Wednesday, November 24, 2004

The difference between myself and me.

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Godel- Lost in Translation, perhaps? :O Heh, I wonder if one of the results is a hardcore porno or something..

Shin- It's one of my mom's favorite movies, but I've never bothered.

Karmi- *mutters*

Mal- Gasp! Rivalry! ..Oh well, better add it to the pile.

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Mal- I can understand being excited about family visits if it's like that, but if it's an aunt that leads to my mom doing nothing but bitch about her for a week, count me out.

Godel- *shakes fist* Let's take this outside.. To the Food Channel.

I am reminded of my second cousin, though. In past Thanksgivings, he wouldn't let us in the house unless we had my mom's sugar cookies, and he's 30-something.

Shin- Wish I could say the same, heh.

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Hm, a more substantial update. Celebrate.

Has anybody else seen that "Video Game Report Card" that a whole bunch of conservative housewives put together this year? I saw it on the Eyewitness News, and they were talking about how you should not buy your children the following games:

1) Doom 3
2) Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
3) Half Life 2
4) Halo 2
5) Resident Evil: Outbreak
6) Psi Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy
7) The Guy Game
8)Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude
9)Motal Kombat Deception
10) Rumble Roses

When I saw the list, despite my disgust, I still shouted in glee and threw up the horns. The reason: Half-Life 2 > Halo 2. Screw connation, it's about time the game got some respect.

Parts of the list are understandable, but other parts are just full of shit. Why the hell is Leisure Suit Larry, quite possibly one of the raunchiest games of all time, so low on the list while Psi-Ops is on it at all? I believe there was more blood in Deception than The Mindgate Conspiracy. Oh, and last time I checked, Killzone and Vampire: The Masquerade existed.

I'm trying to keep myself from exploding into one of those big "video games aren't as bad as you say" rants that I so often get into, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to have a little bit of it trickle out. The media seems to present every crime that a kid committed "thanks to video games," but how many other underage murders go on in the world without the influence of video games? And of those "victims of the violence," how many of them have otherwise unstable home lives, with their parents' irresponsibility with buying entertainment being one of the most minute of their issues? How many of these people had their goals set straight long before they picked up San Andreas? It's all contextual bullshit.

Whoo, I feel better.

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Surprisingly enough, my mom hasn't been her craziest in these past 24 hours. Generally, by now, her head is exploding because there's still dust on the cat (?), but she's been pleasantly mellow most of the time.

But considering this is a very special time of the year, I suppose that I should say that I am thankful that I don't live with any of my aunts, who are all much, much more obsessive compulsive about these things.

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Beat The Fury and went through the creepy Sorrow thing today. The Fury was incredibly cool, in character and in gameplay (think faster-paced Vulcan Raven with lots of spiffy lighting effects), but his death cutscene was quite possibly the lamest yet. Apparently, Mr. Fury used to be an astronaut, and he started vomiting up all of these campy astronaut terms. That sort of killed it for me.

The Sorrow was insanely cool, though, and for some reason I got his camo after the fight. I beat The Fury using only the handgun, which I believe is what you need to do to get bosses' camo, but I didn't. Oh well.

Coolest cutscene ever: The Volgin torture sequence. A little gratuitous in the bloodspray department, but I'm not complaining.

...My God, I need a life.

I wish I had something more interesting to say, but I never do these days, so I guess you're all stuck with Metal Gear rantings for a while. :P

EDIT: Today I realized that I need to find more music from The Clash. Thought you would want to know.
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