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fuckfuckfuckfuck I ran into my first Invulnerable group. Fast, invulnerable, and something else that was irrelevant. Cultists. Act 1 of hell. OH GOD I ALMOST DIED. OH GOD I ALMOST DIED. AHHHH. I got lucky because my templar kept them back for like a second every ten seconds, giving me JUST enough time to get to a point where I could blink down a cliff and they couldn't see me anymore and stopped chasing me. Goddamn those things hurt and you can't slow invulnerable minions apparently?! So I can't kite them?! But I got away. And quit. I need to do something to increase my survivability.

Yeah that was Gabe. Also as always when people bring up motion-controlled sword-fighting I'm doubtful of its FUNNESS because there's no way to administer a proper tactile response to swords actually CLANGing against one another. The game may express the CLANGiness to its heart's content, but I don't feel the CLANGiness. My arms continue a-swingin'. this is generally fine in a video game context, such as in the case of Skyward Sword, because it is a video game. But when it is your entire reason for making the game, when it is the crutch of your concept, it becomes vastly more important to employ realism in the real world as well as the graphical representation displayed on screen. There is a certain disconnect that occurs, not just from the previously-mentioned arms-keep-swinging problem, but also in the resulting on-screen movements. How does the game react to this? Will the sword on-screen suddenly have to snap to the appropriate orientation? What if that orientation is inside a wall (or, perhaps worse, the enemy)? Etc. EHHHHHHHHHHH.

Heh, it's true. I feel like Tycho, at least, does it for comedy's sake, though, which I find infinitely more forgivable (and enjoyable) than just doing it because you can do it. It's all about context?! Also, I had no idea Perdido Street Station (or its author) was anything like that. I guess I'm not interested anymore. I was before. I can't stand that shit when it's NOT for the sake of a laugh. (If I ever read a book with sentences like "It was kind of dark out" that weren't dialogue, I would be just as turned off!)

This is possibly the best Kickstarter promo video I've ever seen.

Hell is taking its toll on me. I've been hearing that I should focus on doing more damage, rather than taking less damage. HMMM.

I meant they were laughing at the ending! But I didn't like the music much, either, yeah. It was weird and didn't fit in a lot of places. Also: I don't usually critique movies this much. I feel kind of weird. I don't hate it as much as it may seem from my posts. I was more disappointed than I was upset, as I felt it just didn't deliver on the potential. C'est la vie.

Oh I forgot to mention that the entire movie theater laughed when the credits started rolling. Like an "are you fucking kidding me" kinda laugh. It was great.

I know it's only vaguely related, but the fact that it's related at all is stupid. Also he can downplay it all he wants but .

Why does it even have to be a prequel to Alien? That's one of my biggest problems. It could have very easily stood on its own, but for some reason he wanted to take this seemingly unrelated thing and make it relate? I guess the sequels (PLANNED SEQUELS, THE WORST, especially when the movie as it was had so little to offer they could've AT LEAST fit one more movie's worth of plot into it) will explain as much. I guess I should also watch Alien, as many have told me to do so. I'm just not a big movie person. Grr.

Oh god yeah that bothered the hell out of me I forgot all about it. Also the old trope of not really a spoiler but i mean you know whatever

I thought Prometheus was super goddamn lame. Especially the ending. Annoying, too, because I love the idea. The basic plot is right up my alley. I guess I just went into it expecting a movie with MORE plot. There's nothing to it beyond what was in the trailer. Every single jump scare in the movie could be seen from a mile away, not that that's necessarily a bad thing, if you know what you're getting into. I've never seen any Alien or Predator movie, FWIW. Very good-looking movie, though. I mean, for what it is, anyway. Which is bleak, dark, black shit everywhere. U:

Well, the hiring process might take a bit longer than you'd be comfortable not having a solid living arrangement, but okay! I've got no one else there, heh.

I just want to say that Tangled was a great, fun movie, and I enjoyed it more than some Pixar movies I've seen. U: (Princess and the Frog was also great, but irrelevant to whyever I decided to reply to this particular sentence.)

Thanks! I hope it goes well, 'cause nothin' else is happening, job-wise. Also it's in San Francisco, which is a place I'd like to try living.

Well, to be perfectly honest, the thing that bothers me most about the prospect isn't the quote-unquote shame of living with my parents. It's the idea that I'll have to live with my parents again. I love living on my own (or with friends! roommates are cool). The couple times I had to go back to living with them for brief periods in between school were some of the most depressing times of my life. It just makes me so miserable. On the other hand, another thing that makes me miserable is having to ask my parents for money, and then they ask my grandparents for money. That's happened way too many times over the past few years as I finish up school. I'm so sick of having to depend on them. They're not in the best situation, financially. Also, a company contacted me today and I have a phone interview on Monday! It is not my top choice, but it should still at least be interesting, and will get me much-needed job experience! And if I'm lucky, it'll be one of those game companies that allows me to make my own games in my free time, provided said games don't directly compete with what they make. But let's not get ahead of things, here. It's still just a phone interview. X:

No sketches or anything, yet. All in my head so far. I can do so, though. But just as a thought, part of my inspiration for the wall-homes is the hobbit village from LOTR. Built into the wall, with grassy roofs and such. Also, I think, but I'm not sure, that I'd like the floor to be all dirt, and maybe be a gradual descent rather than the 90 degree angle. And maybe dirt walls? But that'll take a LOT of dirt. Maybe more than existed in the pit before it got dugged. So I dunno. Also I love the mage tower thing near spawn, and I wouldn't hate this tower looking similar. Maybe not quite as irregular and random. A little more solidarity up the middle of the pit. Also also, the concept is kinda like, homes on the walls, community areas in the middle. Bunch of big elaborate rooms for people to meet and chill. Kind of like the tree at spawn, but more Fancy Schmancy? I wish we could have stained-glass windows or something, that'd be super rad and along the lines of what I have in mind. So yeah! I can try to draw up some more specific plans. U:

I'm looking for a job, as well. I need one, or I'm going to have to move back in with my parents. At age 25. It's frustrating, because all of my friends are getting jobs where they WANT jobs, while I'm sitting here patiently awaiting responses that never come from companies that I don't really even want to work for.

WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY PIT?! The plan is to build a tall branching tower in the middle to the sky limit and then houses on the walls and the floating, winding roads intertwining and connecting everything. In other words, it could be a nice community project. Especially the wall-homes. U:

I just mean it doesn't matter at all in earlier difficulties. What matters most (at least, what I found to matter most) was armor and vitality. Armor reduces all damage by a percentage, and vitality gives you more health. In higher difficulties, armor stops being as effective (because enemies start doing much, much, MUCH more damage), and you need to start getting elemental resistances on top of it as I guess spells become more powerful or something. I dunno, this is the first time I've gotten to Hell. I'm just going off of things I've heard. While armor is a percentage reduction, I'm not sure if resistance is also a percentage or if it's just a flat value.

Well, resistance isn't really even a thing in Normal/NM. Some items have some resistance, but I think in Hell is when you finally start getting All Resistance stat values on items and also when it actually starts to matter. Might be Inferno, though. X:

Oh god what ew gross. I voted (for Chris) just so that thing won't win. Ugh ew ugh gross ew. (I like Chris' the most, anyway.)

In happier news, I am now in Hell on my second hardcore character. She is a wizard, and she is not shitty. Well, she wasn't until I brought her to Hell. I bought a new spear which added five hundred damage. Gonna have to upgrade my armor, too. Need more health. These fuckers hit hard, and they're not even elites, yet. Probably should start worrying about resistance, too.

When I still played WoW... a little over a year ago, I guess, they still had Tuesday early-morning maintenance. Rarely lasted for more than an hour, although I'm pretty sure they always say by default that it's gonna last four hours.

I think it's safe to say that no one would ever seriously believe that. U: