A Secret Volkswagon

Fuck You, He's Awesome?

2009-11-10T23:15:33Z

Because I felt like it, Amano picspam. All images link to BIG MCLARGEHUGE scans.

:B~~~~~~~~

2009-11-10T03:02:28Z

Hyadain did an Ultros song!

My favorite is still Rap de Chocobo, though.

heebee @ 2009-11-09T08:03:00

2009-11-09T16:03:26Z

Ssssssooo, screenshots of chocobos in FFXIII were released.

On the other hand, Oerba Yun Fang looks like the most awesome character and if Sazh didn't sell me on this game, she would:

QUESTION

2009-11-09T01:04:50Z

If I am in the market to actually purchase music, as opposed to pirating it, which sites do not load their .mp3s with a bunch of DRM crap?

Music Sharing o/!

2009-11-07T20:53:37Z

If you're a fan of the zombie genre, you will probably like Virus by Abney Park. It deserves a spot on any Resident Evil FST, at any rate!

heebee @ 2009-11-06T18:56:00

2009-11-07T02:56:30Z

The other side of tragedy is discovering the people who rise up to meet it:

"Sergeant Munley — a woman with a fierce love of hunting, surfing and other outdoor sports — bolted from her car, yanked her pistol out and shot at Major Hasan. He turned on her and began to fire. She ran toward him, continuing to fire, and both she and Major Hasan went down with several bullet wounds, Mr. Medley said."

Read the whole article. This woman is incredible.

heebee @ 2009-11-04T14:23:00

2009-11-04T22:23:08Z

Hurna hurna. Fell out of reading Girl Genius sometime around July 2007 and now I have no idea where I left off.

This Thought Is The Opposite of Deep

2009-11-02T22:05:41Z

So I was thinking about Disney's Beauty and the Beast and how Belle says that she wants "adventure in the great wide somewhere" but then spends the majority of the film locked up in a castle.

But then if you think of it as a dungeon, then it's like she's Link, only she fell in love with the boss monster.

heebee @ 2009-10-31T22:21:00

2009-11-01T05:21:56Z

HAHAHAHAHAHA DISSIDIA FANDOM GOT TROLLED GOOD

BY A FRENCH GUY.

My god! Blurry cam pics of what must surely be a Japanese gaming magazine turn up in the comm!

The Reveal!

Note that I was thoroughly had. However the fact that this was done by a guy who renders bushy 'staches onto Cloud and Squall is 1010% okay with me.

Good show, I say. Good show.

Crotchety Morning Language Observation

2009-10-31T15:13:16Z

Dear Internet,

If you are going to use the word "literally" to describe an action, do make sure that it is something that the reader would most likely otherwise pass off as hyperbole. "Literally" implies as it is written.

Example!

"Accident at the glue factory today. Clean-up was so frustrating that I literally tore my hair out (that really hurts, btw)!"

Wow, somebody actually did something that is usually considered a metaphor! And to take a recent example from journalfen, this is one of the many phrases where you do not need to use "literally:" "[her] reaction was to literally cross her legs and scream..."

Wow, she crossed her legs? Good thing you cleared that up for me, partner. That just wouldn't have been clear otherwise.

heebee @ 2009-10-30T16:30:00

2009-10-30T23:30:46Z

Large Hadron Collider Sabotaging Itself from the Future

You know, if I was a CERN physicist, I would have a hard time not abusing my authority by releasing statements like this, too. Although from now on, they're going to be known as "the time-travel guys" and never be taken seriously again.

heebee @ 2009-10-29T14:53:00

2009-10-29T21:53:24Z

It's times like these, when it's 66 degrees out and I'm in three layers, eating a hot bowl of soup and still too cold that I seriously doubt my mammalian heritage.

Also, watched the Penumbra LP.

D:

heebee @ 2009-10-26T21:21:00

2009-10-27T04:21:37Z

That picspam meme that riley_boi did, only this is 99.99999% Final Fantasy IX.

01: A picture with flowers

02: A picture in which the color blue dominates

03: A picture with smiling faces

04: A "we're a team!" picture

05: A picture with seven or more colors

06: An angsty picture

07: A picture you think of when you hear the word "sweet"

08: A "best friends" picture

09: A picture that will make us go "oh my!"

10: An "awww" picture

11: A rainy day picture

12: A "cling!" picture

13: A group picture

14: A cuddly picture

15: An action picture

16: A kissing picture

17: A picture you think of when you hear the word "ouch!"

18: A picture with someone sleeping in it

19: A picture that will make us laugh

20. COMMENTER'S CHOICE

Icon Meme!

2009-10-24T22:13:07Z

01. Comment to this entry saying 'ICONS!' and I will pick 6 of your icons.
02. Make an entry in your own journal and talk about the icons I picked!

... 03. Post Entry is not Preview.

mildmay inquired about these:

I whipped this up after that episode of Gurren Lagann where the big plot twist was "OH FUCK THE MOON" and I was immediately reminded of Majora's Mask. Seldom used now, but not an icon I'm particularly inclined to delete.

CACTUUS.

So, solderini was over one day, and as usual we got to talking and horrible, horrible ideas came about. I have no idea how the subject of shooping Squall's face on Daniel Radcliffe's body came up, but as soon as it did I said "shit,now I have to do that, don't I :(". The original idea called for a chocobo, but then C suddenly started laughing and said that if I used a cactuar it could be called CACTUUS ... and two hours later this was born. Used for serious ruminations of the inner meaning of japanese roleplaying games and making your flist NSFW.

While youtubin' Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core, I couldn't get over how much Angeal looks like John Travolta (specifically Face/Off-era Travolta) in the opening FMV (now you can't unsee it). Naturally this led me to crack jokes @ caffeinic about Angeal leaving SOLDIER to become a Scientologist, which naturally (naturally!) progressed to "replacing all instances of SOLDIER in the script with SCIENTOLOGIST." Try this sometime.

Anyhow the best way to illustrate the concept is to replace ~~Gackt~~ Genesis' stupid play with Dianetics. Ta-daaan!

by [Bad username: progressiveicons]

Die Anstalt is a German webgame about plush toy psychiatry, and is a great way to make you feel less messed up. They actually sell the toys in the game. I kind of want one :|a Anyway, Kroko the paranoid schizophrenic crocodile is a good for expressing fear, or generally being messed up.

Fuck yeah, Lisa Frank! Look at that baby tiger. Just look at him. He is neon pink, orange, and purple. He does not hunt with his teeth and claws, oh no. He hunts by blinding his prey. Used to express what a nine year old schoolgirl I really am inside.

Aisling from Brendan and the Secret of Kells! I haven't actually used this icon yet, but I wanted to have a Secret of Kells icon.

AFTER SO MANY YEARS. VICTORY. VICTORY!!!!

2009-10-24T06:44:39Z

I CAUGHT CARMEN SANDIEGO

... She was in Budapest, by the way. Which I now realize is in the screenshot (I couldn't get print screen to work :\). But anyway I think I can die peacefully now.

heebee @ 2009-10-22T14:15:00

2009-10-22T21:15:59Z

This made my day.

heebee @ 2009-10-21T19:38:00

2009-10-22T02:39:03Z

Uuuughhhhhh does a bath with cushions exist? I just want to soak in hot hot water but I feel sore and tender all over. Whiiiiiiiiiiine

In other news, Nostalgia is coming out for the DS on October 27:

I need to find my DS Lite!

heebee @ 2009-10-20T15:03:00

2009-10-20T22:03:54Z

WHITE BLOOD CELLS YOU HAVE FAILED ME

(Sick agaaaiiin)

heebee @ 2009-10-18T14:41:00

2009-10-18T21:42:00Z

Got back from Disneyland! Met up with my mom and my sister, as they were going to the Cal vs UCLA game on Saturday and were gonna hit Disneyland on Friday. It was really packed and really hot. It was like July just decided to stick around Orange County. However I did get to ride the Haunted Mansion with the Nightmare Before Christmas refitting, which I love (my name is in the "nice" list when you go through the attic!) AND I got to ride their Halloween-themed Space Mountain.

There was a giant flaming demon skellington thing that grabbed its way through wormholes and galaxies and Space Mountain was dark for once and we got to sit in the back and I made a hilarious face for the picture ...

It was just way metal. Let's leave it at that. If you have the opportunity to do so, go and ride Space Mountain at Halloween. It is the best Space Mountain.

Also finally watched the third Mummy movie. It was every bit as stupid as I expected it to be, and I enjoyed every dumb second of it.

FINAL FANTASY IX PLAYARTS ACQUIRED. Need to clean house and see if I can't come up with good pictures.

2009, You're Breaking my <3

2009-10-15T22:18:14Z

Captain Lou Albano dies at 76

The Super Mario Super Show was my afternoon cartoon of choice, and I stopped watching once they switched the format from Lou as Mario to some "TOTALLY COOL DUDES" in neon baseball caps. He was Mario to me :(

It was a small piece of my childhood, but he lit it up. May he rest in peace.

heebee @ 2009-10-13T23:45:00

2009-10-14T06:46:04Z

Adkfjdkahdkja S-E WHAT

Bon Jovi's We Weren't Born to Follow to be used in Crystal Bearers adverts

Somehow, I feel that needs to be paired with this screenshot:

:D!!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-10-11T04:48:33Z

So that guy who directed Brendan and the Secret of Kells?

Working on a new feature. About selkies.

:D!!!!!!!!!!!!!

heebee @ 2009-10-08T18:37:00

2009-10-09T01:37:48Z

\o\ More Crystal Bearers screenshots have been released!!! /o/!!!!!

Scenery!!! Gosh this game is pretty.

Looks like the Fields of Fum are back. I wonder if the cow races are, too :|a

I'm reasonably certain this was a My Little Pony and/or Barbie playset in the 80's.

So some Lilties are giant Gorons and others are adorable midgets, like they've traditionally been. I HOPE THIS WILL BE ADDRESSED IN-GAME. I like tiny Lilties :(

Oh gosh I love Belle already. Why isn't she a playable character.

Actually Keiss seems pretty cool, too. My Selkie bias, let me show it to you.

The rest can be found here.

heebee @ 2009-10-07T15:03:00

2009-10-07T22:03:28Z

Completed the Summon Compendium in Dissidia \o/!

. . . And with that, I've more or less played the game out. I suppose I could actually go to the trouble of leveling up the other characters, beating Inward Chaos, etc.; but I don't feel particularly inclined to do so.

There is the continual lure of funny screenshots, though.

Anyway, Mostly Final Thoughts:

All in all, Dissidia is a solid game, although there are some places where I feel it is sorely in need of improvement. S-E isn't one to let a cash cow go unmilked, so Im reasonably certain that there will be a sequel. And the number one thing I'd like to see in that is:

- BETTER LEVEL DESIGN

There are just some maps that are a pain in the ass to fight on no matter which character you're playing (Kefka's Tower, Ultimecia's Castle, and Planet's Core; to a lesser extent Pandemonium and the Old Chaos Shrine). Any map with multiple levels and/or a ceiling is an invitation to get yourself stuck in a corner and you WILL find yourself screwed by the camera in a chase sequence when the camera decides to provide you with a closeup of the scenery and leaves you guessing about when to press X not to die (I lost 3 matches against Firion in Inward Chaos thanks to this).

In fact, I could do with them axing the chase sequences altogether. Learning the timing to dodge isn't all that difficult (unless you get cock-blocked by the camera), and at higher levels the AI unfailingly dodges, so initiating one becomes an exercise in wasting your time. It really feels like they put them in there because quicktime events are the cool thing to do these days, guys.

And finally, I'd like to see more interesting/balanced skill sets for a bunch of the characters. Cloud of Darkness suffers the most from this. She has two Brave attacks and then a host of HP attacks that are all based around Particle Beam.

I have other, more stupid, quibbles about translation minutiae (the localization team appeared to be quite knowledgeable about both translations of FFVI and yet Terra is wearing a "puppeteer's wheel" instead of a "slave crown" during your boss fight with her in DO III?) and the tedium of grinding to upgrade your weapons, but those are the real big ones.

heebee @ 2009-10-03T09:05:00

2009-10-03T16:05:15Z

We're dogsitting my sister's husky and it's the best thing ever since all Calvin wants to do is hump him and not bark constantly and aahhhh PEACE