Admittedly, a bat to the ankles wouldn't be much better.
Right, it is still storming every day (DEAR WEATHER: STOP!). TODAY: some fool managed to crash into a power pole down the street. He didn't knock it over. He sheered it off. I do not want to know how fast he was going. This resulted in the house not having power for a while, but I was at work for most of that.
Mom called while I was at work (while the power was out - we have a rotary phone which taps directly into the lines, so it works during power outages) to tell me that the power was out but also primarily to warn me that a tiny brown bat was lying in wait next to the Honda, and that I should go in the front door to avoid having a bat leap up and bite my face, because rabies shots are huge and nasty and right into your abdomen and you have to get, like, three. And insurance might not cover them. And a bat latching onto your face like some alien face-hugger would probably be traumatizing.
Okay, mostly she just told me to go in the front door because she'd called the Rabies Hotline and they said to just stay away from it.
Creepy stuff involving customers has been going on at work, but I'm tired of talking about this stuff and want to go to bed, and so am just going to copy in my latest mass of words relating to the game-playing I've been engaging in.
Bwaha! I'm in the habit of rewatching the last two or three cutscenes before starting to play and - helpless giggles - in the scene where Jak and Daxter confront Razer in the Bloody Hook, while Daxter is rambling about Razer's dressing habits and "certain odd sexy style," the guy behind them (one of the other racers - Edje? Cutter? Not Shiv, because Shiv doesn't have ears. I think it's Edje? .... yeah, it's Edje) is just nodding, with a slightly perplexed expression. It is hilarious.
Right. New day. Time for my ridiculous nature to drive me back towards the Death Race, at least.... It went significantly better today, actually. 341/300 on my first try, and I got much closer to a full lap than I had earlier.
Now I just need to take first in the Eastern Tour in Haven. Which probably isn't happening. Please someone stop me from attempting.
NOOO! WHAT ARE YOU DOING, SELF?
AUGH EVEN WORSE, BECAUSE, THAT'S RIGHT, THE LAST THING THAT HAPPENED LAST WAS RAZER COMING OUT OF RETIREMENT. AND NOW HE IS TRYING TO KILL MEEEE.
Things I don't actually need to be told: "Looks like you're out of your league!" Seriously. Okay. I KNOW. I have been out of my league for the last OH WAIT THERE'VE BEEN HIGH-SPEED RACES IN ALL OF THESE GAMES, FANCY THAT ALL OF TIME. Silly Razer. Thinking I don't know these things.
Bwaha! Okay, so he's kicking my ass, but he's hilarious.
Jecca: Yaay, yellow eco! Gun!
Jak: *shoots*
Razer: I! AM! INVINCIBLE! *careens wildly off the track*
.... o_O; 'kay.
... you'd be getting sloppy, too, if you'd just picked up a Super Nova. AND ANYWAY SHUT UP, YOU'RE DEAD NOW. SO THERE.
:D! YAY! I WON! *dances*
.... you know what, shut up, it was totally worth it for the one whole extra medal point. >__>
Getting a bit sick of the adrenaline bursts, though. Makes my arms shake, which is mildly uncomfortable. Even if it does give me an excuse to charge up and down the stairs and grab a popsicle. ...mmm. Popsicles.
(It also makes this a good game to play a bit before going to bed. You get all worked up, then you burn the energy off, and then you crash and sleep like you're dead.)
'Kay. He's said it plenty, but that time it was perfect timing. Jak has a habit of shouting out, "Hit the wall!" when you get close to other racers.
Except... that time, um.
Well, I'm sure you can figure where that went all on your own.
(DEAR SELF: IT WAS DIRECTED AT THE OTHER PEOPLE, NOT YOU.)
I hit the train, but Razer -> Mine -> Jak just popped up, so, uh. I'm not sure. Point goes to Razer, though.
Razer apparently thinks laughing like a maniac is the proper response to being hit with a peace maker.
I HATE THAT I USUALLY, ON OCCASION, AGREE.
... ha, um! I fell in the water because I can't drive. I was in the lead and the finish line was, you know, literally just around the corner. My father just asked, is everything okay? And I answered, yes, why?
He'd been going to bed and he'd just said goodnight to my brother, and I had bellowed, "NOOO!" before my brother could respond.
And then I'd fallen over, so when he came in to see what in the world was going on, I was sprawled out backwards on the bed with one leg straight up on the wall and me twisting the game controller around and probably looking as if I wanted to chew on it. Part of me is glad for the interruption, because it was an amusing position to find myself in. The other part is mildly embarrassed that I woke up half the street.
New vehicle!
.... REALLY SICK OF THE PLAYSTATION FREEZING UP. YES I KNOW IT IS WARM OUT BUT SERIOUSLY KNOCK IT OFF. I don't have you on that long!
Anyway, that was turning out as a really excellent run. I did a lap in 30 seconds, so I froze at least a solid minute. And I was only a short ways from the finish line, with plenty of time left on the clock...
Maybe I should start counting systems freeze-ups, as well. I counted the one in Jak 3...
... yes, and that one would have been flawless except, OH RIGHT, when you get a new vehicle, it's automatically placed as your default and you have to go find and select the one you wanted to use, so the thing just didn't move fast enough and ARRGH and okay flawless is a lie because i crashed twice, though they were both during a clock-freeze and OH MY GOD!
Picking up all the freezers nets you a ten second time bonus! GOLD MEDAL ANYWAY! \o/
Blitz questions why Pecker is there (surely the network doesn't think he is the future of broadcasting!). Pecker starts to answer, but then they notice the camera is on. Blitz's father used to race, then he was killed on the track the pair were standing by (the very same track he won his first championship on!). BUT ENOUGH OF THAT! BACK TO RACING! *forced grins all around!*
Everyone laugh at UR-86 and Razer for scoring zero kills in a Deathmatch.
Death Race: 175/140. Laughably low requirements, which is a bit strange.
Rush Hours, on the other hand, always seem too high.... 300-something just for bronze, ugh.
Pecker comes in to tell us to watch our backs. ... The Racing Syndicate has been fixing the races for ... a while, and we're not following the rules, so everyone's mad at us.
Torn just slipped out that we've been poisoned (we've been keeping that secret, obviously) and so are doing stupid things 'cause we're as good as dead, anyway. Ugh. Pecker assured us we can trust him while looking completely shifty. You have a big mouth, feathers. I don't think we can, even if you do mean to be trustworthy.
... FLAWLESS VICTORY! For real, not just because of a fluke like picking up all the freezers. 473/460, no deaths.
And I just unlocked another qualifier. Part of me wishes they didn't force you to run them right at that moment, but I understand it, too.
You know, last time I had to face a famous racer, he was actually, you know. Good at racing. Not that I'm pointing any fingers at anyone, Razer, because all you're doing is succeeding in making me hideously nervous. Which is probably to your benefit. I'm turning twitchy and paranoid.
No, seriously. He's making me extremely nervous, and I can't work out if it's just an unnerving coincidence or if he's programmed to do this! If I'm towards the front, he's right behind or ahead of me. If I crash or am blown up and fall behind.... he falls back, so he's still right behind or ahead of me.
STALKING ME.
Death Race: 253/240. Not so great, but still a win.
Grand Prix's open, now, but I'm going to finish everything else off first, like the lunatic I am. Got one Freeze Rally, one game of Capture, and one Circuit.
Guess we'll start with the Freeze Rally, 'cause I hate those. And this one's in the sewers, which I can't navigate under the best of circumstances.
Yyyyeah, that... didn't go well. I didn't even make bronze. I missed about half of the freezers. I didn't hit walls nearly as much as I recorded, but that's because "Wall" somehow became my catch-all death.
(If you get turned around and keep going, a red circle with a slash through it will appear, and it you ignore it, it will zap you and blow you up. Most of my deaths here were from that. Meh.) ... you know what, I don't feel like playing anymore! My shoulder hurts. I probably knocked it against the wall or something.
Random thing I keep musing on: we don't really know when Praxis took Haven, do we? I don't remember ever hearing a time frame in the second game, but it seems like it would have been a while. Certainly more than only a few years, at any rate, yes?
I've - for whatever reason, I don't know why my brain gets stuck on these things, I really, really don't, but I really wish it wouldn't - been trying to figure out some sort of timeframe, and I've probably just forgotten some info, or something. Maybe I need to rewatch the cutscenes from the second game.
But "the kid" could not have been very old. Which means Praxis was in control for an amazingly short period of time and that, I dunno, Spargus was already built up and Damas and company just moved in or that Little Mar (as opposed to Big Mar, though we have a habit of calling him Jak, or Famous Mar who might also be Jak, but never mind that. You know what, he didn't have a name throughout the whole second game until the end, when he stole his own name from himself, okay, I'm perfectly justified in calling the kid by the name he was actually given) was taken from Spargus.
Which would prompt the questions of, who did it and how? (Well, okay, Veger completely admits to it, but hoooow?)
But mostly I'm just curious how long Praxis was in control. (Well, that and the strange reality of absolutely no one having a mother, but, well.) That's the factoid my brain has fixated on. That is the one I must investigate. NO I DON'T CARE THAT THERE IS NO ANSWER.
Spargus Beachfront Drive Rush Hour:
Haha, whoops, crashed myself to death (alternately, WATCH OUT FOR THE RED ONES): 1
Haven City Eastern Tour Circuit Race:
Wall: 3
Cutter: 1
Edje: 2
Razer: 2
Kras Locking Docks Circuit Race:
Fail: 1
Ashelin: 2
Wall: 3
Reset: 1
Cutter: 1
Edje: 1
UR-86: 3
Train Razer: 2
Fall in Water: 2
Icelands Mountaintop Highway Freeze Rally:
Fail: 1?
Wall: 2
Fuck you, PS2: 1
Icelands Ice Pit Deathmatch:
Sig: 1
Shiv: 1
Cutter: 1
Spargus Badland Sanctuary Death Race:
Wall: 2
Reset: 1
Kras Dethdrome Rush Hour:
FLAWLESS VICTORY!
Qualifier 2:
Fail: 1
Wall: 1
Ashelin: 1
Shiv: 2
Spargus City Turbo Dash:
Fail: 2
Wall: 7
Ashelin: 2
Kras Seaport Strip Death Race:
Wall: 3
Train: 1
Haven Waterworks Circuit Freeze Rally:
Fail: 2
Wall: 13
*Quit for the day*
Since I've been talking about gaming... tomorrow IT'S TODAY NOW, aha, they announce the winning number(s?)! Last month, we could pick up to ten five-digit numbers. Now they tell us if we've won anything. There are some amazing prizes, but I'll be happy if I win anything at all, to be honest.
The ongoing event is neat. Much more fun than last year's take on it, in that this year you actually have something to do. And now I have glowy bamboo grass, which is very cool.
Mom called while I was at work (while the power was out - we have a rotary phone which taps directly into the lines, so it works during power outages) to tell me that the power was out but also primarily to warn me that a tiny brown bat was lying in wait next to the Honda, and that I should go in the front door to avoid having a bat leap up and bite my face, because rabies shots are huge and nasty and right into your abdomen and you have to get, like, three. And insurance might not cover them. And a bat latching onto your face like some alien face-hugger would probably be traumatizing.
Okay, mostly she just told me to go in the front door because she'd called the Rabies Hotline and they said to just stay away from it.
Creepy stuff involving customers has been going on at work, but I'm tired of talking about this stuff and want to go to bed, and so am just going to copy in my latest mass of words relating to the game-playing I've been engaging in.
Bwaha! I'm in the habit of rewatching the last two or three cutscenes before starting to play and - helpless giggles - in the scene where Jak and Daxter confront Razer in the Bloody Hook, while Daxter is rambling about Razer's dressing habits and "certain odd sexy style," the guy behind them (one of the other racers - Edje? Cutter? Not Shiv, because Shiv doesn't have ears. I think it's Edje? .... yeah, it's Edje) is just nodding, with a slightly perplexed expression. It is hilarious.
Right. New day. Time for my ridiculous nature to drive me back towards the Death Race, at least.... It went significantly better today, actually. 341/300 on my first try, and I got much closer to a full lap than I had earlier.
Now I just need to take first in the Eastern Tour in Haven. Which probably isn't happening. Please someone stop me from attempting.
NOOO! WHAT ARE YOU DOING, SELF?
AUGH EVEN WORSE, BECAUSE, THAT'S RIGHT, THE LAST THING THAT HAPPENED LAST WAS RAZER COMING OUT OF RETIREMENT. AND NOW HE IS TRYING TO KILL MEEEE.
Things I don't actually need to be told: "Looks like you're out of your league!" Seriously. Okay. I KNOW. I have been out of my league for the last OH WAIT THERE'VE BEEN HIGH-SPEED RACES IN ALL OF THESE GAMES, FANCY THAT ALL OF TIME. Silly Razer. Thinking I don't know these things.
Bwaha! Okay, so he's kicking my ass, but he's hilarious.
Jecca: Yaay, yellow eco! Gun!
Jak: *shoots*
Razer: I! AM! INVINCIBLE! *careens wildly off the track*
.... o_O; 'kay.
... you'd be getting sloppy, too, if you'd just picked up a Super Nova. AND ANYWAY SHUT UP, YOU'RE DEAD NOW. SO THERE.
:D! YAY! I WON! *dances*
.... you know what, shut up, it was totally worth it for the one whole extra medal point. >__>
Getting a bit sick of the adrenaline bursts, though. Makes my arms shake, which is mildly uncomfortable. Even if it does give me an excuse to charge up and down the stairs and grab a popsicle. ...mmm. Popsicles.
(It also makes this a good game to play a bit before going to bed. You get all worked up, then you burn the energy off, and then you crash and sleep like you're dead.)
'Kay. He's said it plenty, but that time it was perfect timing. Jak has a habit of shouting out, "Hit the wall!" when you get close to other racers.
Except... that time, um.
Well, I'm sure you can figure where that went all on your own.
(DEAR SELF: IT WAS DIRECTED AT THE OTHER PEOPLE, NOT YOU.)
I hit the train, but Razer -> Mine -> Jak just popped up, so, uh. I'm not sure. Point goes to Razer, though.
Razer apparently thinks laughing like a maniac is the proper response to being hit with a peace maker.
I HATE THAT I USUALLY, ON OCCASION, AGREE.
... ha, um! I fell in the water because I can't drive. I was in the lead and the finish line was, you know, literally just around the corner. My father just asked, is everything okay? And I answered, yes, why?
He'd been going to bed and he'd just said goodnight to my brother, and I had bellowed, "NOOO!" before my brother could respond.
And then I'd fallen over, so when he came in to see what in the world was going on, I was sprawled out backwards on the bed with one leg straight up on the wall and me twisting the game controller around and probably looking as if I wanted to chew on it. Part of me is glad for the interruption, because it was an amusing position to find myself in. The other part is mildly embarrassed that I woke up half the street.
New vehicle!
.... REALLY SICK OF THE PLAYSTATION FREEZING UP. YES I KNOW IT IS WARM OUT BUT SERIOUSLY KNOCK IT OFF. I don't have you on that long!
Anyway, that was turning out as a really excellent run. I did a lap in 30 seconds, so I froze at least a solid minute. And I was only a short ways from the finish line, with plenty of time left on the clock...
Maybe I should start counting systems freeze-ups, as well. I counted the one in Jak 3...
... yes, and that one would have been flawless except, OH RIGHT, when you get a new vehicle, it's automatically placed as your default and you have to go find and select the one you wanted to use, so the thing just didn't move fast enough and ARRGH and okay flawless is a lie because i crashed twice, though they were both during a clock-freeze and OH MY GOD!
Picking up all the freezers nets you a ten second time bonus! GOLD MEDAL ANYWAY! \o/
Blitz questions why Pecker is there (surely the network doesn't think he is the future of broadcasting!). Pecker starts to answer, but then they notice the camera is on. Blitz's father used to race, then he was killed on the track the pair were standing by (the very same track he won his first championship on!). BUT ENOUGH OF THAT! BACK TO RACING! *forced grins all around!*
Everyone laugh at UR-86 and Razer for scoring zero kills in a Deathmatch.
Death Race: 175/140. Laughably low requirements, which is a bit strange.
Rush Hours, on the other hand, always seem too high.... 300-something just for bronze, ugh.
Pecker comes in to tell us to watch our backs. ... The Racing Syndicate has been fixing the races for ... a while, and we're not following the rules, so everyone's mad at us.
Torn just slipped out that we've been poisoned (we've been keeping that secret, obviously) and so are doing stupid things 'cause we're as good as dead, anyway. Ugh. Pecker assured us we can trust him while looking completely shifty. You have a big mouth, feathers. I don't think we can, even if you do mean to be trustworthy.
... FLAWLESS VICTORY! For real, not just because of a fluke like picking up all the freezers. 473/460, no deaths.
And I just unlocked another qualifier. Part of me wishes they didn't force you to run them right at that moment, but I understand it, too.
You know, last time I had to face a famous racer, he was actually, you know. Good at racing. Not that I'm pointing any fingers at anyone, Razer, because all you're doing is succeeding in making me hideously nervous. Which is probably to your benefit. I'm turning twitchy and paranoid.
No, seriously. He's making me extremely nervous, and I can't work out if it's just an unnerving coincidence or if he's programmed to do this! If I'm towards the front, he's right behind or ahead of me. If I crash or am blown up and fall behind.... he falls back, so he's still right behind or ahead of me.
STALKING ME.
Death Race: 253/240. Not so great, but still a win.
Grand Prix's open, now, but I'm going to finish everything else off first, like the lunatic I am. Got one Freeze Rally, one game of Capture, and one Circuit.
Guess we'll start with the Freeze Rally, 'cause I hate those. And this one's in the sewers, which I can't navigate under the best of circumstances.
Yyyyeah, that... didn't go well. I didn't even make bronze. I missed about half of the freezers. I didn't hit walls nearly as much as I recorded, but that's because "Wall" somehow became my catch-all death.
(If you get turned around and keep going, a red circle with a slash through it will appear, and it you ignore it, it will zap you and blow you up. Most of my deaths here were from that. Meh.) ... you know what, I don't feel like playing anymore! My shoulder hurts. I probably knocked it against the wall or something.
Random thing I keep musing on: we don't really know when Praxis took Haven, do we? I don't remember ever hearing a time frame in the second game, but it seems like it would have been a while. Certainly more than only a few years, at any rate, yes?
I've - for whatever reason, I don't know why my brain gets stuck on these things, I really, really don't, but I really wish it wouldn't - been trying to figure out some sort of timeframe, and I've probably just forgotten some info, or something. Maybe I need to rewatch the cutscenes from the second game.
But "the kid" could not have been very old. Which means Praxis was in control for an amazingly short period of time and that, I dunno, Spargus was already built up and Damas and company just moved in or that Little Mar (as opposed to Big Mar, though we have a habit of calling him Jak, or Famous Mar who might also be Jak, but never mind that. You know what, he didn't have a name throughout the whole second game until the end, when he stole his own name from himself, okay, I'm perfectly justified in calling the kid by the name he was actually given) was taken from Spargus.
Which would prompt the questions of, who did it and how? (Well, okay, Veger completely admits to it, but hoooow?)
But mostly I'm just curious how long Praxis was in control. (Well, that and the strange reality of absolutely no one having a mother, but, well.) That's the factoid my brain has fixated on. That is the one I must investigate. NO I DON'T CARE THAT THERE IS NO ANSWER.
Spargus Beachfront Drive Rush Hour:
Haha, whoops, crashed myself to death (alternately, WATCH OUT FOR THE RED ONES): 1
Haven City Eastern Tour Circuit Race:
Wall: 3
Cutter: 1
Edje: 2
Razer: 2
Kras Locking Docks Circuit Race:
Fail: 1
Ashelin: 2
Wall: 3
Reset: 1
Cutter: 1
Edje: 1
UR-86: 3
Train Razer: 2
Fall in Water: 2
Icelands Mountaintop Highway Freeze Rally:
Fail: 1?
Wall: 2
Fuck you, PS2: 1
Icelands Ice Pit Deathmatch:
Sig: 1
Shiv: 1
Cutter: 1
Spargus Badland Sanctuary Death Race:
Wall: 2
Reset: 1
Kras Dethdrome Rush Hour:
FLAWLESS VICTORY!
Qualifier 2:
Fail: 1
Wall: 1
Ashelin: 1
Shiv: 2
Spargus City Turbo Dash:
Fail: 2
Wall: 7
Ashelin: 2
Kras Seaport Strip Death Race:
Wall: 3
Train: 1
Haven Waterworks Circuit Freeze Rally:
Fail: 2
Wall: 13
*Quit for the day*
Since I've been talking about gaming... tomorrow IT'S TODAY NOW, aha, they announce the winning number(s?)! Last month, we could pick up to ten five-digit numbers. Now they tell us if we've won anything. There are some amazing prizes, but I'll be happy if I win anything at all, to be honest.
The ongoing event is neat. Much more fun than last year's take on it, in that this year you actually have something to do. And now I have glowy bamboo grass, which is very cool.