Wednesday, August 18, 2004

Why did they add blue Jolly Ranchers? It just kills the mood with me.
Hm. AIM is being strange.

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We got a little paper from Blockbuster last week saying that using it would eliminate all outstanding fees and get us a free rental. I felt like renting a game- Tales of Symphonia, specifically- so we went off to the merry old land of rentals.

Predictably enough, they were out of Symphonia, so I walked around for about twenty minutes looking for another game or film to rent. I had been debating with myself about trying Silent Hill 3, Eternal Darkness looked rather tempting, and I had been wanting to play Wario Ware for Gamecube for a week or so.

Well, in the end, my mom pulled out the veto stamp on Eternal Darkness and Silent Hill, and I felt Warioware would lose its luster quickly, so I didn't rent any of them. Desperate to justify the fifteen-minute drive to Blockbuster, I went over to the foreign section and found Ringu, the original Japanese version of The Ring.

The checkout guy had been bothering me while I was browsing for games. I suppose he was just being an active worker, running around and asking everybody if he could help them with anything, but I don't go to a movie rental place to be served. I go to rent a movie so I can enjoy cinema without being bothered by those around me (That's my big pet peeve about movie theatres: stupid people).

Anyway, the guy told us we had a total of $40 due to the store for Psi-Ops and Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow. I rented those, like, months ago, and I couldn't get a ride to the store until two weeks after the due date. Thankfully, the holy orange postcard took care of the forty bucks and one of the rentals.

I popped in Ringu the second I got home, and I wasn't as thrown by it as I had anticipated. The footage on the tape itself wasn't nearly as shocking or scary as in the US version (Though the "eruption" scene was cool) and the kid wasn't all psychotic. Those were my two favorite parts of the American version, actually.

It was still good, but I think I liked The Ring more than Ringu. It will be interesting to see how Hideo Nakata's The Ring 2 will fare with the mainstream US audience.

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My brother has been trying to reinstall The Sims into our desktop computer for two days now. He finally got all the files in and everything, but now the program doesn't start. It will ask for which resolution setting you want, do the little loading screen, and it won't do anything after that. He's rather frustrated now, and he just kicked me off the chair in front of the computer. My throne has been stolen. :|

I sort of hope he never gets it to install, heh. If it feeds the idea that we need a new computer, I'm all for it.

Unfortunately, he thinks that I'm intentionally not letting it install, on the grounds that Half-Life is in there and The Sims is not. I get this all the time from people..

Is this a worthy enough post for you, Shin? :P

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