More Updates About Gaming And Food
Still liking Dragon Quest IX. Took it to Maker Faire last weekend hoping to get some "guests" at the inn, but nobody joined. Sniffle. Hey, I live in Michigan-- it's not like I can just travel the subway in cars filled with wired-up people playing videogames. Public transit barely exists here, and the people on it are not too likely to be playing DQIX.
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So, a carnival came to town for the weekend. I've been making deep-fried Milky Way bars using pancake batter for years, but I could NOT resist the chance to try a "professionally made" deep-fried candy bar. Well, it looked just like a corn dog on a stick (I always use the small candy bars so they fry up like little pillows), and there was a little raw batter right around the melted chocolate, and it was coated in a very messy mixture of chocolate syrup and powdered sugar (gilding the lily, man). But I ate it and it was gooey and melty and tasty and I don't regret it.
I will add that I walked to the carnival and back. It mitigates things ever so slightly.
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OK. I seem to have come to terms with FE12 to the extent that I am beginning to write 'fic based explicitly on it.
1) "Lucky Horseshoes," some army life vignettes starring Norne and her friends. ETA: first chapter uploaded 8/7/10.
2) "At the Hundredth Meridian," Wolf and Sedgar, post-game, AU inspired by the frontier wars in late 19th century USA.
3) "Perfect World," my barely-started attempt at an entry for fe_contest #007, an attempt to exorcise the wtf-ery of Macedon. Even if it's not done by the deadline, this is probably worth finishing. ETA: uploaded to contest comm 8/8/10.
Meh. FE12 has sold 192,000 copies in three weeks. Can we have an EU/US release date already?
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So, a carnival came to town for the weekend. I've been making deep-fried Milky Way bars using pancake batter for years, but I could NOT resist the chance to try a "professionally made" deep-fried candy bar. Well, it looked just like a corn dog on a stick (I always use the small candy bars so they fry up like little pillows), and there was a little raw batter right around the melted chocolate, and it was coated in a very messy mixture of chocolate syrup and powdered sugar (gilding the lily, man). But I ate it and it was gooey and melty and tasty and I don't regret it.
I will add that I walked to the carnival and back. It mitigates things ever so slightly.
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OK. I seem to have come to terms with FE12 to the extent that I am beginning to write 'fic based explicitly on it.
1) "Lucky Horseshoes," some army life vignettes starring Norne and her friends. ETA: first chapter uploaded 8/7/10.
2) "At the Hundredth Meridian," Wolf and Sedgar, post-game, AU inspired by the frontier wars in late 19th century USA.
3) "Perfect World," my barely-started attempt at an entry for fe_contest #007, an attempt to exorcise the wtf-ery of Macedon. Even if it's not done by the deadline, this is probably worth finishing. ETA: uploaded to contest comm 8/8/10.
Meh. FE12 has sold 192,000 copies in three weeks. Can we have an EU/US release date already?