Persistence of Memory

I admit, I've been sitting here listening to/watching Rick play Half Life 2, Episode 2, and giggling like a school girl over the bit about how Aperture Science might have "rushed" things a bit. That, and giggling over listening to Rick rant about this one scientist dude (Magnuson?) and how pissed he is that an endless supply of bullets to the dude's skull fails to drop him. Personally, I agree. Captain Obvious needs to die a gruesome death.

Then, of course, I had to go look up the "Black Mesa Microwave Casserole" incident, not that I've watched the video I found for it yet. I didn't remember it and neither did he, but I'll know soon enough, I suppose.

It's a good thing the apartment to our right is the complex office, and therefore isn't being bombarded with all this noise through the wall, and that the one behind us is their utility room, so hopefully there's enough distance with that and the hallway such that the bedrooms on the far side aren't being interrupted with the mass shooting, alarms, and other assorted noises of a strider attack.

( Domain of Heroes )

( Persona 4 )

Anyone on my flist play Domain of Heroes (that isn't a certain someone who knows who they are, that is)?

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.

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

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!?

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 )

Been playing a new game: Liberal Crime Squad.

It's pure text, menu driven, and nothing fancy. I also suck at it. (Then again, given the number of people in Let's Play threads saying their glorious leader keeps getting his face blown off, killed, etc., I can't feel too badly about that.)

I have yet to successfully have a minion steal a damn car. Maybe I should just stick to seducing and breaking with my leader, and let the recruits do the dangerous stuff. I definitely need to start recruiting athletes and building a squad of unholy terror. Those bunnies need freedom!

The heck with all these newfangled games! Why, in my day, we only had text and sixteen colours! That's right!

So, I've been playing around with a couple of emulator-type dealies so I can get me some good old fashioned Infocom lovin'. That's right. Of course, all those years playing DragonRealms has me frequently typing in stuff like "sigh" and "roll eyes" and having the parser get all pissy at me, but whatever, right? (Sadly, Mr Parser does not recognize commands like: stabbity <target>, the bastard.)

As much as I'd like to blow $50 on a permanent account at IJ, I just can't justify it. I also can't justify $20 over at Something Awful to get an account and access to archive threads, so I guess I'll just have to content myself with non-archived Let's Play threads. *sobs* Still, I'm having a serious craving to reinstall Tropico and the expak, and maybe certain Myst games. There's just something about wandering around in the D'ni city that's... magical.

Writing, you say? Don't be silly! I'm too busy surfing my brains out. Though, I did get a Nimby request, so I may just go do that soon, as I get the feeling the Let's Play cornucopia is about to tap out. (Okay, fine, I do have a number of chapters/stories in progress, but those are top secret still.)

Meanwhile, we've been beadily eyeing the calendar, waiting for the 26th to arrive so we can get those permanent caps in place. While not sick of yogurt, I would like to be able to eat actual food. You know, like steak, damn it!!!! Or that chicken John used to make and gave me a recipe for ages and ages ago, not that I cook, because I can't cook, but that's part of why I married someone who can, right?

Tried (very carefully) one bite of a blue raspberry Twizzler from the fruity rainbow pack and hated it. Almost no flavor, they're limp and hard to manage, and they leave a nasty aftertaste. It's like flavored coffee, you know? The smell is fabulous, but the taste? Blech. Except, the smell of the fruity rainbow pack is like someone dumped several gallons of Kool-Aid on the floor, which brings back not-so-fond memories of Jim Jones.

Having said all that, I really don't have anything of interest to say, do I. Bwuahahahaha!

Yeah, so, I made a pact with Lucifer and downloaded—and installed!—IE7. I've steadfastly stuck with IE6 all this time because I'd heard such awful things about 7, and besides, I use Firefox. Well, I did it. I usually am a year or so behind changes like that, being a very untrusting soul when it comes to Microsqueeze products.

Sadly, my machine still suffers mysteriously from not loading the explorer shell on startup. I have to manually initiate the task, and it does actually look right in the registry, so I have no idea what's wrong. Well, aside from having installed RCT3 and infected myself with SecuROM. Rrrr. Stupid instructions I have for removal don't cover this incarnation, so I'm not sure how to get rid of it. Yet.

Did a nice thing the other day. I know, shocking, seeing as how I'm an anti-social, sadistic bitch. Have some tea or a drink—you'll recover soon enough.

Started editing Forsaken. Again. But this time I'm replacing the chapter copies at the Pit of Despair.

Glanced at my ideas file, added another bunch of notes for various stories which might see the light of day sometime this century. Had an argument with myself over Breakpoint. Par, basically.

Got through all the exercises in Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis, but not all the missions. Dunno why Site B is such a big deal, but whatever. I'll get to it eventually. Was rather peeved when I got fined for a velociraptor eating a tourist and never even got to see it happen! Rrrr. Think it's pretty stupid you have to be cheaty to get a safari tour to go through multiple enclosures. I mean really, couldn't they have added in a gate of some kind? I also think it sucks you can't import a greyscale image for island construction rather than dealing with those lousy terrain editing tools.

Well, I'll be immersed in the world of Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 for some time. Rather like with the Sims 2, I suddenly feel this burning urge to download build sets and make myself some purdy "buildings" I can shove food stalls in, or run rides through. (Actually, I already found a ton of sets. I just need to dump them into place, then go rampage in the building editor.)

I expect to not come up for air anytime soon. And then... Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis should arrive shortly, too! Whee! Yes, die tourists!

Course, I found out fairly quickly that this game doesn't like running on XP 64, so I guess that's why Compatibility Mode exists, huh? And oh, I am absolutely overjoyed and nearly speechless to find out that I now have Securom on my machine. Swoon. *muttersnarlbitchwhine*

Okay, so the cast of SH3 is full of morons who make turnips look intelligent. Trying to save the world? Bad guy comes and prevents a good deed? Well gosh, folks, maybe while part of the team is fighting him, the extra people standing around admiring the scenery could, oh, complete the fucking task? While bad guy was occupied?

Or, you know, after he's down for the count, move faster than molasses moving uphill in mid-winter?

Geez. I haven't shouted this much at a game in forever. Tempted to save my sanity and skip to the endings.

So, the more I watch of Shadow Hearts: Covenant, the more I want to:

1. Lock a chastity belt on Karin and tell her to back the fuck off. I'm starting to confuse her with Quistis and Rinoa for fuck's sake.
2. Put a muzzle on Lucia. Half the stuff coming out of her mouth makes me want to bitch slap her across the room.
3. Run spiked heels through the groins of the male character designers who decided all the women needed watermelon breasts.

Honorable mention to Joachim for running in one of the fruitiest looking manners I've ever seen.

Rambling, yes! It's what I do!

So, I finally watched The Dark Knight the other day. I liked it. (And reading rumors that Johnny Depp may be a villain in a rumored #3 was a squee moment.) Don't get me wrong, I liked Keaton, and I love Burton, but that set was rather campy in style, whereas the new set is more... real, which is also good.

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This has got to be one of the funnier recaps I've read so far. The game Animal Crossing is supposed to be cutesy, right? This recap practically makes it into a survival horror experience. It's adorable! If that sounds interesting, go here.

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I just finished watching a playthrough of Chrono Cross (I lent my game out and haven't seen it again), which led to adding more music to my playlist. I'd forgotten just how much I liked the music from Hydra Swamp, and especially 'Dragon God', which is an excellent boss battle theme. Mmm! Maybe I should try to double the length of it...? Maybe I should, since three minutes just isn't long enough. Sorta made me want to play the damn game again, actually, even though the battle system makes me uneasy.

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