Wii is what you do when your bladder is full!

I want a date, not a name.

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Olaf had a pretty messy session last Thursday. There were only four players, so we could get the speed on, and we did manage to survive a battle with a group that should have been too strong for us because they had a Steamjack that they weren't able to control. It spent more time beating up the other team than it did fighting us. I did get some bad wounds, though, as I was for some reason taking some more risks than I would have had we been in a larger group (there was less of a shield before me). Now, we're trying to salvage the steamjack that landed in the sewers after having a heavy object fall on top of it. You see, the area (inside an old factory) wasn't quite as stable as we had hoped.

Anyway, that's where we left off. I'll be missing next session, though, due to work.

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I want a date, not a name!

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Today is Queen's day here, which means that, starting the previous night (i.e. yesterday), there's a lot of stuff going on around the country. One of those things that always happens is flea markets. My mum, her husband, and my sis and her bf went, and I joined them. All I found that was really worth anything, though, was an old 2-player Tetris board game. Not really worth the bother this year, all in all.

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GIVE ME A DATE!

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Today, for the first time in a real long time, I spent the whole afternoon at the VG-store. At first, there was no-one there, but as time went by, more and more people joined, and in the end, there were six of us hanging out there. It's been a while since I last did that, but it sure was good to be able to just take the whole day again. I wonder when the next time will be that I have that much time.

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Wii.

What's in a name? This is all the news we had, and it's been keeping people busy. I've seen a lot of people complain. And why, I ask. Because of the name? Are you kidding me? They can call it the Nintendo Shitpile for all I care, as long as the games are good. I don't really care about names anyway. All I want to know is a DATE, for heaven's sake! Come on, tell me, when is it being released in Japan? Tell me tell me tell me tell me tell me!!! I refuse to get any more excited about this untill I get my greedy hands on this baby. I won't praise it any more untill I can swing around the controller. In fact, once I do get my hands on it, I wouldn't expect a post here for a short while, as I might suddenly be busy.

But please, give me a date, a list of launch titles, and a price. I want to know how far along I am, how long I must wait, and what I'll be playing first generation.

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Nook is expanding again tomorrow in AC:WW. If I'm not much mistaken, it's going to be the last upgrade. Good. I'll still be receiving my Lovely Kitchen, though, so it's fine. I'll just have to do without selling stuff tomorrow. Ah well.

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Have I told you I need a date yet?

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See ya!

Enter random fecal joke here.

Hmmm... The dashboard puts my post-count at 256 (which includes some unpublished, edited pieces, but still), and in fact, I would find it a shame do undo a number that beautiful.

Alas, although it pains my heart to do just that, it would seem the incessant flow of time leaves me no other option. So it saddens me to say goodbye to 256, but it is with sheer happiness that I start upon my journey towards 512. Let's all hope it will be a nice one.

Although I'll probably try to make something out of the 256th post actually published too, but that is a thing of the future (I'll have to figure out the number of unpublished in this place).

Where do we go from here? I don't know. In fact, I really don't know what this post should include. I feel bad for the level of info you've been getting from me lately, but most of my inspirational thoughts have been going towards other ends recently, and even as I'm writing this, I'm thinking I'd rather be aiming it at that target right now.

Which means that, once more, I'll be leaving you for the day rather unsatisfied. I won't be here tomorrow, obviously, and I'm as of yet unsure of Friday night. So as I leave you with an uncertain future, all I can say is:

See ya!

Peppered Eggs

Yay! Two days straight!

Next week is the fair, so work has stepped up a gear again. If you consider the fact that there will be two holidays in the week of the fair (technically, the first is in the weekend prior to, but hey), you can imagine it might just bring an extra handicap in some people celebrating for a bit.

Next up, my mom planned a blo-karting thingy on the same day as Bart was supposed to have his next session. Too bad, that.

Otherwise, well, not too much happened today. I've been busy for a decent portion of the evening, and will probably continue to be busy after I'm done writing this, but judging by my current level of fatigue (have you noticed my lousy English for the day?), it might not be quite as long as usual.

And while I have your attention, I would like to point out to you that the Sun does not move around the Earth, but vice-versa. Or, in fact, technically speaking, both the Sun and the Earth (and all other planets and pieces of spacetrash) are orbiting one common centre, but seeing as the Sun covers that common centre, we might say without all too many consequences that we do orbit the Sun. This doesn't mean, of course, that the Sun itself is immobile, as it is constantly fleeing the Cosmic Pacman that eats stars and huge, Solar System size Cherries for extra points.

Just so you know.

See ya!

Scheduled outage at 4PM PDT

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Okay, so that didn't exactly go as planned.

What can I say - I was busy doing some other things that had to get out of the way.

So then, what do you want to hear? Work wasn't all that different form usual, so I'll just skip straight to the action, then.

Olaf had a reasonably calm week. It was a warm-up and info-gathering session for him, and he might just have a couple of things planned to make some extra money. Notably, he wants to strike a deal with some alchemists. I'll send him back there next session.

Bart had some more things, then. I'm still trying to get the hang of him, but I'm starting to think of a few ways to make him useful. He may not be a great sailor, which can lead to some trouble if you spend most of your time on a pirate ship, but luckily he can really talk himself out of anything with a bit of trouble, and he's great for selling loot. Hell, he even managed to sell a fellow-crewmember's little sister into slavery, which was a great source of income. We had that particular crewmember executed, by the way, but that was unrelated. The player wasn't all too happy with the way his character was going (she was raped, robbed and pretty much fucked up all over), and went for a suicide-by-proxy just when the character was getting interesting.

Bart's next session is a month from now, but Olaf plays again next Thursday. Can't wait.

See ya!

Tin Foil

Wahey - I'm here again. It's been quite a messy expense of time, with all the activity, the multiple times I lost anything resembling connection, the late nights on a project of mine (I think better in the wee hours) ans, you know, the general hard work of being me.

I'll be giving you full details on Sunday's D&D session in tomorrow's post, as I don't have the time to go into too much details right now. It was fun, there were some interesting things going on, and I have a couple of things planned for my little Bart, which might just make the weakling (for that he is) interesting to play. I won't be telling you yet, though.

Besides all that, I paid off the third mortgage on my house, and had the next expansion ordered. It should be ready tomorrow. I can't wait to see the extra story on there, it must be sweet to have some more space. I mean, not that I actually have much of it filled yet - I'm want to pay for the whole thing in a hurry before I start seriously decorating it - but you get the idea. I made a decent, 25.000 Bells profit on the Turnip market too this week, which helped greatly. All in all, the AC weekend has been productive.

I'll leave you at that, though, so for now, it's my usual:

See ya!

My blog: Urinal for the masses

It's been a while. I'm sorry.

The week has been more of the usual work-stuff, nothing really spectacular. We had no terrorist bombing, no anthrax-equipped mail, no gold-digging dwarves (dwarfs? dwarphs? dworwzz?) tunneling through the building, we've been attacked by neither Godzilla nor King Kong, and we had no dinosaur rampaging through the work-place. All in all, as you can see, I wouldn't say that the whole work week is worth blogging about at this moment in time.

That, however, is by no means the reason why it hadn't happened all week. You can notch that up to Animal Crossing from Monday 'till Wednesday, Iron Kingdoms as far as Thursday's concerned, and connection cock-ups for the Friday.

Animal Crossing is a great game to play. You can do some really nasty stuff if you want to, and when you consider the über-cute setting that Nintendo themselves have filled with total, utter innuendo and inhabitants long overdue for their wallpadding, longsleeved jackets and sedating shots, being able to change the town flag for the Third Reich's flag and teaching your townfolk to swear makes for a game you can play real BAD. At the moment, my quest is to have all conversations with villagers in HTML code, which would be fun. And I have a flag based on Pajitnov's seven-shaped masterpiece puzzler - I got rid of that Nazi-German flag. It broke the setting I was aiming for.

Even Blance, the faceless cat (for those not familiar with AC - I shitteth thou nay), makes for limitless potential. The first time she came by, I equipped her with a nice pacman for a face. When she passed by again today, I stuck two badly drawn stick-figures on there. Her fault for lacking anything even slightly resembling a face, I say!

I won the flower festival hands down. How? Simple. I pillaged and ransacked the other villager's gardens on the Saturday night, planting flowers in my own garden. That way, I eliminated the competition! Ha, as I always say, it's the result that's important. Who cares about acquiring it fairly?

Then there was the Iron Kingdoms. Remember that ever growing army of undead we had swarming the city? We ended up being overrun, and were not able to stop Alexia from taking her mother's body and the Witchblade. We tried our best (and shat our pants at the sight of the more powerful ones), but were simply unable to overcome the sheer number, and especially not the four original witches and Alexia herself. She did conveniently shut them off after acquiring what she wanted, though, but the appearance of another wizard did not help in reassuring us.

I did find some interesting stuff for fire extinguishing, though. I'll have to acquire more of it, if possible.

Tomorrow is the D&D, so I won't be here to post then either, I expect.

Anyways, I guess I'll have to leave you here today. This has gone on for long enough - and I have some business to attend to.

See ya!

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Whoopsie! Nearly ended up posting this in the wrong place!

Anyways, today was definitely a Sunday, meaning not a lot on the useful work, and a shitload on the reading/gaming front. Tom Nook's store was closed again, so I couldn't sell my stuff in AC today, which is frustrating, as I have loads to get rid of on these days - I can potentially spend the entire day gathering bugs, fish and shells if I want to.

I have to go password hunting in BK this week. We boarded the Goldoba and are after Emperor Geldoblame, and I really can't wait to see what's going to happen.

I got some more preparations ready for one of my other little projects, and I think I'll start on the core of that along the week.

Still have a load to do for the radio, too. That'll wait 'till Monday and Tuesday, after which I'm hoping to be totally on track.

Other than that, I can say this weekend was the most uneventful I've had in quite some time.

See ya!

Great bodgers

Pffffff...

Crawled out of bed late, did some lazyness-doing-stuff-thingies, some work, and some gaming. Other than that, well, I really don't know what to write about today.

So I'll leave it at this, then.

See ya!

Instant Fish

ARRGH!

Yesterday's sesion was fun. We tried our best to ready ourselves (and the city, while we were at it) for the oncoming attack of, say, 1.500 undead. Thing is, the Longest Night was being celebrated, so it was rather busy in town, what with the carnival and other festivities going on.

Our Gunmage went and made a pact with some Infernal to get his greedy little mits on a magical pistol (they were a pair, but the Infernal took the second) while the rest of us went to the northern gate to inform the guards of the imminent arrival of the above mentioned undead. I can tell you the head guard there wasn't all too happy with our presence, especially when I just barged into his cabin and disturbed him while he was busy gettin' it on.

After our Gobber got arrested for disturbing the head guard (which seems unfair considering I did part of the disturbing too, but it must be my charming personality), I managed to convince the guy to shut the gate soon. Once we managed to get our friend out of his prison, we started heading back towards the Cathedral.

On our way there, we noticed a fire starting behind us.

Upon arrival at the cathedral, me and our newly acquired ranger decided to get a boat and check out the fire. We were greeted by a small group of 6 undead. After ridding ourselves of these, we retreated, as we figured, considering the situation, there was no way we could seriously hold back the expected hoardes of undead in our position.

On our way back, we boarded a raft (made of corpses) with two undead on it, just to get rid of those too.

Upon regroup, the idea was for the party to collect ammo and guards and gather as much strength as we could around the cathedral, the target of the army of undead. Ridding ourselves of one more along the way, and more or less avoiding being trampled by a wagon filled with undead, we ran into a military group, with a Warjack, which was rather nice. We sent them towards the cathedral, and continued on our ways. Untill, that is, we heard the 'Jack coming back after us. There were two undead on top, banging at it.

After getting rid of those - our gunmage had to throw his gun to hit, shooting as if he was blindfolded - we tried to get the warjack under our control, but found we needed the keys, which the Warcaster should have had. After our Ranger tracked down what was rest of him (he was fairly evenly spread across the floor and the walls of the room where we found him), we managed to get a hold on the keys and got the jack under our command. Taking it along with us back to the cathedral, that was the point where we had to stop.

So that's to be continued, then.

See ya!

Eating your brain with a silvery spoon!

Recently, one of my readers asked how the weather was over here. Well, today we had a lot of sun. We also had loads of wind. And a bit of rain. My sis told me there was some hail, too. And we had snow for about five minutes. We had the whole year's weather in one day.

Today at work, I set aside another load of TP-manga. It's starting to get ridiculous, but there's still a load of stuff they have that I want.

As far as Animal Crossing is concerned, I couldn't sell anything today because Tom Nook's store was expanding. Which meant I had to stuff all the items that I would normally sell into my tiny little house, that I would have been able to extend now if only I had been able to sell...

I miss running errands like I used to do on th Cube, though.

I haven't continued on BK yet today, but the night is still young (and people wonder why I walk around like a zombie all the time).

In any case, there's a couple of things I want to get going on again this week, and I still have to do my radio-work tomorrow, and the Iron Kingdoms thing the day after that. So I guess it's a matter of fitting it in somewhere.

See ya!

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Aaaaaaaah! Rest!

Obviously, I took it easy today. Crawled out of bed at 12:00, taking a shower (which was COLD, for cryin' out loud, due to my sis' boyfriend taking what would have been a loong one - we have limited supply of warm water), minor shopping, some gaming, and a VG-store visit.

I picked up Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance secondhand, paid for with my savings there. Yahoo! I'll probably get around to playing it in about, ooh, 2 years or so...

I need a dedicated vacation.

I also got to disc 2 of Baten Kaitos tonight! It seems like I'm getting somewhere, at last!

That was all the interesting stuff for the day, though. So there you have it.

See ya!

Unknown oyster-farmers galore!

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful young prince in a kingdom far, far away. The king would never let him out of the castle, because he was afraid that the prince would get kidnapped by people from another country.

Then aliens came and attacked the castle with their laserguns. Thankfully, the prince had a secret identity as GooRaaMan, and, controlling his giant robot, he drove the aliens back.

Ever since that day, the king hasn't eaten a single piece of pastry.

The end.

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Every once in a while, there comes a time for sne to start writing non-sense. It might be the Lunar phase, it might be the stellar alignment, it might even be the food he ate the previous Tuesday, truth is, no-one really knows where that trait came from. Thankfully, it doesn't happen all too often, as the world would most certainly burst into tears upon excessive repeats.

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Speaking of bursting into tears - stay out of my Animal Crossing house. I have the wall-paper and the floor done in the same over-the-top Tetris pattern. I have a the pattern set in a painting in the room. And I can still stand there, wearing my Tetris-pattern shirt and hat. It's absolutely hideous.

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Can't there ever be a day without 14:53.12? I hate that perticular second...

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I say the universe is doughnut-shaped. Including the frosting and the sprinkles on top.

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I would love to be a serial killer, but I can't seem to find the Rice Crispies.

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I would very much like the Earth to be cube shaped, just as long as I never landed on one of the corners.

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Is anybody out there? I can't see you!

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Just between you and me: it was I, who farted in the elevator.

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See ya!