Haygais

Mood: Excited
Listening to: White Skies (FFX) – Project Majestic Mix: The Trance Album (bLiNd) 

My birthday was on the 10th this month and I didn’t post, sorry.
I’m 20 now – it doesn’t feel quite real. I don’t FEEL 20, sorry, still feel like a kid. Being 5′3” might contribute to that.

I got spirit tracks for my birthday and all my gaming plans have gone to pieces (I’ll pick them back up later). If you have a DS and have not yet acquired The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, then let me suggest that you drop what you are doing right now and go get it. Seriously.

My gaming train is going to have to slow way down this semester, unfortunately, because I have a crazy modern western civilization teacher who has decided that it’s a good idea to assign us a novel a week to read. It seems that’s going to be the focal point of the class too – making this ‘modern western literature’ class instead. It’s not like I can’t manage a book a week -  back when I had more time in High School, I often managed a book or more a week, but I have other classes. Whatever, I will make it work, even if I have to skim or find summaries when I have too much math and other  homework to deal with. My world is not going to revolve around her silly class. Yesterday I spent what could have been the better part of my day reading the entirety of Descartes’ Discourse on the method (whom I have already encountered for Philosophy previously). I have a Descartes rant that you do not want to hear – good mathemetician, baffling philosopher. In case it wasn’t obvious, I am a hardcore Empiricist, and Rationalism both baffles and irritates me. I believe I’ve mentioned before how much I love the scientific method – I’m that weird kid, the one who, despite how everyone in every high school chem class whines about how they’ll never use any of it, has adopted the scientific method and uses it informally on a daily basis even after high school. It can be applied to all sorts of situations – really!

Anyway moving on! On the good news front, it would seem that I have an awesome Sociology teacher, so I think I’m going to like that class. I will also like my computer science whatever class because a lot of it is going to be relatively easy, since I’ve been using a computer for a pretty long time now – and already took a bunch of computer classes in high school. Math is probably just going to be eh.

I’m going to go finish getting ready for classes now. Busy day today – and after all of my classes over my friend and I are going to sit in the student center and watch my Lethal Weapon 4 dvd on his laptop. I’mexcited. Wisenri out!

~Aurelia

Oh boy 2010

Mood: Worn Out (I’m always writing these when I’m tired, wtf)
Listening to: Bad apple!! feat. nomico – Masayoshi Minoshima [Not the full version of the song, but it's high quality, and has a really neat PV. Definitely worth a watch.]

Happy New Year everyone. I haven’t updated much lately because I’ve been off doing offline things, which consists mostly of a whirlwind of console gaming both solo and with some friends from high school (and now college, technically). I’ve had five hours of sleep since yesterday, as I had friends over yesterday afternoon, and we stayed up playing video games (and then I watched my friend play with valve G-Mod [LAUNCHED BARRELS WITH ROCKETS LOL] when all but 3 of us fell asleep) until about 8 in the morning today. After they left I went to sleep until 1 in the afternoon.

To give an idea of the console gaming I’ve been doing, here’s a nebulous list of games I’ve played for more than a couple of hours at a time in the past few weeks:
Metroid: Zero Mission (Finished)
Luigi’s Mansion (Finished)
Twilight Princess (Should be finished, but I’m stalling on it – I have stuff to do before I fight Ganon)
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Getting closer to finished. Like with Twilight Princess, I’ve been stalling a bit because I reeeeally don’t want it to be over yet).
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (Playing with some friends every week or so, so definitely not finished)
Final Fantasy Crystal Bearers (Finished – It took me about a day and a half, around 18 hours total. It was, unfortunately, very short, which disappointed me since I enjoyed it)
Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness (Close to finishing. Entertaining but definitely not on par with the main handheld games)
And some other stuff too. A lot of random games. Solo-wise, I’m currently working on finishing pokemon XD; once I’m finished with that, I’ll probably buckle down and work on .Hack//GU, again, I got a relatively good deal on volume 3 the other day, so now I have all 3. It’s been so long since I’ve played though that I’m going to start from the beginning of the first game again.
If I get zelda spirit tracks for my birthday like I asked, that’ll probably sidetrack me for a bit.
And I might play a bit of Pokemon Emerald. With the upcoming release of Pokemon SoulSilver and HeartGold (holy shit I’m so excited) in March this year, I find myself needing to play Pokemon. I’m going into pokemon withdrawl. I’m trying to not buy any new games until March when SoulSilver comes out (and Fragile too, I hope, unless it gets pushed back again), so that I can save my money – though I might be looking to get a copy of the Prime Trilogy once I finish Prime 3. Maybe I can put off finishing it for awhile longer.

Well, I’m off. Lots of gaming to be had. And maybe more sleep.
Wisenri out!

~Aurelia

Grand Fantasia

Mood: Less tired (try making sense of that – I can’t)
Listening to: Tell Me – Ra

Decided to go ahead and post a bit about Grand Fantasia before I go off to bed – I have some time while I wait for my sprite to do something useful (it keeps breaking the pants it’s supposed to craft).
It’s a relatively new-ish (at least to english) MMO that Aeriagames is hosting. A lot of people don’t like aeriagames but honestly they irritate me less than a lot of other MMO hosts. Anyway I had the fortune of playing CB (and I have a shiny cape in OB to show for it), and it’s actually a pretty good game. I’ve been through a ridiculous amount of MMOs since straying from RO for awhile, and this is one of the first ones, aside from Runes of Magic and WoW (which is somewhat overrated in my opinion – but fun nonetheless), that has caught my attention for an extended period of time. Ether Saga Online, which I know I blogged about in the past, was a game with nice, shiny, pretty graphics, but was grindy and I got bored pretty quickly.
Grand Fantasia’s leveling rate feels about right to me (at least at the moment, for my level 31 Wizard), and it helps that I’ve joined up with a really friendly guild, which is likely to make me more invested in the game. It’s a bit like any other MMO – the ‘Sprite’ crafting mechanic is interesting – despite their tendency to break things when it matters, it’s still one of the things about the game that keeps my attention. I’m not sure there’s much coherent about it that I could say, I’m still relatively new to the game myself, CB aside. I wasn’t there for a lot of the CB (only made it to 22) due to studying for finals and playing Metroid Prime 3, so there’s a lot I don’t know. If you’re interested, you should head over to to the website and check things out. <:
For anyone who’s playing or intends to, come say hi. I play on the Alice server, generally channel 2. I’d be on either my Wizard, Tsvai, or my Priest (eventual Sage) Thakausu.

It’s almost midnight, and my fail sprite just failed again (trying to make an elite armor set), so I’m going to give up on the pants for tonight and go to bed.
Wisenri out!

~Aurelia

FINISH! (Again)

Mood: Exhausted
Listening to: Moskau – Rammstein

Finished my finals today! @_@ I am done until Jan 11th. I’m going to spend those 4 weeks gaming until my eyes bleed. Starting right now – I’m off to play Grand Fantasia (new MMO - more about that later) until my dad gets home with dinner, and then I’m going to have dinner and go sleep. I’ll post again sometime when I’m not feeling braindead or glued to Metroid.
Wisenri out!

~Aurelia

Finished!

Mood: Still Loopy
Listening to: Uprising – Muse

Up since 5 AM again. 8D You know it’s too early when you’re looking in the refridgerator for silverware for 15 seconds before you realize what the shit you are doing. Haw haw.

Haven’t had much time to play Metroid Prime 3 since my last entry, due to slaving over the last of my essays. They are done now! Somehow though I don’t feel as awesome about it as I thought I would. Maybe it’s the finals hanging over my head. Hopefully it’ll all be good once they’re over.
Then I can go visit my Aurora Unit homies. I miss them. >: And I haven’t finished building that stuff for AU 217 yet. The space pirate shenanigans kind of slow down the process. Anyway off to go chill for a bit and then get ready for class. Finals next week!
Wisenri out!

~Aurelia

Early Morning is Early

Mood: Loopy
Listening to: Laptop Processor Ambience

Roflrofl getting up at 5 am is funny.

Today will be my first day back to class after Thanksgiving break.

You know you’ve been playing a lot of Metroid Prime when you wake up thinking you’ve been fighting space pirates and four-armed bryyan lizards. Hurr.
Still building that thermonuclear bomb AU 217 wants. Also I had to pull out the energy cell that powered the containment units in then Xenoresearch labs so that I could get this seeker missile upgrade thing, and this energy tank upgrade… yeah once the containment fields were off the metroids kind of broke out of their tanks and started wooshing around. I walked back out into the pod hallways and went around the corner and they were like “HI 8D” and slobbered all over my visor helmet and tried to kill me. Ewwwww. Dx

Gotta go pack for class.
Wisenri out!

~Aurelia

Moar Update

Mood: Tired
Listening to: Zelda 2 Temple Trance OC Remix – bLiNd

SO. Despite all the overblown emotional trauma that led up to it, it would seem that I’m going to make it out of this essay marathon in one piece (providing no more professors drop any surprises on me). I have finished my literature essay and three of the four psych essays. Now all I have to do is polish up the literature essay for the final draft today (it’s already been turned in and given back with feedback since my last blog entry), and on wednesday I’ll finish the last psych essay.
Because I was tired of hearing about all the crazy stuff all these psychologists had to say (Seriously, Freud and Jung – what the hell?), in the main intro class, I made sure to write the book essays on things that actually have scientific evidence to back them up because I like science. A lot. Yeah so far my three essays are about the human nervous system, human sleep patterns, and human cognition. No wack shit like “bobby was disturbed when he was six and now he wants to sleep with his mommy!” Here’s looking at you, Freud.

In other news, my Dragon Age: Origins gameplay is on hold until I have the time for emotionally investing myself in a heavily story-driven game. In the meantime, I have reinvested myself in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption! Ohgodyouguys it’s just as awesome as I remember. The Aurora Units are so freaking awesome I wish I had a huge organic supercomputer that looked like a squid thing omg. I finally figured out how to use hyper mode/corrupted hyper mode properly (for the most part – i still got myself corruptraped twice when I was fighting Mogenar – who by the way was a bastard). So I’ve managed to stumble my way through the game a little more effectively than before (last time I got stuck on bryyo at a miniboss battle). I felt really bad about having to flatten [SPOILER] Ghor. I mean he was like Cyborg Mother Theresa (before he was corrupted anyway). If you don’t know what I mean go check out his wikitroid page [/SPOILER]. So yeah, if you have a Wii (if you don’t – you need one immediately. Just don’t get Wii Fit, or I’ll cry), and you haven’t played the Prime Trilogy yet (I’m getting the trilogy with new play control next so that I can play the other two – i wanted to wait until they had wii controls as well), you SHOULD. AlsoSamusisbetterthanMasterChiefchewonthatHalofanboys. <: Anyway, I’m off to write some stuff and then have lunch and then probably go play MP3C. AU 217 wants me to build some thermonuclear bomb thing to toss at the Leviathan Seed shield. Sounds potentially irritating, but I do whatever the Aurora Units tell me <3. 8D
Wisenri out!

~Aurelia

WOO

Mood: Iunno.
Listening to: Cloudy Desert Plains – .Hack//GU Vol. 2 OST

GUYS GUYS I UPDATED TWO DAYS IN A ROW. 8D

Yeah. Okay, one essay down, five to go. The good news is that the one essay I just finished was the longest/most involved one of the group sooo… good to have that out of the way. Plus it’s due on the 24th, unlike the others which are due later. The bad news is there are five of them left. Oh well. Progress is progress. Yeah I haven’t got much else to say since I really haven’t done anything today but attend class and work on my history essay. And watch Community and Parks & Recreation. So I’m off to watch one of The Prisoner episodes I have taped and go to bed so I can get up in the morning and slave some more.
Wisenri out!

~Aurelia

Update

Mood: Bah.
Listening to: Long Way - Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 OST

I’m still here and planning to try to update more often. However I have an assload of college work to wade through before December 7th, no thanks to a teacher who apparently assigned us 4 essays at the beginning of the semester, via the syllabus, and then said nothing about them for the rest of the semester. I found out about them on accident. Communication fail.

Speaking of December 7th, that’s the actual release date for Zelda: Spirit tracks. I had it a month early, previously, whups. Either way, it solved my which-game-first dilemma, and as of a few days after my last blog I am the proud owner of a copy of Dragon Age: Origins, which is kind of dark, but super fun. Alistair is so hilarious. I’m going to be pissed if he abandons my character after he [spoiler]becomes king – although if I can find another suitable person to be king in the meantime I will jump on that shit[/spoiler].

OH YEAH. Also the 2009 Star Trek movie’s out on blu-ray and crap and I have it. Exciting stuff.

Anyway I have to go eat dinner and then go sleep so that I can haul my ass out of bed at 5 am, trudge through classes, and then come back home and slave over my classwork. I might do another entry before the semester is over, but if I don’t, I’ll be back if I survive all of this crap.
Wisenri out.

~Aurelia

Still Here

Mood: Tired
Listening to: Nebula (feat. Hatsune Miku) – Tripshots

Greetings! I thought I should maybe make an entry to prove that I’m still alive. I’m aware that I only get like 2 hits a day, but the fact that I don’t blog daily is probably what causes that. Oh well, rofl.

Been kind of busy with college. It’s not like I don’t have free time, but most of that free time goes to watching various crimeshows (like NCIS and CSI Miami) and playing video games. I picked up Zelda: Twilight Princess again the other day and I’ve been playing that. It’s finally grown on me, despite the irritation I’ve expressed with it in the past. I still like OoT and TWW better, but I think I originally may have judged Twilight Princess a little harshly for not being OoT. xD

In college-related news, philosophy class has finally grown on me, now that we’re talking about stuff that is a little more interesting (i can only take so many arguments for the existence of god – it’s a relief to be done with that unit) and I can argue with everyone without being afraid that someone might come find me after class and punch me in the face for being agnostic.
The problem is now I’ve been assigned a marathon of essays – but 1 and a half of 3 of them are done. My philosophy essay is done, now I just have to finish my english essay on Hamlet (shudder. my hamlet rant is too long, we won’t talk about it) and the do my history essay before thanksgiving. I finished enrollment for my next semester of classes, which was hellish. I like how a lot of the classes I really really want are in other branches of the campus I can’t possibly get to, or at weird times that I can’t make.

In more gaming news, the new Zelda DS game Spirit Tracks is out [Edit: ACTUALLY IT'S NOT NVM], as well as Dragon Age: Origins, which I’ve had my eye on for awhile now. I can’t decide which one I want more. It’s not like I don’t have enough money for both, but it would still be a little pricey to go out and buy both… I’ve decided to pick one around thanksgiving, so that I don’t have them around to distract me from those essays I’m supposed to write. The game I really wanted this year, Fragile: Farewell Ruins of the moon, is unfortunately not due until Februrary, and the other game I really want, Pokemon Soul Silver, isn’t due out until Q2 2010 at the moment, so I have to wait on those. But there’s a whole host of geeky shirts from Thinkgeek on my christmas list instead, like this one and this one.

Also, Star Trek 2009 is due out on Blu Ray and DVD soon, and I’m so excited I can barely contain myself. I’ve pre-ordered the Blu Ray copy and it will arrive at my house on or close to the release date and I will scream like a fangirl. End of story. Speaking of Star Trek, I sure wish I could get into the Star Trek Online closed beta. Oh well, it’s probably better that I don’t have it too to distract me from college. I’m waiting [im]patiently for the open beta.

As far as my blog goes, while I haven’t been posting a whole lot, I still do update my fanlistings page a bit more frequently, so it’s not like I’ve abandoned this thing completely.

Anyway I’m going to go maybe write a little more of my Hamlet essay before swearing at it and darting off to the TV to play Phantasy Star Online or maybe grabbing my DS and playing some Magical Starsign. <3
Wisenri out!

~Aurelia