Life

[sorcyress]

So, yesterday was a lot of fun, and pretty much all really spectacular, except for pissing Veronica off. I'm sorry dear, I didn't mean to yell at you. >.<

Woke up far too early in order to harass Flinx. This time, Aly came along with me. The three of us wound up playing a brilliant game of 1KBWC. The last card played (by me, of course) goes as follows:

"Hurts my head like math"
Take all cards with a number on them and remove them from the game.

This was....all but maybe a dozen cards. It rocked. Aly won though, she had the Z card-you get x + y points. Wench.

After that was malling. I got to get in a LOVELY bit of conversation with Flinx, and learned that he's still a Rocky Horror virgin! Mea nd Jaimee have decided that we need to fix that.

Bought some earings at claires. I now have a gift card with a total balance of $0.02. Gnarr.

Went home and cleaned, and sulked, and yelled at people for being argumentive (I can't stand it...I really can't. I love my sibling both dearly, but the second you assign the two of them to do the same chore...Grr!!)

Then Spyro, which I have been playing. I'm properly anal about it-I have 100% on every level I've done. This included doing that first flying level something like four dozen times until I could get everything...I was so proud when I made it, too.

I really really like Spyro. It is exactly my kind of game, what with the things to puzzle out, and the set goal- you know when you can get 100%, and it tells you how many gems or dragons there are in a level. And it's *fun*

And puzzling things out? That rocks. I feel proud when I figure the hard ones out, like that stupid jump twisty glide you had to do. Aig. That took forever.

Babysitting...Koob was a doll, as usual. He had an INCREDIBLE amount of energy, more then usual. I wound up outside with him for a LOT of swinging for nearly an hour. I finally just dragged him up and let him run around on the porch for a while since I just couldn't chase him anymore. Video, and then he CRASHED! It was really cute. I love the little monkey.

And DUDE! I can't remember if I babbled about it in here or not, but I got to hold a skull! A real one, from a human!! It was SO NEAT!

Her name is Glynda, and she is ednoria's. She's AWESOME.

From babysitting, to the bar, and assorted other important chats, such as with Thorog or with the Master of Bad Timing. I have something like four pictures to draw for dares, since everyone kept calling on me. I must be popular or something. :p So you lot will be seeing another art update fairly soon, methinks.

Including embaressing pictures of me! Yay for those!! I think I need to do one of my pretty pretty ballarina ones, although mom stumbled across a fairy princess picture of me. Really, embaressing pics of me aren't that hard to find. I was the first child, so mom took a TON of pictures, and I was SUCH a girly-girl, so theres a lot of pink and dresses and barbie pictures of me. Greeeeeeat.

I think I've run out of things to talk about.

Well, ok, no I haven't. But it's none of your buisness, so nyah.

That is all.

~Sor
MOOP!

NTS: Things to do this weekend:
Grandpa's birthday party today
Sam and Liana's wedding tomorrow
Read Nathan's novel at some point
Draw the Kilt war pic
Draw the Z/Z pic
Draw the non-graphic R/H pic (Hey...'member, I'm not 18 yet. I shouldn't be looking at...that kind of picture, much less drawing it. Plus, I know it'll piss off Reth and Hyde if I say that. :D)
Find/scan embaressing pictures

I think thats everything...

Comments

[sennen-cuff.livejournal.com]

*sighes* Why do I always come too late to talk to you?

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

Because the world hates you!

~Sor

[macaroniandtuna.livejournal.com]

The Spyro games are such good games. I've never played the first one, I don't think, but I love the second and third. At times they get very hard, and (just as a note) you can't always get 100% for each level the first time you go in (sometimes you need a power that you can't get until later in the game, so you have to go back in later to finish the level). They're amazingly good games. Most of my favorite video games were on the original Playstation.

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

Bah on you! I have gotten 100% on every level that I've entered, thus far!

It might be different in the second and third. I don't remember.

~Sor

[macaroniandtuna.livejournal.com]

::Sigh::...always with the bah on me. Like I said, I don't think I've ever played the first game. The first game in series are usually simpler than the later ones, so it makes perfect sense that in the second and third you have to go back into levels a second time after you've gotten some power or other in order to 100% them all.

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

Yes but...

*sighs* Fine. I take it back. uoy no hab.

~Sor

[macaroniandtuna.livejournal.com]

Good. Thank you. :)

[astaereth.livejournal.com]

The first game is one of the finest games ever created. The second and third, while technically more accomplished and complicated, are more conventional games. There are characters and they talk and have voices and there's a more complex story and you play as different people and have tasks...
The original Spyro game, however, was entirely without such trappings. You played as the dragon, there was very little talking or plot, and the feel of the game was exquisitely lonely. The beautiful and often haunting music complimented the levels devoid of sentient life, the simplicity of gem collection, and your silent persona. The skies stretched on forever, and you got to fly at the end--not because it was important to the story, but because that's what dragons do in order to be triumphantly dragons.

The Game Boy games are horrible because they are far too small and the perspective is fixed and wrong. There was no joy in exploring in them.

The next-gen Spyro, Year of the Dragon, was utter shit. The graphics were actually worse than the PS1 titles, there was slowdown and freezing and other bugs, the storyline was confusing, the gameplay was fractured, and the idea of different elemental dragon breaths was stupid.

I recently played the first level of the latest game, A Hero's Tail. It is definitely better than Year of the Dragon--the actual graphics look better (although still not as crisp and imaginative as the original trilogy's) and there aren't many glitches. The main reason I didn't like it was that the gems were infinite. What's the point of Spyro if you're not collecting gems? Instead, they were just used for money, and that system was pretty dumb as well. Again, the story was pointless--the first boss was supposed to be Gnasty Gnorc, except it wasn't. And it was dumb. I was severely disappointed.

I think I'll go back and buy that three-pack of the PS1 Spyros. Yeah.

[macaroniandtuna.livejournal.com]

Hmm....I thought Year of the Dragon was the 3rd game on PS1 (I'm not sure, it's been a while since I've played them)? And I wasn't aware they ever made any Spyro games for anything other than PS1. I don't doubt that those games were awful, just as the non-PS1 Crash Bandicoot games were.

[artemisfowl2nd.livejournal.com]

Year of the Dragon is the last truely good Spyro game -- the third (to complete the trilogy)

As far as I'm concerned, Enter the Dragonfly and Hero's Tail don't exist.

[miriampenguin.livejournal.com]

What is this 1KBWC game? It sounds fun.

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

Find the rules HERE

It's a LOT of fun.

~Sor