Obviously Sadistic

People keep asking why I use _____ in the game _____, and the answer is because I'm evil. I have been sent, specifically, to torture you. I am obviously sadistic. My cruelty has spawned a need for a new category to add to the list along with the "what do you use to record" column and the "r u gurl or kid" column. I keep saying that I should really run statistics on this. I think there's a special list for Diablo and Dungeon Siege comments that we need to explore as well, specifically "number 3 in the series sucks" comments.

Thank Amy for bringing this up again. Now it's going to be stuck in my head all day.

It's ten years old now. How does that make you feel?

Soundtrackssssss

Today's theme is "classic games people played in their childhood that I never played in my childhood...which mostly includes console games"

I'll be peppering it with random thoughts I have at the time...or while I'm listening. Enjoy.

Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary - It's still really cold in my office, which makes no sense because it's super warm outside. I'd say the boiler isn't working, but like the A/C, it's ALWAYS on. Also, people don't seem to realize how easy identifying plagarized projects and writing is. I love the people who copy and paste from Wikipedia personally. They're normally so lazy they don't take out the links or reference numbers.

Super Mario 64 - Mario was something I'd always try to get my friends with NES to play because I didn't get to play it at home. I remember at my one friend's house we were taking turns playing Super Mario World while the rest of us tried to do backflips onto a mattress with a bunch of pillows. Not the wisest idea in hindsight, but some girls at a gymnastics meet my dad had to go to were being catty little twits and said I wasn't able/allowed to do them. I don't think we actually accomplished a real back flip, but screw those girls anyway.

Zelda Ocarina of Time - I remember I was sitting on the train playing something on my DS and this dude comes over, sits next to me and asks me what I'm playing. I told him and then went to put my headphones back in, but then I got bombarded with a 30 minute rant about how he was an expert at Zelda games and that he knew everything about them. I guess he was just really passionate about that game and thought it would impress me. Knowing me, I was probably playing Fire Emblem and likely wanted to focus on that. In the grand scheme of weird people I've encountered on the train though, he was pretty normal. He's got nothing on Harvey and the Decorum Woman.

I have skittles.

One of my coworkers found my YouTube and watched all my Fire Emblem videos. I knew my silly/terrible readings of all the lines would come back to haunt me. Hi Rob.

Final Fantasy VII - This is a very long soundtrack.

Deadpool just educated me about testicular cancer.

Trine 2 DLC is being released now. Not sure what the release schedule is going to look like after this. I am likely going to start releasing Evil Within fairly soon since I'm...actually working on it. It's as bad as I remember. Going to be releasing random videos in the meantime. It'll likely be Gauntlet, Fire Emblem, and Murdered Soul Suspect.

Full Moon?

I had a really weird weekend is all I can really say. It was fine up until Saturday afternoon (aside from everyone being excessively cheerful...which was strange on its own). It all started when I was cleaning up one of the tables at work. Suddenly someone comes up behind me, leans in and just says "smile." I look up and it's one of the dudes that hangs out on my floor every weeked and watches DVDs. I just stare at him for a second like...really? And he says it again. So I give him this half-assed smile and walk away cause I suddenly have the urge to punch him in the face and I don't want to give him any of my words.

Backstory: I don't work in the best part of town. There are genuinely creepy, angry and unstable people around. My way to avoid being the target of said creepiness is to look as pissed off as possible. I want to be left alone while I work, because it isn't my job to help out with customer service. I have been attacked before at other jobs, so I just don't want any part of this.

So I continue to work because I want none of that nonsense. I turn the corner and he's standing there waiting at the elevator gesturing at me again to smile. I shake my head at him and disappear, then WAIT until he's gone before I go and tell Shauna about it. This is kind of a big deal because I can't just tell him to bugger off because I work there. And he knows it. He wouldn't have told a stranger that, or even one of the older, meaner looking people working with me and that pisses me off. I want to be an anti-social grump. Leave me alone.

Sure he might have just been trying to be nice or something, but seriously, I have a right to be miserable. Even if I am a perfectly happy, untroubled young lady, I can still be as grumpy as I want with out unsolicited suggestions from the guy who once loudly proclaimed to his friend for the whole floor to hear that he was "drunk and horny." I may pretend to be an oblivious, sour individual at work, but believe me, I see and hear EVERYTHING. At least if he keeps bothering me on future days I have grounds to report him and get him kicked out. That makes me happy.

So then the rest of the day is just full of weird crap like the ominous pigeons, the man who walked across the street balancing his skateboard on his hand while maintaining fierce eye-contact with the driver, the lady who kept scowling at me as though I had personally offended her by sitting in a seat halfway across the bus, the strange barista who was borderline insulting Shauna, the random dude at the grocery store who started ranting about Costco discounts and then screamed "WHOOO DISCOUNTS" at us in another aisle, me getting a text about the son of a guy my family knows having his house blown up, the wedding party taking their pictures in front of the sketchy pawn shops downtown, the statues on the rat and the crow in Evil Within, and those children that appeared out of nowhere behind us on the street and started dancing around.

Then I had issues with my computers. So I was using Oliver's laptop to try and chat on Vent and it kept dropping and reconnecting over and over. Went to get a second monitor yesterday and test it with the old computer, which decided it didn't want to work. In all fairness, it's got hobbled-together hardware, hasn't been used in months and may have been damaged in the move, but it wouldn't boot. So that was disappointing. Good news is if I can make some extra room on my desk, I can have duel monitors. What I really wanted it for was for cross-referencing writing a lot quicker as I'm getting close to finishing WMRR.

Then there's a bunch of drama with friends and family, and I might be getting fulltime at my one job and I am just tired again. Good news is that my back is finally at the point where I can do strengthening exercises and I can drop physio soon.

Anyway I'm disappointed about the computer. I was going to use it (as slow as it is) to double video productions so I can catch up on all my projects. I have only small pockets of time to work on this stuff now. According to Mesk and HKS I should just quit everything and become a YouTube sensation. They sound like my Grade 11 social studies teacher who was trying to get us to run away to California and pick oranges for a living. I do miss it though. Playing video games and editing videos all day doesn't sound like a bad gig.

My problem is I've been playing through the Myst series. I have no idea if I'll ever release it, but I'm too invested in that right now to complete my other projects. And I really need to complete the other projects.