I tutor a Japanese woman in English, and she asked me to check a practice exam essay she wrote for the ACT. In it I found one of the greatest sentences ever: "Many people think sex without a condom is safe as long as the men explode out of vaginas."

( Reborn 481 )

Paradoxically, RPGs are often valued on their battle system. The most common is turn-based, but one of the most memorable for gamers is the ATB system (Active Time Battle). It's exclusive for Square (I think they even filed copyright for it in America), but their most popular games used it. I grew up on the ATB system (playing and replaying ( Read more... )

I read an old article from 2006 when the Democrats took over congress. When the leaders met with Bush, one commented it was very nice of Bush to wear a blue tie (an allusion to "blue states").

I really dislike the concept of blue and red states. It's a relatively new phenomenon. Most people don't understand how the electoral college works, so ( Read more... )

My conclusion after my first German class: I fucking hate languages with vowel gradation.

I'm currently translating Aesop's Fables from Latin into English; I hope to someday be able to do it from Greek into Latin or vice versa. At the moment though, I'm having fun wondering how mountains can give birth, but it reminds me of when I first read the fables back in high school. At that time it was in English, but I found them very ( Read more... )

My friend bought it for me for my birthday a few weeks ago, and so far it's better than I thought it would be. I'm not saying it's amazing, but overall I guess a decent spin-off game. Two things that bother me: Luke's icon on the world map keeps its long hair after he cut it. Also, they're missing a lot of moves. Considering this is entirely a ( Read more... )

Yeah, I'm not done with it yet. I'm just waiting for the stuff to grow in the final dungeon so I can get to that damned boss.

In any case, in the original Rune Factory, storms would happen and tear apart your farm. Fine, that happens in every game. What particularly annoys me is they also destroy your cultivated areas in the caves. I guess they ( Read more... )

( Beginning to Catacombs. )

( Yes, even in Ireland I still can't stop playing video games. )