joysweeper

I went through this LP of Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones.  Then I looked up the dialogue on IMBD.

Aw, Prince of Persia...  Nostalgia!  I remember hearing about the split personality when PoP:TTT was coming out.  This was at an age when split personalities could get me interested in absolutely anything.  I went on Wikipedia and decided to start with Sands of Time, having the impression that the split started then.

It didn't, but it was a lot of fun. I'd more or less disliked platformers before, but the rewind was great.  And the Prince was snarky, and went through character development, and the whole game was well worth the playing.

Tried Warrior Within as a rental.  Hated it.  Bad music, bad Darker And Edgier, generic protagonist, attempts to sexify things...  And the rental was buggy, too.

Everyone says that the third game was a balance between the first's great and the second's ungreat, and... well, I saw that too.  But I did enjoy the dialogue.

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My brother and I went out and bought Scribblenauts.  He contributed ten dollars to that, I paid the rest.  My little brother is always broke, or nearly.  He's got basically no savings.  I've got... well, I don't know exactly, but there's something to the tune of three thousand in my savings account, and around five hundred in a debit account that I have never used.  Largely because I'm very stingy.

Very stingy, I said.  Ignore the hardcover Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor!  I had a coupon anyway, for forty percent off.

Books really are my biggest expense, but I don't buy them very often, and very rarely in hardcover, so it doesn't amount to much as money goes.  Back at Adrian College I worked for the art department for a few hours a week.  Here, I have no job.  The two hundred dollars I earned with my Mom cleaning that sorority are in the bank, and the neighbor only rarely needs dogsitting.  So I have to be even more cautious.  I don't buy food unless I have to.  Instead I bring food from home in plastic bags, like a kid.

I could only play Scribblenauts for so long before my conscience smacked me with the memory of my Ceramics homework.  Draw three designs for platters and see which one gets approved.  Well, I've got one.  I'll have the others in a bit.  My brother's playing the game now.  He took it to bed with him.

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I, I, I -

I want to find some Garrus/Shepard fics and read them.  This has never happened before!  Shepard is by definition a self-insert, and Garrus is a vaguely avian alien with a naturally-occuring tribal warrior facemask!  It does not make sense!  The turian has a nice voice, okay?  That's all!

Turians are cool.  Okay?  Yeah, there's some antagonism with humans, but they're cool.

Damn it, I want a Garrus fic featuring Female Paragon Shepard, Original Flavor(As close as humanly possible!), talking or working together with a bit of Smarm and a hint of Garrus/Shepard if I squint, written well with an eye to detail and internal consistency.  I'm not going to be able to find it, though, assuming it even exists.  There is obviously only one solution.

Eh.  The desire will fade.  I'm not going to put yet another impulse story on the heap.  It's too crowded already.


So, I saw The Incredible Hulk a few days back.  It wasn't bad.  It wasn't Iron Man, but worth the cost of admission.  I'm not really a fan of the character, though.

I mean, it's probably old-fashioned of me.  Antiheroes are popular.  I get that.  But I just can't think of a murderer as a hero.  Isn't one definition of non-premediated murder "that guy, in a fight, who kills the other guy instead of backing off"?

Wait, wait.  You could argue that, for instance, Tony Stark(Movieverse.  I am not going to get into the 616 version) is a murderer.  And I have no problem with him.  It's different, though.  You know?  Yes, he kills people.  But - well, it's war.  Is it?  I'm not good at explaining this.

Somehow, Iron Man shooting a rocket at a tank and walking slowly away while it explodes is fundamentally different from the Hulk smashing a Humvee.  The people inside are dead either way.  Hell, the people in the tank are probably more dead - now and again during the movie, soldiers were seen frantically diving out of their vehicles.  But it's different.

Mmm.  Well, the easily-killed men in Iron Man were, well, terrorists.  Out to conquer, and what they wanted from Iron Man, if anything, was better weaponry.  The easily-killed men in the Incredible Hulk were US soldiers.  Who wanted - what?  They wanted the Hulk subdued, tranquilizers didn't work, and live fire was the only thing that so much as slowed him down.  And they were under orders.  That shouldn't mean much, but it does.

Yeah, I get it, if Banner wasn't pursued he wouldn't Hulk out so much.  But if that happens every time he's really stirred up, it would happen anyway, and he'd still kill a lot of people.  So wanting him stopped makes sense.  Yeah, General Ross wants to use him to make super-soldiers, and that's bad.  But the guys on the ground getting ruthlessly killed - do they know that?

And at the end of the fight scene - how would killing the Abomination have meant so much?  How many soldiers would the Hulk have killed by then with no hesitation whatsoever?  And they mean nothing!  So becoming a gamma-irradiated psychotic creature means that much.  Gee.

Did not like the love interest.  Banner/Hulk can do no wrong, her father the General is the cause of all their problems, her stable boyfriend is dropped like wet tissue.  I don't like her.  She annoys me.  One good thing about Iron Man was that despite the UST with Pepper and the affair with that reporter woman, he didn't have a mostly-useless One True Love draped over him.  As much as I'm looking forwards to the Avengers movie, if they're going with the original lineup then the only woman on it, the only female superhero, is the Wasp.  Who comes with Ant-Man.  And is his oh-so-devoted One True Love.

If they do put another woman on the team, someone who, if the Marvel Movies wiki is any indicator, doesn't have her own movie... who would that be?  She-Hulk?  Doubtful, same with Spider-Woman.  Tigra?  Probably not.  Ms. Marvel, Carol Danvers?  Closer, but still, probably not.  Damn.  There just aren't enough strong female superheroes!  Those that are, are mostly female counterparts to male heroes, and none of them have the same instant recognition.  That sucks.

Feh.  I enjoyed the movie, but thinking about it later - I just don't like the Hulk character.  'Nuff said.

Well, I can say one thing.  I also bought the novelization(Mediocre author.  Urgh.  Yeah, I've read worse.  Even so), and I do actually know what they did with the (left alive, naturally)Abomination.  Why the hell not, I'll type it up.

The arrival of Tony Stark in the aftermath of the fight- which the press had dubbed "The Battlin' in Manhattan" - could not have been more timely.  He had shown up in a high-powered chopper, equipped with containment shackles the likes of which Ross had never seen.  Stark had coolly claimed to have thrown them together after the news reports of the debacle at Culver, "just in case".  His foresight had been fortuitous, and thanks to Stark, the Abomination was now safely ensconced in a high-tech holding facility that Stark had nicknames "The Vault".  Stark had said grimly, "Trust me... the way things have been going lately, you're going to have more use for this facility than you could possibly believe."

Ross had the uncomfortable feeling that Stark was absolutely correct.

I don't believe that was addressed in the movie.  Though Stark did make an appearance, it was greatly akin to Nick Fury's dropping in at the very end of Iron Man.  And he was talking to Ross.  Mmm.

OMGFTATL! Beyond Good & Evil 2! WAUGH! Can't wait.

As TVtropes said,

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Needless to say, the gaming community pretty much went nuts when Ubisoft surprised everyone at their press conference/marketing event by showing a trailer for Beyond Good And Evil 2. (The news that the trailer was done in real time just made everyone foam at the mouth.)

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*dances*

I need to get a laughing/spazzy delight userpic.

You escaped from Moonbase Joysweeper!

You killed Karentraviss the maintenance droid.

You salvaged a Lustpuppetian deathblade, a claylithium crystal, a Full-Metal-Alchemist screwdriver and 4 galacticredits.

Score: 129

"You are walking through a cramped computer core. You hear the sound of dragons echoing through ventilation shafts."  "You find yourself in a gas-filled observation room. The station's computer alerts you to wings."  Heh.

Played it again.

You escaped from Moonbase Joysweeper!

You salvaged a Lustpuppetian deathblade, a claylithium crystal, a Full-Metal-Alchemist screwdriver, a jonathancoultonlithium crystal.

Score: 225

You escaped from the Dungeon of Joysweeper!

You killed Karentraviss the mind flayer.

You looted the Dagger of Cats, the Wand of Mandalorians, the Armour of Prince Of Persia, the Dagger of Videogames, the Sword of Writing, the Armour of Clones and 0 gold pieces.

Score: 0

Played that one again.

You escaped from the Dungeon of Joysweeper!

You looted the Armour of Clones, the Sword of Writing, the Dagger of Videogames, the Armour of Prince Of Persia, the Sceptre of Reading, the Wand of Clay, the Dagger of Solsticedawn and 0 gold pieces.

Score: 25

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Awww....  the ending of T&T was so sad...

My password for the forums at Court Records is the question, with ten in the right place.  I never punctuate the question.  Ever.

...What, did you think I would state my password out in a public entry?  Even for something relatively meaningless?

The question.  I'm not telling you what it is. but it's purely rhetorical.  Something I came up with in high school when I made a Hotmail account and checked it between classes.  I realized what I was doing and asked "Why the hells am I doing this?"  Rephrased suitably, it is The Question.  My account password for the TSA is still Noyoki, and that on a certain other site is still Wings.  Those, I state overtly.

*sigh*  Aww, man... that was sad...

This exchange completely ambushed me when I was playing "Trials and Tribulations".  Heh.

Maya: Umm, would you mind taking a look at this?
Basil: I'm sorry. That data is SuPer-Admin Restricted Desktop Access password-protected.
Maya: SuPer-Admin Restricted Desktop Access password-protected!? What!? This is madness!
Phoenix: No, Maya, that is SPARDA. She won't tell us unless we say the right code word.

I am so very amused...  The Ace Attorney fansite was helpful here.

Dragon Cave.

I got a chicken egg.  Didn't take long for it to hatch and grow up.  It's a Cucco sprite. 

Purple hatchling. 

Stormy egg. 

I'm playing the new Zelda now. It is greatness.

I like Link. He's cute! *laughs*

Seriously, he was my first crush when he grew up in Ocarina.  I've admired a few faces since, but nobody can really compare.

Of course, that might be because I'm such an introvert... eh, doesn't matter.

My little brother's birthday was midway through February, and he got a Nintendo Wii.  He plays Zelda and this random Dragon Ball Z game.  My little sister plays Wii Sports.  I play Zelda.

I go through dungeons and the like much more slowly than my brother, mostly because I'm a bit of a completionist. 
I have to go everywhere and do everything before I move on.  I can stand missing a few chests of Rupees, but I don't want to miss a Piece of Heart or a bomb bag.  It just wouldn't do.  So I've just completed the Yeti's house on Snowpeak while he's up in that castle in the sky, but we have the same number of Heart Containers.  And I have to have at least fifteen more Poe Souls, and many more Golden Bugs.

That's how we usually play videogames.  He finishes in a hurry, I go much slower in case I miss something.  Sometimes I replay the game.  Probably not this time, though.  I love Zelda, but I don't want to go back to a time before my new gadgets.

It's a very nice game.  It seems to me that I can rely on three companies to produce games I'll like- Bungie, Bioware, and whichever branch of Nintendo makes Zelda.  CD-i games don't count.

It's fun.  I think I'll go back and play now.