My brain works like Greece's economy. It retires early and takes quite a few sick/vacation days.
In short, it doesn't work.
Normally, when I sleep, I don't dream. Nothing. Sweet blackness from passing out til awake. Not so this past weekend. Some sort of dream about my maternal grandmother being cool like she isn't in real life and craziness about my car and dad or whatever. Crazy normalcy that my dreams simply never have had before. I've practically never had dreams about real people or real places, unless it was a nightmare, and someone was bloody/gory/mutating. And those are rare enough also.
So two, and in relative succession (aka, both nights this weekend), is utterly unheard of.
Bit unsettling.
In other news, I'm slightly disappointed in my ps3. Just a little. Mine doesn't read ps2 discs, you see, and I was hoping I wouldn't have to lug around both systems. Of course, this saddened me less, when I realized there was no way I could have transferred memory card data anyway, and I wasn't going to start fresh with all my games.
Oddly enough, it reads ps1 games. I've been re-demolishing my Spyro collection, starting with 1 and on to 3, and stopped most of the way through 2. Once I'd realized I hate a number of the extraneous orb challenges that pretty much rely on rote memorization and dumb luck. Half of the Hunter "race you to do this" or "help me with this" sort of crap generally ticks me off, regardless of its actual difficulty.
Of course, it'd help matters if I wasn't trying for skill points as well, though I must admit, skill points are easy as cake compared to some of Hunter's shite... or that thing with the dinosaurs.
More or less, I'm debating on acquiring a new game. If it wasn't $15 online for any of the games I'm at least slightly interested in (due to demos), I'd have done it by now. At least, while I'm still at home and I could go out of my way to hook up the 3do I'm not paying $6 for Gex thank you very much, maybe later Nevertheless, Blade Kitten looks pretty amusing, and taking a poke-around at one of the Final Fantasys' 7-9 seems a fair idea too, and I'm sure there's a few others that are intriguing that I can't think of right now. (Penny Arcade's On The Rainslick Precipice perhaps?) Nevertheless, they're cash I don't really want to piss away without being more than certain its worth it.
Especially since I haven't actually paid the $400+ credit card bill that I bought the dang machine on yet (it seemed like I owned it much much longer than a month. Strange that). It's due in another couple'a days And I have to drive myself all next week while my carpool ride is on vacation. And I really really really want a new damn computer. Imacs are expensive, macbooks even more so, and ipods are just stupid priced, even for their coolness SteveJobsisaSALESMANaftereveryonesWALLETandBrain. I really want one though. I want to be able to do all that stuff I can't do now with my upper 2/3rds screen and coronary-induced system (especially while I still have the time and classlessness to do so). Though I shouldn't be too hard on her, Sophie's been with me for over 5 years now, poor girl
2 grand is rather much though so scrimping as much as possible is a serious necessity.
And it's not that I don't have games I could play. I have quite a few- some I haven't even looked at, aside from a quick disc check. though in self-defense, it's #4 of a series and I'm only started with #3 and it's a long-haul-level-constantly grindstone. Damn you .hack I'm in no mood to play any of those though. It's a "oo! something new!" play-it-for-most-of-the-way-until-it's-hard then break for a while, and invariably move to something else sorta deal with me. That's why those demos have been invaluable, but one can't play demos for hours on end. At least, not beyond the first week. The most in-depth serious game playing I've done in quite a while was when I plowed through the first Spyro, all in one sitting (aside from the popcorn break) this past weekend. Otherwise it's just been sorta-halfass on everything.
Anyway, those all aren't the reason I posted. This is: goddamnyouLJstopremovingtheyoutubeimbededplayer!
Edit:Oo, nevermind, works now
Normally, when I sleep, I don't dream. Nothing. Sweet blackness from passing out til awake. Not so this past weekend. Some sort of dream about my maternal grandmother being cool like she isn't in real life and craziness about my car and dad or whatever. Crazy normalcy that my dreams simply never have had before. I've practically never had dreams about real people or real places, unless it was a nightmare, and someone was bloody/gory/mutating. And those are rare enough also.
So two, and in relative succession (aka, both nights this weekend), is utterly unheard of.
Bit unsettling.
In other news, I'm slightly disappointed in my ps3. Just a little. Mine doesn't read ps2 discs, you see, and I was hoping I wouldn't have to lug around both systems. Of course, this saddened me less, when I realized there was no way I could have transferred memory card data anyway, and I wasn't going to start fresh with all my games.
Oddly enough, it reads ps1 games. I've been re-demolishing my Spyro collection, starting with 1 and on to 3, and stopped most of the way through 2. Once I'd realized I hate a number of the extraneous orb challenges that pretty much rely on rote memorization and dumb luck. Half of the Hunter "race you to do this" or "help me with this" sort of crap generally ticks me off, regardless of its actual difficulty.
Of course, it'd help matters if I wasn't trying for skill points as well, though I must admit, skill points are easy as cake compared to some of Hunter's shite... or that thing with the dinosaurs.
More or less, I'm debating on acquiring a new game. If it wasn't $15 online for any of the games I'm at least slightly interested in (due to demos), I'd have done it by now. At least, while I'm still at home and I could go out of my way to hook up the 3do I'm not paying $6 for Gex thank you very much, maybe later Nevertheless, Blade Kitten looks pretty amusing, and taking a poke-around at one of the Final Fantasys' 7-9 seems a fair idea too, and I'm sure there's a few others that are intriguing that I can't think of right now. (Penny Arcade's On The Rainslick Precipice perhaps?) Nevertheless, they're cash I don't really want to piss away without being more than certain its worth it.
Especially since I haven't actually paid the $400+ credit card bill that I bought the dang machine on yet (it seemed like I owned it much much longer than a month. Strange that). It's due in another couple'a days And I have to drive myself all next week while my carpool ride is on vacation. And I really really really want a new damn computer. Imacs are expensive, macbooks even more so, and ipods are just stupid priced, even for their coolness SteveJobsisaSALESMANaftereveryonesWALLETandBrain. I really want one though. I want to be able to do all that stuff I can't do now with my upper 2/3rds screen and coronary-induced system (especially while I still have the time and classlessness to do so). Though I shouldn't be too hard on her, Sophie's been with me for over 5 years now, poor girl
2 grand is rather much though so scrimping as much as possible is a serious necessity.
And it's not that I don't have games I could play. I have quite a few- some I haven't even looked at, aside from a quick disc check. though in self-defense, it's #4 of a series and I'm only started with #3 and it's a long-haul-level-constantly grindstone. Damn you .hack I'm in no mood to play any of those though. It's a "oo! something new!" play-it-for-most-of-the-way-until-it's-hard then break for a while, and invariably move to something else sorta deal with me. That's why those demos have been invaluable, but one can't play demos for hours on end. At least, not beyond the first week. The most in-depth serious game playing I've done in quite a while was when I plowed through the first Spyro, all in one sitting (aside from the popcorn break) this past weekend. Otherwise it's just been sorta-halfass on everything.
Anyway, those all aren't the reason I posted. This is: goddamnyouLJstopremovingtheyoutubeimbededplayer!
Click to viewEdit:Oo, nevermind, works now