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June 01, 2007

Today's Rambles On Tap: KoL, Odin Sphere, Black Hawk Down

Okay, so, apparently the Kingdom of Loathing Item of the Month for this month, which isn't up yet, has a ton of content attached to it. So-called "Astral Badger" levels of content. I looked up everything the Astral Badger does, and that is a lot of cool shit to play around with. I'm thinking of buying a second Mr. Accessory to trade in for one, though I'll probably wait until I know exactly what it does, or has a decent idea. Surely people will jump on it and put it all up on the Wiki, and I can judge for myself.
I am close to ascending again, though. I just need two more levels, one to unlock the Naughty Sorceress, and one more so I can actually learn Double-Fisted Skull-Smashing. I might actually have time for another run before the new content comes... I wonder if I should try to race through as a Disco Bandit and get Ambidextrous Funkslinging...

In other news, I finally got in my copy of Odin Sphere. It is definately a good game, although after playing it all day yesterday, I found today that I could only take one chapter before wanting to stop. But that's fine. When I play, it's good stuff. I probably should have set it to easy, though. I have a feeling I'm going to get frustrated and put it down a couple more characters in. But we'll see what happens. I'm looking forward to being done with Gwendolyn, though. I thought I was at her last chapter, but there's another... which makes it seem like there might be two more, this one and one more. Hmm.

I also watched Black Hawk Down with Brer. I promised I would give impressions. So I'll give them here and he can read them, or I can relate them to him. It's not a movie I would have ever watched otherwise, but he knew that going in. It's obvious it was made with a lot of love and a lot of respect for all the people in the story it was retelling, because it was based on a true story. Whoever really wanted to get this story out there. It's a good movie. I say this in the same way I say a song is a good song, because I know it is, but I will never listen to it again, more than likely. That's how this is a good movie. However, it was real. I don't think it's really a movie thing, perse. But I feel too close to that sort of thing. I mean, I'm not. Here I am, at a computer, in Missouri. I'm not. But, you know... Brer was over there. As far as I know, nothing anywhere near like that happened to him, of course... but it just makes me realize... it is real. People do that sort of thing. There was a chance Brer could have gotten caught in something like that. It made me nervous and sick to my stomach thinking about it, and it made it hard to actually focus on the plot or whatnot. I was having trouble keeping track of who was who. Granted, there were a ton of people to follow, but I would have done a lot better normally. I tried my best to stick with it, but I did have trouble. Nothing against Brer when I say this, of course, but his running commentary about what was slightly different in the film from the real thing only added to that nervous "this kind of shit is real" feeling.
I don't know. I don't want to be anywhere near anything like that, and I don't want anyone I care about to be, either... it's scary as shit. It scares me to think about it. I don't want a world where that kind of shit happens. It does, of course. Not a whole lot I can do about it, perse... but it is one of the reasons why... I dunno... I don't understand how anyone who hasn't been involved in the armed forces could feel like they should say what the armed forces should do, you know? Some random person saying they should be doing this or that... I know I have no fucking idea what it's like to put your life on the line for anything... and that random person doesn't either... and I wouldn't want anyone who didn't know that to make such a decision... It just seems crazy unfair otherwise.

I hope some of that was coherent. Anyway, there was some thoughts. I'm going to work.

Posted by poetfox at June 1, 2007 06:54 PM

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