The only woman who ever truly loved you ([info]eldena) wrote,
@ 2008-06-05 15:05:00
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It occurs to me that I've got new people on my flist these days, especially if you use a lenient definition of "these days," and not only do I not post much, I don't talk much about myself when I do. Except whining about school. Also, I'm not sure I've ever done any of those interview-type meme things. Bah, memes. And of course, most importantly, I'm bored at work.

Therefore, friends, I invite you: ask me questions. About anything, I don't care. I'll attempt to answer whatever.

Incidentally, I've also made an attempt to clean up said flist lately. I tried to mainly remove people who don't use their journals, or who I've had on there for like three years and have still never interacted with on or off LJ, or who post large uncut pictures regularly of stuff I honestly don't care about. Anyway I would not be the least bit surprised to learn that I've removed someone I oughtn't have, so if you feel that's you, please lemme know. Maybe someday I'll also get around to all those silly comms I joined in my youth and then defriended but was too lazy to actually leave.




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[info]qable
2008-06-05 09:12 pm UTC (link)
The best game for each console that you played growing up. NES, SNES, N64, etc.

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[info]eldena
2008-06-05 09:43 pm UTC (link)
I'm going to include the Atari because, although I was really too young to comprehend video games at the time, thanks to the internet I've been able to determine which game it was whose brightly colored lights entertained me most, so: Stampede. It had horseys!

NES: Hmm... maybe Dragon Warrior 2. Or Maniac Mansion, since my tiny-childhood phobia of RPG dungeons made progressing in the former difficult.

I had a Genesis briefly: Herzog Zwei, unsung ancestor of the modern RTS.

SNES: Final Fantasy 6 was unquestionably one of the most influential games on my general development.

PS-X: It is impossible for me to answer with anything other than FFT.

Gameboy: Pokémon. Like duh.

GBC even though that's essentially the same as the GB: I'm thinking Zelda: Oracle of Seasons. Way better than Ages, yo.

GBA: Hrmmmmm. I'm tempted to just name FF6 again, but the real and non-cheating answer is probably Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow.

The PS2 and the DS are still going, but what the hey. Predictably I'll say Persona 3 to the former, but trying to pick just one DS game is like trying to choose which of my children will live. It's probably Elite Beat Agents or Etrian Odyssey, though. Or more Pokémon. Or...

I think that's it. There are some loose definitions of "growing up," but hey, that's about right for me.

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[info]qable
2008-06-05 10:25 pm UTC (link)
I approve of Dragon Warrior!

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[info]eldena
2008-06-05 10:33 pm UTC (link)
Word. I only wish we'd had more than the first two games when I was little, because 4 is completely where it's at. I also wish the more recenter ones didn't look completely boring to me, but we'll always have nostalgia.

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[info]qable
2008-06-05 10:40 pm UTC (link)
I actually enjoyed the half of DQ8 I've gotten through. The plot isn't the greatest, but the humor helps.

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[info]eldena
2008-06-05 10:47 pm UTC (link)
Whatever, whatever, there's DQ4 on the DS coming (in September now) and that's all I need!

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[info]qable
2008-06-05 10:55 pm UTC (link)
Haha, I still haven't gotten a DS or a PSP.

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[info]eldena
2008-06-05 11:03 pm UTC (link)
I'll pray for you.

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[info]scootermcgaffin
2008-06-05 10:38 pm UTC (link)
Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party?

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[info]eldena
2008-06-05 10:46 pm UTC (link)
I don't need to humor your wild allegations, Mr. McCarthy.

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[info]scootermcgaffin
2008-06-05 10:57 pm UTC (link)
As established by the tenants set forth on this very page, I believe you do. Answer the question, please. Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party?

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[info]eldena
2008-06-05 11:03 pm UTC (link)
I have no tenants, I've never been a landlord, and if you think about it refusing to answer is totally kind of like an answer! This is spurious! This is infamous!

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[info]scootermcgaffin
2008-06-05 11:05 pm UTC (link)
THIS IS SPARTAAAAAAA.

Er. I mean. ONLY A COMMUNIST WOULD REFUSE TO ANSWER THE QUESTION.

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[info]eldena
2008-06-05 11:08 pm UTC (link)
ONLY A COMMUNIST WOULD DO YOUR MOTHER!

...Well, I guess that makes me a Communist.

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[info]scootermcgaffin
2008-06-05 11:09 pm UTC (link)
Are you my daddy?

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[info]eldena
2008-06-05 11:15 pm UTC (link)
I can think of a few reasons why that's unlikely, but we can't rule out the possibility. Come here, my boy.

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[info]hyuga
2008-06-06 02:43 am UTC (link)
I approve of this thread.

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[info]hyuga
2008-06-06 02:44 am UTC (link)

Where does this icon come from? You had another one like it as I recall.

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[info]eldena
2008-06-06 03:54 am UTC (link)
Well. The previous one like it that you're thinking of came from the first (or second depending what you qualify) OP to Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei. This is a weird and highly addictive OP which spawned many, many fandom parodies. So what I eventually switched it out for there is from a Persona 3 one. And now you know!

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[info]hyuga
2008-06-06 09:34 pm UTC (link)
I don't know anything about that show, but if its opening is in any way at all indicative of the show's contents, I think I'm going to have to give it a watch.

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[info]eldena
2008-06-06 09:41 pm UTC (link)
You know, that was basically my reaction too. Sadly, that OP really doesn't have much in common with the show... well, except for the noose. And the running from girls. Happily, SZS is still quite good, just in a different (hilarious) way.

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[info]hyuga
2008-06-07 12:25 am UTC (link)
Well, girls in bondage or no, it still seems relevant to my interests. I'll have to watch an episode.

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[info]hyuga
2008-06-06 09:43 pm UTC (link)
Oh, and I love the Phoenix Wright parody.

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[info]lance
2008-06-06 05:02 am UTC (link)
I still read my friends page regularly, though I don't post much or frequent #fret anymore (damn WoW)...doesn't matter too much whether you re-add me or not, as I agree that we haven't really interacted much, haha.

Though I wouldn't have realized FFTA2 was coming out soon (or that it existed) if not for an earlier post of yours, so...either way. :)

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[info]eldena
2008-06-06 05:10 pm UTC (link)
Well, if there's some benefit to having me around, re-added you are! (Also I haven't been to #fret in ages; I don't even do EsperNet anymore.) (Also curse that WoW.)

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[info]freyr
2008-06-06 09:16 am UTC (link)
I started playing FES. WHY IS IT SO GOOD?! I love this game so much.

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[info]eldena
2008-06-06 05:10 pm UTC (link)
Hahahahahaha. I TOLD YOU DIDN'T I? It's because you should always listen to your smart friends.

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[info]freyr
2008-06-06 08:51 pm UTC (link)
It was still a dumb idea for me to buy it when I no longer owned a PS2... so I got it as a graduation present for my roommate instead and started my own game on his memory card. :D

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[info]eldena
2008-06-06 09:43 pm UTC (link)
That's problem solving right there! And as the reward, delicious video games. I'm so proud of you.

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[info]imaginari
2008-06-06 02:25 pm UTC (link)
?

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[info]eldena
2008-06-06 05:11 pm UTC (link)
!

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[info]imaginari
2008-06-06 05:44 pm UTC (link)
I suspected as much.

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[info]misura
2008-06-06 04:01 pm UTC (link)
Well, given that I added you to my list of 'people whose journals I occasionally read' because you've read Steven Brust's books (and even have a Paarfi-quote of sorts in your user-info) I suppose I'd like to ask if there's any other writers/books you'd recommend to someone you barely know (i.e. me).

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[info]eldena
2008-06-06 05:50 pm UTC (link)
Honestly, I'd like a few more answers to that question myself. But if you're fond of Paarfi you have wonderful taste and I must do what I can for you. And of course I have absolutely no idea what you've already read... so I'm just gonna go with listing off whatever comes to mind.

I enjoy A Song of Ice and Fire for kicking me in the soul repeatedly, and I'm enough of a masochist that that's probably my second favorite series. Lois McMaster Bujold's Chalion books are quite nice and I need to try her other fantasy. That Robin Hobb lady I read a while back wasn't bad; well, the Farseer books were all right, the Liveship books had some really interesting ideas, and sometime I'll get around to the Tawny Man but I've heard it's not that good. I also liked Lynn Flewelling's Tamir Trilogy pretty well, but not the one book I tried of her Nightrunner stuff, which everyone else seems to love, so I don't know what happened there. Oh, yeah, and I read The Deed of Paksenarrion once, none too complicated but pleasant.

Man, I tried and failed to read new books twice in the past year or so (their faults, not mine >( ). By far the best thing I've read recently was a collection of the Harold Shea stories, and those are fifty years old. I have got to go shopping.

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[info]misura
2008-06-11 01:56 pm UTC (link)
Personally, I think there are few things cooler than discovering a really great 'new' author ... who lived tens of years ago and therefore has an oeuvre of several dozens of books, which you can all gleefully hunt down.

On the bright side, it would appear we may have even more authors in common than 'just' Steven Brust (whom, in terms of coolness, I'd rate perhaps a little over Lois McMaster Bujold, because her Vorkosigan-saga is made of win, but Steven Brust is Steven Brust unless he's Paarfi of Roundwood). Not so much into Robin Hobb or Elizabeth Moon, and not yet started in the third book of the Tamir-triad, but still ...

Will Shetterly's Cats Have No Lord is probably my favorite 'book that was published a while ago but that I only discovered to be great this year'. Steven Erikson would be the 'new guy whom I think is really good even though very few people seem to know him'. His Malazan books of the Fallen are ... quite intrigueing. I disbelieve his publisher's claim that all the books stand on their own though; Gardens of the Moon is the first book in a series, not just 'the book that happened to be published before the others'. (Neither of them are Paarfis, naturally.)

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[info]imaginari
2008-06-07 07:01 am UTC (link)
A slightly less silly question: what were the answers to your character quiz?

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[info]eldena
2008-06-07 07:24 am UTC (link)
I like how I had to go back and study the comments to that post to remember them all, just like I too was playing the game! #3 took me forever to figure out, seriously.

1. Tazendra, Dragaera
2. Kimura Kaere, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
3. Rafa, screw whatever the retranslation called her, FFT
4. Healie, Dragon Warrior/Quest 4
5. Yuufa, Ragnarok: the Animation
6. Lucretia Merces, Suikoden 5
7. Zappa, Guilty Gear
8. Mog, FF6
9. Angela, Seiken Densetsu 3
10. Franziska von Karma, Phoenix Wright

Nobody asked much about the really easy ones, I swear it's not completely my fault. What can ya do?

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[info]rymist
2008-06-07 07:55 am UTC (link)
Since I go completely blank whenever someone has an open question post, I will fall back on something easy!

What's a few of your favorite songs? Can be from any genre or any medium! I find that you learn a lot about someone through their taste in music.

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[info]eldena
2008-06-07 11:55 pm UTC (link)
Well, that kinda thing is tricky cause it changes periodically. So, uh, hmm, have some New Pornographers since they're my current music-boyfriend or whatever, and then some random general mainstays.

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