A year and 6 days later, I am indeed still alive.  It's a freaking miracle.  >.>

I don't want this blog to ever get deleted.  It's so funny to read what my 15-year-old self had to say for herself.  I was such a dork.

Come to think of it, I still am.

I'm no devil, but I certainly did cry when playing Devil May Cry 2 with Katie today.  Why was it so bad?!  >____<  No plot, no difficulty, barely any dialogue, crappy accents, ridiculous looking enemies, and GODDAMNIT!  YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO GET LOST IN A DEVIL MAY CRY GAME!!!  The entire concept of AIMING was thrown out the window!  It took me fucking HOURS to hit a stupid IMMOBILE SPHERE!!!  And what's the point in bothering to use the Rebellion sword when you can easily shoot the enemies to death with enough time and energy?  Shooting with E&I is more effective anyway, 'cause for some reason, DANTE REFUSES TO SLASH WHO I WANT HIM TO HIT!!!  And you know your game is really bad when you can kill a BOSS by standing far away and shooting it until it dies.  Don't go on telling me that "You know, you could not use the guns..." but you know what?  The point of a boss fight is to figure out a good and easy way to defeat it.  And as far as I got, blasting away with E&I was good and easy.  Not to mention way too effective.

Though there are some things that I learned from dear old Uncle Dante.  XD

1. You can have a game with absolutely no plot, and people will buy it.
2. You can look like the sexiest woman in the world and can kick major ass, but having an indecipherable (is that even a word?) accent just kills your character...
3. I never realized how important it was to be able to control the camera.  Thank you, DMC2, you made me truly grateful for the right analog stick.
4. Dude... you know your game is bad when the first boss fight you get is a giant monkey... and his little monkey minions.  >_>
5. You also know your game is bad when you can find an enemy's blind spot in about 5 seconds of fighting it.  (Infested Tank...  -_-)
6. Dante has bad luck with machinery and/or inanimate objects...  Tanks try to kill him, helicopters try to kill him, buildings try to kill him.  Right now, I'm waiting for the appearance of a killer toaster.
7. Uncle Dante got some strong ass muscles...  O_O  He managed to use a key and open a door with his buttocks!  Don't believe me?  XD  Here's proof:

8. There is a (very) small cameo appearance by one of the stars of the CW's hit TV show "Supernatural," Jensen Ackles.  See if you can spot him in the picture above.  (Hint: You'll want to somehow be able to zoom in on Dante to see Jensen.  ^_^;;;)

OK, that's my day of DMC2.  I'm never touching that game now for as long as I live, or at least until I can beat it.  Which probably wouldn't take too long since I'm on like... Mission 11 and that took me about an hour and a half to get to that point.

And to all the Asians out there, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

GUNG HEI FAT CHOI!!!  If that's even how you spell it... >_>

This post is dedicated to Imagine_Asian_Girl... who needed me to update so she wouldn't feel weird about commenting on the same post over and over again.  ^_^

I absolutely ADORE my physics teacher.  XD  He is totally absolutely and completely awesome.  He makes me look forward to and enjoy going to physics class every day.  It's amazing...  O_O

http://www.c-n.com/specialsections/multimedia/video/nails/windows.html 
This is a video of the demonstration he did on Wednesday.  Teacher + bed of nails + cinder block + sledge hammer = education.  ^_^  The first try didn't break the cinder block, so you can hear him yell "WHAT?!  IT DIDN'T BREAK?!" in the background.  Quite funny.  And notice how he has his crotch covered the entire time...  XD

Here's the Star Ledger article on it: http://www.nj.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news-5/1163137581198150.xml?starledger?nnj&coll=1  Read it... it's funny.  ^__^

I got to lay down on a bed of nails.  I think it's very rare for someone to be able to say that, but I was able to do it.  That's one life goal fulfilled.  XD  It didn't hurt as much as you'd think, really.  When you're getting on it, you have to gently place the meatiest part of your body, aka. butt, on the bed of nails first, and slowly lay down.  When I sat on it, I didn't feel a thing... but then I started falling back slowly... then I felt each individual nail on my tailbone... and going up my spine...  O_<;;;  Ow....  But once you're actually laying flat on it, it's not that bad.  Strange form of acupuncture.  Though I probably now have 945 holes in my new Final Fantasy XII T-shirt...  *sigh*  Aw well, it was for a fun cause.  XD

But yeah... playing Final Fantasy XII now.  The camera controls totally screw me up, not just on this game, but for other games as well.  I'm not used to inverted axes (press down the camera goes up, press left the camera goes right), but FFXII doesn't let you adjust that, so I had to get used to it.  After like 12 hours into playing it, I totally adjusted to it... then I went back to playing Shadow of the Colossus where I had changed the camera controls to what I used to like (press down and the camera goes down...) and I died almost immediately because I kept having to fiddle with the camera to get the colossus in view and the colossus I was on happened to be able to fire projectiles.  >_>  So next turn around, I changed it to inverted.  I think I have to change all the camera controls in all my games to inverted now...

DAMN YOU MONGOOSE DAVE!!!  XD  Just kidding.

Another thing about FFXII that I found kinda... interesting.  Ever notice how Penelo just gets no love?  In the manual, all the characters had flashy descriptions like "A boy who finds freedom in the skies" or "A princess who had lost everything" and Penelo just gets "Vaan's friend."

Wait... there's more evidence that Penelo gets no love from Squenix.  XD

SPOILERS
After Vaan & co. visit Ondore in Bhujerba (sp?) and Ashe wanted to steal Balthier's airship for herself, the entire gang comes in and wants to help her.  Fran then says to Vaan "Do you want to come too?" and Vaan replies "Yeah!  I don't wanna be stuck here..."  Then Penelo butts in and says "I'm coming too!"

Best part ever.

Vaan gives her this look and says "...Penelo..."  Penelo has to get all whiny and say "Don't leave me here!" for him to give her a sort of exasperated "Of course..."

I know it's mean, but I just find it kinda funny how everyone just hates her for some reason.