Currents of Time

Hey I never followed up on that April 1st post. THEY WERE REAL. I do in fact own a PS5 now. I've been using it to play notable PS4 game Horizon Zero Dawn because I am just Like That I Guess. (I started it in like what was that 2018 or something when visiting Baco and Squeemu! So my save file was IN ANOTHER COUNTRY! And I just couldn't bring myself to restart it!! But I guess getting new console finally hit the reset button in my brain. THANK GOODNESS.) I am the woooooooorst at open world games. It's the ADHD. BUT I am having SO MUCH FUN and also I recently started using weapons beyond "normal bow and arrow" which has made things a lot easier! Go figure! I play it for Completely Reasonable Lengths Of Time, haha, ha. Ha! That's, uh. ALSO. The ADHD. :)

I don't like. STREAMER-stream, I'm definitely not looking to get an audience or try to make a career or something out of it, but I do log my playing onto youTube. I tried Twitch a while ago when I started Death Stranding (which I need to get back to, just like I need to get back to 7R and lightning returns hahahashdakjdsh) but it turns out they delete your videos after like 2 weeks soooooo fuck that. So my HZD playlist can be found here.

Otherwise keeping to my usual bored+depressed+exhausted with the hellscape this planet has turned into self. Social media is too much work. I am usually pretty active on Discord, though, at least, idk if there's anything here I haven't already connected with over there though.

THE WORLD HAS ENDED THE WORLD HAS ENDED

Related, hee, this amused me: I'm visiting my parents', Mom came to pick me up yesterday. The power went out early, early in the morning, so when she'd woken up, it was dead silent. So quiet. So dark. So of course her first thought was, wait, is the apocalypse actually here?? (It was a major outage. Lasted over seven hours and covered a massive area.)

(It was kind of hilarious and also annoying, see, our router at my apartment is dead, so we have no internet, so I was like, yay! I can check my email while I'm at home! BUT NO, POWER OUTAGE. Though obviously it came back on.)

Though then as we were driving home, oh, look! A little rainbow is trying to appear! It was just faint on the horizon, but we had to make a pit stop for groceries and to mail a few things, and as we got back on the road - whoa! It had burst out and it was bright and bold and full spectrum and everything. There was a faint double, as well, and it was so pretty and, frankly, bewildering. Shortest day of the year and we managed to get such a vibrant rainbow. Also Mom was listening to the radio and The Messiah was playing and she had A Moment and nearly burst into tears. Aaaaand then the rainbow followed us the entire way home (uh, wow), and at one point we drove between the two arches. It was really weird, but also really awesome.


Anyway, I've been playing inFamous despite having some bad associations with it. I am kinda sick of letting certain events haunt my life so I am trying to get over it, it's just too exhausting. The story is kind of, what? I accidentally called one of the major plot twists, damn it, I have to stop doing that. Possibly I have called more but I haven't reached the reveal yet, who knows. And I hate most all of the characters, but oh my god the gameplay is fantastic and I have spent so, so much time just jumping all over the place and climbing walls and skating along wires and stuff. AMAZING. SO MUCH FUN. See, guys? All you have to do is tell me something is an awesome platformer. THAT IS ALL IT TAKES. (Well, in this case it was Baco telling me it is like Sly Cooper but without the silly, but GAMEPLAY, so here I am.) Awesome.

And then whenever I finish this, I am hoping to finally get around to Fall of Cybertron because I've only had it since release, gosh.



(THIS ENTRY WAS GOING TO BE ABOUT MY ADVENTURE TO CHICAGO BUT SOMEONE WAS AN IDIOT AND LEFT HER CAMERA IN NEW YORK AND IT HASN'T ARRIVED BACK YET BECAUSE THE PERSON WHO HAS IT IS BUSY AND DIDN'T GET IT MAILED UNTIL TODAY.) I am a moron.

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

FFXIV is one year old! AND IT IS STILL free-to-play! ... and still largely unplayable. Oh, goodness. It's sad, but hilarious. "A Misleading Anniversary", indeed.

I, meanwhile, have been entertaining myself by playing the shit out of Chrono Trigger. (ha... I've made it all these years without spoiling much of anything, and then earlier this week I accidentally had at least one huge one thrown at me. aaargh!) I guess I have declared this "the season for re/starting and finally beating all those games I've never got around to yet" or something? I wonder what will come next. (Or maybe I will want to replay Chrono Cross so I can fully appreciate all the nods! I have already spotted a couple, though I guess that's sort of in reverse.)

Also, someone, somewhere, with the authority to make it happen, finally had the genius idea of harnessing the frightening determination of internet gamers for good! With surprising results, sort of. I guess these people do not follow MMO communities too well, if a bunch of lunatics taking on and defeating something through to be nigh impossible is still a surprise. (Still, it's pretty awesome!)

Other exciting news is that I am going to see The Lion King again tonight! Yay! My mother and I went last Friday, and my roommates and I are all going to see it, too. Hopefully there are no ridiculously disrespectful gits sitting in front of me this time (though this time I won't wait so long to start kicking chairs, since that got some pretty good results). (SERIOUSLY, WOMAN, it's an hour and a half. TURN THE BLOODY PHONE OFF. You really, really don't need to check it every seven minutes. And if you do, maybe you shouldn't be in the movie in the first place. One of the employees came in a little over halfway through and told her to turn it off, and she did, for, like, maybe fifteen minutes? AND THEN IT WAS BACK ON AND - OH, GOSH, MY FOOT SLIPPED. Right up off the floor. As you do.)

AND! I guess they are finally officially releasing the Sailor V manga in English?! omg! And re-releasing all the Sailor Moon and, man, I was such a huge Moonie in my early teens, you have no idea. NONE. And it still has a spot in my heart, so I have possibly ordered the first volume of Sailor V. Possibly. ONLY MAYBE. And also this means all sorts of new Sailor Moon-related stuff is coming out, so I was discussing it all with mysticeden (who was the one who clued me in), and blah blah blah new stuff, including playing cards! And I cannot think of Sailor Moon playing cards without flashing back to, er, reenactments of DragonBall Z battles as determined by games of Old Maid.

...I love that I live in a world where that sentence can even exist.

(It was my brother's fault.)

I did survive the hectic drive across Canada and Michigan and New York. I have also been working 9-hour days since my return, which has only made me even more exhausted than I already was. Day off tomorrow. Gonna try and get something up. by which i clearly meant sleep. sleep forever. (... lately whenever I say/think "forever" in an even remotely dramatic way, I hear Pinkie Pie.)

For now, here is the ridiculous story of how my brother kept jinxing my Xenogears game.

( No spoilers, but a bit vague. )

Also since I'm here why not, here are things Jak 3 taught me about driving around in sand.

( life lessons from video games why not )

And as I do not feel like typing up my above-mentioned amazing story, have some MOOD KILLER:

Wanna see places around Vermont underwater from Irene? (Two flooding-related federal disasters in one year, man, what the hell?)

And apparently this clip has made its way into international media, but here is a covered bridge being eaten by a river and I THINK IT IS SAD, OKAY?

Plus a few other (haha, my coworker made this) related links.



... I will end this entry by informing you that bees are really terrible kissers and you should never let one start trying to make out with you and also I am pretty sure I'd have been happy to never find that out. (Also also since worker bees are all female I really wish I could come up with a terrible les-"bee"-an pun or two but no I cannot. Maybe after I finally get some decent rest.)

I do not have a picture of it. :< I WILL GET ONE! But for now, rest assured! It is hideous. And now we have proof. So, okay, see. My father has this awful tie that his mother bought him as a gag gift (thinking she'd raised him better than that. I'm sure on one level or another, she knew he would actually wear it, though...). It's white and orange and, I dunno, other colours. And fuzzy. It's the fuzzy bit that really sells its ... hideousity (new word!?).

Well, Periwinkles (a jewelry chain) had a contest for the ugliest tie over the weekend and, knowing he had a truly unfortunate tie, and tempted by the prize of ... some amount of money (apparently in the form of a gift certificate to the store and not just free money, which had been his hope), my father entered the thing and - as you've undoubtedly figured out already - his tie won! Which is exciting. So now I can say without doubt that my father has the ugliest tie in the area. Because, you know. Jewelry store contest is totally the standard, there. (It's still awesome, okay.)


Meanwhile, my head-cast is running away from me again. Rana has now joined Hisime in having her own Facebook page I NEED TO GET A LIFE. I really don't even know why I did that. Hisime there was at least had reasoning behind it. But now the two of them are going back and forth at each other even worse than before. XD (I've changed Rana's wall from "friends only" to "everyone" for the time being, just in case anyone wants to see some of the ridiculous things are going on. I can't edit the settings of the post Rana has, but you can see the other one. Maybe I'll get bored of it soon? We can hope.)



AAAA I LEAVE FOR CHICAGO ON FRIDAY MORNING I AM SO EXCITED. But also nervous. Mostly excited! (Kind of weird, though, haha, a month ago, I was more looking forward to Chicago, because I figured BotCon would not be as awesome as OH MAN YES FINAL FANTASY CONCERT, and then BotCon was basically the best thing ever, so I am now like, can Chicago even begin to hope to top Pasadena? We'll just have to wait and see! My money's kinda on no, though.)

dnsajklf Distant Worlds concerts, you are so close. Still, even if it is not as completely fantastic, I will still have attended both halves of the concert. And I have been wanting to attend one of these ever since they first announced it way back when. I mean, they had both "20020220 Music from Final Fantasy" and "Tour de Japon", neither of which I had any hope of attending, and then "Dear Friends" never came close enough for me to get to it, and then "Distant Worlds" has kind of made a point of not matching up with my money and availability limitations, but damn it enough is, apparently, enough, and so now I am throwing myself into a bed bug hotspot just for a video game music concert. (I am a goddamned lunatic.)


(Also I've had this Japanese song about frogs stuck in my head all day. I learnt it when I was 10! WHY IS IT STILL IN MY BRAIN and whyyyy is it rattling around all of a sudden?)


(GERO GERO GERO GERO GWA GWA GWA)

Customers are idiots. This is not news. A man watched as the oven went off and I, wearing oven mitts, opened it up (he was close enough to the counter that he couldn't possibly have avoided being hit by the heat blast) and removed the baking rack. I closed the door, pushed the rack a safe distance away, and asked how I could help him. He wanted bread off the rack. He was baffled and annoyed when I told him it was too hot to package.

(The subject is another true story, with more repetitions than I like to think about. I have actually had to expand my offer to, "I can check if we have any in the freezer, but it will be frozen." Sometimes they are still surprised.)

30 Days of Video Games

( Day 28 - Least favourite game )

Everyone is doing awesome stuff with their summer. I know someone who's going to Vietnam for a few months, I know someone who's going to the Amazon, I know someone who's going to Australia (as well as the person already in Australia), I know someone who's planning a month-long journey across the continental USA to visit friends (but not including me, 'cause I am too far from Boston and have no car)... Is it too late for me to reroll my summer to at least include other people...? Everything keeps falling through. I had some plans, too, for someone to come visit for a long weekend, but, surprise (no, not really, at this point), they had to cancel.

I mean, not that I am not excited about BotCon, and omg omg omg Chicagoooo, but, y'know. AND NOT THAT MONEY TROUBLES ARE NOT TOTALLY LEGIT BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND. But it makes me sad, anyway, and my paranoid brain is beginning to wonder if it is some bizarre conspiracy (I should very much like to be able to drop-kick my brain sometimes).

Basically I am sore and whiny 'cause, wah, yet another attempt at hanging out with a friend I never get to see anymore just withered and died. Angst angst angst, no one talks to me, my life are hard, angst.

30 Days of Video Games

( Day 13 - A game you've played more than five times. )

Nothing to say here. Move along.


edit:
swear to god it's like they wait until I'm in a foul mood to pull this shit. Protip: just because I like Transformers doesn't mean I like bots. (I get a surprising number of hits from Russian journals, too. Mostly the same ones over and over. I just do not understand LJ sometimes.)

Hey! Hey, you! Self! It's after midnight! Your bonuses aren't around anymore! PUT THE GAME DOWN and post the damn meme entry!

30 Days of Video Games

( Day 10 - Best gameplay )

THERE WAS THAT REALLY SO HARD?

OKAY BACK TO MANIKIN-LAND. @_@ Dissidia 012, how are you so much better than the first. SE, WHY DID YOU NOT MAKE THE FIRST GAME LIKE THIS, and then you could've improved it to a point of AMAZINGNESS but no instead the first game was kind of crap and now the second game just seems like AMAZINGNESS in comparison!

SURPRISE, IDIOT, IT IS APRIL YOU HAVE ALLERGIES NOW, PLEASE STOP FORGETTING AND BEING CONFUSED WHEN YOU FEEL GROSS AND GROGGY AND START SLEEPING FOREVER DESPITE NOT FEELING THAT TIRED.


On top of the allergies grossness, I've spent the day really missing my cat. It has been a month and a half almost, I would really like to stop having bad days like this (though I know emotions do not work that way, but man, these flashes of "suddenly so much emotional pain I could puke" are no fun, even as rare as they are becoming). Kitty. ;_;

Mom and my doctor both suggested I track down a psychologist (actually, Mom said she thought I should see about getting on meds), I dunno. Catapulted into depressive bout over lost boy seems trivial? Like, god, normal people can get over this shit, what is your problem? (And it's hilarious that I am aware enough to know that that is a stupid reason to use as an excuse, when I know better and I know my brain is wrong, and how, but knowing that isn't enough for me to get around it. I really hate that. I should perhaps like to be less aware of my brain's hang-ups.)

30 Days of Video Games

( Day 05 - Game character you feel you are most like (or wish you were) )

I don't really know what to put outside the bottom of the LJ cut today. Pretend there is something interesting here, or ... something.