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Jul. 7th, 2009 @ 08:36 pm Some More Random.
Fresh homemade chunky salsa. Juuust right. The first bite convinces you it's not hot, but by the second, it's already too late. Guess I'll have to try guacamole next. ...But finding decent avocados here might be an enormous task. I am up to it! Maybe. ...We'll see what happens next week.

So I've totally hooked my mother on Metal Gear Solid 4 (at least the "movie version", available through the wonder of torrents or YouTube--without those jackasses talking through it, even). This amuses me greatly. And is greatly awesome. We'll see what she thinks of Advent Children: Complete when she gets to it. And she's an OrgLIX/Crisis Perverted fan. Yay for corruption!

Oh god resist resist resist it's not as good of a deal as it looks resist. ...Ahem. I will get a PS3 eventually. ...I just hope there's a holiday price drop.

I find the argument that game developers should PLAY GAMES to be rather nice. Sometimes it's an asset not to have played many games before making one, I would agree. For the most part though... no. Too much annoyance that keeps getting repeated over and over.

For some reason all of the Michael Jackson music just opened up a major older Killers/White Stripes/Living Things kick. *glances back at Nightshade* But my guitar probably wants me dead by now... Well, worth the risk maybe.

Of course randomizer would have to pick "The First Time"... There is nothing quite like driving through what seems like endless desert cliffs with this song more or less accidentally on repeat. ...Return to form, I guess... encounters with the sleeping giant...

Time to shed the husks and go on, little by little. I still don't know how to rely on people *grin*, but I'll get there. I suppose I'll have to learn.

Ow, followed by "The Price of Freedom". Break my heart why don't you, Winamp. ("A little cracked/ But I'm not broken". *grin*)
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Dissidia!Ex-Mode!Seph
Jul. 6th, 2009 @ 05:54 pm Way Too Productive for one Day
So this morning I made key lime pie, salsa, and the sparkly up there. ...Something is decidedly wrong. *grin*

LUCASARTS GAMES ON STEAM!!! As Alec Meer wrote, "What’s that strange noise? It’s thousands of 30-year-old men simultaneously having a Special Wee, that’s what." (I'm still laughing at that.) LOOM!!! Seriously! As if I don't have every release of it on my computer currently anyway. They promise this is only the beginning... Wow, no longer abandonware. That's... so weird. I'm hoping for the rest of their catalog as well.

I'm quite sure that there are plenty more random things to talk about and links to drop, but that just seems... far too productive for today.
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Dissidia!Ex-Mode!Seph
Jul. 4th, 2009 @ 03:44 pm Mmmm, Cookies
If you go to the ArtFire main page and scroll all the way to the bottom, looking on the left side for the featured artist box... do you recognize anyone? *snort* It's only going to last until tomorrow and anyone who applies is automatically featured eventually... but still. (Yes, it had to be that picture.)

I keep forgetting to mention to my jewelry making friends that Fire Mountain Gems is having a sale on a lot of their "Customizable Display Frame System" pieces. So I picked up a few. Hopefully they'll be here... soon.

And once again, in several places throughout the country, some dumbass will shoot a gun up into the air without realizing that the bullet will eventually come back down, more than likely wounding if not killing someone. Hurah for my obvious un-American commie-ness. It suits the first sunny day we've had for weeks. *snort*
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Jul. 2nd, 2009 @ 10:49 pm A Quick Thought
Sometimes... there is feedback that lets you know something you lovingly and painstakingly crafted over weeks has gone to the right home. Be well, Si'Ette.
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Dissidia!Ex-Mode!Seph
Jul. 1st, 2009 @ 05:58 pm A Very Small Announcement
IT IS A PURPLE RUPEE. I feel accomplished. I'm going to go eat a cookie now. *grin*
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Dissidia!Ex-Mode!Seph
Jun. 30th, 2009 @ 07:03 pm OrgLIX and Crisis Perverted Update!
An Old Friend (3:41, 1.69M)
Cast: Xemnas and Demyx
Director: Orin
Writers: Orin and Schala
Summary: The end of the hiatus just means the beginning of more pain.

Angeal Likes Plants (4:31, 2.07M)
Cast: Angeal, Zack, and Genesis
Summary: All First Class SOLDIERs are crazy. Period.

And for a dose of "what the hell was that?", check out outtakes and Skype bits. ...Do not listen to these in a room full of people.

Something very interesting coming up in a couple of weeks, as well...
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Ur Souleater
Jun. 29th, 2009 @ 07:06 pm I'm Not Sure if This is an Accomplishment...
Still playing with that peanut butter cookie recipe. There is now a giant peanut butter and caramel cookie with a thin chewy chocolate layer on top sitting in the fridge. I do love versatile recipes.

I would like a life-sized one of these, please. If anyone's thinking of making one. Mmmm, robot cock...pit.

Maybe there will be something useful later. After another piece of cookie.
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Dissidia!Ex-Mode!Seph
Jun. 28th, 2009 @ 04:19 pm I Are Accomplish-ed

  • Finally that snake necklace I've been waiting to try out, Midnight Serpent. I believe that I could even correctly label it the shiniest snake necklace in all the world, whoo!
So that's my accomplishment. ...Going to go pretend to be lazy now.
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Demyx
Jun. 26th, 2009 @ 07:26 pm Link Dump of Awesome
I don't see why I need to waste two hours of my life watching something that's going to piss me off more than the last Transformers movie when I can watch this 5 minute review and quite literally cheer. It makes me happy. It makes me so happy. But then I am an old, bitter G1 and Beast Wars Transfan. *grin* The review just made me so happy, though. Oh my god. ...I need to save this and watch it over and over again.

Now I must link to this seriously kick-ass article about video game names and where they came from (though "they made it up" doesn't seem to be in the guy's range of reasoning... but y'know, it's still a damn good read). This covers Zelda, Super Mario Brothers, Sonic, Street Fighter, Final Fight, Final Fantasy, Metroid, Kid Icarus, Castlevania, Samurai Shodown, Pac-Man, Kirby, Pikmin, Mother/Earthbound, Pokemon, Adventure Island, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, and a shitload more. Plus the works cited list! And the best part is there are dozens more articles linked in this one with more information about names and origins. This is a drug to me, yes it is. Better than TV Tropes... almost. So. Much. Good.

Oh what the hell. Speaking of things that totally get me off, make me happy and often hurt other people, Let's link to the trope Urban Legend of Zelda. I keep thinking maybe I should add to the Ocarina section but that would just kinda prove that I remember way, way too much.

And some more intelligent, thought-provoking stuff over at Misanthropic Gamer dealing with the concepts of birth, nourishment, sex, propagation and death in video games. Worth the read if only for the thoughts on Zelda, honestly: "What if Zelda, a tale which almost always revolves around the link between Ganon, Zelda, and Link through the Triforce was tinkered with just slightly? I'm not talking about a complete overhaul in what makes Zelda, most of the titles still stand firmly in pure form for what we have as a fairy tale from a videogame. What if it grew up with us as well? Should that be allowed, should they remain and possibly stagnate in the consistency of what they convey? I'm no deity, so I can't answer that. All I can offer are my desires, which are in fact the will of a fanboy." ...And there's a little Devil May Cry in there too, but nevermind--it's just a good article.

There's no way I can describe the article better than the title: Stoned Wallabies Blamed for Crop Circles.

And in seriously depressing links... Well. We knew George Lucas had turned to the Dark Side, but never before had the proof been more obvious. Ouch.

Finally, for some "interesting and fun ideas for a Ghostbusters 3 plot that will never be made but wouldn't it be almost as cool as the idea that they all go to hell?" stuff, Geoff Manaugh writes up something awesome about haunted phone lines. I'd be surprised if there was anything in New York that wasn't haunted by now.
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Dissidia!Ex-Mode!Seph
Jun. 26th, 2009 @ 11:10 am Because I'm More Likely to Speak My Mind When I'm Too Tired to Hold My Tongue
Michael Jackson's innovation changed the musical landscape. It's sad and funny and a little bit fucking sick when it takes his death to get MTV to be unashamed to play more of his videos than the yearly Thriller and the maybe occasionally Billie Jean. Despite personal troubles that it's rather safe to assume stemmed from a fucked up childhood and an army of yes men at his feet, the man left an imprint on minds and music. It makes me sick to see so many journalists and comedians pretend like they'll miss him when these were the same people openly judging him and assuming him guilty for everything. Whether he was or wasn't (I neither accuse nor defend), shut the fuck up. You've gotta get off on someone's misfortune, especially if it's a public weep-fest jerk-off.

I can't say it's affected me--but it's a sad thing, and came as completely unexpected. Would he ever have been able to make that comeback? We'll never know now. But I've never been ashamed to love Thriller. "Smooth Criminal" hits all the right spots. "Give in to Me" is just... lovely (and Slash's sex god guitar doesn't hurt). When people do a little research and see where he did a little writing and backing vocals, they might be surprised.

...Why is all my Michael Jackson still on tape, dammit. Ha ha legal downloading spree. Later. If I ever wake up. Work now do. Shower then. Consciousness... sometime after lunch.
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Jun. 25th, 2009 @ 05:24 pm Sooooo Shiny
Back to a much larger project. Other stuff soon. Probably. I hope.
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Demyx
Jun. 21st, 2009 @ 04:00 pm Quick "Stuff"
I am staying in my little dark basement corner for the whole of Father`s Day. Otherwise I will no doubt say something "upsetting" because remembering someone like they're a fucking saint just because they're dead is bullshit. ...Yes, it is mildly uncomfortable having another thing in common with Squall.

I'm also realizing that I haven't actually talked to my own father in quite some time. *snort* Ah well.

It's more important for me to note that it's Coey's birthday today. (And yeah, someone else who holds a special place, ya nut ya. *grin*) While Coey past away years ago, that doesn't really change the fact that he changed my life and made the world a better place with his presence. I want to be able to afford to take in more animals who haven't had the best of luck in their lives and show them not all people are mother fucking assholes deserving only of suffering. I suppose I must hope that karma can be trusted.

Working on RESPONDING to everyone today, so this could take a while. If there's anything important I missed, drop a link. ...And if I manage to finish up in time, link dump later.
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Jun. 20th, 2009 @ 04:15 pm Just 'Cause
RANDOM MUSIC SHARE! This should really happen more often.

"(Open Up Your) Filthy Heart (to Me)" - Shriekback
No angels walk beside you now
No heroes hold your hands
Your heart was broken but your mind's still free
And down below me you are waiting, smiling like a ghost
Come open up your filthy heart to me...

Loooove this song. Soft and lovely and perverse and heartbreaking and eloquent. It reminds me of a certain pair of characters I may be obsessed with... gee I wonder who those two might be...

"Do You Realize" - The Flaming Lips
And instead of saying all of your goodbyes
Let them know you realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round...

I guess a lot of people would consider this "depressing" somehow, but... I don't see it.

"The Prisoner" - Howard Jones
And you captured me
I need you to take control
I am a prisoner of no confidence
You've entered me, now make me whole

I just... enjoy this. Heh.

"Bass Trap" - U2
Instrumental. Flowing, powerful, soft, good. What else can I say, really.

"All Man's Land" - Planet Funk
Call me
Call me
Call me mother, I
Call me

To me, this is Jenova's theme. It's so lovely and vibrant... with an undertone of creepy, possessive, and violent. Whoot, I say.

"Love Removal Machine" - The Cult
Oh you do not need lyrics for this, come on. Included because you whipper snappers need a proper education in music. *grin* ...And this song makes me very, very... "happy". In the pant region.
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Jun. 15th, 2009 @ 10:55 pm More Links and Stuff

  • New adolescent chocobo, Silee.
Seems the purple rupee will have to wait yet again. The shades of beads I ordered wound up just much too subtle... so I ordered less subtle ones. *grin* In the meantime, I'm trying something just a little bit different...

Along with puppy Zack, one-winged Sephiroth and the original chocobos, I now have this at my side to keep me company. It is indeed microwave safe and hand washable. *grin* I'M DRINKING TEA OUT OF IT RIGHT NOW AND IT'S ORGLIXIOUS. ...Fuck, ow, mental agony. Okay, I'm fine now. *twitch*

Now it's link dump time!!!

Tycho fucking nails my fears for The Last Guardian (and my feelings about Shadow of the Colossus) in writing, and then of course in comic form. ...I still want to play it. Desperately. I still feel a little sick when I think of killing colossi... and as much as I want to play the game again, I don't think I could. ICO is a different creature in that I'd love the experience again... but I can never truly have it (though "that scene" still gets to me every single time). Still, I like to revisit things.

Which reminds me: Shadow of the Colossus ending notes! Take heed: you may not come back the same way you've gone. *grin*

Talking About These is Daniel Floyd's (aka SephFire; yes, the remixer) video game blog. So read it, 'cause it's fun. So there.

Terrible Yellow Eyes is nothing but utterly amazing, inspiring Where the Wild Things Are fan art. (No, not that kind of fan art.) You may know by now that I adore stories that inspire things which could be considered even more magnificent than the original work. I'm sure this is but a sampling.

Home of the Underdogs is back! ...In... many forms. Ah, internet drama. I continue to support keeping old games alive, through any means necessary.

More video game burlesque. But not nearly enough.

Article linked to for one very specific reason. Namely, the love box. "Kojima also went into some details about the game, saying that it features 'completely different...action than what has appeared in the series so far.' That new action includes what Kojima is calling 'The Love Box,' the cardboard box that two characters can hide underneath as seen in the Peace Walker trailer during E3." Kojima... well done.

Because I know I have MYST fans here, I wanted to share this article on Riven. I want to play it, I do. But I don't think I can manage that much patience. *grin* Suppose I should dig out the book and such and find someone who will.

And 'cause I just like the game, even if it's not much of a game. Little Wheel.
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Jun. 14th, 2009 @ 05:42 pm Want Some of This?
Hey, does anyone want any of these (ancient) games someone please take fucking Iron Sword away? All in working, undamaged/unscratched but slightly discolored from age condition.) Let's see here, we've got:
  • Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick - I love me some Evil Dead and I love me some Ash action, but the game and I never got along. - HOLD
  • Katamari Damacy - I am the only person in the world to not care about this game at all. - HOLD
  • Jak & Daxter - It was fun, I liked it! ...But I will never play this again. - HOLD
  • Iron Sword - Oh god I hate this game so much. ...We are old enemies.
  • EXCITEBIKE - Duuuude. But again, never play it.
  • Gun Smoke - I will not even touch this. I know these games and their frustrations.
  • Rad Racer - It gets old fast... but it is a classic. Heh.
  • Fester's Quest - Honestly fun, but frustrating. Another "will never play again". - HOLD
Or a working PS1 with controllers and power cord (could not find the extra AV cable anywhere, dammit)? I ask only the cost of shipping, or enough shiny things to cover shipping. Whatever you guys don't want is going directly to X-Cult at the end of the week... whether they want it or not.

And if anyone wants a full, boxed, barely used, all bells and whistles and disks and booklets (and dongle--hee, "dongle") included Emagic Logic 6 set, dude make an offer. It's a great program but I just don't use it and it takes up a surprisingly large amount of space due to all of the goddamn boxes it comes in. Too much of a shame to let a professional program go to waste if friends want it. ...Don't make me put it on Ebay, people.

So I spent my morning cleaning out the video game cabinet. Ugh. At least that's done. This right here is the vile thing that started it all. *grin* My old yellowed NES system. Still works. Still has the original controllers, light gun, power cord... and I still have my Super Mario Brothers/Duck Hunt and The Legend of Zelda carts. Gotta get me a power glove one of these days, though. They're sexy. *grin*

And because I've joked about it before, I quite literally do not take Ocarina of Time out of my N64. It's probably permanently stuck in there now. Doesn't matter, because I have no other N64 games. ...I do want to get hold of Yoshi's Story eventually, though.

As I was cleaning, I asked the wasband about those NES games (they're his from "way back when"), and he relinquished ownership of all video game "stuff" to me. "Mine." I said immediately of the PS2 and N64, which technically we bought as joint ventures. I guess he's one of those jaded former gamers now. Scary. But the point is, they're all mine now. I'm seeing no down side.

There is always, always more. But I will save it for another time.
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Jun. 12th, 2009 @ 07:33 pm Some Things and... Stuff

  • I figured we'd start off with a red chocobo again, so here's Ranen.
  • And then I bought these beads specifically for this purpose: Meteor pendants. Because I am nuts. And love the shiny.
Three little words (and a picture) that made me laugh: redneck fire alarm.

It's not until I watch Muppet Show clips that I realize where a good deal of my sense of humor comes from. (Pay special attention to "The Jekyll and Hyde Potion" clip. That kind of explains everything, doesn't it?)

And Beaker gets a Webby for one of the best videos ever. Granted it's not as good as the Muppet Rickroll, but it's close.

Of course there's nothing quite like Alice Cooper's appearance on The Muppet Show (Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3).

Oh Jim, how we miss you. And probably embarrass the hell out of you by calling you one of our biggest influences.
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Jun. 11th, 2009 @ 03:28 pm Recipes of Much Evil
Peanut Butter and Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake Caramel Cheesecake Pie recipe! )

But you know what else would be kickass with this?

My Death By Chocolate--No, Really, This Will Kill You--Whipped Cream. )Just 'cause. I used to cook all the time, y'know.

If anything is unclear, let me know. I'm so... not used to writing anything down.

And experiment! There's plenty to be added and replaced. Butterscotch might be an interesting replacement for caramel, for instance... No I don't need to do any more thinking on this.
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Demyx
Jun. 9th, 2009 @ 02:55 pm It's Good Old-Fashioned Toy Mini-Review!
Anyone who knows about my obsession with KH2's FUCKING TRUCK should appreciate this.

The FUCKING TRUCK blocking the FUCKING SHOULD-BE-AN-EXIT in The World That Never Was is not Optimus Prime, as some very cruel bastards people have told me. It is, in fact, Mickey Mouse. )
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Jun. 8th, 2009 @ 05:01 pm The Ultimate in Treats
I present to you all the OrgLIX-inspired Peanut Butter and Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake Caramel Cheesecake Pie! ON YOUR KNEES, XEMNAS! I WANT YOU TO BEG--oh, wait. Wrong fandom. Well fuck. ...Have some pie.

``That looks like sin incarnate.`` )
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Ur Souleater
Jun. 7th, 2009 @ 06:49 pm Totally Random Link Dump
[info]crisis_hardcore has 500 members! So I wrote an Angeal/Zack drabble. Now you guys write things. C'mon.

This "next Zelda for Wii" concept art is driving me nuts... I wanna know more, dammit. STOP LEARNING FROM NOMURA, MIYAMOTO. Though at this point I think the Zelda series really did lose me after Ocarina of Time. Through no fault of its own, I suppose. Though yes, I will continue to be bitter about nothing from the original Twilight Princess trailer making it into the actual game. Seriously, that has to be a record. In a bad way.

Oh Bayonetta, how I do want to indulge... Not that there is a replacement for Dante. ........But, you know. While I'm waiting.

Home Taping Didn't Kill Music explores some of the initial claims about piracy. Just an interesting, short read to think about it all.

The gaming industry needs more fucked up people. *RAISES HAND* PICK ME!

Because there is no better way to describe this than the I09 article's title, "The Weird Surfaces Of Undersea Life, In Crochet And Plastic Trash". Cooooool.

Geek crafters are truly the best kinds of crafters. Especially when tauntauns are involved.

I know most people will just find this revolting, but... there is an odd kind of beauty to slime molds. No, really. See here if you don't believe me. They're also fascinating/creepy as hell/out to kill us all. Scroll all the way down to the comments to read about them.

The ex-executive producer of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles uses humor to cope with the show's cancellation. ...I think I enjoyed this too much. And admittedly I never saw one episode of the show, so maybe I should do that sometime. I guess.

Offline only exists as a trailer now, but you all know how much I get off on the concept of the differences/similarities between man and machine. "When a man's mind becomes one with a machine... what happens to his soul?" Dude, I don't know but I want to find out.

One of the best things ever is the Pee-Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special. Because of a naming error, the YouTube playlist doesn't quite work right, so here it is listed correctly:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Oh my god it still makes me laugh in so many wrong and wonderful ways.
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