Wednesday, July 21, 2004

Bah.
I just spent forty-five minutes clearing out the Temple of the Hidden Faythe in Final Fantasy X, only to find that the faythe decides that you need to give him hefty amounts of cash for his services.

There were two other options besides "Let me summon you because you were so frickin' cool in that last battle," but apparently you can't change your answer. If you try to re-enter the room, he just says "What do you offer." Then, unless you give him 300,000, he says something along the lines of "You expect a phoenix, yet you offer chicken scratch! Maybe next time." I then decided to go look for 145,000 more Gil (I had just purchased all of the enemy-capturing weapons, which didn't help my lack of cash for the ghost), when a Tonberry came after me. God damn those Tonberrys. If you don't kill them in four turns, they do.. God, I don't know what they do. I've never let it happen to me before. Well, this particular time I didn't have the ability to run away like a frightened little girl.

I then decided that Auron, Lulu and Yuna had nothing to live for between then and my last save point, so I just turned off the PS2.

What's that Faythe going to do with 300,000 Gil? Spruce up the room that they sit in all the time as Summoners pray? Get a 35" high-definition flatscreen with surround sound? I think not.

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Well, the Half-Life collection and the DDR soundtrack still haven't come in. It has only been two business days since we ordered it all, after all. I'm just starting to want to play the game rather badly, as well as Counter Strike.

I'm coming into the HL stuff a bit late, considering the game is now six years old and the sequel is being released later this year. I had never really put too much thought into the series, or PC gaming in general, until I saw what was going on with Half-Life 2 and Doom 3. That probably sounds very n00b-ish, but it's the truth. I had never really looked in to what Half-Life was, or what it was about. I was under the impression that it was purely an online game (I dissected the title ever so carefully- Half of a life, a virtual life, online character's life). Well, now that I know better I have finally ordered the game, and I shall experience the highly proclaimed coolness of Half-Life.

..If it ever gets here.

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I was in a rather artistic mood last night, so I decided to make a pretty little wallpaper. I really, really like this one, for some odd reason. I didn't really put that much work into it- just about forty-five minutes of cropping, pasting and toying with opacity.

What I didn't realize however, was that I made the wallpaper seventy pixels too wide. After spending twenty minutes trying to get the credits at the bottom perfectly aligned and in the right positions, I finally said, "..Screw it. Just screw it" as I resized the image without keeping the aspect ratio.

:o I'm a bad person.

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Comment Commentary

Shin- Yeah, you'd better read it. >:|

Aleia- Yep.

Ben- Yeah, this would be just like that.. If I didn't know this person. :/

*skips himself*

Azure- I thought we have been over this. First I asked you about ripping music off of CDs, and I asked you if CDs had region coding.

Bastard. >:|

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Anyway, I think that's enough complaining for now. I'm off to lust after PCs (This totally decked out Sony Vaio with a speaker system and everything in Costco for $2,300, for example) that I will probably never own.

..Well, I wouldn't really care about the Vaio if my dad ever decided to stop saying he will take the computers in for upgrading this week, but never do it.
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