ReadingLirael, As You Like It, The English Patient, Heart of Darkness, Suikoden III, Candidate for Goddess
Watching House, Rick Mercer's Monday Report, Gilmore Girls, Scrubs, Corner Gas, Aishiteruze Baby, Prince of Tennis, Hikaru no Go
Playing The Bard's Tale, Katamari Damacy, Curse of Monkey Island, Final Fantasy VI, Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, Pretty Barbie Dressup Party Final Fantasy X-2(group gaming)
Back-burner Star Ocean: Till the End of Time, Star Ocean: The Second Story, Final Fantasy Tactics: Advance, Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast, Planescape: Torment, Final Fantasy VII
Obsessing Firefly, Erik and Ray, Impulse/Bart Allen, Ford Prefect, Monkey Island, Nostalgia.
Upcoming Things of Importance January 5 First day of classes January 14 Birthday party January 16 Jaryn and Matt Are Old Day
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Is by Meimi, that wonderful Goddess who brings joy and happiness to the hearts of Ingrids.
This time, Meimi brought joy by doing a layout of Isumi Shinichirou and Waya Yoshitaka, of Hikaru no Go. It is full of wub.
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Fight Club and Kingdom Hearts: I am Jack's Complete Lack of Eye-Hand Coordination
3/11/2004 09:51:33 AM
"Junior whines that heeeeeeeeeeee's the Keeeeeeeeeeeyblaaaaaaaade maaaaaaaaaasteeeeeer. Therefore he should get his way all the time and get to fly the ship, @%$#!!! and Goofy's sense of self-preservation be damned. What I wouldn't give for that ship to have a roll of duct tape in the glove compartment." - Sam, Kingdom Hearts Part 5, Videogame Recaps.
So last night Matt showed up outside my apartment, pawing at the door and demanding brains, which is definitely a good way to start the night.
There were buritos at Matt's place, so I was very well fed (damn good food, too - they always have such good stuff there) and Shelly made popcorn, which was also good. The popcorn was had while we watched Fight Club and good -lord- why has no one made me watch that movie before? It's awesome.
It prompted this (spoilery) conversation in the car on the way home.
Ingrid: It's that time of night when pretty much anything you say is really funny. Matt: It must be, because I haven't said anything in twenty minutes. Ingrid: It's the voices in my head. Matt: I am your Tyler Durden. Ingrid: ~laughs~ That makes sense, actually. You're crazier than me, you have a leather jacket, you wander around in sockless chaos, and you get more sex than I do.
After watching Fight Club and being thoroughly delighted with it, as well as treated to the joy of hearing Matt say "The Pixies are coming to town" we played Kingdom Hearts briefly. Very briefly.
It takes us a while to remember where the hell we were going after the trauma of Atlantica, since we haven't played in a while. Both Matt and I are on auto-pilot for the controls for -other- games (Dragon Guard for him, Final Fantasy X for me) so by the time we do get attacked. In multi-coloured space. By a pirate ship. On the pirate ship is the hallucinating Captain Hook, who thinks he hears the infamous alligator. In multi-coloured space. I can't help but be irritated by this lapse of logic, even though we're flying around in a ship made out of gummis, and we've already been swallowed by a giant whale. Riku's also on the ship, with Kairi, who looks . . . kind of like a sex doll. Sora and Riku exchance their usual "Oh god just shut up both of you" banter, before Sora gets dumped into the hold and lands in a tangled pile of limbs ontop of Donald and Goofy.
Ew.
Both of us have reflexes that are so shot to hell that we're kind of stumbling around, falling down holes, and having a really hard time doing simple things like go up a ladder.
We're also subjected to the pain that is Peter Pantsless (we put him in our party just long enough to swipe his stuff, because he sparkles and this game is gay enough already), Twink, and another brainless girl with a bad British accent.
I'm tortured with the sight of another head-humpin' Trinity, and proceed to be slaughtered twice by Sora's Riku-summoned doppleganger.
I should make it clear that I -hate- doppleganger battles. Not only are there irritating, but they frequently smack of unoriginality (both plot-wise - not that the doppleganger is ever explained - and design wise). At least the doppleganger you fight at the end of Quest for Glory III: Wages of War is a hideously mutated evil version of yourself. This doppleganger was just Sora after he'd had a can of black paint dumped on him. I toss the controller to Matt and, with much swearing, he kicks doppleganger-ass.
We both realize we're utterly burnt out and in need of sleep, so we call it quits for the night.
Drowning in a sea of wankers, Almighty Ingrid, Signing Off
