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So this is mostly just a moody day post, feel free to scroll down and read me rambling about my little games.
But I’m really moody today, and it’s flooding and shit, and I dunno. I’ve got to keep it together for the rest of the week, but this has been an inauspicious start. I know that once I take that first step towards keeping it together, and not give in, I’ll make it, even if I am moody. I have to do that tomorrow. Wish me luck on that, eh?
Anyway… I guess I’ll get back to the moody-ness. I’m sure I have a lot of it to get through before work.

So today was a day of fighting with Brer for the whole day.
I don’t want to state his position. I think I get it, but I worry about sparking more fighting. So I’ll just talk about my side, I don’t know. Time to test having a break here. Go under it by clicking on the post title for more about this. Otherwise, I dunno, tune in tomorrow for more rambling about Smash Brothers or something.

Seriously. It’s all I did today.

But it was so, so worth it. Ooooh yeah.

Hopefully I can consume in more sane quantities for the rest of the week, but it was fun. I think we’re missing 4 or so characters. Need to play some more Subspace Emissary.

Plan for this week: Do Taxes, Catch Up On Listening Time CDs, Relax Hardcore.

So they upgraded the server this website is on from 4 to 5 of something, and everything seems to be working okay, but, you know, I figure I might as well test it with another post. So here you go. A test post. Testin’….
Now I guess I need to get back to procrastination from studying for my test tomorrow. Fun times. Fun times…

So if you look, I have a brand new tag for these sorts of rants! Huzzah! Not that it’ll do much good, but if I’m going to use the tags, I should use them, you know? I even went back and updated my old posts with the tag. Neat!

But the important thing is, I have a new game obsession, and that game is Forumwarz. Basically, take everything you know about, say, 4chan. And then make an RPG out of it. You’ve got a good idea of what Forumwarz is now. In fact, you can watch that video on the front page and get a good idea, too. I think that video does a good job… but yeah, it’s a ton of fun, and the interface is extremely slick and ajax-y. Granted, the humor is insanely crude, but I can dig it because I get what they’re making fun of, and it’s sort of a requirement. Anyway, I definitely suggest you give it a try.
In KoL news, I got all my El Vibrato stuff: A Megadrone and the full equipment set! And then I ascended into a Hardcore Boozetafarian Turtle Tamer run, to Hardcore Perm Amphibian Sympathy, which is amazing. I forgot to untinker my meatcar AGAIN, which is just genius of me. Anyway, I suck at Hardcore runs even more than my Softcore runs, so I’m sure I’ll be playing this one for a few months, but eh, since I’m now playing this and Forumwarz and Twilight Heroes full time, I suppose going a little slower at KoL for awhile isn’t a bad thing by any means…
I also realized today that I probably spend more time now playing this stuff than I did back when I used to play WoW. That’s all kind of crazy to me, because part of why I like these games and keep coming back to them is because they are less of a time investment… and yet I spend so much time at them, that’s pretty well a lie. Oh well, I’m having fun.

So I’m still in a pretty good mood! So that’s neat.
I’m also happy to report that Project Get Involved In The Twilight Heroes Community goes well! The project basically worked around buying a Pouch of Many Lost Things and then buffing many random people in chat to give me something to talk about. And it’s working! I’m talking to people! And being weird. But it’s fun! There are a ton of nice people in the Twilight Heroes chat. It’s like all the nice people from KoL came over. It’s neat. I suppose my good mood helps with all that too… anyway, it goes well with that.
I just heard on the radio show that the March Item of the Month for KoL is going to be a familiar? This doesn’t really thrill me? I don’t generally get excited by familiars, I find, even though I got the P.R.E.S.S.I.E., and I love it. But I tend not to want more familiar… at the same time, Jick hinted at the mechanic, which sounds so weird I might have to pick one up. We’ll see. I’m also looking forward to seeing what the Item of the Month for Twilight Heroes is… I don’t know what the response to the Pouch was, and chances are it’ll be something more normal, again, like the Roderick’s equipment or something, but I can hope.
Man, maybe I should have a tag just for KoL and such talk.
Also of note is the fact that apparently EVERYONE wants to have an Endless Setlist party. So I’m going to try to get that going for March 1st, because it does sound fun and also, I am an achievement whore, and having that Endless Setlist on Hard achievement will make me happy. So mark your calendars, people! We’re playing the whole damn thing in a row! That’s… 2 hours and 21 minutes of music, according to my playlist of every song in non-DLCed Rock Band. Fun times!

I’d do it, but I don’t know how to program and I can’t even get Role Playing off the ground in the time frame I want, (It’s temporarily tabled, which, though disappointing, I’m calling perfectly fine as long as I don’t fall behind in school) so this is for some random person out there.

I want Persona 3 KoL.
Well, sort of. I want a game like KoL, which is mostly browser and text based. But I want it to work like this. You have persona, if you will. Call them something else, probably. But these sort of… spirits that live inside you and are based on your personality. Now, in Persona 3,  these represent the character’s personalities decently, though not for your main character, cause you can flop them around all you want, and they’re sort of like Pokemon that you train and crossbreed and shit. So let’s combine those two.
You collect these persona spirits, and you equip one, and this changes your character’s personality. Equip this one, and your character is all emo, equip this one, and your character is a complete dick, equip this one, and your character is a goody two-shoes, equip this one, and your character is a pure Mr. Clean Trousers. So during the day, you go and interact with NPCs or whatever. And depending on your personality, you’re going to have different adventures and different options to deal with things. Perhaps even what personality you start a quest with could affect the way it goes. Say if you start out being nice, then the quest becomes helping someone out, but if you start out as an asshole, the quest turns into trying to steal something that was already stolen for yourself.
As far as combat, I feel you could have actual combat too, in a Persona sort of “dark hour” kind of way, but it would also be neat if it could all be metaphorical sorts of combat to deal with various situation. Not real combat, just an abstraction of conversation shown with hit points and magic attacks and whatnot.
Granted, this would take a TON of writing, even more than something like KoL or whatever. But I would love it. That’s the general idea. Basically, a game with supernatural elements but which is based mostly on social interactions, I suppose. Or hell, just a game based mostly on social interactions in a neat way would make me very happy.

Other ideas I have that I think could tie into this concept would be the idea of having a “Soul Link” which was another player character that you would connect yourself to and help you out in some way. Perhaps who would become an NPC in the story somehow. Perhaps helping you out in battle “KoL familiar” style without actually being there, but giving the actual character some sort of cost and bonus for doing so. Granted, every way I think of to make this work in a neat way would be crazily exploitable with the idea of multis, which is kind of unfortunate, because I think that takes away the coolness, but I like the idea anyway.

I also see a problem with making this game work in that the main way I see games like this paying for themselves that seems to work well and I’m all for is this “item of the month” model, and I don’t know how this sort of model could be adapted to my idea. I think the likelihood of having equipment in any normal fashion would be very low. I don’t know.

Anyway, I got the idea down. Feel free to steal it, and I’ll play your game all day. Steal it and adapt it into some sort of card-based game, and I’d probably marry you. Or something.

Here are my plans for the weekend, so you can make me stick to them, whoever you are.
Tonight: Laziness, board games.
Saturday: Write majority of long, harder paper. THEN laziness.
Sunday: Write all of tiny, no stress, easy paper (seriously, our sources don’t even have to be peer reviewed. Weird), Halo night.
Monday which isn’t technically part of the weekend but whatever: Turn in tiny paper, finish long, harder paper.
If I do that, I will be CAUGHT UP ON HOMEWORK and I will not be stressed. Yay? Yay.

In other news, I was fairly sick, but I’m better now. Also, I’ve got all the software people have found so far in Twilight Heroes now, which is awesome, and tomorrow I should have the crazy hard space station open… also, I got the Delayed Gratification Merit Badge. Whee?
I feel like maybe I should be grinding for Silver Stars and stuff like everyone else in the game seems to be, but I dunno. I don’t mind donating for that sort of stuff, and grinding without even the vaguest of goals is boring. Or something. We’ll see, I guess.

I guess I should keep being good and go to class now, huh?

Man, did you see all that ice? Man! That’s a lot of ice.
Of course, the extended vacation from classes is making me even more iffy on the whole… doing homework thing… but oh well, so it goes. I’ll get back in the groove when I need to tomorrow. And who knows, maybe they’ll cancel my afternoon class too? They already canceled my morning one. I can dream, can’t I?

So for lack of anything better to do, I decided to try to get involved with the Twilight Heroes community more and chat. Results were mixed. I talked for a little, got buffed with Metal Detector, which is nice, and returned some lost objects to people who were nice to me, which was an awesome feeling, knowing I was giving them a buff they might not ever have access to… and then I ran out of things to say and just watched the text scroll by… and… yeah. Back to normal. KoL’s community is thick and I don’t know how to get into it, and so many Twilight Heroes players are just from KoL. Like me, actually, though I joined up before most of them did. But yeah, I don’t know. I guess I just need to be vocal, but I have so little to say. I’m not optimal, so I can’t often offer advice or anything. Eh, who knows.

In other news, Professor Layton is pretty completely awesome, although if I keep burning through it at this rate I’m sure I’ll have it beat in another day. Worth 30 dollars? Honestly, probably not. It’d be much, much easier to suggest at 20. But in the end, it’s another unique sort of experience that I’m having, and I’m willing to go that extra mile to support niche games, so I’m happy with my purchase. It’s fun stuff. Now if only I could get the weekly puzzle downloads to work…

Anyway, time to get food and go to work, I suppose. Wish me luck driving in the ice.

So apparently all this crazy sailing plinth crap ends up leading to a neat little side quest that gets you a crazy familiar called the El VIbrato Megadrone. And I want. So I’m working through the pirate content again so I can start figuring out how to get one. Who knows how long this will take me. Luckily, I don’t give a rat’s ass about being optimal, so I’m willing to waste however many days it takes.
Building my jetpack in Twilight Heroes also goes well. Twilight Heroes is really quite good, you know? I keep debating about donating for the Pouch of Many Lost Things this month, and then deciding against it. I mean it’s good, but I was overly dedicated to KoL for like… close to a year before I started donating a lot, because I knew I wasn’t going anywhere. I took that many month break from Twilight Heroes because I thought there was no more content. It turns out I was wrong, but still. I just don’t know if it’s worth it yet. Also, the Pouch is neat because it is a heart vector, and as awesome as I think that is, I don’t get into the in-game chat or anything so as to have someone to go heart up in game. So who knows.
Apparently my mother is playing Picross DS? I showed it to her on a whim, and let her have Jonathan’s DS because he never uses it. It turns out she’s been doing them! Which is completely awesome in my book. Makes me think I should throw even more stuff her way, just to see what happens.
So Valentine’s is almost here. It was Valentine’s in KoL today, but, you know, real Valentine’s is coming up. I got to write some poetry today for it, I think…
Jonathan just paid me for half of Smash Brothers Melee. That was weird.
I’m still kind of moody, though I think I’m better in general? I’m still showing those little things I do when I get that way, but I don’t feel depressed. So I suppose I can deal with that.
People on the Talking Time are starting up Animal Crossing Wild World action. So I suppose I need to start picking all of those weeds, eh? I already got all the roaches out of my house yesterday.