hey, it's been awhile

[jazzfish]

Last 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).

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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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[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

Sometimes, random dreams are the brain's way of rebooting.

Is the not-writing related to stress?

Ooooh, you have a lot of good games. I think Twilight Princess is beautiful and I adore Metroid: Other M because we see so much more of Samus. (I love Samus.)

The Metroid Prime Trilogy is great. So are the Mario games.

Do you like the Castlevania games?

I'll have to see what else we have at home that I can rec. I'm afraid I've gotten caught up in MMO's and don't console game as much. Which is a shame. I should console game this weekend.

Have you tried downloading games from Nintendo for your Wii? There's a lot of great older games and even some newer games you can download straight to your Wii.

[jazzfish]

The not-writing is almost certainly related to stress, although it's... there's a particularly invidious form of self-sabotage going on there as well, one I didn't even recognise until it was pointed out to me last week.

Other M feels very weird to me. The pacing just seems ... strange. (I think this wants to be explored in its own post.)

My exposure to Castlevania consisted of the very bad Gameboy game, and watching someone else play the one for Super Nintendo. So... I have no idea? They seem like the sort of thing I'd like.

I've not really looked into the virtual console stuff, on the grounds that it would be very easy to spend a great deal of money there. :)