A B O U T M E ;
Hi and welcome to my journal. ♥ I have never written an introduction post, but I thought I ought to give it a try. This is the journal of skyrend. I used to be and am still in some form gravitykills, but I felt the need for a change, so here I am. You can call me Rabi, because I prefer to not give out my real name.

My user name comes from a sword in the original Final Fantasy VI, back when it was still numbered III. The sword was called Skyrender. Unfortunately, that name was already taken. ._. Therefore, I created skyrend. I was also on a Firefly kick at the time and the name somehow seemed to suit the series to my eyes.

I am female, between the ages of 18 and 25, currently full time employed with the intention of returning to school someday. I am a gamer and it is an obsession that more or less absorbs my whole life. I also follow several manga, but I have a harder time keeping up with the latest animes. You can check out my interests in my user info to see more of what I am really into.

What you will find on this journal is 80% video games and the other 20% whatever random thing happens to pop into my head. I am very flighty and my interests hop around ridiculously but there are certain things that captivate me and hold my attention for longer.

G R A P H I C S ;
I like to pretend I can make graphics, and I have an iconing community over on heytherelisten. Membership is closed, but you are welcome to friend and watch.

S E M I P U B L I C ;
This journal is semi-public, which means anything that does not pertain to my real life or anything personal will be unlocked and viewable to anyone. Things I prefer to keep more on the down low will be under a lock.

F R I E N D I N G P O L I C Y ;
You are welcome to add me at any time! I like to meet new people, though I don't converse very well on instant messengers. I also tend to get behind on commenting a lot of the time but I try to comment on friends entries. I don't care whether or not I receive comments myself, so you won't have to worry about being defriended simply because you don't comment enough.

If I have added you and you are wondering who this random person is, I probably have seen you around and think you seem neat and would like to get to know you. I won't hold it against you if you don't add me back, of course. If you would like me to remove you, just let me know, and I will do you that courtesy.

On that same thread of thought, if you remove me, I will return the gesture in kind as promptly as possible so as to not muck up your friends list.

C O N T A C T I N F O R M A T I O N ;
I am not on instant messenger very much, but when I am, I used AIM and can be found under the screen name cloudcobo. Other than that, you can always e-mail me at rabi.gravity@gmail.com.

Okay, Birth by Sleep. It's true. We all love you. (Finished Ven's story and WHAT WHAT WHAT but ahaha awesome, kept me up half the night just pondering the possibilities).

Now why the hell aren't any GOOD iconists iconing you? I want me some Terra icons!

No spoilers here! I promise.

I'm having trouble focusing on FF XIII. I'm not sure if it's because life is so hectic lately and only recently settled into a nice calm, or if it's the game itself. I'm usually not one to complain about games being linear, but for some reason all I feel like I'm doing in this game right now is trudging along, battle after battle, waiting for the tiny moments of exposition between, and then it's right back to battle after battle. Sigh.

At least the pretty of it is keeping me entertained. I think I'm just waiting for when I finally have a whole party and a little more freedom to roam, and it seems like that's a long time coming.

That may be why the linear style and the constant battling bothers me in this game as opposed to like FF X, which functioned in just about the same exact way. At least in that one, I had a whole party by the time I reached Luca, and I already knew how to play the whole game easily. I'm in the mid-chapters already, and the game is still throwing tutorials at me. It's only a 13 chapter game! Shouldn't all of this be covered in the first two or so chapters?

Avatar was all kinds of awesome.

Playing Assassin's Creed II. Here's the thing about this series. I suck something fierce at stealth and in general I pretty much hate the combat and the controls. I think what keeps me playing the games is that I usually find the characters endearing, the overall story intriguing enough to keep me interested, and there really is something incredibly fun about sneaking up on people and assassinating them.

I'm up to DNA Sequence 6 or 7, I can't remember exactly, but I just finally had my first break from the Animus if that helps. ( And so some spoilers.Collapse )

Other points of note: tomb raiding and finding dead assassins is fun, I'm very glad Altair has been mentioned in the game and not tossed to the side like some heroes are in sequels, Leonardo da Vinci is adorable, and while I don't understand the point of dyeing my clothes, I keep doing it to see what pretty colors I can put on Ezio.

Also, unrelated, but I watched the first six episodes of Glee and it is all kinds of awesome. ♥

The latest Penny Arcade comic basically summarizes my whole life in retail.

Honestly? I don't recommend watching it. Why? Because then you'll be like me and counting down the days until March 9th.

But if you do watch it, holycrapohmygodtheawesomeness.

Beat Dragon Age Origins, and... and... is this 30 Seconds to Mars singing the ending credits?

Because if so... I'm not sure whether or not I'm stunned or delighted.

Main dislike over Dragon Age thus far is I am playing a male character, and of my potential romance choices one is boring and has a bizarre, impossible to place accent but she sounds incredibly like the Asian character in Metal Gear Solid that was always quoting proverbs at me instead of doing anything useful. The other is a heartless shrew of a witch who disapproves of everything I say and do, and it's not small, tiny disapprovals, like -1 point or -5 points here and there, no, it's always -10 and it happens all the time. Naturally, I find her more interesting than the latter, but she's more likely to castrate my male hero than let him woo her.

As a result, I have amazing chemistry right now with Alistair, who just admitted to me he is a virgin, so for solidarity I told him I was, too. ♥ Alas, I somehow doubt that same-sex pairings will be allowed, or else I could have had him in bed an hour ago.

Other than that, I find the graphics to be incredibly pathetic compared to the likes of other games being released nowadays, and especially compared to Mass Effect, but admittedly I'm not really paying that much attention to it (that could have a lot do with the fact none of the areas have astounded me with 'oooh, ahh' moments). It plays more like an online game, so the graphics appeal more to that style, which I should hate due to my hate of online games as a whole, but no. I find it incredibly addicting and I've played about 10 hours in just the past day alone.

It's also nice to have something new and distracting to do since real life is sucking so hardcore lately. Sigh. XD

Generally, not a fan of this pairing (and rarely read fan fiction as it is) but found this link through ghostdrive, who I trust to always pimp out interesting and unique links. And any fic that has this line, "Once I punched a dolphin, three vending machines, and some random guy in a chocobo suit all in the same day." is pure genius in my book.

So, a link to Reno x Cloud fic that is pretty darn hilarious.

I'm waffling between what new upcoming game I'm going to buy. I can't afford to buy more than one video game a month, and barely that, and I really want Borderlands but I also reeeaaally want Left4Dead 2. And Dragon Age Origins actually looks pretty cool. Waaah. Decisions.

I randomly started up my game of Prince of Persia on my 360 earlier today, a fact I blame on halcyonjazz and always making me remember how very much I love that game. And I played through the part where I think I absolutely fell in love with the game for the first time.

For those of you that have played it, I'm talking about when you finally face and defeat the Concubine for the last time. The illusions she conjures of Elika, and the way the Prince has to break the illlusions... Eee, is all I can say. There's so much I could say about that whole sequence (and the Concubine in general and her ultimate greatness for being such a fantastic bitch) but I could probably go on for days.

Incidentally, it made me realize I'd like to find some Prince of Persia artwork, as my new goal in life is to decorate the walls of my apartment with framed artwork dedicated to some of my favorite games... I already have BioShock covered (in two freaking awesome pieces) and a smaller Final Fantasy VII piece, and technically a Devil May Cry piece, though it's actually art by the artist of VG Cats that I got at a convention.

... but Prince of Persia art is so hard to find, and I'd feel bad stealing shit from DeviantArt.

not like I have that much wall space anyhow

I also really want to watch Avatar again. Thus, icon.