Just stuph...
Woot, I got to leave the ship for a whole eight hours yesterday, it was definately a nice change. Bought a bit of manga, a few cds, a new gameboy with games, and some gamecube games as well. Also went out and played some DDR for the first time in a month or two. Damn I'm out of practice. Not only could I barely complete Freckles on standard, but I don't think I even got halfway through End of the Century on standard... *sniff* Am I pushing myself too hard? I haven't played anything lower than five feet in forever, I miss the good ol' days of three and four feet simplicity.
The ship will be pulling back into Washington on Monday...the current schedule says that Tuesday will be a day off. Wednesday and Thursdays are supposed to be half-days, but I've heard rumors that they'll be days off too. Friday is a day off for certain, and I have duty on Saturday. Now, I just switched duty with Kim, she had duty on Monday. So now the way it goes...if all is well, I will leave on Tuesday morning, and not have to return until Monday morning next week.
Yes, I'd like that very much.
I feel like my brain isn't working as efficiently as it used to. Back in ET school, I could solve rather complex DC circuits without use of a calculator, all in my head. Even solid state rarely required me to write anything down. But on the advancement test I took on Thursday, I was struggling with the stuff. Maybe I should have studied...or brought a calculator. Damn that pride. Someday I need to read up on amplifiers again, I'm so weak in that area that it isn't even funny. At least I know radar pretty well... Oh yeah, do I work on radar?
No, I work on comm gear. Damn.
Hehe...oh yes. I just saw Kill Bill (vol 1). Well, I didn't really see it, rather I saw the second half of the movie twice (almost three times). Why is it that I can't ever watch it from the beginning, all I get to see is everything after Okinawa? Anyway, despite my seeming inability to watch the entire movie, I've definately decided on buying it. Have you seen that huge fight scene at the end? I've never seen a better coreographed (spelling? not sure) well...anything. Ever. It seems that every scene is just art...the music, camera angles, colors (or lack thereof in some parts), even the dialouge. Art. Very violent and incredibly bloody art, but I've never let that turn me away. It was just beautiful, I felt like crying.
Consider the DVD bought.
Now I need to see the Last Samurai. I've heard it's oh-so-good.
Metroid Zero Mission is a damn fine game, if I do say so. Throughout the entire thing I was reminisquing of not only the first game, but the third one as well. Great remixes of the old music (for a game boy), purely good Metroid graphics and mood, and heck...it's got Ridley! Duh... People complain about the bosses being too simplistic. Forget not that this is a 2-D Metroid game. The bosses have never required serious cerebreal use to figure out. It's always basically consisted of finding their weak spot, and pumping it full of yummy missles. Definately a good game, and a hell of a twist too. Now all we need is another Metroid game, but one with a gripping story. Metroid Prime had a good one, but I'm thinking something epic. I want to discover a hidden past between Samus and Ridley, I want Samus proclaimed to be rogue and hunted by other bounty hunters. I want...well, cool stuff.
I await the arrival of Battlefield Vietnam, computer game almost released. It is scheduled to arrive just about the day I get back home. Battlefield 1942 was a nice nice game... I've also bought Final Fantasy Chrystal Chronicles (mainly because my friend has been bugging me about it), and Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes. That should keep me busy during all those days off.
Last subject. I am going to be running a Planescape game next week, and I've got a good idea for a basic plotline...but one thing always destroys me. How the heck am I supposed to get those damn Player Characters to work together without forcing them or risking pardy disintegration when the money stops flowing? It's like trying to bind noble gasses, so very difficult it's hardly worth it. None of that "you meet in a tavern and want to kill stuff" standard fare. I'm not too fond of the "you've been randomly selected to save the multiverse" type action either. Eh...oh well, I'm sure I'll figure something out. They say I'm at my best when I'm improvising.
Well, not really...
The ship will be pulling back into Washington on Monday...the current schedule says that Tuesday will be a day off. Wednesday and Thursdays are supposed to be half-days, but I've heard rumors that they'll be days off too. Friday is a day off for certain, and I have duty on Saturday. Now, I just switched duty with Kim, she had duty on Monday. So now the way it goes...if all is well, I will leave on Tuesday morning, and not have to return until Monday morning next week.
Yes, I'd like that very much.
I feel like my brain isn't working as efficiently as it used to. Back in ET school, I could solve rather complex DC circuits without use of a calculator, all in my head. Even solid state rarely required me to write anything down. But on the advancement test I took on Thursday, I was struggling with the stuff. Maybe I should have studied...or brought a calculator. Damn that pride. Someday I need to read up on amplifiers again, I'm so weak in that area that it isn't even funny. At least I know radar pretty well... Oh yeah, do I work on radar?
No, I work on comm gear. Damn.
Hehe...oh yes. I just saw Kill Bill (vol 1). Well, I didn't really see it, rather I saw the second half of the movie twice (almost three times). Why is it that I can't ever watch it from the beginning, all I get to see is everything after Okinawa? Anyway, despite my seeming inability to watch the entire movie, I've definately decided on buying it. Have you seen that huge fight scene at the end? I've never seen a better coreographed (spelling? not sure) well...anything. Ever. It seems that every scene is just art...the music, camera angles, colors (or lack thereof in some parts), even the dialouge. Art. Very violent and incredibly bloody art, but I've never let that turn me away. It was just beautiful, I felt like crying.
Consider the DVD bought.
Now I need to see the Last Samurai. I've heard it's oh-so-good.
Metroid Zero Mission is a damn fine game, if I do say so. Throughout the entire thing I was reminisquing of not only the first game, but the third one as well. Great remixes of the old music (for a game boy), purely good Metroid graphics and mood, and heck...it's got Ridley! Duh... People complain about the bosses being too simplistic. Forget not that this is a 2-D Metroid game. The bosses have never required serious cerebreal use to figure out. It's always basically consisted of finding their weak spot, and pumping it full of yummy missles. Definately a good game, and a hell of a twist too. Now all we need is another Metroid game, but one with a gripping story. Metroid Prime had a good one, but I'm thinking something epic. I want to discover a hidden past between Samus and Ridley, I want Samus proclaimed to be rogue and hunted by other bounty hunters. I want...well, cool stuff.
I await the arrival of Battlefield Vietnam, computer game almost released. It is scheduled to arrive just about the day I get back home. Battlefield 1942 was a nice nice game... I've also bought Final Fantasy Chrystal Chronicles (mainly because my friend has been bugging me about it), and Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes. That should keep me busy during all those days off.
Last subject. I am going to be running a Planescape game next week, and I've got a good idea for a basic plotline...but one thing always destroys me. How the heck am I supposed to get those damn Player Characters to work together without forcing them or risking pardy disintegration when the money stops flowing? It's like trying to bind noble gasses, so very difficult it's hardly worth it. None of that "you meet in a tavern and want to kill stuff" standard fare. I'm not too fond of the "you've been randomly selected to save the multiverse" type action either. Eh...oh well, I'm sure I'll figure something out. They say I'm at my best when I'm improvising.
Well, not really...