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-I made the best genoise I have ever made for the christmas cake, which was a strawberry shortcake after all. I made two fairly thin cakes that I cut into three layers---yes, my cake had three layers. But then I didn't have enough whipped cream to decorate the top as much as I would have liked, so I suppose I'm going to be doing this again. This time it has to be fruit that's in season. The strawberries were all bruised somewhere, some were rotten and some were weird and dry inside. I cut off the weird parts but the ones in the last piece of cake still weren't quite right after 2 days in the fridge. I wonder if roasted chestnuts would work? And candied chestnuts, of course.
-Tales of Graces has made me want karuta, though it's going to have to be the Tales version they're making soon because I'm not exactly experienced with old poetry. While researching karuta I learned about hanafuda and have been happily enjoying a koi koi flash game ever since. When you get 50 points, you get a little ending screen, and then you can play the "other side" where you can see your opponent's cards and the card that comes up next. The CPU is MEAN AND RAPEY, as in if you're not paying attention a little bit you can LOSE BY LIKE 20 POINTS. Why doesn't the computer lose when I get 20 points, huuuuuh? *keeps playing*
-I got a bunch of books from JP amazon and they are suuuuuuuuuuper. Christmas is fuuuuuuuuun. Mmmmmm, possessions.
-After the last entry I survived to the end of the event and had a merry christmas for it. I have a headgear that drops candy canes and rare buche de noel cakes, a ring that drops cookie bags, cards that drop gift boxes and blue boxes, and pretty soon the set that drops purple boxes. The cookie ring especially was a lucky break because I kind of blew a lot of money trying to get it. I don't like to think about how annoying I would have been on Christmas if I hadn't had it.
-Tales of Graces was part of my Christmas. I'm in Strata right now. It's a fine game. It has a lot of yarikomi stuff, and not all of it is the kind I care to pursue (typical Mutsumi game?). ( Very mild spoilers---description of a character's personality, vague descriptions of actions )
-If one reads Hachima frequently, one may find themselves growing tired of the fighting over which console is the winner, or how Japan has silly Galapagos technology (biased hint: get rid of region locks), or claims that fangirls are just as likely to fantasize about putting their penises in any human who looks under 14 as some especially devoted XBOX360 believers. One may start to think that if one has to read some stuff in Japanese, one might as well read a novel or a comic book. Unless it's about the next Tales game.
-Tales of Graces has made me want karuta, though it's going to have to be the Tales version they're making soon because I'm not exactly experienced with old poetry. While researching karuta I learned about hanafuda and have been happily enjoying a koi koi flash game ever since. When you get 50 points, you get a little ending screen, and then you can play the "other side" where you can see your opponent's cards and the card that comes up next. The CPU is MEAN AND RAPEY, as in if you're not paying attention a little bit you can LOSE BY LIKE 20 POINTS. Why doesn't the computer lose when I get 20 points, huuuuuh? *keeps playing*
-I got a bunch of books from JP amazon and they are suuuuuuuuuuper. Christmas is fuuuuuuuuun. Mmmmmm, possessions.
-After the last entry I survived to the end of the event and had a merry christmas for it. I have a headgear that drops candy canes and rare buche de noel cakes, a ring that drops cookie bags, cards that drop gift boxes and blue boxes, and pretty soon the set that drops purple boxes. The cookie ring especially was a lucky break because I kind of blew a lot of money trying to get it. I don't like to think about how annoying I would have been on Christmas if I hadn't had it.
-Tales of Graces was part of my Christmas. I'm in Strata right now. It's a fine game. It has a lot of yarikomi stuff, and not all of it is the kind I care to pursue (typical Mutsumi game?). ( Very mild spoilers---description of a character's personality, vague descriptions of actions )
-If one reads Hachima frequently, one may find themselves growing tired of the fighting over which console is the winner, or how Japan has silly Galapagos technology (biased hint: get rid of region locks), or claims that fangirls are just as likely to fantasize about putting their penises in any human who looks under 14 as some especially devoted XBOX360 believers. One may start to think that if one has to read some stuff in Japanese, one might as well read a novel or a comic book. Unless it's about the next Tales game.
