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I went to graduation and got yellow roses and a cake with yellow roses on it. Mom apparently made a mental leap somewhere and decided that I had asked for yellow roses the last time she gave me a graduation-bouquet. ...I had made noises about white roses...then again, roses is roses and cake is cake, and yellow isn't even my least favorite color. (As a matter of fact, it's sort of mid-range in terms of colors.)
And now, since I'm sick to death of being emotional, it's time to talk about my favorite new illegal toy! :D One of the reasons it's okay is what I do with it. I won't pretend it's actually excusable to steal, but I'm playing this hamster game on it. Actually, it's called Hamster Paradise "PURE HEART." Pure Heart? Did you get that? I don't know about you, man, but this reeks of shoujo.
It's the tale of a little girl's struggle to find friendship after being somehow orphaned in a hamster-centric little burg called "Hamster Town." For some reason, her parents are completely AWOL, but she does get two hamsters---for free, in fact! And everything and everybody can tell her how to take care of them! Hell, the bakery even specializes in hamster cake (that's cake for hamsters, not cake with hamsters in it)! Then she goes about raising them for, I dunno, companionship, all she seems to have at home is the hamster cage and the dog, who never tries to kill the hamsters when you take them to visit, so maybe he thinks of hamsters as teeny weeny holy cows or something. There's also an option to get your hamsters "married," but the whole thing is shrouded in mystery, and I'm not sure how I feel about putting my hamsters through an arranged marriage.
Anyways, they're pretty expressive little beasts, and as usual if you want to buy anything you have to play a bad minigame, but it's not hard, unless you're five or stupid. And you're probably one or the other if you're playing (guess which one I am?). Hamsters have always been well-loved in Japan, because if you're going to acquire another being to suck up your sweet, precious, living space, might as well make it something that you can also kill by accidentally stepping on it. And they're fuzzy, kids like that. Anyways, I saw ads for this in Nakayoshi a year or two back and I thought it would be a hoot to try, so now I am having my hoot. Nowadays the craze in sim-anime games seems to have moved back towards dogs, and then away from pets entirely...there's a lot of stuff about chihuahuas out there, oh yes. (Next on my list is that bentou game, if they possibly made one of those for GBA.)
Look, I never owned a hamster OR an official Tamagotchi, okay?
I forgot to mention that the new sub-events showing Chester training like crazy actually raise his levels, thus solving the problem of having a level 10 guy in a party full of level 30 SOBs. It's wonderfully handy. His new skills are very classy---they're largely elemental, but their use is mostly in adding extra damage, and then there's some elemental effects on the side. It's lovely, makes fighting much less painful, but as a result Klarth has taken a hit in usefulness. I mean, really, any monster that wants to come over and sock him good while he's casting a spell can do just that because he he's not in the air and out of the way like Arche. He doesn't add variety, he doesn't have many different spells, and he's so much weaker than I remember him being. T_T The only thing he's good for is cooking, because he learns fast and joins early. I thought it was pretty funny that he learned to make nikujaga, the recipe described as "haha no aji," at LIGHTNING speed.
Cless's Shishisenkou is now useable---in fact, it is actually useful. Majin Souhazan is still wonderful for killing things, and now, you can have it for free, the second you can get into the weapon shop in Beladam for the first time. What keeps it from TAKING OVER his other skills is that most of the weapons you get up until the future are no good for Majin Souhazan, and that brings down the damage.
The option to have Mint focus on protective spells is now significantly more useful. In fact, I started to depend on it somewhere around Valhalla fields. Just having her stand around and heal the second anybody gets hit is really not enough.
And now, since I'm sick to death of being emotional, it's time to talk about my favorite new illegal toy! :D One of the reasons it's okay is what I do with it. I won't pretend it's actually excusable to steal, but I'm playing this hamster game on it. Actually, it's called Hamster Paradise "PURE HEART." Pure Heart? Did you get that? I don't know about you, man, but this reeks of shoujo.
It's the tale of a little girl's struggle to find friendship after being somehow orphaned in a hamster-centric little burg called "Hamster Town." For some reason, her parents are completely AWOL, but she does get two hamsters---for free, in fact! And everything and everybody can tell her how to take care of them! Hell, the bakery even specializes in hamster cake (that's cake for hamsters, not cake with hamsters in it)! Then she goes about raising them for, I dunno, companionship, all she seems to have at home is the hamster cage and the dog, who never tries to kill the hamsters when you take them to visit, so maybe he thinks of hamsters as teeny weeny holy cows or something. There's also an option to get your hamsters "married," but the whole thing is shrouded in mystery, and I'm not sure how I feel about putting my hamsters through an arranged marriage.
Anyways, they're pretty expressive little beasts, and as usual if you want to buy anything you have to play a bad minigame, but it's not hard, unless you're five or stupid. And you're probably one or the other if you're playing (guess which one I am?). Hamsters have always been well-loved in Japan, because if you're going to acquire another being to suck up your sweet, precious, living space, might as well make it something that you can also kill by accidentally stepping on it. And they're fuzzy, kids like that. Anyways, I saw ads for this in Nakayoshi a year or two back and I thought it would be a hoot to try, so now I am having my hoot. Nowadays the craze in sim-anime games seems to have moved back towards dogs, and then away from pets entirely...there's a lot of stuff about chihuahuas out there, oh yes. (Next on my list is that bentou game, if they possibly made one of those for GBA.)
Look, I never owned a hamster OR an official Tamagotchi, okay?
I forgot to mention that the new sub-events showing Chester training like crazy actually raise his levels, thus solving the problem of having a level 10 guy in a party full of level 30 SOBs. It's wonderfully handy. His new skills are very classy---they're largely elemental, but their use is mostly in adding extra damage, and then there's some elemental effects on the side. It's lovely, makes fighting much less painful, but as a result Klarth has taken a hit in usefulness. I mean, really, any monster that wants to come over and sock him good while he's casting a spell can do just that because he he's not in the air and out of the way like Arche. He doesn't add variety, he doesn't have many different spells, and he's so much weaker than I remember him being. T_T The only thing he's good for is cooking, because he learns fast and joins early. I thought it was pretty funny that he learned to make nikujaga, the recipe described as "haha no aji," at LIGHTNING speed.
Cless's Shishisenkou is now useable---in fact, it is actually useful. Majin Souhazan is still wonderful for killing things, and now, you can have it for free, the second you can get into the weapon shop in Beladam for the first time. What keeps it from TAKING OVER his other skills is that most of the weapons you get up until the future are no good for Majin Souhazan, and that brings down the damage.
The option to have Mint focus on protective spells is now significantly more useful. In fact, I started to depend on it somewhere around Valhalla fields. Just having her stand around and heal the second anybody gets hit is really not enough.
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anyhow, hope I don't sound too weird/parenty..
*thinks* well, I haven't seen you in so long! I'd love to talk if you ever want to.. my screen name's what it's always been "jenanoelle", I've got one on yahoo, one on AIM, and I'm pretty sure I have MSN messenger, but I kind of lost it.. oh, and my email addy, either jenanoelle@hotmail.com or jenanoelle@free.fr, which is usually less full. And my LJ which.. is jenanoelle, once again. I suppose some things never change, and that has turned into a trademarkish type thing for me..
so, to sum it up, I missed you! I'm very behind on group stuff, apparently.. congrats lots on getting your GED.. What's up/new? And.. well.. hi :)
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anyhow, you should indulge! LJ's your little corner of the world! It's fun, you can talk about whatever you want! Me, I talk about anything I want to remember, dreams, my wanting for a little kitten to play with.. I dunno, clouds.. and of course, video games!
about the GED, how'd you do it? I searched *forever* to find a place that would do 1. testing at night (I hate waking up and taking tests..!) and 2. testing in little sessions.. I did one subject at a time, and it was really nice like that, no pressure, no sore fingers.. I'm *really* glad I found that place..
I suppose there's a completely different thing going on with the GED thing.. no one really gets too attached, since it's such a short process, compared with high school, where you get friends, go to proms, even get close to teachers and all.. with high school, I suppose you *need* more of a closure than with the GED thing.. *thinks* or something like that.. but man, you got a cake! :) I haven't eaten cake flowers for so long.. and now you've gotten me in the mood..! mm.. cake flowers..