Josh - 10:18 EST

Another day of work, so...money. Yay.

And, I fortunately made some random friends in my class, so getting the homework done for tomorrow was at least a little less of a pain in my side. I still don't remember their names, though. ^^;

Onward, because I have to wake up early tomorrow! Hoora...I mean, #$^&#&^@$&!

Regarding Twilight Princess, Josh said "Since I don't have a GameCube, though...my options are rather limited. I don't really mind, as it will be a good game to play to get used to the novelty of the motion-sensing."

Please explain further, as I fail to understand how the lack of a GameCube would make you options "rather limited".

As I see it they should either be non-existant because you won't have a Wii as well. Or unlimited, since the Wii is backwards compatible with GC games.

As for the Nintendo DS, I was having the opposite feelings, wanting more games which only use the stylus because of their control simplicity! I imagine it's just down to the actual games themselves though. Some work better with a stylus and others with the D-pad & buttons. (E.g. See those Stylus mini-games on the two Mario DS games. I can't imagine playing those with a D-pad!) Or maybe it's trying to use both the D-pad (or buttons), together with the stylus which is causing the friction.

On that cut-up voice acting, it doesn't really bother me as much as actual bad voice acting. (Such as that exampled in your column that day.) Unfortunately I seem to find bad voice acting more common than good acting in RPGs, so perhaps I shouldn't speak as it puts the cut-up one much higher!

Josh,

Like you, I know that video gaming isn't everyone's bag, so I definitely keep it to myself as well. It's like almost every other interest/hobby in life, though. I'm from the South, so I love SEC football, but I don't often talk about them when I'm hanging out with my father-in-law, for instance, who's from Detroit and likes the Big Ten.

I've never truly hidden the fact that I'm a gamer, I guess, but I don't usually have to these days. When I graduated, I moved to Huntsville, AL, which a lot of people usually balk at since 'Bama has quite a reputation, well, for being boring and backwards...among other things. However, living here does have at least one positive...because of all the huge military and Space Program presence in town (Wernher Von Braun and all of that, I'm eventually discovered that I was an engineering gaming geek who lived in a sea of a lot of other engineering/science/math gaming geeks. A lot of these guys, and sometimes gals, have a lot of geeky hobbies; gaming is just one of them. Heck, one of the managers at my job, a 40-something year old retired Marine pilot, used to trade animes with me at work. Even at my church, one of the favorite past times among the guyswas to throw LAN parties on the weekends, but that might have just been the particular group of guys that I hung out with. We often toned it down around people who weren't as excited about gaming. So, at least for the last few years of my life, I haven't had to hide the fact that I'm a gamer. Nearly everyone I know games. Anywhere else, and, well...I probably wouldn't be so open.

The down side of living here? The dating scene really sucked. I can not stress that enough, simply because there was a serious lack of single girls living here. That goes with the territory, I guess. I had to outsource another town to find my wife. The effects THAT has had on my gaming time is rather another story, one that most guys go through, I think.

Anyway, I've got to run. Have a good weekend!

Sundoulos

Hey, Josh, you picked up Valkyrie Profile: Silmeria yet? If so, what do you think? I've been taking quite a while on it, partly to power up and a few dexterity-related things, but I've been enjoying it!

Also looking forward to the latest in .hack and Final Fantasy. Both are such radical departures from what came before (or at least in .hack's case, unknown) that I'm a little nervous. But then, I felt the same about VP: S, and I've been liking it so far. How apprehensive do you usually get about the "next step" in a game series you've enjoyed?

Really Ouro. West Coast won by 1 point. And this is AFL not your piddly backwards throwing "football" (Where there is hardly any kicking). And this is after Sydney beat West Coast by 1 point in the first round of the finals. And after the fact that sydney won last years Grand Final by 4 points against, yep West Coast. If you want true chivalose rivally then these two teams are they. And at least there not Collingwood

And its nice to know that i'm not the only gamer that works in a restaurant. Though i'm a dishwasher, i've still had moments where I wish I could leap out of my enclosed area, dagger and shield (knife and pot lid) weilded and chased the bloody buggers that decided that 1 minute before closing time was the time they wanted to order 2 welll done steaks. I have a home to go people, and I am always at least half an hour finished after the cooks. Unlike tonight thanks to the boss's friends making there tea "exasperated sigh".

Anywho should I talk about games, like the fact that my brother has Kingdom Hearts 2 at his house (which isn't my house), or the fact that i'll be getting both Suikoden 5 (This Friday) and Wild Arms 4 (23rd) soon. Or that I have Pokemon Dungeon Red, and Sammurai Warriors 2 and am playing them both like mad. Or that i'm going swimmingly at Wild Arms 3. NAH

Bainick's a Pikachu.

Luca Blight charges up.
Roku moves to Tile 3.
Bainick moves to Tile 11.
BLG moves to Tile 10.
Arros Raikou moves to Tile 8.
Slimey moves to Tile 13.
Bucket moves to Tile 15.
Draconn moves to Tile 19.
Alan Tse moves to Tile 4.
Slashlen moves to Tile 25.
PureLunatic moves to Tile 22.
Arpijy moves to Tile 17.
JDX moves to Tile 15.
Aurelius moves to Tile 22.
Tabor moves to Tile 22.
Sundoulos moves to Tile 5.

Hahahahaha! ATTACK!

Answer to #L13: C. Lost
The game in question was "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," and for the life of me, I have no idea why the hell they would make a game with that. Anyway, there is a character named Sawyer in LOST, who plays a major role in the cast.

#L14. On which Japanese island is the shrine dedicated to the goddess portrayed as a wolf in Okami, torn down and rebuilt every twenty years?

A. Honshu
B. Hokkaido
C. Kyushu
D. Shikoku
E. Okinawa
F. Ryukyu Islands

Been a long, long day, but it was worth it to bring you guys some more rantings from a madman again. Hope to see you all here tomorrow, and coerce all of your friends into playing THONG! You know you want to...^^

Bring me some love!

***Josh has a sinking feeling he doesn't feel well.