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RE: Stop playing with our hearts square - Covikt - 08-19-2013
Despite having dozens of games that I need to finish/start, I can't bring myself to do any of it...
I don't know why! Damn you XIV! Damn you all to hell!Â
RE: Stop playing with our hearts square - Nightsha - 08-20-2013
Well, I have work all this week and it's extended so I won't get home until about 6 every night (exhausted), and then of course I should probably put focus on Dragon's Crown, Kirby Mass Attack, or Muramasa Rebirth or even the anime I have piled up.
(08-19-2013, 11:43 PM)Covikt Wrote: Despite having dozens of games that I need to finish/start, I can't bring myself to do any of it...Aha, I have the same problem all the time! When I get really excited for something and it's just so close it's hard for me to focus on other things of that genre (books, movies, anime, games, etc.)
I don't know why! Damn you XIV! Damn you all to hell!
RE: Stop playing with our hearts square - LiadansWhisper - 08-20-2013
I really need to finish my character's background. Â :S
I'm such a procrastinator. Â lol
RE: Stop playing with our hearts square - Bloodwillow - 08-20-2013
Already beat Tales of Xillia, so going do post game. Â Have to do Bioshock Infinate DLC, and beat AC3 ...
I still have EQ2 to keep me busy. Â And I burned my right hand a few hours ago so watching tv might be all I'll be doing.
RE: Stop playing with our hearts square - Navarre - 08-20-2013
Well, classes will be starting up next week so I'll be working on syllabi and getting my readings and assignments up to snuff. And workshops as well. Funny the game comes out just as things get busy again.
RE: Stop playing with our hearts square - Random Encounter - 08-20-2013
I should work on my char background....but ended up just messing with the char creator for a good 4hrs after I got home from work. Which...led me to find a new look I might like better.
 I already prepped Phae'ra with 3 classes to lvl 20 so he could just head toward monk the moment the game is out, so not sure what to do now....arg why do I do this to myself D:
RE: Stop playing with our hearts square - Chakha Malqir - 08-20-2013
-Finishing up Burn Notice one episode at a time.
-Read a book for Honors Summer Reading
-Play some older BioWare games (Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire, etc.)
-Make my way through some of the JRPG franchises that get me as excited as Final Fantasy (.hack//G.U. Vol. 1 Redemption and Suikoden V)
-Prepare myself for college.
RE: Stop playing with our hearts square - Jove - 08-20-2013
(08-19-2013, 09:12 PM)CallmeYahweh Wrote: Oh man! He was in SanFran just a few weeks ago and I totally missed the visit. I almost got into a six week writing workshop with him a handful of summers back but had to back out due to some problems with funding on my end. Biggest disappointment of my life thus far.
I like Pratchett on occasion. I'm not sure I could read him all the time but he's definitely got a lot of really good stuff. (I'm a bit biased towards Douglas Adams though!)
Also love ACD and Lovecraft's work. I'm about to break into a few books by GK Chesterton I got a while back, but never got around to reading. Neuromancer though, I'm not sure I want to go near. William Gibson's stuff is so dense it takes me months to get through it all.
I had no idea he was here until Thursday last week but fortunately the tickets hadn't sold out, which was surprising considering the place was packed. His talk ended at half eight in the evening but the book signing queue was so long I didn't reach him until about 11:30pm. I'm pretty sure he didn't go home until the early hours of the morning, but he signed all of our books with little drawings and quotes.
Such a wonderful guy.
Oh man, disappointment is certainly an understatement, a six week workshop with Gaiman would be... wow, basically.
I kind of grew up on Pratchett, well, Discworld, weirdly enough I just couldn't get into his kids books as a kid, but Rincewind? Yeah I totally got into that. Good Omens was the first thing I read that had a bit of Neil in it and it's what got me to read Neverwhere, American Gods and Stardust. I love those three books but I'd have to say American Gods is my favourite (despite not being American) followed closely by Neverwhere and Stardust.
I'm a pretty big Sherlock Holmes fan (and by extension, a Jeremy Brett fan), although Lovecraft is actually a bit more of a recent read for me. I mean I had always known about Cthulhu and such, because internet, but I'm really impressed by a lot of his other short stories, well the ones that go a bit more in depth than "it was too indescribable to write about".
As for Douglas Adams, again I'm also a huge fan, although it was kind of painful to read Mostly Harmless.
As for Neuromancer, that's okay, I'm pretty dense too
RE: Stop playing with our hearts square - CallmeYahweh - 08-20-2013
(08-20-2013, 05:43 AM)Jove Wrote:(08-19-2013, 09:12 PM)CallmeYahweh Wrote: Oh man! He was in SanFran just a few weeks ago and I totally missed the visit. I almost got into a six week writing workshop with him a handful of summers back but had to back out due to some problems with funding on my end. Biggest disappointment of my life thus far.
I like Pratchett on occasion. I'm not sure I could read him all the time but he's definitely got a lot of really good stuff. (I'm a bit biased towards Douglas Adams though!)
Also love ACD and Lovecraft's work. I'm about to break into a few books by GK Chesterton I got a while back, but never got around to reading. Neuromancer though, I'm not sure I want to go near. William Gibson's stuff is so dense it takes me months to get through it all.
I had no idea he was here until Thursday last week but fortunately the tickets hadn't sold out, which was surprising considering the place was packed. His talk ended at half eight in the evening but the book signing queue was so long I didn't reach him until about 11:30pm. I'm pretty sure he didn't go home until the early hours of the morning, but he signed all of our books with little drawings and quotes.
Such a wonderful guy.
Oh man, disappointment is certainly an understatement, a six week workshop with Gaiman would be... wow, basically.
I kind of grew up on Pratchett, well, Discworld, weirdly enough I just couldn't get into his kids books as a kid, but Rincewind? Yeah I totally got into that. Good Omens was the first thing I read that had a bit of Neil in it and it's what got me to read Neverwhere, American Gods and Stardust. I love those three books but I'd have to say American Gods is my favourite (despite not being American) followed closely by Neverwhere and Stardust.
I'm a pretty big Sherlock Holmes fan (and by extension, a Jeremy Brett fan), although Lovecraft is actually a bit more of a recent read for me. I mean I had always known about Cthulhu and such, because internet, but I'm really impressed by a lot of his other short stories, well the ones that go a bit more in depth than "it was too indescribable to write about".
As for Douglas Adams, again I'm also a huge fan, although it was kind of painful to read Mostly Harmless.
As for Neuromancer, that's okay, I'm pretty dense too
Oh, awesome! Yeah, I've heard that he's a pretty decent human being. Very nice to his fans and whatnot. I admire his style of writing greatly; spent a few years emulating it, as a matter of fact. He's what got me reading fiction again. That's pretty damn sweet that you got something signed by him!
I had a lot of pressure from friends/family to read and get into Discworld. Good Omens is probably my favorite of his stuff. It's the right mix of that dry humor, and whimsical narrative with Gaiman's flair for prose.
I owe a lot of my love for the noir and detective genre to Sherlock Holmes. He's where that all started for me. I especially love how his legacy has carried on. Lovecraft is a lot like that as well -- though I'd argue that Lovecraft's worlds have only gotten better after his death. Lovecraft was strange guy, and while his writing was pretty boring, the worlds and ideas he left behind were fantastic.
I like a lot of his stuff that isn't Cthluhu based. Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath is easily my favorite of his work. Herbert West is also really good. And I'm really sad that we will apparently never get to see Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of At The Mountains of Madness.
Gibson's stuff takes a herculean effort on my part to get through. I like his writing well enough, and the stories are killer, but what hangs me up is the amount of work you put into reading to make sure you catch everything. His books are huge, and generally take me a readthrough or two to make sure I'm on the page with them. A buddy of mine swears by Cryptonomicon though so I suppose I'll have to settle in for a few months and bite the bullet. It is definitely worth what you put into it.