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Monthly Archive for September, 2007
Well, not if you click this hilarious picture of question marks coming out of a hat. I’m not even sure what that means. But! If you do, you’ll be treated to a picture of me sporting my new glasses. Enjoy!
Goddamnit, NBC. How can you let down your fellow Americans when they are in a country other than your precious America. :(
I wants my Heroes!
Hit up Den Den Town this weekend, and if you actually read that Wikipedia article I linked, it makes it sound like I went for reasons other than I did. Sorry, but I’m not sporting any images of a trip to a maid cafe. What it does have, on the other hand, is some fucking sweet game stores. Den Den Town is home to probably my favorite game store, Retro TV Game Revival, and a host of other great gaming stores. Retro is cool beans not only because of the wide variety of stuff they have, but the floors and walls are decked out with laminated pictures depicting awesome moments from awesome games of (mostly) the 8-bit era. Plus they always rock some jamming tunes.
I picked up a fare share of Super Famicom games on the cheap. Gives me a chance to play games I never had the opportunity before in their original state. Yeah, I’m that guy. I plan on digging into the Breath of Fire series soon and haven’t played Super Metroid or Secret of Mana in a long ass time. I did also hold the Super Fami copies of Mother 2 and Final Fantasy IV in my hand with thoughts of purchasing, but I really don’t know if I need a third copy of each game, especially considering FFIV is getting a sweet ass remake to the DS come December.
All and all a successful run! Once I finish up my MGS3 play, completing my Metal Gear Series run through, I should be starting up my Breath of Fire series run. Expect commentary soon!
Already missing a volleyball practice! Tsk, tsk on that Eric guy. What a jerk.
Nothing is more shite than catching a cold when it’s fucking hot out. Nothing is worse than having a cold when it’s fucking hot out and you’ve got a pair of canker sores on each side of the mouth. (Protip: Canker sores aren’t herpes! They’re ulcers of the mouth! Joy!) If you don’t feel like reading a metric asstonne of bitchings tonight, I’d suggest you browse your way to a more happy magical land.
Fuck.
I think this happened to me last September too. I caught a hell of a goddamned cold that just wouldn’t go away. I’m wondering if it has anything to do from going to relative isolation to dealing with 60~100 different people each day. My immune system just isn’t used to all these children running around, latching onto my giant legs and trying to stick their fingers in my bum.
At least I’m keeping hydrated. I go through about 2 litres (When did I start spelling it that way? Freaking internationalization.) of water a day. I hear that’s about the precipice of perfection for the human body, but fuck if I don’t feel like I need a lot more at times.
Oh well. Least I have a sweet ass.
All hail the glorious band of Kitase, Nojima, Nomura and their associated band of rascals who prevented the exact reason I bought a fucking PSP 3 long and arduous years ago from not completely wanging chung. While I enjoy defending Dirge of Cerebus, that’s mostly for silly reasons. Since the game is, unfortunately, not so good. That all said, Crisis Core is pleasing me deeply.
I got the game last Thursday and have slammed around 11 hours or so into it, not counting the times I died. Most of that time has been spent working on the available missions. These missions range from retardedly easy to “Fuck, I have to wait until I level up a bit more.” I thought I’d be all cool and do all the missions available to me before continuing on with the story, but the game made short work of that plan when the boss of one mission took me out in a single hit.
The missions are so far incredibly straight forward. Go to a savepoint, select “Mission” from the menu, choose your mission and then go kill some shit. The rewards range from “yay, a potion!” to summon materia, which really just add a chance of them being randomly summoned by the slot machine part of the game. If you’re tilting your head at a funny angle, don’t worry. Your neck will be fine.
But yeah, I looked at some screenshots of the game and saw the thing up in the left hand corner, but as I didn’t really feel like finding out too much about the game before I played it, I had no idea what the hell those pictures were. Turns out that this slot machine type thinger is actually what governs your summoning, limit breaks and even leveling. Yep. Get a 777 with the same 3 character faces and you level up. Get 2 same numbers on 3 faces and that number slot materia levels up. Otherwise, when faces don’t match up for triples there is a variety of bonuses you can get. And even bonuses for just a 7 in the right spot. It’s interesting and adds a nice luck variety to the game. You can’t really count on it, though, which can be annoying. But when coupled with a sound strategy on the player’s part, it allows for a damn good battle system.
The story, which I’m only kinda following (damn bad Japanese skills!) is fucking entertaining from the little I get. Definitely gonna replay this one day. I have no idea when it hits the states, but you folk there with PSPs better grab that shit fast!
I didn’t even notice this gash on my arm until another teacher pointed it out to me in the staff room after my last class today. Goddamn it stung like a bitch after I had my sweaty bike ride home. But, it seems I was having such a good time teaching the first graders that I didn’t even notice when I cut myself on something!
Really, I’m starting to adore this job. Working with these kids is really uplifting and I’m sure my attitude and general self will only improve. I’m so lucky to have gotten a position like this, because I really feel like it will improve my life.
Don’t try to take a poo after a bike ride. Let your body cool down first. Less sweat that way.
Trust me. I’m a dentist.
It’s September and it’s still fucking hot. I don’t know how much more of this heat I can take. I need a straight up flood of snow to come down and cool my ass off. Never thought I’d be saying something like that. Rochester really does get deep into your soul.
Over the past few days I’ve been witness to the students preparing for the annual 運動会 or “Sports Festival” as I’m told it is. Now, I’m probably the last person in the world who knows a damn thing about sports, but I really can’t figure out how this event qualifies. In the few sessions I’ve seen, the general procedure is thus:
1) School band plays music. (The kids are fantastic, by the way. They’d probably put my high-school band to shame. Sorry, Josh.)
2) The other children march around in groups divided into four colors. Red, yellow, blue and white.
3) Music stops, band members assemble with their respective groups.
4) Speech is given.
5) Someone passes out from heat stroke.
6) Some sort of dance or funky stretching to music.
7) Repeat as time allows.
I’m not knocking it at all, mind. The kids look like they’re having a blast, except for when it gets really hot. I remember doing tons of things in my elementary years such as wearing a straw hat and singing “Turkey in the Straw” with my classmates in front of tons of parents. I’m guessing this is a similar event ‘cept I just don’t get why it’s “Sports Day”. My dictionary gives me “Athletic Meet” which doesn’t exactly follow for me but what do I know. At least the kids are having a good time.
But seriously. This heat. What in the goddamned hell is going on. I’m so used to it cooling down by now and I’m sure as hell not used to biking uphill for a solid twenty minutes before work. While my apartment is über-convenient from everything distance wise, the hills sure give me a hell of a workout. Not that this is entirely bad for my fat ass. I’ve gotta get a scale and figure out what this is actually doing for me. And hopefully that burning sensation from going up hill will eventually cease.
