09.25.06
Shifting And Settling
Hey, folks. I’m at the “run my mouth off way too much” phase of the project that’s been keeping me so incredibly busy, but I still don’t want to announce it here. I’ve been going ahead with small little bits in other places that people know me frequent, so it’s sort of an “open secret”, if you will, but as soon as I get the OK, I’ll let you all know.
In any event, let’s talk about some interesting things, shall we? Interesting things interest both me and you, so they are worth talking about. Mac Hall is “moving to the next phase”, which is really just some weird codephrase for “Ian got a real job and doesn’t have time to draw anymore, so the partnership is breaking up and who knows what they’re going to do”. I’ll admit, a month between updates is a bit excessive, but hey. It’s not like I’ll get too broken up about it. Just as long as they sell the books, I’ll be happy. Still, I wish them both the best of luck, and I’ll likely be keeping them on the links list, at least until the “next phase” shows itself. Speaking of webcomics, I got the strange urge last night to go take a look to see if Jackie’s Fridge had ever updated. Short answer: no. I read through the archives, though, and got a few more laughs out of it.
I’d played Lunar Knights for about ten minutes back in May, and wasn’t terribly impressed; I mean, it’s a solid game and all, but wasn’t anything that really shone. Apparently, that’s on purpose. I knew it was tangentially related to the Boktai series, but had little knowledge of just how.
So, next-gen systems. It’s no real secret that my tastes are running along the lines of the so-called “Wii60″ combination. The biggest news out of the Tokyo Game Show for me, then, was that Trusty Bell: Chopin’s Dream was going to get a US release. Joystiq reports that the game is similar to Xenosaga, which leads me to believe that Namco Bandai politely requested the engine be retooled for such an endeavor. I don’t really have that much of a problem with Xenosaga’s combat system, aside from the fact that it’s got a WAY too steep difficulty curve. Incidentally, to the classical music fans in my audience (all three of you), the soundtrack has probably been in stores for a while now. My best guess, for about 150-some years.
I can’t think of a good way to transition to the next topic, which really doesn’t matter as I don’t actually do that in my writing. So.
I have a job interview today, and I have to pester a few other people for updates and information. I also, in a very rare show of me being overly generous with my time estimates, am very nearly done with most of the work for the project. So, yeah. Not much going on today aside from those two things. To unwind yesterday, I played some City of Heroes, and am now just mere inches away from level 47. Once I hit 50, folks, I will stop whining about it. I mean it. That might happen this week, if all goes well. We shall see; depends on if I decide to just blaze through Warburg or actually concentrate on finishing some of the Praetorian arc.
I kinda lost steam with this entry, so I’m off to hopefully JOB GET. If I can prevent myself from spouting off random 4chan memes during the interview, that is.