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drunkenpandaren) wrote2010-10-20 09:57 pm
drunkenpandaren) wrote2010-10-20 09:57 pm
Entry tags:
Driving, Hospitals, Games and Books
With any luck, mom is being released tomorrow from the hospital. I'm planning on calling ahead first to make sure that this isn't a wasted trip. Cause really, three trips to Edmonton in three days is asking for me to go completely batshit guano loco.
On a note of things, I need a PS3 HD cable. I have a HD tv so I need a cable accordingly. Prongs are a thing of the past!
Yeah, new PS3 now. Got myself Atelier Rorona which I'm sure I'm going to enjoy with fumbly Rorona as the leader of this party. I played the original Atelier Iris, and I still HAVE it in my game library. It was fantastic and a lot of fun. It helped that it was made during the tail end of the PS2 awesomesauce run for NIS.
The other game I got was Cross Edge (sorry Mags, I'll get those other games later!), and it's a game that I half expected to be purchased for a Kings Ransom and USED. But this time around it was a fresh copy. Never been used. I was downright pleased and quite surprised since getting a NIS game this late into the release is like finding King Solomon's Mines.
Cross Edge is a funny little thing in the realm of video games, a collaboration of FIVE different creators including favorites Capcom, NIS and a surprising addition of Gust who has deemed to get into the mainstream a little more with this. There's a couple of others such as Imagine Factory and what not, but hey, this is a game where you do power attacks while dressing people up in new costumes in order to agument their abilities.
Oh and York is a tool. I'm pretty sure he'll be even more badass later, but right now he's all Adell with less tact if you can believe that. He gives off the standard NIS Combat Wombat mentality, and isn't phased when Morrigan Aensland talks about a "burning heat in her bosom".
He must be gay or something cause Miko is a hottie even compared to the Queen of Succubus.
Under this cut lays the power of Percy Jackson, or rather his new expanded universe.
With the end of The Last Olympian, we are faced with a fairly changed environment for the gods of Olympus. Changes implemented by Percy at the end of the previous book are now taking hold, as every kid is being claimed, even the lesser gods. Some gods I haven't heard about are there too. I wonder if we'll get a Thanatos kid soon. That'd be a riot.
Riordan's prose style of this book, The Lost Hero, is border lining somewhere between heavy handed and ridiculous prose. Showing that he can create a story and be damn hilarious every second paragraph, we have scenes that are just off the wall hilarious. Even in serious moments, Leo can afford to remark that Jason's horse has AC outlets. Also, this was the best Hera EVER. You usually see Hera as either a loving mom (Disney's Hercules), or a queen bitch (Xena), but when you get down to it, she's got a mission to do and Riordan shows that the gods of Olympus are the same as how the Greeks portrayed them; fallible and larger than life "mortals" to a point.
The division of Greek and Roman deities however throws you for a loop. When you first actually meet Jason, your head is already ringing alarm bells of "Something's not RIGHT". But when you actually see it in action with the God of the Winds, you come to understand everything that's going on. And the story itself weaves perfectly into the mythology of Rome and Greece, in that the children of the Roman Aspects are raised by Lupa, the immortal wolf. While Chiron the trainer of heroes raises the Greek-borns.
I honestly cannot wait for the next book. After skipping a release from the Egypt-themed one, I am going to be re-reading Riordan's offering tomorrow once I get home from picking up mom.
Another thing though. Since mom is a big issue in my life, read I need to do everything now, I'm going to be parring back on RP officially in a bit. This means of course that every Tom Dick and Jane will ask me for tags, threads, etc. It's how it always GOES.
But I'm standing my ground here. I NEED time to readjust. There will be cooking, cleaning, shopping, laundry. EVERYTHING. I am a one-man army and this is what I'm doing right now. As such, tomorrow I'm probably even going to wind up sheeting mom's BED before she lays down in it. THAT is how bad off she is right now, despite walking everywhere.
So yeah, if I don't tag or if I blatantly ignore tags in favor for mind-numbing video games or WoW or WHATEVER, don't be too mad. Because I am relaxing, I need this time before I do anything ELSE. Tomorrow before I leave I gotta call an appointment into the Lacombe Ford, and then as WELL call the locksmith for our fubared door handle.
I have a life, and right now it's another shift. If you can't understand that, it means you have nothing to do but wait on a tag.
And that's sad.
Really.
On a note of things, I need a PS3 HD cable. I have a HD tv so I need a cable accordingly. Prongs are a thing of the past!
Yeah, new PS3 now. Got myself Atelier Rorona which I'm sure I'm going to enjoy with fumbly Rorona as the leader of this party. I played the original Atelier Iris, and I still HAVE it in my game library. It was fantastic and a lot of fun. It helped that it was made during the tail end of the PS2 awesomesauce run for NIS.
The other game I got was Cross Edge (sorry Mags, I'll get those other games later!), and it's a game that I half expected to be purchased for a Kings Ransom and USED. But this time around it was a fresh copy. Never been used. I was downright pleased and quite surprised since getting a NIS game this late into the release is like finding King Solomon's Mines.
Cross Edge is a funny little thing in the realm of video games, a collaboration of FIVE different creators including favorites Capcom, NIS and a surprising addition of Gust who has deemed to get into the mainstream a little more with this. There's a couple of others such as Imagine Factory and what not, but hey, this is a game where you do power attacks while dressing people up in new costumes in order to agument their abilities.
Oh and York is a tool. I'm pretty sure he'll be even more badass later, but right now he's all Adell with less tact if you can believe that. He gives off the standard NIS Combat Wombat mentality, and isn't phased when Morrigan Aensland talks about a "burning heat in her bosom".
He must be gay or something cause Miko is a hottie even compared to the Queen of Succubus.
Under this cut lays the power of Percy Jackson, or rather his new expanded universe.
With the end of The Last Olympian, we are faced with a fairly changed environment for the gods of Olympus. Changes implemented by Percy at the end of the previous book are now taking hold, as every kid is being claimed, even the lesser gods. Some gods I haven't heard about are there too. I wonder if we'll get a Thanatos kid soon. That'd be a riot.
Riordan's prose style of this book, The Lost Hero, is border lining somewhere between heavy handed and ridiculous prose. Showing that he can create a story and be damn hilarious every second paragraph, we have scenes that are just off the wall hilarious. Even in serious moments, Leo can afford to remark that Jason's horse has AC outlets. Also, this was the best Hera EVER. You usually see Hera as either a loving mom (Disney's Hercules), or a queen bitch (Xena), but when you get down to it, she's got a mission to do and Riordan shows that the gods of Olympus are the same as how the Greeks portrayed them; fallible and larger than life "mortals" to a point.
The division of Greek and Roman deities however throws you for a loop. When you first actually meet Jason, your head is already ringing alarm bells of "Something's not RIGHT". But when you actually see it in action with the God of the Winds, you come to understand everything that's going on. And the story itself weaves perfectly into the mythology of Rome and Greece, in that the children of the Roman Aspects are raised by Lupa, the immortal wolf. While Chiron the trainer of heroes raises the Greek-borns.
I honestly cannot wait for the next book. After skipping a release from the Egypt-themed one, I am going to be re-reading Riordan's offering tomorrow once I get home from picking up mom.
Another thing though. Since mom is a big issue in my life, read I need to do everything now, I'm going to be parring back on RP officially in a bit. This means of course that every Tom Dick and Jane will ask me for tags, threads, etc. It's how it always GOES.
But I'm standing my ground here. I NEED time to readjust. There will be cooking, cleaning, shopping, laundry. EVERYTHING. I am a one-man army and this is what I'm doing right now. As such, tomorrow I'm probably even going to wind up sheeting mom's BED before she lays down in it. THAT is how bad off she is right now, despite walking everywhere.
So yeah, if I don't tag or if I blatantly ignore tags in favor for mind-numbing video games or WoW or WHATEVER, don't be too mad. Because I am relaxing, I need this time before I do anything ELSE. Tomorrow before I leave I gotta call an appointment into the Lacombe Ford, and then as WELL call the locksmith for our fubared door handle.
I have a life, and right now it's another shift. If you can't understand that, it means you have nothing to do but wait on a tag.
And that's sad.
Really.