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defibrillate) wrote2011-09-05 05:01 pm
defibrillate) wrote2011-09-05 05:01 pm
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Where's mother? On my sofa, playing video games.
So my mum's been having a rough week. Rough to the point that she's become an incredibly dangerous driver due to massive emotional distraction, which is equal parts terrifying, embarrassing, and really fun. I don't think she's gonna get hurt - it's not that bad. There have just been some... incidents. A virus escaped, and everybody died. Like two days ago, when we were near Pike Place Market and she'd pulled into a parking spot on the side of the road to answer a text - she finished up, backed into the car behind us with gusto, and then drove away like something horrible was chasing us. All while the other car's owner watched, bewildered, from the other side of the street. For a while I was pretty mortified, but then I realized it was incredible and I wanted to do it MORE. Get out of my head, Reno, you're making me into a bad person.
On a separate note, would it not have been great in FFVII if instead of people getting possessed or whatever by Jenova, they got possessed by Reno? Instead of 'give me that fancy materia, hurr' we would have had 'put on this sombrero and these hooker boots and light some mailboxes on fire.' ...I really do think Square should make a game that focuses on Reno as the main character. It'd be a fearsome and beautiful thing.
Anyways, mom's been over at my apartment a lot to get away from the drama at home, and today she asked how I usually deal with emotional turmoil. I very seriously told her I did it by shooting zombies. Really, that's my go-to therapy. Amazingly enough, she was willing to try it out. Although, when I asked her if she was set on zombies or if she'd rather kill ghastly human experiments or demons, she went with demons, so I ended up walking her through some of Devil May Cry. Which, by the way, has completely poisoned my mind. I've become a little bit style ranking-obsessed. For example:
Me: Mom, stop just standing around shooting things. It doesn't look very cool. Use your sword.
Mom: But the guns are easy...
Me: BUT THEY DO NOT LOOK VERY COOL.
Also, I watched the DMC anime, which was, well, mostly awful, but also had some good parts (comma over-usage! -10pts). Like this one:
I WANT THAT STUFFED ANIMAL.
Also, Dante's obsession with strawberry sundaes was sort of great. Especially these parts:
---
Bartender: What'll you have?
Dante: Strawberry sundae.
Bartender: You can't get those here.
Dante: Sigh... I didn't figure you could.
Bartender (paraphrase): Sigh, grumble, weep. Life is over and nothing matters because I've had no customers since THAT happened.
Dante (paraphrase): Tell me all about THAT and I'll tell you a secret that will have customers lining up out the door.
Bartender: (tells Dante all about THAT)
Dante: [leaving]
Bartender: Wait! What about the secret that will have customers lining up out the door?
Dante: Oh, yeah. The secret is... Just put strawberry sundaes on the menu. *Snerk*
---
Modeus (demon lord apprentice to Sparda & Vincent Valentine lookalike): I'll have a strawberry sundae. [tries it] It's a little too sweet...
Fredi (restaurant owner): ASDJHJHDG >[
Modeus: I'm sorry! I didn't mean to offend you, I just think that perhaps you should use a little less sugar...
Dante: Hang on a minute. I'm partial to the strawberry sundaes here, but today, they are sweeter than usual. That guy is right.
Fredi: [stomps off]
[Later]
Dante: [walking towards Fredi's restaurant, there's a sign on the door that says 'closed until further notice'] What, did he go off to train in the mountains or something?
---
I would have appreciated more of a storyline, but I mean, it's Capcom and storyline is NOT their thing. Exotic pizzas, apparently, are. I think there was one pizza Dante ordered that was called a 'Brazilian-flavored salty salami pizza.' 0_o Either Brazil really is a flavor, or this is some sort of euphemism pizza. I guess I don't really want to know.
Anyways, my favorite bit of dialogue was,
Patty (Dante's adopted niece of sorts. Whenever he inadvertently pisses her off, he sulks like crazy. It's sort of cute.): Dante's going to get eaten alive!
Morrison (Guy who finds jobs for Dante's demon hunting business): Well, there's nothing we can do about that, so let's just have a coffee and say a prayer for him.
Morrison is sort of a Veld, but more laid back. I liked him.
In conclusion, despite myself I'm more and more excited for DMC5.
On a separate note, would it not have been great in FFVII if instead of people getting possessed or whatever by Jenova, they got possessed by Reno? Instead of 'give me that fancy materia, hurr' we would have had 'put on this sombrero and these hooker boots and light some mailboxes on fire.' ...I really do think Square should make a game that focuses on Reno as the main character. It'd be a fearsome and beautiful thing.
Anyways, mom's been over at my apartment a lot to get away from the drama at home, and today she asked how I usually deal with emotional turmoil. I very seriously told her I did it by shooting zombies. Really, that's my go-to therapy. Amazingly enough, she was willing to try it out. Although, when I asked her if she was set on zombies or if she'd rather kill ghastly human experiments or demons, she went with demons, so I ended up walking her through some of Devil May Cry. Which, by the way, has completely poisoned my mind. I've become a little bit style ranking-obsessed. For example:
Me: Mom, stop just standing around shooting things. It doesn't look very cool. Use your sword.
Mom: But the guns are easy...
Me: BUT THEY DO NOT LOOK VERY COOL.
Also, I watched the DMC anime, which was, well, mostly awful, but also had some good parts (comma over-usage! -10pts). Like this one:
I WANT THAT STUFFED ANIMAL.
Also, Dante's obsession with strawberry sundaes was sort of great. Especially these parts:
---
Bartender: What'll you have?
Dante: Strawberry sundae.
Bartender: You can't get those here.
Dante: Sigh... I didn't figure you could.
Bartender (paraphrase): Sigh, grumble, weep. Life is over and nothing matters because I've had no customers since THAT happened.
Dante (paraphrase): Tell me all about THAT and I'll tell you a secret that will have customers lining up out the door.
Bartender: (tells Dante all about THAT)
Dante: [leaving]
Bartender: Wait! What about the secret that will have customers lining up out the door?
Dante: Oh, yeah. The secret is... Just put strawberry sundaes on the menu. *Snerk*
---
Modeus (demon lord apprentice to Sparda & Vincent Valentine lookalike): I'll have a strawberry sundae. [tries it] It's a little too sweet...
Fredi (restaurant owner): ASDJHJHDG >[
Modeus: I'm sorry! I didn't mean to offend you, I just think that perhaps you should use a little less sugar...
Dante: Hang on a minute. I'm partial to the strawberry sundaes here, but today, they are sweeter than usual. That guy is right.
Fredi: [stomps off]
[Later]
Dante: [walking towards Fredi's restaurant, there's a sign on the door that says 'closed until further notice'] What, did he go off to train in the mountains or something?
---
I would have appreciated more of a storyline, but I mean, it's Capcom and storyline is NOT their thing. Exotic pizzas, apparently, are. I think there was one pizza Dante ordered that was called a 'Brazilian-flavored salty salami pizza.' 0_o Either Brazil really is a flavor, or this is some sort of euphemism pizza. I guess I don't really want to know.
Anyways, my favorite bit of dialogue was,
Patty (Dante's adopted niece of sorts. Whenever he inadvertently pisses her off, he sulks like crazy. It's sort of cute.): Dante's going to get eaten alive!
Morrison (Guy who finds jobs for Dante's demon hunting business): Well, there's nothing we can do about that, so let's just have a coffee and say a prayer for him.
Morrison is sort of a Veld, but more laid back. I liked him.
In conclusion, despite myself I'm more and more excited for DMC5.