AUGH
Well. Today I had an "observation" class with my company. They kind of announced they were coming Friday. Not that it really mattered to me, I was more excited than nervous.
I thought I'd finally get to meet this new supervisor that I got. Well. I did. Sort of. They watched 2 of my five classes and when those were done they buggered off. I mean, would it have killed them to talk to me for 5 minutes? I did get a few words in edge wise but really, they blew me off. God. Just because I'm in Toba doesn't mean you can ignore and dismiss me!! They can avoid me though, and my inbox sure reflects it. I don't know... Do I really want to deal with this for another 6 months? Sure, I'll be somewhere else but I don't know if things will be that different at actual work.
I mean, I get very little satisfaction from my job. 1/2 the time I'm playing tetris, or staring out the window, or reading the same book over and over and over. I know. Being paid to play my DS, sounds great right? But I did this before at Connections. I'd be busy and then I'd sit around for 3-4 hours doing needlepoint or reading or playing cards. It gets to you after a while. I want to be busy at work. I want to feel like I'm actually a part of something larger than myself when I work. My jobs so far have been solo... Except Tim Horton's. LOL I mean, sure I teach with another teacher during class but outside that I'm sitting by myself playing tetris while the real teachers do, you know, their jobs.
... Or at least, if I am working solo I want to be busy ALL THE TIME. Maybe a job with an actual break... Like a lunch break... That would be a change.
Oh. And Obama is the bane of my existence. Trying to teach the kids "Yes, I do." and "No, I don't." results in the little buggers saying "Yes, we can!" so even the kids who are trying to get it right are confused. -_-;; And they all look at me like, "OMG you must LOVE Obama right?" I'm CANADIAN. I don't have as strong an opinion. ...Damn Obama. LOL
Still deciding if I want to goto Nagoya tomorrow. I get Wed off for "National something Day" and this Saturday is Valentine's day so I don't want to have to deal with that crowd. Wanna actually go see a movie this time. Need to pick up my magazine too... I'll probably spend money though. I do that when I'm bummed out. But on the way to the theater I can go get one of those tasty crepes. Mmm... Crepes. Tomorrow is the logical choice. Just tell my sloth that, please.
And now for something completely different! I'm going to talk about my newest game, so if you aren't interested, you can stop here.
Bought the new Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2 for the PSP. I must say I'm enjoying it a lot more than the first one! They fixed a lot of the problems I felt they had before. The support classes are a LOT easier to control this time. The characters don't have to "like you" to join your party. That was a big issue last time. I want to level the characters from the Tales games but half the time they don't like you enough or they don't feel like it! Lazy bastards! So I have to fill out my party with random generated character that they're nice enough to provide you. But isn't the point of the game to interact with all your favorite Tales character from previous games? I should think so... By the end of the game I had 3 classes above level 35 and none of the Tales characters had even made it to 30!
So they did away with the opinion thing, which is awesome. You can still find out what characters think of you though... So there could be some mechanic there that I don't know about (or can't read). There is about three times as many characters this time around too. Which can be a problem, because when they join your guild they're usually really low level compared to you. So it's a huge pain leveling them up. You only have 3 spaces outside yourself and I like to have a balanced party... And then you get a quest to do with specific characters...
For example the Tales of Eternia group wanted me to do a quest with them. The three characters are a Swordsman, a "Grappler" (in quotation marks cuz I haven't seen any throws...) and a Magician. So what does that leave? Support. Groan. Change class to priest, the fist-fighter was still at level 1 so I could get away with a completely fresh char. Then I learned the controls were improved so I felt better about the whole thing.
Then the next quest. Gotta take Genis (Magician) and Rayne (Priest) from Symphonia into a new dungeon. (So dollars to doughnuts it'll be the hardest.) I think, okay, they joined after the beginning of the game, so they won't be level one... And they weren't. They were level 7. My highest class was level 22 and I was having difficulty. So bugger. Change class again and start dragging them around the other dungeons. (No point having support if Rayne is in the party!) Plus it was a good excuse to level a different class. Just stood in the back for the first few fights while the NPCs took care of things.
They also made the (for my lack of thinking of a better word...) Hero Classes unlockable this time- which was a relief for me! In the first game some classes had to be unlocked by a one-on-one duel with a Tales character of that particular class. ... I'm not good at one-on-one! The game is designed around having a party and I don't have the leet skillz to fight a beefed up char! I mean, I did fine in Symphonia with that one-on-one. (Trying not to be spoilery.) And just as well on the one in Abyss. This was like the characters were on acid. Combos, dodges, deflects, I couldn't do enough damage! But that's more my skill level than a fault with the game. I guess other people had problems so they changed that. Sounds like they kept the "Champion" duels the same though. After you level a class to a certain point you get "Champion" quests where you duel this mysterious guy and get his armor and weapon piece by piece. Best armor of the game for that class, of course. It always amused me wondering how the Priest and Magician classes handled with those... But I never got either class to that point.
One complaint that I have is that the block feels sluggish. I think it's the platform. My Tales of Hearts game on the DS feels a bit sluggish too. But I hear Tales of Vesperia on the 360 is bad too... Hmm... Either way I'm too used to Symphonia and Abyss, those games had really responsive controls.
Oh. And another thing... ARMOR ORGANIZATION. I've gotta buy and maintain armor and weapons for every single Tales character in my guild. It's a pain in the ass because if you just dismiss your party instead of switching them out they keep all the armor they're wearing. But if you switch them out, they'll take it off so I can put it on the next guy. So I have a hard time remembering who has what! And then sometimes I'll get a character and he's completely naked! And their sprites don't change unlike your character so if I don't notice I won't realize until battle starts and I wonder why he's only doing single digit damage and dies in two hits?! That actually happened at the start of the game. I thought the game gave starting armor. No. What RPG doesn't even give you starting armor? LOL To be fair, they give you a good chunk of change at the beginning. I just didn't read between the lines.
More (probably) as the game progresses.
I thought I'd finally get to meet this new supervisor that I got. Well. I did. Sort of. They watched 2 of my five classes and when those were done they buggered off. I mean, would it have killed them to talk to me for 5 minutes? I did get a few words in edge wise but really, they blew me off. God. Just because I'm in Toba doesn't mean you can ignore and dismiss me!! They can avoid me though, and my inbox sure reflects it. I don't know... Do I really want to deal with this for another 6 months? Sure, I'll be somewhere else but I don't know if things will be that different at actual work.
I mean, I get very little satisfaction from my job. 1/2 the time I'm playing tetris, or staring out the window, or reading the same book over and over and over. I know. Being paid to play my DS, sounds great right? But I did this before at Connections. I'd be busy and then I'd sit around for 3-4 hours doing needlepoint or reading or playing cards. It gets to you after a while. I want to be busy at work. I want to feel like I'm actually a part of something larger than myself when I work. My jobs so far have been solo... Except Tim Horton's. LOL I mean, sure I teach with another teacher during class but outside that I'm sitting by myself playing tetris while the real teachers do, you know, their jobs.
... Or at least, if I am working solo I want to be busy ALL THE TIME. Maybe a job with an actual break... Like a lunch break... That would be a change.
Oh. And Obama is the bane of my existence. Trying to teach the kids "Yes, I do." and "No, I don't." results in the little buggers saying "Yes, we can!" so even the kids who are trying to get it right are confused. -_-;; And they all look at me like, "OMG you must LOVE Obama right?" I'm CANADIAN. I don't have as strong an opinion. ...Damn Obama. LOL
Still deciding if I want to goto Nagoya tomorrow. I get Wed off for "National something Day" and this Saturday is Valentine's day so I don't want to have to deal with that crowd. Wanna actually go see a movie this time. Need to pick up my magazine too... I'll probably spend money though. I do that when I'm bummed out. But on the way to the theater I can go get one of those tasty crepes. Mmm... Crepes. Tomorrow is the logical choice. Just tell my sloth that, please.
And now for something completely different! I'm going to talk about my newest game, so if you aren't interested, you can stop here.
Bought the new Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2 for the PSP. I must say I'm enjoying it a lot more than the first one! They fixed a lot of the problems I felt they had before. The support classes are a LOT easier to control this time. The characters don't have to "like you" to join your party. That was a big issue last time. I want to level the characters from the Tales games but half the time they don't like you enough or they don't feel like it! Lazy bastards! So I have to fill out my party with random generated character that they're nice enough to provide you. But isn't the point of the game to interact with all your favorite Tales character from previous games? I should think so... By the end of the game I had 3 classes above level 35 and none of the Tales characters had even made it to 30!
So they did away with the opinion thing, which is awesome. You can still find out what characters think of you though... So there could be some mechanic there that I don't know about (or can't read). There is about three times as many characters this time around too. Which can be a problem, because when they join your guild they're usually really low level compared to you. So it's a huge pain leveling them up. You only have 3 spaces outside yourself and I like to have a balanced party... And then you get a quest to do with specific characters...
For example the Tales of Eternia group wanted me to do a quest with them. The three characters are a Swordsman, a "Grappler" (in quotation marks cuz I haven't seen any throws...) and a Magician. So what does that leave? Support. Groan. Change class to priest, the fist-fighter was still at level 1 so I could get away with a completely fresh char. Then I learned the controls were improved so I felt better about the whole thing.
Then the next quest. Gotta take Genis (Magician) and Rayne (Priest) from Symphonia into a new dungeon. (So dollars to doughnuts it'll be the hardest.) I think, okay, they joined after the beginning of the game, so they won't be level one... And they weren't. They were level 7. My highest class was level 22 and I was having difficulty. So bugger. Change class again and start dragging them around the other dungeons. (No point having support if Rayne is in the party!) Plus it was a good excuse to level a different class. Just stood in the back for the first few fights while the NPCs took care of things.
They also made the (for my lack of thinking of a better word...) Hero Classes unlockable this time- which was a relief for me! In the first game some classes had to be unlocked by a one-on-one duel with a Tales character of that particular class. ... I'm not good at one-on-one! The game is designed around having a party and I don't have the leet skillz to fight a beefed up char! I mean, I did fine in Symphonia with that one-on-one. (Trying not to be spoilery.) And just as well on the one in Abyss. This was like the characters were on acid. Combos, dodges, deflects, I couldn't do enough damage! But that's more my skill level than a fault with the game. I guess other people had problems so they changed that. Sounds like they kept the "Champion" duels the same though. After you level a class to a certain point you get "Champion" quests where you duel this mysterious guy and get his armor and weapon piece by piece. Best armor of the game for that class, of course. It always amused me wondering how the Priest and Magician classes handled with those... But I never got either class to that point.
One complaint that I have is that the block feels sluggish. I think it's the platform. My Tales of Hearts game on the DS feels a bit sluggish too. But I hear Tales of Vesperia on the 360 is bad too... Hmm... Either way I'm too used to Symphonia and Abyss, those games had really responsive controls.
Oh. And another thing... ARMOR ORGANIZATION. I've gotta buy and maintain armor and weapons for every single Tales character in my guild. It's a pain in the ass because if you just dismiss your party instead of switching them out they keep all the armor they're wearing. But if you switch them out, they'll take it off so I can put it on the next guy. So I have a hard time remembering who has what! And then sometimes I'll get a character and he's completely naked! And their sprites don't change unlike your character so if I don't notice I won't realize until battle starts and I wonder why he's only doing single digit damage and dies in two hits?! That actually happened at the start of the game. I thought the game gave starting armor. No. What RPG doesn't even give you starting armor? LOL To be fair, they give you a good chunk of change at the beginning. I just didn't read between the lines.
More (probably) as the game progresses.