In honor of Xenogears being released to PSN... Oh, and there being a Xenogears panel at Anime Boston 2011.


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Sad but true, the time has come to replace the Overfiend Express. After spending about a grand over the past month or so on repairs, I've decided it's no longer worth keeping the ol' tentacle demon running (since the mechanic said I'll probably have a bunch of other things that are going to go in the next few months too, although it'll last long ( Read more... )

This is very long, so I'm hiding it all behind a cut to spare you the pain.

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While this is mostly going to be on Phantasy Star II, just the nature of my thoughts here means I'll also be discussing Phantasy Star IV and the Final Fantasy series, somewhat. It will also delve into my history with all the Phantasy Star games and console gaming in general.

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I've come to the conclusion that all the snow in New England is due to Dark Force erecting a tower up here.

Yes, I've been playing Phantasy Star IV recently.

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In what could easily be a world record for time between page updates, I finally updated the Lunar: Middleground web page! According to the time stamps on the server, the last update was done on July 9, 1998! So I finally updated the silly page after 12 years!

So why the update? Well, basically, I wanted to post the Middleground Lost Logs zip file ( Read more... )

I haven't had a chance to look them all over, but while digging around on my computer I found something like 108 Lunar: Middleground log files. There seems to be no real rhyme or reason to the naming schemes and I have no idea what order they're in, but I may have found quite the treasure trove here. I may actually update the Lunar: Middleground ( Read more... )

For those of you who enjoy playing IRC RPGs -- especially Lunar IRC RPGs back in the days of Middleground, Magic Empire, ASF1 and 2, etc., I give you this.

It's still in its very early planning stages, but I so want to GM this... I've caught the GMing bug again...

I guess I should use it for more than just auto-forwarding my twitter posts.

Oh, and my puppy managed to run down and tackle a deer last week if you haven't heard already.