Bluh.

[xyzzysqrl]

I cannot brain. I caught the dumb and it densified me.

So here's a meme. scian_ashleyder asked me some things. I'm answering them.


1. What is your all-time favoritest video game and why?
2. If you single-handedly created a video game, what would it be like, and what would its title be?
3. What game character would you choose as a lifelong companion (whether sexual or not I leave up to you)?
4. What are the best and worst things about the video game industry as it stands today, particularly as compared to how it stood in the past?
5. Will you -please- -please- -please- do a summary of Wolf's Rain in the same sort of way you did for the first few Gundam Wing episodes? *big puppy-yote eyes*


My answers:

1. My -favorite- video game ever... let's see. I'd have to go with Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction. I get out of it what some people get out of Grand Theft Auto: It's a world to roam around going "RAAAR GRRR SQRL SMUH!" and breaking things and hurling puny humans into the ocean and baseball-batting mecha around.

2. I have NO idea. It would probably be an awful lot like Switch/Panic, mind. Probably have a title like "Happy Sunshine Banana Risu Universe 20XX".

3. Someone handy to have around, like Ratchet or Clank or Dax.

4. I feel the best thing is the sheer variety of titles... and the worst, the sheer variety of titles. For every fantastic set of really awesome games that get translated or pulled out of nowhere, there's a buttload more that get buried in a flood of Sametron 2000 style games. I dunno how to account for that.

5. Maybe. *nod*


There we go. I did something. Back to MMOs, reading, and napping. *rub eyes*

Comments

[ss-ebonclaw.livejournal.com]

Wolf's Rain in a nutshell:

Grr! Humans are bad! Be emo! Hey, you smell like human! Wait, there's a plant girl? She's nice. Grr, humans are bad! emo emo emo emo! Ohnoez, badguy! Wolf eye?! Grr, he's human! Humans are bad! Quick, there's a giant whale! Eat it's eyeball! Brr, it's cold. Hey, look. End of the world! Wut, now we're all human?

[xyzzysqrl]

You left out Wolf Versus Mecha, though.

[ss-ebonclaw.livejournal.com]

I don't remember that part. By time I got tired of the series I had been so far in, it would have been a waste to give up on it.

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

You take that back! Those wolves were so brave, and when toboy dies... *tear*

I hate anime in general. Wolfs rain was a gem that I loved. I've never seen the rumored alternate happy endings.

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

SQRL, have you played Mass Effect? I would like to talk to you about it, and the direction in which Bioware is moving in. I recently got my first taste of the game. There was nothing of this written in the prophecies and I must consult with another oracle.

[xyzzysqrl]

I've played it some, but not finished it. Keep restarting.

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

Keep restarting? That's no way to approach a bioware RPG sir. You must make your bed and sleep in it, and then do things "right" the second time around, and then do things evil the third time around.

[kiruppert.livejournal.com]

Hulk Ultimate Destruction is *Fun*. And I saw the new movie yesterday, not only does Hulk wear vehicular boxing gloves at one point, but the sequence where he puts them on is EXACTLY the same as in the game!

[(Anonymous)]

I’m going to tell you a story. Are you sitting comfortably? Right, then I’ll begin.

Once upon a time (75 million years ago to be more precise) there was an alien galactic ruler named Xenu. Xenu was in charge of all the planets in this part of the galaxy including our own planet Earth, except in those days it was called Teegeeack.


Now Xenu had a problem. All of the 76 planets he controlled were over-populated. Each planet had on average 178 billion people. He wanted to get rid of all the overpopulation so he had a plan.

Xenu took over complete control with the help of renegades to defeat the good people and the Loyal Officers. Then with the help of psychiatrists he called in billions of people for income tax inspections where they were instead given injections of alcohol and glycol mixed to paralyse them. Then they were put into space planes that looked exactly like DC8s (except they had rocket motors instead of propellers).

These DC8 space planes then flew to planet Earth where the paralysed people were stacked around the bases of volcanoes in their hundreds of billions. When they had finished stacking them around then H-bombs were lowered into the volcanoes. Xenu then detonated all the H-bombs at the same time and everyone was killed.

The story doesn’t end there though. Since everyone has a soul (called a “thetan” in this story) then you have to trick souls into not coming back again. So while the hundreds of billions of souls were being blown around by the nuclear winds he had special electronic traps that caught all the souls in electronic beams (the electronic beams were sticky like fly-paper).

After he had captured all these souls he had them packed into boxes and taken to a few huge cinemas. There all the souls had to spend days watching special 3D motion pictures that told them what life should be like and many confusing things. In this film they were shown false pictures and told they were God, The Devil and Christ. In the story this process is called “implanting”.

When the films ended and the souls left the cinema these souls started to stick together because since they had all seen the same film they thought they were the same people. They clustered in groups of a few thousand. Now because there were only a few living bodies left they stayed as clusters and inhabited these bodies.

As for Xenu, the Loyal Officers finally overthrew him and they locked him away in a mountain on one of the planets. He is kept in by a force-field powered by an eternal battery and Xenu is still alive today.

That is the end of the story. And so today everyone is full of these clusters of souls called “body thetans”. And if we are to be a free soul then we have to remove all these “body thetans” and pay lots of money to do so. And the only reason people believe in God and Christ was because it was in the film their body thetans saw 75 million years ago.

Well what did you think of that story?

What? You thought it was a stupid story?

Well so do we. Unfortunately this stupid story is the core belief in the religion known as Scientology.* If people knew about this story then most people would never get involved in it. This story is told to you when you reach one of their secret levels called OT III. After that you are supposed to telepathically communicate with these body thetans to make them go away. You have to pay a lot of money to get to this level and do this (or you have to work very hard for the organisation on extremely low pay for many years).

We are telling you this story as a warning. If you become involved with Scientology then we would like you to do so with your eyes open and fully aware of the sort of material it contains.

Most of the Scientologists that work in their Dianetics* centres and so called “Churches” of Scientology do not know this story since they are not allowed to hear it until they reach the secret “upper” levels of Scientology. It may take them many years before they reach this level if they ever do. The ones who do know it are forced to keep it a secret and not tell it to those people who are joining Scientology.

Part of the first page of the secret OT III document in L. Ron Hubbard’s own handwriting.

original document at www.xenu.net

[ss-ebonclaw.livejournal.com]

Sorry, Anon. the cult is already well-laughed at in this corner.