all made up with nowhere to go

I may as well be playing Lost Odyssey for the first time because I remember next to nothing about it (as it's four years since I looked at it last). Well. I remembered a thing I've now forgotten, and I remembered the boss fight in the ghost town, because I had to do it several times through the first time I played.

I had forgotten how much I love Seth. I had also forgotten what a pile of tropes that I hate about Japanese media that Jensen is*. I think he improves, but I really can't remember? Kaim is stoic and awesome and ♥

*That said: I still do love that your first acquired mage is male instead of automatically female because lol tropes, or whatever.

I had entirely forgotten that the game has other language dubs than the English and Japanese. I had it on Japanese originally, because nothing beats the entire cast saying GURANDO STAFFU! in as hammy tones as is possible. I now have it on the German dub because I need more practice listening. I understand more spoken words than I thought, so yay WINNING. And it must have been a thing across all the dubs because they're just as bad when saying Grand Staff, too (sorry, would write in German, but didn't catch what the second word was).

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In other news, I've been extracting the sound from Awakening, because I wanted a certain thing Nate says for a message notification (hey, if I can have Cassandra sounding disgusted every time someone tweets me, I can sure as hell have someone else telling me a thing for something else - email, in this case).

Three things about it:

~ it's too much fun (and WAY easier than I thought it would be).

~ Oghren tells Velanna that baby dwarves are rocks that have to be placed in lava to hatch. And she believes him.
(I have never heard this before, because I don't let Velanna join, and I never take Oghren out).

~ I think Greg Ellis had trouble losing his actual (Lancs) accent when he did Anders' battle shouts, and that makes me giggle a lot.
(Also I did not realise that Anders yells "I'll show you why mages are feared!" in Awakening? I hear him say it A LOT in DAII because only healer, but never noticed it previously. Clearly, I fail at everything).
(I'm going to put a few together and upload it because. Well. Because I can).

I want a PC copy of DAII so I can extract the sound from that (and DAI, but used prices for that are still ridiculous, because it's only what? six months old?) Also I dunno, I just like listening to people? Voices, man, they are totally my poison.

~ I am still accepting awkward questions for that December question meme: here, if you want to ask me anything.

~ I think I might be a bit lactose intolerant. I've been feeling really nauseous lately, and um, other stuff, and I'm having trouble figuring out what caused it. The only thing I can think is that it's milk because I've been drinking more coffee recently, and I have a fair bit of milk in it. So. Honestly, I don't know. (I don't want to say for sure because wheeee self-diagnosis but if I try a milk substitute and then this stops, well. Doesn't take a genius to work it out, does it?)

~ Still playing Awakening. Attempting to do All The Sidequests. I must be doing something right because I've been playing for 14 hours yet, and have only just encountered the Architect and the Mother. (I beat it in around 15 or so hours last time).

I've definitely done stuff I didn't manage/remember from before (because, like ME3, which I played around the same time, I am remembering most stuff! And I've only played it once before). Like I finished off both quests in the Keep's basement (I know they're relatively minor, but eh. ALL THE SIDEQUESTS!)

I need to stick ME2 in sometime because I want to get Lucas through to 3 (BECAUSE CORTEZZZZZZZ), and also because he will be the only one of my Shepards who's met Kasumi :(

~ I am reading The Fault In Our Stars by John Green. I had not heard of the guy till this year (in spite of his being a popular vlogger????), and I heard this book was awful, so obviously I had to read it. And it is awful. My disbelief is not suspended, and the teenagers don't talk like teenagers (they talk like overly verbose adults who are trying to show off). Also it's supposed to be a book about cancer, and it really isn't. And it thinks it's so fucking clever, and it just comes across as so fucking smug that I want to beat the characters to a pulp. (In lieu of that, I beat darkspawn to a pulp).

The problem is that John Green is actually a competent writer, and so I want to carry on reading in spite of myself. I guess if that means I finish a book for the first time in forever, then that's no bad thing really.

(P.S. I'm sorry if you like this book, or the writer, but he's really not my thing).

~ I am slowly getting through The Drawing of The Three, relatedly. I think once I've finished the above book, I might plow on with this one because dang it I now have The Waste Lands, and I want to get these books read!

~ Still jealous of everyone who's not me who is playing DA:I

(I don't understand this because I wasn't this hype about ME3, but I think I talk to more peeps who play the games now than I did then? *shrugs*)

I finished another game this afternoon! \o/

Awakening can be stricken from the list! I didn't manage to save Vigil's Keep as well as Amaranthine, but it's a short enough game that I can figure it out for another time. (I was actually surprised at how short it was - I suppose I forget to some extent that it's only an expansion to Origins, since it works enough on its own - so the end kind of crept up on me, and I wish there'd been more character detail (especially where the villains are concerned. It felt incredibly one-sided) ). But eh, it was a good waste of 15 or so hours (!!), and yay Ferelden boyfriend :D

I did not like Velanna (maybe I'll kill her next time? Or just tell her to get lost). I think Sigrun is awesome, especially since she seems to be a one-person killing machine (I know Awakening is overpowered by default, but most of the time I barely got a look in if she was in the party).

Interesting that Nathaniel is the one who gives Justice the idea of taking over a living body (and talks to him most about such things), and Justice is the one who gives Anders the idea about being more proactive towards the mages' plight. Veeeery interessssting.

I am going to go back to Origins, do Circe's (Human Noble) playthrough, and then import her into Awakening for the next playthrough of that. And I suppose I should finish Bron's (DAII) game at some point but...right now I am going to see if I like Origins any better now. (Romancing Alistair, even though I don't want to, will be weird. But Circe wants to be queen, so...)

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P.S. I think f.lux is working. I am feeling a lot more tired in the evenings, even if I spend all that time on my computer, or even watching TV and then an hour or so on the Xbox. So that's good!

The Collectors have been defeated for a second time!

When it showed the Reapers in space, I took one look at Harbinger and thought, "I'm ready for you, you bastard!"

(I take my games far too seriously? Naaaaaaaaaah).

Since I did that during the day yesterday, I stuck Dragon Age: Awakening in the Xbox to tide me over till tomorrow. Because of Anders (dude is wrong in most conceivable ways, but he's pretty to look at) and, as I've noted before, one of the transcribed blogs on tumblr has given me a crush on Nathaniel Howe. So. I am gaming because of hormones. Given I seem to be getting a cold, I think this is a highly valid reason.

The system is not as annoying as I remember. In fact, I think I like it better now I've had a break from it (wut).

I'm actually glad I played DAII first, since I actually find Anders pretty irritating at the moment (does he get better?) - although it was cute when I gave him the kitten, and he all but squeed and bounced up and down. (Mind you, then I gave Nathaniel his family bow, and he had the same reaction. My boys are pretty adorable, huh?)

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Anyway, it's past midnight now, so Merry Xmas to those celebrating, and Merry Tuesday to those who aren't c: