LOL ADULTHOOD

[nano_moose]

HEURTISTIC

ALGORITHMIC

WHAT TASK PARAMETERS

PROGRAMMING TO SEE

DUEL APSECT THEORY

OH GOD

IT'S OVER

NOW I SLEEP FOR THE REST OF TIME

ETA more coherently: By which I mean, I sat my final exam before graduation, that being IPT. It was about the philosophy of robotics. Blarrrgh, I hate philosophy. In my opinion, anyone trying to argue their way out of existence deserves to instantly cease existing, vanishing in a puff of logic and leaving behind a note saying "PWNED, BITCH! - Signed, The Universe." It's all RIGHT HERE, you idiots. Enjoy it while you goddamn have it.

At any rate, YEAH BABY! Time to relax for a while. We still have Awards Night and the Formal, as well as a lot of celebration, but for all intents and purposes, my secondary education is done. When I was returning to the school for the exams, it was weird how it already felt like I didn't belong there anymore. I was apart from the lessons, drifting between classrooms full of girls who still had time to go. It made me remember when I was so much younger, thinking I wouldn't make it to Year Twelve - everything they did was so hard, I thought, they'd kick me out and process me into horse feed for not getting it.

Of course, given that people in my science class didn't spot 'moisture' spelt as 'mostur', sometimes I wish that happened. Not too often, though.

Anyway, the question meme! With new questions!

Choose twelve characters from your fandoms, then answer the questions under the link. Do not look at the questions beforehand.

1. Gordon Freeman (Half-Life. Oh man, I am off to a bad, bad start).
2. Jack Skellington (The Nightmare Before Christmas)
3. Devi (Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, I Feel Sick)
4. Xellos (Slayers. SHUT UP HE'S AWESOME OKAY).
5. Doctor John Dorian (Scrubs)
6. Farah (Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. That version of her, actually).
7. Garrett (Thief. I think I can feel him glaring at me from the Astral Plane).
8. Freya Rasmussen (Hungry City Chronicles, Post-Predator's Gold).
9. Lirael (Old Kingdom Trilogy, 19-year-old).
10. Tess (Jak II)
11. Sasha Nein (Psychonauts)
12. Reeve (FFVII)

01. Who would make a better college professor, 6 or 11? What subjects would they teach?
Sasha already IS a teacher, and hell, psychic headlasers! What more do you need? Farah would probably be the PE teacher that everyone expects to be the standard woman-with-a-moustache except wow, not. And she teaches archery. ...Oh heck, I can't choose. Sasha has experience, though.

02. Do you think 4 is hot? How hot?
Er - not very? He's got that whole androgyny thing going on for him, and his eyes are creepy. Makes an incredibly hot woman, though.

03. 12 sends 9 on a mission. What is it, and does it succeed?
Reeve sends Lirael on a mission to save the world friggen' again, this time from Hojo's investigations into the Lifestream, which resulted in: a) a dimensional portal opening and b) zombies. And of course she succeeds! Abhorsen!

04. What is or would be 9's favorite book?
She can't pick a favourite. She's a librarian. She has a stack of favourites that has become so teeteringly high that the Dog has taken to actually tip-toeing around it, for fear that it will fall and crush her bones. I can relate.

05. Would it make more sense for 2 to swear fealty to 6, or the other way around?
Hmm...for some reason I'm thinking Jack would swear fealty to Farah, with the royalty thing and all. And she probably reminds him of Sally, except, well, human.

06. For some reason, 5 is looking for a roommate. Should s/he share a studio apartment with 9 or with 10?
OH MY GOD. BOTH, BOTH. JD and Tess and Lirael except er – oh man, Lirael would freak him out, probably. But he'd invite her anyway because SHE OWNS A TALKING DOG. A TALKING GODDAMN DOG. Actually, I'm imagining him talking to Tess and he can't get out the first sentence (which is "Your ears are awesome,") because he's staring at her chest, and it comes out finally as "Your chest are awesome." Poor JD. Cue fantasy sequence where Tess's sunny smile withers, and she orders Lirael's dog to bite his butt. Snaps out of it to encounter Tess's big concerned eyes. "Are you okay?" Awww, it'd be adorable.

07. 2, 7 and 12 have dinner together. Where do they go, and what do they discuss?
Jack, Garrett and Reeve.
...It'd be the worst dinner ever, because Garrett would toss down a flashbomb and sprint for the shadows so he can take a shot at Jack with a holy water arrow. Reeve takes it all in stride (though he does pinch the bridge of his nose) and eventually coaxes them both to stop glaring at each other. They go to some ghastly novelty pub with a Halloween theme, which Jack chose, and it restores his good humour, though he still talks only to Reeve, while Garrett is occasionally bitingly sarcastic. Eventually Garrett skips out the bathroom window to avoid paying, although he does take the time to thank Reeve. The remaining two begin happily discussing costumes and how to build robots.

08. 3 challenges 10 to a duel. What happens?
Sasha ends up inside Devi's head, which is this awesome whacked-out Jhonen-y artworld with a shadowy Nny-demon and a head-critic a bit like Jasper, only he looks like the head of the publishing company she uses. He eventually turns out to be Sickness in disguise. Sasha blasts it down and Devi finishes it off. It would be glorious.

09. If 1 stole 8's most precious possession, how would she get it back?
Freya is very understanding about it all, especially when Gordon explains quite seriously about the alien thing. However, she does patiently point out that there are other, more willing and likely more capable soldiers than Caul ("Hey!"). Gordon apologizes and they part good friends.

10. Suggest a title for a story in which 7 and 12 both attain what they most desire.
A Man Who Resurrected Midgar As A City Of Peace, Happiness and Renewable Solar Power And Another Man Who Somehow Stole It, Fenced It, And Lived On The Proceeds For The Rest Of His Life On A Quiet Island Far Away From Any Possible World-Saving.

Long title.

11. What kind of plot device would you use if you wanted 4 and 1 to work together?
Whee-hee, portals!
Actually, if I spin this right, I could make it about how Xellos and the G-Man are friendly rivals ("Let's see how we can fuck with 'em this time..."), and how the G-Man is actually this world's equivalent of Shabranigdo (i.e. a bringer of chaos). Xellos turns up every now and again to confuse the absolute heck out of Gordon, but is also responsible for many of the insane lucky streaks the guy has. But my god, those two universes are completely incompatible.

12. If 7 visited you for the weekend, how would you get along?
Hide the valuables. Actually, fuck the valuables. He'd find them anyway. Erm, he probably wouldn't like me at all. As much as I love his character, he's a pretty scary guy, and he'd probably conk me over the head to shut me up whilst robbing me blind. Although, he wakes me up to ask me what all this stuff is, pointing to the computer. I completely melt his brain by finding him a fic where he's paired with Karras. He then knocks me out again, and leaves after putting a message over my face that says, "You're lucky you're still alive. Gotta say, though...Never thought I'd see anything that scary. Don't expect congratulations."

13. If you could command 3 to perform any one task or service for you, what would it be?
I'd commission a picture from her, and then I'd hang it up on my door to scare the crap out of people.

14. Does anyone on your friends list write or draw 11?
Er...do you? I know some of you guys like Psychonauts, and of course Sasha is awesome, but I'm not sure if you've written or drawn him.

15. If 2 had to choose sides between 4 and 5, which would it be?
Dude, JD. Jack scares people for a living, but he doesn't like it when they get hurt, and Xellos is not a nice guy. The resulting fight is awesome and ridiculous and involves prank-dueling.

16. What might 10 shout while charging into battle?
"Gonna blow you up good! Hee hee!"

It's terrifying because she really does giggle, and she spends the whole battle with this sweet, horrifying, blood-thirsty smile.

17. If you chose a song to represent 8, which song would you choose?
You're Not Here, Akira Yamaoka. Her thinking about Caul, poor dude.

18. 1, 6, and 12 are having dim sum at a Chinese restaurant. There is only one scallion pancake left, and they all reach for it at the same time. Who gets to eat it?
Gordon and Reeve both try to blind each other with science, and while they are reciting equations Farah rolls her eyes and takes it. When they both protest, she points out that they can't take it back now because, obviously she needs the food and she'd have them beheaded.

19. What might be a good pick-up line for 2 to use on 10?
"Hello, my dear! How are you today?" He'd just act all dashing and stuff while Tess would sit there amused. Aaaand there's an awful, awful joke here to be made about swapping one kink for another, but I'm not that horrifying.

20. What would 5 most likely be arrested for?
Public nudity, after a long and very convoluted sequence of events orchestrated by the Janitor.

21. What is 6's secret?
She really hates the skimpy outfits she has to dress up in, but finds their effect on any men she happens to fight funny, and also useful.

22. If 11 and 9 were racing to a destination, who would get there first?
Sasha beats Lirael, but only because he can levitate. Although, the Dog might convince her to put him out with Ranna or make him walk the wrong way with Kibeth.

23. 1 (Gordon) and 9 (Sasha) reluctantly team up to save the world from the threat posed by 4's (Xellos’s) sinister secret organization. 11 (Lirael) volunteers to help them, but it is later discovered that she is actually a spy for 4 (Xellos). Meanwhile, 4 (Xellos) has kidnapped 12 (Reeve) in an attempt to force 1 (Gordon) and 9 (Sasha’s) surrender. Following the wise advice of 5 (JD), they seek out 3 (Devi), who gives them what they need to complete their quest. What title would you give this fic? Name three people on your friends list who might read it. Name one person who should write it.
...THAT IS SO COOL.

OH MAN. ALL OF YOU SHOULD WRITE IT AND ALL OF YOU SHOULD READ IT AND IT WOULD BE CALLED THE MOST KICKASS FIC EVER!!!11111 WITH ALL THE ONES INCLUDED.

GOD, IT EVEN MAKES SENSE. SCIENTISTS WHO SAVE THE WORLD. I WANT IT.

24. If you had to walk home through a bad neighbourhood late at night, would you feel safer in the company of 7 or 8?
...Garrett's one of those people you really don't want to end up in a dark alley with, because not only is there the possibility that he'd attack you himself, but also because he attracts lots of very indiscriminate assassins. People have died just because he happened to know them vaguely on a rather worrying number of occasions. Also, Freya is so motherly and comforting, and she'd probably totally kick a mugger's ass.

Also, have some kickass music!

Comments

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I don't know who most of these people are! But it's very worrying to me that these meme keeps throwing Garrett and Reeve together in these situations; I can't help but think very very bad things would happen as a result.

20. ROFL. Oh, JD. Oh, Janitor. This would so happen.

23. I have no idea who Gordon is, but I love the idea of Sasha reluctantly teaming up with anybody to save the world. Although I'm kind of worried about the advice JD would give (unless it was to unleash the Janitor on them, that might work).

Yay! Kickass music! I think this is the third time I've listened to it in a row, now. And I'm really curious what the original sounds like! STOP TRYING TO GET ME TO BUY THIEF BEFORE CHRISTMAS.

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Ooh, er. He's an engineer who likes to pretend to be a talking Scottish cat! He's a near-mystically talented thief with questionable morals and a tendency to crack jokes to himself! THEY FIGHT SWAP POINTED REMARKS ABOUT WHAT REALLY CONSTITUTES CRIME!

I DEMAND YOU INVOLVE YOURSELF IN ALL OF MY FANDOMS SO THIS MEME MAKES SENSE. Gordon doesn't really have a personality, actually. He never speaks. It's obvious he can, since he's apparently struck up a friendship with a security guard based on racing through air-ducts to retrieve somebody's keys - I sort of peg him as this quiet, really emotionally broken dude with a bitter/kind of dorky sense of humour, considering the science he helped invent wound up screwing the world.

Their conversations would make no sense at all to non-scientists! It would be great! I think JD suggested they ask a cartoon or something, I don't know.

The Dog is the Disreputable Dog ("Or the Disreputable Bitch, if you want to get technical.") and I love her so. Lirael is her - er - I want to say mistress, but it's one of those fantasy human and animal partnerships where you know who's really in charge. They really do fight crime! Or the undead.

The original sounds a lot like it, actually. It's just not as long. I AM SO NOT GOING TO STOP. I NEED SOMEBODY WHO IS JUST AS MUCH OF A N00B AS I AM TO FANGIRL WITH.

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Oh! I, um, I know who Reeve is! Although at first I was wondering what kind of freak pretended to be a talking Scottish cat before my brain made the proper connections. I am now trying to imagine Garrett and Cait Sith interacting. I have no real knowledge of Garrett's character, but based on what you've said I can't decide if they would go cause trouble together, or if Cait Sith would end up "dead" in an alley.

I would ask you for more info on Half-Life, but a) I could just wiki it and b) I'm afraid I'll want to ask for that for Christmas too. I mean, I'm already hearting Gordon based on striking up a friendship because of retriving someone's keys, I DO NOT NEED ANY OTHER TEMPTATIONS.

Also, I know absolutely nothing about the Old Kingdom trilogy. I don't even know if they're books or games or what. But it sounds cool!

I see, that's why it says "extended" on the song title. I R SMRTZ. Next time I go the store, I'll probably end up looking it up. Actually buying it will probably have to do with just how much money it costs. CURSE MY INABILITY TO WAIT.

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Well...Garrett's had some bad, bad experiences with weird looking robots (long story - it involves crazed priests, a wood nymph and gas that destroyed living matter. I don't know, one day I'm just going to have to set it all out for you, all rambly and full of crackpot theories - two advantages over wiki!). I don't want to think what would happen, but it would probably end in fire arrows. Sad.

Heh, you don't have to heart Gordon. He nevers says a damn thing and you're behind his face the whole time. You could heart Barney! He's the security guard. I - AGH NO sorry I'll be quiet. I'm already enough of a temptation.

(It's an awesome game, though. It has views. I love games with views.)

Old Kingdom Trilogy: Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen - three books by Garth Nix (he's an Australian author who rocks) set in a weird world where magic and mechanism are confined to opposite sides of a wall. The ordinary world is more or less Earth in the - uh - thirties, I think, called Ancelstierre. (I'm going to go on for a while. I know a lot about this series.) The magic world is the Old Kingdom, it's more medieval. Electricity doesn't work there, but you can access Free Magic, which is chaotic and dangerous (usually evil), or Charter Magic, which is ordered in symbols and more everyday. The Old Kingdom has five Great Charters (Charter marks 'contain and describe the world' in their dance). They are the Wall, the Stones, the Clayr, the Royal Line, and the Abhorsen. The Clayr see the future in ice - there's loads, all women. The Royal Line is a family, they do what you'd expect. The Abhorsen is the focus of the series, because Free Magic is the basis of Necromancy, and the Abhorsen is an 'anti-necromancer'. There is only ever one, and the gift can be passed to nephews and stuff.

The big draw of the Abhorsen and the necromancers is that they can enter Death - a realm with nine gates that can be traversed in either direction, except for the Ninth. Because, obviously, people don't like dying, they try to come back, but they have to keep draining people of Life to stay there, and it's the Abhorsen's job to stop that. They can also use music - bells - to bind the Dead to their will. There's seven bells in a set, they all have their own names and abilities. The biggest problem is that Death warps spirits into monsters and they tend to lose free will.

If I want to sum it up sarcastically, I could say that chicks slay zombies with swords and jingly bells.

There is way more, but I've overdone it. Erm, the first book is a stand-alone, the second is related but set much later. Two and three are two of the same conclusion. Lirael stars in the second and third.

It's from a fandom wank post about Terry Goodkind, whose books also included an evil rooster! They used the line in the icon. Terry Goodkind is - well...you know Anne Rice? Like her. Only male, and slightly less pretentious. (Although he does claim his books aren't fantasy, because he's too good for fantasy.)

HAH HA HA HAAAAAAA. ...Oh dear, I'm so afraid you'll dislike it and hate me for wasting your precious cash-monies. Please don't.

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WHY AM I STILL UP

My apologies if this doesn't make any sense, it's 3:17 in the morning and I should really be going to bed. But! I had to say that I have read Sabriel! It's been forever, but man, I loved it when I read it. I think I picked up the second book at one point but discovered it wasn't about Sabriel as much as the first and never actually got around to reading it. Sometime, when I have time and am not playing Thief or all the other video games I'll end up buying, I'll have to read the series in its entirety.

I'm curious what you were going to say, now! I don't really have a source of news about video games other than Baco -- she's, uh, my main source of fandom things, if you haven't figured that out already. So I actually do want to hear everything, I just know I shouldn't. Anyway, I can always check something out from Blockbuster for a week to see if I like it first!

I, uh, I think I might have read a few of Terry Goodkind's books too but stopped because they were very long and came out too slowly for me to remember everything that was happening. I really liked that first book, though. (After Googling: Wizard's First Rule.) Sure don't remember a rooster. Hmm. Also, *ROFL* at the Anne Rice comparison.

Well, I do have approximately fifty bajillion video games in basement I still have to play, so don't worry about wasting the cash-monies! I have already done that plenty on my own. And Garrett sounds like a truly horrible person, which probably means I will love him liek woah.

Which reminds me, have you ever played The Bard's Tale?

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Do! I love it. I kinda like Sabriel better than the other two, Sabriel's a lot cooler than Lirael (although she is older, and Lirael gets much more kickass later on). The Dog is my favourite character. And Mogget. Aah, Mogget.

...I'm not sure whether you're sneakily trying to get me to tell you more, using REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY, or, er, actually trying to tell me to stop talking. So, I WILL TALK MORE. Half-life 2 is set after a slight accident in the first game resulted in WAVES UPON WAVES of monsters besetting the lab facility where Gordon worked. He did the winning thing, and then a guy in a suit who talked funny said, "You're hired," and put him in stasis for twenty years. When he wakes up, he's been dropped into a train going to City 17 - and now it seems the whole world is under the control of the Combine (pronounded COM-bine, as in the harvester), a malevolent race from some other dimension who are gradually but effectively ending the human race.

It is glorious.

All I know about Goodkind is the icon, and the fact that his protagonist made fifty page speeches and built a statue that toppled a government with it's - uh - awesome. I tried reading Pillars of Creation once (pretty cover!) but I didn't like it. I forget why.

Oh. I'm not sure if I should be ressured or disappointed. Ah, well...the thing with Garrett is that, while he's very dedicted and professional, he's a very dedicated and professional thief, who was apparently busy burgling God when He was handing out morality. He's not all bad...but pretty close to it. It kinda depends on how you play him (you always have a choice between lethal and non-lethal, though non-lethal shows more skill). But everyone likes him anyway. It's The Voice, I tells ya.

I have not! I have heard of it, though!

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REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY? I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT. I certainly would NEVER use that! By which I acutally mean, I want you to continue talking about things! And I actually am on the lookout for new games and stuff, despite the fact I've yet to play all the other ones. I tend to pick up new fandoms kind of slowly, but I always like knowing they're there if I ever want to give them a try.

Plus, that's what the Intarwebs are for. Reciprocal fandom babblings! And I generally like hearing people talk about things, so. If you want to babble about things, please do so! (Well, I'd prefer not hearing about spoilers, but that probably goes without saying. WHAT SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE? NOOOOO)

Fifty page speeches? Man, I'm glad I quit reading when I did! And I thought Grapes of Wrath was bad when it spent an entire chapter talking about a turtle crossing a road. That's just ridiculous, man. Pretentious authors crack me up, sometimes.

I was going for reassured. I have a feeling if it's a computer game I'll be more likely to play it, in all honestly, because I spend a freakish amount of time in front of my computer anyway. With video games, I tend to convince myself to stay away while I'm going to classes, because I know it'll be a major time commitment, but somehow that doesn't work with the computer. I'm not sure why.

Man, seriously. I really want to try playing Thief right now. Stupid school.

The Bard's Tale is glorious. And by glorious, I mean completely amoral. The description on the back says, "A quest for coin and cleavage," and the Bard is an awful, awful human being who snarks at everything, especially at the narrator, whom only he can hear. The narrator despises him, and is voiced by Tony Jay and is awesome. And you get to choose whether you're nice to people or mean to them, although either way you end up saying something snarky. It's just the degree of snark that changes. And some people actually respond better to the mean option than the nice one, and it actually affects things that happen in the game later.

The Bard is basically the definition of an anti-hero, he's very reluctant to take on any "quests", especially if they're for glory and nobility or anything that doesn't benefit him directly. And it makes fun of the traditional quest-to-save-the-world game, with Chosen Ones and everything.

It has some crude humor in it -- you can probably tell that from the "coins and cleavage" bit -- but if you don't mind that and like amoral heroes and poking fun at traditional games, it's really awesome. Or, um, I think so anyway. Also, it takes place in a medieval Europe type setting, with ugly people and huts and the works.

[squeemu.livejournal.com]

Also, holy crap. Did I use enough small text? NOTE TO ME: IT IS OKAY TO USE NORMAL SIZED FONT.

[nano_moose]

Ah, okay - but I warn you, you don't know what you've started. I can go on for hours about things I like. Forgive me if I'm not entirely coherent, I just got back from a themepark day and I'm so tired I think I might melt.

OKAY. Half-life 2. The greatest thing about the Half-life series is that there are no cutscenes. None at all. You are always behind Gordon's eyes, watching things take shape from his point of view, and the story is told through all the little details around you. Like, in the first game, you're right there as the experiment goes wrong, and before it happens everything is so ordinary - your collegues say hi as you walk past them, you can blow up the microwave and buy drinks from a vending machine. There's this great sense of a whole world out there beyond your control.

The design of the creatures in Half-life 2 is even more amazing. The Metrocops - Combine police - have eerie, surgically white masks, and they yell things like 'amputate!' 'outbreak!' and as they die you hear a sound like a heart monitor winding down. And the Striders - giant, three-legged bio-mechanical warmachines - are the most terrifying enemies in the whole game - they're nimble and graceful in a weird way, and they have a 'singularity cannon' that can disintergrate things and punch holes in walls. Everything Combine is crushingly oppressive; faceless blue-black metal towers and rippling energy shields like water and soldiers from nowhere in endless waves, masked and with harsh, distorted voices.

When I say it is a game with views, I mean there are moments where the scenery and design demand your attention. Moments of incidental beauty, such as when you're skidding down a river in an airboat and you watch the sunset over a perfect concrete dam, and the water is beautiful and the world is peaceful and then a gunship screams over your head and you remember.

Also, there is an absent-minded scientist who bumps his head on things and has a pet alien, and Barney, who makes jokes and is generally cheerfully brave, and Alyx, who is kind-hearted and machine-obsessed and totally kickass, and Dog, who is a giant robot that can dance and crush things.

Hah! I have no school at all! Or a job or - er.

Heeee, I love it when the main characters are awful human beings and they totally embrace it. I think the Bard turned up at Hogwarts Hocus, once. I want to play it now! Crude humour I think I can deal with, as long as it's not too cringe-worthy. Tony Jay...where do I know him from?

...Oh man. I just googled him and found out he died in August. Oh, man, that's awful - look at all the roles he did!

WEIRD SPAM ALERT - Steven Russell is apparently enquiring about my health. Er. I'm flattered, dude, can I ask you to read the phone book to me in Garrett's voice? You know, to cheer me up?

[squeemu.livejournal.com]

Themepark days are the best days. Unless it rains and all the rides shut down, but that's still fun because the tea cup rides are still going and you get soaking wet. ...It's possible my definition of "fun" is a bit off.

Do you ever see what Gordon looks like ever? But man, that sounds cool and creepy and awesome. I want to blow things up in the microwave! And I love it when games include things like that to make the world feel real, or when they spend the time to program things that should really be there but don't have a purpose in the game but that you can still access. Makes it seem that much more real.

The Metrocops sound awesome, and by awesome I mostly mean really disturbingly creepy. And man, it sounds like Half-life 2 is really good with the atmosphere. (Parts of this description remind me of Beyond Good and Evil and I'm not sure why. Probably more because of what I thought BGaE was going to be like and less of what it actually was. Hmm.) Man. Gotta try playing it sometime, although I have the sneaking suspicion I'll be useless.

Also, Dog sounds awesome. All robots should be programmed to dance.

If there was anyway I could flail and force you into playing The Bard's Tale without being a complete jerk, rest assured I would be doing it. And, um, also if I could do it and not be worried that you wouldn't like it and hate me forever.

WHAT TONY JAY IS DEAD? He was so one of my favourite voice actors ever, up there with James Earl Jones and... uh... I can't think of anyone else. I'd say Steven Russell if I'd played Thief, but. I have to go buy everything Tony Jay was in now. (I don't know if you've seen ReBoot, but he was Megabyte's voice actor.)

There should be some sort of test for good voice actors: "Would you want to hear them read the phone book? And would it be interesting?" I would so listen to Tony Jay reading the phone book.

I so read my spam subject lines every so often to laugh. Hilarity! I thought I got one once that said it was from President Milkman which made me think of Psychonauts, and the Milkman running for office, but it didn't actually say that at all.

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'Twas a very sunny day for us! SO we went on the log ride and got soaked and then kept up a long litany of complaints all the way to the next ride and beyond. "I'm squelching. Squelch squelch squelch. There's water in my shoes!" "There's water in my shirt!" "There's water in my hair!" "There's water in my pants!" Ah, what a day. I actually managed to get on a few roller-coasters, even though normally I'm too much of a chicken. My friends kept asking if I was alright on the way up, so: "I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fineI'mfineI'mfineI'mfineI'mAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaahhh...!" I don't know, that defintion of fun sure beats getting boxed up in metal, flung around like a dishrag, and then being dropped from thirty stories up.

He's on the boxart! He's got glasses and a goatee and brown hair and pretty green eyes. But in the game, never. You can pretty much make of him what you like (like you have with Joshua?). Though, you sort of get little hints of what he's maybe like from his history - he seems like a pretty good scientist, and apparently friendly and charismatic (since in the second game everyone has somehow come to revere him as their saviour). Yes! Little details, stuff you only notice if you're looking. Thief has a lot of that, actually. Make sure you read all the notes and books you find around. My favourite is the list you find in a prison that has reasons why the prisoners have been incarcarated. One guy is there for being drunk and disorderly, there's another for vandalism, another for drunkness and he's there because his wife is annoyed at him...and then there's Garrett, who got: 'Burglery, posession of stolen goods, thievery, pickpocketing, resisting arrest, assaulting a city watch officer, assaulting another city watch officer, breaking and entering, verbal assault of an officer, etc.' Didn't go down quietly, it seems. I would love to have heard what that verbal assault entailed. XD

DISTURBINGLY CREEPY, oh man. Ravenholm fits that description down to a tee. The whole game is pretty unsettling, just in how much it all implies and never says. There's the moment you find out what the cops really are - not Combine, it's a fair bit more horrible than that - and where all the children went, and the way everything is so very quiet away from the cities, without animals or fish or anything. It's one of those games where I can play 'what am I hearing' and get more than one answer. Like, helicopter, water, distant gunfire, wind, creaking ropes, machines somewhere. But you won't see any if it if you don't look.

I apparently sound like an advertisment when I'm sleepy. Weird.

Heee! I'd love to pick it up sometime. Alas I am penniless.

Apparently so. Man, that sucks. I recognize a few of his roles, too - Frollo? He voiced Frollo? Wow. Jeez, we seem to be losing awesome voice-actors. Mako went out this year, too.

If you like, I could find you some vocal clips of Russell. I know there's at least one voice tribute that a fan made.

I got another one from Axel! I could joke about Kingdom Hearts, but I have never played it. Instead I will joke about Hungry Citiy: Shouldn't you be haunting your dad?

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I'm slightly terrified of roller coasters too, although I've been on some in Canada that I actually managed to really enjoy. I don't know if it's because they're lame enough in Canada that I can handle them, or if they're way better in Canada so I enjoyed them more and felt less sick afterwards. But I love the tea cups where you get to spin really fast. Also, it's crazy to thinka bout a warm sunny day, because here in Northern Hemisphere Land, the seasons are like, "HAY U GUYS, LETS BE RLY COLD."

That's awesome, he's on the box cover but you never actually see him in the game. (I loved that with the first MGS game, too, that screenshot that was never actually from the game. Oh, MGS, you're so Japanese.)

Arrest reports! That's awesome! ...see, okay, this is what Shadowrun has done to me. Made me gleefully fond of paperwork. But seriously, I love that when games include tiny details like that. And it makes me like Garrett that much more, having fifty charges. And the poor drunk guy whose wife was annoyed at him! Hee. There were all sorts of them in SH2 that made the game that much creepier and actually, like, making sense. And stuff.

I so love the fandoms that make you work for information, but it's all there if you actually want to look for it. STOP MAKING ME WANT TO PLAY EVERYTHING! (I am lying, please don't actually stop.) Oh! That reminds me, I wanted to ask you about Splinter Cell. Good game?

I -- I don't know who Frollo is. Does that make me a bad perso? ...Aaaaand, Googling it, I see he was the incredibly disturbing guy from the Hunchback of Notre Dame! Man, that part with the fire disturbed me a ton growing up. And thus, it's the only part of the movie I actually remember.

MAN, Mako died? IROH! NOOO. (I, um, I haven't seen any recent episodes of Avatar, or I bet I would've realized this sooner.) And I totally want to hear Russell's voice, but I am also wanting to wait until I manage to grab a copy of Thief. I guess no for no, but I might get desparate enough in a week or so that I'll take you up on the vocal clips.

At least you haven't gotten any from Pyramid Head. Or Silent Hill. Or Mary. I'd start really worrying then. (I haven't played KH either! I was starting to think I was the only one out there who hadn't.) Hoho! BURN.

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The themepark I went to is famed for having one of the most terrifying rides ever, and gaaaaah just thinking about it makes me want to curl up on the floor. I am not very good at heights. But we did go on one where you spin around really fast! It was fun. I nearly threw up. A sure sign of quality. RIGHT NOW, in our crazy upside-down land, it's alternating cloud and sun because the wind is apparently going for a speed record. All the washing's gone to one side of the line, it's pretty amazing. I'm wondering if any second now it'll make a bid for freedom, horrible horrible freedom.

The original PC release had the choice of - hmm, I think Gordon or Alyx or the G-man (he's the besuited guy who talks funny). I'm pretty sure in the game there wasn't even a character model for Gordon. (Isn't it, though. Oh, Kojima, you so crazy, don't ever stop being awesome.)

Heee! Fondness for paperwork! Don't worry, you're not alone. You probably haven't replayed Thief three times in order to find all the paper/loot/scenery/conversation you missed out on. (I'm on my third playthrough right now, trying to do something differently than I did the first time before our Xbox blew up). Yeah, I love that guy, he never even says anything, but the guard mocks him and it's hilarious. That WHOLE mission is completely optional - you might play through the whole game without triggering it. Which is great. "There was a HOLE here. It's gone now." I remember seeing that and just feeling vaguely creeped out with how little sense it made. And that whole door into darkness thing - which does make sense, later, and it gives me the raging heeby-jeebies just thinking about it. Brrrr.

I WILL NEVER STOP. (Oooh, you haven't heard me in real life. Since I rarely get the opportunity to babble about things I adore, I sort of seem to bottle it up until I'm asked, and then they drown in a tsunami of blithering fangirl. You'd be amazed at how quiet I am until then.) Splinter Cell is - hmmm. I kind of meh it, but it does a better job of seeming like a real 'stealth' game than MGS. I just don't think the story is that compelling (I don't like Tom Clancy) but the environments are pretty high on the wow meter. It's just cause I don't like my games to be too realistic, if that makes any sense.

I WAS SO CREEPED OUT BY THAT MOVIE. Especially with the gargoyle thing at the end. Blarrrgh. I watched it again a little while ago and went "...Sheesh. No wonder I was so afraid of it, this thing is whacked, yo." I also went, "PHOEBUS IS VOICED BY THE GUY WHO PLAYS TULIO :D :D :D :D" because, well, blithering fangirl. He is, too. I am an enormous dork in that I still love all my Disney movies. Fuck the misogynism, THEY'RE STILL AWESOME MOVIES.

Throat cancer. It totally sucks. I think Iroh's staying on the show, though, and they're getting someone else who'll sound like Mako as much as possible. Because Iroh rocks and is fabulous and great. (They don't air it over here, narrrgh, and I don't have pay TV, narrrgh, so I haven't seen most of season 2 and am basically stuffing socks in my ears goin LALALA whenever someone starts talking about it because I DON'T WANT TO BE SPOILED FOR THIS GLORIOUS SHOW.)

Okay! His range is pretty astonishing, though. He can do Totally Gruff and Badass and Adorably Drunk and Singing Happily and Really Goddamn Creepy and, er, A Speech Impediment That Stops Clocks. A lot of his voices sound nothing like each other. He's in System Shock, as well, and he does one of the voices of The Many which arrrrgh. "You are so very alone." You only have to ask, remember! I am hoping you get to play it.

I think I did get a few from a Mary, but she was telling me how I was such a manly stud and I needed to fornicate RIGHT NOW, in somewhat broken English. And there was a Sunderland. That one tried to get me to send them money. James, I didn't think you'd fallen that far.

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What ride is it? There is this ride I keep seeing advertised where you get strapped into this... hammock thing and basically free fall for awhile and then swing back and forth. The falling looks absolutely terrifying, but I think I'd rather like the swinging. It'd be like flying, seems like. You could pretend you were Superman, stuck in some sort of cocoon. Or, uh, something. I AM NOT CRAZY. Silly laundry, doesn't it know that freedom is forward, not backwards, upwards, not forwards, and always twirling, twirling? (That would sure sound extremely crazy if you had no idea what I'm talking about! BUT I AM NOT CRAZY.)

Oh, thank goodness I'm not alone. And while I haven't played Thief, I am currently replaying Shadowrun from the beginning in order to get an awesome deck early on so I can get all the emails I missed out the first time. And, er, I spent about an hour yesterday trying to find Toothpick Man so I could attack him. And the guards mock him? Hee! I ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO PLAY THIS GAME. Have you ever played any of the other Silent Hill games? I've never played the third or fourth ones, although I've heard they go in for the gore instead of the general creepiness. (I don't get that. To me, gore = gross, not really creepy. Radios that have static and you know a horrible monster is out there but you have no idea where it could be anywhere oh god -- THAT is scary. To me.)

The first one has some extremely creepy parts, although the voice acting is kind of bad. Like, there's this part where you go into a room and there is suddenly REALLY AWFUL MUSIC HOLY CRAP -- and there's nothing there. You think, but you're never really sure because you run out as soon as possible because the music.

I'm usually pretty quiet in real life, too. Especially since most of my friends aren't really into the same fandoms (or aren't into fandoms AT ALL) I am. Baco's pretty much the only person I've interacted with in real life who's shared most of my fandoms, and then it's pretty hard to get me to shut up. Is Tom Clancy an actual character? I was thinking it was, like, some crazy brand name or something. Which, um, doesn't make a whole lot of sense, now that I think about it.

Okay, see, here is a prime example of how I pick up information about Seattle. I was going, "Okay, don't know who Tulio is," googled it, went, WHAT WHY ARE ALL OF THE RESULTS ABOUT A SEATTLE RESTAURANT FLAIL. What happened with the gargoyle at the end? I can't remember. I think I was terrified of approximately half the Disney movies I watched as a kid, which still didn't stop me from watching Peter Pan over and over. (Tiger Lily! The ticking crocodile! The Lost Boys! AUGH.) And Mary Poppins, although I don't remember if it was actually made by Disney or not. (I was terrified of the old banker, too. I don't know if it was because he was just generally mean, or if it was because even as I child I sensed he was abou to keel over dead at any minute.) I love The Emperor's New Groove. I think I've made all my friends watch it, even though they usually go, "Ewwwww, Disney cooties!" But they all love it by the end, so.

I don't have any excuse for not watching Avatar because we do have pay TV and it is aired here, I just... don't really watch TV ever. Do you download episodes, then, or do you get the DVDs? Because it sucks not being able to watch things, I'm still insanely curious about the second season of Doctor Who and Torchwood.

I want to hear these voice clips as soon as I have bought Thief and heard his voice. Unless of course they're from the game, that might be a little pointless. They all sound awesome, though.

I cannot stop laughing at your spam. James is probably trying to get you to send him money so he can pay Mary for the fornication. Oh, James. She's not your Mary, she is clearly just another Silent Hill puppet who is trying to lure you into back into its clutches.

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The ride I'm referring to is called the Giant Drop. They strap you up into a chair, you rise something like thirty stories into the air, hang there for a while, and then plummet. Apparently it's so high up your ears pop from the air pressure. A few of my friends did it; I stayed happily on the ground and ate gummy worms. Best day ever! (Also, the reason I took so long about continuing our conversation of d00m is because I was getting tarted up for our Formal dance, and then going to the Formal dance, and then sleeping a lot. Everything smells like lipgloss.) YOU'RE NOT CRAZY. UNLESS YOU CLASS SIMPSONS QUOTERS AS CRAZY, BUT IF YOU DO, WE'RE ALL BEYOND AID AND WE'D HAVE TO BUILD MORE ASYLUMS. *thumbs up*

We can be obsessive and make others edge away from us together! With the paperwork thing. Although lots of the best games have entertaining paperwork - just look at Monkey Island (so many dreadful puns!). It's just the one guard, actually, the others are too busy making fun of you for getting caught. Not very popular, is our Garrett. Not good with the people skills. Silent Hill - I played the third one. It is a bit gorier than SH2, and less about the darkness that lurks within each and all of us and more about, er, crazy hell cult. Although it did have a completely hilarious reference to SH2. I was mmming a little bit about the decision to include a machine gun, though, because - well, this is Silent Hill. You're meant to feel helpless. Oooh! But there's one bit that creeped me out beyond all reason - the infamous mirror bit. It can be summed up, "OH MY GOD, WHAT IS HAPPENING TO MY REFLECTION!?" I really do prefer the plot of SH2. More emotionally affecting, I found. It's so human.

Pointless musical stings! I recall those in SH2. Man, every time the music decided to speed up, there went my heart rate. Jamesy must have nerves of steel. (By which I mean, a really strong desire to see Mary again, oh James.)

TOM CLANCY IS NOT A CHARACTER HE IS AN AUTHOR WHO LIKES CONSPIRACY THEORIES. That is why all his books and games have spies in them. Also I think he likes guns a lot. And planes.

...Resturant? Er. He's actually a Spanish conman, in the movie Road to El Dorado. It is my happy movie, though it's Dreamworks, not Disney. And, um, the gargoyle – Quasimodo and Esmeralda are dangling off the side of the cathedral, Frollo's trying to kill them both (while below them a battle rages between Frollo's guards and the gypsies and townspeople, in which a huge cauldron of molten lead had been dumped over the streets). He's drawn his knife and looms over them with smoke and sparks behind him, and says, "And he shall smite the wicked and plunge them into the fiery pit!" (I remember it word for word, for some reason. It's playing in my head now) but he loses his balance, catches hold of a gargoyle…I can't remember if Quasi tries to reach down for him or not, but either way, Frollo sees it snarl at him, he screams, it breaks, and he falls to his death in the lead. The fiery, lava-like lead. Also, just before he falls, he was coloured in such a way as to make his skin red and his eyes yellow. (Fie, I say! Disney movies used to rock, before they started going crazy with those awful sequels.)

We don't have the DVD's, either, so I watched them on youtube and pretty much loved every second. The thing is, it devours bandwidth with voraciousness unanticipated and we have a limit.

Some of them are, most of them aren't, all of them are awesome, although the guy who made the tribute seems to have a fondness for coughing guards. It boggles me how different they all sound, though some of them are pretty recognizable as the same guy doing them. Garrett seems to have changed a bit between games, too; his voice is a bit deeper in Deadly Shadows.

…YOU ARE HORRIBLE FOR PUTTING THE THOUGHT OF SILENT HILL SPAM IN MY HEAD.

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Blaaargh. I went on a ride that sounds very similar, although I don't think it was as extreme. The whole ride, including the waiting line, was themed for The Twilight Zone, so we were all strapped into an "elevator" or something. And then they'd take your picture at some point so you could buy the worst photo of you ever taken. The lesson I took with me was that my reaction to being horribly afraid is very strange, because I looked completely normal and slightly bored, even though the entire time I was holding myself very rigidly in place. It would've been so much worse if it was open-air, though, with the ground rushing towards you. Gaaaaah. (How was the dance? I remember mine had horrible music that was impossible to actually dance to. Also, I think it was the last time I've worn make up.)

I think I should put paperwork, or possibly "hearting paperwork" as one of my interests. I have a feeling I would get some karma backlash during my next job, though. I don't think I like paperwork that much. Did the SH2 reference involve a toilet? I think I might have heard about that. And what? Machine guns don't belong in Silent Hill! Although, if I remember correctly, in the first SH you get a chainsaw at some point. It takes a really long time to use, so it's not very practical, but it's kind of hilarious. And I love how everything in Silent Hill can be tied to everyone's characters in some way. It's amazing, and probably the only SH I am willing to play over and over again. Not that I, er, have, but I've seen it played at least three times! And want to play it again!

Oh! An author. That explains why his name sounded so familiar. Does he like snakes in planes? Because if so, he is no good whatsover. All of the action conspiracy novels I've tried to read I've found very boring. I'm not sure what that says about me.

I don't know! It was "Turio Restarante" or something crazy and Italian. In Seattle. I've never seen the Road to El Dorado! I'm assuming it's very good, if it's your happy movie. (Where do these people get molten lead? That's not the sort of thing you want to make available to the rioting public.) Man. Man. That movie was so scary. (As a kid, I hated the Beauty and the Beast movie because of the rioting people, too. Seriously, that part terrified me and I vowed to never watch and I still haven't. Although two years ago, when I worked at my university cafeteria, I heard this group of guys talking about it and arguing which song went first and how you pronounced the French bits.) Man, total agreement on the awful sequels. Disney, what are you doing. Stop ruining yourselves. And -- man, I was so upset when I heard they were going to stop doing traditional animation.

Aw, limited bandwith sucks. I had that for awhile -- kind of -- and we had to pay extra for anything else we used, and, uh, I managed to get a pretty big bill. But now we've switched to something else, which is much, much better.

OH MAN I TRIED LOOKING FOR THIEF TODAY IT WASN'T IN ANY STORES. *CRIES* It's okay, though, I can order straight from the Eidos website, AND THAT IS WHAT I'M GOING TO DO. Sometime. Probably soon, but I want to see if my parents want to offer to pay for it as an early Christmas present.

Silent Hill spam is better than Silent Hill text messaging, though. If James had a phone, he'd get all these texts from "MARY" that said things like, "COME BACK TO OUR SPECIAL PLACE, JAMES," and "THERE WAS LOVE HERE, IT'S GONE NOW." And "I KNOW YOU STILL MISS ME, JAMES."

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It is VERY HIGH UP and the very thought of it makes me narrgh. Sounds like thunder when it goes down, actually. I took a photo of it from near the bottom of the tower so you could see just how high it was - as soon as I get it off my friends, I'll show it to you. I can't remember how I react to being terrified out of my wits - I think I attempt to be cheerful and crack bad jokes, or try to assure everyone that I am fine when I am not. (It was fun! I may tend to fail at girl but in this case it was nice seeing everyone dressed up. And the band was neat and played things all jazzy-like.)

Heee, hearting paperwork. Or maybe it should be entertaining paperwork? Because workpaperwork isn't very entertaining. Or at least I don't think it is - I've had to go through a ton of paperwork to get my damn passport. And more for the census. And even more for the QCS. The reference did indeed involve a toilet - you tell Heather to reach in and pull something out of it, and she bends over - then turns around and informs the camera that that's gross, who could ever, ever do something like that? I laffed. Poor James. ...Man, that's how you can sum up everything in the world for him, isn't it? Also, you get a chainsaw in SH2 as well. In my save game I've got it, but my brother made off with the game. Apparently if you stand still with it for long enough he screams for no reason. I DO KIND OF LIKE THAT GAME EVEN THOUGH I AM SO TERRIFIED OF IT. Although, in SH3, I did jump at shadows. Like, actually jump when I was looking around with the flashlight and a set of bars cast this striped kind of shadow.

(...I am currently very amused, because there is an icon of Christ on a pogostick that is bouncing in time with What If God Was One Of Us. Hee hee! Lookit him bounce!)

He is an author. I am not sure how good he is, but his subject matter does not particularly interest me...Although I am guilty of reading action-conspiracy novels, but that was because it was Matthew Reilly and he doesn't even pretend to know what he's talking about, he just likes explosions and – yes, I know. I'm sorry. (MAN I JUST NOTICED YOU HAVE A SILENT HILL MAP ICON AND IT IS AWESOME.)

Road To El Dorado! It is about two Spanish conmen named Miguel and Tulio who find a map to the City of Gold, accidentally stow away on a ship heading for the New World and stumble upon it, then get mistaken for gods. The plot's kind of...eh, but the two conmen are awesome. They banter and crack bad jokes and Miguel is this adorable blond puppy-eyed dork who craves ADVENTURE!! while Tulio is conniving and greedy and dark-haired and spazzy. Also it is animated and involves animal companions and a hot Aztec chick named Chel who is in on their scam. I love it like puppies and kittens, mostly because the two voice actors have incredible timing and the script is awesome. "Miguel! What's happening?" "We're both in barrels. That's the extent of my knowledge." They make bets at inappropriate times and cheat people and *headwall* and *facepalm* and have mock sword-fights and yes, it is my happy movie. And even though slash subtext usually bounces off my head with a hollow doink kind of sound, I can definitely see it here, but I'd really prefer it if they just went on arguing and having adventures for the rest of time, Chel included. ...Now that I think about it, it's probably my very first OT3, even though I had no idea what fandom was when I first watched it. (Apparently when Disney ate Pixar, the Pixar people made them reopen their traditional animation! And they're making original movies again! The news fills me with joy.)

We don't have to pay for the extra, it just slows down. The problem is that my dad explodes every time it happens. He says we use enough for a small business in less time than the business would. (We are geeks, dad. What do you expect?)

OH MAN. THAT SUCKS. I – I kinda really want you to play it now so I can fangirl it with you but I don't know if you'll like it. Eeeee. I hope you do. Man, scabbing money from parents is the only way to do things.

...AGH. STOP STOP I HATE MOBILES ALREADY WHY DID YOU HAVE TO DO THAT.

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It's my turn now to be late to answering. MY DOG ATE MY INTERNET! I MEAN -- I had a lot of homework to do. And was really tired by the time I finished, and ended up falling into bed.

Man, see, that would definitely be the sort of ride I would sit out. And eat candy, and laugh at my friends for being dumb brave enough to try it. PICTURES! YAY! I love seeing people post pictures, because it makes me go THIS MEANS THEY ARE REAL PEOPLE AND NOT JUST TALKING ROBOTS. Which is ridiculous, because if robots could talk well enough to deceive people, they could probably also find photos to share on the Internet. And then LIE about them. I can totally relate to using bad humor in bad situations, though. (And boy can I relate to failing at being a girl. Although a (female) friend of mine failed even more than I did -- she wore a tuxedo to our prom. I was so jealous. Your dance sounds so much better than mine. Mine just had tons of really loud rap music. And I think at one point "How Much is that Doggie in the Window?")

I also heart other people doing paperwork. Like, random guards and stuff in the background, not real people doing paperwork. It's definitely less awesome in real life. What's QCS? *LOL*, that's great! Toilets. Oh James, when you're not facing down horrible demons, you have to face down everyone making fun of you for sticking your hand in places it should never ever go. Oh! Maybe I'm thinking of Silent Hill 2 with the chainsaw, then. And, um, did I get across properly that I love SH2 and play it a lot? Not just SH? Because I think I've only played SH once. And I hated the shadows so much, you would turn around and something would move and it would be either a shadow or Maria. Or, you know, sometimes a nurse.

(There is? Where? I think that church attendance would go way up if they had things like this to lure people there. "Come see Jesus on a pogo stick! He's got rhythm and soul!")

Aww. The description of the Road to Eldorado makes me think of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, except I've been told that it actually isn't the same at all. Butch Cassidy had my first ever OT3 in it. I didn't know what to do at all, as a general rule I disapprove of them but there it was. I want to see it now, but I hardly ever rent movies, so. It might be awhile. (Also, now I'm really curious what slash subtext you have picked up on. I think I tend to pick up more than I really should, but my definition of slash usually doesn't actually include any physical romance.) (Oh, thank you, Pixar. I really hope they can continue to have a positive influence on Disney, so it doesn't end up spiraling horribly out of control again.)

Aw, slow Internet is really frustrating. Especially because so many sites keep having really high-memory graphics and design and everything. (It is in the dictionary! geek, n. an expert in computers and receives sustenance only from the Internet.)

I am determined to at least try it. Even if I have to go knocking door to door, asking everybody if they maybe own a copy.

I kept getting these random text messages from an unknown person about a month ago. They eventually stopped sending them to me, but for awhile there it was very strange. Who is this James person you keep talking about? I don't know anyone named Mary! I hope I didn't get charged for them. (I don't actually use my mobile ever, I just keep it on because my dad will randomly phone me to ask me something and then yell at me for having it off. "SAFETY!" he says and "INSTANT ACCESS!" and I say, "But we have managed without them for years.")

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No worries! I discovered that our copy of Half-life 2 actually works on our replacement X-box (yes, I own and play the X-box, and confess this sin every day to my PS2. It forgives me) and spent a happy few hours engaged in therapeutic destruction, as the Soothing British Voice informed me that my 'Anticitizen status' had been approved. I think that's Combinespeak for "We're sending in the robots. Seriously, Freeman, you're boned."

Apparently when my sister went on it, they got to the top, and the dude beside her said, "Hey! That guy's double-parked!" allowing them moments of confused rather than terrified silence before they dropped. Hee. I will email them and ask for the photos. Oooh, your robot thing reminds me of a book I saw that was a detailed and straight-faced guide to what to do in the event of a robot uprising. It even had a section for identifying robots pretending to be human. That book is completely on my Christmas list. (So did my friend, actually! Wore a tux, I mean. She looked awesome and had a cane. Now all we need is a dude to turn up in a dress and it would have been the best dance ever. It was pretty cool; they gave us roses at the door and did up the hall real nice. Gah, rap music. If they're going to talk to the beat, could they at least talk about something that isn't themselves, their ho's, or their car? Or at least do it vaguely poetically? ...Now I totally want to hear Shakespearian rap.)

Man, imagine a paperwork game. "PRESS X TO SIGN. PRESS CIRCLE TO ADD PHOTO. DOUBLE-TAP TRIANGLE TO TICK THE YES BOX. BLOCK LETTER BONUS!!!" The QCS is short for Queensland Core Skills. It's the Big Test we have to do so the government can tell if we know how to read and multiply numbers. You're not meant to study for it - my practice one had a section on juggling. Silent Hill 3 had a bunch of references to SH2, actually. At one point you're talking to this detective guy who mentions a missing persons case in Silent Hill; he says he "never did find him." I know for a fact there is at least one in SH4. Poor James. Poor Mary. Also, GAH MARIA. I open a door and walk in and ARRGH oh it’s you how are you in here already?

(WOULDN'T IT. I have gone to Church nearly every Sunday of my life and we never had anything that entertaining. Jesus was an awesome guy – I'm sure he would approve of himself being presented that way.)

I'm just tossing the fandoms your way, aren't I? And, ooh, subtext. Hmm. Well, Tulio is very careful to keep Miguel away from Chel, citing his reasons as he's afraid it'll distract him (which, uh, isn't all that hard to believe – blond-d00d has the attention span of a gnat sometimes) but when he gets involved with her himself, he says something to the effect of "Forget Miguel" and it could be misunderstood as him saying that he wants to leave Miguel behind in the city when he leaves. Miguel gets really, really upset when he overhears this. Later both Miguel and Tulio essentially give up everything they have ever wanted ever just so they could stay friends and keep adventuring together, and even when they're mad at each other they work together really well. They're both big dreamers and bad planners (Chel's a bit more practical and less inclined to sudden attacks of "DUUHUH") and they both react exactly the same way to their fight: like twelve-year-olds. Also, they have a secret handshake. And hug, I think. It's both a completely adorable platonic friendship and the slashiest movie ever. (GO PIXAR GO. Also enough with the 3D movies already – it's getting old.)

Knock knock. "Excuse me, do you have a copy of Thief?" *slam* Knock knock. "Excuse, I was wondering if you have a copy of a video game created by Ion St-" *slam* Oooh! Maybe you could pull a Garrett, sneak into their house, knock them out and steal the game?

...I have just received a spam email from "Jaxon Jackson." I don't think they're trying any more. And another one with the subject "About the Thanksgiving pie you want to eat". Is that meant to be a euphemism? I can't tell with you people. Also, MY DAD IS TOTALLY LIKE THAT. Even though I use it approximately three times a year and the credit vanishes after a month. Those things are like throwing money into a hole in the ground.

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I am going to be incredibly slow replying to everything, just so you know. Thanksgiving + friends from out of town = no time for anything else.

Was the Half-life 2 originally for something else? Because if so, that's really awesome. (I have no grudge against the X-box! I have never used one, so I can't say I'd remain grudgeless if I had, but I don't hate it just because it's Microsoft. I do like my PS2 a lot, though.) Mmm, therapeutic destruction. I bet video games actually reduce a lot of violence.

That's great! It's my new goal in life to be the guy that diffuses terrified/awkward/whatever moments by saying something incredibly confusing and spontaneous. Photos! I will continue to remind you about this until I actually get to see them, just so you know. Dude, that robot book sounds awesome. If you get it, you totally have to put quotes up, or share the advice, or something. It's something ever human dedicated to the survival of their species should know. (Man! Roses! That's way nicer than ours. I think we got glow sticks or something. CLASSY. They can't rap about their bling, either. Although that might fit under the category of themselves.

ODE TO MY HO

She got a fine ass
And eyes like glass
Smooth skin like diamond
And listens to my rhymin'

She the ho fo' me
Why can't all my brutha's see
I want to be her pimp
Forever until death

...I can't believe I just wrote that. Shakespeare rap would be awesome though. Googling it, apparently some people have tried it. If you go here, there are some links at the bottom where you can see part of an actual production. In rap. It's... a little painful and unintelligible, but maybe that's just me.)

Hee! Paperwork game! I -- dammit, I really shouldn't be heeing about this. I MEAN -- BORING! VERY, VERY BORING. And oh man, big tests. It's interesting, though, that you're not meant to study them, because here we have tons of books and classes on how to take Big Important Tests. It's even more intimidating because of it. ...AUGH MISSING PERSONS CASE. THAT IS TERRIBLE. Oh man. I don't know how they did that, but the second game just got that much creepier.

(I bet that the message would reach a lot more people, too. It's totally a win-win situation.)

Mm, delicious new fandoms. It's always so exciting, though, when you find a new one that's really awesome. I cannot blame Miguel for being upset about it! I probably would be too. Aw, secret handshake and hugging. (I love it when guys hug in movies/TV shows/real life just because it's so something that's Not Done in American culture. I'm not really sure about other cultures, but yeah.)

But first I would have to figure out which houses actually had Thief! Although I guess I could just break in anyway. For practice. And for fun! Possibly squirt some of the occupants with my water gun.

I have some spam from "Flatbed." Also from someone called "Profess." They aren't even trying to sound like real people anymore. The quality of spam has gone so downhill recently. I also got an email from a "Mr. Blanchard" titled "tray." WHAT. And really, anything these days can be considered a euphemism, it just depends how you say it. And whether it is followed by, "DISCOUNT ON VIAGRA." And seriously, cell phone companies are pretty much, "Hey! We want your money!" and everyone else is like, "Cool! You can have $300." They are very angrifying. (ANGRIFYING IS TOTALLY A WORD.)

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You Americans and your heathen celebrations. It all seems like an attempt to wipe out the turkey race to me. What do you people have against them, anyway?

It wasn't! The Xbox is surprisingly bitchy about sticking in things it can't play – I mean, the PS2 will acknowledge it's an Xbox game, the 'box just tells you it can't read it. Also, I just discovered that 'Xbox' is in the Word dictionary and Playstation is not. Ah, Microsoft. Anyway, the old Xbox, the one which blew up (well, broke, but blew up is funnier), refused to read the Half-Life 2 disc even though there wasn't anything wrong with it. That's what causes video game violence, I'd say: unexplained technological dumbfuckery.

So, essentially, your life's goal is to be Xander Harris? THUMBS UP. I will harass them constantly. I might even show you me looking like a little girl playing dress-ups and looking inexplicably bored. One thing I remember from flicking through the book: do not enter your house if it's one of those new-fangled fully automated ones. The AI will completely control your environment and that is BAD. There was a zombie one too, I think. These authors are clearly forward-thinking individuals and we must heed them before it is too late. By Shakespearian rap, I meant rap as written by Shakespeare, though you version is – an intriguing take on the idea. I realise Shakes' is rather obstructively dead. That link kind of reminds me of what our local university does every year, where they stage a complete production outdoors under the stars. I've seen them do…hmm. Comedy of Errors and The Taming of the Shrew, and a preview for their Macbeth, next year. It's awesome wacky fun, with blankets and snacks and great costumes and really weird things happening out of nowhere – such as them suddenly breaking into Thriller or an unexpected Matrix parody.

VERY BORING. That is of course what I meant it to be. It is totally not my secret ambition to create a video game with sketches for graphics. We had classes on how to take it, it's just - it's no later than Year 10 stuff, it's really about what you have to be able to do to function in society. Also it let me write depressing things about astronauts and completely twist quotes to be more interesting. It's fairly easy if you know what you're doing. OH, AND IT GETS WORSE IN SH4, BECAUSE THEN YOU MEET JAMES' FATHER. HE IS A DECENT GUY.

(Better than all the buzzwords I have to put up with. Sheesh, Church, you know what would help? IF YOU STOPPED BEING SUCH WANKERS ABOUT, WELL, EVERYTHING. MOVE WITH TIMES. THAT WAS THE WHOLE POINT OF JESUS. GGHSLKFSHFJjsh;djhhkff why am I still Christian oh yeah because dammit it's a good message. Argh. Sorry for the random religious spasm, I've been prone to those lately.)

The fight makes me very sad. Er, the movie was lynched by the critics, though. (I rather like men showing any affection at all in popular media, and also when they are dorks. Yay JD! Yay Scrubs for having all that and more! Scrubs is also one of my Happy things. Also this culture sometimes seems to be trying to be American, but I think we have better gun laws and labour laws and no death penalty and cities renowned for Teh Ghey. Won't take too long for the labour laws to change, though – heard of the AWA?)

Doooo iiiiit! I will be your alibi. I wonder if it's possible to Plead Internets in court? It totally should be. Not that you would get caught. Especially with the water pistol.

Now a bunch of people with suspiciously ordinary names are uploading software and I do not know these people and would they please stop adverting Thanksgiving everywhere? Also they are speaking l33t. Also the Health Spam is back, but Stephen has apparently come to his senses (and stopped spelling his name), so I've got one from 'Malik' instead. And 'Doti'.(IT SO IS. IT'S A PRFECTLY CROMULENT WORD.)

ALSO ALSO I MUST THANK YOU FOR THE SONG THAT GOT FROM YOU THROUGH THEBACONFAT TO ME. I like it a lot. It is on my Nano. I'll have to come up with a way to thank you both and also curse you for putting the idea of a Hungry City FST in my brain.

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Actually, very boring interesting story about that! Way back when The Founding Fathers first went, OMG HAY YOU GUYS FREE LAND! and decided they needed a national bird, Benjamin Franklin was like, "HAY TURKEYS R COOL." And everyone else went, "Um... let's pick the bald eagle. They're majestic and whatnot." And Ben was like, "OMG BUT TURKEYS --" and then he got struck by lightning, so that was taken care of. I probably shouldn't write history textbooks, ever.

Ahahaha!! That's hilarious. Oh, Microsoft, you're such a wanker. Thank goodness the new Xbox actually works though. Brings a new meaning to the term video game violence -- it's not violence caused by playing video games, it's violence caused to video games and their consoles.

Definitely. Other people can save the world, I'll bring the doughnuts. There is no power on earth that would convince me to keep Spike in my basement, though. I love him on the show (well... I love second season Spike, when he still had his fangs and his girl) but I think it's one of those loves that works best at a distance. Hooray for pictures! And I totally want to encourage you to put up a picture of tiny!you, but I'm paranoid about putting my own picture up (that and I have no scanner, something I cry about on a daily basis -- I probably wouldn't mind putting up a photo of tiny!me), so, er, I don't feel like I have the right to encourage it. I'd love to see it though!

I WOULD NEVER BUY A FANCY NEWFANGLED HOUSE. I've seen all those shows, they attack you even before the AI invasion. Zombies! Brilliant. I'm curious what they suggest you do for that, too. Besides just not letting yourself be surrounded in a house, or go walking through a cemetary. Rap written by Shakespeare would be genius. It's a shame he's dead. Then again, it would probably be filled with innuendos anyway. Your university productions sound awesome; we have something like that here, except it's just Shakespeare outdoors. We don't have anything about Matrix parodies. Sigh.

I can't help it. Paperwork! It'd be awesome, though, if over the course of a game you did have to fill out paperwork and you get various choices as to what you put (X - "Suspect arrested;" circle - "I need more coffee;" square - "Suspect looked like a mentally challenged rabbit high on crack" triangle - "Screw this, I'm going home."), and then you saw that paperwork sitting on someone's desk later. And there were consequences. I AM NOT THINKING ABOUT THIS TOO MUCH. But it definitely couldn't be a game just about paperwork, that would be too much, even for me. And dude! Sketches for graphics would be really cool. (It could even be related to your level; the more levels you got, the less sketchy your characters would be. Er. I'll shut up now.) Depressing things about astronauts? Twisting quotes? I'm intrigued! OH MAN, REALLY? AUGH. HE HAS A FAMILY! That is awful. Does the dad say anything about James?

(It's understandable. I'm a bit frightened, actually, with how hardcore fanatical everyone seems here. I know there are a growing number of churches that seem to believe if you sing musical praises to Jesus, you're going to hell. Obviously, they have a more complete Bible than I do, one that says Jesus hates music and happiness.)

I don't understand the critics at all. They only seem to agree with my opinion 45% of the time. Random question: what's your favourite Disney movie? Where, you know, Disney means animated children's movie. (Guys who are dorks = yes. I love JD and Turk's relationship so much, and I don't slash them at all, even though the reason why I love it is because they are perfectly comfortable forcing each other to be naked for various reasons and sleeping in the same bed, etc. etc. I think just about everywhere has better gun laws than the States. And, you know, less crime. HMM. COINCIDENCE? Okay! Done with the mini-rant. I don't know if I've actually heard anything about Teh Ghey cities before. And no, never heard of AWA before!)

And now this comment thread is going to split into two as well! Oh dear.

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I'm sure people've tried pleading Teh Intarwebs before. Just like they've tried pleading Not Guilty by Reason of Eating Too Much Sugar. SIGH. There is no need for B&E, though! I have ordered it! Although it won't get here for two weeks. GRAR. (I still want to go around squirting people with my water gun, though.)

How do the l33t sp34k3rs spell Thanksgiving? Because it doesn't seem like it would translate that well. 'Malik' for some reason makes me think of 'Dalek', which does not make very much sense. "EX-TERM-INATE! EX-TERM-IN-ATE! Please by our product!"

YOU'RE WELCOME! I'm really glad you liked it, it makes me ridiculously happy when other people like the same songs I like. I'll make sure to pass on the thanks! And dude, you should totally make a Hungry City FST, that would be so awesome.

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...Franklin sounds like the coolest guy ever. Maybe if he'd gotten his choice America wouldn't be such a bunch of giant bullying jerks to the other countries? Oh man, I don't know. If my history books had been so hilarious, I would have probably have gotten a better mark in Modern History.

I love how completely biased it is! Imagine the reasoning behind it – "So I type in the names of the two consoles – ZOMG!! Playstation is underlined in red! Red means BAD!!! Thank you for showing me the light, mighty word processor! I WILL GO BUY ALL THE RANDOM CRAP I NEED TO PLAY DVDS ON THE XBOX WHEN THE PS2 DOES IT RIGHT OFF THE BAT!!" I remember seeing a bunch of clips showing people doing all kinds of things to their computers because they were just so annoyed at them – flinging them from windows, pouring coffee into them, pulling out the keys, taking to the monitor with a sledge hammer. It was a bit scary. Erm...at least they're turning their aggressive tendencies towards the computers rather than another person?

Not even to listen to his babble, all carefully coded to be nonsensical sense? But I totally understand. I rather like all my limbs attached and my skin keeping my innards in and my blood being used to carry oxygen and nutrients around my body. It's not tiny!me – I just look like a little girl in the dress. Although I do have a picture of myself being a horrible, horrible child – cheerfully yanking the tail of one of our dogs, Stubby, while he wheels around to bite my sister, seated next to me. I wonder where it is. (Also I just remembered I will actually have to yell at my dad for some of the Formal photos, so, er, yeah.)

I would have thought zombies were more stinky than brilliant. I recall the advice not to rely on guns, because it'd be very hard to resupply. Also, don't set them on fire. You will get an angry fireball, and it'll take a while before it has any effect. One of the reasons I adore Shakespeare is because of all his innuendo! I remember flicking through my student's copy of Much Ado About Nothing and going "…So many sex jokes. Wow. Um, is there meant to be this many sex jokes?" and my English teacher just gave me this resigned sort of nod. It was bizarre, because all the YA lit they give us treats sex as this HUGE BIG ISSUE and Shakespeare's like, "PENIS! :D". The Drama class at our uni is cool. We met them a bunch of times doing Senior Drama, and they're insane. It's interesting watching them move, they all have this sort of – air about them, like everything is deliberate? And they can do spectacular things with their voices. Have you ever heard a dramatic vocal warm-up? Cuh-ray-zee.

That would be awesome! In Thief 2 you frame a dude with paperwork (I think) but that would be so cool! I can't think of anything that comes close to that…except maybe that weird personality test at the start of that RPG thing to find out what class to be. I ended up a thief. I always seem to. In my idea I was thinking that you would be trying to restore colour, and the better you were, the more intensely coloured you would be – er, it's actually part of a meme I might post later, about designing your own Mental World ala Psychonauts, but the idea grabbed on and wouldn't let go. One of the QCS sections is Writing Task. They give you this big spreadsheet full of quotes and pictures based around a theme, you pick one (or two, or as many as you like, but the fewer the better usually) and write six hundred words of anything except poetry. For my practice we had 'Discovery', and the quote I picked was something about the joy of seeing the world through new eyes, and it had a picture of a beautiful earth-scape – so naturally I had to make the story about the last moments of a stranded and dying astronaut watching an Earthrise from the moon. I did empty cities and bio-computers and freelance post-apocalyptic historians for the other ones I did. It's fun. And interesting finding about the stats of the pictures and stuff, because usually the better entries cluster around a particular quote or picture, and often it's the vaguest. HE DOES! Obliquely. Apparently his son and daughter-in-law went missing in Silent Hill. HMMM. Also AAUUUUGH.

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(There are? But the coolest Christians I ever met were this bunch of rockin' dudes that went around the Churches and shook them up a bit! WITH ROCK MUSIC. They weren't even obnoxious, they were so sweet and totally embodied the ideals of the Church when it is not being wanky. Also I met an ex-convict priest who was totally completely awesome once.)

Favourite movie…gosh. Probably it is a tie between The Lion King for making me cry over a movie for the first time (and man I rewatched later and I realized just how horribly sad that bit is – Simba yelling for help and, and, and there's no help for him except Scar and he's such a bastard, and also kind of awesomely snarky. I am twelve) and Aladdin because of the Genie. I adored him then and I adore him now. His animation is just so freaking cool! They imbue it all with so much personality! And I like Aladdin for being a different kind of hero – I remember one episode of the TV series had him up against this block-jawed idiot who never understood when to run away, which was neat. I wish I could watch Beauty and the Beast again, too, but we left the video in some distant town, in the VCR. (The most worrying thing about that show is that JD does stuff that I do! Like dancing to my iPod and singing songs when I'm alone in elevators and staring off in a random direction while I think to myself. COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT! Teh Ghey city is Melbourne. They celebrate it there. THE AWA! Basically it abolishes unions and lets the employer decide an employee's contract, and if the employee doesn't like it they can go find a new job. Despite, you know, the vicious protests we had to get unions in the first place and the fact that we don't really want working class poor and also because we don't really give a damn whether we can pass on the profits to us, the shareholders – what it does is make the rich richer. And it's people like me – inexperienced, first time workers – who will get the shaft, because we can't get any better. I do not understand how they can possibly think it's anything resembling a good idea.

(Squirt them anyway. In my city it would probably be welcomed – the weather's going HEY WHY DON'T WE GO ALL MUGGY LIKE AND MAKE NANO MELT ON THE FLOOR.)

The Thanksgiving person and the l33tsp34ak3ers are separate. More spam – one seemed to be asking me to join a revolution, and I thought "Wha - ? V uses spam now? Lacks style…" but it turned out to be a penis enlargement ad. Sigh. ("Malik" makes me think of Malak – the Sith Lord from KOTOR. But Daleks works too. Also, rofling.)

But what on earth would I make it about? And what would I put on it? My music taste is as aforementioned really inappropriate for FST making.

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Man, I started a reply to this last night and then there was a power failure and I lost it. At least it wasn't El Jay related this time. Franklin was a pretty cool guy, as far as I can tell! And it's true, turkeys seem to be less pride-and-arrogance-inspiring than eagles, but from what I know about turkeys (which could be completely made up) is that they are kind of huge jerks. Maybe I just like the image of turkeys getting into fights with each other, though.

Oh, corporate insanity. Will you ever learn? I can just picture the CEO meeting about it though: "You know, Bob, I was thinking. We should really put the Xbox in the spellcheck dictionary." "The Xbox, Dick? What's that -- oh yes. It's our tribute to the younger generation." Seriously, though. Did the higher ups make that decision, or the people trying to climb the ladder? ...you know, beating up a monitor with a baseball bat -- or sledge hammer! -- actually kind of sounds fun to me. Not my monitor, but. You know. A monitor. Reminds me of that scene in Office Space.

I would be absolutely delighted by his babble for the first ten minutes. This would slowly degrade to moderate glee, amused tolerance, slight annoyance, and end with utter hatred. Well, unless it was second season Spike, and then I would probably remain charmed for approximately a week, except I would probably be long since dead by the end. PICTURES! I would love to see photos, although I cannot guarantee that you will ever get to see a photo of me. I have a rep to maintain, after all. (Granted, it's just a rep of, "Squeemu's an emu!" but I know at least one person who would be very disappointed if I turned out to be human.) Again, though, the main problem being my utter lack of a way to put photos on my computer.

BRILLIANTLY STINKY! I am suddenly consumed by the desire to have an icon of a fireball!Zombie, with the text "BRAAAINS" somewhere in there. Except I already am trying to figure out some icons I can delete to make room for more. Hee! I like your English teacher just for the resigned nod. Also, hearts for Shakespeare and his penises. WAIT. CRAP, THAT CAME OUT WRONG. SO WRONG. I think the last time I tried reading Shakespeare was when I was in... seventh grade? I've somehow managed to miss all the Shakespeare classes in high school and university. What sorts of spectacular things can they do with their voices? I've only heard my high school speech team do vocal warm ups -- one of them involves changing, "What makes the grass grow? Blood makes the grass grow! KILL KILL KILL!" I -- I don't know. WE ARE NOT ZOMBIES.

CLEARLY WE SHOULD COMBINE OUR POWERS OF PAPERWORK AND SKETCHES TO MAKE THE ULTIMATE VIDEO GAME. Man, though, seriously, it would be awesome. The colour intensity thing sounds really cool. YOU SHOULD POST THE MEME, I AM CURIOUS ABOUT IT! I so badly wanted there to be more about the mental worlds in Psychonauts -- like, I really wanted to be able to get into all the kids' heads. And then do crossovers and explore other characters that way. (Think how cool Hester's mind would be! And Shrike's!) Also, I badly want to play the other Thief games. Man, and a personality test? That's kinda cool! What game was it for? (I always like playing the theives, or at least the character classes that are all about sneaking. ...I also like playing the type of character that just runs up to an enemy and button mashes. It's a problem.) Man, I really want you to play Sly Cooper now. I think you would like it -- he's a thief, and has an awesome voice actor, and there's actually some really cool plot, and you get to steal things from everybody! And the first game actually reminds me a bit of Jak and Daxter in that you get infinite lives, but low health, and you can jump on things and have to make your way through various levels and it's just fun. BUT I ALSO WANT YOU TO PLAY MORE SHADOWRUN! THUMBS UP!

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Dude! That writing exercise sounds really cool, too. In my seventh grade class we did something kinda like that, where we took these bizarre pictures by some illustrator (I forget his name now) and made up a story about them. Like, there was one that had this nice, average looking house blasting off into outer space. Also, a freelance post-apocalyptic historian sounds strangely charming, and I can't figure out why, because the only ones I've ever met are Tom and Valentine. (Also that one Tom brought along in Predator's Gold, the one whose name I can't remember. Pennysomething?) And, okay, Tom is charming, but I mean someone who is actively charming, instead of just passively so. STOP TRYING TO BREAK MY HEART, SILENT HILL.

(There are! Isn't that crazy? I just don't understand. You met an ex-convict priest? Okay, I hope you realize that you have to tell me more about this.)

So much agreement with The Lion King, and the horribly sad part. Although I have to admit, I like Scar quite a bit, at least, before he actually gets power. I love his voice for some reason, too. (Maybe it is because I listened to "Be Prepared" approximately fifty thousand times as a kid.) I really like Aladdin, too! And, not surprisingly, I listened to those songs a ton too. ...and songs from The Little Mermaid. (Is it not a coincidence because you actually are JD, or because you like JD? Or, um... some other reason? I love JD's insane fantasies, though. They're so something I do -- have a random thought that spirals off into absurdity. The AWA sounds incredibly sucktastic. Argh. Business politics are so -- I can't even think of the proper word. "Bad" is approximately what I'm going for, though.)

(Hee! There's totally this game played at my university in the summer where people sign up and then "assassinate" each other until only one person's left standing. I think they use water guns to assassinate each other, although it might be something else like Nerf guns or something. It's awesome. The weather here is going, "O YAH, IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE WINTER TIME.")

ROFL. I think more sentences need to end with "but it turned out to be a penis enlargement ad." I AM EASILY AMUSED. I got some spam today from "merely amorphous." Turns out they just wanted to thank me for that loan request I never made! Although, I must say, I was almost fooled. "merely amorphous" is just such a professional sounding name. I haven't been getting as many interesting spams recently though. I'm very disappointed in them.

Well, some techno might work. If it's industrial-ish? All the songs I end up giving to a fandom are based mostly on characters and/or events that happen to the characters, but you could maybe try finding songs that fit well with, I don't know. The airship fight? I DO NOT KNOW! I JUST KNOW THAT SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE NEEDS TO MAKE A HUNGRY CITIES FST.

(OH NO I SHOULD HAVE USED MY SLY COOPER ICON! I WILL HAVE TO USE IT NOW TO MAKE UP FOR IT.)

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Man, power failures suck. What does it mean if I'm picturing the Founding Fathers or whatever going "EAGLE!" like JD? Does it mean I'm a freak? I think it does. How can you be arrogant when you're a turkey, I mean really. You say "gobble gobble". Eagles don't say things, they CRY things, and it's always with the majesty and wingspans and preying on tiny animals. Turkeys beat up turkeys? That's – that's an amusing mental image, actually, but since what I know about turkeys can be summed at as "Yanks eat 'em," I don't know how accurate it is.

I always thought Microsoft CEO meetings would involve more sacrificial maidens, but I bet that's just how it happened. Or, or, they maliciously decided to leave the PS2 out, so it's all undermining their competition. Those dastardly - ! At my brother's old high school, one of the teachers used to donate his old car to the fete every few years, and you'd pay two bucks, and they'd hand you a sledge hammer, and you got a few minutes to smash the crap out of it. So right beside the cake stalls and art exhibition there's this car getting ker-smashied by teenagers, with a circle of onlookers applauding the better swings.

Yeah, six/seven season Spike just did nothing for me. It was amusing when he was pathetic and trying so hard to prove he was still scary, but man, once he turned into a woobie I was no longer pleased with him. That reminds me, I ought to rewatch that series sometime. Especially Season 3. Reveal my identity to the Intarweb? Man. I – I don’t know. (Y-you mean…you're not really an emu? SHUN!) But of course I could put up those pictures of the girl who turned up looking spectacular in what I term The Mafia Gown and you'd NEVER KNOW. Well, my ability to make computers take photos is offset by my crippling lack of art programs.

I DEMAND TO SEE THIS ICON! Um, if you wanna make one. My English teacher is awesome, man, and just like my drama teacher she's in love with Shakespeare. I have this weird tendency to heart my teachers while other people are going "dude teach is out to get me D:" because when I was a kid they'd give me books to read, and books are the way to make me heart someone. Wow, I really am a nerd. Also, rofling at SHAKESPEARE AND HIS PEN0R. Hee, these students walked around in circles making all kinds of noises, like sirens and yodeling and just testing out their voices to their fullest extent, which meant going from really high to really low and back again really, really quickly. And you haven't lived 'til you've heard a class recite 'abba babba', which is pretty much them sounding out every possible sound in the English language. I'm going to sneak into one of their rehearsals with a tape recorder one day and use it to amuse the Internet.

CLEARLY. The meme is here. It even links to a bunch of ones that people have already made. Mine's probably gonna be called the Chiaroscuropolis because that's cooler than Sketch City. Psychonauts = Silent Hill in awesome crossoverability Y/N? Hester's head – shee, I'm having trouble imagining hers. Probably something to do with airships? All a bit wavery and unstable, but still very definitely going somewhere? And Shrike's mind'd be all rusty metal and really dangerous for any intruder because everything about Shrike is about you staying the hell away, man, but looking through the corroded bits you'd see Hester. I – I do too, but my brother was just like, "Dude, it's not happening." Waaah. I forgot which game it was! It was one of those RPGs that's all DnD inspired and stuff. I think it's because I kept picking the smart-ass way out of everything, you know: "Okay, these dudes want my food. How about I distract them with that, and get in a few kicks to the nads while they're occupied." I want to play Sly! He's – is he a raccoon? And d00d, sickle! Sickles are cool and bendy and awesome voice actors I can dig. When I gain employment I'll have to check it out.

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CONTINUING TO PLAY SHADOWRUN. GETTING PWNED WITH SLIGHTLY LESS EMBARRASING REGULARITY. Also, starting to earn some real money now, so I'm going to keep doing easy jobs until I get enough for better deck and maybe some backup. The writing thing was awesome (I got a prize! The teacher made this big long speech about how great I was. It made me feel fuzzy inside) and er, I may have been somewhat kind of a little bit inspired by Mortal Engines, but it wasn't a total rip-off, I swear. Dude, Tom makes everything charming. (Pennyroyal! I love him. And, er, I promise it's not completely without reason, but I can't explain why without Snape Killing Dumbledore. Wow, taken out of context, that last sentence is completely bizarre.) SILENT HILL WON'T STOP, MAN. IT LIVES ON PAIN AND SUFFERING.

(Hee! He was a cool guy. I could have made a TV series about him. He used to do what I believe one collectively labels Bad Shit, until one night he nearly died, and he realized, "You know, if I had died, the Big Man would have a perfectly good reason to damn me, and I don't blame him." He was really intense about it, too, you could see he believed what he was saying. I miss that in priests. So now he's trying his best to make himself worthwhile as a human being, which is awesome. But he wasn't all happy-happy reformed yey, either. Told great stories.)

I like Scar! "I'm surrounded by idiots." Man, I adore the way Disney personified their characters. Nothing quite beats that headstroke/shouldernudge thing he did while he was singing "Be Prepared". And his voice actor does a fabulous job of seeming – smooth and urbane and totally, totally above you, except not so much with the cowardice and occasional moments of rarrgh. And man, I'm totally creeped out by the way he can go from sounding so comforting and reasonable to Simba to ordering the hyenas to kill him, without a change in expression. (I'm – pretty sure I'm not JD. I don't gel my hair, for a start. Also, I am not a doctor. I'm one of those people that can come out with stuff that makes absolutely no sense in the current conversation, because I was busy following my little logic train in my head while everybody else had already shifted topics of discussion. Isn't it, though. That's what it's all starting to be like, now – the reasoning's something like, if people compete, they perform better, but they fail to realize that also means they cut corners.)

(Awesome! I wonder if my university'll have neat stuff like that. My recent post about the sky pretty much sums up what the weather's been doing lately, i.e. Some Weird Shit. It's nice now, though. Smells like nighttime rain.)

Perhaps every sentence should end that way! But it turned out to be a penis enlargement ad. I imagine it would get less funny after a while, though. "merely amorphous"? Whoa. I'm – that's pretty cool. It takes a lot to incorporate both those words into a spam name (a lot of what, I'm not quite sure).

That's the problem! That's how I associate music as well, but because so much of what I listen to is soundtracks, I'm afraid I'll end up composing this weird Frankenstein FST from the severed songs of other canons. I'm already trying to stop myself from associating Black Heart (from firefly99's FST) with Shrike, but AGH it goes so WELL but it isn't fair on her. And I am not going to give Hells Coming With Me to Hester, dammit brain, I don't care if it's a perfect I Will Be Shortly Fornicating Upwards Your Excrement song. THERE'S MORE TO HER THAN THAT.

(BLAGH River Icon then. Because it is my favourite.)

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YES IT DOES. YOU ARE A FREAK. Okay, this is totally random, but I can't decide how to refer to you when actually talking to you. Nano? Nano Moose? Nan? NM? N Moose? (It could totally be your gangsta pimp name.) HAY U THAR? What I'm trying to say, here, is do you have a preference? Anyway, I would totally be more patriotic if the Founding Fathers actually had gone around, EAGLE!ing it up. Although I suspect the national anthem would be quite a bit less... dignified. Turkeys are good! Also, because I don't know anything about Australia except you guys have koalas and kangaroos and things, do you have chicken, or is that a Yankee thing too? (I actually find it really hilarious to refer to myself as a Yank, because here, that's what we call New Yorkers. Which is something I am not.)

I can't decide if their sacrificial maiden would be fed on a steady diet of their competitors wares, so that it would be like killing off their competition, or if they would take one of their own, to show their dedication. Corporations are so crazy. OMG NOW I DO NOT LIKE MY PS2, IT IS NOT IN THE DICTIONARY! Seriously, you guys. IT IS HIP TO BE A REBEL. Also, that is the best thing ever, donating your car to have the crap smashed out of it! I want to do that. Well... okay, I want to smash the crap out of it, not donate my car, but still. Possibly I just really like random destruction.

I'm kind of relieved to hear that you didn't like S6/7 Spike, because I know quite a few people who think he's the best Spike ever, and then I go, WHUT? Season 3 is my favourite! It has the Mayor. (Well, maybe not. Maybe I have a special keyboard specially designed for emu use. YOU NEVER KNOW.) The Mafia Gown? I am so intrigued. I got my dad to steal legally obtain a graphics program from his work that I can use. I don't really know why his work has one, because I don't think it'd be all that useful, but hey. Free programs!



It is very hard to read the text, but I do what I can. Which, uh, isn't very much. I absolutely love one of my professors even though everyone else hates him because he's tests are fragging impossible. But he tells the best stories ever, so it's okay. I'm very sad that I won't be in one of his classes next year. Also, I am now picturing a bunch of drama students walking around in a group in public doing this and having people avoid them. It would be a pretty awesome social experiment, or something. 'Abba babba' sounds a lot like this warm up we'd do in my ninth grade choir class, except possibly more sounding even more ridiculous. Which of course means that I really want to hear it. THE INTERNET DEMANDS A SACRIFICE. A sacrifice of abba babba tapes!

Man, that meme is awesome. I'm going to have to go look at the links to the people who've made them already sometime. I have no idea what I would do for mine, although it would probably involve Shadowrun in some way, at least at the moment. I suspect my brainscape changes a little depending on my whichever fandom I'm obsessing about. Also, Chiaroscuropolis is an awesome name, and I demand to hear more about it. Um, you can wait until you actually post it if you want, but either, I want to hear more! Total agreement, Psychonauts has fantastic crossover potential. Oooh, an airship would be really cool for Hester. And you could all go out and look down and see this really far away world and feel vertigo and for some reason that seems like it's very appropriate. She would have so much mental baggage. I really want to see Shrike's mind now, like, in the actual game. I have a strangely good image in my head of what it would be like now. Smart-ass answers are the best answers. Sly is a raccoon! With the best tail ever. Um, possibly it's just me.

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Decking is where the real money is made. You can download all these files to your PS and Roscoe'll take them off your hands, sometimes for a really nice sum. I think I've made more than 20,000 nuyen once, although that's, uh, extremely rare. I still like the corp runs the best, though. I think it's because I really like seeing what everyone has stashed away in their safes. I think I actually squeed, though, when I got my first good deck. It went so fast! I can only imagine how excited Joshua was. (Hooray! That's awesome.) I kind of miss those sorts of writing exercises now that I never take any English classes. Sigh. (Rofling about Snape killing Dumbledore. I really really need to read Infernal Devices.)

(He sounds really awesome. I, um, I can't think of anything else to say, except I'm really tempted to ask you for stories.)

Someday I need to make a list of my Favourite Voice Actors Ever. Scar's would definitely be there. Also Tony Jay. I loved that he could sound so confident and urbane and everything one second, and then go cowardice in the next, and it all fit. I can remember that scene really well, actually, where he orders the hyenas to kill him. I always feel kind of bad for characters like Scar, the ones who do their best (and by "best" I really mean "worst") when struggling against someone higher up on the food chain, but once they reach the top they sort of... lose that edge and I stop liking them as much. (I was watching some of the extras on the Scrubs DVDs and was amazed to learn that most of the actors have very similar personalities to their characters. Like, the director even tried for that, as far as I can tell, so they could play to their strengths. I actually have a lot of friends who do that. I might be one of them myself, actually, but I can't tell if they don't understand me because I just don't make any sense, or if it's because I just skipped telling them about my train of thought.)

Yeah, you're probably right. If everything turned out to be a penis enlargement ad, it just would have the same shock value. Valentine's Day? Just a penis enlargement ad. Toothpaste? Just a penis enlargement ad. Sometimes I vaguely wish that it was my job to come up with spam subject lines. Think of the possibilities!

I feel bad about it too, stealing songs from other people's FSTs for my own personal fandoms. I try not to tell them when it happens, though, because that would be mean. I'm really curious what you'd come up with, though, even if it was a Frankenstein FST. I think I've stolen approximately ten songs from other video games for Shadowrun, and -- yeah. I haven't heard Hells Coming With Me before! Who's it by? I kind of want to go through some of my music now and see if I can find anything for Hungry Cities.

(I love the colours in your River icon. So. Pretty!)

[nano_moose]

Well, dang. And people usually refer to me as Nano, although that isn't a very good gangsta pimp name, alas. When I first made up the name, I wanted people to call me Moose, but since my sister already had the name Moose Juice, that was out. Oh well. I've come to prefer Nano. What weirds me out a little bit is how many people have names meaning the same thing, like littlemoose. I take it you don't mind being called Squeem? One thing I love about my country is how, for a while, they wanted to set our national anthem to the tune of a song about a sheep thief that jumped into a billabong. And how so many of our 'cultural traditions' are completely ridiculous. And, no, we don’t actually have chickens. Any time you hear any of us referring to 'chicken' nuggets or any other 'chicken' product, we actually mean 'koala'. (Really? Huh. I never knew that! Yank is just what my dad tends to refer to Americans as and I use jokingly every now and then. He, uh, doesn't like them very much, but that's because some American soldiers nearly blew him up while mortaring an area, when he was in Vietnam. Their excuse that they were high on marijuana didn't exactly endear them to him.)

THEY ARE. Man, one day I'd just love to see how the hell they make some of the decisions they make. My brother's teachers were apparently really cool. Like, there was this one guy who would randomly leave class for no reason, and one that would rant about how he could make everything better in the school, and another one that barely raised an eyebrow when my brother leapt to his feet, yelling that he would tear out her heart, in the middle of her class. Er. My brother's a bit theatrical. I apologise for this random and likely disturbing insight into my childhood.

THEY DO? WHY? He's so boring. I preferred him as an ineffectual villain. Yay, the Mayor! I still think he was the best villain Joss ever wrote, equaled maybe by the Operative and how polite and dedicated and professional and completely batshit crazy he was. (Wow, did you have to get it professionally altered, or do they sell them premade?) She looked very pretty! And she was quite willing to pose with my friend's cane for photos, it was so cute.

I cannot see the text, no, but, uh, I can't see the icon, either. One of my teachers used to go on and on and on with these completely off-topic stories for, like, ages. We hardly ever got any work done, but they were pretty interesting. Hee, I saw those same students in the Japanese gardens, actually. They were, um, sword-fighting. I think they were practicing for Macbeth, because I heard one of them say "Damned be him that first cries, 'Hold! Enough!'" What an awesome way to spend an afternoon. Abba babba, ebbe bebbe, ibbi bibbi, obbo bobbo, ubbu bubbu…and then, acca cacca, ecce cecce, icci cicci, occo cocco, uccu cuccu…and so on through the alphabet. Was that what it was like?

I will have to post it, then. I have no idea why I latched onto the idea of sketches in particular, although I do sketch a lot. And I love the word chiaroscuro. Man, I want to invent a meme where you make up mental worlds for characters! The thing I like about Psychonauts is that it's far more benign than Silent Hill. I mean, in SH it's all about the dark within shaping the dark without, taking what's broken and shattering it further; with Psychonauts, it's all about redemption. I think Hester's far away world would be beautiful, but you can never touch it, and I also think Valentine would be in there. Because he's a part of her, no matter how far she runs. Man, Shrike's mind would be so cool to see in the game! And also, creepy. Is his tail as awesome as Raiden's swooshy hair? (Ooh, I'm reminded of one of my favourite things in Jak and Daxter – have you noticed that if you do the spin-kick enough time in quick succession, Daxter gets wrapped around Jak's face, and he has to pull him off?)

[nano_moose]

I knew that! It was, uh, in the walkthrough I looked in when I realized I had no idea what the controls were. All I've ever found is nuyen – what other stuff is there? I kinda miss having an excuse to read Shakespeare and also getting free copies of his books, if only for a short time. (You dooo. And I really need to read A Darkling Plain.)

(Unfortunately that was about four years ago, so I've forgotten them.)

Ooh, what about Tim Curry? He voices so many ridiculous villains. …I used to have this whole list in my head of Voice Actors What Are Awesome, but I seem to have forgotten it. I think Billy West was on there, and whoever voiced Jafar, and Everyone In Half-Life 2, and…we'll just add Steve Russell to the list, won't we. Ooh! And Tara Strong. I love Seem's voice. And David Hayter. Also, the Original Voices for the Prince and Farah in Prince of Persia. And, and, and, Richard Horvitz. Scar was just so awesomely dry, really. "Well, forgive me for not leaping for joy. Bad back, you know." (I know! I'm not sure if it's awesome or a bit scary. Most of my friends don't do that, but they seem to have embraced it as an endearing quirk, which is a relief.)

I'm not sure if I could come up with anything as gloriously bizarre as what they already have. I mean, those strings of random words take effort to construct – the most I could do is add a little coherency to the phishing emails.

Really? What songs? Black Heart sort of started playing in my head when I was in Puyallup once, and I still don't know why. Hell's Coming With Me is by a band called Iris (a BAND, not the song) and it's got lyrics like, "they say that you're a fighting man/the one to keep an eye out for/and if I ever find you/I'll make you an example." It's pretty much about how the singer is going to find this person and kick their ass. Thus, it made me think of Hester, because it's got a certain suicidal element to it as well. The band itself is kind of…techno-y. And the song is remarkably cheerful sounding. I quite like it, but I wish it was more badass. Another my brain tried to apply was Bang Bang, you know, from Kill Bill? It applies to a lot of people, really, specifically Pandora or Katherine or maybe even Stilton Keane.

(Eee! I do love it so. That's one of my favourite shots in the entire movie.)

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Excellent! See, Nano was my first choice. Moose would be really cool, although I... I think I actually know someone who goes by Moose as well. I never knew moose were such popular animals. I want to do a survey of the Internet, now, and see how many people have a name that means "small moose." And we dont' even know how many people could have that same name in a different language, either. And yeah, Squeem's wait all my friends call me. Except when, you know, they call me "dumbface" or "luser." YES IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE WITH A U. I DON'T KNOW, I DIDN'T MAKE IT UP. I wish my country had a national song to the tune of thievery. I bet that would make up for a lot of the humongous national pride issues we got goin' on. What kinds of cultural traditions are you talking about? Just be warned that kadrin has lied to me one too many times about koalas for me to believe any outlandish traditions without first researching it on Wikipedia. OH MAN BUT THEY ARE SO CUTE HOW COULD YOU, YOU BRUTAL BRUTAL ...BRUTE!! Hang on, I know the answer to this one. Aren't koalas, like, endangered and stuff? I'm clearly a horrible human being, because I don't actually think they're outstandingly cute. (Now you do! It's actually rather interesting, because there's kind of a hierarchy of Yankdom. To people in the northern half of the U.S., Yanks are New Yorkers. To people in the southern half, Yanks are northerners, and to the rest of the world, Yanks are Americans. And, um, yeah. I think I'd be pretty pissed off if I were him too.)

I would suggest we try to sneak in (OMG WE COULD BUY A SECURITY BADGE OF THIS FIXER I KNOW) and spy on some of their Top Secret Decision Making Meetings, but, uh. That's a recipe for trouble. Did the guy ever come back to class? What was the teacher saying, that caused your brother to yell about ripping her heart out? Man, I want to hear all the stories from your childhood ever now. I've had some pretty cool teachers too. (...actually, um, I think I had a teacher who was in the Vietnam War and smoked a lot of marijuana. He was a history teacher, so we spent a day where he told us about it. But I also know he never actually saw any action, so hopefully there's no connection.) I also had a teacher this past semester who's been checked out by the FBI twice and offered to give our class bombs. The next day we had a new professor standing in front of us.

I don't know, something about him being "cute"? It's kind of sickening. Especially considering he, you know, tried to rape Buffy once. MAN, I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH CUTER YOU CAN GET. So much agreement with the Mayor. I'm so jealous of thebaconfat, she got to meet him once. She said he's really engaging, which is completely unsurprising. And I loved his interactions with Faith. So much crazy. Hee. I really liked the Operative, actually, for being so human, and by human I of course mean having a lot of faults but still having depth. (I had to get it altered, so I didn't keep tearing up the plastic after two uses. I have this special metal keyboard, see.)

Okay, so I'll try this the official way. click here for BRAINS. Do you remember any of the stories? I'm a sucker for stories. Oh man! That would be so awesome, randomly wandering upon that. And no kidding, I'd love to do that even without a real reason. Nope, that's not what we did, although trying it nearly tied my tongue in knots. (It doesn't hang low, though, if you were wondering.) It went something like, "E-A bay, E-I bye, E-I bicca bye bee oh boe bicca bye boh bee ooh boo bicca bye boe bum." And then you'd repeat, but with c, and so on. And there was a tune it went to.

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Do you doodle, too? Because I try to doodle, and I just fail. I can never think of things to doodle, is my problems. (Also, you now, my utter lack of artistic ability.) It's a great word! I learned it in my art history class, which was a fantastic class. My professor was hilarious and awesome, and kept referencing "everybody's favourite Ninja Turtle," which would, you know, change depending on which artist we were talking about that week. And told us very interesting things, such as who was incredibly promiscuous, and who had to run from country to country because he could never finish a commissioned work (hint: his name was DaVinci). It's definitely more benign, and it actually would give you a better-rounded idea of the person's mind than Silent Hill. Because yeah, Silent Hill is all about the guilt and the darkness. Oh man, you're so right about Hester's far away world and Valentine. It could be something as simple as a portrait, or it could be his actual presence. And I can't decide if Shrike would have a lot of figments, or very few. Okay, so: the Prince and Psychonauts. I don't know about Raiden's swooshy hair, but I'm going to say yes anyway. Although now you're going to be disappointed when you see the actual tail, after all this build up. (Hee! I don't think I've done that yet, but I am so going to the next time I play it. I really have to finish that game.)

Oh man, all kinds of stuff. You find stim and trauma patches, sometimes medkits, although you usually get those off the guards (usually partially used, poor guys), grenades of all types, and occasionally a gun. No wonder, though, there are all those bloodstains on the walls. I think if I ever make the decision to read through a lot of Shakespeare, I'll want to take a good class at the university for it. I've heard that it helps get into the language, if you can submerse yourself in it and, you know, have someone to help explain what the hell everything means. (From what I've heard, a lot of it means "penis joke!" Oh, Shakespeare.)

I don't know if I've heard Tim Curry before. I mean, I'm sure I must have, but looking at IMDB, nothing's jumping out. Oooh, Jafar! Oh man, yes to David Hayter! I - I don't really know the others, so that is why I am not agreeing with you, not because I actually disagree. I'm going to add Chris Sabat, too. And of course Steve Russell, and so much agreement on the Prince and Farah (original style), and Raz! (Or both! Have you heard that the Janitor ad libs practically all his lines, because he never bothers looking at the script beforehand? Somehow, that just makes me love him more.)

That's true. I have this bad tendency of wanting to put crazy subjects in all of my emails, though, which could possibly lead to horrible misunderstandings, one day.

I think I have songs from approximately fifteen different video games and animes in my Shadowrun playlist. I would give you examples, but they're all on my other computer, so I'm not sure it would work very well. I have all these songs, though, that make me think of Shadowrun in general (there's one by The Faint called "Violent" that makes me think of run down apartments and everything, and there's quite a few that make me think of doing corp runs, or the heavy techno blasting through the speakers in the bars), and then I have quite a few dedicated to Joshua and Reckert and random other characters. There's another song by The Faint (I use a lot of their songs, actually, because they all make me think of the type of songs I picture playing at the bars) called "Take Me to the Hospital" that makes me think of Joshua and his stupidity because of lyrics like, hold my hand, it's shakin' bad/i'm going to the doc/I pay him, he'll fix me up/I think I've got enough. I can't remember where I stole all the songs from, though. Those lyrics work really well, and now I really want to go download it. Oh yes, Bang Bang. I think I have it dedicated to at least two different people at the moment, and it could definitely work for Hungry City, and OH MAN KATHERINE. AUGH.

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Oh! Also, I wanted to ask about your icon! It reminds me of The Book of the Dun Cow which, er, has an evil rooster in it and is much better than it actually sounds from my description.

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Y HALO THAR, I CANOT SHUT UP.

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