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!

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[nano_moose]

...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.

[squeemu.livejournal.com]

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!

[squeemu.livejournal.com]

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!)

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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.