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OK I WAS JUST PLAYING TOV AND I NOTICED SOMETHING. It  was when you go to Capua Torim the second time and you have to run around and talk to everyone. In the scene with Raven he's complain as usual that he can't keep up with us and it's a pain that he has to keep an eye on Estelle until she returns to the castle. He says something to the extent of "I wonder if I could hand her off to the knights somewhere along the way" (as they would bring her back to the castle obv.)

BUT DUDE

FORESHADOWING MUCH? SEEING AS RAVEN DOES JUST THAT MUCH LATER. Oh the things you notice the second time through...

But yeah, I don't mind so much that I had to start over (I lost my other Xbox 360 harddrive at camp... with my ToV savefile on it. I was just a bit after Zaude, iirc.) because I'm enjoying the game even more than I did the first time since I already loved half the characters, plus it's interesting to play through the earlier parts knowing what I know now. For example, every interaction with Alexei is weird for me now. HE PLAYS BEING SANE SO VERY CONVINCINGLY. Even his voice sounds less evil. I actually didn't really understand who he was until he was like "HAHA I'M ACTUALLY AN ANTAGONIST!" I think I got him confused with Drake at some point too. I DON'T KNOW HOW OK. But yeah I hadn't realized that you actually talk with him several times. He was a pretty hands-on Commandant, going to Dahngrest himself to talk with the Don. He probably would have been a good Commandant if he weren't, y'know, a raving lunatic. Oh well.

I've also noticed random burst of affection for characters that I was indifferent towards or disliked before, namely Karol. I realize now how adorable he is. I think I was predisposed to hate him due to his role as token shota probably triggering my hatred for Genis. I don't even know why I hate Genis. But I do. Or maybe it's how I used to hate Lloyd and now I'm like "O LLOYD U SO SILLY!!!" EITHER WAY. I will say that his voice remains one of the most annoying in the game. I'm just used to it now.

I still feel mostly indifferent towards Flynn and Estelle, though I'm trying to like Estelle more because of [livejournal.com profile] lukecho. Flynn I can always tolerate despite his weird warbly voice because he is so easy to make fun of.  SEARCH WARRANTS FTW. Estelle I can never bring myself to make fun of. I dunno why. I will say she's better than most Tales heroines. (I find Colette, Mint, and Shirley all insufferably helpless. As for Chloe who I guess could also be the heroine of Legendia isn't quite so helpless... you'd think. But I still get that damsel in distress vibe off of her, SOMEHOW. Iria I enjoy, and I enjoyed Kohak immensely before her spiria went all ASPLODED.)

As far as minor characters go, I found myself enjoying Leblanc's appearances. I was actually overjoyed when he showed up in Caer Bocram but he did technically save our lives there so that's understandable. I also had a moment where I thought Tison was pretty cool, but then I came to my senses. I MEAN COME ON, TISON? Also Clint. I enjoyed seeing Clint. But that was mainly because of the last name me and [livejournal.com profile] lukecho came up with for him. We decided his name is Clint Toris. HAHA, WE SO CLEVER AREN'T WE?? *shot*

OH ALSO THE OTHER DAY, I was exercising one of my nerdy habits by matching up characters from one thing with characters from another thing. This time it was ToV and Rurouni Kenshin. IT IS ACTUALLY A LITTLE SCARY HOW WELL IT WORKS. Raven would be Kenshin, them both being goofy 30-something war veterans. And they're both on the short side. Schwann would be Battosai obviously, both being the other half of Raven/Kenshin's identity, both of which they would have been during the war. Judith is Kaoru b/c they're both strong women and I ship Raven/Judith so shut up. Karol is obviously Yahiko, as the token shota. Yuri is Sanosuke, both being the younger friend of the lead character. They both love to fight, and don't beat around the bush about things. Estelle is Megumi I supose. In a way she fits Kaoru better, and Judith would fit the vixen aspect of Megumi... but Megumi can't fight, she's just a doctor. Soyeah. Rita is Misao, both being fiery teen girls who can kick some ass. Yeager is Saito, being a rival to Raven/Kenshin who helps out the good guys when he feels like it. Alexei can be Shishio if only because they're both nuts, and have awesome fighting techniques. And with him being Shishio, Khroma can be Yumi, Shishio's bitch. Duke can be Enishi, both being the REAL FINAL BOSS after the guy who you THOUGHT was the final boss. Plus they both fall under the "dead little sister trope", Duke with his bff Elucifer and Enishi with his big sister Tomoe. Speaking of which, Casey would obv be Tomoe. BUT YEAH RAVEN AND KENSHIN ARE ACTUALLY REALLY SIMILAR. Yeah ok that's enough of that.

Also, I plan on gettting up Chapter 3 of The Oltorain Family (I think I'm going to call it that, unless I think of a better name...) this weekend, if at all possible. Expect it to be titled something like "In which Yeager and his daughters make an extended appearance and Caitie continues to ignore Moses."
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YOU COMPOSED A GREAT VAN BATTLE THEME, AND IMMA LET YOU FINISH, BUT SAKURABA COMPOSED THE BEST VAN BATTLE THEME OF ALL TIME!

Yeah, I finally beat Abyss. i actually beat it on Sunday, but I was clearly too emotional about it to post about it until today. (Obviously it's not because I forgot. Don't be silly.)

I spent pretty much all afternoon playing it, and most of the evening. AAAAH AT THE TIME OF FAREWELL CAME ON AS I'M TYPING THIS. I'm sorry, but At the Time of Farewell (the first Van battle theme) sounds so much more final boss than Time to Raise the Cross or the second one. Or the third one. Or the grand fonic hymn, not that that was really a battle.

Then again I am a Sakuraba whore. Sakuraba is the sole reason I thought I would maybe try Baten Kaitos. BUT YEAH.

5 times when Caitie cried
1. When Asch died (I HATE IT WHEN ASCH MAKES ME FEEL BAD FOR HIM)
2. When Van died
3. When Luke was going to stay back and probably DIE, but after everyone was like "COME BACK ALIVE" I was like, "Oh, he won't die then"
4. When the credits ran and it hit me that it was REALLY OVER
5. When Luke's grave was mentioned and I was like "WHAT NO"

5 times when Caitie laughed
1. When I realized Asch and Luke were fighting over who got to stay behind. GUYS, YOUR FIGHTS NEVER MAKE ANY SENSE EVER. YOU ARE BOTH IDIOTS.
2. The 10 second zoom-in shot of the fireplace Guy hid in. OK,WE GET IT.
3. ASCH IS INSIDE YOU LUKE
4. When corpse!Asch fell into Luke's arms. HE FELL FUNNY OK AND THEN HE WENT BONK INTO THE FORCEFIELD.
5. Maddy's comment after watching the anime cutscene of Asch's death, "Asch, you have something on your shirt"

5 times when Caite went "D:"
1. KNIGHT GUY, YOU ALREADY STABBED ASCH, YOU DON'T NEED TO REAPPLY FORCE TO GET YOUR SWORD ALL THE WAY THROUGH, I DID NOT NEED TO HEAR THAT SOUND EFFECT.
2. AND THOSE THREE KNIGHTS STABBING HIM AFTER THAT WERE ALSO UNECESSARY.
3. FUCK I FORGOT SYNC WAS STILL ALIVE
4. Natalia whining AGAIN
5. VAN WHY ARE YOU SO LAME SOMETIMES, FIRST WITH THE CLICHE ORGAN PLAYING THEN WITH YOUR BIZARRE SAMURAI IMPRESSION

5 times when Caitie went "AWESOME"
1. JADE PIMPSLAPPING NATALIA
2. JADE TELLING NATALIA WHATS WHAT, AND THEN TELLING VAN WHATS WHAT, EVEN THOUGH IT REVEALED THAT HIS EYES ARE FUCKING CREEPY. EXCEPT THEN [livejournal.com profile] kekahe TOLD ME THEY'RE LIKE THAT B/C HE USED A FONIC ARTE ON THEM SO HE COULD SEE BETTER, WHICH IS AWESOME.
3. the epic puzzle to get to Yulia's grave, which led to me learning (from [livejournal.com profile] kekahe ) that the L1 and R1 buttons allow you to turn REALLY PRECISELY. I HAD NO IDEA UNTIL THEN. 
4. BIRDVAN
5. Guy and Natalia's awesome post-game outfits 

That basically sumarizes my thoughts on the end of the game. I might say something about Asch later because despite my best efforts I'm beginning to like him. orz

So I lent out Tales of the Abyss and Tales of Symphonia monday. So now the only excuse I have to not play Tales of Vesperia is Persona 4. I've decided my goal is to finish it by the end of the year.
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MY SCHOOL DOES NOT BLOCK LJ.
THEY BLOCK GOOGLE IMAGES THOUGH.
BUT REGULAR GOOGLE IS UNBLOCKED.

Pretty cool, school.
At one point Subeta wasn't blocked either. The images were but the site itself wasn't. But now the site is so ):

BUT YEAH LJ ISN'T. I believe they have all sites with "games" in the meta tags blocked, as well as Google Images specifically. Actually, not even that, they just block the images from Google images. You can go to the Google Images tab and search but all the images are broken. ]:| 
Why Google Images? Because they caught a kid once looking up porn on it or something. YES, ONE ISOLATED INCIDENT AND THEY BLOCK WHAT IS BY FAR THE BEST IMAGE SEARCH ENGINE IN EXISTENCE. Picsearch and Getty Images aren't blocked but Picsearch is a steaming pile of fail that makes me cry tears of blood and Getty Images is only for stock photos, and isn't actually a search engine per se. 

I don't even know how Picsearch manages to fail as much. It just really, really does. And I don't believe that the thing they show as the top searched each day are at least half made up because they are SO RANDOM sometimes.

I hate picsearch as much as Charles Babbage hates muscians. */Hark, a vagrant reference*

ALSO, When I realised I forgot my flashdrive where I saved the project we're working on in class right now, the first thing I thought of was to see if LJ was blocked. I blame [livejournal.com profile] kekahefor putting the idea in my head.

FFF I WAS GOING TO USE THIS PERIOD AS A DR WHAT AM I DOING. LJ you are like a drug or something.

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