Finally, I Did Some Work

A full day at the office (time’s a wastin’ on getting the next issue of GameAxis out) was rounded out by another meeting for the Video Game Documentary That Obstinately Refuses To Just Roll Over And Die. Followed by going home and writing more stuff for the travel show series.

See? I CAN be productive.

But I still squeezed in some Final Fantasy XII. Over 100 hours clocked in, and nowhere near being done…

Some Minor Script Writing

And then… it’s right back to Final Fantasy XII.

This game is HUGE…

Saturday Night’s All Right For Grinding

Yup. Final Fantasy XII continues.

Weekend Of Final Fantasy XII

Yep, it’s a marathon session of not being productive…

I Now Know

What a Canadian Permanent Residency pass looks like. The Wife picked up her passport today which has her nice, shiny PR immigrant status laminated into it. To no one’s surprise it feature the maple leaf, and had an anti-countefeit holographic watermark in the shape of mounties on a horse.

Nope, that ain’t cliche at all, not one bit…

Still, it looks like things are finally underway. And moving FAST. We might actually be out of here and back in Canada just in time for Christmas. Destination now looks like it might be Toronto. It’s actually cheaper than Vancouver, but the job situation–it being a big city and all–might be a little easier for an illustrator and a writer. Maybe we’ll head over to Vancouver once we A) make tons of money when she’s a famous illustrator and I’m a published novelist or B) Vancouver becomes unpopular again and that starts driving rent and property prices down. Although I doubt that will happen unless the San Andreas fault finally goes kablooey and sinks a good portion of the west coast…

Bizarre Observation Of The Day

If you are Chinese and your are born in another country, you are, by ethnic designation, usually associated with a television network in that country.

For example, Singapore Born Chinese can be known as SBCs, which, until recently, was also the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation. Similarly British Born Chinese can be BBCs, while American Born Chinese are ABCs and Canadian Born Chinese are CBCs.

Unfortunately this all falls apart when you talk about Japan since there is no JBC network, only NHK and I don’t know how the hell you’d get a Chinese Born association out of that.

Super Genius Criminal

I now know how to rob a bank and get away with it.

Since Jack Thompson and Christians in general have come to the conclusion that people who play games are rabid, psychotic dogs that will kill anything on sight, I figure people may as well take advantage of the fact.

So the way I see it, all I have to do is walk into a bank with a Playstation 2 controller and drop some classic line like, “THIS IS A HOLD UP! ANYONE ONE OF YOU MOVES, AND I’LL EXECUTE EVERY LAST MOTHERFUCKING ONE OF YA’S!”

Then, to emphasize my point, I wave the PS2 controller in the air and add, “I PLAY GRAND THEFT AUTO, SO YOU KNOW I’LL DO IT…”

Having established that I am now more heinous than a child molestor and more evil than a terrorist and more diabolical than Hitler, they will now leave me to have my way with the bank and its contents, for fear that annihilate the entire place in a rage of righteous gaming…

Guitar Hero 2 Rocked The GameAxis Office

Brought the game to the office. Rocked out. Brought it home. Rocked some more.

That is all.

It’s Official

I God Damn LOVE the practice mode in Guitar Hero 2.

Screw YOU, Freya, ’cause you are DONE, and all it cost me was a few hours of practice and the use of my right hand for an evening…

Damn You, The Sword…

Well, that didn’t take very long. After cruising through the Hard Mode of Guitar Hero 2, I finally got my ass soundly, decisively trounced, kicked and otherwise handed back to me. The band? The Sword. The song? Freya. There’s a bridge between the second and third verses that goes into an insanely long series of repetitions. I think I find it stupefying or something, because my alertness and dexerity just drop somewhere about half-way through it and I just can’t keep the rhythm going despite the fact that it’s just the same series of notes over and over again. Somehow, my brain actually has an easier time with changing melodies than it does with repeating ones. Thank GOD for that practice mode, because I can already see some minor improvement, though it’ll be a few days or even weeks yet before I can get past that song and the one that comes after it. Expert finally lay the musical beat down on me half-way through. I managed to squeak through 22 of 40 songs before I just finally wasn’t good enough to keep up anymore…