Wednesday, January 19, 2005

All I want is what you need.

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Mimmi- Um.. Eventually. The stuff I learned will probably show up in my next myOtaku theme.

Patience, Mimmi, patience.

Alex- Ew, I don't like omelets.

..Food ones, anyway. I'll play HL2 or Perfect Dark anyway.

Mal- Hm.. Nah. :P

Tony- Well, it wasn't that great compared to the best Simpsons episodes of all time.. I just saw it as a step back in the right direction.

Or maybe I'm just desperate for the series to redeem itself.

Karmi- See? We older siblings need to stick together.

Shin- He was also the ringmaster of my ancient and decrepit MP3 gallery, remember?

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Hm, that's the first time I forgot to update in a while. I don't think I forgot as much as I had nothing to say. I know that almost every single day I say that, but yesterday there was literally nothing.

And that is because I was playing Resident Evil 4.

Yes, I finally gave into the temptation and pressure that had been forced upon me from all sides- friends, media, voices in my head.. They all screamed "RESIDENT EVIL 4" in unison, and I obliged.

I had a gift card for Gamestop anyway, no?

As I had hoped, the game rocks, but I can't quite rate it in the same way that a lot of people can. Resident Evil is a well-known, long-established franchise, and while many of the people who have been looking forward to this game have been fans for a while, I have never touched a RE game- or any game labeled simply "survival horror," for that matter. Sure, I've had my fair share of scary moments in games (Half-Life 1 still scares the shit out of me sometimes), but I've never actually played something like Eternal Darkness or Silent Hill or Resident Evil.

Considering how the fourth installment is hardly related to the rest of the series, I can't compare and say which improvements I like most. All I can say is that it is fun.

Surprisingly enough.. It's not all that scary. The initial feeling that you get as you first enter the bleak, gray climate was great, and seeing.. A couple of things I'm not going to describe (for the sake of spoilers), were creepy at first, but again, I was more scared by single headcrabs in Half-Life 1.

Not to detract from RE4 at all- I've only played for four hours or so (just after the Tolkien-ish troll thing), and scarier things are bound to come up, but for now it's no different from most games I play these days in that sense.

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The new season of I Love The 90's is up and running, but I'm not that thrilled with it. Maybe it's because it's still in the early years of the decade, back when I knew jack shit about pop culture, or the fact that it's the second time around for this decade, giving them less to run with, but so far it's not that amazing.

Michael Ian Black, Hal Sparks and Mo Rocca are still funny on a level that our feeble human brains are incapable of fully understanding, though. Those guys are insane.

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Know what's the only thing worse than being forced to play frisbee football with a bunch of unenthusiastic, uncaring ghetto people who do nothing but use the frisbee as a weapon?

Being forced to play frisbee football with a bunch of unenthusiastic, uncaring ghetto people who do nothing but use the frisbee as a weapon after running for ten minutes in the blazing sun.

That's all I have to say about school. Go, me.

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My subscription for Electronic Gamer finally got through, it seems. I got my first issue today, and it was entertaining enough. As with most magazines, it only held my interest for about fifteen minutes, and I'm probably not going to pick it up again, but whatever. My Entertainment Weekly subscription died anyway, so I need something else to keep me mindlessly entertained for brief periods of time.

[tangent leap]

Speaking of the Postal Service, my copy of Excel Saga volume five should be here tomorrow, if it gets here on time. That should be pleasant. At this point, I'm not in it for the jokes as much as I am for the art. There's something about Rikdo Koshi's character designs that strikes a creative chord with me- it inspires me to draw more than most manga.

[tangent leap]

Speaking of drawing, I had to do this huge drawing for art tonight. I was supposed to do some big art project I wasn't even informed about, and the teacher sprung the fact that it was due today. I got an "extension," though, and it's done now.

Thing is, while my heart was in the right place, the drawing itself blows. I might just use that De Stijl drawing instead. Shows what kind of dedicated artist I am.
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