So, I'm bored, tired, and a little bit crabby from miscellaneous pains.

And that's the end of THAT rant! =P I figure in an effort to avoid the "urrrgh, sux!" doldrums in such a mood, I'd make a random LJ post about mostly nothing.

Life, no doodling, and computer love. <3Life is the same; boring at present, so nothing new to report there. I haven ( Read more... )

Crap, it seems like I only recently made a meaningful post on this thing... and that was LAST Christmas.

My cheery work peeps keep pointing out the less than 43 days left until that fabulous holiday... and I sort of wish I still had that childlike attitude where anything over ONE day till Christmas seemed like an eternity. Where has the magic gone?

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Honestly, I'm just posting this here because it's better than a mile-long forum post at my favorite digs, The Ancient Land of Ys.

I wrote this after finishing my triple playthrough of Ys Origin, and it's peppered with personal preferences, commentary, and name-spelling choices that may or may not be established as canonical to the majority. For ( Read more... )

Yup, today's Christmas. Woo.

I don't really get into the spirit much anymore myself, but I don't mind the general atmosphere of it too much. For me it amounts to taking time off of work and doing some shopping/baking and stuff.

And trying to tolerate family members I wish I didn't have to claim by any means. x_x;; There is a cursed waste of flesh ( Read more... )

Been awhile... as usual, stuff tends to drag me away from regularly keeping one of these things up.

Sooo~! Update time iz nao!

Finished Dawn of Mana; it was sad as I expected, dammit. ;_; Poor Keldy.... still, I love the game for all precious few others in the world probably do. ^^; It was flawed, but I had fun with it.

Now I'm on a Tales kick again ( Read more... )

Sooooooo... yesterday I finally got the Materials Collection book for Seiken Densetsu 4 and Children of Mana. It was everything I hoped and more; I only wish my Japanese skills were better than barely fundamental. *SIGH* It appears to have insane amounts of world and character information in it, and I'd so be all over that stuff in a heartbeat.

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So, while I'm creeping closer to what I believe is almost sure to be a VERY bittersweet ending to Keldy's tale in Dawn of Mana, I'm finding myself loving the game more every time I play it. The wonky controls still exist, but they no longer hinder me any more than my own occasionally retarded reflexes have in other games with more tightly-wound ( Read more... )

Apparently my short break from FFIV DS is going to be a bit longer yet... but that's okay. I've been giving Dawn of Mana that much-deserved chance in spite of the hordes of naysayers.

Up side? I do love this game. The feeling of it from the visuals and the characters is everything I ever loved about Secret of Mana back in the day. It almost makes ( Read more... )

Had to snag a new PS2 controller today after one of my existing ones got possessed or something. o_O;; To test it out, I popped in one of the games I recently picked up; Dawn of Mana.

Now, this poor game, a scion of the Seiken Densetsu series I adore, has gotten some truly sucktastic reviews. I have to admit, even in playing just twenty odd minutes ( Read more... )