Friday, April 22, 2005

Grand Theft Auto: Vatican City

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Lea- Hey, I wiped it up. For some reason the stench remained, though. <_<

Shin- Yeah, as "back to basics" and "retro" as they are, I wouldn't be surprised if they used.. PhotoShop 6.0. :O

Mimmi- A really big microphone?

Tony- None of the magic items I had on me seemed to have much effect. I haven't actually taken a shot at it for a couple of days.. *shrugs*

There's no decent FAQs online yet, either. Did they put out a pimptastic strategy guide for DDS like they did with Nocturne?

Godel- We don't know how to do a lot of things right, evidently.

Tony- It's repetitive, I'll give you that much.

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Technically, my elective is a seventh grade class. The thing is, my art teacher last year became pretty attached to a few of us because, well, we were actually good at drawing. Art seems to be one of those classes where you throw in the rest of the people who don't really have anything else to do at this school. Because we were the few fragments of artistic spirit in possibly the entire school, my teacher decided to try to keep a hold of us this year, but he had no eighth grade art classes, or any mixes for that matter.

So through the magic of loopholes we all ended up as supposed 'teacher assistants,' and we just kind of sit in the back of the room, separate from the rest.

Why am I explaining this? Because of a common problem we have, being in a seventh grade class that period. Sometimes our school decides to separate assemblies by grade, and the seventh grade assembly tends to be our art period.

So we get to see a lot of assemblies twice. Today we had one of those situations- our standardized testing is coming up (I'm guessing that will gather some sort of response from Azure, what with his MCAT fetish) we were gathered to "motivate" us for the CAT6. Some guy from some syndicated radio show was there, talking about his life the entire time and how awesome his job is. It really had nothing to do with the testing. The only relevance it bore was how they have a bike on raffle for people who show up on all of the test days.

And we got to see it twice. Yipee. I played my friend's cardboard PSP half of the time.

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The earphones that came packaged with my iPod officially died last night. The left one makes this really awful crackling sound now if you put it to any decent volume level. They were crap anyway, I don't think I'll miss them.

I went out and bought some temporary replacements.. Some Philips surround sound ones that one some sort of innovation award. It comes with a crappy little carrying case (It's not really retractable, you just kind of wrap the cord around, and it sucks) and asymmetrical cords when they split. Basically, where the cord splits into two, one earphone is a lot closer than the other. I have absolutely no idea why. I thought I got some sort of defect when I opened it, but the box says that it's for wearing convenience.

I haven't really used them yet.. But they're way more comfortable and fitting than the iPod ones. These actually go into the ear, unlike the iPod ones, which just kind of sit on the outside.

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Actually, I'm kind of worried about that standardized test. Not the math or the language arts, really, but this year there's a history section, taking questions not only from this year's stuff (which isn't a problem), but sixth and seventh as well. Try as I might, I can't remember half of the sample questions my history teacher has been throwing at us. I know the answers, I just don't know them, you know? It will probably be easier when it's actually multiple choice. She made us just guess anything.

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Weta put up the Evangelion concept art they've had for, like, a year, and they fixed the naming problems that pissed me off so much. Rei is no longer Ray, and Asuka is not Kate Rose. They've provided captions this time (they were on the DVD, technically, but next to impossible to read), and they're not really that enlightening, but it's nice to see they're making progress, though the project is apparently "on hold." They actual put out one concept that I don't remember being on the DVD, of an angel that resembles a zombified Eva.

*shrugs* They'll probably scrap the project halfway in. It's still nice to see different interpretations of things, though. That's why I like cover songs and remixes so much.

Hm, this is a rather abrupt ending. Oh well, you'll live.
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