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3.28.06/23:41 24 days 'til mother 3!!! I thought this would be a good time to list some of my favorite features from other old-school RPGs, and maybe reminisce a little, since it's been more than a decade since EarthBound and that whole era of sweet SNES role-playing games.
Forfeit Island (Lufia I and Lufia II) This was a town on an island where you could go and re-buy anything you'd ever sold (or dropped, too, I think) which was a really sweet feature when trying to go for completion with 100 percent of the items in the game.
Casinos (Dragon Warriors 3 and up) There's nothing quite like getting Metal Babble stuff 1/3 of the way through the game all because of the goodness of the reset button thousands of times over. Also, it's still fun to gamble and even more fun to win, even if the money's not real, even if you're cheating...never diminished my sense of accomplishment.
The Coliseum (FF6) Here you could fight monsters and bosses from throughout the game for rare treasures. Sure, it was frustrating to see your characters waste turns casting shell repeatedly instead of doing the fight command with the offering and the genji glove, but what can you do?
Battles w/o cut scenes (Chrono Trigger and FF12) Moreso Chrono Trigger, where you could do combos and moves depending on where your people happened to be in relation to the enemies. I remember doing X-cut over and over because it looked so freaking sweet. I like this more than in FF12, which I think is straying a little toward action adventure games like Zelda...
Item Delivery (EarthBound) You could call and have items picked up, pizzas delivered, and other random things happen to you while walking around. I was always a little disappointed that your cell phone only took incoming calls, but I guess that was more of a logistics decision, deshou?
Count-down HP Damage (EarthBound) When those bastard Atomic Reactor things explode and kill all your weak people in one turn, this is a useful way to win before they run out of HP. Also, it's great for desperation-fighting against bosses, something you can't do if they wipe you out instantly.
Call Team/Monster Arena (DQ8) Having a monster team to do your ass-kicking for you has always been a fantasy of mine, one I'm happy to be able to finally live out. While Espers are always fun, there's nothing quite like enemies you've had to kill on your own, because fighting with them gives you that feeling of dominance. Yeah, you metal slime bitches, do my evil bidding! 3.25.06/20:01 a world without archives
Such is life.
To tell you the truth, I always thought it would be longer, but when it's all laid out like this it seems pretty short. I tried to preserve formatting changes by including old buttons and logos in the last place they naturally occurred, the example being the old peachycomics logo that only lasted a month, and some of the links from 2003 don't work because the files have been updated, i.e. old versions of songs. 3.21.06/02:17 sleep, i laugh at thee
The picture on the left will make more sense to you in a little while. For now, just enjoy it for its inclusion of mazes and lack of shading or actual perspective.
What I mean is that you can't see the other arm or foot and he doesn't even have a shadow. I want to say it's because he's a daemon and it's an intentional effect, but I don't even know anymore what I was going for.
[the book of divinicus 14:3-14:9] short story
There's a story for you. It's even got pictures and its own special format. Originally I wanted it to span columns across and have no downscroll, but my coding abilities are limited to nonexistent and this was all I could work out.
This has been kind of a disappointing month, and I won't be sorry to see it end. Perhaps I could say the same thing for this semester. I wanted to end college on a better note, one where I had easy classes and wasn't dealing with so much stress, but I guess you take what you can get. At least I don't have any math classes. 3.16.06/02:52 dried up and rung out I haven't done an update in so long...I just haven't felt up to it. I've been on the verge of getting sick but an illness has yet to materialize aside from coughing up big globs of phlegm, and not the friendly ones I'm used to from being a smoker, big devious ones tinged with blood. I'll stop telling you about that, because I'm sure you don't care.
I went to bed last night at 11pm and slept until 7pm today. That's like 20 hours of unadulterated sleep. I guess I was tired. The downside is that I can't sleep now. In my younger days, I'd be restofrantic right now, drawing a picture or writing a song or doing something worthwhile. Not today.
I'm still exhausted from my paper on Locke. Oh yeah, I said it was Hobbes, but it was Locke. Some of you may remember Locke as the revolutionary from FF6, others of you know him as the author of Two Treatises of Government, the rest of you have heard his essence in the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution. 3.10.06/19:16 shots to the face
[dartshot] 8MB .mov
Maybe I need to work on my aim. So Monday I think I'm going to try to do open stage at The Coffee House around 9pm. If you want directions and feel any desire to show some support, let me know, or just show up. It'll be sad without my little asian girl and her bear there to cheer me on, but I guess that's the sad state of the world these days. 3.8.06/23:17 alone in my cage
And it feels so good to be out of Indiana. That place is pretty much the nucleus of suck. A psychological cesspool of Talmudic proportions. It was good to see the family, though. I never knew my dad was a pool shark...live and learn. But I'm still the undisputed champion at air hockey, and nobody can take that away from me.
[jordan's songbook] .doc file
So let me explain this file, it's a word document with all the songs in the music section as printable pages, to make a kind of songbook, if you will. My current songbook is getting a little destroyed, so it's time to start reconceptualizing it for modern times. I'm still working on the 'pop song' section with pages breaking down how to play the covers and giving lyrics. Due to legal issues, I probably can't post that one. 3.1.06/02:57 no strikes, no spares
[saint impalus] short story
In case you're wondering where the other posts have gone, you can click here for February, or you can go to the archives for all of them. If you want to read more short stories, you can always click the button to your left or just click here.
It's pronounced like 'im-palace.' This story is pretty different, I think, from the other ones. It's definitely one of my favorites, though. And in an effort to cultivate some high art, here's a link to one of Jason's songs that I never got around to putting up. I'm jealous as hell of his skills, that kid is pretty much a genius when it comes to guitar.
[study number 7] jason barker - classical .mp3
And you might be wondering what the pictures are from. They're from Open Stage at The Coffee House in Moon Township. If you'd like to play there or see me play, it takes place on Mondays from 8-10. I won't be there next week, though, as I'm planning a trip to IN to see mi familia. I think I did a pretty good set, but I'm hardly impartial. Maybe next time I can sell a few CDs or get some girls to throw clothes at me.
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So
I'm sorry if peachycomics.com crashes your computer today with the size of
its massive main page. With the end of college approaching, this is
a time for reflection, and what better way to reflect than to bring back
all the dirty old memories of the past? It's all here, from the
embarrassing mistakes in Japanese to all the soul-wrenching subtle
references to fail'd romances and flings.
I
don't know what to do to feel normal again. All my normal methods of
release are failing. I need to find something new to rejuvenate my
creative energies. I have to wake up in six hours, and the sake and
the Tylenol PM are not helping me sleep.
Yesterday was
successful on a number of different levels. For one, I finished my
compilation of pop songs. Also I found some Waffle Crisp cereal
after a week of searching 8 or 9 different supermarkets. Too bad
Amanda's not here to share in my bliss. And I got this 10-shot
revolving-chamber toy dart gun as you can see here. It's got a range
of over 15 feet, which is over 5 yards.
She's gone, just like that.
Of course I miss her. She says she'll come back, but who can tell.
Who can really know how werewolves think? Maybe, just maybe, I'll
have time to do website stuff again. Certainly this will be the only
post I do this week, as I have to sequester myself in this room and do a
report tomorrow and Friday. It's going to be on Hobbes, and no, I
don't mean that Hobbes. The other one. Bad times.
It's also Rabbit
Rabbit Day today, but I doubt I'll remember. You know, the first of
the month. The Wednesday where people who aren't vampires go get ash
put on their foreheads. The last Wednesday before the final spring
break of my undergraduate career.