Wednesday, February 16, 2005

Wonder how long that'll last..

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Alea- Wouldn't it be funny if I said that that baby was my cousin, and that everybody who insulted it was an asshole?

James- I second that motion. There's no reason to be kinder to babies than regular human beings.

Shin- I'm fine with 2D fighters, but this one is just.. Lame. Maybe I didn't play it for long enough.

Azure- Are you kidding me? They seriously skinned them like that? I assumed it was a half-assed bitmap-editing thing, like all this "Nude simz!!1" hullaballoo.

It wasn't just nude girls, though. They threw in characters from other games, and anime, and such. I found Penny Arcade forum's thread on it to be entertaining.

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I bought Katamari Damacy the other day. I'm too tired to go into detail about it, but there's only one way to describe it:

It's Pikmin on lethal amounts of acid.

Mmhm. I say this because it's a puzzle(ish) game revolving around pint-sized aliens on Earth. It is almost painfully Japanese, though. They kept it unlocalized, even in most of the pop culture references.

The music is really great, actually. I would pay for a couple of the songs.

It seems like it's going to be sort of short, though. Oh well, it was only $20 new anyway.

SIDE NOTE: I noticed an odd pattern in quirky Japanese games and odd ice cream companies. You can find the visual aid here.

I smell conspiracy.

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Our school's been turned into "Tell-the-advanced-students-about-the-advanced-stuff-at-the-high-school" school. They've been trying to convince us to go into the International Baccalaureate program, which is, as they describe it, "college-paced advanced classes." I'm not sure if anyone's familiar with it. According to the statistic they flung at us, there are only 300 high schools in the US doing it.

They say there's four hours of homework a night, and then you have to do the public service (teaching blind-deaf children how to speak is my "advanced" example), and the summer school.. It's apparently worth it. The speaker guy seemed rather.. Out there, but according to him, if you show a European university an IB diploma they automatically accept you. Somehow I find that hard to believe, but that would be wicked schweet.

Not much more to say on that. I bet it will be so much easier than they say (I remember them emphasizing how difficult adjusting to middle school would be), at least until junior year. That's when the proverbial shit hits the fan.

Oddly enough, this was the first time I had been on the high school campus. It's a nice building, compared to all of the elementary and middle schools in this area. Two stories, mostly indoors.. It gives off more of a "school" vibe, and less "trailer park."

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I ate some tacos today. This is surely a milestone in the history of the world.
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