Saturday, November 20, 2004

After all is said and done..

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Mimmi- I've been telling everyone that it was going to suck anyway. With conflicting co-edtiros, and one being far more stubborn and back-stabbing than the other, shit is bound to fly.. And land on the pages.

Shin- Everyone seems to be against it at school, spare one or two people. Oh well. I'm not in it to be liked.

Alea- We're near the end of our "trimester." That's when transfers are usually made.

Mal- And what if I do, huh!? >:O

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Okay. Metal Gear Solid 3.

I remember ranting about how they should take a new artistic direction with Metal Gear on AIM.. I thought it would be cool if they sort of changed the visuals to make the game look like Yoji Shinkawa's terrific concept art. The menu of Snake Eater does exactly what I wanted them to do.

And Shin said it wasn't possible. What a lamer.

Gabe of Penny Arcade is not far off when he says that it's like sitting in your backyard for fifteen hours, lying in the grass, and having your friend come out and kick you in the nads every twenty minutes or so. It's all very slow-paced. The guards walk so much slower than in the first two games, it's not even funny. I've adapted with that so now I can be on the computer as I play the game. A lot of it is waiting around for the caution meter to go down.

The graphics are sweet. There's a sort of pale, ambient feeling about most of the colors, and this is most apparent in the cutscenes. The character models are amazingly detailed (my only compaint being that the eyes are a little unrealisic), but my favorite feature by far is the way they do explosions. When certain items go boom, the entire screen become silhouetted in a very distinct way.

Not unlike my previous mO intro.

The cutscenes keep up with the standard established by the series. While the lip sync is pretty far off most of the time, but the motion capture and voice acting is exquisite. Each character has a very distinct voice, and none of them are really that grating. For some odd reason, though, the Ape Escape side-mode is incredibly trashy in the voice department. Colonel Campbell makes his only appearance in the game in Ape vs. Snake, and they were too lazy to pay the authentic actor. He sounds far too angry, and whenever Snake catches one of the monkeys he always sounds too ecstatic about it.

That mode is great fun, though, and funny as all getout.

I could go on and on about it, but there are other things to talk about, you know?

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Apparently, the journalism teacher was angry all day and on the verge of tears when she was trying to convince one of my friends to stay in the class. She still isn't realizing the real problem, though.. And besides, it's already on paper. I can't turn back now.

We had the first pep rally this school has seen in many years. It was for the volleyball teams- our seventh graders totally sucked, but eighth boys got third in the district and girls got second, I believe.

I got out of Phys Ed for it, which was enough incentive. I could have stayed outside if I wanted to.

They had colorguard (imitation cheerleaders) do a little routine in the middle of it. The song they chose wasn't bad (it reminded me of one of the songs from Cirque du Soileil), but I don't know how they can legally have these girls do some of the stuff they do. It's not like they're stripping or anything, but a lot of it is really suggestive.

When the principal came out to talk, everybody booed him. I felt sort of bad for him, but then I remembered his process of editing the newsletter, and then I felt better.

For some reason we had to go to the second one, too, after that one. This time we got in there after everybody else, so we had to sit on the floor in the front row. It was the same thing, except the principal didn't come out this time.

Heh heh.

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Went to the mall for a couple of hours earlier. We ended up clothes-shopping, though I mostly did watching and made harsh-yet-playful remarks. They wanted me to try on some girls' clothes, and I said that I would, if all others present would put on something with heinous cleavage.

So I got out of it. :P

After that it was a bunch of shopping, and running in to other people from school. One of the anime fans in my class, it turns out, is related to one of the arcade-lurkers that has approached me a couple times about manga I was carrying. Small world, eh?

Two hours was not enough, though. Two hours is never enough, but my parents never listen to me. Oh well, I have all of next week off, so there's one big oppurtunity for goofing off.
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