your joy is my low

OH SNAP HERE IS A LIST I MADE TODAY WHEN I WAS BORED. :o

ULTIMATE WEAPON SPOILER WARNING FOR FINAL FANTASY VII, VIII, IX & X. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. But seriously, if you don't know this stuff by now then you shouldn't care about being spoiled. :o

I only did 7 - 10 cause these were the four I have played and played and played and played and not put down. Some of the others I have played, but nowhere near as much or as in-depth (by far). These four just took me in a chokehold and didn't let me go and pretty much made me their bitch. I think I might be a sucker for the Final Fantasy games with the stupid love stories. Which is funny, since the only two main characters I was totally invested in were Zidane and Garnet (OH MY GAWD AT THE END WHEN THEY HUG I GET ALL YAY), along with Cloud and Tifa, I guess. Squall & Rinoa/Tidus & Yuna were alright. Although, I did get all googly-eyed giggly bitch when Squall smiled and kissed Rinoa and then all emo-fangirl when Tidus had to leave Yuna and he did the whole walk-through-ghosty shit. Ooooh, Square. D:

10.) THE BALLROOM SCENE. [FF8] -- Squall's two left feet never get old. Rinoa usually annoys me (and Squall re: Rinoa -- "I WANT TO HEAR HER VOICE WHINE WHINE WAIIIIII~"), but she's actually kind of adorable in this scene, probably because she's not yammering about something stupid. I love the way she drags Squall out on the floor and he tries to leave because he sucks so bad -- but she pulls him back and he actually dances. I also love the way the fireworks interrupt them when they're all close and he looks at them and she's too busy staring at him. I am such a softie. D: (And Rinoa snotting at the people they bump into = lol.)

9.) TRANCE KUJA. [FF9] -- Kuja is the hottest girly man ever. And when the hottest girly man goes absolutely berserk, turns colors, grows feathers and gets ready to kick lots of ass, it makes for an awesome sequence. HE IS THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS. AND HE DOESN'T MESS UP HIS MAKEUP WHILE DOING IT (ALSO, KUJA THONG WHAT).

8.) THE PARADE. [FF8] -- Everything about this whole part: the music, the dancers, Seifer smirking like a bitch, Edea acting a bitch, Rinoa being... herself, Irvine failing at sniping, Squall getting iced -- it was all so YES THIS IS THE SHIT. AND SQUALL IS A CAR THIEF (and Edea is a babe, yo). Have I mentioned I love the dancers? They totally kill me. Let's all do a cosplay group of the dancers and just hop around and parade everywhere dancing like that. It will be epic -- and I don't mean in an internet sense, I mean in a serious Homer's Odyssey sense, yo.

7.) BLITZBALL. [FF10] -- I WILL NEVER GET ENOUGH BLITZBALL. NEVER EVER. I would stay up till 4 in the morning playing it and making my teams and stuff. And I would watch this FMV over and over and over again. SO BADASS. And dude, you cannot beat the screamy metal song. The first time we turned the game on and this song came on, my sister and I flipped and giggled and watched it a bunch of times just to hear the song. CLASSIC. (P.S. WET TIDUS AND AURON THE ASPIRING STRIPPER LOL. <3) This part is also totally badass cause their blitzball game gets ruined by THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WHOLE CITY. I LOVE when Tidus flips out of the water and he spots something -- the way his facial expression shifts was amazing -- this was the first Final Fantasy game on the PS2 and they were using that to their advantage most definitely.

6.) ESCAPE FROM DOLLET. [FF8] -- This is within the first couple hours of the game, and once you see this you're totally locked in and loaded and ready to hit that shit for the next 50+ hours. It's EXCITING. And I'm sorry, I totally nerd out when I see Squall, Zell (<3333), Selphie and Quistis all in uniform working together and being badass. ZELL DINCHT IS MY HERO, YOU GUYS. I WANTED TO BE ZELL'S PIGTAIL GIRL WHEN I PLAYED THIS GAME.

5.) STORMING BEVELLE. [FF10] -- The energy in this part is on crack. I couldn't help but watch it all like :O. ESPECIALLY SLIDING DOWN THE WIRE. <3 It looks so dangerous but SO FUN. I love Tidus acting so giddy about it and I love how Kimahri is carrying Lulu. Heeee!

4.) LEAP FROM THE AIRSHIP. [FF9] -- Just like Tidus and Co. storming into Bevelle with smiles on their faces as they pounce into the midst of danger, Zidane and Friends do the same here (after Garnet cuts her hair, PRINCESS WHATEVER SHE JUST WANTS TO GO ON ADVENTURES <333). Except they HAZ NO WIRE to slide down, they just float. And it's gorgeous (and Vivi so cute). I have such a crush on Zidane. EVEN IF HE HAS A TAIL. :|

3.) THE WHOLE ENTIRE HONEYBEE INN SEQUENCE. [FF7] -- I will also never get enough of the Honeybee Inn. Never in a million years. It was so wrong (yet so right) and so perverted. I mean, there's rooms where people are... doing things...? And you possibly might get molested in a bathtub? And you are looking for things to dress your manly man Cloud Strife in drag with? And getting girls dressed as skanky honeybees to put makeup on you? And one of them calls you Pooch...? This, in all seriousness, has to be one of the best sections/sequences/places in a video game in the history of everything ever. The dialogue, the things you see (and don't see), the sound effects (squish, squish, squish, poik, poik -- see icon, those are actual screens from the game), the stilted and awkward pauses (...) here and there while characters are speaking. It's so PRICELESS. (Hell, you can stretch this to all of Wallmarket -- Don Corneo trying to get in Cloud's pants = ROFLMAO~ <333 WHEN HE'S THRUSTING THE AIR AND CLOUD IS LIKE ...?!) Unfortunately, there is no good video of ALL OF IT out there, so I included the part in the actual Inn where Cloud it futzing around (you get Honeybee Inn stuff AND CLOUD IN DRAG) -- lol they named Cloud EL BONER. ("TIME'S UP, BYE BUBBY.")

2.) THE END OF AN ERA AERIS. [FF7] -- LOL, I'm not sure if I put it here cause I didn't like her character (she grew on me in Crisis Core) and loved that this happened or because it was the most ARE YOU KIDDING ME? DID THAT JUST HAPPEN? moment, but it's here. I mean, my stepbrother was like, "HEATHER YOU SHOULD PLAY THIS GAME CAUSE I KNOW YOU'LL HATE THIS BITCH IN PINK AND SHE DIES!" So I sat down and watched the game, and he was right -- she annoyed me. And then she died. And then I started playing video games like crazy. So thank you for that, Aeris, cause if it wasn't for you and what happened then Josh never would've told me to play and I wouldn't be playing games like I am today. (I would love to see this scene on the PS3. LOVE.)

1.) THE ENDINGS. -- Goodness. They are beautiful. And you actually feel like it was worth it to play through the WHOLE DAMN THING cause the endings are so long and tie up all the loose ends. <333

FFVII. (Cloud and Tifa talking about meeting Aeris, the gang and the airship, THE EXPLOSIONS, Holy doing it's thang. The graphics aren't as great as the other endings but this was over a decade ago, but it's all still awesome. Also, lololololol Tifa's ginormous chest which suddenly shrinks to a normal size in Advent Children. CLASSIC.)

FFVIII. (This is seriously one of the best video game endings I've ever seen in my entire life. YOU MUST WATCH THROUGH THE CREDITS. It was worth my 80+ hours of gaming. It wraps everything up so perfectly and shows just about every damn character possible. Plus, the "home video" footage during the credits is genius. I absolutely love Irvine dancing like a dumbshit and Zell choking on a hot dog -- and omg when Irvine focuses on a gaggle of babes and Selphie gets pissed. I fucking love it.)

FFIX. (THE HUG! TUGS MY HEARTSTRINGS EVERYTIME! AND ZIDANE'S LITTLE "SUP BABE" GRIN~ and then she totally beats him up for missing so long. LOVE! <3)

FFX. (TEARS, YOU GUYS. 1:40 - 4:10. :( TEARS. WHEN HE WALKS THROUGH YUNA I DIE A LITTLE INSIDE. And Lulu is the HOTTEST THING EVER. AND WAKKA. The after-the-credits moment here made me ABSOLUTELY GIDDY. Then they went and assed it all up with FFX-2. :|)

If you haven't played these games then you must. D: I NEED TO PLAY THEM AGAIN.

(LOL, I will probably do this for the Silent Hill games now too. Also, survival horror/horror/i just peed my pants what was that/horror action in general -- without SH, of course since it's getting it's own post -- Haunting Ground, Bioshock, Fatal Frame, Eternal Darkness, Phantasmagoria, Galerians, etc. Too many favorite moments to pass up!)

SUP. The Verizon guy came yesterday! I think our internet might be working correctly! :O

I've actually started playing Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core again. I sort of stopped when my PSP got stashed under my bed and lost to me. But I found it and I have been playing. And Zack Fair is like a trillion times cooler than Cloud Strife -- plus, his voice is amazingly sexcellent.

And the real surprise here is that Aeris (sorry, I can't call her Aerith -- it just sounds so lame. I'm used to calling her Aeris and Aerith just makes it sound like everyone is talking with a lisp. FO REAL) isn't annoying the shit out of me. The other night I got to the part where Zack met her (fell through the roof! :D) and she's flightly and all completely not there like she is in FF7, but I guess it doesn't totally put me off as much cause, you know, she's not hitting on Cloud and pretending Cloud is Zack since THIS GAME ACTUALLY HAS ZACK IN IT AND SHE'S HITTING ON HIM INSTEAD. (Cloud/Tifa OTP 4 LYFE BEETCHES.)

I also love the fact that Zack was the one who bought her the bow she wears in her hair. SO CUTE. I WANT A BOYFRIEND LIKE ZACK FAIR HE IS SO DARLING. AND BOYFRIEND NEEDS A VOICE LIKE THAT. WORD.

(But man, Aeris' outfit is horrible. What's with the random flowers on the one arm of her tank top and the outdated plastic wedge 90's sandals? UGH. Girl's outfit in FF7 was SO MUCH BETTER, even if it was like a bottle of Pepto Bismol charfed all over her. AND HOW HOT AND SNAZZY IS ZACK FAIR?)

Playing this again makes me all YAY FINAL FANTASY once more. Luckily, the four that I played to death and love to death are on my VIDEO GAME HEIST list, therefore I will be powering through them here soon.

Speaking of games, started Silent Hill Homecoming again and I have been doing pretty damn good so far. Actually got a one hit kill on a Needler with the steel pipe to the head and it was awesome and it was something so stupid to be so proud of but I was SO PROUD. Them I saw Pyramid Head Bogeyman and I giggled and Alex Shepherd peed his pants. Then I met Wheeler, whom I love, again. Then Sewers (big eff on you three Needlers and a Siam D:). After that I smacked the shit out of Dr. Fitch's office and the descent then I beat that stupid bitch doll thing (WASTING ALL MY PISTOL AMMO IN THE PROCESS, THANK YOU) and now I have moved on! Past the cemetary! Past the house-- wait, no, I am in the Shepherd's House... it's... just... not their house.

(And omg, the scene where Alex and his mother are talking -- by the way, Alex's voice actor is damn great, A+ on that, you guys! -- and the... dude, the people... I almost peed my pants. THEY WERE JUST HOVERING THERE WAITING.)

Alright, and the whole Mayor Bartlett (Grand Hotel/Sepulcher), then Dr. Fitch (Hell Descent/Scarlet) thing has got me all paranoid. Cause Bartlett and Fitch are two of the SG founding families -- so wtf does this mean for the Holloways and the Shepherds? My stomach is not happy just thinking about it. :|

In other other game news, I think I might buy the Guitar Hero World Tour game since it works with Rock Band (only RB1 so far, no word on RB2 peripherals) instruments. Then I will have even more songs to scream into the microphone and drum like a tool on. Oh yeah, and play guitar. So cheers to GH for letting RB instruments work as well. Yay!

And I am not getting GH: World Tour only for "Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)", "Freak on a Leash" and "Obstacle 1", I SWEAR. D:

P.S. Sam Winchester in the preview for Supernatural next week -- Dean picturing him with the YELLOW EYES (9 seconds in, WOO!)? HOT. YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE BESIDES HOT? DARTH CAEDUS.


(AND OH MAN, I THINK I'M THE ONLY ONE EXCITED FOR REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA. Sarah Brightman looks badass. :OOOOO)

Happy birthday to Valval AND Alex -- if you guys were born four days earlier, you could've shared your birthday with the awesomest effing Final Fantasy character EVAR. I'm kidding, I love Irvine. But not as much as like 10+ other boy FF characters I could name off the top of my head.


(*cough*ZellWakkaVincentRenoKefkaKujaZidaneCidCidCidSetzerZornThornBarretRufusEtcEtc*cough*)


HAY QUISTIS. GO TALK TO WALL.


(Ahahaha, best Stephen King related wiki page ever.)

I just watched a music video someone made with Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children footage and I just SQUEED. It was the first time I had seen any footage besides one of the trailers awhile back... after I saw the trailer I had been like, "okay omg that looks cool i can't wait..."

So then I just kind of waited for it and didn't watch any of the other trailers or anything.

But dude. I just watched the video and about freaked out and now I'm drooling till the day it comes out. BECAUSE JUST WOW kdjf klasf;jsdfjksladf. And the fact that Cloud did his little move with his sword where he flings it around and snaps it against his back I JUST DIED HI PHOENIX DOWN PLZ.

AND THEY PUSHED IT BACK TO JANUARY WTF KIDZ.

Today we're off to Anime USA -- it's about 15 minutes from us, 2 minutes from Erin's job.

....... is it bad to say we're pretty much only going to dance? If anything stupid happens (knowing us, it will XD) -- I'll be sure to take pictures.

I don't know what to wear. Costume or no. Hm. Guess I should go rifle through stuff. And Erin is totally wearing my Dr. Cube head. I swear that girl has an obsession with wearing boxes on her head (example: rhythm_bandits -- the icon. Yeah, that's Erin. XD) ...