Actually, before I clear that up, there’s something I don’t understand. In “drought” the gh is silent. Yet, in “draught” the gh turns into an f. Why? How does adding or taking away an “o” make that much of a difference?!? I’m so distressed I’m using multiple pieces of punctuation!!!!!!!!!! (the sure sign of an insane mind)
But the reason why I have been so lacking is this:
Well, not that specifically. That was me at the Portland Freeze, where roughly six to seven hundred people showed up and and descended upon “Portland’s Playground” as channel 8 keeps calling it, and held the same position for 5 minutes. My position was yelling at my Nintendo DS, but over time, my jaws started to really hurt, so I got more of a zoned out look than an enraged one. But still.
Anywho, the real reason why I haven’t been posting is this:
HOLYBALLSTHISGAMEISGOOD
As the caption says, HOLY BALLS THIS GAME IS GOOD. It takes everything you would hate about JRPG’s – the random battles, the turn based combat, and either throws it out the window or tweaks into something that is still amazingly fresh today – mostly because no one seems to have learned from it. Instead of strictly turned based combat, each character has a “timer”, which fills up depending on their speed stat, and when the timer is full, they get to make a move. But you have to be quick in making decisions, because enemies have timers too, and won’t hesitate to attack.
Also, the story and writing is (are?) impeccable (which is a tad confusing word – the story can’t be pecked? Why would birds be trying to eat a video game’s story anyways?), and it has an update translation over the original, some new fully animated cutscenes, and some other extras. Also, one of the best scores in all of video game history.
However, my procurement of this videoelectronic game from a local entertainment reseller does not spell all doom and gloom, mostly because it is an inanimate object, and thus, it doesn’t have a mother, and thus, no one ever taught it the alphabet song. It’s a very sad story.
Ahem. Anywho. The silver lining of this game is that this is another weapon I can use in my fight against insomnia, which I believe may happen next week. Speaking of which, sometime later today I’ll have up a schedule for the next few posts, so I can hopefully post more often, and possibly yet another post, a “real” one, probably explaining the rules surrounding liquids and the drinking thereof.
Addendum: You probably can’t tell it from the pictures, but the day of the Portland Freeze was also the first day it snowed this winter. That means two things – first, that the Freeze caused a true freeze, which I find mildly humorous, and second, IT WAS REALLY FLOBBERWORMIN’ COLD.
