all made up with nowhere to go

Resident Evil 2 is FINALLY getting a remake????

(using my Silent Hill icon because I can't currently get at my RE one...*sigh*)

I...appreciate it, and think it's overdue, but I'm not sure I want it. I love the original, and I've loved it for twenty(!!) years now. I will probably still check it out once it arrives, because Resident Evil.

(I want there to be the alternate scenarios like there were in the original because hello guess where my love of Rashomon style storytelling came from*. And I'd like Claire's original VA. I'm sure Ali Hillis does a good job, but Alyson Court just is Claire for me. Which, I realise, makes me sound like a whiny five year old, but I'm very tired and feel like stamping my feet, so I guess I am a whiny five year old).

Talking of which, I was in CEX today, and considered picking up 5, 6, and Operation Raccoon City, even though I won't play them at all because I'm a massive scaredy cat (why I like this series at all is BEYOND me). Maybe next time I'm in there. I want them just to have them, if that makes sense?

(which reminds me: I still need to pick up the films I'm missing, and that includes Damnation).


*Though I suppose the alternate A/B scenarios aren't Rashomon style in the strictest sense, but I do like the differences that occur depending on which way you play the game.

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In other games news, I've been keeping up with E3 even less than usual but new Halo game??? That is not Halo 6, but will apparently continue Master Chief's Adventures IN SPACE!™ (I get the feeling 343 are trying to eke out the story as much as possible at this point, as 6 should, rightfully, be the finisher, but who honestly knows).

ALSO KH3 FINALLY! (not that I have a PS4 to play it on, but whatever, right? People have been wanting this since I got into the games a good decade ago. I am happy for them).

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In non-game news, I went to the dentist on Monday, and he was actually nice to me this time! Well, nice for a dentist, anyway. I didn't exactly mention the sore teeth, as they'd calmed down, but he had a look, and said it was probably a nerve or gum flare-up, which sounds likely. I was dreading him saying I'd have to have a tooth out (or worse). Thankfully, that didn't happen.

I've also started working on paying off the Other Debt, and it is less than I thought, so hopefully it will take me less time to pay off! \o/

Feedback required:

If you are reading a book, and a character who is an alien is referred to only by a tag that makes it evident what animal it reminds the humans of, would you find that annoying?

(So what I'm saying is that the text would be "Blah blah blah," said the animal, for example. Or, The animal cautiously shifted the book in its arms). (It is an it because its race doesn't have genders, btw, not me being excessively lazy or whatever).

I know some people don't like this sort of thing. I don't mind it myself, but some of the Goodreads reviews of Alif The Unseen brought the one character up (I think she's called the convert?) as annoying because it was as though the author couldn't be arsed to give her a name. Anyway, that's what this was making me think of as I was writing it.

(I spent two hours writing on Monday evening! I wasn't even going to write at all! Especially not the abominations! It was amazing!)

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I started transcribing some music, and it is slow going (aside from the fact that I rarely have occasions where the computer's on and it's quiet. Also my ear is...not good for this. I could do with my friend's brother who could play stuff by ear). I'm working from Cold Blue Light, although sometimes I listen to the other versions as well.

I keep getting frustrated, because it's a really simple tune, and it's less than two minutes long. I know it's just because I'm not better. I'll get there, eventually. (And then, like all things, I'll look back at this and wonder what I thought was so hard in the first place).

Help, I'm watching a longplay of Halo: Combat Evolved, and it's really boring. How do people play these things for fun? I don't understand how going around shooting shit up all the time is fun, I really don't (I know that's essentially Mass Effect, but this is why I don't - in general - play shooters. And ME has other stuff going for it anyway).

I picked the wrong series of games to really get into the story for, didn't I? *cries*

(I suppose I could just watch compilations of the cutscenes, but I feel like I'm missing something if I do? But if that something is constant shooting that is a) boring and b) gives me a headache, maybe that's the best thing to do...)

I've had the main theme for Halo going round in my head for, like, three days at this point (but why would you not? it's freaking EPIC. And was apparently written in three days)

So then I wondered if there was a piano version because all the piano in THAT version sounds like it would be hella fun to play.

what do you know, there is (there's a bajillion on Youtube, but there's bum notes everywhere and ack. This one is the best I've found. And she's amazing, because she included a tutorial on how to play it - she even says her version is not the definitive one, so you can play it how it suits you).

I'm still looking for sheet music, though.