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So, I have a Dreamwidth account! Anyone on my LJ flist, FRIEND ME PLZ. &hearts (username is the same for both~) I do have one invite code that I haven't used yet but I sort of promised it to someone--if she decides she doesn't want it, it's up for grabs, but right now she's got dibs.
Haven't been very active lately and I apologize for that. Real life's been kicking my ass. No longer working at fall job: spent two months unemployed, in fact. But I'd rather not dwell on that. I start a new job tomorrow, and I'm not really sure how I feel about it--on the one hand, YAY FOR HAVING WORK, and it's a temp-to-hire position so if they like me I could be employed for awhile. On the other hand, they're not paying me very much, the office is an hour away (more with Chicago traffic), the hours aren't great AND I'm not particularly interested in the work.
So we'll see how that goes.
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canofstag and I have been replaying FF7 and it is TREMENDOUS GOOD FUN. I won't say I forgot how much I loved that game, because I've pretty much been married to it since junior high, but I think I have a deeper appreciation for it this time around, coming at it after having all this new-canon thrown at us. Also, we're doing a tag-team sort of marathon thing with it, which is cool, even though FOR SOME REASON I keep getting stuck doing ALL THE PARTS I HATE AHEM AHEM. (It does say something about the level of geek that I am, though: I insisted on playing the Temple of the Ancients because I could do it in my sleep, and I'm always the one to go through and buy materia and equip it and shit, because I AM A CONTROL FREAK.)
We're doing a "canon" playthrough, by which I mean, we're trying to get a playthrough of the game that is the closest approximation to what we think "canon" might've been--in terms of Cloud's dialogue choices, the people we have in the party during certain sections, even what materia we equip, and we're not renaming anyone (except for Aerith, because I need to get used to spelling her name that way). Also Cloud keeps the Buster Sword. Forever.
(If anyone is curious, we got the Tifa date, though afterwards we went and calculated the affection values, and she and Aerith were within two points of each other--so basically if we'd done a single thing differently, we would've gotten the Aerith date. And there were a couple of things we waffled on.)
(Also, yes, Don Corneo picked Cloud. And Cloud said Barret was his boyfriend.)
Things I have learned from this playthrough:
1. I really would marry Barret. Seriously. Sephiroth is my favorite, but Barret, I would settle down and raise kids with.
2. WOW THE TRANSLATION IS BAD. It just, I don't know, it sort of flew under the radar before, but there's SO MANY PROBLEMS ahahaha this guy are sick.
3. Coolest thing about a remake? VOICEACTED and BETTER ANIMATED Temple of the Ancients.
4. Sephiroth is Billy from Family Circus. Does anyone have a canon/fanon reason WHY he leads you to every major town on the Planet before, y'know, actually doing anything?
5. Aerith is kind of. Adorably incompetent. Like, I'm so used to the fanon portrayal of her as this...inhumanly kind, almost sagely character...and then you play the game and she's manipulative and kinda possessive (which I knew already), but also overestimates herself, and gets into trouble, and. I don't know. She reminds me of a small child who keeps poking the hot pan because ooh, shiny, also it might not burn THIS time. ...I'm exaggerating, of course, and I do mean this in the best way possible. (I am completely gay for Aeris-lisp.)
6. TifaCloud? Canon. AerithCloud? Also canon. BarretCloud? AT LEAST "guy love between two guys" canon. SephCloud? Terrifying and wrong. And my OTP. OTL
7. ilovethisgamesosososososososososososomuch. &hearts &hearts &hearts
...OH ALSOcanofstag GRADUATED!!!!!! (Hence why I was home. I do not in fact visit home solely to play FF7. ...Usually.) SO CONGRATULATE HER FOR HER AWESOMENESS.
Haven't been very active lately and I apologize for that. Real life's been kicking my ass. No longer working at fall job: spent two months unemployed, in fact. But I'd rather not dwell on that. I start a new job tomorrow, and I'm not really sure how I feel about it--on the one hand, YAY FOR HAVING WORK, and it's a temp-to-hire position so if they like me I could be employed for awhile. On the other hand, they're not paying me very much, the office is an hour away (more with Chicago traffic), the hours aren't great AND I'm not particularly interested in the work.
So we'll see how that goes.
More importantly,
canofstag and I have been replaying FF7 and it is TREMENDOUS GOOD FUN. I won't say I forgot how much I loved that game, because I've pretty much been married to it since junior high, but I think I have a deeper appreciation for it this time around, coming at it after having all this new-canon thrown at us. Also, we're doing a tag-team sort of marathon thing with it, which is cool, even though FOR SOME REASON I keep getting stuck doing ALL THE PARTS I HATE AHEM AHEM. (It does say something about the level of geek that I am, though: I insisted on playing the Temple of the Ancients because I could do it in my sleep, and I'm always the one to go through and buy materia and equip it and shit, because I AM A CONTROL FREAK.)We're doing a "canon" playthrough, by which I mean, we're trying to get a playthrough of the game that is the closest approximation to what we think "canon" might've been--in terms of Cloud's dialogue choices, the people we have in the party during certain sections, even what materia we equip, and we're not renaming anyone (except for Aerith, because I need to get used to spelling her name that way). Also Cloud keeps the Buster Sword. Forever.
(If anyone is curious, we got the Tifa date, though afterwards we went and calculated the affection values, and she and Aerith were within two points of each other--so basically if we'd done a single thing differently, we would've gotten the Aerith date. And there were a couple of things we waffled on.)
(Also, yes, Don Corneo picked Cloud. And Cloud said Barret was his boyfriend.)
Things I have learned from this playthrough:
1. I really would marry Barret. Seriously. Sephiroth is my favorite, but Barret, I would settle down and raise kids with.
2. WOW THE TRANSLATION IS BAD. It just, I don't know, it sort of flew under the radar before, but there's SO MANY PROBLEMS ahahaha this guy are sick.
3. Coolest thing about a remake? VOICEACTED and BETTER ANIMATED Temple of the Ancients.
4. Sephiroth is Billy from Family Circus. Does anyone have a canon/fanon reason WHY he leads you to every major town on the Planet before, y'know, actually doing anything?
5. Aerith is kind of. Adorably incompetent. Like, I'm so used to the fanon portrayal of her as this...inhumanly kind, almost sagely character...and then you play the game and she's manipulative and kinda possessive (which I knew already), but also overestimates herself, and gets into trouble, and. I don't know. She reminds me of a small child who keeps poking the hot pan because ooh, shiny, also it might not burn THIS time. ...I'm exaggerating, of course, and I do mean this in the best way possible. (I am completely gay for Aeris-lisp.)
6. TifaCloud? Canon. AerithCloud? Also canon. BarretCloud? AT LEAST "guy love between two guys" canon. SephCloud? Terrifying and wrong. And my OTP. OTL
7. ilovethisgamesosososososososososososomuch. &hearts &hearts &hearts
...OH ALSO
canofstag GRADUATED!!!!!! (Hence why I was home. I do not in fact visit home solely to play FF7. ...Usually.) SO CONGRATULATE HER FOR HER AWESOMENESS.