After spending the longest time I’ve ever spent on installing a video game, I finally got around to playing Final Fantasy XI for the first time. As a “puny Earthling”, I’m biased toward creating/recruiting human characters in my video games, so I made two different “Humes” – one a White Mage named Kaeli (Siren server), and another a Warrior named Reuben (Hades server). I wanted to start out with a Thief named Tristam, but that name and all variations on it were taken on the server where I wanted to use him. In case it wasn’t apparent, I named them both after characters from the oft-ridiculed SNES RPG Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, because I though it would be the least likely game from where people would steal names.

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In the time it took me to install Final Fantasy XI and three of its expansion packs (Rise of Zilart, Chains of Promathia, and Treasures of Aht Urhgan), I was able to watch three whole episodes of Gunslinger Girl. Computer games should not take this damn long to install!

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There I go again, spending money on games when I could put that money to better using by saving up for…oh, who am I kidding. Golf video games are fun to play, at least when done properly. I’m into more of the arcade-style golf games, like Nintendo/Camelot’s Mario Golf and Sony’s Hot Shots Golf. I only played one or two holes on Tiger Woods PGA Tour ’04 and couldn’t figure out how to use the dual-analog swing controls for the life of me. Maybe the reason I prefer the other games is because I’ve been doing it the three-button-press way since the days of NES Open Tournament Golf (and field-goal kicking in the Madden NFL games).

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Apparently, playing as a pitcher in MLB Power Pros’ “Success Mode” gives me a better chance at taking my teams to the playoffs and becoming league champion, but the girls don’t seem to notice unless I’m holding a bat in my hands most of the time.

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Oh, what a weekend. I think I spent way too much time over at the LiveJournal femslash100 Drabblethon for any sane human being. Case in point, I found enough time to write down twelve – count ‘em, twelve – 100-word pieces for your reading pleasure, branching out into as many different fandoms as I could shoehorn. Now that I’ve proven I can write that much in a short period of time, I think with the next coming weekend I’m going to channel all of that pent-up energy and start writing the first chapter of my original story.

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