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Godmother by Ursula Vernon.

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I've been trying to find the lj entry where I read about switching everyone's paths in FFX, but I have no idea how long ago it was, nor who posted it. I don't even know what to google for. Not so much because I don't know what I'm doing (I sort of do. I spent three hours grinding today WHICH I HATE BY THE WAY for that very reason. Also to shift Rikku over to Auron's grid, but I need to use her more because that's not happening - she's still too close to her own right now). I am SO SICK of hearing Movement In Green because of it, and I freaking love that track. I suppose I should've shut the sound off and put some of my own music on, but that didn't really occur to me.

(Talking of music, I FINALLY have hold of a decent music theory book that makes sense! HURRAH).

I'm sick of fighting Ochus, too (they have too much HP and I am not strong enough. PFFT).

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Oh yes, I watched The Wolverine!

It was OK (to be fair, I went in expecting it to be probably shite, so all in all a good time was had). I'm glad I'm not more familiar with the arc they adapted, although in some ways I wish I was, because there were things I had assumed were true about Wolverine (comicsverse) that actually might not be (although as we know comics and movie verse are unmixy things). The stinger mid-credits was tosh, though. I don't really care about Days of Future Past, and it felt tacked on and a bit hokey to me.

I thought the fights were interestingly choreographed, which is always good. The story was all right, and I liked Mariko and Yukio kicking ass, and now I want a film about Logan and Yukio kicking ass together because I think it would be awesome. (I wasn't sold on the romance even though I knew it happened anyway). Heck, I would actually watch a film about Mariko kicking ass. That would be cool (but it will NEVER HAPPEN *sighs*)

Then I discovered on Thursday that I could've just borrowed it off Jackie's husband instead of renting it. (I didn't think to ask because Jackie isn't into comics/superhero films anyway, and I don't know what her husband's into except video games. OH WELL. Maybe I will learn for next time).

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All this talk of Final Fantasy on my Flist has me wanting to hook the PS2 up to my HD TV and wanting to play. :|

That, or restart Bioshock for the billionth time and watch as I get stuck in the same place. XD

Heh, I like most of the games in the series, and I love them a whole lot, so this isn't going to let up, I'm afraid. I'm playing FFX on the HDTV and it's weeeeird because aside from anything else, I'm noticing details in the character models I couldn't see before on my CRT TV.

That's sort of why I'm wanting to play again, tbh. XD I want to see how pretty the graphics actually are.
(Let's be honest here, I'm totally doing this now.)

For a ten year old game, I think they hold up really well. I mean yeah, they look dated and some of the animation is stiff and mannered but a) I like that (because I'm weird), and b) I've never been into hyper-real computer graphics anyway.

When you hooked up your PS to your HDTV, did the aspect ratio go to 4:3 or 480p?

I don't know, I'm sorry. Whenever I use the PS2 on the big TV, I always set the display to 16:9. Sorry I can't be more helpful than that :(

No worries then. it's not a big deal to me, I thought maybe i'd done something wrong (which might be entirely the case lol).

I had a hard time sitting through The Wolverine |D;;; Johnathan and I went into it hoping it would be pretty good and ended up very disappointed. Days of Future Past I liked a lot better but eh, it was pretty okay. Their choreography for all of those fight scenes are very interesting, I enjoyed seeing those myself as well but storywise I wasn't entirely thrilled with either |D;;;

Oh, that's a shame :( I think it's awful when you look forward to something and then end up horribly disappointed.