Your tax dollars at work.
Since it's some ungodly morning hour and I'm forced to be awake, I thought that I'd grace you all with an LJ entry. First off, the news - JSak now has his own game store?!! Why was I not informed of this earlier?!! Admittedly, it's possible that the sheer amount of awesomeness contained therein would cause my heart to explode, but still! As well, in a "the woods are lovely, dark, and deep" moment, I was in Farmington's Tilt last weekend. Unfortunately, their Para Para machine was down, but DDR was still up and running. You wanna know the weird thing though? I spent the most time with Time Crisis 1. Sure, there was a credit in the machine already, but still... There's just something about the original that the sequels seem to lack. Before I left, though, I spotted a machine in the corner that has achived cult status - Come on Baby! Sigh...now I wish it was 2004 all over again.
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep.
Second, I had a really weird dream the other night. See, I was dreaming that I was playing through Braid, and I got to the final puzzle - only I was actually in the final puzzle, and the final puzzle was something resembling a volcano. Anyway, I grabbed a sparkly key and opened a door, then died, then rewound time, then tried to jump again, but I couldn't get through the door because it was a sparkly key, so I had to go around, and then I got hung up on another platform and had to rewind time there as well, and all this time a wall of lava was coming up behind me and it was immune to my reversing time, so I had to get this jump and
Then the house lights seemed to come on, and a passage to a study appeared. Going into the study transformed everything from 2D to 3D, as there was a bunch of old bureaus inside loaded with books and chairs that would be impossible to sit in without wearing a smoking jacket. But I only had time to think that I had gotten in because someone else had completed the puzzle - but since I didn't complete the puzzle, did that mean that I would be erased? - when the study started moving, as I was actually in an elevator that happened to have a bunch of expensive furniture in it. Since it was windowed as well, I gazed out upon the city skyline until the bell rang and I got out on the rooftop/penthouse suite.
That's where Tim's mother was putting me/him in a jacket next to the pool and chiding me that we were going to be late for the pizza party. Thus, I got in the elevator, but she stopped and doubled back because she forgot her purse. I followed her inside the penthouse while I went down the elevator and saw her brother yelling at her. He was screaming something incomprehensible while advancing on her, then he put his hands around her neck and gripped. I couldn't do anything, since time was going forward instead of back, except silently scream and cry as my uncle entered the elevator to take me to the pizza party. I stood there yelling while jumpsuited maintenance workers entered the apartment and started singing a jovial song as credits rolled with their own party. I could do nothing but scream and cry and scream and cry YOU BASTARDS MY MOTHER JUST DIED SHE'S ON THE FLOOR AND YOU'RE STEPPING AROUND HER until one of the jumpsuited ones looked at me and said, "It's only a game, you know."
That's when I realized that I was invited to the developer's party which was thrown for everyone that had beated Braid. I was about to ask questions related to logistics and personal expenses when I was given an errand from one of the partygoers who went with me on the elevator. As it opened up to the building supermarket I saw that it was Matt Chapman! Ohmigod ohmigod Matt Chapman! I followed him around the store to the butcher and ohmigod he asked me to buy some meat and of course I did because he was Matt Chapman! Then I followed him into the elevator and he went back to the party with the meat, Matt Chapman! did. Then I realized I should have asked him to do some voices, or indeed, ask him anything about the Homestar Runner people, but that didn't Matt-er because I just bought meat with Matt Chapman!
Then I cornered someone and asked about logistics and how expensive throwing a party in a penthouse apartment must be, and she noted that I was lucky that I happened to beat the game while I was in Honolulu this day, because that's where they were according to the schedule. Apparently they'll be off to Broadway next week, and today is one night only. The party then ended, and I decended the elevator to ground level and exited into Honolulu. All that was on my mind was, "What the hell do I do now?"
I woke up about then. Later, I told Nicole about the weird dream - before going into it, she said that she had a weird dream that night too. After telling her all this, I asked what her dream was about - she noted that it was mostly her killing zombies as Xena. So, yeah.
Finally, insipired by DJ Halcyon's month of movies and the Action Button 25 games that are fairly awesome bits, I've decided to do another project. I considered doing a 25Rad list again on some other list of games, but then I thought - does it really matter? I mean, yeah, there are a lot of cool SNES games out there, but mine's been unused in a box for years now. Perhaps I should take Action Button's stance and just pick the 25 best games out there, damn the year of release. How would Zelda: Link to the Past stack up against everything else the past 16 years would throw at it? But then I got another idea, and I think that it's a pretty good one...
25Rad game mechanics. 25 things about video games (and perhaps even non-video-game mechanics) that I think are pretty cool, possibly ranked. It solves the time problem, as the game mechanics are really what makes older games stand the test of time. Also, it'll probably be less condecending than my previous proposed project, ranking every single game I've ever played (and a hell of a lot less time-consuming, too.)
That's about all on my end. And, yeah, I should probably do the myspace thing more often, but I like the LJ format a lot better (plus, LJ isn't blocked at work. Heh heh.)
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep.
Second, I had a really weird dream the other night. See, I was dreaming that I was playing through Braid, and I got to the final puzzle - only I was actually in the final puzzle, and the final puzzle was something resembling a volcano. Anyway, I grabbed a sparkly key and opened a door, then died, then rewound time, then tried to jump again, but I couldn't get through the door because it was a sparkly key, so I had to go around, and then I got hung up on another platform and had to rewind time there as well, and all this time a wall of lava was coming up behind me and it was immune to my reversing time, so I had to get this jump and
Then the house lights seemed to come on, and a passage to a study appeared. Going into the study transformed everything from 2D to 3D, as there was a bunch of old bureaus inside loaded with books and chairs that would be impossible to sit in without wearing a smoking jacket. But I only had time to think that I had gotten in because someone else had completed the puzzle - but since I didn't complete the puzzle, did that mean that I would be erased? - when the study started moving, as I was actually in an elevator that happened to have a bunch of expensive furniture in it. Since it was windowed as well, I gazed out upon the city skyline until the bell rang and I got out on the rooftop/penthouse suite.
That's where Tim's mother was putting me/him in a jacket next to the pool and chiding me that we were going to be late for the pizza party. Thus, I got in the elevator, but she stopped and doubled back because she forgot her purse. I followed her inside the penthouse while I went down the elevator and saw her brother yelling at her. He was screaming something incomprehensible while advancing on her, then he put his hands around her neck and gripped. I couldn't do anything, since time was going forward instead of back, except silently scream and cry as my uncle entered the elevator to take me to the pizza party. I stood there yelling while jumpsuited maintenance workers entered the apartment and started singing a jovial song as credits rolled with their own party. I could do nothing but scream and cry and scream and cry YOU BASTARDS MY MOTHER JUST DIED SHE'S ON THE FLOOR AND YOU'RE STEPPING AROUND HER until one of the jumpsuited ones looked at me and said, "It's only a game, you know."
That's when I realized that I was invited to the developer's party which was thrown for everyone that had beated Braid. I was about to ask questions related to logistics and personal expenses when I was given an errand from one of the partygoers who went with me on the elevator. As it opened up to the building supermarket I saw that it was Matt Chapman! Ohmigod ohmigod Matt Chapman! I followed him around the store to the butcher and ohmigod he asked me to buy some meat and of course I did because he was Matt Chapman! Then I followed him into the elevator and he went back to the party with the meat, Matt Chapman! did. Then I realized I should have asked him to do some voices, or indeed, ask him anything about the Homestar Runner people, but that didn't Matt-er because I just bought meat with Matt Chapman!
Then I cornered someone and asked about logistics and how expensive throwing a party in a penthouse apartment must be, and she noted that I was lucky that I happened to beat the game while I was in Honolulu this day, because that's where they were according to the schedule. Apparently they'll be off to Broadway next week, and today is one night only. The party then ended, and I decended the elevator to ground level and exited into Honolulu. All that was on my mind was, "What the hell do I do now?"
I woke up about then. Later, I told Nicole about the weird dream - before going into it, she said that she had a weird dream that night too. After telling her all this, I asked what her dream was about - she noted that it was mostly her killing zombies as Xena. So, yeah.
Finally, insipired by DJ Halcyon's month of movies and the Action Button 25 games that are fairly awesome bits, I've decided to do another project. I considered doing a 25Rad list again on some other list of games, but then I thought - does it really matter? I mean, yeah, there are a lot of cool SNES games out there, but mine's been unused in a box for years now. Perhaps I should take Action Button's stance and just pick the 25 best games out there, damn the year of release. How would Zelda: Link to the Past stack up against everything else the past 16 years would throw at it? But then I got another idea, and I think that it's a pretty good one...
25Rad game mechanics. 25 things about video games (and perhaps even non-video-game mechanics) that I think are pretty cool, possibly ranked. It solves the time problem, as the game mechanics are really what makes older games stand the test of time. Also, it'll probably be less condecending than my previous proposed project, ranking every single game I've ever played (and a hell of a lot less time-consuming, too.)
That's about all on my end. And, yeah, I should probably do the myspace thing more often, but I like the LJ format a lot better (plus, LJ isn't blocked at work. Heh heh.)