rabi ( malcolm reynolds )

re: bbs

skyrend — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 00:56:20 GMT

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!

re: ff13 thoughts

skyrend — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:28:56 GMT

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?

re: movies

skyrend — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:46:33 GMT

Avatar was all kinds of awesome.

re: ac2

skyrend — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:46:57 GMT

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. About five minutes into playing the game, I fired off at text to cairea that I do believe said something like, "This is Ezio? I already dislike him." He's grown on me a little more since the beginning of the game when he was running around and being a pompous ass, but I still think Altair embodies what it means to be a bad ass assassin so much more. But Ezio still has room to grow. I'm forgiving him a little more.

Aside from my wary reaction to Ezio, the setting is stunning and the music is fantastic, and I can't begin to say how much I love not going to the same cities and doing the same saving the citizen quest over and over again. Very glad to have more diversity in that area.

However, I was more or less trudging along in the game until I discovered my first Truth sequence, and now I'm completely fascinated and hooked by where the story is going. I even enjoy those obnoxious puzzles, though one of them had me staring at the screen for half an hour in rage.

The fact that I just had some weird dream sequence and got to run around as Altair for a little bit makes me happy, too. And I pretty much had the same reaction as Desmond when Altair and Maria started making out on the tower. Intriguing!

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.

re: ff13

skyrend — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:01:42 GMT

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.

re: what o_O

skyrend — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:19:46 GMT

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.

re: dragon age

skyrend — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:08:47 GMT

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

re: games and fics

skyrend — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:38:56 GMT

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.

re: pop and art?

skyrend — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:10:39 GMT

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.

re: oh captain my captain

skyrend — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:32:27 GMT

In general, I find celebrity crushes and obsessively stalking them pretty sad, but I have to admit...

I think I'd probably scream and cry like a boy band fan girl if I ever had the opportunity to meet Nathan Fillion.

(Does anyone on my friends list watch Castle and absolutely die at the first three minutes? I sure did.)

re: transformers

skyrend — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:56:56 GMT

So, I'm finally watching the second Transformers movie, and so far I am wholly unimpressed with its need to parade around overly tanned, overly doused in make up, borderline anorexic and scantily clad women at every opportunity. I'm not much of a sexist by any means, but I do hate "hot girls" as a ploy to pull in viewership/garner attention, what have you.

And other than that, I'm kinda bored. Definitely not as fun and/or good as the first.

re: update

skyrend — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:34:58 GMT

Moved into my new place, but I have no internet yet. La~ame. ._. Only got it now because I am at the parentals.

I'm also bro~oke. What's so great about being independent, anyway?

re: dissidia

skyrend — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:05:09 GMT

Some reflections on Dissidia. No heavy spoilers in here, as I've only cleared Cloud, Cecil, and am on the last chapter of Firion's story arc.

- Things I love: the music. Composed by the same guy who did Crisis Core. I love how he can put a new spin on classic FF music and not take away from the integrity of the original music, or in some cases make it flat out better.
- More things I love: versatile fighting styles.
- Something I hate: versatile fighting styles. I get used to one person, and then immediately have to learn someone else. As I'm a favorite of the hack to pieces and ask questions later style of fighting (brute force over strategy, in all my RPGs) I don't do well with any of the long ranged fighters, but oddly enough I've gotten much better at making good use of Firion's both long and short range attacks. But I do better with Cloud and surprisingly I can clear the Arcade pretty well with Zidane.
- Graphics are fantastic and I love all the battle maps taking from the original games. I especially love the Magitek Research Facility. ♥ I also like the ability to get alternate outfits for the characters, but Cecil's is kind of boring (they just changed the blue to red) and Firion's makes me giggle at how weird his hair gets.
- Another thing I hate: DP. I'm lucky to clear a stage with 1 DP left over, but more often than not with -1 DP or at some points when I really suck, -2.

- Okay, this dialogue... Is the original game this silly, or did it just translate that badly? To the credit of the voice actors, they act it very well, but half the things they say I kind of wonder if most of them were standing there in the recording booth going, "Do I really have to say that?" All the talk about light, darkness, and wild roses. lol. It's just so... it's like Tetsuya Nomura just took all his weird obsessions with those things and put them into full overdrive mode for this game.
- I love Steve Burton as Cloud, I think his voice is perfect, but what is up with his odd William Shatner speech patterns? He has this strange, pregnant pauses between words that don't actually require them. What?
- I think Yuri Lowenthal as Cecil got the worst for the cliche, silly dialogue, but I've only played through 2 story arcs and almost finished a 3rd at this point. It could very well get worse!
- I thought Squall was David Boreanz again. Alas, he is not. But the fact GOLIATH from GARGOYLES is Chaos is squeeeeee. ♥

- And onto the fandom aspects, Firion has chemistry with EVERYONE in this game. I foresee much slash featuring him in the future, not that I particularly mind. He's growing on me. He seems like such a blind dip the way he talks to everyone. He has no idea what fan girls will do to him in fandom. Kekeke.
- I never jumped on that whole Leon x Cloud/Cloud x Leon thing from Kingdom Hearts and then suddenly, for no reason, there's this random little scene of Tidus running after Cloud and Squall and being like hey hey heeeeeeey guys, and both of them are completely ignoring him. For some reason, that little scene made me go, "I could totally see those two." (And I generally don't slash Squall, because he and Rinoa are adorable -- yes, I like that pair, and I love that game.)
- The Emperor would totally be played by David Bowie in a movie.

re: universal questions

skyrend — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:22:51 GMT

Hot dogs come in packs of 6 or 8, hot dog buns come in packs of 10 or 12. Whhhhhyyyy. ~~this entry is a shameless excuse to use icons from the most awesome persona4 comic that ever existed~~

Anyone on my flist played Mass Effect? It's strangely addicting, though to tell you the truth my main drive in the whole game has been to flirt with one of my crew members and entice him into bed with me, kekeke.

re: that's so pathetic

skyrend — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:30:12 GMT

I suck really bad at Dissidia.

Like, really bad. I feel so ashamed.

re: it doesn't even make sense in context

skyrend — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:09:33 GMT

skyrend: (making odd quacking sounds)
cairea: Keep doing that, and you'll turn into a duck.
skyrend: Of all the animals in the world to be, that would be my least favorite.
cairea: I don't know. I think it'd be kind of comforting to be a duck.
skyrend: No, it would suck, because I would have a penis in a pocket if I was a duck.
cairea: You would be a girl duck, so no you wouldn't.
skyrend: I would be a boy duck.
cairea: So you can change gender now, too.
skyrend: Hey, in this fantasy world where I can be a duck, I should be able to change my gender, too.

And that about sums up our vacation so far.

re: p3 portable

skyrend — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:12:24 GMT

I really hope this is released to the USA.

(um, hello. I hate my life. ♥ how's everyone else?)

re: assassin's creed

skyrend — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:35:32 GMT

Question: What sucks?

Answer: Ding ding ding! The ending of Assassin's Creed.

I have to admit, all in all, I kind of hated the game. Mainly because I am not good at the stealthy thing (thus why I never got very far in Metal Gear Solid) and I prefer the hacky-slashy (thank you, Devil May Cry and Prince of Persia). But as far as the story, characters, and overall concept of it, I liked it a whole lot. Gameplay can kiss my ass, is all. And the stupid ending definitely makes me want the sequel.

And apparently I have a new baby cousin as of two minutes ago. Well, my cousin has a baby, which I guess makes her my second cousin? Cool. ~~with a horrible, horrible name; she is so doomed and she's only five minutes old~~

re: games and books and vampires

skyrend — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:17:05 GMT

EeeeeeDissidia(demo)isawesome.

I kind of really like Vampire Knight. Two volumes in. Got more today. Reading manga again, so weird! Been awhile (games consume all).

Hiiiii. ♥ ♥ ♥

re: oh square

skyrend — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:29:09 GMT

Maybe as way of apology for not releasing the FF XIII demo with the release of Advent Children Complete, the original FF VII is now available for download on PlayStation Network.

... which I am downloading, despite owning two hard copies of the game (though to be fair, I have no idea where that second copy is).

~~but honestly I'd rather have the final fantasy xiii demo~~

re: bags

skyrend — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:06:32 GMT

Anyone know of a site or have any good ideas where I can find cool, trendy messenger bags? I've never been much of a purse purchaser and prefer something over the shoulder to sit at my side so I don't have to think about it. And I've never liked over the shoulder purses.

So. Messenger bags. For a decent price, especially. Help?

re: dw

skyrend — Wed, 13 May 2009 21:29:54 GMT

http://skyrender.dreamwidth.org/

There I am. Add me or tell me yours so I can add you. ♥

re: moving along

skyrend — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:50:06 GMT

re: American Idol. I didn't like the arrangement of One. I think Adam could have done the original version and made it beautiful. I thought the acoustic of Heartless Kris did was absolutely fantastic, but Adam is still no. 1. Danny, sadly, is forgettable against those two and their performances. What Simon said about not making it seem like Adam should just sail through by virtue of the fact the judges love him is true, he should win because he deserves to, and he definitely does.

I'm going to go trade in a handful of games today and probably my Wii Fit. Ugh, I hate doing this. I just can never conceivably think to trade in or get rid of games. I'm convinced someday ten years from now, I'm going to want so badly to play one of the games I got rid of. But honestly, I have things sitting on the shelf collecting dust. I may as well do some cleaning.

Then I'm taking myself to see the new Star Trek movie. I've never been to a movie alone, lol. I really want to, for some reason. I think it'd be very relaxing.

And eventually I'll get around to making that Dreamwidth, so I can keep up with all you boat jumpers. j/k. ♥

re: dreamwidth

skyrend — Mon, 11 May 2009 11:51:53 GMT

Anyone want to hook me up with a Dreamwidth? I'm not particularly interested in making a massive switch, but I would like to keep up with those of you that did.

I'm getting cut left and right these days, though. lol. ♥ That's what I get for not commenting/posting much.

re: american idol

skyrend — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:21:56 GMT

Are you f'ing KIDDING me? Adam in the bottom two? No. Flipping. Way.

I've never voted on Idol before, but I'm going to vote like hell next week for Adam.