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[Bella]

@Dustii: Yes... yes. Most OS-tan fans!

Dental appointment went fine.

I still can't believe we had dentist appointments on the same day at the same time of day (approximately). :O

I had to go all I KNOW MY RIGHTS / YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO WITH MY BODDDDDDDDYYYYYY on the hygienist who was cleaning  my today. Poor woman. I feel like I'm going to have to get good at verbally sparring with medical professionals because I'm 200% sure I'm going to be doing a lot of that throughout my life.

Later my brother and nephew came over today for a belated birthday party. There was pizza and cake. Nobody had a lighter or matches so we had to light the candles with a propane torch, which was less disastrous than you would expect. There were also vidya gaems. During which time I discovered moderately-challenging test chambers in Portal are an easy and effective way to occupy overactive 11 year olds.

Although now he wants to get the Portal games.... -w-

[NejinOniwa]

Playing with fire 2gud

And K, call it an occupational hazard. I've been stuck reading pages and pages of medieval french erotic poetry for a week now. It's getting to me...

[Nichi]

@Bella: Yay for introducing someone to Portal! ^^

Also:

[...] we had to light the candles with a propane torch

*insert pic of Flame Princess giving a thumbs up*

So, I'm about to head back up to Gamestop to try once more to get this bullshit training taken care of. Prepared to be on hold for eons -___-;

[Chocofreak13]

@nej: like how i started calling my mother "ma" because ace does. it's cool. -w-;


so it would seem the sick is viral, or at least my doctor thinks so. she gave me a perscription, but told me not to fill it unless i'm still sick by the end of the week. her advice includes lots of rest, water, and basic meds. she said nyquil isn't super-good right now, but i might take it before bed anyway because i like the way it makes my throat feel. ;^;
in other news, going to work on the changeling wiki today and go over my grandparents' tomorrow. this tea is really good.

[stewartsage]

The local junk shop has a copy of Bible Adventures for the NES.

But I forgot Baby Moses

Actually, I didn't bother asking to look at it since I already had a few comics down that I wanted and some books.  Maybe next week.  One of the comics even has a Hostess advertising comic (as seen on Atop the Fourth Wall); Wonder Woman versus The Robot Master.

[Nichi]

Nice xD

I actually had Bible Adventures pass through my hands at one point; as part of a gigantic lot of NES games. It sucked xD

[Bella]

@Kari: Feel better soon. ;^;

@Stew: PLEASE TELL ME YOU BOUGHT IT?!

@Genpop: So I was doing "research" for my Programming For Games research paper and the instructor suggested I look through her library of old computer magazines for leads and stuff, so I pulled down this giant stack of GameInformer (I believe that was the magazine?) from like 2006 - 2007

>Advertisements for the newest version of MapleStory
>Reviews of Bioshock and Mass Effect
>PS3 vs. Xbox 360s debates
>Weirdly out of place article about the Iraq War
>HAS NINTENDO BECOME "TOO CASUAL"?
>The Wii: Are the days of hardcore gaming numbered?
>EVEN WOMEN AND OLD PEOPLE ARE STARTING TO GAME????!??! THIS IS MADNESS!
>3-page TF2 preview!
>"Pixar-like graphic style!"
>"The Spy has Predator-like cloaking powers!"
>"The Engineer builds portable turrets!"
>GameInformer previews the 50 biggest games of 2007: TF2 and Portal get a single sentence beneath the review of Half-Life 2, Episode 2
>Valve to GameInformer: "Half-Life 3 is expected to be released in about 8 months"
>Article on the 10 gayest characters in gaming

TRULY, 2007 WAS A SIMPLER TIME.

[Chocofreak13]

a simpler time indeed.

also, i'm trying to feel better and i was good this morning but i appear to have gone downhill as the day has gone on. i seriously want to go home and go to bed.

btw, raspberry tea is one of the greatest things ever and we should every day thank cthulhu that we can have the opportunity to drink this miraculous beverage.

[Nichi]

@Bella: I think I have some of those issues lying around somewhere. TBH, I stopped caring about Game Informer after they changed their format a few years ago :\

Also, sometimes those old fanatic game articles are amusing; like one I found floating on the internet a few years ago, which was made sometime in 1996; where a person predicted the N64 would die due to having no games (A complaint about every Nintendo system from then onward), the Saturn would die due to Sega's incompetence (More or less spot on; considering Sega got a bit too cocky with their success), and the PlayStation would die because "the name sounds stupid" (Probably the most laughable of them all), and everyone would quietly go back to their TurboGrafx-16. Coupled the site's layout being the sort of stuff you'd see on GeoCities back in the day, and you had comedy gold xD

@Kari: Indeed. Raspberry tea is fucking amazing *w*

[Chocofreak13]

naps are nice.

[NejinOniwa]

@Bells: Well, in 2007 nobody had started to check their privileges yet.

I hope to the gods that the idiots responsible for that movement are struck by lightning, along with the servers hosting their shit.

[Chocofreak13]

digital karma in the form of super-powered viruses~


feeling better today, though i have both a literal and a metaphorical headache. the literal is likely from a lack of caffeine which i am now remedying. the metaphorical was from comcast shutting off our stuff despite us paying our bill---a call to them determined that somehow we got signed up for the movie channels (which we didn't sign up for, didn't know about and didn't use), and now mum is on the phone yelling at people because our bill is too high and she's trying to reduce it. i'm a wee bit nervous because she's talking about taking away the expanded package (giggidy), which comprises about 75% of the channels i watch. >>;

i really need to get Tereby up and running so that i can cut my cable box out of the equation. >>;

[Nichi]

That sucks :[
Granted, I barely watch TV these days, because I'm either never home when something I want to watch is on or mom's watching something at that time :\

[Chocofreak13]

i have the tv on like, constantly. things feel weird if it's not on. ;v;

[Nichi]

Mmm :[

So, I have the hotel for my birthday booked :3