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Summarise/give vague clues to 10 of your fandoms in one sentence, then see who on your friendslist can guess each fandom.
Many of these are hopelessly obscure, and I could have written ten more. Maybe another time.
1. The only fandom that makes me wish we really did have a Flat Earth. - Discworld. Guessed by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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2. Zombies; LOTS of zombies; like, huge amounts of them... also an epic tale about finding your place in the world, but mainly zombies.
3. Giant gay men, crossdressing, tentacle porn, bestiality, giant robots, mad scientists, zombies, alien viruses: it's the fandom that has everything, and most of it is canon. - FFVII, crack in a hat. Guessed byfirefly99
4. But I don't liiiike that canon!...Oh well, you can ignore the bits you don't like, right? - Star Wars. Oh, space you, EU haters. Matthew Stover is so much smarter than you anyway. Guessed byfirefly99
5. A dude, a chick, an old guy and a head voice; they - er - Prince of Persia. Who needs to fight crime when you can fight TIME? ...I'll be over here now.squeemu
6. The witty cynic wittily says a cynical witticism, cynically, and then steals things. - Thief. "Heh! A throne room. How pretentious." Garrett, you lovable bastard. Guessed bysqueemu
7. Despite what you may have heard, this is not Trigun. - Firefly/Serenity. Yeah, apparently Joss stole everything from Trigun. He said so himself. Every scene ever. Guessed bysqueemu
8. ...Yeah, I don't think therapy is going to fix that. - Silent Hill 2, and mainly poor James. Don't worry, the fangirls still love you. Guessed byrionaleonhart
9. Some stuff happens, then some more stuff happens, and then some other stuff happens, and then the world blows up, but nobody likes that one. - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and yes, I would be one of the people who pretends that Mostly Harmless never happened. Guessed byblue_oceandeep
10. It's in a perfectly ordinary school with some perfectly ordinary students and yet it is the crackiest thing I've ever seen in my life. - Azumanga Daioh, prozac for the soul. Guessed bysqueemu
ETA: You know what? Just for fun, here's some more. I should be revising and I need to take my mind off horrible impending exams. Think of them as bonus fandoms.
11. This fandom taught me more about the Cold War than my entire Year 11 Modern History unit. - MGS3. I'm assuming they left out the man covered in bees. Guessed byfirefly99
12. Man, when they say not to touch that button that's labelled 'press this for interdimensional alien invasion', they mean do not touch the button that's labelled 'press this for interdimensional alien invasion'...
13. He doesn't mope, he broods; way too stylish to mope. - Neil Gaiman's Sandman. Well, he has a gigantic gothic castle and dumping rain and a trenchcoat at will - do you have that when you brood? Guessed byblue_oceandeep
14. "CHRIST, IS ANYONE IN THIS DAMN WORLD ACTUALLY ALIVE?" - FFX. Ah, Seymour, how I cheered when I finally killed you properly. Guessed byfirefly99
15. Cyborg zombies. - Hungry City Chronicles. Obviously. Guessed bysqueemu
Summarise/give vague clues to 10 of your fandoms in one sentence, then see who on your friendslist can guess each fandom.
Many of these are hopelessly obscure, and I could have written ten more. Maybe another time.
1. The only fandom that makes me wish we really did have a Flat Earth. - Discworld. Guessed by
rionaleonhart2. Zombies; LOTS of zombies; like, huge amounts of them... also an epic tale about finding your place in the world, but mainly zombies.
3. Giant gay men, crossdressing, tentacle porn, bestiality, giant robots, mad scientists, zombies, alien viruses: it's the fandom that has everything, and most of it is canon. - FFVII, crack in a hat. Guessed by
firefly994. But I don't liiiike that canon!...Oh well, you can ignore the bits you don't like, right? - Star Wars. Oh, space you, EU haters. Matthew Stover is so much smarter than you anyway. Guessed by
firefly995. A dude, a chick, an old guy and a head voice; they - er - Prince of Persia. Who needs to fight crime when you can fight TIME? ...I'll be over here now.
squeemu6. The witty cynic wittily says a cynical witticism, cynically, and then steals things. - Thief. "Heh! A throne room. How pretentious." Garrett, you lovable bastard. Guessed by
squeemu7. Despite what you may have heard, this is not Trigun. - Firefly/Serenity. Yeah, apparently Joss stole everything from Trigun. He said so himself. Every scene ever. Guessed by
squeemu8. ...Yeah, I don't think therapy is going to fix that. - Silent Hill 2, and mainly poor James. Don't worry, the fangirls still love you. Guessed by
rionaleonhart9. Some stuff happens, then some more stuff happens, and then some other stuff happens, and then the world blows up, but nobody likes that one. - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and yes, I would be one of the people who pretends that Mostly Harmless never happened. Guessed by
blue_oceandeep 10. It's in a perfectly ordinary school with some perfectly ordinary students and yet it is the crackiest thing I've ever seen in my life. - Azumanga Daioh, prozac for the soul. Guessed by
squeemuETA: You know what? Just for fun, here's some more. I should be revising and I need to take my mind off horrible impending exams. Think of them as bonus fandoms.
11. This fandom taught me more about the Cold War than my entire Year 11 Modern History unit. - MGS3. I'm assuming they left out the man covered in bees. Guessed by
firefly9912. Man, when they say not to touch that button that's labelled 'press this for interdimensional alien invasion', they mean do not touch the button that's labelled 'press this for interdimensional alien invasion'...
13. He doesn't mope, he broods; way too stylish to mope. - Neil Gaiman's Sandman. Well, he has a gigantic gothic castle and dumping rain and a trenchcoat at will - do you have that when you brood? Guessed by
blue_oceandeep14. "CHRIST, IS ANYONE IN THIS DAMN WORLD ACTUALLY ALIVE?" - FFX. Ah, Seymour, how I cheered when I finally killed you properly. Guessed by
firefly9915. Cyborg zombies. - Hungry City Chronicles. Obviously. Guessed by
squeemu
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Date: 2006-11-18 10:36 am (UTC)…I'm really not! Honest! I just had that mental image and thought it was kind of funny! I'm not assigned sentience to the comment or anything, I just like random destruction…!Um. Oh, as if throwing your monitor out the window will protect you from the Cradle. It will in about the same way that moving away from Silent Hill means you escape it. The Cradle has powers, man. Powers. The guy who designed it really likes Silent Hill, actually, and it shows. …And now I'm going to start heeing at your terror again; excuse me. Hee. Heeeeee.
Holy crap. That must have filled you with rage on the scale of Old Testament God. I once accidentally saved over my nearly complete FF7 game, although I didn't have all the limit breaks or a golden chocobo – how much effort do those guys require to get? Like, a lot? (Aww, poor Cait Sith. Everybody hates him and then that had to happen.) I think I decided…well, he's very resourceful, but police these days are harder to bribe and usually not drunk on the job or likely to give up looking for him because he run around a corner. I think, if he was in this day and age, he'd be astonished by the sheer amount of light everywhere. And you stand out more against white walls than stone, which would be a problem. – I am so not getting plotbunnies from this, dammit, brain. You've already got Saltrust languishing unfinished. (Hoodie=hood. Which he wears more or less all the time and is the reason why you never see his face in the first two games.) Guns can be silenced! And yeah, I get the feeling he disapproves of just going in killing everybody. It's messy. Unprofessional. And, yes, often noisy. Which is not to say he's a pacifist by any means. (Don't you just love how Snake never shuts up about that one gun and just goes on and on and on while EVA obviously couldn't care less?)
When I play MGS3, I keep meaning to try all these neat things and then I get caught up in the plot. Like running forward to get into that first cut-scene with the Boss after she defects when I meant to hang around trying to catch things. Damn you Kojima. Yes, Otacon. That Hal. The parrot belongs to Emma, his long estranged step-sister. I'm getting a little depressed just thinking about it. It's horrible and beautiful for all that it involves a parrot and some slightly hammy sobbing on the part of the voice actor.
I've seen the fourth season! It remains brilliant, in my opinion, and includes Cox and Kelso teaming up to destroy someone's faith in humanity. (I cannot understand why I continue to love the entire cast of Scrubs in spite of the fact that a fair few of them are horrible people.)
I adore that character. He's a violent and smart-assed dork. The whole novel is very dark and awesome and scary and apparently Apocalypse Now with Jedi. (Also it continues the ongoing theme of Mace's obsession with parties.) I asked my brother about fragging and he says the first 'official' use was in Doom, but I've never heard of the Vietnam thing (although it sounds fairly horrible – imagine being the victim. Not only would you be torn to shreds, you'd have the knowledge that nobody liked you). Interesting. My Dad's a veteran, so maybe I'll ask him about it. 'Frag grenades' I know is very common, right up to being included in a whole bunch of games, books and movies, and 'gibbing' I've also heard before. Perhaps I will make my living off researching obscure gamer slang.
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Date: 2006-11-18 10:36 am (UTC)ISN'T IT THOUGH? Ah, the Pagans. They're a bit less creepy in the third game because of the events in the first and second, but they're still a whole whack of crazy, and very fond of human sacrifice. Also, heh, heh heh, healthy religion. Thief. Heh heh heh. To balance out the crazy Pagans, have a weirdo Hammer verse. "Before death came, the liars were made to feast upon the hands of the thieves, and the thieves were made to ingest the tongues of their liar brothers, and we praised the Master Builder for his judgments." The two deities are the Trickster and the Builder. One represents chaos, animals, er….hedonism, and generally living free of technology; the other represents order, machines, piety and striving for precision and correctness in one's works. And both factions of their worshippers are nuts in their own special ways. (I'm pretty sure they both really exist, too, or at least the Trickster does.)
Hee hee, Toothpick Man! I am going to be amused by him now. And if I ever get to play that game, I will be amused by your suggested backstory for him. Hee. Toothpick. Hee.
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Date: 2006-11-19 08:24 am (UTC)Man, if I could have, there would have been locusts and floods storming the world of FFVII. ...Although, uh, I guess the Weapons worked pretty well, too. And you never got the golden chocobo?! That was, like, my favourite part. I stayed up an entire night, once, racing chocobos. And breeding them. And naming their young. (I liked the black ones the best, even if they didn't have all the super cool powers the golden ones did. This might have had to do with Joe and Teioh, I swear they cheated. It's okay, though, because I cheated too. Hooray for extra stamina!) But, um, yeah. It does take a lot of work, especially if you don't already know what you're doing and using the special materia that gets you 99 items of everything. My first playthrough, I was definitely one of those people who hated Cait Sith. BETRAYAL! GRAR. But then I replayed it and went, "GRA-- oh. Oh! Hee." Really, the only thing I don't like about him now is that his accent randomly changes halfway through, when he gets his new model in. It's rather distracting.
Man, I would so encourage you to write modern!Garrett and/or transplanted!Garrett, except I would feel guilty about it because I haven't played the game yet. And would not actually be able to read it. Also, hee! regarding giving up looking for him just because he ran around the corner and the amount of light. (OH MAN THAT REMINDS ME -- I was playing Shadowrun a bit ago and when I attacked the Lone Star patrol to see what would happen, of course they came after me. So I ran into the next screen, because they never follow you there, and it just happened to be the area with Lone Star HQ, so I went in there just for the heck of it. And then the place went into lockdown mode and I was arrested and fined and placed in a holding cell for a few days! THEY ACTUALLY REMEMBERED THAT I WAS A WANTED CRIMINAL OMG FLAIL I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS JUST A SEGA GENESIS GAME.)
I randomly looked up hoodie on Wikipedia too, just to make sure I had the right item of clothing in mind (I did), and it claimed that 80% of the people who buy them are males. WHAT. I LOVE HOODIES! Although apparently almost every anti-cultural sub-culture has adopted their use at one point or another, so. Guns can be silenced, but it's very expensive! And also I'm pretty sure it's still audible to people who are close by. I mean, if you were in room that wasn't very close, you probably wouldn't be able to hear it, but if it was a block or so away, I think it's still audible. (PLEASE NOTE I have not actually heard one myself, this is just what I've heard other people say.) Also I don't think I silenced pistol would fit in a holster very well. I -- I HAVE NOT SPENT TOO MUCH TIME THINKING ABOUT THIS! Hee, messy and unprofessional. (So much love for that scene. And I love how EVA is all trying to, like, seduce him or something -- IT IS CALLED A ZIPPER, OR MAYBE BUTTONS, PLEASE USE IT KTHX -- and he's like, this gun is so awesome. And she's like, "Boobs!" (ala your icon) and he's like, "MAN CUTSOM M1911A1!" And she's like, even Raikov pays more attention to me, and he's like, "Huh?")
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Date: 2006-11-19 08:25 am (UTC)Holy crap, that person must have really deserved to have their faith in humanity broken. ...oh God, it's not JD, is it? WAIT DON'T TELL ME I DON'T WANT TO KNOW. LA LA LA SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE. (I think I love a lot of them because they are horrible people. I even like Kelso, and that's really saying something. And Jordan, oh man. Dr. Cox and Jordan's relationship is wonderful, and by wonderful I mean completely awful.)
Man! I'm tempted to check this book out, now. I tried reading some Star Wars books one time -- I think it may have been the one(s?) where Chewey gets killed by a moon falling on him, but I just kept getting distracted by the fact that R2D2 and C3PO were spelled out. Artoo Detoo and ...See Threepio? (Mace has an obsession with parties? I -- like, going to them and actually partying? Or breaking them up? Or hosting them? I have not heard anything about this. I require enlightenment!) Also, that would be an awesome job, researching gaming slang. ...It looks like it's used in non-gaming situations too, which makes a lot of sense. Although I obviously don't know how widespread the usage is. I also found this: A common U.S. Military procedure for the fragmentation grenade, unless stealth is of the essence, is to yell "frag out" to indicate that a fragmentation grenade has been dispatched.
Man, totally, it made me think of Firefly too. And yeah, actually, I'm pretty amazed with a lot of their predictions for the future. From what I've heard, a lot of them are actually currently happening, like a trend towards private security instead of a government-regulated police force. And, of course, the whole megacorps thing. And DUDE, that's really bizarre with the World Trade Centre. I wonder if the game was out by the time it happened? I remember there was a big fuss about it when the Spider-man movie came out.
THANKS, HAMMER, FOR PROVIDING THAT NICE SOLID BALANCE SOCIETY NEEDED SO BADLY. I really like their name, though -- Hammer sounds very much like an organized religion gone a bit extreme. (Oh man, at first I thought you meant, like, the cults actually existed in the real world and I was going to be very worried. But you meant that the gods actually exist in the game right? Right? There are enough crazies out there as it is! Just look at all of the Simpson's quoters!)
Hee! I am way too happy about having converted you over to Toothpick Man amusement. (I believe Baco and I were talking about this at one point and she mentioned that toothpicks were probably one of the few things his corporation gave the employers for free. I can just picture him stealing boxes of them out of spite and mischief.)
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Date: 2006-11-19 12:56 pm (UTC)…Aren't there already locusts? Or at least skeletons on motorcycles. Man, if God had sent a plague of motorcyclin' skeletons on Egypt, the Bible could well have been the most kick-ass book ever. And I never did get the golden chocobo! I was, by that point, kind of sick of the game just tossing new and bizarre minigames at me (even though normally I adore minigames – bitchslapping contest? SIGN ME UP MAN) and I wanted to go beat up Sephiroth. Also, it seemed very time consuming and somewhat pointless and again I had been informed that after getting the Ultimate Anything, you will use it once and then never use it again. It was only my first time through. My second run-through is in Nibelheim right now, mountain climbing. …What special materia? And Cait Sith – I thought he was a bit silly as a character until I found what he really was, which is even sillier, and then I decided I liked him. Er, this has a lot to do with
I would absolutely love to write about modern/transplanted!Garrett, but every time I try to write fic about him I feel like he's standing over my shoulder pointing out every thing I am doing wrong with his characterization with devastating cynicism and incisive intellect. He's both a very demanding muse and one that is completely impossible to please. Also, I feel intimidated by the rest of the fandom. They are quite insane. (Also, my brother just informed me that we do actually have an emulated version of Shadowrun from Sega Genesis. We really, really do. All we have to do is figure out how to get it from his computer to ours. SO I might get to play it after all! Squeee!)
Most statistics are made up on the spot! Forfty percent of people know that! I like them and my sister likes them so clearly we totally disprove it. Ah, but how expensive? Clearly a guy who'd go to the trouble to stick an aiming sight on his bow would consider cost a minor obstacle…! Well, no, actually. He considers it a big obstacle. Er. The audible thing would be a big problem, so, we have made this clear: Garrett wouldn't like guns! Probably. I was about to ask if you could have water bullets and then I remembered water pistols and then I pictured him with a water pistol and am now grinning idiotically. Also, a water pistol would be totally useless since most people no longer use flaming torches, so all he'd have to do would be unscrew the lightbulb and fling it out the window – or, er, hit the switch. (Me and random destruction.) Messy and unprofessional becomes even more amusing when you remember I spend a lot of time in my missions throwing things at people's heads and dousing them with water arrows and then knocking them out and making giant unconscious body piles, then picturing the scene when they wake up and giggling. (Oh, Snake. You and that gun. And I can't remember – is it Snake or Sigint who decides to go on about it for even longer when you call up your support team? I remember Snake, but I'm not sure.)
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Date: 2006-11-19 12:57 pm (UTC)The thing is, they don't at all! They're just doing it out of spite because they think no one should be happy. I mean, really, boys, that's a bit asshole-ish even for you two. (I love Jordon! She totally bitchslaps Cox and when the two of them snark it is guaranteed hilarity.)
That's the New Jedi Order. The quality is a bit – up and down for that series. And ooh, if you're gonna be reading EU novels you'll have to get used to that. Not in Shatterpoint, though. That's just full of badassery (and creepiness and mindscrew and a metric ass-load of foreshadowing that makes my skin crawl). (He's doesn't exactly have an obsession with parties, it's just – he seems to mention them often. He says it in Attack of the Clones, "This party's over," he was going to say it again in the Clone Wars cartoon, and then in Shatterpoint he says "I wasn't expecting a party." I really do suspect that's an injoke on the part of Matthew Stover. He's done it before.)
There was…? What about? I don't really remember the Wold Trade Centre in that movie – was it in the background or something? And I think it was published quite a time before the attacks, so nobody spotted it for a while. It's a freaky coincidence, though.
That's actually what they are! A lot like old-school Christianity in the days of the Crusades and stuff. Also, they like hammers. They use them a lot. Often for smiting! (Oh! Uh, oops. Re-reading, I really should have rephrased that. And yes, I meant the gods actually do exist in the game universe. Right up to the fact that it is possible to kill them.)
Hee! I – hee! That's way too amusing. I really want to play it now.
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Date: 2006-11-22 01:37 am (UTC)Skeletons on motorcycles are like locusts. Although I, uh, I don't really remember them in FFVII ever. I don't doubt that the game had them, though. If they could think of anything on crack, it'd go in the game. Man. Man. I would so read that version of the Bible. Sometimes needs to talk to Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett about this idea. And man, yeah, I hate when games keep throwing mandatory minigames at you. Dark Cloud 2 (I think it's called Dark Chronicle outside of the US) did that all the time until I gave up and threw it out the window after, like, forty hours of gameplay. When I did the golden chocobo thing, though, it was right before I had to go fight Sephiroth, and I was basically trying to delay it as long as I could. I was terrified of that final battle, but of course by that point I'd leveled up liek woah and pretty much kicked his ass. The special materia is called "W-Item materia", you find it at the end of the 2nd disc, in the Midgar subway tunnels. (I think you have to just keep running to the bottom of the screen for a really long time. It's kind of cool, though, because you get to talk to various other people who aren't in your party.) ANYWAY. There's a glitch with the materia, so:
(Thanks, gamefaqs!)
You know, I don't think I'd want to do anything where it felt like Garrett was standing over my shoulder. Seems like that would just be begging for trouble. Maybe if you got him really drunk one day so he'd leave you alone? Also! You could totally write it and then just post it here, and leave the rest of the fandom out! You know you want to! (!!! OH MAN! I hope you get to! Although, yes, I am completely terrified that you'll start playing and go, THIS IS BORING, WHERE IS THE ADVENTURE?! It starts out a little slow, if memory serves. I, uh, don't really notice it anymore because I love the game too much to get bored by it, but. If you play it you have to talk about it.)
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Date: 2006-11-22 01:37 am (UTC)make up numbers on the spotdo what you tell them if you have a gun aimed at their head. Hee! Water pistols! Maybe he could have one that looked like a real gun. Er, but you have a very good point about lightbulbs. (Can you imagine if he accidentally through it on some passers-by outside the window? So many confused looks as to why someone was throwing perfectly good lightbulbs out the window.) I have a suspicion I'll be making giant body piles too. (I can't remember! Sigint sure can go on about things, though. Have you tried talking to him in the "Naked" camouflage?)Hee hee! "Dammit, Paramedic! It's poisonous!" Oh, Snake. Heart. I just love his voice acting. And those mushrooms you can eat that recharges his batteries, based solely on the fact that Snake thinks they are? I don't remember how long Paramedic spends trying to convince him it won't work.
Oh dear. Thank god they don't team up too often, at least, not in the first three seasons. The world would just never recover. (I love their relationship so much. It's such an awful one, full of last ones and "meaningless" sex and I don't think they ever actually stopped being married, no matter what the divorce papers say.)
I just want to know why they would decide to spell it all out. I mean, it is clearly supposed to be a letter and number combination. Another book to add to my list! I'm actually on a non-fiction kick at the moment, though, plus I have fifty bajillion text book chapters I need to read, so it might be awhile. It seems like I never have time to read anymore. STUPID SCHOOL. (I love it when authors put injokes into their books. Keep it up, Mr. Stover! KEEP IT UP.)
There was apparently a scene where Spider-Man was going to be webbing his way across NYC, using the World Trade Centre as one of his anchor-points (or whatever), and they were like, OMG NOW IT IS GONE, HORRIBLE TRAUMA FOR MOVIE AUDIENCES EVERYWHERE and removed it. I hope the Deus Ex guys didn't get questioned by the FBI or anything for the freaky coincidence.
You know, I've seen a lot of fictional religions that are all about the order using hammers as symbols. Or, um, maybe I'm just thinking about a parody of the communist symbol. I can keep the two straight, honest! (I -- oh dear. I bet the cults aren't too pleased about that. DO NOT TELL ME, THOUGH! I want to see it for myself, once I actually play the game! Assuming I don't chicken out at the last minute. Killing gods is serious business, yo.)
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Date: 2006-11-24 03:11 am (UTC)Much like locusts, in that I'm fairly certain they had wings. They're outside Midgar, I think. When I saw them, I had to put down the controller and walk away for a bit so my brain could cool down. Evil cottages! Seed clouds! Fighting frogs! Mushrooms! A DEMON WALL! I love the enemies in that game. They make absolutely no sense. I would contact Gaiman and Pratchett to write everything in the world, especially cracked-out bibles. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if one of them hadn't already done something similar. That Gaiman, wot a weirdo. I think my favourite minigame ever was the fish-catching one in Jak and Daxter, I spent a lot of time trying to do it without missing a single fish. But I prefer when there's just a few, and they're a little more than just "hee look whut we did its a hole new gaime!" when it is in fact very pointless. I will have to find that materia and CHEAT THE DAYLIGHTS OUT OF IT! …Although that could be a while. Man, those FF guys like their diamond-tough sidequests, don't they? (ARGH DARK AEONS.) But! I did beat Ultimate Weapon, The Monster With The Incredible Misnomer! It was fun zooming around crashing into him and listening to Cid swearing.
Get him drunk! That could work! But I get the feeling that the peace and quiet wouldn't be worth hungover Garrett the next day. The sheer weight of surliness could shatter the world. But if I posted it here no one would know what I was going on about! Though they would probably read it anyway, if I myself am any indication. The fandom is – well, it seems to hold people like me in utter contempt, because I actually like Deadly Shadows on Xbox and haven't played the first two. I get the feeling that they all regard console gamers as uniformly idiots. …I don't know. There's lots and lots of lore behind Thief, and I have no idea how good a handle I have on it. (Hey, Thief starts out really slow! And remains kind of slow. I don't think it would bother me that much unless it scripted your every movement or something equally irritating – it's not as though it has really annoying voice acting or anything. I will of course rave/curse as need be. You do remember that I never shut up, right?)
Indeed! I wonder who works these things out. They must be very smart! …I don’t think Garrett bluffs. He's far too notorious to ever convince anyone that he had no idea these priceless objects weren't his, oh and the black clothing…? Um…black is very slimming…? But the problem is; what would he use it for? He's not likely to find any flaming torches, which is why the water arrows are so useful. (Hee! What, you haven't had peculiar things fall from the sky onto your head? It'd probably be better than the alternative in medieval-land.) Don't forget to throw flasks of oil at people's feet! (YES. Oh man, that was the best conversation ever. And it's the only time Snake has ever laughed about something, too.)
(I think I need a Thief icon.)
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Date: 2006-11-24 03:12 am (UTC)They would suck all happiness and joy from the earth if they did. (And yet, I get the feeling that they're the only people for each other, sort of, like equals, at least in the sense that if they marry they'd make two people miserable instead of four. And oh…! The papers! Eh heh. Snape kills Dumbledore.)
I have no idea! I think Lucas did, and obviously Lucas is Law, so they're stuck with it. I think it's sort of like how you can't say 2 or 12, it has to be two or twelve. Only they spell out the letters as well. That is all right! It's a mean, mean book, though. It will hurt your heart. And it's gory, too. (He is one of the awesomest people ever. I read an interview and he talked about how he hates it when the heroes kill the villain because the villain thinks differently to them; there's hardly anyone truly evil or good in his books. Jerkish, yeah, amoral, yeah, but they always have a reason. Except in his novelisation of Revenge of the Sith, but then he had to write Palpatine.)
That is completely ridiculous – do they think people will spasm and die from the sight of it? Although, I'm Australian, maybe I don't understand. I don't think they were. The authorities seem to be more worried about the fact that children will go on killing sprees after doing so in a game. Because, you know, I have cybernetic upgrades and nine hundred kilograms of weaponry hidden in my pants and a health bar at the bottom of my view.
Really? Example me! I'm intrigued. The Thief dudes got inspiration from lots of places. (But you'll be spoiled anyway if you play the third game! *flails* They really aren't. But they're not cults! The Hammers especially are a significant power in the city, right up to being more feared by the criminal element than the City Watch. And, wot, do you think Garrett would actually go up against a god, face to face-equivalent, and win? Is it as serious as the Internet?)
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Date: 2006-11-27 01:49 am (UTC)Nooooooo, Shadowrun rom!OMG YOU HAVE THE SHADOWRUN ROM!!! I will take it as a good sign that you already have the Predator, because it's fragging expensive at first! Have you done any ghoul runs yet? How is your taste in music lame?You like Shadowrun music, that is good enough for me!I like pretty much everything ever, with the exception of rap and really hardcore heavy metal. I, um, I've never seen Big Brother, so I have no idea what I think about it, but I think it's alright if it was just five minutes worth. Your rep isn't tainted. (I am shamed to admit I haven't read/watched anything by Jhonen. Well, except for a Christmas episode of Invader Zim, which I loved, but nothing else. And with the eye candy I only meant that I know people who refuse to play a video game unless it is very pretty, which kind of annoys me, because there are terrific games out there that are very ugly. I think I've seen one lemonade stand, in all my years of existence. So, um, not very many people, apparently!)It's true! Both the skeletons and the locusts have an exoskeleton and wings! Oh man, I need to replay FFVII again sometime soon. I always forget everything about it two months after I play it. Those frogs were really awesome, though. And the Tonberries! I hated those metal egg things, though, that kept spewing out their young. Took me forever to beat them! They could totally make an Appendix to Good Omens that would have cracked out Bible-bits. I would so buy a new copy just for that. And I actually got surprisingly addicted to Triple Triad, the card game from FFVIII. I blame the music, it was just so catchy! And the clapping. ...I am lame. And yeah, now that I think about it, FFVII did have an awful lot of mandatory mini-games. I don't really know why I noticed it before. And noooo kidding, about the sidequests. That one, with jumping the lightning in FFX? And the stupid chocobo racing in FFX, too, that took forever. I don't think I ever actually beat it, now that I think about it. I heart Cid! I think I beat Ultiamte Weapon, too, but I'm pretty sure I didn't beat any of the others. Or at least, not Ruby or Emerald. ARGH LKFDJASILK TENTACLES.
I would know! Although, um, I'd probably wait until after I'd played the game to read it. But you can be sure once I'm done, I'll start bugging you about it. And oh man, the fandom sounds a little bit... extremely pretentious. But anyway, if you posted it here, you wouldn't have to worry about the lore, and I wouldn't know anything about it either! We could be clueless together. (Good point! I -- I really want to play Thief. Two more weeks to go! Now that I know you're playing Shadowrun, I am going to have to try extremely hard not to ask you fifty bajillion questions on what you think about it. So, um, feel free to say anything. Also, I shall reply to your post once I am done with this comment!)
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Date: 2006-11-27 01:50 am (UTC)Yes. The Christmas episode of that season would be full of despair and snark. (Agreed! I think Dr. Cox, at least, should never be married to anyone else. And probably shouldn't be in another longterm relationship with anyone else, either. And I seriously doubt Jordan is very redeemable as well. And they actually seem to enjoy their arguments. STUPID SNAPE, STUPID DUMBLEDORE. Hopefully I'll get the fourth season for Christmas, although I'll still have the fifth to watch.)
Oh, Lucas. You so crazy. And I suppose it makes some amount of sense, just... four characters, versus a lot! (Oh man, now I really want to read his books. I love the ambiguous villain-people. Or at least the ones that aren't portrayed as OMG WE ARE SO EVIL! EVILEVILEVIL. That sounds awesome.)
I have no idea. It seemed pretty strange to me, too. I sort of have the open that, "Okay, yes, horrible tragedy, but WELCOME TO THE WORLD. It's time to take the kid-gloves off." ANYWAY. I have no explanation. I really hope they weren't! And, um, yeah, that does sound like something the authorities would be worried about. Also, I am cracking up about nine hundred kilograms of weaponry and a health bar.
There is a book by David Weber whose God of Order (and also of War) has a hammer as his symbol. I can't remember the actual names of anybody, though. And also, in the Dungeons and Dragons universe, there's some god of Good and Order who has a hammer. ...that's actually all I can think of off the top of my head, although it seems like there are more. Hmm. (Now that I know I am actually going to play it, I'm trying to remain as unspoiled as possible for the third game. ...I don't really care about the first and second ones, though, because I don't think I'll ever be able to play them. SIGH. They sound really awesome too. Stupid lack of supply. I -- no, not -- not really. Considering he can't face a guard and win, but -- YOU NEVER KNOW! The Internet is very serious, it's a toss up. Possibly killing gods while on the Internet?)
(I think I need a Thief icon too.)
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Date: 2006-11-27 07:34 am (UTC)I keep forgetting just how weird it is every time I leave it alone for a while. It's like, I remember you're chasing Sephiroth, I forgot you had to go around looking for Chocobos to catch one so you could ride it across the swamp while being chased by a giant snake and then have a bizarre conversation with the Turks about how much they are going to kill you even though they don't bother actually attacking. SO ODD. Also, AGH TONBERRIES. I first encountered those in FFX, and I pretty much reacted the way everyone else does – "Awww, it's so cute and slow! Couldn't possibly hurt m- why won't it die. Why won't – OH GOD THE PAIN!!!" Heeee. I think they did do one cracked out Bible-bit with Aziraphale and the sword. Don’t encourage them, Neil's already got me turning into a zombie with the recoloured and awesome-d up Sandman editions! Triple Triad, er. I despise RPG card games or sports across the board – Blitzball, Pazaak, Sphere Break...they just soak up time and also I tend to suck at them. I managed to lose my Ifrit card the third game I played. Please don't hurt me. I do like that they add to the believability, I just wish they weren't so annoying. AGH LIGHTNING AGH CHOCOBOS AGH BUTTERFLIES basically agh everything you have to do to get the Celestial Weapons, waaah. Although I did get Yuna's fully charged. 'Tis awesome.
Oh boy! Bugging! It is a little bit extremely pretentious, alas. The fact is, the first was released something like a decade ago (and sadly didn't sell as well as it should have), so the ones that are still around squeeing and discussing are mostly batshit insane. Yes! Clueless, much like Elliot and - spoiler. Drat. (YOU WILL OF COURSE STATE YOUR OPINIONS. Two weeks is far too long a time to have to wait for Stephen Russell's voice. I will clearly have to invent some manner of temporal displacement device, allowing you to travel forward to the time when you have the game, steal it from yourself, and return to your own time. You may ask the questions! As soon as I think I've gotten the hang of it, I will discuss it more.)
But there are hardly ever power outages, and he needs to pay the rent! I was thinking he'd have some kind of gadget that could knock out lights or – ooh. Or one of the first things he has to do would be knocking out the power of something? But that would attract attention. And now my brain is telling me he'd probably have to be a hacker or something, and I'm going, "...So basically, Shadowrun with stealth?" "SHUT UP," says my brain.
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Date: 2006-11-27 07:37 am (UTC)They would be the best Grinch Team ever, and for once there would be no Christmas that year. (I hope you do, too. It is just as awesome as the other two and involves a rather surprising amount or homoerotic subtext. Like, even more than usual, and for both genders.)
Hah! Lucas! Sense! Erm. Right. I'm honestly so used to it that I don't even notice it anymore, and also I can put up with a lot of asshattery from the EU novels ever since I read the YA series. God that was awful. It makes me cringe just thinking about it. (Oh, and he made me believe Anakin's fall to the Dark Side. There's a part from the RotS novel where he just has a snapshot of Anakin's state of being just after he wakes up and is now Vader-y. It made me cry about ANAKIN. I think I've it saved on my computer. It is so sad.)
I hate how they're using all these people's deaths as an excuse to cause more deaths. Ugh. It's angrifying about on par with trying to justify war with Christian ideals, because that is utter bullshit. As far as I'm concerned they're getting as bad as each other lately. Blah, must get Skittles. Anyway, one of the things I really wish they would invent is a pair of pants like Guybrush Threepwood's that you can fit anything in. Or a HEV suit like Gordon Freeman's that can apparently hold two pistols, two machine guns, his crossbow, his shotgun, his crowbar, his Gravity Gun, five grenades, antlion pherapods, an entire rocket launcher and three rockets, and enough ammunition for all of them without slowing him down or indeed hindering him in the slightest. Or Garrett's cloak that can carry his bow, his dagger, about a hundred arrows of various types, a dozen maps, fifteen flashbombs, five explosive mines, ten health potions, five oil flasks, five bottles of holy water, five gasbombs, and what can be estimated as at least fifteen thousand dollars worth of gold, jewels, art, statues and candlesticks and also lots of keys. Theories have been considered. Most involve inflatables.
War and Order, heh. That sounds about right. I kind of like the Hammers actually, for all that they're nuts. They're amusing to listen to. (Yay! The game endeavors to recount previous events a bit awkwardly, but it sort of makes sense. Erm. Would you like me to try and explain? SCREW YOU MICROSOFT! I could at least get a second-hand copy or something but noooo, you had to go and make Windows Thhhbbbpp incompatible with everything! Rrr. I'm trying to see if it's possible to get a program which lets you run old games on Thhhbbbpp (which I will keep calling it now); they're apparently not that huge by today's standards. YOU NEVER DO. It's pretty funny what happens with that, actually. It's a spoiler for the first game though. Oooh. An internet god. Are they like normal gods only nerdier?
(I want one that says "Im in ur hous, steelin ur lootz.")
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Date: 2006-12-02 08:04 am (UTC)Oh! It's that kind of lame! I was thinking you meant, you know, the actual kind of lame, like 80's music and stuff. The stuff I often listen too. Although I like game music a lot too, and -- my stomach just made a noise that sounded exactly like Chewy. Hmm. And speaking of Star Wars, I swear I have this vaguely techno-ish industrial song that has the lyrics, "Ewoks in the mud," at various parts, but maybe they're just speaking in a different language. What I am trying to say here is that I don't think you're lame for liking techno and game music! I would want to taunt the housemates, except I'm pretty sure I'd chicken out at the last minute. And dude, did you actually yell? Because I'm pretty sure all I would have been able to manage would be a decent mumble. (Zim is disturbing? But -- but he's on the kids' channel! Although I guess that doesn't say much, considering it's the same channel that aired Ren and Stimpy. Also, I think my sense of humor is already pretty warped, although I don't know if it's the same kind of warped. I'm curious, though! And yeah, see, I don't mind playing a game because it's pretty, but when people refuse to play a game because it's ugly, that's what bugs me. The original MGS is awesome! Although I think MGS3 will always be my favourite, for the food and the guards.)
OH MY GOSH, the Midgar Zolom freaked the hell out of me. I loved that part, actually, because if you accidentally fought it before going ahead with the plot, you knew just how much ass it kicked, and then you saw the dead one, and it was proof of Sephiorth's badassery. It is such an odd game, though! And there's that part with the Turks where they all stand around discussing who they want to date. And there's cross dressing, and yes. How many of the Final Fantasies have you played? And what? Turning into a zombie? I'll have to buy that book, just so I can protect myself from Neil's army of zombies. And it's okay, I realize that I'm a freak for liking Triple Triad. I remain convinced it's about the music; it's the same reason why I loved catching chocobos in FFVII. Although really, I hated Blitzball, so it's okay. I think I only got two of the Celestial Weapons, Yuna's and Rikku's. Rikku kicked so much ass after I got hers, it was so bizarre. It's like she could cut through the enemy's armor stat thing, no problem. I don't know. I tried to get everybody else's, but there's the whole problem with FREAKISHLY HARD SIDEQUESTS.
Oh, batshit insane fans, what would the Internet do without you. I think I'm probably going to turn into one of those people one day, if I'm not already, but hey! I can usually keep the crazy contained. Usually. Although I don't think I'll ever write treatises on politics of fictional worlds, so at least there's that. (OF COURSE! How's the temporal displacement device coming? Can I go steal the game yet? WHY HASN'T IT BEEN TWO WEEKS?! How's Shadowrun treating you? And it really is okay if you don't like it that much, I kind of suspect it's the sort of game that's not really the kind of thing most people like. I'm really curious what you think of various people! I'm convinced that Boris and Roscoe are brothers, which amuses me far more than it should because it would mean Roscoe's name is Roscoe Errascoe.)
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Date: 2006-12-02 08:05 am (UTC)(I wish I had nev-ur-wet clothes! Not that I would need them very often, but they'd sure be handy in the rain.) I love what they say when you throw them the food! "Munchies!" and they sound so incredibly happy. Also, it's awful, because you can throw them bad mushrooms and they'll eat it, because they're that hungry, and then they'll fall asleep. And I can't remember exactly what happens if you throw out a naughty magazine, but I'm pretty sure it's something hilarious.
They so would. Christmas would take one look at them and run the other way. Turk would be so disappointed. (It -- I. I didn't think that was possible to have anymore homoerotic subtext. I swear, it's like it's intentional. Although now I'm picturing Christmas afternoon, talking to my relatives. They'll ask me what I got for Christmas, and I'll tell them, all brightly, "Homoerotic subtext!" And then I shall be shunned.)
I'm still trying to figure out what the heck happened to George Lucas in between the original trilogy and Episodes I - III. I mean -- the originals were so good, and the prequels were so bad. What changed? What happened in the YA series? Do I want to know? (Dude! I really need to read this, because I kept thinking during Episodes I-III how much potential there was, and how it just completely failed at actually showing anything good. I kept trying to think about how I would have done things differently, to show Anakin's fall, and -- anyway, yes. I shall have to read his stuff sometime.)
Agreed! It's like, do you guys even know what you're saying? Because it doesn't actually make sense. I almost wish they'd just say, "We're there for the oil," because at least that would make sense. (Even if it would be, ya know, wrong, at least it would be honest.) Skittles fix everything! THAT WOULD BE SO AWESOME! I would be those pants, and wear them everyday. And possibly put an extra pair of pants inside the first pair, so I could hold twice as much! Would the inflatables involve inflatable pants? Because I am now picturing someone walking around with huge balloon pants and giggling insanely.
I realize I keep saying this, but man, I can't wait to play Thief. If only so I can actually have proper responses, where I actually know what I'm talking about. (Sure! Exposition, please! I think that at least Windows XP is supposed to be able to play older stuff, although I've rarely tried it. And I keep forgetting how to switch the settings, so it's always a half-hour process each time. So, in the first two Thief games, is the...protagonist? Can you consider a Right Bastard a protagonist? Anyway, are they all Garretts, or are there different characters? You can spoil me for the first game, if you want! Just not the third. And oh boy, internet gods are the nerdiest. All the other gods gather 'round and make fun of them, and the internet gods hack into their back accounts and laugh. GOOD TIMES.)
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Date: 2006-12-03 09:48 pm (UTC)Oh, I listen to 80's music. I also wear my sunglasses at night, so I can, so I can, watch you weave and dream your storylines. And I may ruuun, run so faaar awaaaay – but er. Anyway. …Did you EAT CHEWBACCA? I don't know if I can be friends with someone who ate Chewbacca. I can do better than that! I once heard a song all about Chewbacca. It included yelling his name at regular intervals. It was a very happy song. Dude, what could the housemates do to you? They've already given up their every right to dignity! And yes, I actually did yell. I'm a drama student. I wasn't really that close to the house – they'd closed off the driveway leading to it. (Heh, do you think that made any difference to Jhonen? There's a reason it only lasted a season and a half. There's an episode about organ stealing. MGS3 is my favourite too, actually. The Boss is full of awesome and you're in someone's base, burning their foods.)
I REMEMBER THAT BIT. I was definitely feeling some trepidation after seeing the giant badass snake impaled on a tree. And I've played X, VIII, X-2 and VII, in that order. Apparently I'm a heretic because I really like X and I think VII is looking its age. Yeah, turning into a zombie that moans "Saaaaandmaaaaan…Saaaaadmaaaaaaan…" and keeps throwing money at bookstores until they give me his stuff. Have you read Sandman? Oh, you hate Blitzball! Good to know. I remember my sister telling me she won the first game you're in, and none of us believed her because you simply didn't have the stats. She says it was fluke and she had no idea what she was doing. I love the Chocobo theme. I can sing it! Rikku once ended up being my heavy hitter because I had her in fights, mugging people, and she kept striking the final blow and absorbing the XP. Yuna also ended up being my big gun, because she could Holy the crap out of anything without wasting MP. So there were these two kind of scrawny chicks in my front line, one a thief, the other a white mage, slicing and dicing their way to victory after victory.
It would be filled only with porn! And man, it's better than being part of the giant batshit fandoms like Harry Potter and Avatar. I HATE THE AVATAR FANDOM. THAT SHOW DESERVES BETTER. (The device! The problem is that it's going to take two weeks to build. Dratted overseas contractors. Shadowrun is treating me as its bitch, but I'm starting to show it who is boss. I like Boris. He's shifty and entertaining. And the mage guy, who's messing with magic in a pub. I like how that sounds like a recipe for disaster. Man, with these characters you can think what you like, can't you? Rosco Errosco! Hee. What makes you think that?)
Hey, you're right. But it would be harder to actually pull bigger jobs in urban centres and stuff, people notice when the lights go down. I think he'd burgle everybody! But the corporate kind of jobs would probably be more lucrative. Joshua vs. Garrett – shee, I'm picturing Joshua running around doing a corp run, except someone's been at all the wall-safes and the guards have gone missing and he never, ever sees anything until he turns around, catches a glimpse of a humourless sort of smile, and then the sky falls on his head. And he wakes up in a cell and tries to explain to the Lone Stars that he didn't actually steal anything this time! And nobody believes him. So, badly, yes. In an out and out brawl, Joshua would probably win, though. Bow vs. Predator.
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Date: 2006-12-03 09:49 pm (UTC)Poor Turk. As if the hospital hadn't beaten him around enough. (I think most of it actually is! And it's nearly palpable in the third and fourth seasons. Hee. Man, that's cool. All I usually say is that I got – books. Lots of books. Which I don't mind. It's getting hard to find places to keep them all. I bet if you met my relatives they wouldn't shun you! All my cousins are just as weird as I am, and I have a male one that's sort of like my clone. I have a huge, huge extended family.)
Man, apparently Lucas hated the way the original trilogy turned out! Which. Well. I think that proves he is totally nuts, so I content myself with the better EU writers and sticking my fingers in my ears going "LA LA LA" whenever Padme or Anakin say anything, ever. Oh god, the YA series. It's – really quite awful. Y'see, the Emperor had a son called Trioculous, because he had three eyes. And a grandson called Ken because his mother was called Kendrina or something. And Vader's glove has awesome powers or something, I don’t know. And the Moffs hold a conference called the Mofference and now blood's coming out of my ears, I think I'll stop. I swear to God I am not making any of it up.
I want to punch many leaders in the face. And yes, they do, so I bought some! Mm, wild berry. I name them gamer pants! Actually it was the objects that were inflatable, but don't let that stop you with the balloon pants, because, heeeee. It's actually a little less weird than some of the theories they came up with. They included portable black holes and Garrett's mule and cart, that can follow him up and down ladders and ropes and across chasms and stuff.
I can't wait 'til you play it either! And I'm writing up the story of the first two games now. Mm, flimsy research. (There's supposed to be an emulator somewhere, I'm just terrified of downloading anything in case I end up with a virus orgy. It’s always him. And yeah, he's an anti-hero, but still a protagonist. I originally thought the games were set in different points in history with a reincarnation, like Blackadder, mainly because the second game is called "The Metal Age", but no, it just follows the events of his life. Does that mean the internet gods are rich? I bet they have loads of porn. And argue constantly with each other about stuff that nobody else cares about. Awesome.)
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Date: 2006-12-06 11:13 pm (UTC)But the real question is, do you have the brains, or the brawn? And do you want to make lots of money? I walk like an Egyptian. Having said that, OMG SUNGLASSES AT NIGHT. I have to go listen to that now. I did not eat Chewbacca! I don't think he would fit in my mouth. Or my stomach. Unless it was a tiny Chewbacca toy that would talk if you pulled the string sticking out his back. Chewbacca song! That is brilliant. And reminds me of a song I heard that consisted of yelling "Pac-man" at various intervals. I suppose you're right about the housemates. BUT WHAT IF THEY HAD SECURITY GUARDS? (Man, it only lasted a season and a half? I had no idea! Also, I really liked almost all of the bosses in MGS3. Not quite as found of the bee boss, but the others were neat. AND CREEPY. All your base!)
The giant badass snake is one of the parts that sticks with me, that's for sure. I played VII first, then VIII, and then X. I've never been able to get very far in IX, despite trying several times. What did you think of X-2? I've heard mixed results. I really enjoyed playing X, although I also really liked VII, so. They have a very different feel to them, though, so I can't really say which I like better. X is definitely a smoother ride, though. I tried playing that first game I think three times, because I really wanted to see what would happen if I won. I actually got it the third try (it really was the charm!), complete with overtime because of a tied game. I have no clue how that worked. I still hate the game, though. I think I might have approximately ten different chocobo themes LEGALLY SAVED on my computer. Hooray! I love using the scrawny chicks beat the crap out of everybody. I always feel a little bad, though, for the enemies whenever Rikku says an ending line. For awhile, it was my goal to get Yuna up to the point where she could deal a ton of physical damage, but I gave up on it after awhile.
That is so true. Sometimes I wonder if J.K. Rowling looks at any of the fanfic that's been written for her books and feel kind of sorry for her. I TRY TO AVOID THE AVATAR FANDOM! It's pretty hard, though, I think half my friends are part of it. I try to ignore what they say, though, mostly because when I actually watch the show, I want to watch it unbiased. Also they are just kids, please stop slashing everyone with everyone. Okay, maybe Sokka and Zuko are old enough to not make my brain hurt, but Aang? I don't know, maybe it's canon though. (Noooo! Sigh. Well, it's pointless then.
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Date: 2006-12-06 11:14 pm (UTC)That's very true, he wouldn't be able to just go around killing the lights all willy-nilly (scientific term). It there was some way of shutting down the security cameras like you can in Shadowrun, then that would definitely be a plus. Oh, Joshua. Also, that's scarily like how I picture a lot of runs go when you're working with Freya, except it's more of a seductive smile before she takes you out and then takes your percentages, too. I'm trying to decide who would win if it came down to a physical fight. I always have Joshua use the Predator, so in my head he's really bad at actually, like, punching people, but from what I can tell, Garrett's not that good at it either.
(Oh, Garrett. Your bad luck strikes again. ALSO CHANGE CLOTHES, MORON, SO YOU CAN START SWIMMING AGAIN. Perhaps those clothes are special, though, and contain black holes in the pockets to store all his stuff.) I would start to wonder if I was actually a duck who just thought I was human. Ducks get food thrown at them all the time. I would make someone else eat some of it first, just in case.
At least he won against Kelso in that one episode, with the bench. And the lunch. And also the one with the Pac-man game! Or possibly those were the same episode, I can't remember. (Man, okay, so I've seen the third season, and -- yes. That episode with the carnival? It's possibly one of my favourite episodes, just because it's Dr. Cox and JD interacting at a carnival. Mmm, books. I miss reading books that aren't for university. And my relatives don't shun me, at least not yet, but... yes. Half of them are very liberal, tolerant people, and the other half are extremely nice, but also very religiously conservative people. Their church isn't quite as bad as the no-music-allowed kind, but pretty close.)
DEAR MR. LUCAS: WHUT. PLZ STOP BEING DUM. THX. ...I. I don't think I can stop laughing at the YA series. I almost want to read it now, just to laugh. Although I have this feeling I would just want to gouge my eyes out instead. I think when I'm a parent, or at least in charge of naming other people's kids, I'll name them for their physical defects. That will be awesome. And I certainly wouldn't name anybody an honest-to-goodness normal name because it was, you know, normal, it'd have to be based on their mother's abnormal name. AHAHAHA, the Mofference! You just can't make up something that bad. Well, but I guess someone did. What are the Moffs like? 'Cause I'm just picturing an entire Mafia society.
Inflatable potions, bow and arrows, lockpick tools... actually, that would be really cool if you could have all these inflatable gadgets. I would so buy them, if I had money. And, you know, they existed. Garrett doesn't actually have a mule and cart, does he? Because that seems a little... conspicuous to me. And like it might take awhile to go grab whatever you needed. Maybe he learned some special Keeper technique?
The Internet gods probably use porn as currency. It's like PayPal, but PayPorn or something. I suddenly want to read a book about the Adventures of the Internet Gods, but it'd probably just be an offshoot of American Gods, so. Neil Gaiman clearly steals all of my idea several years in advance of my having them.
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Date: 2006-12-09 09:50 am (UTC)No, but I'm just a small-town girl, living in a lonely world, taking the midnight train going anywhere. Well, okay, it's good that you didn't. A moon already fell on him, he doesn't need that. Pac-man song? Awesome! We have a song called "Computer Games" which includes a line that can be interpreted as "The metroid squid don't care!" (it's actually "The matrix grid don't care," but personally I prefer the reference to squid). THEN YOU SNEAK UP BEHIND THEM AND BLACKJACK THEM, ONE BY ONE! Or just use a flashbomb or something. (Yeah, the Nick execs and Jhonen were constantly clashing over censorship. And it also wasn't pulling in the ratings – or at least, not in the age-group they were after. Towards the end, the episodes were starting to go downhill, so maybe it's for the best. Pity. By The Boss I of course mean The Joy – she was so kickass! But I like the others too. I love The Pain just by virtue of sheer ridiculousness. "I'M COVERED IN BEEEEEEEEEES!")
The thing with X-2 is that, while it's a very solid RPG, it's so very unmanly that any male human sitting down to play it would find their testicles shriveling. X has a sense of stately inevitability and the trappings of tradition, X-2 has…spas. And dress-ups. It's good if you want a happier ending for X, though. The thing I hate about Blitzball is – well, I can't say that because I pretty much hate everything about Blitzball. I would have preferred it staying in the cutscenes, it looked so cool there. I have one with words, the ChocoboROBO song? Have you heard that version? I know all the lyrics. It is fun to annoy people with them. Man, I can't remember anything Rikku said, I just remember Auron stating "I hate this place," in the Via Purifico and me laughing forever.
I've never made any bets with anyone on whether they can find something in the Harry Potter fandom, because someone is bound to have written it. And I think I'd feel a bit sorrier for Rowling if she wasn't richer than the Queen, but I do wish people would stop believing she's evil incarnate for leading them on about the Harry/Hermione ship, because…well, she didn't. Glah, crazy shippers. Some of the Avatar fandom is okay! For example, the ones that aren't batshit twelve-year-olds. Sometimes I think they're trying to be Harry Potter. Please please please watch it for it is full of awesome? You're only hurting yourself by not watching it more, you know. Yeah, I, I get that. And I couldn't stand torturing Aang or Zuko anymore than the canon already does. 'Sides, Sokka got his ladeez! He doesn't need Zuko's emoboypain! (You'll just have to be patient! Or go and break into people's houses anyway to pass the time. I HATE THAT MAGIC GUY. I always figured he was, like, a hitman or something – and oh man, you know that fic
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Date: 2006-12-09 09:51 am (UTC)(He has the worst luck ever, I swear. Every time something bad happens, he keeps getting blamed for it, and it's not even always his fault. Although he doesn't exactly present a picture of innocence – just a hint, d00d, being deeply contemptuous of your accusers is not the way to get them to like you.) Well, that beats my reaction, which would be first to evaluate the food's edibility and then eat it, and walk on my merry way. Probably falling asleep in the process.
It was a different episode, when Kelso wouldn't let him play basketball. I think? And yeah, it's awesome when anybody wins against him. Like when Cox punched him in the face. (Carnivals make everything better! I seem to be giving everyone books for Christmas, actually. My family's just – big. Far-flung. It's really hard to get us all in one place because we keep moving around, and the adults discuss adult stuff, and the teenagers stand around and be aloof at each other, and the kids go and cause chaos and destruction.)
Believe me, it is a thousand times worse than I could possibly describe. In fact, it has two characters with three eyes that have names starting with 'Tri'. I thought I had it somewhere in my room, but I've just dropped a pile of manga on my head and I can't find it. I remember it actually writing out the sound of explosions and laser-blasts, though. The Moffs are Imperial leaders, and apparently they sit around and plot stupidly convoluted plans that are dumb and laugh evilly and then get double-crossed. I recall a Grand Moff Hissa. Guess what he did.
I would buy a lot of things if I had money and they existed. And, er, no, he doesn't. Or at least, he doesn't as far I know. You never know what those shifty Keepers taught him (actually, the training level of the first game is him training in the Keeper Compound when he was younger, and I'm pretty sure there isn't any mule or cart).
Rofling at PayPorn. And those dratted clairvoyant authors. Oh man, I haven't read American Gods! What's it like?
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Date: 2006-12-12 12:24 am (UTC)Okay, also, I should ask you which version of my rambles you want: the ones where I am a huge freak and talk about Reckert as if he's actually in the game, or the one where I just stick with the actual, you know, game. 'Cause I can do both! (You're so right, though, because man, those guys show up everywhere. I bet they have a really exciting job. You'd never know if you were about to burst in on some guy in his 80's having a heart attack while taking a shower, or if you'd have to return fire while trying to extricate some dumbass 'runner from a slotted run. Also, you, uh, you kind of can! There's a shaman in Council Island who I think specializes in healing magic, but I could be wrong. She kind of scares me.)
Really? Because I'm a material girl, living in a material world, and all I want to do is have some fun. I LOVE CHEWBACCA! I have a shirt with him on it and everything. I probably love Han Solo a bit more, though. It might have to do with the whole "speaking English" thing. I'm pretty sure I got the Pac-man song from OC ReMix, but it's ...actually kind of really painful to listen to. There's lots of rap involved. (Speaking of OC ReMix, though, have you heard the QBert remix, A-Bol hardcore? (<-- Not actually the mp3.) Based solely on the fact that you like the Thief ending credits, I recommend it. So, you know, you might not like it at all.) Hee! Metroid squid is much awesomer than matrix grids. Man, suddenly I'm hoping that they didn't have any guards. That would make the show so much more entertaining. (ARGH CENSORSHIP. CENSORSHIP SHOULD BE BANNED. The Joy was so awesome. I loved all the scenes where she kicked Snake's ass, and, well, all the scenes she was in period. And his bee gun! I'm pretty sure during that entire boss fight I kept wanting to say, "Or the bees? Or the bosses with bees in their mouth and when they talk they shoot bees at you?"
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Date: 2006-12-12 12:27 am (UTC)I try my very hardest to just stay as far away as possible from the Harry Potter fandom, in case I find one of those things you'd make a bet about. It's a very scary place. And I'm sure there's some really great fic out there, but. People think she lead them on about Harry/Hermione? What? I -- I never thought that, it was pretty obvious to me that she was all about the Ron/Hermione. And I have to say, I totally am not a Harry/Draco shipper (...not really a Harry/anyone shipper), but in the last book, I kind of went, "DUDE, WHAT. Is this supposed to be fanservice or something?" I will try to watch it at somepoint! I really will! But I can make no guarantees as to when that will be. So, like, five years from now, when everyone else has moved on, I'll be like, "OMG ZUKO!!" and will be shunned. Did I mention that I don't ship Sokka/Zuko? I just meant that, um, I can actually see them in a romantic-ish relationship with anybody because they actually might have some hormones in the blood. My point being, I do not want to see someone talking about Aang getting it on with anybody, because he can barely concentrate on his quest to save the world without going to ride scary lake monsters as it is. (It is one of my life goals to learn how to pick locks. For serious. Not that I, um, would actually use it for criminal actions, but it seems like a cool thing to learn how to do. Man! A hitman! HOLY CRAP A HITMAN -- this -- this makes so much sense. Excuse me while I flail for a little bit. Hee! It makes me ridiculously happy to hear about your experiences with the vampire! Hee hee.)
I actually never hire any other 'runners when I go on my mission. In my mind, Joshua works much better alone, I'm not really sure why. Probably because I like him going on corp runs, and it's much easier to slip in and out undetected if you're on your own. Also, I really want to ramble about something, but I don't know if you're there yet. Have you gone out to the Salish-Shidhe at all yet? If you'd seen ReBoot, I would tell you that I picture Freya is just like Mouse, except with magic instead. I tried looking for a YouTube video to show you what she's like, but failed to find anything good. (I think at one point
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Date: 2006-12-12 12:29 am (UTC)ANYWAY. Um. I kind of picture Freya's one of those females who knows the effects they have on guys and uses them to their advantage. (I also picture Joshua is smart enough to know that and is kind of immune to her charms anyway.) I think my entire interpretation is based off of her dress and the fact that the first thing she says to you involves flattery. Possibly it also being part of her strategy as an assassin; get in close enough to use magic by flirting and then blast 'em. It is possible that I have put way too much thought into this and have completely lost touch with the actual game. I love, though, that she has a bright blue gown. That's almost as conspicuous as Joshua's red shirt and blue shoes. I suddenly badly want to see a crossover with Freya and Garrett going on various runs together. Man, that would be an incredibly scary team. Seriously. They could do just about anything. Hee! Reacting cautiously.
(It sounds like he's made a lot of enemies, too. Which might be more from the fact that he's deeply contemptuous of his accusers rather than just bad luck, but. I'm trying to think of something he could do that would be even worse, but it's just not coming.) At least you evaluate it first! You know what I wish I had? A Medic I could call and ask for expert opinion on random food lying around. Or a Sigint. Or, you know, just a whole bunch of people I could randomly radio. THIS IS MUCH BETTER THAN A CELL PHONE.
That episode was so awesome, Cox punching him in the face. I wanted to cheer and also cry, because you just knew he'd have to be fired after that. Oh! Or the episode where Cox convinced everyone Kelso had died! (That's a really good plan, actually. Books! I just wish I knew all the books everyone has already read. Ah, family gatherings. They just wouldn't be the same without chaos and aloofness and boring adult stuff. I miss being a kid and getting to cause destruction. (If I try to suggest it now, all my other aloof cousins just look at me funny.) And getting to climb my grandma's tree. Now all its climbing branches have been cut off.)
I shudder to think everything I would buy if it existed. I would need to buy a black storage hole to contain it all. Maybe it's a passive talent, that, you need, is just there. ...yeah, I'm just making everything up now. (Oh dude, that's pretty awesome. Do you get to see tiny!Garrett? Or, um, smaller!Garrett? Because I really badly want to, now.)
I liked American Gods a lot! I don't actually remember a lot about it, because I kind of devoured it in one night and wound up extremely sleep deprived the next morning. But I really liked the concept and a lot of the characters. I got kind of bored when the old people were talking, but there was this other part that I really loved, so it kind of made up for it. I realize I'm being very vague, but I'm trying not to let Snape kill Dumbledore. The ending was really awesome too, the kind of awesome where you kind of have to sit for five minutes letting it all sink in.
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