In the interests of SLACKERY...

[totorojo]

They do not call me Jo-Queen-Of-Skiving for nothing. No sir.

Lovingly liberated from the LJ of the lovely fatkraken.

The problem with Live Journal is that we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. Hence, I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no

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[fatkraken]

haha, right now the top SIX entries on my f-list are this meme :P

[totorojo]

I was trying to think of something I could ask you that I really should know and don't. About the best I could come up with was "wait, when are you graduating again??", which fails the "Cool Elder Sibling" test and was thusly abandoned!

[fuunsaiki]

What were the circumstances that got you to Japan, and is there an end in sight or are you out there indefinitely?

I like talking about myself. Can you tell?

[totorojo]

Ah, a complicated question this one :).

The reasonably-condensed version: The lure of Japan had been strong from a young-ish age (pretty much as soon as I figured out that was where anime and RPGs came from >_>). By 6th form I had this vague idea that I might try and make it out here at some point, preferably for university, but my attempts to do anything about it had been distinctly half-arsed. Then there was a Boy. And he was already booked to leave the UK for Japan a mere 6 weeks after the occurrence of The Getting Together. So I angsted for about a year while I finished up my degree, visited a few times, then followed. Now I'm 5 years into grad school and about a year away from the end of PhD. After that I lose my visa so the default plan is to move on. :P (Potential visa-retaining options include Marriage and Job, neither of which seem entirely sensible...)

/life-story

Thank you. Come again! :)

[e_m_e_r_a_l_d]

It's not that deep, but I don't know what games you're playing at the mo'. Which, given I guess I felt the strongest connection to you in the past through J-RPGs, seems something that I "ought" to know.

Me, I've just finished Prince of Persia, and earlier this week completed Fl0wer. I think I may give Fat Princess a go when she's out next week.

[totorojo]

Hello!

The terrible thing is, I seem to have really fallen out of the habit of playing games over the last couple of years. Not totally, I should add. The medium still holds a lot of interest for me, and every so often something really sparks the desire to play again. But I've really lost the staying power. I rarely finish anything anymore.

Having said that... Portal really grabbed me a few months back, and now I'm poking at Braid, which I also like a lot. Console-wise the last thing I was playing was the DS Chrono Trigger, but I lost interest around the point where you have to spend hours pissing about in the extra dungeons they've tagged on to justify the remake and haven't got around to finishing it yet... (>_>)

[e_m_e_r_a_l_d]

The small, quirky and high-quality games from the indie slant are really helping with the "big game won't have time to play" syndrome. Portal was a lot of fun, in a weird way I "performed" it, because it was around New Year and my brother had a load of friends around, they just sat and watched me play it first time all through! The extra pressure made it way cooler when I got through a challenge on the fly, but they were cool when I died in a way that wasn't quite my fault.

Braid isn't a game I've returned to. I think it was a bit too brain-bendy. I've gone off the boil on Chrono Trigger myself, tho' would deffo' like to finish it!

[half_of_monty]

Which degree do you wish you'd done instead?

[If current degree is still first choice you get a biscuit.]

[totorojo]

Hmm. Having not really tried my hand at many other subjects it's rather hard to say. But I might have liked to have gone into some kind of theoretical linguistics degree. Learning Japanese kick-started an interest in how language is constructed...

Current degree is OK though. Biscuit please! :3