Good Morning, 2010! The Princess' Diary Intarwebs Edition

[Tide]

Good news, bad news time!

Good: My Grandma turns out to be okay. The surgery isn't anything major, so looks all good. Here's hoping for a speedy recovery

Bad: My Finance test for the CPA exam came back. I have to redo it again :/. Looks like I'm still a student for now. Studying will begin a couple of days.

[Bardiche]

Look on the bright side with your Christmas shopping - ever since America turned Saint Nicholas/Sinterklaas into Santa Claus, we've had to put up with celebrating it twice!

@Tide: Good luck with that. Hope your grandma'll be well. I know all too well the distress of having your grandparents suffering ills.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Christmas shopping, round one: sucks.

[DjinnAndTonic]

They're putting out a PSP version which includes The After Years and some nominal new content bridging the gap between the games.

What kind of content do you need to bridge the gap between FF4 and TAY? Does it have a pixelated scene of Rosa and Cecil getting it on near a nuclear waste dump site to produce our somehow-even-stupider-than-you'd-expect protagonist this time around? Porom dealing with training bras? I mean... there's not a lot to explore in that time period, honestly... >.>;;

[OblivionKnight]

FF4: The Puberty Years

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

They're putting out a PSP version which includes The After Years and some nominal new content bridging the gap between the games.

What kind of content do you need to bridge the gap between FF4 and TAY? Does it have a pixelated scene of Rosa and Cecil getting it on near a nuclear waste dump site to produce our somehow-even-stupider-than-you'd-expect protagonist this time around? Porom dealing with training bras? I mean... there's not a lot to explore in that time period, honestly... >.>;;

Trying to milk the hell out of plot that would be better off not existing is the very core of FF4.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

They're putting out a PSP version which includes The After Years and some nominal new content bridging the gap between the games.

What kind of content do you need to bridge the gap between FF4 and TAY? Does it have a pixelated scene of Rosa and Cecil getting it on near a nuclear waste dump site to produce our somehow-even-stupider-than-you'd-expect protagonist this time around? Porom dealing with training bras? I mean... there's not a lot to explore in that time period, honestly... >.>;;

A 15-minute training montage.

(Montage!)

[Niu]

They're putting out a PSP version which includes The After Years and some nominal new content bridging the gap between the games.

What kind of content do you need to bridge the gap between FF4 and TAY? Does it have a pixelated scene of Rosa and Cecil getting it on near a nuclear waste dump site to produce our somehow-even-stupider-than-you'd-expect protagonist this time around? Porom dealing with training bras? I mean... there's not a lot to explore in that time period, honestly... >.>;;

Djinn, RS2 remake on the cellphone requires more attention from you. Stop thinking about FF4 but all the pretty new 7 Heroes art by Kobayashi. UGHHH!! Why!! Why is the remake on cellphone!!! The Kobayashi art!! I want!!! And four more new dungeon that actually deals with the actual 7 Heroes meta plot?? CURSES!!!

[DjinnAndTonic]

RS2? Romancing SaGa?

Hmm... I'd probably be more excited if it was a SaGa game remake of something I'd actually played before...

Also, cell phone game. >.>;;

Maybe if they release a DS port or something I'll buy it.

If it was a SaGaF remake, I'd be beating down some Japanese friends' doors and forcing them to buy the game for me. Several copies.

WHERE IS MY REMAKE OF SAGAFRONTIER, SQUARE!!!!!

[Lady Door]

One of my friends from high school is a drummer. He was a drummer in high school, went to college for Percussion, and just finished his Master's in Music in Percussion Performance so... I think it's safe to say he's a drummer.

Anyway, he's entered this contest thingy, and he's currently in 2nd place with 24-odd hours left.

Would you visit his page and consider giving him a vote?

http://www.indabamusic.com/submissions/show/33807

(For those of you who actually care, the music is a remix of Metric - Golden Guns Girls. And yes, that IS my friend drumming.)

[Grefter]

Good taste in tracks to mix as well, listening to it now, will likely throw in a vote.

Also I am at my parents place with just my laptop, so that is why I have vanished from IRC latey, if anyone needs to contact me then board PMs are a better idea for now.

[Cotigo]

Home for a couple days.  This means no SC2.  This does also mean time with family + alcohol + food so this is a winning trade.

Work Friday, though.  7AM.  Not looking forward to it.  Ah well.

[Lady Door]

So he pulled off 2nd place!

Pro membership to the site. Metric will pick a winner on January 20th, and there's nothing to do now but wait. I'll try to remember to let you guys know how he does in the end.

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In unrelated news, this is the dumbest week of work ever. It was last year, too. Whyyyyyyy

[Grefter]

Christmas eve at parents place.  When I was getting a lift to the station with my dad he had his iPod touch playing on shuffle, so I picked it up and flicked it over to Velvet Underground and we sang along in the car to Venus in Furs and the like.  While I was at work he dug out his vinyl collection.

So we spent tonight recording some vinyl to PC.  The original Velvet Underground and Nico (!!), a print put out by MGM called Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground which has a smattering of tracks from the first three albums (might just be first two?), not an official album, but neat enough anyway.  The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust is playing at the moment.  We have ChangesoneBowie still to go on the Bowie front.  A few others. A Master's Apprentice album, Lou Reed - Transformer.  There is also a Hendrix single in there.  For some reason there is a Gary Glitter single as well.

Going to get copies for myself because oh my god I love vinyl.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

I wish I was one tenth of the music nerd you are sometimes.

[Cotigo]

Aficionado, more like, if you want to get technical, and you know I do.

So, the benefit to working at 7AM is negated by a few things:  There's nothing I'd want to do tonight until 8 or 9PM anyway, and working a 10 hour shift means I went to work before the sun was up and came back after it was down, which is just slightly depressing if you ask me.   Oh well, on regular schedule now, and it is the weekend.  Time to... uh. Move.

[DjinnAndTonic]

So the first snow of the winter is on Christmas day. I should probably be less bitter about this.

[Cmdr_King]

And thus Djinn remains the only floridian who understands that snow is evil.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

So the first snow of the winter is on Christmas day. I should probably be less bitter about this.

And thus Djinn remains the only floridian who understands that snow is evil.

Your Chrismtas coal lumps were strategically placed inside the shoes you're going to use today. Thank you and good night.

[Cmdr_King]

Excellent, I can use it to thaw out my car.*

* ACTUALLY it's been a pretty excellent winter so far, only one noteworthy snowfall and it's stayed cold enough to prevent thaw->refreeze ice forming.  Going out for christmas I was able to easily back down the hill and get enough momentum to get back up, so at this stage the worst driving of the winter is already done.  Wheeeee~

[PsySlaver]

Corporate life SUCKS.

[superaielman]

Heya Psy. Working a bunch?

[PsySlaver]

Much more than I'd like to, actually.

How are you guys doing?

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Heya, Psy.

On my end, doing fine, though I've been working like a mule myself. <_<

[superaielman]

Pretty well on this end. Christmas was good! You still in Rio?