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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
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2:56 pm
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My train of thought upon getting my new computer set up started with "What's this 'Dashboard' thing--oh, coooool" and, just an hour ago, ended with "... oh, hey, I have a computer powerful enough to play the Penny Arcade game now!"
So I bought it. And bumped the resomolution all the way up. And cackled like a mad scientist as the game resolved beautifully on my gigantor screen, as is seemingly appropriate.
I like the graphical style (as well I might, seeing as how I enjoy Penny Arcade), and I like the humor (as well I might, seeing as how etc.) and I like the realtime-RPG-style combat system (as well I might, being a wimpling RPG gamer). I've really only seen the game's setup so far, but I liked it, and I'm looking forward to more.
The only possible answer to "So, will I like this game?" is "Well, do you like Penny Arcade?" I do like Penny Arcade, ergo, this was a wise gaming choice for me. So, On The Rain-Slick Precipice Of Darkness, Episode One. There are worse ways to waste your time and money. If you like Penny Arcade.
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| Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
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3:51 pm
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someone has a brand-new macbook pro and twenty-inch apple cinema display and it might just be me~
[edit:] HOLY JESUS I CAN SEE FOREVER
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| Thursday, July 17th, 2008
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2:56 pm
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So after seven long, profitable years with The Great And Terrible Oz, my beloved Apple TiBook, I have given in to the crankiness of his advanced old age and ordered his replacement, a Macbook Pro, from the Apple Store.
I'm now having something of a panic attack, because I don't actually... like spending money? But, seriously, a seven-year-old laptop deserves to retire, because it's due to explode any second nowBOOM
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| Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
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2:43 pm
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| Friday, July 4th, 2008
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11:50 pm
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For a couple of weeks now Boyfriend has been all 'hey, we should go to the Gasworks Park and watch the fireworks over Lake Union on the Fourth' and I was all 'well okay maybe but not if it's hot or raining or if we have to park halfway across the city blah blah blah whine whine whine'
and then the fourth of July dawned a mostly cloudy, breezy seventy degrees F, and I may be a little whiny bitch but I can recognize a clear MAN UP AND GO SEE FIREWORKS, STUPID billboard when I see one. Pity I missed the billboard right behind it, which said AND REMEMBER TO TAKE A JACKET.
ps it was completely awesome ♥
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| Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
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1:47 am
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I have to admit that I kind of enjoy doing the weeding, here in Seattle. For one thing the weather is usually lovely, and for another both the front and back yard are the size of postage stamps, land prices in Seattle being what they are. I can do the weeding in thirty minutes after dinner, in the evening cool, wearing my new gardening gloves, which are neon purple and stretchy and actually fit my teeny-tiny girly hands. I love my gloves. They are about as hot-ass and fashion-forward as industrial clothing gets.
Of course, the very same factors that make weeding so oddly enjoyable can backfire (except the gloves. The gloves cannot backfire. It are a FACT). If the weather is lovely and the lot is tiny, that means that when our neighbors are out in their backyard having a gossip session at two AM, I can clearly hear and understand every word; the temptation to lean out and yell "I CAN TOTALLY HEAR YOU, AND BY THE WAY, I AGREE WITH JANINE THAT YOU OUGHT TO HAVE THAT MOLE LOOKED AT" is enormous.
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| Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
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10:08 pm
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Re: The Incredible Hulk:
I am really enjoying this new string of Marvel movies, yes sir, I am. A most excellent waste of two hours, and I like this 'interlocking movies' thing that Marvel has going. I'm looking forward to the Avengers!
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| Saturday, June 21st, 2008
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10:09 pm
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Re: The Animation Show, Vol. 4:
So Don Hertzfeldt has gone his own way and left the Animation Show in the hands of Mike Judge, and I think it shows; most of the selections this year were intended to be funny, most of them were very short, and the show in general erred on the side of 'DUR HURR'. It was still a lot of fun, and I enjoyed watching it, but so many of this year's shorts were all 'wacky' setup without any sort of development: all idea, no result.
That being said, many of the shorts were funny, or at least entertaining.
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| Friday, June 20th, 2008
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2:45 pm
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So, having finished my playthroughs of both Earthbound and Portal--the cake may be a lie, but all in all that's a good thing, because Ness would probably try to eat it with ketchup--I'm gearing up to settle in with Persona 3 FES, while Boyfriend increases the household's Atlus quotient by playing Etrian Odyssey 2 on the DS. Funny story, there: apparently a handful of Gamestops across the country got and started selling their shipments of Etrian Odyssey 2 five days early, and one of those was ours. We bought our copy and then snuck out of there like we'd done something wrong, which, technically, we had.
We also did finally play Super Mario Galaxy two-player, which was a lot of fun. I really like playing things in two-player mode, and SMG's second-player mode is basically tailor-made for the less-talented gamer (in general, read: wife or girlfriend of the gamerdork).
We racked up a pretty huge backlog of games while we were moving, unfortunately. At this rate I may never get to Revenant Wings. And just to make things worse, we'll pounce on copies of Boom Blox and The World Ends With You whenever we can actually find them. The price of gaming is eternal vigilance.
Man, remember when a gamer could play every JRPG released in any given year and still have a few free weeks in which to replay things and locate old games she'd missed? Yeah, remember that? Remember when English voice acting was the kiss of death and translations didn't have to make any sense as long as all the words on the screen were in English? Remember that, when a gamer only got a scant handful of games a year and they'd all been painstakingly adapted to suck? Weren't those days great?! :D
(I can hear you out there right now, fellow gamerdorks. Many of you are preparing to post a comment to this entry taking sincere, serious exception to something mentioned in the preceding paragraph. Don't. I will mock you so hard. I realize that the subtle nuances of speech are lost when communicating via the internet, so allow me to translate: mock nostalgia, hyperbole in the service of overgeneralization, sarcasm, sarcasm, sarcasm-amplifying emoticon.)
(In fact, if you intend to mention the paragraph preceding the preceding paragraph, you are hereby required to write your comment IN ALL CAPS WHILE USING NO REAL PUNCTUATION AND AT LEAST FOUR EMOTICONS :D :D :P XP or I will delete and/or make fun of your comment and mock you even harder, at least partially because of your lack of reading comprehension.)
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| Thursday, June 19th, 2008
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4:38 pm - via ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) squidminion
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| Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
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11:31 pm
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We've been in the Seattle house for a little over three months now--long enough to get good and settled and to get cat hair all over everything--and for the most part, I'm pleased with the place. I am not actually hip enough to live here, but I can get away with pretending that I am retro-grunge (instead of what I actually am, which is 'generally unwilling to give a shit what I look like as long as my clothes are weather-appropriate and comfy'). On many occasions I have caught myself wandering around Seattle in my battered old flannel shirt and jeans, toting a froofy coffee and a reusable cloth grocery bag; people in Seattle don't actually look like this any more, but it still feels very appropriate.
Right now, as we approach the solstice, the sky is barely dark for six hours a day. There are still traces of daylight in the sky at ten PM, and there is a significant amount of light in the east at four AM. I find this unnerving. I've started sleeping from four AM to noon instead of from six AM to two PM, partially because of the freaky, freaky sunlight and partially because most of my friends are now either two or three hours ahead of me, and as such, are going to bed just when I'm starting to prowl around. Is this what it feels like to be a cat?
Our neighbors are reasonably friendly and tend to startle me by doing things like bringing in our trash cans and mowing the teeny-tiny strip of grass that pretends to be our front yard, since they had the mower out anyway. I also find this unnerving, as I have a certain amount of protocol anxiety. Generally I reciprocate when possible and hope that's good enough.
The city is beautiful. There are actual, honest-to-God mountains on both the western and eastern horizons, and Mount Rainier looming off to the southeast. I've never lived anywhere with mountains on the horizon before. It looks like a matte painting: too perfect to be real. There are multiple bridged lakes, and seaplanes everywhere, and the landscape is so hilly that there's a vista around every damned corner, green building-studded hills rolling down to the lake or up into the sky. Right now the city is awash in greenery, like a tidal wave: houses vanish in it, roofs are covered in it. Sometimes it's like getting swallowed alive by a hungry vegetable blob.
I'd also like to mention that the average temperature in Seattle in July is sixty-five degrees. This June has been a little cooler than normal, actually--highs in the mid-sixties, lows in the mid-forties--and while it does rain a bit, it doesn't rain nearly as much as people think. In the winter, sure. This is a temperate rainforest, after all. Seattle benefits from its own tiny microclimate where the weather rolls in from the south and away to the north. The weather in Seattle has nothing to do with the weather anywhere else.
Some day it will rain monkeys here.
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| Sunday, June 15th, 2008
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9:11 pm
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| Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
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2:15 am
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Today, while picking up a few things at the drugstore, I abruptly realized that the girl who was wandering the nearby aisles talking on her cell phone was also crying hysterically.
o/~ Awk-waard~ o/~
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| Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
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1:02 pm
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| Monday, June 9th, 2008
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12:50 am
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 The giraffe, it did not think much of Boyfriend's handful of sticks.
So we went to the Woodland Park Zoo today, since it was nice out, and wandered around taking bad pictures of the animals. We got to feed giraffes, which was awesome, and got attacked by hungry budgies, which was awesome, and then I got mooned by a colobus monkey and got all silly over a baby gorilla. Also, there were butterflies.
You can see the rest of my pictures over at my Flickr: Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle, WA, June 8, 2008
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| Sunday, May 25th, 2008
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9:47 pm
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Re: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull:
By the numbers, yes, but they were pretty sweet numbers--and my inner twelve-year-old is squealing in glee. (Also, how stoked am I that they brought Marian back?)
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| Monday, May 19th, 2008
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10:32 pm - it's subliminal!
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| Friday, May 16th, 2008
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3:32 pm - WOOOOOOO
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The house in Ohio has been sold, baby, and at a thoroughly decent price for this soft, collapsing market. Officially closed on it this morning and washed our hands of it.
That means that the only thing still tying us to Ohio is our cell phone numbers, and we'll change those over fairly soon.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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| Monday, May 5th, 2008
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1:58 pm
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Re: Iron Man:
Yes, actually, that was quite a lot of fun, despite the villain of the piece having all the depth and personality of a piece of typing paper, and both things were due pretty much entirely to how much depth and personality got lavished on Tony Stark--I WANT TO SQUEEZE HIM.
I-I think that's the first movie I've seen since... August? And yes, I stayed past the credits and then got squee on everything. Also I totally teared up during the preview for the new Indiana Jones movie. I don't even care if it's probably going to suck by the numbers. Iconic movie themes make me go all A BLOO BLOO BLOO.
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| Sunday, May 4th, 2008
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3:10 am - not that I'm bitter!
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