Monday, August 1, 2005

My mom's medication looks like vials of crack.

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Shin- I was either going to rent Eternal Darkness or Tales of Symphonia.. Guess I went with the wrong choice for me, huh?

Azure- I woke up at 10 yesterday. I was very proud.

Tony- I thought Pious Augustus was worse.. Though he wasn't exactly beautiful, either. :P

satan665- If you have someone to spend it with, I'd imagine that's great. All I have is my brother harrassing me to buy him red dye in Guild Wars.

Ethan- That's why I propose we condense our gaming weekend into a day.

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My brother was rummaging through boxes of old CDs in the garage the other day in hopes of finding some kickass educational PC games (fun ones, though) that he wanted to reminisce over, and along with Zoombinis' Logical Journey he found Myst.

I bought Myst a few years ago, after seeing pictures of it (and ogling the graphics, as was the fashion at the time). As young as I was, I was entertained by the gameplay, but between the fact that I didn't know what the hell I was doing and how the game was constantly crashing on our old computer, I eventually gave up and uninstalled it.

Now that I have a computer that doesn't crash every time you try to run a game that is nothing but pre-rendered images and poor-quality video files, I have reinstalled it and I'm having fun with it.

It wasn't until I started over that I realized how little of the game I understood back when I was nine. I guess I didn't get the level of immersion that was present- if something was in the game, you could use it somehow. And everything's connected.

..Now if only I could understand how it's all connected, and figure out at least one of the goddamn puzzles. I spent half an hour writing down different patterns for this one thing only to find out my hunch was totally off.

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I'm starting to get back into Guild Wars, too. After getting my ass (well, our Guild's collective ass) whooped in PvP last night, I've felt really bad about neglecting the game, so I'm working on getting higher in the levels and farther into the game world. I got to level 15, which is still far from where almost everyone else is, but I'll get there.

For the Quantum Kabuki Troupe. *salutes*

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One last gaming-related note: I bought Jump Superstars on YesAsia.com the other day. It's $43 on there instead of the $50 on PlayAsia and Lik-Sang, and though I am getting it later than most places, I'm glad I saved the seven dollars.

According to the paper I printed out afterwards, it seems the game is going to ship August 13.. Which sounds like I got the second shipment. Didn't get it fast enough, yeah?

I'm wondering if the multiplayer can be single-cart, and if it is, will it work on American DSes? I read somewhere that DS Download Play doesn't work on imported games.. But that was on a message board, so the dude was probably full of shit.

Edit: Nevermind, I know now, thanks to knowledgeable message board people.

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Um.. In non-gaming-related stuff, I'm about two-thirds done with Ender's Game, and I just had dinner at the neighbors' house. They are really good cooks, and it's a shame that they're moving. We barely got to see them enough as it is, since they've been in China for so long.

Being in their house reminded me of my early childhood. One of my first friends lived in that house, years ago. We'd always play outside every night.. I remember one of my earliest gaming experiences there, when he whooped my ass at some Sega skiing game he didn't tell me how to play. He could get away with that stuff since I was a few years younger than him.

I look at the kitchen and remember eating Spaghettios, I look at the front porch and remember riding bikes around in tight circles, I look at the stairs and remember getting my head stuck between the support pillars. It was sort of odd.

Now that I think of it, he might be in college now.. I'll have to ask my parents about that.
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