Am I the only guy who has to re-enter his birthday every single time I launch the Nintendo Channel? >_>
Nintendo formally asks for permission to track your gameplay habits... privacy nuts and statistic-aggregation nuts both spontaneously sprout boners. :D Personally I'm in the latter camp, I love the idea that I'm informing gamemakers of which games I enjoyed by how much time I spend playing them.. Hell, even just knowing that it's being remembered by *something* triggers my levelgrinding instinct, that's why I adored AudioScrobbler/LastFM so much.
edit: LOL, and apparently, Audiosurf added Last.FM support YESTERDAY, heh XD
anyway, I'm gonna go play the Ninja Gaiden DS demo ;P
edit 2: speaking of stat-recording stroking my levelgrind instincts.. I've sunk enough hours into this game over the past two days that I might as well plug it :P Dino Run is a flash platformer... kinda? Out-run the meteor's burny wall of doom by running and dodging and generally being fleet... secrets everywhere, 'milestones' for pulling off neat things, and it's all recorded cumulatively and used to unlock things...
World Ends With You = super-slick presentation, promising-seeming gameplay...
but Playing action games on a DS = stress and headaches :x
gggguuuuuuh I have videogame problems :(
So I took tomorrow morning off work. All day (and many days last week) I've been lightheaded, shaky, had trouble concentrating... and general digestion troubles, even with the amount of extra fibre I've been taking. I'm starting to realise this can't all be blamed on stress, so I finally said "enough's enough, I'm giving up gluten and seeing if this gets any better." The only reason I hadn't tried giving it up already is because you have to have been eating gluteny foods regularly for the blood test to work, and I figured I'd wait until my week off... but this is impacting my work now. I kept catching myself staring at my screen, head spinning, unable to make sense of it.. (and I've been sleeping well!) And my boss was the one who told me about celiac disease (gluten intolerance) in the first place, saying my symptoms sounded familiar, so he was all for it.
The poetic bit of all this is that they don't do gluten tests at my local hospital, which means that tomorrow morning I might be in St. Mary's Hospital, 25 years to the day since my prevous visit. :P
OK, gang;
"The World Ends With You":
is the accent on 'you' or 'with'?
I always assumed it was 'you' ('you are the last thing in the world') but I think I like "The World Ends With You" better ('the world ends alongside you'). I haven't even played the game yet, mind, so that might influence which makes more sense. :P
Of course 'ends' would also work, and would also sound not as awkward as 'you'.. Wouln't make a ton of sense but makes a nicer sentence...
RAVENWORKS: MAKING NONSENSE OUT OF SIMPLE GRAMMAR SINCE 1983
(seriously though, how have you all been pronouncing it? this is the worst square-enix pronunciation ambiguity since 'chocobo'..)
Uuuuuuuugh, why am I cold aaaaaallll the tiiiime :P
Had a dream last night that I was in a movie... a sequel to the ghostbusters franchise, or something.... all I remember is that I lost my shoe in a shopping mall when they evacuated due to the ending of the world :P And that I couldn't bust ghosts without it. Also that one of the ghostbusters wanted to quit, and had stayed home, but then was visited by the ghost of his father who convinced him this was our hour of need, and that he was the only one who could bring us our proton packs (and my lost shoe). I thought that was a great little twist; plus of course the angle that his father was a ghost, you knew there was going to be some sad ending where he sacrifices himself or something (possibly for the second time? :O) Anyway, the fun part was that I woke up right around then, still in a dream state, and made a mental note to write this down, since my future was now secure, now that I had the best movie ever conceived spinning around in my head :P I then started dreaming again, dreaming that I was writing it down.. and that I was clearing space on my DVD rack for where the DVD of it would eventually go, since I was so certain that I would want it taking up the top space on the rack :P I love it when dreams screw with how you feel about things, without justifying why you have those feelings. Well.. not when a dream makes you hate something for no good reason :P I had a dream that one of my co-workers hated me, an I'm *still* uncomfortable around him..
man, any excuse to write an LJ post so I can kill a few minutes :P Here's hoping this project ties up this week. Y'know the sad thing is it hasn't been terrible. They haven't been unreasonable at all. They've been making all kinds of leeway for me ever since I expressed that I can't handle it, in fact. But I still can't handle it, and I don't know why. Maybe it's just the pressure of how much it would affect the client if we messed up. At least I had a good weekend. Lots of lollygagging and chilling with friends (online anyway, but good enough ;P). Didn't get anything done but I haven't relaxed like that in a while. Anybody heard of Trackmania? Surprisingly addictive title..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55CRKf9x
Seen this yet? I've just spent like an hour, torturing myself, watching it over and over, getting these brief glimpses, like electrical shocks, of something that feels like memory but without being able to actually tell what the logos are from :P This guy's gathered a few.. I am positive I recognize 0:02, 0:55 (not 0:57), 1:37, 1:47, 1:51, and 2:03... and almost the entire rest of the video still has me clutching my head going "oh god I know that!" :P But, yeah. Those times I posted... my head feels like lightning when I think about it, and I can even tell that 1:51 used the right font underneath the logo, but I can't remember what they said..
Can anyone fare better than me?
Feeling slightly better after a good night's sleep... meanwhile, a mild but bizarre computer problem :p
I have two screens. One of them (the big one) goes in front of me. I have a second one to the right of me. I've made the smaller, rightmost one my 'primary monitor', so all my desktop icons and the taskbar will sit over there, allowing me to browse my desktop without having to minimize whatever I'm working on on the big screen. This has worked fine for almost a year.
But as of a couple of days ago... Windows has just decided that, no matter which screen is set as my primary, my desktop icons all belong on the left (i.e. big) screen. No matter which screen has the Start menu on it, and no matter how many times I drag them back to the right screen... once they're there, I can do 'arrange by name' and they'll all arrange within the right screen like I want, but once I've rebooted, everything's back on the wrong screen.
The trouble here is that this is a very vague problem. :p I can only hope that somebody's had it before... The only description of it on Google is a guy who didn't think to just drag the icons back... my problem is that that only fixes it until the next reboot for me.
I really just need to reinstall XP on this thing. It just pisses me off thinking about paying them for a copy of this half-baked operating system. It's not that I can't afford it, it's just.. right now, whenever anything goes wrong, it's annoying :P If I go out and buy a full copy of XP, every time something goes wrong I'm going to be saying "I blew $200 for this". :p Honestly some days I'm tempted to just get a mac and do dualbooting / virtualization. Hell, are there any distros of linux that can run emulated Windows like Macs do? (and I don't mean Wine.) In short I don't want to go without, say, Steam. Or indie games. Maybe I just need two PCs... (but then I wouldn't know which one should get the good graphics card, ugh X3) Never mind, I think I'm mostly trying to distract myself :P
Seriously, though... does anybody out there have a G15 or G11 keyboard? Would you recommend it? How programmable are the programmable keys? (Could I, say, map one to a Photoshop command that doesn't have a ctrl-key shortcut?) How about the screen, is it a gimmick or have you found anything useful for it? Birthday is drawing near, and as usual, I'm scrambling to come up with stuff for my relatives to chip in on :p (Thinking of asking for 'the world ends with you', though I'd really like to try it first... between that and not being sure about the G11/G15, this is turning into yet another deadline, gah XD)
Anyway, don't mind me, just rambling :P Ugh, already got a booked weekend. Have to make sure I get out to the biodome some time within the next two weeks, I'd hate myself if I missed the bird fest. Anyone interested in going?
This project is making me ill. I feel shaky all the time, and I can't unclench my muscles, and I spent all morning light-headed, unable to even focus or remember what I was supposed to be doing from one moment to the next. I screwed up a couple of times because of it. I've had just about enough. This project had better end next week. I guess my vacation will be after that.
Hopefully I'm at the point in my stress where I finally crack and stop caring. No matter how often I try I can't make it happen early.. hopefully it'll be soon though, it normally only takes one or two solid days of "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh" before the needle goes all the way around to 'zen' again.
My boss told me that this project should be the last time I need to go through this. The quality of life I go through sometimes at this job isn't worth it. If the next project turns out like this too then I will finally quit.
"An RPG in which a boy in the real world is transported into the world of the 16-bit RPG he’s been playing at home. Once inside the world he finds that his character is not the hero he once imagined. The villagers resent him for being self-absorbed and taking all their items and money while the monsters he’s slain were actually innocent creatures. The boy must spend the rest of the adventure attemtping to put right his wrongs by pleasing the villagers and trying to bring the dead monsters back to life."
Nice. :P
Oh, man....
last night I dreamt that:
1) I joined facebook
2) I was batman
3) my plan to save Gotham involved finishing the site I was making at work, then posting about it on Facebook.
That's not multiple choice, that was the sequence of events :P Also, when catgirl changed sides to fight for good, she swapped her traditional black outfit for a pink one. (Just to get the message across, I guess?)
Bwuh, dozy because I keep staying up too late. Hopefully got next week off though, if everything goes well getting this site online. :p (Very hopefully because I've already got a doctor's appointment for monday..) Still not sure what I want to do with that week off, though. Wanted to visit somebody, or have somebody visit here, but I'm not sure how relaxing it would really be..? Man, I dunno. If not I guess I'm planning on spending some time checking out apartments, which would also be good.
The appointment is with a dietician, btw; apparently I've lost six pounds since last year.... six pounds I couldn't afford to lose :P This corroborates nicely with my theory that stuff's not digesting right... planning on getting tested for gluten problems too next week (or whenever).
TrackMania's pretty fun! It's like Mario Kart meets Unreal, minus guns... and cleverly enough, they made it free! Still unsure whether I'm going to stick with it, but if I do I might upgrade to the paid version just for the joy of using custom meshes :P I get the feeling it might get old before then. Time will tell!
Ugh, time for a great big hot shower to wash this feeling of unrested dread out of my muscles... staying up late to answer email was dumb.
Also Brits, and Aussies come to think of it:
A grammar quiz for you, to determine my sanity.
Fill in the blanks with either "is" or "are".
My family ___ going on vacation.
My whole family ___ going on vacation.
My family ___ going on vacation without me.
The Beatles ___ a great band.
Focus ___ a great band.
Focus ___ very influential even today.
Nintendo ___ releasing a new game.
Nintendo ___ very good with customer support.
The whole class ___ going to the Silt Museum on a field trip.
The whole class ___ going to fail that test.
( My answers... )
Unrelated to any of this, I get entirely too much of a kick out of 'The Big Bang Theory' (the TV show.) It's nerdy humor, but without being TOO easy... and the aspbergery main character is just absolutely endearing. Which is REAL hard to get right, from a writing and acting perspective..
My Personality
97 | |
34 | |
60 | |
36 | |
36 |
| You don't usually get angry too easily but some things can annoy you, however you experience panic, confusion, and helplessness when under pressure or stress. You tend to feel overwhelmed by, and therefore actively avoid, large crowds. You often need privacy and time for yourself. You prefer familiar routines and for things to stay the same. You can tend to feel uncomfortable with change. You will help others if they are in need. If people ask for too much of your time you feel that they are imposing on you, however you are not affected strongly by human suffering, priding yourself on making objective judgments based on reason. You are more concerned with truth and impartial justice than with mercy. You strive hard to achieve excellence. Your drive to be recognized as successful keeps you on track toward your lofty goals. You often have a strong sense of direction in life, but may sometimes be too single-minded and obsessed with your work. |
http://kotaku.com/381846/ign-waterm
Ugh. X3; It's there. :P I just checked on my box. It's even clearer on the real cover. You can see all three letters of "IGN"... :p
In other news... Man, I have got weird anxiety issues. Went out to a Smash Bros. Brawl party/furmeet yesterday, without having a chance to eat first (was somebody's ride from downtown).. the noise was horrible (the host was a musician/producer guy with these absolutely gigantic speakers all over his basement) and it was just generally too many people in too small a place. Eventually half the people left and we dropped back down to one TV though, so I eventually started having fun... but by the end of the evening I was feeling really worn-down and kindof sick to my stomach, which is par for the course for these events. It was then that I had it pointed out to me that I hadn't eaten any food in the past 24 hours. I didn't have time to eat breakfast, forgot to eat lunch, and then promptly had the hungry scared out of me by all the noise. By the time it quieted down, my stomach was too knotted from all the commotion (and hunger!) to eat anything. (I had dreams about restaurants all night. :P)
Oh man. I just remembered I also dreamt that somebody sent me a smash bros. level and the wii's blue light was keeping me up... which happens for real... except my wii wasn't even plugged in last night.. X3 Then I dreamt that Lemon Demon made a game that was halfway between I Wanna Be The Guy and Get Lost... (I hate referencing IWBTG rather than the ascii megaman game that inspired it, but I can never remember what it was called...) Come to think of it, I've lost count of the number of Dark Castle sequels I've dreamt I've played.
Okay, I'm just killing time now, I should get going to work. :x
(Also I'm thinking of recording a youtube rant about people who say 'the cake is a lie' every time they heard the word 'cake' uttered in any context. *grumble*)
edit: and in one final edit, I'd just like to say that I love it when you're listening to music, and your computer stalls out, but it's just the right kind of music and exactly the right tempo for it to fit perfectly. XD Onboard soundcards = instant remix.
OK I should go. :x
WINTER IS OVER. :]
I saw my first open terasse of the year today. I knew that heralded good things. By the time I was walking home I had remembered what it felt like to smile for no reason. Honest to god. I was like "Oh yeah! THIS!" It's been so long since my default position hasn't been 'scowl'. Man, 'bout time. Welcome back to the half of the year where I enjoy living in Quebec ;)
Okay, I just gotta say. Okami Wii? All the filters are present and accounted for. INCLUDING THE PAPER FILTER. :P It seems to be turned way down since the PS2 port, but it's clearly still there. (I honestly don't know if I'd be able to make it out on a cathode ray TV, but it's not like they "had to leave it out" or something. :) And my darlings the color-bloom and the weird-inky-drift-thing are alive and well :) One thing I can't quite remember from the PS2 version is if the parchment 'letterboxing' was included in framebuffer effects or not.... but that's *really* splitting hairs anyway ;P
Mmmm, I missed this game.
so... er.. apparently Okami isn't out in Canada until tomorrow. Way to go, Capcom :p (No, the Best Buy website didn't know either...) I can wait another day! Just getting impatient to see with my own eyes what's up with the shaders ;p
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wingywoof had an interesting link: The inverse power of praise
Can certainly relate to that on both halves of the equation. Human psychology is complex and weird, and it's scary how often we don't double-check our first impulse and think about how it's going to be received. God knows people are settings their kids up to not be able to handle the real world.. but that's a whole other discussion :P Sigh.
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