Insomniac weekend update

[yendi]

Quick recap of the last few days:

Friday (last day of vacation), I finally spent a day doing nothing at all; I just broke out the old Playstation and booted up Final Fantasy Tactics.

Saturday: We took Elayna over to lupaloo's, where she met the entire crew of kids and had much fun, in spite of throwing a temper tantrum insisting that she didn't want to go there. We also had fun chatting with Lupa and her man, and Elayna, shadesong, and I all got haircuts from Lupa, too. Turns out their new place is really close to us, too, which is nice.

Sunday: Went to Decatur and hung out at Javamonkey, were we met ijk and albumlady, and also saw sirinek, bheansidhe, vidicon, sibylla, and ryokan (although never all at the same time), as well as albumlady's middle child, who kept Elayna entertained (and vice-versa). Much fun was had, as well as a trip to Noodle.

Sunday night: Game night at jet_li_wannabe's, which ended up being Apples to Apples, which I think I've now had my fill of. It was still fun, though. Attendees were myself, jet_li_wannabe, his Tracy, Steve and his new lady, and Jerry (yes, a room where the non-LJ people were the majority. Scary).

Then, Sunday late night. I get the worst fucking case of insomnia I've had in years. I haven't slept a fucking wink. If I didn't have that one unmovable meeting today, I wouldn't even think about work today. But I've got to go in. Crap. After two hours of tossing and turning, I played FFT and finished off part one. I then remembered that we were out of juiceboxes for Miss Kid's lunch, so took a nice 3 AM walk to Kroger. No lines. Go figure. And now, it's 5:30, and I'm still not that tired. But I know it's going to be a high-caffeine day.

Comments

[terracinque.livejournal.com]

What is Apples To Apples?

[yendi]

http://www.otb-games.com/apples/

It's a party game in which everyone draws cards listing random things ("Shania Twain," "The YMCA," "Jefferson Davis," etc), and each person, rotating, draws a category card, which could be something like "Chewy" or "Honest." The other players have to pick a card from their hand that best represents the card concept, and lay it face down in the midle (the last player to lay the card down has to take their card back, so speed counts). The person with the category card then takes those cards, mixes them up, and decides which one best suits the category. It's amusing, but not at the top of my list, game-wise.

[sirinek.livejournal.com]

http://www.deanforamerica.com/site/TRR?pg=tfind&fr_tm_opt=new&fr_id=1230

Thats the link to set up a "houseparty" for the call tonight on the Dean For America site. You will want to ask your friends if anyone has a phone with a speaker in it so everyone can hear. :)

DFA should send you the numbers but if you registered and dont hear anything by like say, 6pm, call me 770-998-2768 and ill get you the number for the conference call. The call starts at 8.

If you guys decide to do this for LEWD tonight, let me know the link to your houseparty, and ill donate $25 to it. :) (you can put that as your fundraising goal if you guys cant or dont want to contribute)

[gwynraven.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry about the insomnia. I understand all too well. Since I've got such a long day today I actual took some of the over the counter sleep stuff last night as a precaution against tossing and turning too much. Although even that wouldn't have helped if my body had decided it really wanted to be insomniac. Luckily for me it didn't.

Go to your meeting and then go home early. You deserve it :)

[jet-li-wannabe.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I agree. No more A2A for a while....Die Siedler Das Cattan!!!!

[iresprite.livejournal.com]

Nein! Nein! Keine mehr Siedleren von Cattan!

*Das twitchen*

[lupaloo.livejournal.com]

Saturday: We took Elayna over to lupaloo's, where she met the entire crew of kids and had much fun, in spite of throwing a temper tantrum insisting that she didn't want to go there. We also had fun chatting with Lupa and her man, and Elayna, shadesong, and I all got haircuts from Lupa, too. Turns out their new place is really close to us, too, which is nice.

Glad you guys came over. We all enjoyed visiting.

[iresprite.livejournal.com]

I. FFT! Huzzah. I hope you're enjoying it. Not sure what you mean by Part 1, but then I've been taking it really slow on the plot and just developing all my characters with super duper jobs.

II. A2A! Good fun, although I agree it can wear on ya as the night grows long.

III. The Spalding Gray of crap? I'm fascinated. Tell me more. I loved him in True Stories.

[yendi]

I'm playing FFT on the PS (not the GBA, if that's what you're on). There are four Parts/Acts to the game (the first act is all the stuff in the flashback leading up to the opening scene kidnapping).

As to the user name, it's a reference to Family Guy. Peter tries a long-winded excuse for something, and Brian calls him the Spalding Gray of Crap. I loved that phrase. :-)

[iresprite.livejournal.com]

Ah! The first FFT. I dig it. It's a fun game, though you need a little patience with the loading times and the slow scrolling text in some places. *grins* Let me know if you want some tips on how to horribly imbalance the game ni your favor. ;)

Ohh. Family Guy. There's a series I've seen too little of. I love that show. :)

[yendi]

Tips are appreciated!

So you've got the GBA version? How is it?

[iresprite.livejournal.com]

The ninja and samurai class make your character a badass, especially for their support abilities. There's a support ability that allows you to wield two weapons. This actually becomes more important in the GBA version where learning abilities is actually tied to items you have equipped. If you have two weapons of the same kibnd equipped, you learn twice as fast.

Also, go for the dancer job. I forget how to get there, but they are way too powerful for their own good. They are a mage-based class whose "dances" affect every enemy on the board. Either they deal damage of some sort to every enemy on the board, or- the most powerful ability in the game, imho- they inflict a random status ailment on everyone.

After two ruonds, you can have a board full of frogged, poisoned, and blinded enemies. It's almost sad.

The GBA version is gorgeous. They make the classes a little more balanced, and they introduce races that have exclusive jobs. They cut out the whole Zodiac thing (which I think is lame anyway) and introduce laws that you have to obey during combat. Laws vary frmo region to region, and they make fighting a little trickier, especially when you can't heal anyone in your party lest you get thrown in jail.

It's nice to see Squaresoft get back to good combat systems and decent plots (though this is obviously aimed towards a younger audience).

[yendi]

Yeah, I need to work my classes up higher (I probably should just pause and work them all up to really high levels on random encounters early on, but I like advancing my characters with the plot). I'm very far away from Ninjas and Samurai so far.

Dancer is the fighter line, actually, but only available to female characters.

I loev the sound of the GBA game. So many other GBA games are just reruns of older 16 and 32-bit versions. It's nice to see a new version.