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| 10:58pm 12/11/2009 |
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Kingdom Hearts 358/2, Final Bosses!
D: D: D:!
*Hits up GameFAQs*
DX DX DX DX DX!!!
Fuck it, I'll watch the ending scenes on Youtube. Like I had to do with Chain of Memories.
How the hell were any of these people involved in creating The World Ends with You?
All-in-all though, it was remarkably exactly what I wanted from this game, all happy, shiny Disney characters and dark, disturbing undercurrents.
About the only thing they didn't give me enough of was Riku and Namine interaction . . . but then again the scene I really wanted to see was them having a tea-party and braiding each other's hair so, um, I accept that probably was never going to happen.
In somewhat more respectable gaming squee:-
Holy shit, they're making a sequel to Hotel Dusk?!
Damn.
I am delighted but also rather shocked. |
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| 09:08am 08/11/2009 |
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I wanted to wish ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) m_steelgrave a happy birthday but unfortunately I didn't buy my feather boas and tubs of glitter ahead of time and now they're all sold out. Rumour is it that Sir Paul McCartney, the git, cornered the market.
Mou. |
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| "I'll sing your song, you've got the heart of it" |
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| 06:16pm 02/11/2009 |
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When I heard that they'd be changing the intersection of Regent Street and Oxford Street to a scramble crossing I was pretty damn pleased since it's something they should have done years ago.
So I was reading about the official opening this morning and about to make a joke to kaitou1412 about how we could begin counting down to when the cosplayers would start appearing and then I saw the pictures.
I salute you, London Cosplayers. I'm not sure what I'm saluting you for but I'm grudgingly impressed, nonetheless.
In other news it's November and I'm taking part in the annual orgy of self-induced stress that are the Nanos. I've posted my first four manga pages over on the Nanomango community. |
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| "I'll sing the Beetles and you'll sing them better" |
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| 10:56pm 25/10/2009 |
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I was thinking of doing Nanomango this year so it's not really a good sign I'm having a burst of productivity this early but, eh, whatever.
( Have some Persona 4 chibis. )
In non-Persona 4 news, Expo was surprisingly non-crappy for a London Anime Con! Mind, this is entirely relative, it was still crap by US con standards, and I think getting to hang out with Doug made it a lot better than it would have been otherwise.
But I did buy a really cool mecha kit and didn't get price-gouged at all. This is pretty much opposite to all my British con experiences to date. |
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| "Nomura fhtagn! Nomura fhtagn! Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Nomura Sque'nix wgah'nagl fhtagn!" |
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| 12:01am 17/10/2009 |
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Kingdom Hearts 358/2, Day 119.
. . . The thing I really love about KH's ongoing story is how almost everything has happened because of Love.
Especially the horrible things.
Well, I have also always loved the feeling of grand scale, all these worlds in danger, increasingly because no one seems to mind endangering the Multiverse in an effort to protect their loved ones and/or get back at their exes.
So yes, enjoying this immensely.
That said, OH GOD NO NOT THE COLOSSEUM MINIGAMES! And making me do Hayner's stupid wifflebat thing right after was just. not. on.
. . . Please, please, no singing this time. Please. |
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| "I got a window in my spine" |
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| 11:16pm 07/10/2009 |
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Oh Persona 4. You fascinate me so. You're so very near perfect and yet you've got almost exactly the same creative team as Persona 3, one of the most misconcieved games I've ever played. I would love to know how you managed to get from one to the other via design-by-committee, it would probably make a fantastic game studies paper.
Yes! Persona 4! It is really very good! Having it come out so soon after WEWY makes me feel a bit spoilt, RPG-wise.
As per WEWY, it's demanding rather a lot of fanart. I was going to do some yonkoma first but then aphelion_orion wrote me a super-cute P4 fic, so this is my thank you.
( Fractal Sleeping ) |
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| 11:09am 30/09/2009 |
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I post from within the stomach of a sheep.
It is dark in here.
Is it still Velathya's birthday? The bacteria say so, but I can't trust them.
Happy Birthday, Vel.
Someone get me out of this thing. |
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| "Get me a person, get me a person, get me a person who isn't me" |
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| 10:18am 19/08/2009 |
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Technically I finished Persona 3 some time ago but I went with the bad ending because by that point I hated almost the entire city and wanted them all to die.
I'm currently now playing through to Persona 3's proper ending at the same time as I'm getting through Flowers, Sun and Rain. It's an interesting combination, since FSR is about 10 years old now and, while often far too smug about how smart it is, is still a brilliant send-up of all the RPG genre conventions that drive me nuts with P3.
It doesn't help that with each new version Atlus puts out it only gets more conformative. |
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| "And when the battle was done I was promised my son" |
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| 11:33pm 03/06/2009 |
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I'm posting this here because a) everyone loves to rant about photo-jacking and b) Den of Angels may be up in arms about this but the com's so strictly locked and moderated it was unlikely you'd hear about it anywhere else.
Basically, Mijn Schatje is a semi-famous and very successful graphic designer and artist. You may not know her name but you will probably recognise her art. She's also been caught out straight-up tracing her art from ball-jointed doll photos. Not even photos she took herself, no, the official promotional photos from the makers' websites.
Remarkably Lame. |
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| 10:50am 01/06/2009 |
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velithya is now all sorts of married, an occasion that fills me with awe and wonder (and not just because this is going to have a galaxy-wide positive impact on at least seven alternate futures).
All the best to her and her blushing groom and all joy and happiness (and the hope that all of those prophecies they just fulfilled will go off without a hitch).
To a glorious life for both of you! (And the Pendant of Ancients Singing is accessible if you each smash your own pot at the same time. You'll know what I mean when it happens.) |
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| 11:25am 27/05/2009 |
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I am all sorts of back from Boston. Also it was Thorne's birthday at some point! I celebrated by helping her acquire porn and giving her drugs.
I'm gonna let the writerly types sum up the weekend, since they already have. |
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| 09:59am 04/05/2009 |
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By the way, thank you to everyone on my flist who posted as part of Poetry Month. There was some really wonderful stuff this year, I really enjoyed it. |
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| "And I Know that We've Still Got Time but I Do Not Think We're Invincible" |
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| 11:09am 01/05/2009 |
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I need to make a number of posts regarding hole-in-the-wall concerts, impromptu on-the-tube concerts, Rome's many necropolises, the sustainability dilemma of print books and LPs versus their digital counterparts and the worrying issue that no modern superhero seems to know what contraceptives are.
However since any of that requires me to be coherent in the meanwhile - hey, look who's back!
Scans Daily's new page limits means they don't cover how he's back but you don't really want to know, anyway, it's amazingly convoluted even for comics. Just take my word for it that it actually is him and not a fake-out.
ETA: Also it is apparently Free Comic-Books Day tomorrow? |
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| "I've got Friends in all the Right Places" |
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| 12:39am 11/04/2009 |
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Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as King is a simple strategy/city-builder simulation game that Squeenix put out as its Wiiware download offering. It costs $15 and gave me barely three days worth of gameplay but I think it may have been actually worth it because it does does exactly what it says on the tin; be a surprisingly plausible simulation of the life of a benevolent ruler of Ye Olde Standard Beloved Peasant Kingdom.
The design team seems to have put a lot of thought into what it must be like for those poor bastards forced to stay at home and wear the crown and keep their people from panicking over the fact that their entire survival rests in the hands of a bunch of random teenagers. Who by the way act almost exactly like standard RPG adventurers act. You've got a limited influence over the ones who happen to be your subjects and zero control over the visiting ones who, in standard RPG fashion, are of course way more powerful than the home-grown. All you can do is build your training halls, stock your item shops, post your bounties and hope for the best.
And then there's Clint, who's a special case all on his own.
Clint is one of my randomly-generated NPC Adventurers. He's a hometown boy who, through a combination of good starting stats, even better luck and very possibly Destiny, is at least 10 levels above any of the local kids he grew up with and completely capable of taking down Boss Monsters 10 levels above him. I'm pretty sure he could take out the Final Dungeon by himself, no problems, but he steadfastly refuses to take the bounty so for the last two game-weeks the entire Kingdom has been hacking away at the Sub-Boss while Clint's been waltzing around with his weird foreigner friends killing every over-powered Optional Boss in the Land.
I love Clint. Clint is you. And me. And every other RPG player who ever took a look at Meteor bearing down in the sky and went 'It can wait, I'm going to go race Chocobos'.
(I am pretty sure that Clint's behaviour is just an emergent property of the NPC AI trying to be sensible about levelling and not a deliberate move on the part of the game designers, as awesome as that would have been. Which is something of a relief, given that in a normal RPG the only way this all could have ended is with the Overlord torching the entire City so that Clint can angst over us and then vow vengeance. Though if that does happen, hey, massive points for making the simulation really thorough.) |
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| "I could sit for hours finding new ways to be awed each minute" |
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| 12:54pm 24/03/2009 |
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Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
When I was 14 I wrote this fanfic about a sentai team of Greek mathematicians, with Pythagoras as the calm leader and Archimedes as the brash, hot-headed one and Euclid was there too but at the time I was confused by Euclidean versus non-Euclidean Geometry so I didn't really like him and he ended up being the one with no personality.
Hypatia of Alexandria was also on the team, of course, because I really wanted to have at least one female member . . . but I always felt a little disappointed in her because her mathematical work was so mundane compared to the guys.
I still have a somewhat complicated relationship with her icon because having a female mathematician classically famous mostly for her secular martyrdom is still better than having no classically famous female mathematicians at all and, really, at the time, when I was little, it was encouraging to know that at least a female mathematician could exist.
As I've gotten older and learnt more about the personal history behind Mathematics, rather than just the discoveries, I've grown to understand how badly being ostracised from the Mathematical community can hold-back a mathematician's work and that the dearth of great female mathematicians isn't anything to do with the inability of women to do maths and everything to do with so few of them ever being given a chance.
Hence the motivation behind Ada Lovelace Day, really. |
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| "Oh, just because I'm on your side doesn't mean you're right" |
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| 11:01pm 15/03/2009 |
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So I'm not ready to put up any of the pictures from Rome yet because there's about 3GB worth of them and 15 pages of accompanying notes. I rather have to whittle them down.
. . . However, I am rather wondering what the hell happened while I was away.
I store my drinking glasses upside down and when I went to pull one out of the cupboard today it seemed surprisingly short and there was this weird shiny ring sitting where I had just picked it up from.
I went "Dude, what the hell, that couldn't possibly be . . . ?!".
Yes, yes it was.
Here is the glass in question.
Here is what happened to the glass in question.
If you asked me two weeks ago I would had told you I didn't have a single roach in my flat. For all I know now I may have hundreds but I'll never notice because they are all ninjas. |
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