hey, it's been awhile
Apr. 24th, 2012 08:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishLast night's dreams were... confusing and fragmented, to say the least. I was constantly grieving for one or another of my current cats (who are very much alive) and/or Tommy the cat from my childhood who's been gone for almost fifteen years now. I also started dating someone who is in waking life a very casual online acquaintance, started a storm at sea that swamped a boat filled with tiny people who may or not have been other friends of mine, and somehow caused uilos to lose about half the green pearls off her necklace, about which I was a lot more upset than she was. O, brain.
Still somewhat stressed over work. Still not writing, other than the Upgrade Guide, which is not supposed to be fiction anyway. All that should let up in a week or so.
Finished eBear's Range of Ghosts yesterday. Quite good. Still, to paraphrase James Nicoll, I hope in my lifetime to see the death of the bound book-fragment mode of writing. It's all build-up for a story, albeit one that does at least have an end in sight (2014, I expect).
A couple of weeks ago I was talking withuilos trying to figure out what I wanted to do, since nothing felt at all interesting. She bounced a couple of ideas off me and I kept saying "no, that's not it."
"Well, do you want to... sit around and play video games?"
"I can't, because the old consoles don't connect well to the television and it's annoying to have that half-second lag and... and this is a 'can't' not a 'don't wanna.' Hm."
So I went out and bought a Wii, on the grounds that it'll play my existing Gamecube games. That and a component video cable seem to have done the trick. Whomped my way through Eternal Darkness again and felt a bit better about things.
As far as actual Wii games: I'm told I should get both Mario Galaxys and New SMB, and anything labeled Kirby as well. Zelda: Twilight Princess was pretty but after about halfway through, the sheer amount of running around not doing anything interesting has really turned me off it. (That and the terminally annoying fairy who hangs around and is smug about not telling you anything.) Metroid: Other M was... decent, but too frantic to really feel epic; I've got the Prime Trilogy on order. Anything I'm missing? Anything good on Virtual Console / WiiWare?
uilos to lose about half the green pearls off her necklace, about which I was a lot more upset than she was. O, brain.Still somewhat stressed over work. Still not writing, other than the Upgrade Guide, which is not supposed to be fiction anyway. All that should let up in a week or so.
Finished eBear's Range of Ghosts yesterday. Quite good. Still, to paraphrase James Nicoll, I hope in my lifetime to see the death of the bound book-fragment mode of writing. It's all build-up for a story, albeit one that does at least have an end in sight (2014, I expect).
A couple of weeks ago I was talking with
uilos trying to figure out what I wanted to do, since nothing felt at all interesting. She bounced a couple of ideas off me and I kept saying "no, that's not it.""Well, do you want to... sit around and play video games?"
"I can't, because the old consoles don't connect well to the television and it's annoying to have that half-second lag and... and this is a 'can't' not a 'don't wanna.' Hm."
So I went out and bought a Wii, on the grounds that it'll play my existing Gamecube games. That and a component video cable seem to have done the trick. Whomped my way through Eternal Darkness again and felt a bit better about things.
As far as actual Wii games: I'm told I should get both Mario Galaxys and New SMB, and anything labeled Kirby as well. Zelda: Twilight Princess was pretty but after about halfway through, the sheer amount of running around not doing anything interesting has really turned me off it. (That and the terminally annoying fairy who hangs around and is smug about not telling you anything.) Metroid: Other M was... decent, but too frantic to really feel epic; I've got the Prime Trilogy on order. Anything I'm missing? Anything good on Virtual Console / WiiWare?
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Date: 2012-04-24 06:57 pm (UTC)Cave Story is also a good downloadable game. I see there's a Bit.Trip Runner port too... I haven't played it on the Wii, but on PC I have, and I bet you'd like it.
I really wish there were some way you could play Fez. I could see that taking over your life.
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Date: 2012-04-24 08:14 pm (UTC)Cave Story (well, Cave Story+) came in a Humble Bundle sometime last year. It's almost exactly the kind of thing I like, except for how the designer seems to believe that save points are made out of rubies, or every time you put one in God kills a kitten, or something. Gave up on what I'm pretty sure is the final boss (the Doctor, after defeating whatsername with no save point afterwards).
Bit.TRIP Complete is on my radar; waiting for a cheap copy to pop up. I may be waiting for awhile. :)
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Date: 2012-04-24 08:28 pm (UTC)I have a couple Bit.TRIP games (Runner and... something? Beat?) I've only played Runner, but it's totally awesome. I'm stuck on one level, but even being stuck is sort of addictive. I think because the beat doesn't stop when you die, it just waits for the start os the next measure to respawn you at the start of the level, so it's like listening to a giant techno song that eventually you get right.
Annnd now I'm going to go listen to the Bit.TRIP soundtrack on the iPod-o-game-music. :)
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Date: 2012-04-25 04:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-25 04:47 am (UTC)You're playing Mario. The first one, for the NES. Only trouble is, your controller is broken: the d-pad is always holding down right, so you can't stop running. Obstacles (things to jump over, things to duck under, things to ninja kick: it's not exactly Mario) are coming at you from the right side of the screen. You need to deal with them (jump, duck, kick, whatever) at exactly the right time.
What's cool though, each action you do makes a certain sound, that's like a sample in a techno track. And the levels are designed such that if you play it right (deal with every obstacle as it comes at you), then it's music.
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Date: 2012-04-25 04:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-25 04:51 am (UTC)The boss I'm stuck on now is this flying saucer dude who flies next to you and drops stuff in front of you. He always drops the same stuff, but I can't quite get it.