"Otacon, get a grip!"
Okay. I'm still a little nervous about school, but I figure I'll manage alright. =)
Camp! Camp was awesome. I met so many people and I could just go on and on and on about it. It was so much more than just, 'oh you go to camp and here's a canoe.' It was... Almost a spiritual experience? You know, they do those things where you light candles and then cast them into the campfire, 'so that your flame will add to our fire of friendship, which will burn in our hearts even after we've left this circle,' etc. etc.
We have plenty of friendship, don't you worry. I was going to the bathroom one morning and Sierra comes in and sits in the stall next to me, and after about five seconds, she starts, "So Grace, how's your morning?" Who knew you could have a deep, meaningful conversation "while taking a dump?" It was such a big joke, because for Mini Musicals the cabin next to us (Rappahanock, even though they pronounced it wrap-a-hand-a-cock) wrote three full numbers about poop, and we basically had to listen to them rehearse for several days. But anyway.
There were a bunch of kids from Santa Fe, and for some reason I mostly hung out with them. Also I made another friend (who seriously looks like a tall Chevy) who lives about five to ten minutes away from my grandparents' condo. So I can hang out with her sometimes if I want. =D
Oh god, I can't even go over all the jokes; it would take too long. But I did find this one counselor who looked just like Mr. E from 6th grade, and all I did was make fun of him, because he really was full of himself. I swear, he would hit on anything that moved. And other jokes ensued that I'm not going to go into, but I ended up writing this thing for the talent show that was very popular, and maybe I'll post it some other time. Also, other counselors were great; Ted and I had a Star Trek discussion, Alison is the coolest ever, Katie learned the first half of the Thriller dance in about seven minutes... So yeah. I'll probably sporatically post more stories as I remember them.
Now I want to talk about Metal Gear. METAL GEAR!?
Now I know Naomi is my least favorite. She made Otacon cry, and I wanted to punch her in the face. ]:< SEE MY INDIGNANT CREEPYFACE.
RAIDEN WHAT. Okay, so basically he gets in that big extremely gay fight with Vamp, and he gets all beat up and he's going to die but oh now we have some fake blood to pump into him, so he'll be fine. Okay. But then before he's fully healed, he gets up and has another slightly less gay fight with Vamp, and gets even more beat up, but then he's okay and chops up more Gekkos and he gets more beat up, but he's okay and he gets crushed by a building, but he's still okay, and then he slices his own arm off to get out of the rubble, but then apparently he's still okay BECAUSE HE STOPS AN ENTIRE TANKER THE SIZE OF A CITY JUST BY STANDING IN FRONT OF IT AND THEN HE STABS HIS OWN FOOT LIKE THAT'S GOING TO HELP HOLD BACK A 100+ TON WARSHIP/SUBMERGABLE FORTRESS/NUCLEAR SAFE HAVEN AND THEN FINALLY THE THING RUNS HIM OVER AND HE FALLS INTO THE OCEAN AND HIS SWORD IS LEFT DRAMATICALLY PLUNGED INTO THE EARTH...
Several scenes later, Otacon adds as a side comment, "Oh yeah, Raiden'll be fine." No need for excessive 'XD's here.
Drebbin is fantasic; it's like, 'dude what are you doing here, hey monkey don't touch my cigarette.' Cybooooooorg~ <333
Coolest thing ever? MGS1 throwback. Now, I've never even played MGS1, and it was still the coolest damn thing I have ever done. I knew the Shadow Moses theme and everything, so that was cool to hear, but the throwback graphics? Putting it into a dream sequence? Good one, Kojima. Oh my God. And then your little talks with Otacon, and the locker, and Otacon telling you to change the disc and then geeking out all like~ *giggle giggle giggle*
Okay, the other coolest damn thing? We're sitting there, and Otacon is like, okay, get in Metal Gear REX and we'll ride it outta here! You were supposed to shoot down the Gekkos, but we just blasted through and ran them all over. SO much fun. So we get outside and I'm like, 'whoa, what if Liquocelot shows up with Metal Gear RAY and we have a super nuclear robot battle?' And SURE ENOUGH. RAY comes blasting out of the water like a total noob!whale, and even after laughing hysterically through the whole 'let's run everything over and blow shit up' sequence, we still manage laugh hysterically through the whole battle.
Hidden/sleeping Gekkos scare the shit out of Echo and it's the funniest thing ever. I mean, they make me jump, but Echo always leaps off the couch, all while screaming, "HOLY SWEET JESUS~!!!"
I said I wanted to see more of Ocelot's finger guns. I got Liquocelot's fail!finger guns, which is almost better in the way that I couldn't stop laughing. He basically cut off power to everyone's weapons (after the ten minute cutscene of all of them showing up) and then just started pointing his finger guns at people and spazzing out like, "BAM BAM YOU'RE DEAD AHAHAHA~!" And at one point he's standing next to this machine gun that's going off, all "POW POW POW POW WHEEEEE~!" It's pretty hilarious.
I FORGOT. Even before Liquocelot does the finger guns, he jumps onto his boat and has obviously been playing too much Elite Beat Agents, because he's like, "GOOOOOOOoooOOOOOO!" And the boat goes *putt putt putt putt*. And he stands at the helm, arms folded like he's being cool, and lets his hair not flow in the breeze because there is no breeze, because they're barely going anywhere.
Best quote ever, right here. Otacon is geeking out about the time Snake blew up Vulcan Raven's tank, and starts giving him the 'you're nuts, you're insane' kind of talk and Snake is like, "Otacon, is this what you consider a compliment?" or something like that, and here's the response:
Otacon: Yes! You're the toughest, craziest, most hardcore badass on the planet! You're... the shit!"
I love you, Otacon, more than words could ever express.
Oh God, what else? I dunno, there were a couple of cutscenes where we actually had to pause it to think, and sort of work our brains around it by talking it out. Some intense stuff going on; though I still don't really understand the thing with TJ and GW. I get the whole AI thing, but I don't quite get what makes one of them bad or good, or how you get to one through the other, and why the other two aren't involved and why destroying GW wouldn't screw up the system, and why does Liquid want to destroy TJ and how is that any better than destroying GW and whatever.
But awww, Snake's mommy. =) He may be a clone of Big Boss, but he does take after her in some ways. It's cute.
And awww Snake's face got all burned. DDD= And his voice is getting raspier as the game goes on, and the whole thing is just heartbreaking. I feel like the whole microwave chamber is kind of like the reactor core in- what was is, the second Star Trek movie?- where Spock goes in there even though he knows it will kill him...
OHMYGOD.
MAYBE THAT'S WHAT THE NEXT GAME IS ABOUT.
'THE SEARCH FOR SNAKE.'
OHMYGOD OHMYGOD OHMYGOD.
:)
I'll take that thought into school tomorrow.