Updates!
Holy Jesus I am stressed out right now. I leave for London a week from Saturday, so I've been scrambling to get some money converted and more money put on a card and AUGH. I feel like a week and a half isn't enough time. I've still got laundry to do and a carry-on to get and it feels like this is some monumental task that wishes to fall on and smush me when I decide to take a breather. But I'm sure it'll all work out alright. Assuming that OIP hasn't lost my forms again. And assuming that the TSA doesn't detain me for bringing a plastic transforming robot along in my purse or carry-on (Thrust and Roddy are coming wiiiiith meeee).
I've a review of a production of Julius Caesar to write, another paper to have a draft of ready by tomorrow, Spanish homework, and who knows what else. But I have a magic wand of my very own now. One of the girls in my London Theater Tour lecture did a presentation on one of the companies that does themed tours (Harry Potter, Holmes, Jack the Ripper) and made everyone wands. I adore mine. The plainest one in the class, but also the slimmest and most wood-looking. Screamer can use it to keep his ponies in line.
In more IRL news, I cut almost a foot of my hair off! It's about at shoulder length now (though I can't be sure, because it's decided to be curly and wavy at the bottoms again). It amuses me that the boyfriend's hair is now longer than mine. Relationship and emotional issues have smoothed themselves out considerably, and hopefully things will be going better overall.
In the process of cleaning out the external drive, I ended up re-downloading Yume Nikki. Oh god. I forgot how weird this game was. I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 17 effects (Stoplight and Medamaude are the most useful things everrrr) and...well, I keep getting lost. I believe this is entirely due to me being terrible with directions. The game is so much easier when the boyfriend is hovering to tell me "You've already been that way," or "The elephant woman thing was in that direction."
I picked up three terrible old PS1 games from the used game shop a block from the Comic Shop. Ended up downloading an emulator to see if they were as horrible as I thought they would be (they were) as my consoles are all at home due to my lack of TV. I'll be heading back in a few days to see if I can get them to put a new save battery in my Pokemon Crystal for me. I might ask them to do the same for my Yellow and my two copies of Monster Rancher Battle Card Game (seriously why did I have two copies), depending on how much cash I have on me.
Working on organizing all my YST mp3s into the various CDs they came from. It's actually a bit harder than I thought it would be. Lots of copy/pasting and flipping between folders and programs. So far I've got a few albums done: Best Friends, Gun Rou Hen, I Jin Hen, and Kimi O Nemurasenai. Sei Ran Hen's up next. If anybody wants any of the ones I have finished, send me a message. (Obligatory disclaimer being that these mp3s are available for evaluation purposes and that you should buy the albums if you enjoy them goes here. Good luck finding the albums to buy, though.)
Anybody have any idea how to get Chip's Challenge to work on 7? I had it working on Vista, but it just refuses to cooperate with 7 for some reason. No big loss, as I still have the files and can play it on any older OS, but it'd be nice to be able to use the newer laptop for it.
I downloaded a few games from /x/ a while back, titled Summer House and Molly. They run off the same system, which appears to be a visual-novel style of sorts. Summer House centers on a boy looking for his absent sister and heading to his parents' Summer house in order to find her. It can end "happily," but only one ending allows for that. I'm still not sure I've found all the possibilities, even though it's a relatively short story. Molly, unlike Summer House, which has a series of relatively detailed backdrops, has no graphics at all. The game is text-based, and revolves around your conversation with "Molly." There are a variety of dialogue choices, and I've only managed to piece my way through one storyline so far. It's a disturbing story, to say the least. Very sad. Again, anyone who wants these games can message me for them.
I found my translations of Fuan no Tane while I was sorting things. Short horror stories (or just weird stories) that are guaranteed to leave you WTF-ing. I need to go through and rename their folders and images, as everything's all out-of-order. I wish they'd go ahead and license these in the US. I want an actual copy so bad, and I'm not about to go looking for an import version (even though Thief & Detective was worth the money).
I've a review of a production of Julius Caesar to write, another paper to have a draft of ready by tomorrow, Spanish homework, and who knows what else. But I have a magic wand of my very own now. One of the girls in my London Theater Tour lecture did a presentation on one of the companies that does themed tours (Harry Potter, Holmes, Jack the Ripper) and made everyone wands. I adore mine. The plainest one in the class, but also the slimmest and most wood-looking. Screamer can use it to keep his ponies in line.
In more IRL news, I cut almost a foot of my hair off! It's about at shoulder length now (though I can't be sure, because it's decided to be curly and wavy at the bottoms again). It amuses me that the boyfriend's hair is now longer than mine. Relationship and emotional issues have smoothed themselves out considerably, and hopefully things will be going better overall.
In the process of cleaning out the external drive, I ended up re-downloading Yume Nikki. Oh god. I forgot how weird this game was. I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 17 effects (Stoplight and Medamaude are the most useful things everrrr) and...well, I keep getting lost. I believe this is entirely due to me being terrible with directions. The game is so much easier when the boyfriend is hovering to tell me "You've already been that way," or "The elephant woman thing was in that direction."
I picked up three terrible old PS1 games from the used game shop a block from the Comic Shop. Ended up downloading an emulator to see if they were as horrible as I thought they would be (they were) as my consoles are all at home due to my lack of TV. I'll be heading back in a few days to see if I can get them to put a new save battery in my Pokemon Crystal for me. I might ask them to do the same for my Yellow and my two copies of Monster Rancher Battle Card Game (seriously why did I have two copies), depending on how much cash I have on me.
Working on organizing all my YST mp3s into the various CDs they came from. It's actually a bit harder than I thought it would be. Lots of copy/pasting and flipping between folders and programs. So far I've got a few albums done: Best Friends, Gun Rou Hen, I Jin Hen, and Kimi O Nemurasenai. Sei Ran Hen's up next. If anybody wants any of the ones I have finished, send me a message. (Obligatory disclaimer being that these mp3s are available for evaluation purposes and that you should buy the albums if you enjoy them goes here. Good luck finding the albums to buy, though.)
Anybody have any idea how to get Chip's Challenge to work on 7? I had it working on Vista, but it just refuses to cooperate with 7 for some reason. No big loss, as I still have the files and can play it on any older OS, but it'd be nice to be able to use the newer laptop for it.
I downloaded a few games from /x/ a while back, titled Summer House and Molly. They run off the same system, which appears to be a visual-novel style of sorts. Summer House centers on a boy looking for his absent sister and heading to his parents' Summer house in order to find her. It can end "happily," but only one ending allows for that. I'm still not sure I've found all the possibilities, even though it's a relatively short story. Molly, unlike Summer House, which has a series of relatively detailed backdrops, has no graphics at all. The game is text-based, and revolves around your conversation with "Molly." There are a variety of dialogue choices, and I've only managed to piece my way through one storyline so far. It's a disturbing story, to say the least. Very sad. Again, anyone who wants these games can message me for them.
I found my translations of Fuan no Tane while I was sorting things. Short horror stories (or just weird stories) that are guaranteed to leave you WTF-ing. I need to go through and rename their folders and images, as everything's all out-of-order. I wish they'd go ahead and license these in the US. I want an actual copy so bad, and I'm not about to go looking for an import version (even though Thief & Detective was worth the money).