your joy is my low

Last time I tried to do the group Silent Hill Playthrough I had to bail and wimp out because I was losing all my free time thanks to the WEIRD RANDOM PHANTOM STOMACH/BACK ISSUE back in the Spring. So on October 1st it was all rebooted and started over!

Meaning...

neelys_bar - the Silent Hill series group play along thing is back on! We just started Silent Hill and we're going in the order the games were released.

HARRY MASON, I MISSED YOU, BRO.

(Anyone who wants to revisit any of the Silent Hill games, feel free to join us!)

Still bitter about the back doctor appointment, but I have been getting my mind off of zee pain and all that crap with the magical worlds of Zhobot, Revelry Junction and then jewelery/buttons and working on websites. Also, Alan Wake and the game Nate reviewed in his indie games thread, Machinarium (seriously, cutest game ever GO PLAY THE DEMO AT LEAST XD).

Speaking of him, he needs to find a wig for Guybrush Threepwood and it's proving to be harder than we thought. We never really dug the hair of the giant forehead, high bangs Guybrush in the Secret of Monkey Island remake, so we figured he should go with the more NATURAL SHAGGY mop of the original Guybrush (and I'll probably be going mostly original!Elaine) -- we found this wig, wondered if we could put the hair in a ponytail and then laughed our asses off. We're debating on it, lolololol~

Also, I think in the next couple months we'll start the great STAR WARS: EXPANDED UNIVERSE READTHROUGHHHHHHHH if anyone wants in. For now it'll be pretty much all post-original trilogy stuff (Shadows of the Empire and later) and decisions are still floating around on which books to read and how long to spend on the reading/discussing/making fun of/fangasming about all the books. If you would like to take part in it or you have any suggestions for times/books/etc., hit up the magical thread for it here! THE MORE PEOPLE WANKING IT ALL, THE BETTER. ;D

AND NEW LAYOUT ON WHATTHEFUN.NET~ XDDDDD Francis and Louis = <333


(HI I AM ALSO HIGHLY EXCITED ABOUT THIS NEW SILENT HILL THEY ANNOUNCED AT E3. IT'S THE EIGHTH SILENT HILL GAME. EIGHTH. <33 SO MUCH CREEPINESS OVER THE YEARS~ XD)

I finally got this whole thing finalized and finished and I'm posting it! We can just say it's to celebrate the upcoming group series playthrough on neelys_bar (there's still time to join -- the playthrough starts in March! :D)!

I think this has to be one of my favorite fanmixes I've managed to cobble together. I've been working on it for a good while (I had to give it extra attention since this is one of my favorite games eveerrrr XD) and it's been through a billion song changes but I finally feel like it works and fits. So without further ado, a Silent Hill 2 fanmix!

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This is the story of a man who spends his days working as a clerk. He's 29. He's quiet, not good with children, off a bit. He was married. His wife passed away from a disease that had been lingering in her system for a long time, deteriorating her body, her mind, her patience and their marriage.

She sends her husband a letter. The letter tells him to meet her in their special place. She's dead. The dead can't write letters.

This is the story of James Sunderland and his trip to Silent Hill.

Welcome to Only Human, a fanmix for Konami's 2001 masterpiece Silent Hill 2. This is easily one of my favorite games in teh universssseeee -- the characters, the storyline, the enemies, the music -- it's all brilliant. Also, Herp Derp James Sunderland? Monster molestation? D:

There are MASSIVELY HUGE SPOILERS in this fanmix! This game is best played without knowing much of it at all. So if you think you might play in the future then just get the fanmix here without reading the quotes and such. Hehehe~ You can look at the covers right here outside of the cut, but clicking and reading any further into it might get you in VERY CRAZY PLOT TWISTY TERRITORY. D:

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. Now let's take a trip to an awesome little resort town.


(ANYTHING OTHER THAN LOOKING AT THE COVERS GIVES YOU SPOILER CRABS. :|)

( I look like Mary, don't I? You loved her, right? )

EMO EMO EMO STUPID JAMES SUNDERLAND. :|

...... lolol <3.

I am off to bed, but I had to link this amazing Silent Hill 2 music video really fast before I went. The parallels and quick cuts between certain scenes are awesome and using a VAST song makes it 30984920834892 times better. Loveeeeee. <33333

Last night Mister Nathan and I played Shattered Memories just about twice through. We finally achieved the "Sleaze and Sirens" ending (effing classic) and THE UFO ENDING WHICH IS KJFJKS THE BEST THING EVER. I think the best part about it is the fact that you keep getting text messages when you take each picture like, "MY WIFE. SHE IS ONE OF THEM. HURRY TAKE MORE PICTURES. I HAVE LOCKED HER IN THE CELLAR. MY WIFE OH MY GOD SHE IS ASKING FOR FOOD SHE IS ONE OF THEM."

Then you see the cameo in the UFO ending and it's the most beautiful thing cause it makes so much sense cause I could see him doing something like that. "OH NOES SHE IS AN ALIEN I MUST PILLOW HER. I MUST PILLOW!"

And speaking of all that, guess who posted in his livejournal (hint: draelight)!

I test drove a couple different cars yesterday. I'm really digging the CR-V. So I might go with that one. But I'm not sure yet. Getting past cars and getting back to the other giant part of my omgreallife right now, my health: the water in my ear and my ear infection -- both are finally gone but my midsection is really killing me. I thought it was my stomach but I've been having this stupid weird pain that debates everyday on where it wants to settle. Today it was like "SO I LIKE THE RIGHT SIDE OF YOUR BODY. RIGHT HERE. HERE SEEMS NICE." Bitch.

Which means I am off to bed and possibly calling the doctor again tomorrow. :\

P.S. I want THIS PAINTING. <333333 dude.

WOO HUR HUR SNOW! Nate and I were snowed in this weekend. Meaning lots of video games (mostly Persona 4 and the one I'm about to gush about). An awesome snow tunnel was also made out front, but that is a different and colder story.

I played through the rest of my Silent Hill: Shattered Memories save on Saturday night and beat it. It was about two or three more hours maybe. I was so enthralled by it -- apparently Nate was too. Cause the two of us sat down last night and played through the whole thing again.

(Did I mention the whole snowed in thing here. That just added to the creepy-factor since we were playing a game where Harry Mason is running through a freak snowstorm with a flashlight and the whole world ices over and scary little things start running after you. SNOWED IN. PLAYING THIS GAME. D:)

I got the "Love Lost" ending on my save. Nate played through making Harry a total dick and ended up getting the "Drunk Dad" ending, which was actually kind of awesome. It was sort of depressing to think it might have ended up that way for the characters, but oh god his dance (MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR SPOILERS). LOLOLOLOLOL~ <3333

Nate was going for the "Sleaze and Sirens" ending but apparently he didn't have Harry look at FEMALE PARTS enough. Was too busy checking out the booze. XD So we still need S&S, "Wicked and Weak" and TEH UFO ENDING!!11

I have to give this game like ten thumbs up. Again, I was super skeptical about it but once I tried it out I couldn't really stop playing it. Love Lisa (also love the fact that Harry actually goes back when she calls instead of SHUTTING THE DOOR IN HER FACE), absolutely/horribly love Dahlia, LOVE Cybil and Harry is just too much. <33 They really did well with the storyline here. I've checked some of the forums and it really seems to be a LOVE IT SO MUCH or HATE IT SO HARD kind of game -- I'm in the love camp. Especially all the crap with the cell phone. And the way this game makes you think about death/dealing with death = a little gut-wrenching. Kind of like Silent Hill 2. Kind of hurts when you finish it. You feel a little empty inside.

(EMPTY AND SCARED. I almost peed my pants when I called the phone number in the school and heard that noise with the DOOR'S OPEN. sjdfksjdfkjsdfjiosefjiwenfei)

AND THE SWIMMING HOW COULD I NOT MENTION THE SWIMMING. MY ARMS STILL HURT FROM THE WII-MOTE ACTIVITIES. Swimming and being able to look underwater at the statues was brutal and amazing and perfect. GOOD SHOW, CLIMAX STUDIOS! I APPROVE (also, your use of the Wii's controls/abilities = WIN!)~

(For real, the last Silent Hill game I could play in one sitting and not realize I was doing it was Silent Hill 2 SO A++++++++)

P.S. Make sure you call the Konami help line from Harry's phone. XD

so i went to the doctors today cause my ear has been bugging me. so has my arm. turns out i have carpal tunnel syndrome AND an ear infection. as you can see i'm not typing all hip hip hooray caps and things like normal cause i am wearing mega wrist braces of doom and i am too lazy to reach over for that shift key. so if i am talking to you on aim or something and I am not my usual OCCASIONAL CAPSLOCK self then it is cause the carpal tunnel lolololol.

it's from all the computing at work. and then working on the websites for yay and websites for school. and and and i added stuff to the cafepress shop so woop woop holiday gifts and stuff. XD long walk jerseys (garraty, mcvries, stebbins, olson and baker -- i still need to add a couple more), silent hill junk, fallout 3, left 4 dead, borderlands, arrested development, persona 4 -- all kinds of junk relating to AWESOME THINGS in there. [/pimp] XDDDD

i need to figure out some Star Wars EU things to put up there heheheeheh

(i also might have some ideas for calendars... which means i need to get those on the shop very soon... :O)

my ear is crackling. :( the fluid buildup is in both of them (i just thought it was my left) and the pharmacy didn't have the amoxicillin so i have to go back tomorrow to pick it up.

DECEMBER 8TH the soundtrack to the game is amazing. can't waittttt hope arms are better so i can playyyyyy

So the other weekend Nate played through Silent Hill 2 (I was the guide for some of the time, lol) and I had almost forgotten how amazingly rich that story was and how strong the symbolism was. James and the holes and the graves, and Angela and Eddie and their own journeys and endings, Laura and her resort town, Maria in general, the mental hospital, the dead body that appears in one of the apartments -- in front of the tv with it's horrible, cruel EFF YOU foreshadowing, the multiple deaths by Pyramid Head. PYRAMID HEAD <3~

And in the hotel when you try to go up to the third floor when you get inside, and the grate is shut and you start to head back downstairs and you hear someone who sounds like Mary just go, "James..." kfjlasdfakjsdsd that gets me every time. The little details like that are one of my favorite parts of the game. I love the noise in the prison bathroom after you knock on the door and go to leave, the fact that Mary's letter changes when you enter the hotel and the way things remind James of the little things about his and Mary's trips to Silent Hill.

(Also, the contents of James' trunk lol can i get a what what.)

I want to write a damn english paper on this game. So hard. It's not even funny. And I love going outside when it's cool and saying to myself, "WELL DAMN THIS HERE IS SILENT HILL WEATHER."

brb moving to silent hill.

(Silent Hill music video with clips from 1, 2, 3, 4 & Origins and holy crap Nine Inch Nails and this video GIVES ME THE SHIVERS. <3333)

My random list of the day.

TOP TEN ONE-LINERS FROM THE SILENT HILL PROTAGONISTS

I swear, this series has the BEST LOL DIALOGUE EVER, especially from the player characters. You can't help but giggle and cackle and love them. James and Harry seriously get the best lines ever. Since I have been/am going to replay the series for my GVGP list (which I will totally not finish by the end of '09), I figured I would celebrate with my ten favorites. Technically some are not one-liners, but they were too good to leave out.

(Also, I did these from memory. So some of them might be a little off. XD)

10.) "A dead person can't write a letter." (James Sunderland, Silent Hill 2)
09.) "SHUT YOUR STINKIN' MOUTH, BITCH." (Heather Morris, Silent Hill 3)
08.) "What the... hell?" (Henry Townshend, multiple times, Silent Hill 4: The Room)
07.) "Wait, I'm not here to fight. My name is Harry Mason, I'm in town on vacation." (Harry Mason, Silent Hill)
06.) "You're not friends with that red, pyramid thing, are you?" (James Sunderland, Silent Hill 2)
05.) "You have got to be shittin' me!" (Alex Shepherd, Silent Hill Homecoming)
04.) "Don't worry, I'm not crazy... at least I don't think so." (James Sunderland, Silent Hill 2)
03.) "It's like I was there, but not really." (Harry Mason, Silent Hill)
02.) "I want you... I want you with me..." (James Sunderland, Silent Hill 2)
01.) "Huh. Radio. What's going on with that radio?" (Harry Mason, Silent Hill)

If I had a dollar for every time my sister and I have said, "Huh. Radio." -- I would be rich.

I just hope the "reimagining" of the first game for the Wii -- Silent Hill: Shattered Memories -- keeps some of the COMPLETELY AWESOME DIALOGUE cause it just wouldn't be the same without it. Not that it's going to be the same anyways... I mean, Harry Mason HAS GLASSES. WHAT.

New Left 4 Dead 2 footage:

-- Frying pan!
-- Saferoom!
-- Perimeter breach! (this looks awesome -- also, ELLIS <3)
-- THE AXE~ <333

I like the new character portraits down on the bottom. And the southern flair in the music. :D

(ALSO OH MY GOD ARE VALVE ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT FANS? I SWEAR IN THE THIRD MOVIE NICK SAYS: "Are you really gonna shoot the guy in a three-thousand dollar suit?! COME ON!")


Also! New Silent Hill: Shattered Memories (the reimagining of SH1) trailer! THINGS WILL BE CHASING ME. I AM ALREADY FRIGHTENED. I kind of dig glasses!Harry but why does his ID say he lives in Silent Hill? I AM INTRIGUED! SEE HERE~

Alright, more real stuff later, lol.