Persistence of Memory

Rrrrrrr.

RCT3 keeps silently crashing to desktop after a while (I'm working on Career Mode scenarios), and Sim City 4 caused a BSOD yesterday, scaring the crap out of me in the process. Rrrrrr. Jurassic Park, on the other hand, seems to behave, but that last mission utterly escaped me (stupid friggin' carnivores refusing to pose properly for me while I take pictures, and jebus but I don't wanna have to out-drive a T-Rex again). But, now that I think of it, Evil Genius has a tendency to occasionally CTD as well.

Speaking of Evil Genius, I did manage to complete all ten main objectives and unleash unholy mayhem and terror upon the world. I'm considering having another go at it. It's kind of like the Sims or Dungeon Keeper—there's this potential obsession with design. Is there a perfect base entrance? Is it possible to waylay those pesky agents of the Forces of Good for so long with pointless doors and confusion traps that they leave without ever getting into the really interesting part of the base? I should find out. Because really, the first go-through was me flailing madly in an attempt to seem competent. And besides, there are three different Doomsday weapons you can make. (Granted, I sniffed around and found a video of the Gravity one, whereas I picked the Earthquake one.)

LoZ finally got its friggin' act together on potions, so Nimby was able to respec and nab the entire Body tree (with the coveted Warrior), plus keep all the looting skills (losing the haggling skills), and buff up a bit on magical MPT. It's making this whole adventure at +5 thing much easier overall. I'd only been sitting on those four coconuts for a couple of weeks now from when I managed to beat them out of those Gambit offers.

In other news, Justus has gained a cool million in interest (give or take a few thou) two days running. This is good.

I found out earlier that Mr Shadow likes cobwebs. What I can't decide is if he just likes the way they feel against his whiskers, or if he likes eating them. Such a strange cat.

And, I've come to the conclusion that VMS must be a complete flop, since I've yet to hear anything from anyone about it. Oh well. I still had loads of fun working on it.

So, it was recommended to us that Zack and Miri Make a Porno was a fun film to watch.

And it is, though one has to be aware ahead of time of the preponderance of swear words. Then again, this is a Kevin Smith film, so that's to be expected. It is funny, the humor being a bit crude (again, expected), and it has more than a few moments where I kind of gaped at what I was seeing. Randal (Jeff Anderson) and Jay (Jason Mewes) from Clerks is in it, but even before he appears, anyone familiar with Jay and Silent Bob would know this is a Smith creation.

Sensitive people and those who take offense easily should avoid.

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It's that time of the year again, and though I managed to have nothing last year, the tradition continues this year. Thus, an offering.

Title: Vanquishing Mary Sue

Characters: Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Mary Sue, Nimby
Warnings: Idiocy

Summary: A potentially amusing little fanfiction story masquerading as interactive fiction. Voldemort has been vanquished, but yet . . . Mary Sue remains.

Please see the details page for how to play.

I'm a little stunned. First, they implemented clans earlier than I expected, but that's not the part that has me weirded out. Nimby had two emails today.

1. Someone inviting me to join the clan they started.
2. An auto-email showing that same someone having kicked my ass in the arena again (they do it a lot, actually, which is fine).

Eh? I guess I'm sitting here looking a bit wild-eyed because I have no idea why this person would invite me. I don't know them except as a name, and Nimby isn't particularly distinguished or anything.

And then another invitation pops up. Huh.

Anyway, I started my own clan: Metempsychosis.

And now Justus has Nimby's Frostham Bearded Axe.

I can think of one other person I'd invite, because I know them, assuming they're still playing. *eyes the weather reporter*

My first Infinity card today. Scythes. I'm not entirely shocked it was that one, since Scythes did have a way of popping up frequently for Nimby.

I also managed to save up to get the highest weapon, which left me with a mere 320 zorkmids. But, a quick jaunt through the arena and some hunting and I'm back over 100k (without having sold my prior weapon -- still waiting on clans to see if Justus can be given that).

I have broken the 1 million zorkmid barrier. Now I just need about five more, then bunches more for skills. Yay.

If I'm extremely lucky I can have that katana by the end of the week, but somehow... I doubt it. Maybe early next week?

( Returned from our Disney/Universal trip Thursday evening. )

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( WIP Rec )

I caved, damn it. I went into the arena, and now I'm cacking madly over kicking people's asses. (Well, okay, I did lose once so far, but whatever.)

Momma needs a new set of leathers!

I admit, I actually like what FFN has done. Not only can you now properly place crossover stories as crossovers (I went ahead and fixed Convergence and Persequor), but you now see the character selections in the info line, which means I can spy that revolting little Harry P & Ginny W and ignore the living daylights out of those (etc., etc., so on and so forth).

In other news, while I have yet to reach level 30 with my higher character (Nimby, presently 26, Justus, presently 25), I am still waffling like mad over which sidekick to choose when I'm able. While I do not care in the least about the increased carrying capacity of the Kid, I do care about the extra AP and the loot stuff. I already chafe at a mere 30AP per day, so more would be welcome. On the other hand, the Accountant with her skills at buffing my zorkmid stash and giving me discounts to purchase and bonuses on sale of loot, in theory giving me the ability to purchase better equipment faster.... I just don't know.

I'm also getting use out of one of the Fanucci calculators, here. I was doing all right on my own with the diagrams, but the calculator is squeezing out extra points for me, which is always welcome.

I received my Dreamwidth invite code, so I tossed up a very quick, very empty journal for the moment here. (After all, I have my AP to get through in Legends of Zork, and that waits for no man.)

Holy snikes, Batman! In two consecutive encounters I picked up the 5 and 6 of Fromps! Wow.

Added a story to Seriously Ambivalent Recs.

Aiieeeee! Would you freakin' people put the summary at the head of chapter one!?!?!?

I've realized that a lot of people put a great deal of thought into their chapter titles, often with some arcane and mysterious reasoning or pattern behind them.

And then I realized, I almost never pay attention to what chapters are called, even though I've always named my own. It's like they don't register.

La la la—what's this? Why are people so damn insistent on giving Harry "bronze" skin? That would look really friggin' peculiar.

The stupidest thing in the world to squee over, and I found it. I was curious about a name I saw on the Adventurer's Traffic Report for Legends of Zork (it started with a K and arrived at Frostham and was probably giving a weather report for all I know, except that it wasn't the name I would expect for that, so maybe it wasn't that person at all) and I wanted to look them up (and then my own selves, because I was curious as to the number for my gambits).

But anyway... GRUEgle! Squee! Squee! Who doesn't love grues!?

It's absolutely fucked-up weird what you'll stumble over while reading Let's Play threads.

So, Legends of Zork opened up today. Naturally, I dashed over and created an account. Man, thirty action points gets spent real quick. I'm also surprised that huge diamonds sell for so few zorkmids. :(

So... the "boys" have decided to be boys. They came home two days ago with a set of remote control helicopters. Not shockingly, Storm flees the moment one of them gets that gleam in their eyes, but Shadow, oddly enough, is cautiously curious. Sadly, the little suckers are light enough that the ceiling fans tend to send them spinning off course. They're kind of like drunken dragonflies, really, and they almost sound like them, too.

Played more Liberal Crime Squad. Finally managed to get some electronic hijinks going, and sent off a team of brainwashed people to raid some places. Getting a better feel for "combat", you see, plus looting and destroying equipment. Still have yet to steal a damn car.

Considering getting Evil Genius.

Making more progress on the Project Nimby.

( Twilight, Mummy 3 )