there'd be no distance that could hold us back

Oh hey, it's been a while~

Haven't posted simply for the fact that not a lot has been going on, which is absolutely fine by me. The end of the semester meant I finally get some uncomplicated me-time, so naturally there's been a lot of Warcraft and contemplation of rewatching Life on Mars for my first project of the summer!


Problem is, I think I need to get away from the internet/internet-related activity for a while, because I'm really not having any semblance of fun anymore. Between the insulting, utterly frustrating dungeon groups day-to-day in WoW to utterly disgusting, faux "feminist" discussion in a Doctor Who comm to character bashing in another DW comm, I don't care to read about other peoples' opinions. Or particularly enamored of any idea that states that liking one set of characters automatically means I must bash another set, but whatever. Even switching to a different fandom comm is flawed, because it's trading one evil for another, if lesser evil, but it seems no matter where I go, I can't just enjoy a damn show :|


This relates to WoW in that I am forced to avoid people in order to enjoy myself, and that's counter-intuitive to the community aspect of both an MMO and fandom. I'm not interested in anonymous unhappy people being unhappy and making other anonymous people unhappy. I'm equally disinterested in utter dicks griefing others and trolling and bringing people down. Having been a victim of it lately, I'm just very sad and disappointed.


More sadness in that Grandma has gone to her other home for pretty much the whole summer, so I won't be seeing her for months and months :( A little bit of a relief too, because, I LOVE her to pieces, but she's the type that hovers and makes me anxious sometimes. But Dad's coming up once his school's year is done with, at the end of this week, so I'll have my daddy around all summer :)


Played and beat Alan Wake all in one sitting yesterday--OMG SO FRUSTRATING. I can't say it's because I'm not used to XBox 360 controls, because I'm fucking kick ass at playing Mass Effect 2, but the controls were getting me down something fierce. If much of your survival wasn't so dependent on dodging incoming flying axes and floating like a butterfly when you're utterly and hopelessly outnumbered, I wouldn't have been so bothered, but it was so frustrating and I wasn't in the best state to give it many chances when I died in certain points over and over, so Sean picked up the gameplay after I raged early on. The storytelling is really good, though, and I hope it doesn't take the developer another five/six years to put out a sequel XD

It's been a few days, Dad's been better, so I'm doing better, so let's move on, shall we?


I'm terribly disappointed with Bob's departure from MCR, but I'm not going to linger on it, cuz even if it feels like things are falling apart with all my bands, I move past it, I find something positive and bright and fall in love again. I'll miss him like hell, but they're not breaking up. Even if it's not his wrists, there's only so long you can go in a band with that much intensity before you get burned up by it. idk, I've already accepted it, I'm okay.


And there's this game that just came out called Heavy Rain that's not really a game at all. ( I elaborate. minor spoilers )

Or, have some more HD gameplay

Ugh, uuuugggghhh, I am so in love with Heavy Rain. And there's going to be downloadable content, unf. Please let there be someone else who's played/is going to play this?

w00t, LJ is unbroken again, so I shall attempt to get things done.



*sigh*

So Dissidia: Final Fantasy gets Gabranth for one of the villains: YAY. Fuckin' A! FFXII represent.

And we get some sort of dwarf gnome thingy from FFXI as the counterpart? What the fucking fuck? Could it have killed them to give us Balthier, or Basch, or hell, I'll even take Vaan, but seriously? No one even plays FFXI: Online -__-

Being the huge music geek that I am, in addition to my Epic Gamer status, it's come to my attention that there's a terrible lack of video game music in music rec posts. While it may not be as widely accepted as, say, movie soundtracks, much video game music is definitely as legit and is quickly coming into its own as a marketable medium. Partly to fill the gap of vg OST recs, and partly to show you lovelies what I'm listening to right now (and have been for years), I present downloads!
( müzak downloads after the jump )


Okay, so I got lazier with the descriptions as I went along, but take if you want! Don't look down your nose, I'M TRYING TO BROADEN HORIZONS, HERE ;-)

*meep*

Probably just the work of a disgruntled Best Buy employee or they're just getting shipments of the PS1 version of FFVII, but I SO WANT IT TO HAPPEN ;__; Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete is being released soon, and while I don't exactly know what the differences between it and the original release is, there's talk of something shocking regarding Final Fantasy VII that's going to be announced at an invite-only event: DKS3713. It should have been on August 2nd/3rd, but if there was something huge, they're keeping Steve Jobs-level tight lips on it D: Waaaaaaant.