Ucantalas

A weird looking controller, at that.

Whatever you do, DONT FORGET THE ALAMO.

Right on.

My right or your right?

I had kind of a weird dream last night. I was at a bus stop, waiting for a bus to show up. I have no idea where I was, I didn't recognize the area around me at all. Then one of my friends from high school, who I haven't seen in ages, walked up and we started talking. The bus arrived, and we sat next to each other and kept talking. We decided he would go get some booze (specifically Fireball whisky) and we would meet up again and have a fun night of drinking and having fun. FUN! The bus stopped, and I got off. I was now in some big terminal station thing. Even though I was indoors, it was snowing. That's when I noticed, a little ways away, this one girl I had a crush on in college. She was walking away from me, so I started running to her and shouting her name. She just kept walking, and even though I was running she was going faster than I was. She went up a flight of stairs, and I followed, and then she stopped and was waiting for a bus. I caught up to her at the bus stop while she waited, and thats when I got her attention. She was surprised and happy to see me, and we started talking. It went really well, and I realized the bus she was waiting for was the one I needed to get on, so when it came we both went on and sat next to each other and kept talking. Then, who should pop up from the seat behind me but my friend from earlier, holding a big bottle of Fireball whisky. He asks if I want some, and I'm about to say yes, when I look over at my crush and she's just glaring at me. So I decline. And then my friend just says, "Oh, I see how it is." and disappears. Like, vanishes in a puff of smoke. He's completely gone from the bus. I go back to talking to my crush, and she wants to go to my place, so I say okay. And that's when I realize I have no idea where I am, or where my place is. I have never been in whatever city this is in my life, and I don't even know where this bus is going. So I keep talking with her, while staring out the windows, trying to figure out where to go. And then I woke up. This dream kind of bothers me simply because the girl in it is someone I haven't thought about in like... a year. I thought she was completely gone from my mind, but then something like this happens. Ugh

A Scanner Darkly isn't an action movie or horror movie or thriller... but I'm not quite sure I would consider it "cyberpunk"? I guess I'm not really heavy into cyberpunk styled things, but A Scanner Darkly seemed like... well, like a modern day setting with a couple of pieces of new tech. It didn't strike me as particularly cyberpunk. All that said, I really did like A Scanner Darkly.

...if I get in the beta, I swear I will record myself singing "I've Got a Golden Ticket" and post it online.

Congrats, it looks like a really nice place!

Well, I'm all signed up and ready for that Beta.

That was an incredibly fun game. Wow. I'm sad I finished the entire thing in like 2 hours. (On the other hand, 2 hours of entertainment for a free Flash game seems pretty awesome to me.) I love the Phoenix Wright style of game, and I actually learned quite a bit about different philosophical theories. I also always kind of thought along the same lines as John Stuart Mill, so it was really eye-opening to see some arguments against it. All in all I loved this game. Just wow.

Well, I was thinking with the WiiU's gamepad, you've got your touch-sensitive second screen right there. At that point (beyond the actual 3D vision and cameras) it seems like the WiiU has everything you would need. At the very least you could do DS games.

How much can a person change before that person is no longer the same person? For that matter, how much can a person change at all? Is it possible to change the way you do things and how your life is going to such a degree that other people you know wouldn't consider you "you" anymore? People are constantly telling me that I need to change, that I need to change basically everything about my life. But I'm terrified of losing myself in the process. But I also don't know who I am or what makes me... me. Can I ever really lose myself? Or am I forever tethered to who I am deep down in some way? What if 'new' me is worse? (Objection! But what if he's better? Moot questions your honour. Sustained.) What if I try to change and find that I just can't do it? Does that make me a failure? Or did I succeed at surviving? In the grand scheme of things I guess it doesn't matter because in a few decades I'll be dead anyways and a little while after that no one will even know who I was. So then why should I bother changing at all? The only reason I even want to change is so people will stop telling me to, but there's no guarantee they'll stop when I've changed. Is it really a good idea for me? Looking at my life right now, I'm not doing much of anything. My life has not been going in a direction that I expected or wanted it to, So maybe change really would be for the best? But thats kind of a terrible motivation, isn't it? To change because that change might possibly lead to something better in the future? Its very similar to the moot points I made above about whether or not new me would be better or worse. I guess in some ways its the same statement? I don't know. I just got back from watching "The World's End" (and I'll try to avoid any spoilers, but in case I don't succeed, if you haven't seen it you might want to skip this paragraph. I don't know if there's a spoiler tag... I'll try just in case.) So thats the kind of random thoughts in my head today.

So my sister sleepwalks. It's almost 2AM here right now, and I just finished following her around the apartment assuring her that there were no geese hiding in the house.

Valium? I hardly know 'em!

"But mom! Billy has a donkey named Jim and its morbidly obese! That's why I said 'Jim's a fat ass!' It's in the Bible, so I can't get in trouble for saying it!"

Not sure where to mention it, so I'll just put this here: Hiroshi Yamauchi died today. http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/hiroshi-yamauchi-who-ran-nintendo-for-5-decades-dies-1.1461305 RIP

If this is the weirdest that happens here, I think they'll be alright. Now, if someone writes a Nick/Creamo/Vanaman erotic fan fiction, THEN they need to start worrying a little.

It had to be real kool-aid so that one kid could try to drink the shot instead of getting hit. (Thats what I would have done...)

So, I got GTAV today, and only played for... maybe an hour? Here are my first impressions: Jesus christ I suck at this game. Holy crap do I suck. Driving seems really difficult to me, and I've died at least 6 times already (and thats just straight-up deaths; don't get me started on the times I've failed missions because I suck at driving)

That sounds like a fun job. I could do that. Get business cards and everything... "Ucantalas - Professional Asshole".

I wouldn't mind another Game Boy Player - style peripheral at the very least (because I doubt Nintendo would do any kind of straight up video out for their handhelds)

Wow. Seriously, who talks to people like that? You know, sometimes I worry that I'm not good at picking up on social cues and am bad at conversing with people. Then I read stories like this, and I just think, "At least I'm not *that* bad."

So close to 100 Alchemy Labs... Making 201 MCpS right now... 65% of upgrades unlocked... 72% of achievements... I am losing my mind. Cookies everywhere. I am descending into crunchy, choclatey madness...

...well, I'm glad that Atlus will continue exist. I have no opinion one way or the other about SEGA specifically purchasing them.

On the bus today I noticed a store called "Games Exchange". Now I want there to be a game called "Sex Change", just so I can write things like "The game Sex Change available at the Games Exchange."