your joy is my low

THERE WILL BE A CHAT TONIGHT. And by a chat I mean CVNC, D*C, RP, BBQ, all kinds of other acronyms and you know this all means lots of crazy. SO IF YOU WANT IN THEM IM ME. And I will also harass you all when I see you on. Because you know how good I am at harassment *wink wink nudge nudge say no more*---

Wait, what?

Last night was a grand old Xbox party with my sister (aka ValVal/Valerie/zoopiglet) and bro-in-law (aka BriBri/Brian/ben_ethus). Valerie fell asleep on the couch though cause they are both sick and she was too tired to play anything but Brian and I went and kicked some ass on BioShock 2 multiplayer. I love that thing way too much. I finally got to Rank 18 which is the ELEPHANT GUN rank and that plus machine gun plus Houdini plasmid = <3333333. Especially when playing Team Adam Grab. Now I just need to get to the rank where I can upgrade my elephant gun to have a SNIPER SCOPE. YOU KNOW HOW I LOVE ME SOME SNIPER ACTION. <3333

Then today (while being totally screwed up by daylight savings time :|) I played more Fallout 3. I'm about 97 hours now, still my first playthrough, and I just finished the Mothership Zeta DLC. It was amazing and hilarious. Especially having to blow up the actual mothership at the end with your little ragtag band of different-era misfits. XD

I got fabric for part of my TK outfit yesterday and the fabric for the back of the DT jumpsuits. I think I'll make a mockup of what they maybe could look like and then share with draelight and blood_sorbet before I put the paint to the fabric and MAKE SOME PRISON JUMPSUITS WOOP WOOP.

Okay SW random costume question: best color for random Jacen Solo outfit pre-LotF: light gray with a black undershirt, dark gray with a light gray undershirt or straight-up black with a gray undershirt. LOL THIS IS SUPER IMPORTANT OR SOMETHING HELP PLZ. XD

EDIT: lusa_thul is blowing my mind and saying olive with a gray undershirt! I LIKE IT.

(I found the fabric today that I was gonna use to make a Vong robeskin for a Traitor!Jacen crossplay. I still want to do it soooo baaaaaad. jdsklafjkdjfkaljsd)

P.S. LEFT 4 DEAD DLC THE PASSING PREVIEW VIDEO ON XBOX. LOL GOLF CLUB MELEE WEAPON ELLIS GONNA BE BASHING SOME ANDREW RYAN'S, YO.

HOKAY. STAR WARS FRIENDING MEME, first of all. XD

Now that that is out of the way, there's been a lot of stuff getting done on the Celebration V NonCon (the online convention!) front. All these new ideas keep coming to us and so I have modified the registration form a little bit and so on, but there will be more news on that in the next week or so, once the site(!) goes online.

In SILENT HILL news, I believe the group playthrough of the series at neelys_bar will start at the beginning of March sometime. We still need to figure out how to do it (what order to play them in, how long to spend on the games, etc.) but I figure the month of February will give us enough time to figure out how to make it work and also give a chance for other new people to join. I am dorkishly excited for this. XD

(Also SH, I added a Silent Hill theme for the forum! If you go down to the drop-down menu at the bottom, it's called... uh... Silent Hill, lol.)

I need to finish Katsucon costumes this weekend, since next weekend I'll be in Florida visiting Dad (and magical Sea World XD) with Valerie and Brian -- and then the weekend after that is the actual con. I just need to get a couple more things for Luke Triton and sew his pants and then for Lisa I'm pretty much done except for adding blood to the scrubs and getting a white shirt. And I need to make the badge, hur hur.

ksdfjlskdfjlsdfjsd the next couple weeks will be so busy. Feb. 2 - class starts, Feb. 5-8 - Florida, Feb. 9 - BIOSHOCK 2, Feb. 12-14 - Katsucon. Luckily Feb. 15 is a holiday, meaning I can sit on my ass all Sunday and Monday and play BioShock 2. Woo! I want to play through the first BioShock before then, but I have no idea when I'll get a chance -- especially since I'm almost, almost done with my completed Fallout 3 SAINT GAME. All I have is a couple quests left on Broken Steel and then Point Lookout and Mothership Zeta. I want the last two bobbleheads too, but they are both in Deathclaw territory and if there's one thing that scares me worse than Mirelurks... it's Deathclaws. D:

(omg icon i love me some new!kyle hyde)

I realized the other day that it's technically been a year since I started to play Fallout 3 and I'm still not finished with it. But you know, this is a testament to how awesome the game actually is. With a lot of games that are super-sprawling and long, I tend to play them a little bit and over the course of time I just sort of drop them (or send them back to Gamefly, if I got them from there). But as you can see with Fallout 3, I have been coming back to it for a year now. I've dropped about 80 hours into my current playthrough and I still have these quests to play:

-- all the quests in the DLC "Mothership Zeta"
-- all the quests in the DLC "Broken Steel"
-- all the quests in the DLC "Lookout Point"
-- Strictly Business (waiting to do that one till I'm playing an evil character)
-- Picking Up the Trail
-- Rescue From Paradise
-- Finding the Garden of Eden
-- The American Dream
-- Take it Back!

So I'm almost done with the main storyline. Once I finish those quests and then the rest of the DLC, then I will start all over again and play a total asshole. That's another thing. Usually on games where I can be a good guy or a bad guy, I finish as a good guy (if I like the game enough to finish) and then I'm set. I don't really need to go back and play as a bad guy (or I'll end up starting a "bad" game and then never finishing it). But in this one I want to go back and play as a bad guy. There are assholes in this game who deserve a good punch in the teeth but right now I am TEH SAVIOR OF TEH WASTELANDZ so I have to paste on a smile and play along with them.

Also, like I had mentioned on Twits R' Us (err, Twitter) the other day this game actually gave me a super serial MORAL QUANDARY on Sunday. Usually when there is a choice in a game (good or bad choice, karma affecting choice, etc.), I will know what I'm picking in a heartbeat. Whether it's "good" or "bad" or how I've been playing my character... it's just that I know that's what right away what I'm gonna have my character do. It's always a split second decision and I'm done and move on.

Yesterday my Lone Wanderer (Scott, named after Scott Landon, duh lol) stood beside a baby crib and stared at a little baby (the "cure" I was sent into Haven to steal -- nobody bothered to tell me it was a baby) in Pittsburgh The Pitt for at least ten minutes. I have never had this happen in one of these games DAMN YOU BETHESDAAAAAA~ XDDDD

For anyone who has played The Pitt DLC... I didn't take Marie from the crib for Wernher. I couldn't. Once I met Ashur and Sandra (who Wernher had been bitch-mouthing) and found out that they were working on a cure for everyone in the city (including the slaves, raiders, etc.) -- plus, they weren't being pushy dicks like Wernher, I helped them. I left Haven without the baby and went to Midea to find out where Wernher was hiding (running through the raider/slave fights was pretty awesome looking, 'cept for the stray bullets, heh). I was going to try to go in and SPEECH Wernher about leaving, but the asshat starting shooting me right as I walked into his hideout. So I blew his head off with a gauss rifle. Seriously, they're working on a cure just like you are Wernher, plus Marie's their baby and they aren't being pushy, creepy dicks like you. I'm not giving you a stolen baby. Especially if the baby's parents are making a cure for everyone in The Pitt. :|

(In the next play through I will though! But not because I like you, Wernher. But because I like Adan.)

Ngggh, I can't wait to go through this game and be a mean, mean bitch. I will shatter everyone's dreams. AND FACES. HIDE NOW, CAPITAL WASTELAND.

(LOLOLOLOLOL, also, the Auto Axe called The Man Opener? I laughed so hard when I got that. <3)

I can't believe this. Sure, I'm all for women's right and shit. But the right to walk around topless like men are allowed to do? REALLY?

This dude summed it up: "While I CERTAINLY appreciate a woman's breasts and absolutely love looking at them, I can say without a doubt that women having the right to walk around topless is not a good thing. If there aren't enough sexual assault cases NOW, wait until women start walking around topless at midnight while drunk men are in the vicinity. GAME OVER."

SERIOUSLY. I can't even get into all the reasons why this seems so BUH??? to me. fsdklfkdfjkajd does not compute.

In other news, people on the IMDB Fallout 3 board kill me. These are from the "Real Life Fallout 3 Moment(s)" thread:

-- The other day I was pulling into a Wal-Mart parking lot and saw someone was moving a bed matress on the back of a pickup truck. I looked at it and - seriously - thought to myself "I wonder if I could sleep on that, like that" and had to stop myself for being silly.

-- As my car broke 6 miles away off town in the middle of nowhere my friend asked me what are we going to do I just replied "We are going to fast travel back to the town."

-- About a month after I got the game I was in a restaurant bathroom. Something chirped that sounded exactly like a mine. I crouched and was ready to spring backwards. Luckily, I was the only person in there.

-- I was ordering a shake, and I couldn't decide between two different flavors. I went with Flavor A, and I ended up regretting not going with Flavor B. So I sighed and said, "Guess I'll have to reload."

Love it. XD

I have decided that I'm going to start another playthrough of Fallout 3 and be a total dick. In games like this, where you become good or evil based on things you do (KOTOR, Mass Effect, etc.), I have always found myself being a super good character. I always naturally pick the moral things to do and usually like the people I'm doing these things for (usually... well, in KOTOR and ME, anyways). I'm pretty much not capable of being a badass because I just can't do it. But playing Fallout 3 I realize I could probably pull it off in this one.

There are so many morally ambiguous choices and so many assholes in this game that I just want to bust some heads. I want to stick grenades in these people's pockets and sneak off, I want to blow up their car forts with a rocket launcher, I want to kidnap them and sell them to slavers. Pretty much 90% of the people/things in this game are stone-cold bitches (comes with the setting and territory -- I'd probably be a bitter betty if all that happened around me too) and I wouldn't feel as bad about dealing retribution to their pixelated pouty puss-faces. BRING IT ON. I'M COMING FOR YOU FIRST, EULOGY JONES, WOOOO! PARADISE FALLS WILL BE MIIIIINE. YOU TOO, DUKOV. AND ALISTAIR TENPENNY, YOU CAN SUCK IT (NOT BEFORE I BLOW UP MEGATON THOUGH, OH SNAP). I'll leave Little Lamplight (the city full of children) alone though. I couldn't do that. D:

(MUST HAVE. MUST HAVE. MUUUSSSSTTT HAAAAAAVEEEEE. I MIGHT HAVE ALREADY PRE-ORDERED IT. :O)