Shuffling into the modern era...

[merimask]

Okay!  Just a quick post because HEH!  I am entirely infatuated with my Okami game.

News!:  I am now no longer using dail-up.  We got our high-speed cable hooked up on Friday.  I'm utterly freaked by it all.  I mean, I had some seriously ingrained coping mechanisms for all the waiting around I used to do.   Now it's "click, BOOM" you're there and listening to music or downloading stuff or heck just loading my friend's page takes NO time at all.  Wow.  Freaky.

I am sick.  I caught the cold that everyone has been nursing all week in this house.  They're all better...I feel like I'm going to die.  Fever, itchy goopy throat.  My eyes sting and my nose is just fine except for when it isn't.   Waah.  :-(  I completely missed my friend's wedding which BITES because she's a great person and I had the prettiest outfit to wear...but I thought if I gave everyone my cold they wouldn't appreciate it so I'm utterly housebound.  Which was okay because; see below.

Okami is an evil evil game.  I've had it since Thursday and I've already played over 20 hours of it.  I would say I have no life...

...except I do.  Greg took me to the home opener for the Sabres last night.  The HSBC (Hot sauce blue cheese..heh.  It's a terribly local joke see, 'cause this is Buffalo and here you get your chicken wings with the hot sauce and blue ch...I'll shut up now.)...Anyway the HSBC arena was totally sold out but Greg got us killer seats in the Club level and we had our own waitress!! bring us burgers and beer which I thought was just fine.  :-)  And OMG what a game!  The Montreal Canadiens were awesome and we were down 4 to 2 with less than four minutes in the last period...and we scored!  The place went nuts.   And then with just 15 seconds left in the game we TIED.   The noise was unbelievable.  We went to overtime, no one scored so it went to a shoot off and OMG we won.  Everyone screamed their fool heads off and it was altogether great.

I don't get hockey ettiquette though.  *frown*  It seems that it's accepted form to BOO loudly any action taken by the visiting team.  That includes the act of skating out onto the ice.  I understand cheering when your team scores or has an exceptionally good save...but I do NOT think it's ok to boo the other team just 'cause they scored.  That's dumb.  And rude.  

Also, the guy behind us was a drunk ass who cheerfully sang paeans to his own testicles at the top of his lungs.  His chippie beery girl companions guffawed as if he was the wittiest guy they'd ever heard...and sadly this was probably true.   Though you never know...a woman of average intelligence might put up with a lot of goofyness to score seats in the club level...but I hafta say that I'd draw the line at testicle songs.  It was, y'know...weird.   I'll never understand the male fascination with their own body parts and personal gas.  *sigh*  I mean really.  Just...Ugh.  

Still and all, great fun!   Now if only I can shake this cold and find my way through the Moon Palace everything will be just perfect.  :-)

Comments

[zipis1.livejournal.com]

Oh no! You missed wedding that you bought that purdy outfit for? That bites :(

But I suppose shiney games make it a least a little better :P

the guy behind us was a drunk ass who cheerfully sang paeans to his own testicles at the top of his lungs

I know this would be annoying in person, but hearing about it from someone else makes it funny. :P

And yay! for high speed internetz! Though I warn you, now that you've had it, if you ever have to go back to dial up for whatever reason, it will seem like a little piece of you has died. And that is sad.

[merimask.livejournal.com]

We did laugh quite a bit a "Drunk Guy" at the game, so yeah I saw the humor in it too. :-) He was SO enamored of his own nuts!

Oh the high speed! It's killing me with awesome! I sit here clicking away on viral videos to my heart's content.

[pzb.livejournal.com]

LMAO....yes, isn't high speed great? I had all kinds of coping methods too... Particularly, I used to work in Photoshop or Painter while searching through Google Images for different references.... Now, I can do both quickly, but it broke my rhythem. XD

ANY sports event I've been to where booing was involved just bothered me. I mean, come on. People never put themselves in the other's shoes. I mean, I've yelled for bad calls or moronic plays, but never booed.

*hugs* Get some rest. As hard as it is, PUT THE GAME DOWN. XD I've had an oddball version of this cold...no sore throat or fever, but so freaking exhausted and can't see straight now and again. I've spent the better part of the week fighting it, and it comes back again, so get some rest!!

[merimask.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't get the "booing" thing at sports events. I mean, booing a team just 'cause they showed up to play the home team...isn't that the height of stupidity? What, would people prefer the home team to just come out and walk around all alone on the field/rink for a few hours? Dumb.

Waah! I'm sick again. :-( I do this too much. I've been trying to rest but it's so hard to do when your head is killing you.

[pzb.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the cold going around here has a reoccuring tune to it....thus far, I haven't gotten it again, but I think I held onto it for a little longer than most others, so who knows. Then again, maybe I just got lucky.

Oh, btw, I need your address. :D You can email it to me - princesszeldabelle@yahoo.com (since I don't care about spambots on that addy :D)

[moko-moko.livejournal.com]

*cue infomercial music*
Guy Dressed up as a "Certified" Doctor: Are you suffering from a cold? Runny noes, stinging eyes? Sore, itchy throat? Then play OKAMI, the newest revolution of cold medecines. Play over 40 hours and feel better like that! *snaps fingers*
Narrator: Side effects include blisters, dehydration, family alienation and minor interventions.

[merimask.livejournal.com]

Haha! That's both funny AND true. :-) I'm playin' my way to healthy.

Holy crap I just got the ability to climb the walls where the cat statues are and it is SO MUCH FUN!!! But I can't remember where they all are so I'm going back through all the worlds looking for kitty statues which is booooring. And tedious. And the "medicine head" isn't helping so I'm saving it for tomorrow.

*loopy on cold meds*

Hey...pssst...I can't make icons worth beans. Are there any pretty Okami icons out there? I have some ideas for a few cute ones. *hint hint*

[moko-moko.livejournal.com]

Dude, climbing walls is so awesome, and soon you can get the water tablet as a holy artifact and WALK on WATER. *squees* And finding the cat statues is fun, if not a bit annoying at times because like you said, where are they?! There's one in Agata forest (the place where you found that boy's dog in the cave?) near the cave entrance, a cat on the far west in Shinshuu Plain, one near the entrance to the Ryoushima coast (on the right, jump down in the water and there's a tower down there) and a couple on the N. Ryoshima coast near the sakura tree off the top o' me head.

Icon ideas, eh? Share! I suck at doing them, but I could ask Cinnie real nice to make some :3 And do you know if there's any archive of game screencaps anywhere?