Friday, November 19, 2004

It's not a matter of if. It's a matter of when.

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Shin- But Family Guy got enough fanbase to bring it out of cancellation. ~_^

miss april- Watch what?

Mimmi- Most children's books are, in the right context.

Mal- Wouldn't that take forever to transfer?

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I didn't update yesterday, and for good reason. After school we went over to the mall and picked up Metroid Prime 2: Echoes. The cover is all nice and shiny, giving it a certain quality that makes it stand out from the rest of the cases. We had a couple minutes to blow before we left, so we went to the other regular stores to browse.

While checking out "The History of Metroid" in EBGames (I never buy anything there- I'm a Gamestop man), I noticed that one of the many boxes keeping me from groping Half-Life 2 was open. Curiously, I peeked inside and found a ton of Spiderman 2 and Feel the Magic DS games. My friend picked up Feel the Magic and looked at the back, but I was too afraid of getting kicked out of the store. God knows why.

Game stores are all evil for keeping me away from things even when they have them in the store, end of story.

I played a bit of single-player mode when I got home, and found the menus to be exquisite. They're supposed to emulate three-dimensional holographic touch screens, and they do it well. It took me a second to figure it out, but now it's as smooth as anything.

While its predecessor had a very dark red menu scheme, Echoes has a very bright, white menu. If you saw IGN's little Metroid Prime 2 review image, you know what I'm talking about.

Maybe the game is still just easing me in, but so far I'm finding it to be a little slow-paced and dull. The atmosphere created by the sounds and sights is spot-on, but the gameplay seems to be more bland than I had remembered it to be.

Of course, I only have the power beam, missiles and the Space Jump Boots right now, so I can't come to that conclusion yet.

Multiplayer's interesting. I've never touched Halo multiplayer, but if it's really that much better than Metroid's than it must be insanely cool. Deathmatches are always fun, I think, and it's cool to watch Samus jump around. If you double jump near a wall, apparently you kick off of it.. Didn't know that.

The luster of that wore off fairly quickly, though.

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It's official, I'm leaving Journalism. Today clipart junkie was loading in all of the Pagemaker fonts.. It was supposed to be a select process, but she had a ton of fonts selected: Many of them pissing on what our theme stands for.

"Why do you have so many fonts?"

"Because they're all so cool!"

"We only need Chase."

"But I like these."

"We're not using them. What happened to consistency?"

"But these are cool!"

"Ms. Taylor, I'm transferring."

It quickly became a scene out of a Greek tragedy or something. All of the people who have half of a brain in that class were all dramatically talking about how much the yearbook is going to suck without me. When I first told the teacher it didn't really seem to register with her. She just smiled and nodded, as if she wasn't listening. She seemed pretty sore by the end of the period.

Well, it's going to suck anyway. No matter what I do, that girl is stubborn with absolutely no artistic vision, and she has the idea that people want different fonts and backgrounds on every page "to mix things up."

Bull. Total bull.

I'm doing this to demonstrate a point. If Mommy's little girl is the co-editor, she should consider this a promotion. She should be capable of singlehandedly making a decent yearbook, without my help. I feel a little bad about leaving the yearbook to be torn to shreds, but the ends justify the means. I don't want to be their slave / techie anymore.

I spent two hours thinking about this last night.. My only regret is leaving good old Stacie in there all alone, with nowhere to go.

:P I know she's reading this, so I won't go into detail.

Anyway, the new trimester starts the week after Thanksgiving, so if my mom calls the scheduling people tomorrow it should all be set. I'll be in art, and with people I know in my new Phys Ed class, and all shall be right with the world.

Woot.

I also picked up Metal Gear Solid 3 today, but I'm being kicked off right now.. I'll be sure to rant about it tomorrow.
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