*Chokes* Ooohh man *wipes away a tear* I miss this cartoon.

Some screenshots from Flyff. Most of the monsters in this game are your run-of-the-mill anime-style-game monsters. But then you go over a bridge and holy half-naked catgirls, Batman…

And as if that weren’t enough, they went and made one Giant.

Oh. Mygod.

I don’t know why I expected anything less from this kind of game, but, duuuuuuude! 12 year-olds play this!

Well, I don’t feel bad about killing them. That’s for certain.

The catgirls, not the 12 year-olds. Although I doubt I’d feel bad about killing them either, if I were in PvP mode.

I sometimes have to remember that there are folks out there who are much much geekier than I am. Sadly, I’m the type that would seriously consider purchasing a fully functioning GIR if it was decided that he needed to be mass-marketed. So, considering the fact that I don’t, nor will I EVER, make any monies off my geekiness, who’s REALLY the geek here? Or am I just a total fantard? Perhaps a small amount of both.

Whatever.

One of the things that makes going to Gymboree on Thursdays worth enduring is the fact that it’s right next door to a comic book shop. After The Shake gets her fill of fun then I walk about 20 feet and get mine.

Today I went and got this there. I’ve been wanting to read it since high school, but only now did I pick it up. I just never got around to it, though in my defense, I don’t think it had been translated and published in English back when I discovered the series.

Heck, I had a real bitch of a time trying to find just about any anime/manga that I was interested in back then. I remember how excited I was when I found a bootleg VHS copy of Rayearth (not Magic Knights, just plain Rayearth) at a comic shop. It was the same place where I picked up the first volume of Vision of Escaflowne when it came out on VHS. It wasn’t until several years later that I found the rest of the series (also on VHS) at Suncoast. Of course, by that time, everyone was into Japanese Animation so it wasn’t as cool anymore.

Well, I’m off to read my new book do homework. *cough* Or… exercise. Or something.

I needs me a set of these. To complete my Wanton Sex Goddess image.

Something you may or may not have known about me: I was once a synchronized swimmer.

It was the year 1992, and I was fourteen years old. We had recently moved back to Phoenix, Arizona after about five years in Oregon and my sister and I had transferred to the Arizona Aqua Stars from the Tualatin Hills Synchro Club.

After hours of tinkering around with my computer and some DVDs that my father gave me, I now have my very first YouTube video to prove it.

BEHOLD! Me, in all my gangling, awkward, teenaged glory. I’m the really pale one in the duet and in case you still have trouble picking me out, my father was nice enough to put my name briefly over my person just before the routine started. Also, if you recognized the last song in the performance, but couldn’t remember where it came from, hereyago.

And you can laugh all you want, but those skillz got me through the swim portion of boot camp with ease.

Please?

Our AC isn’t working correctly and the unpleasant temperature in our apartment is causing the old beast to overheat. Poor thing. I had to install an extra fan.

Yes, that’s clear packing tape holding a webcam to my monitor. It’s not pretty, but it works.

SWEET!!!

I can now play oldschool DOS games until my little heart’s content.

Sadly, the Zork trilogy is no longer available as Activision isn’t allowing free distribution anymore. Oh well, there’s always my old friend, Hitchhiker’s Guide.

P.S. If you’ve finished this game (as I did one summer when summer was synonymous to ‘three month period with no pressing obligations’) then here are some really fun things to try.

One of, if not THE, greatest character in the history of Star Trek. EvAR!!

(fun things under the cut)

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AAH! These are so cool. Thanks to Davey for the link.

And while I was there I found and developed an impish desire to get one of these little guys.  As of yet I don’t know where or when I would use it but I’m sure that, given enough time, I could come up with something sufficiently devious.