Well this is fairly ridiculous

[tilly_stratford]

I've been working so hard this past week trying to get back to a regular sleeping pattern, and on Saturday I felt I'd really arrived: Early to bed, early up, fresh as a daisy. Then Saturday night came, and there was a party in the next building again - these are for the most part pretty tolerable, usually ending around midnight or one o'clock. I went to bed at eleven.

It must have been one hell of a party, because it went on until sometime around five in the morning. And here I am the night after; Two o'clock and absolutely unable to fall asleep.

I had plenty of time to ponder the nature of contemporary parties though; Like how music programs like Spotify and Wimp certainly have democratized the selection of party music. That did lead to some musical gear shifts last night though, as the playlist went from the Sex Pistols to Britney Spears to The Beatles (sometime around half past three I heard 'I'm So Tired' and had to grin bitterly at the appropriateness).

And so - remember last insomnia post where I just did a bullet list about fandom-y things I've been thinking about recently? Let's make it a tradition.



LUPIN III

- So right now I'm whiling the night away reading rumours about the upcoming annual Lupin III TV special. This is after all the first time I'll experience one of those TV specials premiering - or rather, I'll experience it when somebody has subbed it and uploaded it some time after it has premiered on Japanese television. But hoh boy is it just dumb trying to keep up with the rumours. Nobody knows anything, obviously.

ALTHOUGH -

The "probably almost kind of true" rumour seems to be that it'll be animated by Studio Telecom. This pleases me! If you try to list all Lupin films that had smooth, dynamic animation, chances are those were all Telecom productions. I found a not-updated list of their stuff here - though somebody at the forum (which I seldom frequent) said that they also did The Elusiveness of Fog and if that's true my regard for them just plummeted. So let's pretend it's not. True, I mean.

- Also the TV series rumours seems to have reappeared. I thought that was shot down ages ago but apparently not. I have so many conflicting feelings about this I just don't know.


DRAGON AGE

- Whenever Maria and I hang out, we usually wind up at the aptly named GAMES game store. I was reminded that Dragon Age 2 exists. I felt a deep longing. BUT I'll wait and wait and wait - I always buy my games second-hand, and the longer I wait, the cheaper they are. And I'm currently an unemployed loser so there's no way I'm going to spend a red cent on games anyway until that changes.

- So now that I've finished Portal, I'm replaying Dragon Age: Origins, trying to do everything opposite of what I did last time.

- Like last time I was a City Elf Warrior, so I decided I'd be a mage this time. Then after a while I realized I really don't like playing mages. So now I'm a Dalish Elf Warrior. Totally different, right?!

- Also today I killed Connor, Arl Eamon's son, because last time I killed his mother. Also I hate going into the Fade so I was all "Godamnit son, I'm just going to slay you right in your home because I'm lazy". Alistair got mad and I felt really bad about it. About making a video game character angry by killing another video game character. But then I realized I'm playing a male this time around, which means my goal is no longer to get into Alistair's pants, so it's alright. And then I felt kind of bad because that means Alistair is going to die a virgin this time (last time I bonked him, and then saved his life by making him bonk Morrigan, so I've already decided he'll have to die in battle this time).

- I think I have way too many feelings about Alistair. Who's still a video game character.

- Also it's impossible choosing a team this time, because last time I had such a strong one: Alistair as tank, Morrigan as crowd control (sometimes Leliana as archer), and Wynne for healing. Now I want to use some of the others, and I wind up with the most lopsided teams ever. I want to see more of Shale, and Sten, and my dog (named Dobby, like a deadly warhound should) - they're all tanks, but none of them got that anti-magic gimmick Alistair has. Most of all I want to see how Zevran interacts with all of the above, but Zevran is pretty much the most useless team member in combats - even more useless now I've put him on archer duty. Yes I know I'm a terrible tactician.

- I also like Zevran, obviously. I'm so going to have creepy homosex with him.

- By which I mean there's nothing creepy about homosex, but there's plenty creepy with Dragon Age: Origins sex.

- Oh God I just realized I'm going to have to side with the werewolves in 'Nature of the Beast' when I'm a Dalish Elf myself. Why do I already feel guilty about that? Because this damn game gets under your skin, obviously. And people wonder why I daren't play World of Warcraft.

- Seriously, who is strong enough to wear Massive Armour? Sten can't even handle Heavy Armour at this point.

I would like to reiterate that I do actually spend my days searching for jobs even if it doesn't seem like it here - it's just that I feel more like talking about video game characters I like rather than how much of an unemployed loser I am. Just so we're clear.

Comments

[fyrdrakken]

Having been there on the jobhunting front, I feel that it's important to spend time thinking and talking about fun things just to survive the soul-deadening process of applying and applying and interviewing and having to go back and apply some more...

[tilly-stratford.livejournal.com]

Thank you, it helps to know others have been there.

[fyrdrakken]

It took me seven months to find my current job after having lost my previous one, and my mother just recently spent two years hunting after having been laid off. She said how she didn't feel like she deserved to spend time (let alone money) on fun things. It's far too easy to be beaten down and discouraged.