I just realized - why would someone like Ky Kiske ever choose monarchy over democracy, especially if he was the one being put in charge (absolute power corrupts absolutely - but it rocks absolutely too).

Seriously, his whole thing is humanity needing to improve, truth and justice blah blah. Why in the hell would he think a monarchy is the right way to get there? I can see if things destabilize or something and he takes over as a temporary stopgap, but he'd be really uncomfortable with it.

Of course, the country would be happy having him there and that temporary stopgap would start stretching...

but yeah. No. Taking Sin, taking pretty princess Ky. Leaving the rest of the mess where it is.

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Sin: I want pie.
Ky: I have to work.
Sin: All in favor of pie now.
*Sol and Sin raise hands*
Sin: All opposed?
*Ky raises hand, scowling*

twenty seconds later...

Sol with Ky slung over a shoulder: Hey, You're the one who thought he should learn about democracy. I'm the one who said he could get along fine with growling and obscene hand gestures.

$240 worth of pudding.

Aw. Yeah.

"Apparantly the plot is supposed to tie the Star Wars prequel trilogy to the original series which raises the obvious question 'Why would we want to do this terrible thing?'"

Oh Yahtzee, never change.

Why do we hate George Lucas even more in terms of videogames? Here's a word for you: Loom.

Need some more words? Full Throttle. Maniac Mansion. The Secret of Monkey Island. Grim Fan-fucking-dango.

The games we used to get before he started with what really should have been the first sign that the glory days were over.

So I was looking through the local free paper and they were discussing jewelry, and a somewhat interesting necklace they considered a 'splurge' at $795 dollars.

Yeah that's a little above my splurge range, but then I started thinking - hey, what IS the average splurge for people?

So yeah, splurges. What's the upper limit you'll pay for things on a regular basis? Feel free to comment anonymously if it bothers you. I'll put up mine - note: my ridiculous uber-splurges are all about the artbooks. I've happily shelled out $100+ for a Range Murata collection.

How much would you splurge on the following? Say, to treat yourself or for a special occasion?

Meal for two (no drinks) - $150.00 (this would be the steakhouse I've been meaning to hit up. Calves' brains and marrow and oxtail, oh my.)
Jewelry - $100.00
Shoes - $150 (Dr. Martens only.)
Really super fancy piece of designer clothing - $400 (I have considered a pair of New Rock boots.)
Every once in a while splurge - $50 bucks on assorted books.

So yeah, how do you treat yourself? I don't do makeup, or hair treatments, but if you do feel free to add in comments.

Today, except for a bit of consciousness in the afternoon to try to poke at things for class that absolutely have to get done, I spent the entire day sleeping. I have a wicked cold.

Sorry if I missed anything. Hopefully I will be among the living soon.

Does anyone else think the newest Final Fantasy is going to almost universally blow goats?

I haven't even seen the game and I'm already bored by it, and unlike Yahtzee I've got a decade-and-a-half hard-on for the JRPG standard. Give me a silver haired thing with an impossible weapon and I'm there with bells on. (Note: except the FF7 bootlegs. But that should be obvious.)

It still looks absolutely unimpressive, and the more time that passes and the less there is to see makes me think we're either looking at The Spirits Within 2 (which only blew as hard as it did because they forgot to include actual dialogue) or they will or already have diverted funding to Kingdom Hearts eleventy-billion Money Making Machine 9000X.

Dear Stomach.

Please stop trying to kill me. We can work this out. I swear I will eat some damn broccoli.

Love.
Twig

P.S. HURRRRRRRGH.

Apologies for the poor picture quality, I can't find a decent light source in the house. This is the first finished project I've done from Britain's No. 1. Cross-Stitcher Magazine. The chart itself is in irrecovable tatters, or I'd just take a picture of that. This is the largest project I've done (11x17 frame) as well as the first with beads and fractionals. It is a picture frame, you can see the light blue stitches for the outside and inside of the frame dimensions - those will be removed when it's time to put the backing on.

I did this for a co-worker who has two small girls.

Irony 1: 25 intermediate hours my ass.

I am too polite to go into Irony 2 in public. If you know me, it won't be all that surprising.

( Detail pics and full frame view underneath cut )

Happy Birthday velithya!!!!!!

I hope it was a good one : )

Ummm... stitching on high-quality 18 ct Aida is kind of... lush. : 3

(Yes, this is what I do at 1 a.m. on my Saturdays. Fuck right off.)

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Edit: NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!!!

Double edit: OH IT GETS BETTER. Erwin Stoff is the executive producer. Erwin Stoff has or will produce: The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Lake House, Constantine, A Scanner Darkly, Sweet November, The Replacements, The Matrix, The Devil's Advocate, Feeling Minnesota, Chain Reaction, Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey.

WHAT DO ALL OF THESE MOVIES HAVE IN COMMON.

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"So yeah, think of Ky as Cyclops, and Sol as Wolverine, and you pretty much have the fandom. Especially if you take the worst views of both."

Oh lord. Lord, WEWY buries me in plot details while Guilty Gear is a flat, desolate plain with a lone tumbleweed drifting by (especially because everything past X2 is getting my patented 'Crisis Core' ignoring process).

Oh fandom. I was going to leave you behind. I was going to be a Real Author(tm)! I was going to have fortune fame respect name recognition books I could throw at Christopher Paolini! Hardcover books! Pale Sky is frigging huge, I could certainly dent his skull.

... and for a thematic closer, here's an old favorite: Cyclops being pooed on by a flying ass.

why have i never scanned any Utena stuff for icons?



I did this one on a mini Moleskine instead of the larger one, so I don't think it's quite as clear. Also, couldn't get the picture out just right. Still.

"Well, I'm a casual gamer."
"I thought Lord of the Rings was pretty cool."
"I read one of those official tie-in books for Halo once."

"FANGIRLS! WHAT IS YOUR PROFESSION?!"

"FAP! FAP! FAP!"

Your moment of Zen, courtesy of Go Fug Yourself.

STASTICALLY SAFER THAN DRIVING. D'ARRRRRRRR.

Go State!

Fun fact: At the corner of Mass Ave and Ellery Street, where the Bowl & Board used to be, someone has mosaiced a Mega Man onto the bottom of the utility pole facing street side.

I will take a picture if I remember to.

25 ponies for the 25th anniversary of My Little Pony here. Some of these are wicked, wicked cool.

If the creators of MLP (Hasbro?) had any brains, they'd release pony blanks just like Munnys and Quees. I sure would buy at least one. (Plastic molded wings, not those guaranteed-to-break Flutter Pony things)

Max Schumacher: It's too late, Diana. There's nothing left in you that I can live with. You're one of Howard's humanoids. If I stay with you, I'll be destroyed. Like Howard Beale was destroyed. Like Laureen Hobbs was destroyed. Like everything you and the institution of television touch is destroyed. You're television incarnate, Diana: Indifferent to suffering; insensitive to joy. All of life is reduced to the common rubble of banality. War, murder, death are all the same to you as bottles of beer. And the daily business of life is a corrupt comedy. You even shatter the sensations of time and space into split seconds and instant replays. You're madness, Diana. Virulent madness. And everything you touch dies with you. But not me. Not as long as I can feel pleasure, and pain... and love.

-Network

(Note: I highly reccommend this movie. On my more cynical days, I think the internet's got this down to a science.)

Had a Moleskine. Bought a set of embossing tools. Avoided work.

When I say "we're going to go tailgate before the big game," do you know what I'm talking about?

(I want to see if this is at all a local thing, like euchre.)