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I wish I knew where my sweats were; it's really cold right now. (In August! This is awesome!) Also I've been up since too early and it kind of sucks. /: So sleepy, haha. I think the hot chocolate helped a little bit, though. And I should have gotten up like at least twenty minutes before I did, too... I just hit snooze twice. Well, I was tired and it was cold! /fail

I have some art to do today; there are two drawings that I need to draw, scan, and colour, and these are important to get done because they're for other people and I've been sitting on them for like a month. But I'll wait until the lighting is a little better x: And I hope my tablet works okay; it's been kind of twitchy lately. (Well, I kind of need a new one; it's as old as my laptop, and I've needed a new one of those for a couple of years, now.)

I've been trying to pick out the remixes in the Metroid Prime trilogy soundtracks; people have been saying, "Oh, such-and-such song is a remix of Brinstar Green!" and I am not hearing the Brinstar Green. I know what Brinstar Green (aka "The Jungles of Brinstar," thank you Super Metroid sountrack) sounds like, and the MP2 multiplayer theme does not  sound like it. (There's another MP2 track that's also supposed to be a remix of Brinstar Green, and it doesn't sound like it, either.) Torvus Bog being a remix of Maridia is kind of cool, though especially since Torvus Bog is basically Maridia, except on Aether.

Other M today! I don't actually get to go and pick it up today, though. /: I did manage to talk mum into picking it up for me, though, so I still get it today. Art folio, you will be mine...! I saw the first like twenty minutes of Other M on Gamespot (I think; it was linked to me and I wasn't paying much attention) and it looked pretty cool. A lot of people are complaining about 1) cutscenes and 2) Samus with speaking lines, but I think they're both probably a good addition to the game. I think Samus's voice acting sounds pretty decent, for a bounty hunter who was raised by alien bird-people, and I think that plot is a welcome addition to any game. Character development - it's not a bad thing!

I really really want to play this game now. I know I'm probably really going to suck at it, but I want to play it. x: I hope Shiki renews her "You know, you can come over and play it with me if you want" because... yeah, I want. x:

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And then I need to remember that reading forum threads about that new game that comes out today that you really want to play but can't because you don't own the system is a bad idea. gdi I would go on a CLEAN ALL THE THINGS rush of the house all day if I knew that it would be for setting up a wii to play Other M sometime in the next week. At this point I think I would sell my PS2, which is of course blasphemy as I only own like forty PS2 games (probably more; I've never counted) and anyway it's a pretty old original PS2 and I'd be lucky to get $50 for it.

Obviously I'm not thinking clearly. I mean, I get like this over all kinds of things. I got like this over Final Fantasy XIII, and look how that turned out. I guess right now I'm just feeling envious - I mean, I used to be the one with all the cool stuff, and now everybody else has all the cool stuff, and I can't play with any of it. I'm not even the person anybody thinks of when they want to have other people over to play with all their cool stuff (and I'm going to kill that train of thought right there, because I don't like where it's going).

It's easy to think, "Oh, I'll just save up for it!" when you're really into something, and realistically I know I could have a Wii of my very own by November, if I started saving now. If I - heavens forbid - got a job, it would take even less time. But there's a difference between "This is for Metroid!! /fistpump" when you're really into it, and when you're not it's more like, "Remind me again why I'm not buying food?" (Or "Remind me again why I'm suffering the horrors of customer service?" if you're working, I guess.) Unless you're really into it the whole time, in which case you're probably more likely to compare your suffering to being drained by a Metroid. I mean, since I only have fourth block two days a week now, I can eat lunch at home more often, so I guess I could pull it off if I was really into it the whole time. It's not like I'm not going to drag myself through the first week of school purely by thinking, "This is for Birth By Sleep!!" the hole time anyway. (And then get dragged into the abyss that is college applications and entrance exams and have nothing left to live for. "This is for TRON!!" maybe.)

I realised I talk about this kind of thing (money management, I guess is what I'm thinking of) a lot here, and it's probably a lot of "crai more, spoiled brat" to basically anybody else. I think doing this helps me figure out what I'm going to do, though; it forces me to stop and think about things. I still don't know what I'm going to do yet, but I do know what I'm not going to do, and that is get my hopes up. I'm not going to magically have a Wii tomorrow to play Metroid on, and that's okay.

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We're now taking pre-orders for the TRON: Evolution Collector's Edition, with a custom case and a TRON lightcycle collectible based on the in-game model.

FUCK YOU, GAMESTOP.

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And then I got invited to a Brawl party, so that was cool. I actually didn't think I'd be able to make it, since I had no ride and no way of letting mum know where I'd be, but she got home about five minutes after I got the invite, which I then promptly forgot about since she had my copy of Other M. ♥ And then I remembered to ask, so I went to the party.

It was pretty fun; I basically always got third or fourth place, except for that one time when I somehow managed to stay on the stage when everyone else fell off during a shift. I also basically always played as Samus, though I tried Zero Suit Samus a few times and I played as Olimar for one round.

Before everyone else got there, though, I was able to play about half an hour of Other M. I didn't get very far (obviously), but I did enjoy what I got to play. The controls work really well and I like the voice acting. The area of the Bottle Ship I was in was really dark, though; it was hard to see. (I probably could have upped the brightness, but I'm completely unfamiliar with the Wii and its controller, so...) So I got lost for a few minutes. I fought a boss fight, too! Well, probably it was a miniboss, but still. That fight was... an experience. "Oh hey, that looks like I should shoot missiles at it." Cutscene. "Uh... okay, well... oh hey, I got in a shot!" Cutscene. "It's not doing anything because you keep interrupting me when I'm trying to shoot at it!!" Cutscene. And then regular fighting. I liked how the marines had a part in the fight, but I didn't really care for waiting around for them to do their thing, so that I could do my thing.

That's about as far as I got; I think I killed the boss but we turned off the Wii during the ensuing cutscene, since everyone else chose that moment to arrive. I wish I'd had more time... hell, I wish I could, you know, play the whole game. I mean, it pairs together two of my favourite things: Metroid and plot. What's not to like?