Allan!

I've made a post explaining who Allan is. I adore him. ♥ Therefore, everybody should go and read about him.

Also.


He thought he felt a presence behind him... when he turned around, the vampire had already bared his fangs.

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and they even remembered to close the windows

Oh, a properly air-conditioned office! The novelty.

My body is one big ball of tension right now. It's hard to describe. My back, shoulders, neck and head are all totally stiff. It's like the skin on my head is shrinking and therefore squeezing my skull.

Missed Microsoft's conference at E3 last night. Must remember to watch Sony's one today.

As said to solaas the other day, I have so much to watch, read, play, make, write, do. Realistically I probably need a month off if I intend to really catch up with it all (excluding gaming). Weekends just aren't enough, having only two days means I end up just doing the smaller things. And there's constantly housework to do; there is never a point where I can sit down and think, "actually, the house looks alright," because it never bloody is. It's always a tip. Sometimes I can turn a blind eye to it, sometimes I can't stand it.

Been talking to lucid_ataxia about PoT fics, and now I have the urge to read them. But time is always an issue.

soloproject alerted me to the casting of the Norwegian Wood movie.

Work said, "would you like to go to Aberdeen for 9 months of site supervision?"
I said, "I am dangerously insane."

If I ever wrote a novel

I should make sure that the book cover is not using a stock image that has already been used on someone else's book cover.

"A touching story about a boy and his... thing."

Watched Sony's presentation at E3. Nothing that strikes my fancy very much apart from the kart racing because track creation looked fun. I'd spend all day making tracks and then never race on them. SHEEEEEEP.

Watching recording of Microsoft's presentation. Beatles Rock Band. Okay. But WTF were they thinking, getting Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono and Ringo Star on stage? O_o Tony Hawk explaining the tech in the skate board game? Dude, srsly. I'd rather hear from the game makers themselves. Their FF13 presentation > Sony's though. Everybody's seen the trailer now, but actual game play? Sony didn't show any whereas Xbox did.

Lots of shooters and war games and games with huge amounts of gore. Not interested.

FF14 is online. LOL. Do they mean another MMORPG? Or is it something else? Who knows? It's on PS3 only, not PC, so the format... hmm...

One does wonder if SE has decided to go back to Sony's bosom because they have pissed off too many fans (fucked up xbox ventures, ah...) or if Sony is paying them more to come back to suck them.

Sometimes I wonder. If they took The Last Remnant, added a few flying machines in it, and a few big yellow-feathered birds, and called it a FF game, what would the sale figures and reviews be? I bet it'd be different. Sure, flying machines and chocobos don't define a FF game, but what IS an FF game, really? According to SE, they don't have to use Chocobos, don't have to put in mini games, don't even have to use characters like Cid and Watts. They just slot them in if they see that those elements fit, but it's not in any "FF guideline". Take Lost Odyssey, for example. It's made by the same team of people behind Final Fantasy, it's got raving reviews, but it doesn't have the FF name and therefore not the FF sales. Hn.