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I got chills when I realized it was going to revitalize all the nostalgic fanboys whose first RPG was FF7 and think it's the greatest thing ever. Gonna hear about that for another 20 years.

No, but it's cool. I wish they'd beef up the combat system though: 4-man battle party with formations, larger monster groups, more importance on buffs. That old simplistic JRPG combat doesn't do it for me anymore, not after been playing classic CRPGs and Shin Megami Tensei games, which have more depth.

Last Guardian still looks great. What it lacks in pure technical prowess it makes up for in a singular and cohesive visual style, making it stand out among the pot-luck fantasy settings rampant in video games.

Depending on how busy you are, two books a month can be a lot. Or you have something like S5 which is only 200 pages, about. I finished that in a few hours.

Interesting, but I prefer Mother in 2D sprites. The cartooning aspect with the linework is a necessity, although I'm sure that now they could do something along those lines in 3D, like Ni No Kuni.

I think it's useful to bite off more than you can chew once in a while; I believe being "overwhelmed" like that can change your state, like a drug. I can just imagine the dread you are going to feel like as the third race approaches (depending how hard the first two are for you), but I think you'll feel renewed once it's in your rearview mirror.

I'm reading the Bantam Classics edition, translated by Alston Chase and William Perry Jr. With the extra spending money I'm getting, I may become a regular at my local bookstore. Want to start building relationships with people, as part of my "therapy." What's the frequency for becoming familiar to staff in a store? Once a week, twice?

Had to volunteer for something.  And I didn't want to teach children or the elderly. I'm a savage at heart, so the "wilds" became the obvious choice. Feel lucky that the service exists, but wished I had contemplated it earlier. Did you ever tell the story here how you got involved in your business?

Yeah, just jump in feet first. It's not easy (job hunting is the most tedious, discouraging part), but the sooner the better ,and one thing has a way of leading to another. ANd have good social skills and grooming. I'm getting more calls from that catering service, but I had to turn yesterday's gig down because I don't have bartending experience.

You may have to cut down on the distractions, like video games, movies, etc.  But once you have your income settled and a routine down, you will be able to reintroduce those things little by little. And don't let pride get in the way; you may have to take something that isn't ideal or offer you the best hours, but like I said one thing leads...  I've been getting a lot of offers now because I'm willing to work odd hours or less hours, (which in my case, makes my scattershot resume less of a liability to them. Part time employers expect a certain amount of turnover/people with other jobs). I may put my commercial art career on hiatus and work a couple part time jobs while doing life sketching to develop new ideas and inspiration, expand my studio and set of tools.

and use all the tools and information that is out there. It may behoove you to get a resume assessment from someone who does such things.

S5 just happened to be the cheapest Vonnegut book at the book store I was at :D. I was annoyed because it used to be a neighborhood, discount book store, but now that there is no competition near by, their prices are almost full MSRP.  This says something about human nature, but right now I'm too tired to articulate what.

Wut? You're always mad busy in your blogs. You're more productive than I was at your age.

Btw, you're one of the bloggers I'm emulating with this topic.

Caterpillars are one thing I haven't seen in the forest preserves in Illinois. Since I'm only out there 2 Saturdays per month (so far), the shift from winter wasteland to green seemed rather quick, dead in March to halfway to full bloom by April. By May, the butterflies were already out. Now in June, the foliage is ridiculously dense, with a large variety of insect life.  It's rather amazing how the variety keeps expanding and growing week by week, month by month, although now it's getting too dense for my liking. Late April or early May were probably optimal for greenery.  Pulled dame's rocket the last time out, first week of June. There is a ton of the stuff at the reserve in my town.

It seems the fates of Pc and console gaming are more entwined than people thought. Certain kinds of PC games stopped being made because publishers thought there was too little or no audience for them. And so it went for console games. Crowd funding proved that the same certain kinds of PC games were viable. And now, so it goes for console games. Bloodstained, an "old school" action platformer, has now become the highest funded game on Kickstarter, passing the previous leader Torment: Tides of Numenara, an "old school" CRPG.

Basically, the old school console and PC gamers are on the same side, even though they enjoy different kinds of games.  They are not enemies, contrary to what forums would lead us to believe.

Someone told me about two fat guys making out on that show, and a black woman ramming a transgender with a strap-on. 2progressive4me.

Human beings like challenging games. This used to be considered normal. Easy games are fine too, but the whole industry was going that way after the PS2 generation, before Demon's Souls and indies brought hard games it back into semi-vogue.The problem was that they were (and still are) rebooting or making sequels to games that were deep, complex, and challenging, and turning them into mindless escapism that any scrub can conquer (or changing their genre altogether, in the case of Syndicate) Skill and mastery went out the window. Cries of "dumbing down" are about this very thing. This was mostly particular to western AAA development. Japan never really stopped making skill based games, and this is one reason I think they fell behind in the expanded market. Keep in mind that the people who grew up on NES, arcades, and older computer games (i.e. tough and/or complex games) are now a small segment of the current gaming population, and probably never amounted to more than a few million users back in the day.