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shikomekidomi's InsaneJournal:
| Saturday, May 31st, 2008 | |
| 8:05 pm | Look at me still talking When there's Science to do. I've experiments to run. There is research to be done. On the people who are still alive. I've probably said it before and I'll say it again. Portal is not only an awesome game but it's nameless AI is one of my favorite characters ever. EDIT: Research indicates that I apparently missed being told that the AI is named GLaDOS. EDIT: Remembered and added a couple spoiler free and minor spoiler quotes, placed at the beginning of the quote sections. In fact, this journal entry is solely to make a note of that in case I start to forget. Ellen McLain, the voice actress did a great job and the line writers were clearly having fun. Here are some quotes, ones with spoilers separated out. "Hello and again welcome to the Aperture Science Computer-Aided Enrichment Center. We hope your brief detention in the relaxation vault has been a pleasant one. Your specimen has been processed and we are now ready to begin the test proper. Before we start, however, keep in mind that although fun and learning are the primary goals of the enrichment center activities, serious injuries may occur. For your own safety, and the safety of others, please refrain from-(static)" "Unbelievable! You, Subject Name Here must be the pride of Subject Hometown Here!" ""Well done. Remember, the Aperture Science 'Bring your daughter to work' day is the perfect time to have her tested." "Well done. Be advised that the next test requires exposure to uninsulated electrical parts that may be dangerous under certain conditions. For more information, please attend an Enrichment Center Electrical Safety Seminar." "Please note that we have added a consequence for failure. Any contact with the chamber floor will result in an "unsatisfactory" mark on your official testing record followed by death. Good luck!" "The Enrichment Center is committed to the well being of all participants. Cake and grief counseling will be available at the conclusion of the test. Thank you for helping us help you help us all." "The Enrichment Center promises to always provide safe testing environments. In dangerous testing environments, the Enrichment Center promises to always provide useful advice. For instance, the floor here will kill you. Try to avoid it." "As part of a previously mentioned required test protocol, we can no longer lie to you. When the testing is over, you will be... Missed." "Did you know you can donate one or all of your vital organs to the Aperture Science self esteem fund for girls? It's true!" Very Minor Spoiler Quotes: "The symptoms most commonly produced by Enrichment Center testing are superstition, perceiving inanimate objects as alive, and hallucinations. The Enrichment Center reminds you that the weighted companion cube will never threaten to stab you and, in fact, cannot speak." "The Enrichment Center reminds you that the Weighted Companion Cube cannot speak. In the event that the Weighted Companion Cube does speak, the Enrichment Center urges you to disregard its advice." "You did it! The weighted companion cube certainly brought you good luck. However, it cannot accompany you for the rest of the test and must, unfortunately, be euthanized. Please escort your companion cube to the Aperture Science Emergency Intelligence Incinerator." "Although the euthanizing process is remarkably painful, 8 out of 10 Aperture Science engineers believe that the companion cube is most likely incapable of feeling much pain." "Welcome to the final test. When you are done, you will drop the device in the Equipment Recovery Annex. Enrichment Center regulations require both hands to be empty before any cake-" "I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportunity to succeed. There was even going to be a party for you. A big party that all your friends were invited to. I invited your best friend the companion cube. Of course, he couldn't come because you murdered him. All your other friends couldn't come either because you don't have any other friends. Because of how unlikable you are. It says so here in your personnel file: Unlikable. Liked by no one. A bitter, unlikable loner whose passing shall not be mourned. "Shall not be mourned." That's exactly what it says. Very formal. Very official. It also says you were adopted. So that's funny, too." "You've been wrong about every single thing you've ever done, including this thing. You're not smart. You're not a scientist. You're not a doctor. You're not even a full-time employee. Where did your life go so wrong?" Major Spoiler Quotes: "The experiment is nearing its conclusion. The Enrichment Center is required to remind you that you will be baked, and then there will be cake." "Congratulations. The test is now over. All Aperture technologies remain safely operational up to 4000 degrees Kelvin. Rest assured that there is absolutely no chance of a dangerous equipment malfunction prior to your victory candescence. Thank you for participating in this Aperture Science computer-aided enrichment activity. Goodbye." "What are you doing? Stop it! I-i-i-i-i-... Weeee are pleased that you made it through the final challenge where we pretended we were going to murder you. We are very very happy for your success. We are throwing a party in honor of your tremendous success. Place the device on the ground, then lie on your stomach with your arms at your sides. A party associate will arrive shortly to collect you for your party. Make no further attempt to leave the testing area. Assume the 'Party Escort Submission Position' or you will miss the party." "Uh oh. Somebody cut the cake. I told them to wait for you, but they cut it anyway. There is still some left, if you hurry back." "Didn't we have some fun though? Remember when the platform was sliding into the fire pit and I said "Goodbye" and you were like "NO WAY!" and then I was all "We pretended we were going to murder you"? That was great!" "Are you trying to escape? Chuckle. Things have changed since you last left the building. What's going on outside will make you wish you were back in here. I have an infinite capacity for knowledge, and even I'm not sure what's going on outside." EDIT: Remembered and added even more quotes. |
| Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 | |
| 9:52 pm | I'd never find evidence so horrible, To clear my thoughts I drill a hole into my skull Heh, got my hands on a copy of Dark Corners of the Earth. A friend got it and then got bored when he couldn't beat it. I'll say this--It's a great game but goes from slow investigation to horribly, gut wrenchingly lethal very suddenly... I love it. All Lovecraft based games should have long segments where a single error results in agonizing death. Very nice job on making the background sounds and visuals creepy, too. A bit dark, I usually play games with the lights on but if I did that here I couldn't see. The effects of losing sanity and health being reflected by the way your character sees, moves, and sounds instead of by life bars or anything of the type helps immersion. Now back to trying to escape Innsmouth ahead of an angry mob and some fish people (much, much harder than it sounds). EDIT: Seriously, every game should have at least forty minutes of crawling on your hands and knees as slowly and carefully as possible while praying that guards don't turn that corner or look behind them because the part-fish, part-frog, part-hicks have shotguns and numbers and are going to MURDER you and you're never going to get out alive and where, oh god, where is the exit... EDIT TWO: Okay, dozens of deaths and reloads later, still in Innsmouth. Farther from where I was, though. Oh Great Cthulhu, do your followers have to be so persistent? And, holy hell, why is the BANK on FIRE? WHY? I must say the way I occasionally hallucinate from too much sanity loss is pretty cool, except that the panoramic visual ones are a bit disorienting, not like the more common auditory hallucinations of things like little girls telling me they didn't want to die. |
| Saturday, April 26th, 2008 | |
| 5:25 am | Are you at war with land, And all of its creatures For those of you who missed it, John Olliver who is a common supporting member of the Daily Show had his own stand up special. It wasn't as great as, say Colbert at the Whitehouse, but I liked it. And you can find it in pieces here: http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?u And I'm probably too tired to be coherent seeing as it's five thirty in the a.m. and I haven't slept yet. But, I suddenly felt the need to say: I heart death worm. And really, that shows you how much I love it, since normally I'd find using heart in place of love all too undignified and sort of annoying. But Death Worm is fun and addictive. If anyone wants to enjoy a free game wherein one is a giant worm who's goal is to eat everything despite eventual military and alien opposition, then try the original Death Worm. http://host-a.net/JTR/Death%20Worm%2 The thing is, many of the old download links are gone and I just discovered some other guy made his own highly similar game with the exact same name (there are differences, like a time limit in his, but it seems unlikely to be coincidence). I find that annoying. Especially since about one minute of looking for a new download link found this one that works. So, Mr. Rip-Off's claims that he can't find the first one and thus couldn't be ripping it off fall rather flat. Especially since he feels the need to get insulting about it. Here's a tip: Don't call people who play games nerds if you have the kind of free time it takes to MAKE one. It comes off kind of hypocritical. |
| Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 | |
| 10:39 pm | Terrified children chased through deserted streets, By maniacal madmen grinning with cannibal teeth Someone's the proud new owner of the Arkham Horror Boardgame-and the King in Yellow expansion. Happened to see it in the local game shop and its relatively hard to find, so there goes a chunk of change. Nothing else to say, really. Ah, owning things. http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/arkha Oh, anyone heard of Bleedman? He does a variety of comics, including a couple that do interesting things with nineties cartoons. http://ppg.snafu-comics.com/?strip_ http://grim.snafu-comics.com/?strip Mostly good for mild nostalgia factor, which would be stronger had I watched most of those shows (but alas, with the exceptions of Invader Zim and a small amount of Grim Adventures, I did not for the most part). |
| Saturday, April 12th, 2008 | |
| 6:21 am | How will we open the eyes of the dead, when we are hollow Zero Point Energy. I actually heard this phrase when rewatching the Incredibles and it sounded familiar, so I looked it up. It's a better term for the so-called vacuum energy. Essentially, thanks to quantum physics, energy exists in every system. Even a vacuum, at its lowest energy state, holds energy. Using that energy for anything useful, on the other hand, is pretty hard, since theoretically one can't remove energy from a system in its lowers energy state. However, the Casimir effect is some of the evidence for ZPE and manifests as a physical force, measurable only on small scale artifacts such as nanotech for the most part. Anything that produces a physical force can be turned into other forms of energy, such as electricity, which tells me you can extract energy from the void. On the other grasping appendage, one cannot say that a worthwhile amount of energy can be extracted or that current technology could build an extraction system that doesn't bleed off and waste more energy than is actually produced. Ah, I love speaking about advanced physics in nonmathematically precise terms, it's pretty much philosophy and I love that, too. |
| Thursday, April 10th, 2008 | |
| 2:29 am | For all that it's worth, The blood on my hands, Is the blood of divinities So, as the elections are approaching, I think we all have one thing on our collective minds, since deep down, we know who we want to win: http://www.cafepress.com/giftsforge Oh, and since I feel like sharing, this is great French thing about their reaction to a movie about marching emperor penguins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NhSQARo On an unrelated note, have I shared this link? http://www.shadensmilen.com/ I love that place, really. Not much to say, really, just feeling a little energetic after two in the morning, after feeling crappy all day... Which is weird, but happens to me sometimes. |
| Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 | |
| 10:09 pm | The Dragon breaks the temple wall The Flood will drown our gods I return. So, Overlord is an awesome game. The little minions are adorable (especially if you can get them to wear jack-o-lantern helmets), wrecking everything in sight is fun, and sometimes you can kill innocents for evil points to get better magic. Watching the various fantasy archetypes get warped into mockeries of themselves by their pre-existing flaws is also fun. And I will also never look at the words 'pincer movement' the same way again, after the scene with the tower mistress, which cracked me up. I'm running it on PC, since I don't have an xbox, but since I have windows it'd be on a Microsoft platform either way. Current Music: Typhon by Therion |
| Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 | |
| 9:33 pm | It'd be funny if it weren't so pathetic..........ah what the heck I'll laugh anywayHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! So, GJ is behaving erratically and thus I must create a second back up. Ah well, better safe than sorry. And I haven't been as active on the interwebs as I once was for a while, due to family members who own livestock getting sick, computers breaking, and renewed world of warcraft accounts (ironically the last happened right before said breakage so the first month was wasted). Have I ever told you guys that Godzilla is America? I was watching the original, uncut first movie (and then the second) and I saw it. At first, Godzilla is scary and kind of inconvenient, what with the eating fishing boats and occasionally tramping across beachfront property. But he's not a threat until the Japanese military attacks him. Then he levels tokyo (there's a nice shot of the overflowing hospitals afterwards, which is lacking in later movies). In the next movie, he's still scary but he helps protect against another, foreign, monster. As the movies progress the Japanese have to rely on him more and more for protection. If I have to point out the parallels here to the American defense bases in Japan (we limited their military abilities after WWII), then you don't know your history. Oh, and while I was explaining this to someone during the second movie Godzilla was lured somewhere with an oil fire. Apparently Godzilla is attracted to oil! Actually, it was the light, but my point stands. So, if America tends to attack indiscriminately in the right general direction when provoked (the Middle East), we can't help it. We're a big dumb dinosaur. Therefore, I believe that Godzilla should replace the bald eagle as the American mascot. And if any Japanese companies complain about copyrights, we'll level Tokyo. |