I love Ivalice. At first I thought I loved the Ivalice games because I like tactical RPGs. While I do like them (woo, Fire Emblem!), only three of the five "Ivalice Alliance" games are tactical. No, it's the world I love. The lore, the legends, the in-jokes. The fact that every thing you touch in the game, from the bow your archer draws to the ( Read more... )

The latest episode of Made of Fail came out about a week ago. It's a conversation about comics, more specifically, the DC reboot. My favorite part is that we have three women discussing comics and they all have different opinions. Women read superhero comics, you guys. But you knew that.

Pop Culture Happy Hour also covered the reboot and it ( Read more... )

I took a much needed mini-vacation this weekend. Half a day on Friday, the weekend, today (Labor Day), and a half day tomorrow. I promised myself that I wouldn't do any work, at least on Friday, and immediately broke that promise. What have I done? I re-watched "The Ember Island Players" and finished the rest of Avatar: The Last Airbender. I ( Read more... )

I took some time over the long weekend last week to pick up and finally finish Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings. For whatever reason, I set the game down with two or three things left to do and didn't touch it for months. When I finally did, I had to spend about half an hour remembering how to play. The same thing happened to me with Final ( Read more... )

One of the reasons Final Fantasy IX is one of my favorites of the series* is because the narrator is so optimistic. Zidane isn't much for brooding or feeling sorry for himself. In my favorite scene in the game he does start up a rare pity party after learning some life-changing and spoilery information. That seems reasonable, but his love ( Read more... )

New Made of Fail! Discussion of the latest Harry Potter movie, why the girl who plays Luna wins at life, and, yep, Twilight speculation.

Have you heard of the "Guile's Theme goes with everything" meme? It's been around for ages in internet time (like six months in real time). Guile's Theme is a particularly ear-wormy tune from a video game ( Read more... )

A little while back on Twitter (locked unless you follow me) I noted the resemblance between Kanye West's and Leonard Bernstein's music, or rather the Bernstein that lives in my head. I was told by a fellow band nerd years ago that Bernstein originally tried to write both the music and the lyrics for West Side Story. His music was the catchy, ( Read more... )

Fifteen years from now people are going to turn to each other and say, "I get that the technology was a huge leap forward back then, but really, what did people see in Avatar?" Then the 9 foot tall blue alien over-seer will crack her electron whip over the heads of the people and shout in her language, "BACK TO WORK, HUME SCUM!"

Rachel won a ( Read more... )

I realized that in the course of my love-fest yesterday I forgot to mention my gripes with Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings. That was easy enough to do as the gripes are minor and few (actually, just two) while the good things about the game wash them right away. Still, I feel like bitching ( Read more... )

So I picked up some sort of stomach something last night. I'll spare you the in depth details, but I had a very hard time falling asleep or even staying in bed for most of last night. An upside of that is I watched Rachel sleep for awhile. It was beautiful and very calming. I can understand Edward Cullen's motive if I can't agree with the ( Read more... )