sleeeepy
My parents have gotten a dog. She's an adorable little thing, but I may have to drug her or feed her a sleeping pill every night or something. I dun want to hurt the little thing, but she just will not sleep. At all. I can see how some new parents can end up being hysterical and crying a lot.
Here's photographic evidence of said cute little tyrant:
I wish she slept more like that at night, rather than whine for half the night, and play for the rest of it.
Aside from a lack of sleep and an increase in bizarre plotlines running about me head, I've met some fab new people to talk to. It seems like, on Livejournal, saying you like history is a sure-fire way to make friends - and I had a funny joke here about chat-up lines, but my sister keeps nattering my ear off about American Horror versus Japanese Horror and thus I'm more interested in arguing about it in reference to Silent Hill.
There's a very drastic difference between Japanese horror and American horror, at least in the media of video-games. Dead Space, for instance, an American horror game, is top-heavy on the gore - dismemberment is actually required, since the bloody things will come after you with their heads cut off, and the amount of blood used in that game could've filled up an ocean. In comparison, Japanese horror games - such as Fatal Frame - are quieter, and more based on the psychological aspect. Silent Hill 2, for instance, is a horror game, but you didn't see a monster for the first fifteen minutes, the music wasn't one of those heavy tracks that seems to soak into American horror games, and the gore was mostly minimal; it was more doing stuff like making the text of a letter disappear, or locking doors you'd once opened, that kind of thing.
Anyone have any thoughts on this?
Speaking of Silent Hill, I'm going to try my hand at making a Larval Stalker plushie. Despite the hideous name, they are adooorable, and they fall over and squeak. and then I will send it to hanakotoba_fic or Skittles, to prove that Silent Hill is not scary. Some of the time.
Moving on.
E3 has come and gone, and I've refused to look at any of the trailers, just in case someone on a development team decides to go bananas and change the game before it's published; hanakotoba_fic told me that the Assassin's Creed: Revelations trailer looked pretty awesome; and no more Ezio. I like Ezio, but two games with the same character is a bit much, considering that the idea is basically 'historical war spanning centuries'.
I'd like to see a female soldier next, but I'm genetically hard-wired to abhor any female character I move, and this may not turn out so well.
On the book front: I'm buying some more books, since my shelves are getting off too lightly: Nineteen Eighty Four and Brave New World for a start, and probably Anna Karenina or On Green Dolphin Street. I'm tempted to buy the Pride and Prejudice with Zombies book; has anyone had any luck with it?
As for other Things of Relative Interest, a friend and I have decided to try our hands at drafting a kind of 'forgotten gods' roleplay - as in, what happens to gods when they are no longer considered gods. So, Hades, Loki, Ra, and that whole kit and caboodle, lumped into one universal god-club, generally not getting along. I dunno, it seemed a good idea at two in the morning - I think at one point we pegged Las Vegas on a Meeting Gone Wrong between the gods of drinking and gambling and sex. From this, I've concluded that I have weird, yet awesome, friends.
Now, I should go and finish up Brotherhood so I can play the first game, and I do need to write some today; shots to cheer friends up, that is. And some original stuff. And looots and lots of other stuff. Oh well, at least I'm kept busy!
Have a nice day!
Here's photographic evidence of said cute little tyrant:
I wish she slept more like that at night, rather than whine for half the night, and play for the rest of it.
Aside from a lack of sleep and an increase in bizarre plotlines running about me head, I've met some fab new people to talk to. It seems like, on Livejournal, saying you like history is a sure-fire way to make friends - and I had a funny joke here about chat-up lines, but my sister keeps nattering my ear off about American Horror versus Japanese Horror and thus I'm more interested in arguing about it in reference to Silent Hill.
There's a very drastic difference between Japanese horror and American horror, at least in the media of video-games. Dead Space, for instance, an American horror game, is top-heavy on the gore - dismemberment is actually required, since the bloody things will come after you with their heads cut off, and the amount of blood used in that game could've filled up an ocean. In comparison, Japanese horror games - such as Fatal Frame - are quieter, and more based on the psychological aspect. Silent Hill 2, for instance, is a horror game, but you didn't see a monster for the first fifteen minutes, the music wasn't one of those heavy tracks that seems to soak into American horror games, and the gore was mostly minimal; it was more doing stuff like making the text of a letter disappear, or locking doors you'd once opened, that kind of thing.
Anyone have any thoughts on this?
Speaking of Silent Hill, I'm going to try my hand at making a Larval Stalker plushie. Despite the hideous name, they are adooorable, and they fall over and squeak. and then I will send it to hanakotoba_fic or Skittles, to prove that Silent Hill is not scary. Some of the time.
Moving on.
E3 has come and gone, and I've refused to look at any of the trailers, just in case someone on a development team decides to go bananas and change the game before it's published; hanakotoba_fic told me that the Assassin's Creed: Revelations trailer looked pretty awesome; and no more Ezio. I like Ezio, but two games with the same character is a bit much, considering that the idea is basically 'historical war spanning centuries'.
I'd like to see a female soldier next, but I'm genetically hard-wired to abhor any female character I move, and this may not turn out so well.
On the book front: I'm buying some more books, since my shelves are getting off too lightly: Nineteen Eighty Four and Brave New World for a start, and probably Anna Karenina or On Green Dolphin Street. I'm tempted to buy the Pride and Prejudice with Zombies book; has anyone had any luck with it?
As for other Things of Relative Interest, a friend and I have decided to try our hands at drafting a kind of 'forgotten gods' roleplay - as in, what happens to gods when they are no longer considered gods. So, Hades, Loki, Ra, and that whole kit and caboodle, lumped into one universal god-club, generally not getting along. I dunno, it seemed a good idea at two in the morning - I think at one point we pegged Las Vegas on a Meeting Gone Wrong between the gods of drinking and gambling and sex. From this, I've concluded that I have weird, yet awesome, friends.
Now, I should go and finish up Brotherhood so I can play the first game, and I do need to write some today; shots to cheer friends up, that is. And some original stuff. And looots and lots of other stuff. Oh well, at least I'm kept busy!
Have a nice day!