For Indeed I Promised To Eat All Of His Killing.

[rionaleonhart]

Sorry I've been a bit rubbish at responding to comments recently! It's a combination of having work, which is great but does mean I want to do anything other than stare at a computer in my spare time, and, well...

After all that watching-on-YouTube, I now have an actual copy of Final Fantasy XIII! And I know this is a divisive game and there are a

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[rionaleonhart]

I have the opposite problem; I get really confused when pressing up makes me look up. You'd think it would make sense, but in my mind apparently 'up is up' is a really difficult concept to grasp.

[lotus0kid]

Consumed with jealousy that you've seen Much Ado with Catherine Tate and David Tennant. All I can do is sit over here, filled with longing, and pray for a swift DVD release. Please oh please oh please oh please...

[rionaleonhart]

Sorry to rub it in, but, yeah, it was pretty great. Never before had I realised just how much I wanted to see Tennant and Tate insulting each other for two hours and then snogging.

[heidi8]

Best. Plot. Summary. Ever!

[thewaterbandit]

Catherine Tate and David Tennant in Much Ado!!!! ALL THE JEALOUSY.

Inverted cameras really really disorient me when I'm playing, enough to throw me out completely. It's a real problem because we have one friend who, when he comes to play on our xbox, ALWAYS inverts the camera and then doesn't change it back. It's a nightmare.

[rionaleonhart]

I would probably be that obnoxious camera-inverting person. The question is in my mind because I've just started playing Uncharted, and I was struggling a lot with aiming until my brother suggested I check the settings. Lo and behold, up was up by default. Which is wrong.

[gargantsurprise]

Y-You know, I voted 'UP IS UP', but the more I think about it... I play with 'UP IS DOWN' more often than not. I just... my mind is quietly blown..... THINGS I NEVER THINK ABOUT, AHH...

Picking characters here was painful. VI was particularly difficult. I love Edgar and Sabin, I love their relationship and their parallels and the sacrifices they've made or would be willing to make for one another. I really love those two, and voting for one of them over the other is difficult! I went with Edgar, but I'm squirming with displeasure now and wondering that I shouldn't have cast the vote somewhere else entirely so as not to favour one perfect twin over the other. I really love Setzer, and Cyan, and Gau, and Celes. Gau, goodness, breaks me heart and comes back around to my liking Sabin again. In fact, oh look, Cyan, Gau and Celes all have some notable relationship with Sabin. AHHH choosing for this game is ridiculous, I quit

[rionaleonhart]

I had trouble choosing for VI as well! I was incredibly torn between Celes and Sabin. In the end, I went for Celes, but I'm not sure it was the right decision. Why do I make polls that will cause me distress?

and I swear he is adorable if you look for it

No disagreement here! Barret definitely has an element of adorability.

Kuja is probably my favourite Final Fantasy villain.

I also have a soft spot for Lightning! But I think Sazh and Snow edge her out. Regarding Snow: HATE YOU FOREVER I can entirely understand that people might have a problem with him! I was really surprised by the way he managed to punch right into my heart, because I wasn't expecting to like him at all. (Sazh's relationships also had a hand in my choosing him over Snow or Lightning; the Sazh-Vanille dynamic is one of my favourites.)

Don't apologise! Long comments about Final Fantasy are always, always welcome.

[vzg]

All I can say is SEYMOOOUR. OH MY GOD SEYMOUR.

[strangefrontier]

Charlie Brooker recently had a dicussion about camera inversion on twitter. I agree with him: up is down and down is up. It's like the camera control stick is your neck, you tilt it forwards to look down, and back to look up.

[rionaleonhart]

That's an explanation that actually makes sense! I've never understood why an inverted camera felt more natural to me, but that may well be it.