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worried Expecting to do homework after International Talk Like a Pirate Day Party = ahahaha, or should I say arrharrharrharr. It's been three weeks and I'm already a week behind, but Cameroon baked cakes and there were drinking games with rum, and we were all dressed like pirates and wore heavy makeup, and sang pirate songs and danced pirate dances and played pirate games for pirate prizes. And there was a treasure hunt. And sword fights by moonlight with cutlasses! And lame pirate jokes! (What call ye a parrot that's not eaten recently? Polynomeal, har har har.)
...I can already see how this semester is going to go.
The real purpose of this post is to point out the nearly three gigabytes of manga accessible in this post, and also to reiterate for people not on my friends list:
There are a lot of cool things you can do with Gmail these days. You can publilsh emails as a blog; you can turn your 2.5 gigs (and counting!) of email space into a virtual drive on Linux or Windows; and you can make the files stored on that drive accessible to everyone on the net. Not bad!
PS.
I finished Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell last Thursday, but livejournal ate my post on it. Damnation!
PPS.
Raise your hand if you watched FFV7: Advent Children even though you've never played the game or participated in fandom! You recognize Cloud and the guy with his own choir, you've heard about the in-game character death but honestly what's so special about her (the other one's hotter), THERE ARE TOO MANY CHARACTERS IN THIS MOVIE hey that was sort of neat *replays the fight scenes*. I can't be the only one.
PPPS.
New layout, retro sneaker colors.
September 20 2005, 09:08:49 UTC 6 years ago
I too haven't watched Advent Children yet, and don't really plan to unless someone mooches it for me. Despite the pretty. The pretty beckons, but I am resilient like steel this time. (poses)
September 20 2005, 09:29:44 UTC 6 years ago
You sure? It's very pretty. XDD I have to say, I haven't seen it with the legitimate subtitles (just the parody ones) and I don't really plan to. Not until after I plan the game. *poses* Time scale: sometime before I die/turn seventy.
I was really surprised that so many people talked about it, actually. I didn't know I knew that many RPGers. Makes sense, though.
September 20 2005, 09:36:39 UTC 6 years ago
I think that reguardless of whether one is a RPG gamer or not, almost everyone has played or at least heard of Final Fantasy. I remember being at a friend's house while she was playing FFVII, and the first thing I noticed was how big Tifa's breasts were. I was shocked, unable to decide whether that was the angle of the polygons or if her breasts really were that big. XD
Your time scale is similiar to mine, I've had FFVIII for about five years and haven't finished it yet. (dies)
September 20 2005, 13:19:30 UTC 6 years ago
Raise your hand if you watched FFV7: Advent Children even though you've never played the game or participated in fandom!
ME! I had no idea what was going on until maybe in the last few minutes, but hey, who cares, it's pretty.
September 20 2005, 15:16:23 UTC 6 years ago
"...Arr?"
"Aye! And do ye know why it be rated arr?"
"No..."
"Too much booty! It ought to have been rated X!"
"...X marks the spot?"
"Aye!"
And in the last few minutes you realized the entire thing was an elaborate set-up to 1) bring back Sephiroth and 2) give everyone a happy ending free of those pesky chemical disfigurements left over from the game. Everyone wins!
September 20 2005, 13:37:30 UTC 6 years ago
And now I'm going through and slowly watching the parody version in 10 and 15-minute chunks. It's better.
I gotta say, without really knowing what FF7 was about, I'd always thought that if I played it, I'd like Sephiroth because - evil, silverhaired, longhaired psychopath! Sweet! But I found myself liking Vincent Valentine a whole lot more. Except for his stupid shoes.
September 20 2005, 15:11:23 UTC 6 years ago
I got a huge kick out of Reno and Rude. The only problem was that I've never seen Pulp Fiction, either ;_; Wikipedia is a good idea. Way faster than playing through the game!
September 20 2005, 15:18:50 UTC 6 years ago
The Wikipedia artricle on him is here, and ... oh so that's what that whole "Dirge of Cerberus" thing was about ... anyway, he's got classic-horror-movie vibes and transforms into various things resembling classic horror movie monsters.
September 20 2005, 15:29:54 UTC 6 years ago
...I should stop now, or I'll never be able to play through the game. XD Because the point of RPGs is to advance the story unless you're a colmpletist like my brother.
Auron's a character from FFX (think: stern older man in a red cloak). You may have seen him compared to Shino's father.
September 20 2005, 15:42:28 UTC 6 years ago
I don't play many games so I don't give a damn about apoilers, because I don't have the attention span of patience to sit through an entire game. :D
September 20 2005, 14:34:39 UTC 6 years ago
Haven't played the game. Ever.
But now I know everything I never wanted to know about some alien, parasitic lifeform Jenova and how some guy thought she was his mom and decided to CHOP HER HEAD OFF for reasons NO ONE knows and become a freaking GOD by taking her head and standing in a CRATER.
I say even Light's plan had more of a chance.
September 20 2005, 15:21:28 UTC 6 years ago
...XD but Light's plan is working! Would have worked already if it weren't for those pesky kids!
September 20 2005, 23:20:04 UTC 6 years ago
He was a real nut job, obviously.
Definitely true. A friend of mine (who was in it for the action and mad graphics) almost backed out upon hearing that end of the plot. Haha. I would expect no less of him.
Is it really? I haven't been keeping up with Death Note. The community scared me off a while ago, and I can't find scanlations, and I can't understand a single word the one person who gives synopses is saying (that one Mello fan, I think). But kudos to Light! 8D Yay, autocracy!
September 20 2005, 18:07:25 UTC 6 years ago
But good god, the pretty. And the nostalgia, man. Good stuff.
September 21 2005, 04:44:05 UTC 6 years ago
And Advent Children is my baby. I've never played the game (I don't have the patience or time to sit through seventy hours of game play), but had the next best thing... *pets fandom* So I went into it knowing most of the characters (and with a deepseated fangirl crush on Sephiroth. XD) but not expecting much of a plot. *laugh* I'm all about the shallow. Pretty men with swords? I can dig it.