Julyyyyyyyyyyyy you are the worst month ever.

Apparently it's 70 out right now, but I wouldn't know it because the air has ceased to circulate and my room is unbearably hot. Tomorrow it will be even hotter.

However! I don't care how ungodly hot it's going to get on Saturday because I'm going to SF with BFFL for the FF: Distant Worlds concert \o/!!! I am excited. This is exciting.

THINGS THAT I MUST DO:

• Clean bathroom


• Do laundry


• Find camera battery charger/charge battery


• Block out the hateful rays of the sun

So I was bored and unispired @ CFUD and then this wound up happening.

Recently rediscovered the brilliant Artoo is the leader of the Rebellion Essay which has compelled me to try and compile essential Star Wars fan essays:

- Lore Sjöberg's classic Luke Side of the Force

- And Master Ninja's Smartass Remarks: Jedi Pit Theory seems to be down, so here it is, copied and pastede from the Internet Archive:
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People who are more serious Star Wars fans than me: got any more of these?

Actually replaying FF5 for the first time since, like, March of 2001. It's a lot more fun than I remembered! All those classes that you're used to sucking in other games are actually frighteningly useful.

What I mean is that Bartz just killed an entire screen of enemies with a swarm of bees.

I remember going shopping for shoes with my mother when I was very little. The shoe store had this play area/crawlspace in the back that I liked because actually shopping for shoes bored me. I'd hide in there until mom found a pair of shoes in my size and she would drag me out to try them on.

I put up with this, well because I had to, but I consoled myself that we would be visiting this tacky gift shop located in the same shopping center. It was the only store located on the second floor of the building, and you had to climb a narrow flight of stairs to reach it. I don't even remember what it was called, but for some reason I was fascinated by the neon sign in the shape of lips that they had in the window.

They sold plastic fish. Empty, neon-colored plastic fish. I got a magenta one. I'm pretty sure I chewed on it and played with it in the bath.

I have vague recollections of the general interior decor of the place. Lots of silk flowers and neon signs. As I was a pretty young kid in the 80's, I don't have many memories that match up to how the decade is portrayed and recalled on TV, but that one memory of the cheesy gift shop "feels" the most 80's.

From C, playing FFT: War of the Lions and trying to make Marach and Rapha useful:

"Okay, the bomb did kill Marach, but Rapha is alive! She's low on HP and covered in oil, but maybe that's just how Ramza likes her."


We also downloaded the first installment of FFIV: The After Years. It's so oldschool and it has "band abilities" that are like Triple Techs from Chrono Trigger and they use the old music and everything. Ceodore starts out pretty whiny, but you know what? BIGGS AND WEDGE SLAP HIM AROUND AND TELL HIM TO MAN UP. A+ I am enjoying this sequel.

Edit:

Oh yes and we determined that if I opened the Grimoire of the Rift and fell into Ivalice I'd get cursed as a dragon, poached, and turned into a purse.

So remember how a million years ago, George Lucas said there would be a Star Wars TV show?

Apparently it's in the works.

There is an extremely high probability of this sucking a lot. But I'm looking forward to my fragile hopes of something as nifty as KoTOR or even the Young Indiana Jones series being dashed against the rocks.

Oh noes, ARE-PEE POST

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Okay, party on.

Archiving the handy list-o-links from SA's current Economic Meltdown Thread:

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Pffft I'm amused that the post about the One Piece "Family Time" extra started a little wank over wether to call the sport soccer or football.

Also finished My Life as a King today. Cute little game and fun for what it is, but I don't really think that the additional content gives enough variety or added enjoyment to the game to justify that the sum amount of it costs more than the initial game. The 9999 cap on gil and elementite meant that I couldn't even take delight in raking in ridiculous amounts of cash and rescources as I sent my little minions out to level grind. You hit a point where you don't really need to spend anymore fairly quickly.

Oddly enough, though, it has the most well-balanced White Mages I've seen in a FF game. Sure, the nuke level of Holy has been gimped, but it works as a fairly low-cost offensive spell for the them, and on top of that they can equip hammers, whose skillsets can be devastating.

So yeah ... it's cute, it's enjoyable, but the additional DLC isn't really worth it.

I know there are more than a couple tabletop gamers on my FL who are also Tolkien fans to some extent or another. If you haven't read DM of the Rings yet, you should remedy that post-haste.

And a very late update on my now-closed High School:

The Diocese and the various people who worked to drive up funds to save the school are suing the nuns.

On the one hand, it makes you go "oh man, they're suing retired nuns." On the other hand, I loved that school and it was a great asset to young women in the Sacramento area, and they more or less treated it like they were flipping a condo.

\o/ Screw 'em!

Okay Death, you may have taken Farrah Fawcet and Michael Jackson but did you have to take Billy Mays, too!?!?!?!

I had just gotten into watching Pitch Men.

I guess I'll ... OxyClean something in his memory?

And now, an obligatory Tribute to the King of Pop, Youtube Style:

( GIRLY MAN )
( The only thing remotely good to come from the Final Fantasy: Spirits Within movie )

In other news, FINALLY obtained FFCC: My Life as a King.









... There are detailed dungeon reports down to every turn in every random encounter your little adventurers face. It's so cute to see that your level 1 adventurers camp by the healing spring and level grind!

So yeah, the only reason I'm at the computer right now is because I'm waiting for the wiimote batteries to recharge.

Why do you gotta keep breaking my heart, Oda?

Dad's home from helping my sister move!

So we had chicken tacos and I had chocolate cake and Dad and I introduced Mom to Eureka with DVDs that my Dad copied from my sister. When the copywright notice popped up on the screen, my Mom said "do you see that?" and Dad held up a copied disc and said "Yes I did. That's why I did this!"

D'aaaaaaaawwwwwwww I love my nerdy family.