Yes, yes, yes, I confess... I'm a nut. I think I've already confessed to that. I'm a project nut. I have like a million projects going on. I'm re-tagging my music library, I'm doing my 15 minute sessions, my 4 hour sessions, my "movies i should have seen that I didn't", my trophy hunting, my trope hunting, my yaoi cook book, my writing, reading, gaming, Disney comparisons... Projects that never seem to get off the ground, and if they do they get just a few inches over the ground and then just hovers there, quite uselessly. But I WILL get cracking, I promise.
Once upon a long, long time ago, in August 2012, I believe, just after starting this blog, I thought I had this pinned. I made a plan. Didn't stick to it. I suppose I don't have the discipline. I don't even blog every day. But then again, discipline. That I lack.
I have another confession to make: I'm impressionable. If I read something I tend to take on the same tone in my writing. Or if I watch certain videos, especially on a certain webpage with a number of movie critics that I really like. If I ever come into a larger sum of money, I'm pouring part of over you, guys, just so you know.
So, status update om my projects:
I HATE you, Buck-Tick! To many singles, and my music tag program doesn't recognize them, so its slow as hell. I BLAME YOU!
My 15-minute sessions are.... going.... slow, but then it's mostly just that everyday stuff, cleaning, exercising, planning of the meals and money and stuff. I get distracted, mostly bu this hellish thing called computer.
My 4-hour sessions, which is me playing video games and watching movies and TV-series, is going slow, too. I'm supposed to be playing a game, buuut, I get distracted. By OTHER GAMES! I was playing Ni no Kuni, but then ME Citadel landed, and I got distracted.
My "movies I should have seen" is a little better off, as I started, well, I did start on new years, but then I just did one for 2012. My new project is to check up all the movies that came out on a particular month. Space it out a bit. I'm working on January 1985-2009. Gotta try to catch up to April. I'm getting on that after I finished here.
Trophy hunting, didn't even start, but I will.
Trope hunting... well, I'm doing trope hunting on the Final Fantasy characters, backwards, I'll have to tell. Guess how far I got. Final Fantasy XIII. Not finished. I have Hope and Fang left. So, yeah, slow.
Yaoi cook book, I have one recipe done, I'll post it next week.
Writing.... *stares at pile of notebooks*......
Reading, I have done a lot, finished the Nightrunner series yesterday, re-read Passion, going to check my update status on Goodreads. I haven't updated that for a while.
Gaming, well, that goes hand in hand with trophy hunting, I guess.
Disney comparison project... I like this project, even f it's slow going. It's coming up here one day, I just have to finish editing and stuff. Hopefully I get to post the videos, if not... we'll see.
All in all. I'm slow. Some would argue that I spread myself to thin, but if I didn't, I would get bored. Some might argue that I got ADD, but I don't. I've checked.
Showing posts with label game project. Show all posts
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Let's play... project: Preamble
So, I'm starting my huge Game Nerd Project today by starting a new local account on my Xbox 360 and planning for my Dragon Age Origins adventure. Not like it's a new adventure or anything, I've played it maybe a.... trillion times? I think... Anywho... Before i do get down and dirty in Ferelden, I thought about saying something about gaming in general. This desire was further fueled when i stumbled upon a forum thread at a Swedish forum targeted at families and all that goes with having one. It's an old discussion, one I have reacted upon in the past. My reaction? GAMES ARE NOT JUST FOR KIDS! Honestly, knowing what it is, especially now-a-days, with the blood and the gore and the maiming of people, and general realism of almost all genres, not only the horror one, would you put your 5-year-old in front of Mortal Kombat? Or Silent Hill, which is really scary? Or Resident Evil? If you would, that's okay. Because if you do, or consider doing that, i take for granted you know WHAT IT IS! Don't come crying to me if you get shocked, do the research. Don't know a title? CHECK IT UP! Don't just go and buy it and let your kid play without you knowing what it is and what consequences it will have on your kid. I don't know your kid, so i don't know what scares him or her. I'm all for kids playing video games. Handled the right way, it's great that kids play, they learn a lot. Solving puzzles and action-reaction and consequence thinking can really be enhanced. So I'm not against kids playing, i just think parents should be aware of what they let their kids play. And play with them, god knows how many great bonding sessions i had with my mother over some Mario way back when. So get going. Play a video game with your kids. Just know what it is you're playing. And test your limits, and your kids. That last game a delightful kiddies romp through the forests with a cartoon character? Good. Now you have the option of getting more of the same, or trying something darker and heavier. Try it, go ahead. Too much for your kid? YOU CAN ALWAYS GO BACK! Maybe the darker game is for next month, or next year. Or never. As long as you take it slow, do it WITH the kids and take the time to TALK, TALK, TALK with the kids about their experience, you will have some of the best time with them.
So let me talk a little about my own childhood gaming experience. Now, I grew up in a picket fence kind of place, close to the capital yet not really at the rich end of the scale. The Swedish term "Medelsvensson" would probably apply, though I don't like the term. Fact is, sometimes we were poor, sometimes we were "rich", but somehow we could always afford games. My first ever game memory was my ototo's 4th birthday, I was then 6, and he got a Nintendo for birthday. A classic NES, with a Super Mario Bros. 3 along with it. Now, neither console or game was new, per se, they had both been on the market for a few years. Guess what? My brother REFUSED to play. Gaming wasn't really new to either of us, we had older friends that played, and we had both played Mario before. Still, he wouldn't play for months. Mom tried to coax him into playing, but finally gave up. Instead I was allows to put my little hands on the game, me and my mom played in 2-p mode, alternating between Mario and Luigi. Was it every other time, or until one player died, or....? I don't remember, it was so long ago. Must i say my brother eventually came to play too? Of course he did. Since then, I think we've owned every game console easily available on the Swedish market, each giving me memories I treasure. With the exception of Sega, maybe because back then you either had a Nintendo or a Sega. And because my parents decided on what to buy, or I would have had Sega as well.
So, what were my favorite games for each console i owned? Hard to tell. But the ones i remember go something like this:
NES: Super Mario Bros. 3 (Duh!) MetaCritic score: Actually, there doesn't seem to exist one, maybe its to old. Gamespot.com User Score was 9,3/10 anyway.
SNES: ActRaiser! Oh, old gem, how I struggled with you. Took me maybe a month to clear that first level. MetaCritic score: Still, none. I have the theory anything before 2000 is too old. Gamespot.com UserScore: 8,5/10. I played good games in the early 1990's.
GameBoy: We did have a GameBoy, but i don't think I played it all that much. I don't remember playing it.
N64: Super Mario 64! What else? 3D and all. Wow, I tell you! Wow! One of my many "Wow" moments in gaming. MetaCritic Score: 94! I'm impressed, both at the score and the fact it had one. Though it might be on the re-release for the NintendoDS 3D. Honorable mention: Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. One of the coolest games ever. Link was one of my first Game Crushes. And now, well, since after playing that game, I too play the Ocarina.
PlayStation: Mmmmm..... Let me think....... FINAL FANTASY VII. The most AWSOME game of the 1990's. And I got it for my birthday. I am my mother ever grateful for this. And yes, a lot of yaoi has come out of that game, from my ever-so-.screwed-up mind. MetaCritic Score: 92.
GameBoy Color: The only memory of GameBoy Color i have is that my ototo played Pokémon on it. I didn't. I wasn't all that impressed with it. It was fun and addictive while you played, but not memorable. And I barely got to play, because he would always monopolize it.
Nintendo GameCube: For me an odd choice, because i was never a sports fan: 1080* Avalanche Snowboard game. I love snowboarding... GameCube kind of came and went. Except for the Mario Party games and LoZ: Wind Waker, I don't remember having ANY games for this console. MetaCritic Score for 1080* Avalanche: 73
PlayStation 2: Hmmm.... tough choice. I think I will go with Kingdom Hearts. The first one. Mixnig Disney and Final Fantasy sounds like a recipe for disaster, but it really wasn't. MetaCritic Score: 85 Honorary Mentions: Final Fantasy X and XII (yes, I do like them, sry), Yakuza 1 and 2, and a bunch of others...
Xbox: Oh, my.... let's see..... all of the BioWare games... Actually, that's it! All of the BioWare Games.... all like... 2 of them. I swear, time goes by so fast, I had to check so the games I thought was on Xbox wasn't for 360. Was the original Mass Effect for Xbox? No! It was for 360! Is it that the 360 is that old? I think so. Anywho, my favorite game for the Xbox was Star Wars The Knights of the Old Republic. Star Wars + pre-movie story (really, really pre-movie story) + BioWare.... What can go wrong? MetaCritic Score: 94 Honorary Mention: Lord of the Rings The Third Age. It was a really good fun little adventure through Middle Earth, with the fellowship in the background and another fellowship in the foreground. It's weird no one dares touch that mythology and make something of it. Or maybe they only remember the Lord of the Rings books....
Anyway, that was my extremely long ramble on one of my favorite topics. Later I will post my first session of playing Dragon Age Origins..... now, all i gotta do is decide how to play it...
So let me talk a little about my own childhood gaming experience. Now, I grew up in a picket fence kind of place, close to the capital yet not really at the rich end of the scale. The Swedish term "Medelsvensson" would probably apply, though I don't like the term. Fact is, sometimes we were poor, sometimes we were "rich", but somehow we could always afford games. My first ever game memory was my ototo's 4th birthday, I was then 6, and he got a Nintendo for birthday. A classic NES, with a Super Mario Bros. 3 along with it. Now, neither console or game was new, per se, they had both been on the market for a few years. Guess what? My brother REFUSED to play. Gaming wasn't really new to either of us, we had older friends that played, and we had both played Mario before. Still, he wouldn't play for months. Mom tried to coax him into playing, but finally gave up. Instead I was allows to put my little hands on the game, me and my mom played in 2-p mode, alternating between Mario and Luigi. Was it every other time, or until one player died, or....? I don't remember, it was so long ago. Must i say my brother eventually came to play too? Of course he did. Since then, I think we've owned every game console easily available on the Swedish market, each giving me memories I treasure. With the exception of Sega, maybe because back then you either had a Nintendo or a Sega. And because my parents decided on what to buy, or I would have had Sega as well.
So, what were my favorite games for each console i owned? Hard to tell. But the ones i remember go something like this:
NES: Super Mario Bros. 3 (Duh!) MetaCritic score: Actually, there doesn't seem to exist one, maybe its to old. Gamespot.com User Score was 9,3/10 anyway.SNES: ActRaiser! Oh, old gem, how I struggled with you. Took me maybe a month to clear that first level. MetaCritic score: Still, none. I have the theory anything before 2000 is too old. Gamespot.com UserScore: 8,5/10. I played good games in the early 1990's.
GameBoy: We did have a GameBoy, but i don't think I played it all that much. I don't remember playing it.
N64: Super Mario 64! What else? 3D and all. Wow, I tell you! Wow! One of my many "Wow" moments in gaming. MetaCritic Score: 94! I'm impressed, both at the score and the fact it had one. Though it might be on the re-release for the NintendoDS 3D. Honorable mention: Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. One of the coolest games ever. Link was one of my first Game Crushes. And now, well, since after playing that game, I too play the Ocarina.
PlayStation: Mmmmm..... Let me think....... FINAL FANTASY VII. The most AWSOME game of the 1990's. And I got it for my birthday. I am my mother ever grateful for this. And yes, a lot of yaoi has come out of that game, from my ever-so-.screwed-up mind. MetaCritic Score: 92.GameBoy Color: The only memory of GameBoy Color i have is that my ototo played Pokémon on it. I didn't. I wasn't all that impressed with it. It was fun and addictive while you played, but not memorable. And I barely got to play, because he would always monopolize it.
Nintendo GameCube: For me an odd choice, because i was never a sports fan: 1080* Avalanche Snowboard game. I love snowboarding... GameCube kind of came and went. Except for the Mario Party games and LoZ: Wind Waker, I don't remember having ANY games for this console. MetaCritic Score for 1080* Avalanche: 73
PlayStation 2: Hmmm.... tough choice. I think I will go with Kingdom Hearts. The first one. Mixnig Disney and Final Fantasy sounds like a recipe for disaster, but it really wasn't. MetaCritic Score: 85 Honorary Mentions: Final Fantasy X and XII (yes, I do like them, sry), Yakuza 1 and 2, and a bunch of others...
Xbox: Oh, my.... let's see..... all of the BioWare games... Actually, that's it! All of the BioWare Games.... all like... 2 of them. I swear, time goes by so fast, I had to check so the games I thought was on Xbox wasn't for 360. Was the original Mass Effect for Xbox? No! It was for 360! Is it that the 360 is that old? I think so. Anywho, my favorite game for the Xbox was Star Wars The Knights of the Old Republic. Star Wars + pre-movie story (really, really pre-movie story) + BioWare.... What can go wrong? MetaCritic Score: 94 Honorary Mention: Lord of the Rings The Third Age. It was a really good fun little adventure through Middle Earth, with the fellowship in the background and another fellowship in the foreground. It's weird no one dares touch that mythology and make something of it. Or maybe they only remember the Lord of the Rings books....
Anyway, that was my extremely long ramble on one of my favorite topics. Later I will post my first session of playing Dragon Age Origins..... now, all i gotta do is decide how to play it...
Monday, August 13, 2012
Confessions of a Female Otaku....
Yeah, yeah, yeah..... I confess....
1: I'm not a blogger. I hate blogging. Ok, HATE is such a strong word, but still. I'm just not good at it. Which is probably why this blog hasn't had any update in like a month. I mean, what do people blog about anyway? To me, it seems like the blog topics, at least for women, are clothes and feelings and clothes and family and clothes and children and clothes and food and clothes and the occasional movie review and clothes.... ok, fashion....Me, I hate clothes, uh, I mean, fashion, clothing stores, even on the internet, gives me panic attacks. I cant blog about children and family, cause I have none of those, all I really have is my ototo and onee-chan (honorary family member), and a very small number of friends that are busy with lives of their own. And feelings, well.... I've never kept a diary, EVER! I hate writing about my own feelings, maybe because all I ever dealt with was my parents feelings about my mother getting breast cancer when I was eight. Don't take me wrong, I love my mother. She died waaaay to young. Food.... well, everyone needs food... so, maybe some food blogging... yaoi-related, of course. Is it just me, or are people in manga always eating? Or talking about food, or cooking? Movies.... ok, I'm not a movie critic.... usually, I like movies others hate, or at least dislike. For example, take a look at the movies that got a 10 from me at the big great database... (In no perticular order): Fanny och Alexander, The Fellowship of the Ring, Schindler's List, Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi, The Lion King, The Return of the King, The Green Mile, Beauty and the Beast, Rosemary's baby. Inconsistent? Very. Good movies? Very. All deserving a ten? According to the sites rating, no.... closest we get is Schindler's List and The Return of the King with an 8,9 tie, Closely followed by the Fellowship at 8.8. Honorary big fail mention: Queen of the Damned which I gave a 3.... and the audience: 4,9. My rating movies seems to be in the 6-10 span rather than 1-10.... I gave Bambi 2 an 8 for heavens sake... something is wrong with me.... Also, I have a hard time focusing on the movie itself, as I am one to Loooove source material and side material. and for that reason, i actually happen to kinda like the Star Wars Episode 1 movie. So, shoot me! I see where they're coming from and what they're going for, because i read all the books around the move. I even read the book The Phantom Menace. Sure, it was written with screen play in hand, but in my humble opinion, Terry Brooks did a good job with it.Ok, ok, ranting movies.... moving on....
2: This is supposed to be a fan fiction yaoi blog, but you know what? Well see what happens with that. Fact is, I write by HAND in a NOTEBOOK..... ok, like 20 notebooks, but whatever. I simply think better when lying in bed at two in the morning, wonder what time it is and why I'm not sleeping yet. Same way i take my books, thank you very much. So having too write things twice.... meh! Maybe, well see... But I'm always thinking about doing it. Yeah, I hear you! "Why not just write on the computer, you obviously have one." Well, the reason for that is that IT'S NOT A LAPTOP! I cant have my stationary computer in bed with me, too cumbersome. I am thinking about buying a laptop for the soul purpose of writing on it, but that seems like an unnecessary cost, especially when one's not as rich as one wishes.
3: I'm a nerd... Ok, that we already knew.... let's see.... Oh, yes! I AM NOT A BLOGGER! And on top of that, I have no sense of aesthetics. This will never be a pretty blog, unless someone takes pity on me and helps me out. And that's not likely to happen. EVER! *Cries a little.* Anywho, I guess it is what it is. I don't really care anymore. I've surrendered to the fact that i can barely draw a stick figure, but that's it. That's where my skills in the fine arts end. I can write and I can sing *she confessed reluctantly*, but that's it.I FAILED art class when I was in school (Swedish equivalent to junior high). I mean... who FAILS art? Honestly? Ok, there was this whole other thing going on in my life making me not care, but WTF, if you excuse the language. So, now you know why this blog looks like it does.... and yea, I also have no camera, not even on my cell phone, cause that phone is from the last millennium. I'm not kidding. It's from 1999.... or 2003, but still!
Now I'm done ranting. I'm going to kick of my two big new projects that are probably going to last for a year or so, IF I really do it. I'm going to do my very own "Let's play..." series with the crap video games others has already done... but through the eyes of a girly yaoi otaku of course. First out: Dragon Age! All of them.... Secondly, and this I have been on a while, making VERY slow process: I'm going to read EVERY SINGLE book I own. Even the once I inherited from my grand-mom. Even the once I inherited from my grand-mom that are in Hungarian! Nah, skip those, it's mostly tourist book over museums that don't exist anymore anyway. The 1960's come and gone loooong ago.... I wasn't even born then. First out among those? I have NO IDEA, we'll see once I've blogged about the once I've already read.
And in the immortal words of Pippi Longstocking: Please leave now. If you don't go home today, you can't come back tomorrow.
1: I'm not a blogger. I hate blogging. Ok, HATE is such a strong word, but still. I'm just not good at it. Which is probably why this blog hasn't had any update in like a month. I mean, what do people blog about anyway? To me, it seems like the blog topics, at least for women, are clothes and feelings and clothes and family and clothes and children and clothes and food and clothes and the occasional movie review and clothes.... ok, fashion....Me, I hate clothes, uh, I mean, fashion, clothing stores, even on the internet, gives me panic attacks. I cant blog about children and family, cause I have none of those, all I really have is my ototo and onee-chan (honorary family member), and a very small number of friends that are busy with lives of their own. And feelings, well.... I've never kept a diary, EVER! I hate writing about my own feelings, maybe because all I ever dealt with was my parents feelings about my mother getting breast cancer when I was eight. Don't take me wrong, I love my mother. She died waaaay to young. Food.... well, everyone needs food... so, maybe some food blogging... yaoi-related, of course. Is it just me, or are people in manga always eating? Or talking about food, or cooking? Movies.... ok, I'm not a movie critic.... usually, I like movies others hate, or at least dislike. For example, take a look at the movies that got a 10 from me at the big great database... (In no perticular order): Fanny och Alexander, The Fellowship of the Ring, Schindler's List, Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi, The Lion King, The Return of the King, The Green Mile, Beauty and the Beast, Rosemary's baby. Inconsistent? Very. Good movies? Very. All deserving a ten? According to the sites rating, no.... closest we get is Schindler's List and The Return of the King with an 8,9 tie, Closely followed by the Fellowship at 8.8. Honorary big fail mention: Queen of the Damned which I gave a 3.... and the audience: 4,9. My rating movies seems to be in the 6-10 span rather than 1-10.... I gave Bambi 2 an 8 for heavens sake... something is wrong with me.... Also, I have a hard time focusing on the movie itself, as I am one to Loooove source material and side material. and for that reason, i actually happen to kinda like the Star Wars Episode 1 movie. So, shoot me! I see where they're coming from and what they're going for, because i read all the books around the move. I even read the book The Phantom Menace. Sure, it was written with screen play in hand, but in my humble opinion, Terry Brooks did a good job with it.Ok, ok, ranting movies.... moving on....
2: This is supposed to be a fan fiction yaoi blog, but you know what? Well see what happens with that. Fact is, I write by HAND in a NOTEBOOK..... ok, like 20 notebooks, but whatever. I simply think better when lying in bed at two in the morning, wonder what time it is and why I'm not sleeping yet. Same way i take my books, thank you very much. So having too write things twice.... meh! Maybe, well see... But I'm always thinking about doing it. Yeah, I hear you! "Why not just write on the computer, you obviously have one." Well, the reason for that is that IT'S NOT A LAPTOP! I cant have my stationary computer in bed with me, too cumbersome. I am thinking about buying a laptop for the soul purpose of writing on it, but that seems like an unnecessary cost, especially when one's not as rich as one wishes.
3: I'm a nerd... Ok, that we already knew.... let's see.... Oh, yes! I AM NOT A BLOGGER! And on top of that, I have no sense of aesthetics. This will never be a pretty blog, unless someone takes pity on me and helps me out. And that's not likely to happen. EVER! *Cries a little.* Anywho, I guess it is what it is. I don't really care anymore. I've surrendered to the fact that i can barely draw a stick figure, but that's it. That's where my skills in the fine arts end. I can write and I can sing *she confessed reluctantly*, but that's it.I FAILED art class when I was in school (Swedish equivalent to junior high). I mean... who FAILS art? Honestly? Ok, there was this whole other thing going on in my life making me not care, but WTF, if you excuse the language. So, now you know why this blog looks like it does.... and yea, I also have no camera, not even on my cell phone, cause that phone is from the last millennium. I'm not kidding. It's from 1999.... or 2003, but still!
Now I'm done ranting. I'm going to kick of my two big new projects that are probably going to last for a year or so, IF I really do it. I'm going to do my very own "Let's play..." series with the crap video games others has already done... but through the eyes of a girly yaoi otaku of course. First out: Dragon Age! All of them.... Secondly, and this I have been on a while, making VERY slow process: I'm going to read EVERY SINGLE book I own. Even the once I inherited from my grand-mom. Even the once I inherited from my grand-mom that are in Hungarian! Nah, skip those, it's mostly tourist book over museums that don't exist anymore anyway. The 1960's come and gone loooong ago.... I wasn't even born then. First out among those? I have NO IDEA, we'll see once I've blogged about the once I've already read.
And in the immortal words of Pippi Longstocking: Please leave now. If you don't go home today, you can't come back tomorrow.
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