A sufficiently desperate amalgamated waffle sorter

From bookelfe:

Go look at your blog. Find the last fandom-related thing you posted. The characters in that post are now your team-mates in the zombie apocalypse. How in trouble are you?

Well, now, let's see. My last fandomy post... was my very last post. In which I specifically mentioned Felix (and "even... the alternate Felixes"), Kain, Rose, Fluttershy, Applejack, Spock, and Karis. So let's look at the rundown.

( Not bad, looks like. )

Well. A week has passed since I last posted, and quite a week it's been.

I got Dark Dawn, and am pleased with it. Not pleased enough with aspects of the worldbuilding to retcon my millicanon enough to fit, but I enjoy the game. Now I'm debating whether to cultivate a particular proto-headvoice for Milliways or give Felix opportunity to meet her.

Thursday, though, was pretty bad. I spent most of the day in bed, throwing up. The next three-four days were spent with a throat full of sore, a head full of stuffed, and ears full of ache. Monday was borderline, and Tuesday I felt well enough to resume life.

Unfortunately, Tuesday was prone to network and scheduling problems. And ljlogin becoming broken, for no good reason I can find. So now I am finally able to return to my internets, catch up on my flist, and so on. This afternoon I think I'll EP with some advance setup for a Dark Dawn-inspired plot.

In the meantime, have a meme.

Ask me about any character, and I will tell you some combination of:

a) five facts about them from my personal fanon
b) two reasons they're amazing
c) five things I'd like to see happen to them
d) three people I might ship them with and why
or
e) if I don't know them, I will make something up

Obviously, characters you know I know are best, but I doubt there are many of those; as long as you avoid non-Ghibli anime and manga, I should be able to do at least e) above.

ceitfianna asked about my top five video game characters. So, without further ado...

( I choose you! )

So. My replacement computer has arrived. It's got a 10key thing to the side, which will take some getting used to, at least as far as navigation goes. It's a day later than I expected, but it seems to be functional. It's more black than I'd have chosen, though.

I'm not entirely pleased with Windows 7. I had a system, with my Vista machine, that won't work quite right with 7's peculiarities. If any readers happen to know how to fiddle with the taskbar settings, I'd appreciate some help.

In other news... GOLDEN SUN: DARK DAWN!

Yes, day 378 the title is released. My suspicion is that they were going for Dark Sunrise - so that the initials would be DS - and missed. Perhaps there was an error in translation, perhaps someone said "No, that's stupid"... who knows? At any rate, there's an additional trailer, several screenshots - and an outline of the premise, along with the names and official portraits of the three characters (Matthew, Karis, and Terrell. I might continue to think of them as David, Emma, and Garetclone.).

Holiday 2010 is the listed release date.

As reported on the Golden Sun fansite Golden Sun Syndicate, Nintendo's annual report lists Golden Sun DS as a 2010 release (at least in America). This? Is not news. This hasn't been news since about four seconds after the initial announcement started.

What might be news is the confirmation that it probably won't be released as "Golden Sun DS". No information is offered as to what might replace that title, but it's more than we've had in over 335 days.

I just want something. A character name, a release date, an image of the fourth party member, an indication of who reappears...

Hm. I was in Target yesterday and noticed something.

Spore, the base game, was about $30. Spore: Galactic Adventures, the expansion, was $20. Three spaces further along I noticed Fallout Trilogy, a compilation of all three Fallout games, for $15.

I wonder whether that says more about the publishers or about how much software prices have changed in the last 13 years (since Fallout was first released).

Arglefraster! Camelot, what's wrong with you?

Okay, a few days ago I posted about an update on the new Golden Sun. Apparently some people have their copies of the magazine already, and have posted scans. The news is disappointing, to say the least.

What it says amounts to "We've been waiting years for this, and here it is! But all they'll tell us is that we're supposed to get it this year."

From the discussions on some of the fansites, it seems this is fairly consistent with how Camelot, the company behind Golden Sun, deals with their fans: by not telling them anything. Apparently back when they were publicizing the first one, they didn't mention Ivan (the third party member) for quite a long time.

*sigh* Day number two hundred thirty.

...How long has my journal title been misspelled?

The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks

( A- )

Also, it has a very awesome TV commercial.

( This could get a little long. )

It's quite interesting to notice which journals I recognize on which interest lists, and where from. It's particularly interesting to see which people share several of my interests without my having encountered them anywhere on LJ.

One of these days I want to find out what sorting algorithm LJ uses for the entries on the interest lists.

Congratulations, Milliways, you can mark another notch under my name. It wasn't direct, immediate impetus this time, but once again you've contributed to my investigating a canon.

This time, it's Professor Layton and the Curious Village. I picked it up yesterday and I am quite enthralled. I don't feel like I'm very far into it yet, although I've encountered more than half of the "mysteries", but it has grabbed me like only Zelda has previously.

The graphics are charming, the voices and music extraordinary, and the puzzles...

It's really very interesting to see which types of puzzles come particularly easy to me. The math ones, of course; I was expecting that. What's more interesting is that I'm quite good at the odd-one-out ones. As I predicted, the only one that's thoroughly stumped me so far is a slider puzzle (107, in case you're curious).

Five out of five, thus far. Good show, Level 5.