So it was a great weekend. In the Federal Civil Service we get a full 4 days off. It's sorta odd in Ottawa when the Feds get the day off: there is no traffic, but the shopping is insanity. It's sorta sad, but Remembrance Day is pretty much the kick off for the Christmas shopping season. Easter is sorta like that too.
So it was a great weekend. In the Federal Civil Service we get a full 4 days off. It's sorta odd in Ottawa when the Feds get the day off: there is no traffic, but the shopping is insanity. It's sorta sad, but Remembrance Day is pretty much the kick off for the Christmas shopping season. Easter is sorta like that too.
Reading the Watchmen, I'm about half way through. I love it so far, and what I am seeing makes me thinkof gaming more than anything. I see parallels betweenthe two mediums. Conventional thought is like this: Comics are for kids. Games are for kids. For years people way that it isn't, that while yes, some games (comics) are for kids, others are for teens and others are very adult. You talk and talk and talk... Then something like The Watchmen comes out. Wins a Hugo. Takes the genre up a notch.
Reading the Watchmen, I'm about half way through. I love it so far, and what I am seeing makes me thinkof gaming more than anything. I see parallels betweenthe two mediums. Conventional thought is like this: Comics are for kids. Games are for kids. For years people way that it isn't, that while yes, some games (comics) are for kids, others are for teens and others are very adult. You talk and talk and talk... Then something like The Watchmen comes out. Wins a Hugo. Takes the genre up a notch.
Playing Star Ocean 4. I loves me my JRPGs but FUCK! The women in JRPGs make me want to stick a pencil in my eyes and ears. Or rather in the eyes and ears of the designer and voice actress who came up with this crapola.
Srsly: the main female lead in Star Ocean talks to the guy by bending over, placing one hand on her hip, the other finger is waggling at him and head tilted to the side. She looks like a playful puppy that is going to piddle on the floor. Stand the fuck up. You are supposed ot be an officer.
A while ago I was reading about stuff to do with a toddler. One idea was to sprout a potato and grow it together. Great idea! Stuck a sweet potato in a glass added water and through the miracle of life: BAM! We have:
Bud the Spud.
So: being the person that I am, I take Bud, put him (yes: it's a him) into a big glass jar with dirt. And alas! Over our vacation in Toronto, he grew even more. But the container is going to be too small soon. Mom suggested I go to Walmart and get a cheap fish bowl and grow him in there.
