How It Goes

[xyzzysqrl]

So... things are largely awesome lately. What's been up with me?

JET SET RADIO: Status - So Awesome. I love this game. I loved this game when it came out. I still love this game. It -feels so good-, just... cruising around, doing tricks, bouncing off the landscape. Blue skies, spraypaint, ridiculous situations, ridiculous outfits, INCREDIBLE music. I can feel my skill ceiling rising every time I put in some genuine practice. Practice! I have to get -good- at this game again. I have to memorize the levels, learn where to go, how to go there. I haven't done that in a long time, it feels so good to WORK at a game again. So, so good.

BORDERLANDS 2: Status - Pretty Awesome. Enjoying this a lot. Guns are fun and goofy. Plot is... dark, but goofy. Characters are good. Customization is good. Playing with the BF is really good. Liking this a lot.

TORCHLIGHT 2: Status - Incredibly Awesome. It's like Torchlight turned up to 11. Everything moves faster, leveling, loot, running through the levels, can't stop because my charge bar will empty, I get a new skill and it's this ridiculous 105-degree arc of lightning that makes things explode with an amazing "BLURRRCH" sound and then they drop CANNONS. The BF and I went nuts over a cannon.

"LOOK AT THIS CANNON!"
"I KNOW!"
"THIS CANNON IS RIDICULOUS!"
"I KNOW!"
"I DON'T EVEN USE CANNONS!"
"I KNOW! NEITHER DO I!"
... "BUT LOOK AT THIS CANNON!"
etc.

Unfortunately there's one thing that's... not so incredible.

Guild Wars 2: I kind of can't keep playing this right now. Not with the NCSoft/City of Heroes situation like it is. I'm not calling for a boycott, I'm not saying anyone else has to feel this way, but I feel like there's this ELEPHANT in the room, and all I'm doing is picking sour grapes, but there's a bad apple in the barrel and the elephant is going to slip on a banana peel and this analogy is going absolutely nowhere really fast.

What I'm saying is, I have to follow my feelings and my feelings tell me to just sit and watch for a while, see what happens and how NCSoft ultimately handles things, if they even acknowledge anything or what. When the one game I love is either dead and buried or miraculously recovered, I'll be able to think again about the other game I love.

That aside, with me NOT playing GW2, I have more free time. So after I'm done Jet Set Radio I'll be restarting the Hat Project proper and playing the crap out of some more games for general amusement. I was completely in love with doing that, so ... I'm gonna do it some more!

All told, things are going really well lately.

I'm happy a lot of the time, and the times when I'm not happy, a few of you have been there for me to help push me up again. I genuinely can't tell you guys what that means to me. I'm starting to honest-to-goodness feel like I have some self-esteem again. I don't break into spontaneous tears several times a day anymore. I don't want to lock my bedroom door, collapse into bed and patiently wait to die, and I haven't wanted to for like a whole two or three -months- now.

Surely the other shoe will drop soon, but life feels really good right now and that gives me hope.

Comments

[kiruppert.livejournal.com]

I absolutely love that one of the weapon options is a full-size nautical canon modified to be man-portable. Laughably unrealistic, but also completely and totally awesome!

[kiruppert.livejournal.com]

Also, as much as TL2 has swallowed me whole, I may have to go back to BL2 sooner than later because I have some friends at work that will not shut up a bout it, so I'll need further progress just to keep a level of dialog.

[xyzzysqrl]

I am dual-wielding wands in full-on Witchalok mode. I need a Grimm Shado hat.

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

I went wand-and-shield because I couldn't figure out if/how duel wielding was actually better that just having one wand, since it looks like you just alternate shots?

But then sometimes you randomly fire with both which I suppose is an advantage.

[xyzzysqrl]

It's not random, it's based off your focus stat. Try reading the mouseover tooltips?

[relee.livejournal.com]

Blue skies, spraypaint, ridiculous situations, ridiculous outfits... Have you ever tried FreeJack? It's an online parkour racing game. Something about it turned me off but you might get a kick out of it. Here's a link. Apparently there's a new mode where you're running away from zombies instead of just running for fun? I don't know if that's better or worse. XD

Also I'm glad to hear you're feeling consistently chipper, and have the self esteem you deserve! ^.^

[xyzzysqrl]

Huh! I knew about Street Gear (which I sadly cannot get to from the US), but I'd never seen this. Interesting.

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

I might just have to give JSR a try, this time around.. certainly, the soundtrack's enjoyably strange. =:D

BTW, whence comes that particular icon anyway? Searching didn't seem to lead me anywhere in particular, just lots of quotations of the phrase. ^_^;

[xyzzysqrl]

This icon, the famous "Lex Luthor stole 40 cakes (and that's terrible)" and so on are from the Superdictionary, the relentlessly weird 1970s attempt to teach kids language.

More on that here and here, as well as under the "Title: Superdictionary" tag over on Scans_daily.