Oh yeah, and the third step is to give them all your money :
http://kck.st/10g0vXI

Damn, just after I forgot about the game too. Hnngh.

It may only be a demo, but it is a complete, self-contained scenario worth playing as it is :
http://undertale.com/

There is little I can say about it without spoiling the varying degrees of awesome, but take an hour out of your life to try this, and go in with an open mind. Remember that if you have determination, there is always a way.

Just shuffling previous journal out of sight.
It'll be nice to not see a wall of text in this corner of my page!

29 today. One year off being "officially old".

It turns out that the lovely fluffster  cupcakecreature shares the same birthday, so we had a little giddy squee about that. I waddled off to go watch Prometheus, pausing to empty a large cola into my shoes due to some awesome badger fumbling action in the car. The movie was... good. Good in an odd way. Awesome atmosphere and theming for the first half, that fizzled out with the change to something of a creature feature. What I didn't quite enjoy as a film, I enjoyed as lore to the world of Alien. Anyway, aside from that, my beloved new treadmill is still stuck at my mother's place until we can get some rope or something to keep the hydraulic arm thingy in place while we transport it, and by the time we finished watching Prometheus, it was too late to go snag a slice of cake from the shop I had in mind. My router is still being an ass, pulling a Michigan J Frog every time I try to prove it is defective to get a replacement. Hnngh.

29 and an adept complainer and critic. Just wait until I get another 20 years under my belt. Juuust youuu waiiit~ >:D
I don't know whether to recommend Prometheus. The first half has an awesome atmosphere and really feels like your mind is going to be blown at any given moment. And then, the designs of some of the things they use in the second half, along with some plot holes only cause little breaks in immersion. It had some awesome set-ups for some really memorable horror moments, but it relied too heavily on cheap, squicky body-horror, totally blowing its chance. Fans could either love it for the glimpse of prequel lore of the Alien series' world, or they could despise it due to the lacklustre designs and resolution. I can totally understand why they did what they did with some of the designs, even from an in-world perspective, but most of it just really didn't work, for me. Still, with nothing better on, it might be worth sating your curiosity. I'm notoriously critical of stuff in general, let alone horror, my favourite~

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Prometheus Spoilers and Rambling Ahead!
Quite a few things could have used more fleshing out, or a little re-think in design. Some of the designs were far too familiarly terran, such as the infection-child that just looked like a straight-out squid. Also, the preference for random 'deepthroat' attacks just came off as random squick attempts rather than serving any strong purpose to the bioweapon species. The old facehuggers worked because it wasn't a simple attempt to induce cringe. It rendered you completely vulnerable, and whilst it was blatantly alien and encroaching, the exact nature of its parasitism and invasion was obscured. That was what made it so unnerving. as opposed to "monsters that want to get in your mouth", because that just looked like they were trying to choke prey they simply wanted dead. The snake-thing started out promising with its grappling, but ended with another load of simple cringe.

They also missed great potential for actual horror with the medical pod, but instead opted to make it a variant of "gorn". Oooh oww screamy this hurts owwy owwy. That isn't effective. Cringey? Yeah. Horrific? Not as horrific as having the space-age painkillers taking strong effect, and making the pain she experienced slight, but as a trade-off her reactions very groggy and subdued. Enforced pain for survival is just a cheap shot. Helplessness in the enforced close presence with an unfamiliar entity, and being forced to crawl past it whilst your muscles refuse to cooperate from the anesthesia? That's more like it. Don't get me wrong, that scene had some solid set-up from the urgency, and the audio/visual design really helped it... I just felt it could have been way better. Especially if the damn thing didn't look like just an earth-squid. :V

In fact, a lot of the truer horror elements felt they took second place to gross-out attempts, and the movie fell prey to making its aliens far too relatable and terran in general. They had Giger's biomechanical stylings to work with for crying out loud. Even if the lore demands a certain look, you still have to be careful with what you do. The first half of the movie had some incredible set-up, but it felt a bit wasted, y'know? Still worth seeing, but I can't help but feel they missed a colossal hit. I would have loved a little more development or at least visual explanation of exactly what purpose the bio-ooze lifeform was intended for. I know some things are more effective left unexplained, but discerning exactly what was a normal part of the forerunner ship design, and which parts were due to leaked bioweapons (if that was even the actual scenario), then it would have been cool to just get more hints. Were human beings just a stepping stone in their terraforming, using the 'bioweapon' to convert us literally into them, making us a kind of tool? Did they just randomly decide they wanted to eradicate us? How/why did the bioweapon get out? Was the bioweapon actually a functioning part of the ship's intended lifecycle? I can't help but feel a little unsatisfied on this side of things, even if I loved seeing a little 'living lore' of the Alien world. I get that what we saw was supposed to be an early evolutionary step in what ultimately became the "xenomorph" species, but it was all a bit too scattered and not fully developed enough to leave me sated. Still, for my criticisms and nitpicks, it was worth watching. Not bad by any means, just lacking in certain areas (disregarding plot holes). For once, we picked a good cinema, with good audio positioning and quality (it's nice to feel your seats vibrate with the bass of a giant spaceship), and good environment control. Really helped draw you in.
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Yeah, that pixelcore game just got released on PC lately.

If you're thinking of getting it, you should seriously think twice, dig around a bit. A real "your experience may vary" deal. I'm normally the first to dig a game that is more of an experience than a straight game but this (as of 60% completion) is hollow and pretentious. A game as afterthought to a digital music download, complete with some pretty flat dishonesty about it's gimmicks. The "working with people through twitter" is actually just you advertising their game to your friends, and the "gameplay changing based on real moon phases" is actually just getting your game progress stonewalled based on time and date. Well, stonewalled, with an in-game work-around you may not get to use for 24 hours depending on your luck. Linear in a bad way, so much hand-holding, and no real "game" to speak of. Just... hnnngh.

I guess I'm just a little butthurt because it seemed to have so much potential, but it got wasted. Isn't that always the way though? At least for a bad purchase, it was cheap. The positive reviews it keeps getting are downright baffling to me.

Why? Why did I do this to myself?

"Only 1700 words a day!" I thought, completely disregarding my OCD need to make every word fall perfectly. There is no such thing as a first draft, only a PERFECT DRAFT. Of course, I joined shortly before the event kicked off, with no real layout or plan for the story. Now that I managed to claw my way to the 10,000 word mark, I've exhausted the singular idea I had for the main story. Every day I keep considering giving up. The quality is horrendous. The flow of words is hackneyed. My vocabulary all shrivelled and smouldering, blown out from the first few pages.

It's 3pm, and still no ideas.
Sure, it's a fantasy story. I could slip into one of the many overused main-plot tropes and just write for the hell of it, but then it wouldn't really feel like my own story any more. It would just be purely going through the motions. Though if I'm perfectly honest, that's exactly what NaNoWriMo is. Writing, against all your quality-control instincts, just to punch giant "FUCK YOU" holes in your mental blocks, and lay the skeletal groundwork of your story-to-be. But can I really be bothered to edit this steaming pile of anus, once the month is over?

Hnnngh.
Perhaps it is time. Time to visit TVTropes, and find something just obscure or maladjust to my plot that it just might work.
But going there is a real dance with the devil. There is no such thing as just a short visit.
OH GOD NOW IT'S 3:10PM

This reminds me how much I love wikipedia, and its sub-wikis for various subjects. Without it, I would have been pretty baffled at what was just going on in the latest end-of-act animation.

This is the big trouble with having such a crazy story in a webcomic. Even with frequent updates, people will simply lose track of what is going on. Unless things are still fresh in your mind, you're likely to forget the finer ins and outs, and with homestuck, there is no such thing as a quick re-read of the comic. This, my friends, is why I still say time-fuckery (especially overlaid space-fuckery) is one deadly sin for plot mechanics, especially when you use it as much as homestuck.

And now we just have to wait to see what happens in-line with trollish reincarnation from dreambubbles...

"The Aristocrats"

"You don't have to read it if you don't like it"
I hear this coming up a lot as a sidestep tactic when something comes under scrutiny. Replacing 'read' with 'watch' or 'play' or whatever the immediate medium demands.
Yet i've always found it amusing. Surely you have to partake of the matter to decide whether or not you like it in the first place?
Or have time machines become a commercial service now?

But yeah, why is it so many sidestep/deflection regurgitives make so little sense and are so broadly used?
Fun fact : I accidentally posted this journal with no text. Maybe a journal with this title would be funnier if I left it that way? :3c

Had some lovely pointless bickering tonight.
Brought to you by the number 5 and the letter F.
A little assumed tone here, a little mistaken anger/subject matter there.
Instant clusterfuck. Serves as many people as you want to suck in.

I hate it when I get taken the wrong way. I try to go to my greatest lengths to avoid being misinterpretted, and yet it still happens. Wanting to articulate a simple thing, and never finding the words, only to find my fumbling makes the worst possible interpretation of shit is the one that everyone hears. Fuck. Shit. Piss.

Y'see, in reality, I am a rather meek, overly agreeable person, with very little opinion of myself. Yet people tend to see me as a grouchy, confrontational, arrogant, easy-to-anger bastard who is too fixated on my own opinions and bias to even consider anything else. Even people who know me pretty well. Its like some kind of default they fall back to whenever we disagree. The thing is, I live by the "the only person you can change, is yourself" rule in life, or at least, I try to. After an arguement I often look back over it and try to understand where I went wrong, or where I came off badly. Maybe that is because I don't expect anybody to ever consider themselves wrong, because I feel everyone is arrogant and needlessly confrontational. Kind of ironic, eh?

It just... sucks ass. To take on every opinion, if only briefly, and still be seen as fixed and arrogant, simply because I dare to disagree. Not bothering to hide my frustration when an open, blind lack of tact gets to me, is apparently the same as just outright looking for fights. I also hate how catty otherwise good people can be over absolutely nothing. Maybe in the end, I am just seen as arrogant because I expect people to not be obnoxious douchebags, whilst happily using profanity towards those who take liberties and skip using tact? Don't worry folks, i'm well aware that my shit stinks too. Trust me on this one.

But you know out of all the bullshit what I hate the most?
Double. Fucking. Standards.
Goddamn.

Don't you hate it when you decide to sit down and scribble something, and when you hover your respective sticklike art-doodads over the paper... nothing wants to come out? I don't get it. Fucking arts, how do they work?