WHAAAAT.

edit:
oh thank goodness it fits

OKAY SO OMG IT WAS AWESOME SHUT UP THAT IS NOT A SPOILER IT IS AN OPINION

DUDE.


OKAY.


The cinema I went to - not the only one doing a midnight opening in this state - was not only sold out. It was sold out FOUR TIMES. FOUR TIMES! They sold out their first showing and opened another, and then another, and then another, and they had all sold out. I had not been aware they had four screenings! (I WAS IN THE ONE THAT ACTUALLY STARTED AT MIDNIGHT, but there were 12:05, 12:10, and 12:15 showings, as well.)

WTF HOW AM I IN A POPULAR FANDOM. WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN. I AM SO CONFUSED I seriously spent the thirty minutes I sat waiting for the movie to start going "What the hell how are there so many people here?"

Because the midnight screening of the first movie had like... twenty people at it, tops. (And six of them where there because I dragged them there. Well, okay, five. One of them was me. Though I suppose technically I dragged myself there, as well.)


They showed the trailer for 9 which made me go YAY and the trailer for Avatar which made me go "eeeerg" and start whispering things to my mother, and then they showed a disaster flick trailer and the G.I. Joe one. And then they showed us the movie and I was FULL OF GLEE FOR TWO AND A HALF HOURS AND NOW I AM SUPPOSED TO SLEEP? THAT IS PROBABLY NOT HAPPENING!

THANK GOD I DO NOT HAVE TO GET UP AND GO BOATING TOMORROW OR I WOULD PROBABLY DIE.

Instead I can go see it again or something, or maybe I'll be able to pass out before the sun rises I don't know I AM SO WOUND RIGHT NOW AREN'T YOU GLAD IN 2007 THAT I WAS IN PROVIDENCE AND NOT ANYWHERE NEAR A COMPUTER OR INTERNET ACCESS AFTER THEY SHOWED US THE MOVIE EARLY? I literally sat on my cot in the hotel room grinning and unable to calm down for like an hour and it was so much worse than this because of convention buzz and the first time I'd ever seen them on the big screen at all and because it was the best movie-watching experience of my life and and and I AM SORRY I LOVE MY FANDOM SO MUCH OKAY? I KNOW NONE OF YOU CARE ABOUT IT BUT I DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOUR NOT CARING.



Oh. I'm talking about Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (the new movie), in case you, you know, didn't know that. Seeing as how I've not actually mentioned that yet.


And yes of course it had its problems and places where I was going 'dear lord enough already' and everything but... oh for god's sake i shouldnt feel like i have to defend my liking something on my own damn journal SO I AM NOT GOING TO RIGHT NOW



(GLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE)


AND WHILE I'M HERE SQUEEING OVER TRANSFORMERS, yesterday Amazon sent me an e-mail telling me they'd shipped my copy of the score, so it could be here as early as tomorrow! er. Today! Which is a week and a half sooner than they'd estimated shipping it which is, while not entirely surprising, still pretty awesome.

Wait.


"WEIRD AL" YANKOVIC?



.... AWESOME.



And David Kaye's back again? Are we going to see Grimlock vs. Grimlock? 'Cause that would be kind of hilarious.




(IT IS MAY NOW!)



(... at least I'm not posting with half a dozen links every time they put up a new trailer for the movie?)


Edit:
My default icon has been updated to match my icon for everything else, ever*. Not sure it'll last, since I'm so used to seeing NINJA MITHRA ATTACK!! everywhere, but meh. ... YES, THIS IS RELEVANT TO YOUR LIFE.

* THIS IS A LIE I haven't bothered to change my Windows User picture. Part of it's apathy, and part of it is me liking the fish, and part of it is the fish looks better on the only screen I ever see it on, anyway. The sunset wouldn't match the background very well. The fish looks right at home in it.

Though it is the one I use on my other laptop.

YES.

NEW LAPTOP IS HERE. IT ARRIVES ON A DAY I HAVE NO CLASSES!

The delivery man was his usual ninja self and I almost missed him, but clearly I did not. \o/ So excited!


Hm. There was something I wanted to post about, but for the life of me I cannot remember what now.



Oh, well! Running away to get it up and running now. :D :D :D :D


by the way have I ever mentioned how much reinstalling FFXI completely sucks? IT COMPLETELY SUCKS.

MAPLE JELLY BEANS.

♥!!



As a bonus, finger has not gone septic, fallen off, or even started oozing again yet. Though when we rebandaged it again tonight, Mom commented that it very nearly did come clean off, and that no wonder it took forever to stop bleeding. So my claims of nearly losing the tip of it were, in fact, not an exaggeration. (I hadn't thought they were, but it's always nice to have confirmation...)


But that is not the point. The point is MAPLE JELLY BEANS.

I still think of it as Summerfest! It hasn't been Summerfest since 2004! They're calling it Sunbreeze, and I have long since stopped bothering to correct myself. I like the name "Summerfest" better, anyway.

WE GET NEW OUTFITS THIS YEAR! For the most ridiculous event ever. Clapping at trees wandering about town or whatever we were doing that Christmas was ridiculous, but helping the "Fantastic Fraulein" dance the "physical manifestation of darkness itself" to death with catch phrases and attack names that I really honestly think they must have pulled from Sailor Moon (Neo Crystal Jig? One of them hits the guy with a giant heart)...? Anyway, the new outfits are blue, and they're cute (though I'm not sure if I prefer them to the swimsuits from - two? and - three years ago), and once you've picked both halves of it up, you can freely teleport between the three cities and play ridiculous mini-games!

Catching baby chocobos wins for the cuteness factor (omg. Baby chocobos!), but the San d'Orian one is easiest, once you actually learn how to spot the differences. Bastok turns us all into sharp-shooters, and the rangers wonder why they can't aim that well during actual combat situations. And for winning the mini-games on hard mode (which they offer once you get your outfit), they not only give you junk food (cotton candy, melon snowcones, and kabobs), but a balloon, as well! Once you collect all three different balloons, you can talk to the Moogle again and get the +1 outfit, which lets you teleport to Purgonorgo Island. CLAMMING AND BEACH PARTIES, WOOT. (Oddly, though, you cannot play hard mode or teleport between the cities wearing the HQ outfit. It has to be the original one, even though they look identical.)

Though they take away your balloons. BUT THEY LET YOU GET NEW ONES. YAAAY! I AM SIX YEARS OLD.

And supposedly they've added more varieties of fish to the goldfish scooping, so I'll be hitting Knightswell out in Ronfaure before this is over with. Also, you can get fireworks by helping Mumor dance Ullegore to death once you've earned your outfit.

MAN. I LOVE THIS TIME OF YEAR IN VANA'DIEL.