Catching Up, Tracking Progress
Jun. 3rd, 2010 01:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crankyoldmanCatching up on life, as I tend to after a vacation. Have gotten a backloggery account to help keep track of games, since I am now of the two consoles and time to play them part of my life.
Ico is getting close to the end, I suspect, because shadow creature encounters have increased. Good thing I went and looked up about the SECRET WEAPON, which makes them easier to kill. It also looks cool. Yay yay. I originally thought of Yorda (Ico's companion in the big spooky abandoned castle) as an interesting game mechanic, but I actually genuinely care about her welfare now and appreciate the hints and help she gives me (if I wander about fooling around for too long, she'll point at areas where I need to be heading... the AI work on her is amazing, any of the reviews complaining that she was retarded or a baby are written by soulless assholes). I feel panicky when I have to leave her alone, because I actually care if the shadows get her now.
Haven't done much sewing, but I did get the cloth for my Ellone shawl wrap thing and a bunch of cheap patterns (including one that I had gotten before, just in the wrong size... duh). May be putting up a mis-sized pattern on etsy soon.
Still waiting on the other half of my pyramid stud order... I should check on that. Been nearly a month, but then, the seller was international. Should def take pics of what the Paine shawl thing looks like so far. I keep meaning to. Maybe tonight before Ico I'll sit down and do progress shots.
This weekend, I plan on cutting out the pieces for the Daryl coat, so that I can sew it during the week (cutting is the longest part of sewing!).
At work, I'm doing some fix-it type tasks, and getting even more of the data prepared for analysis. I've been given permission to get a few login codes for AstroEngineer, so a few of you may get to play it! (Oh andlassarina, why it didn't work for you was they'd just released a new version internally, but not on the public download site yet... ah production guys).
Almost done with a random Rufus/Elfe story that wouldn't leave my head after FFEX, despite having other things to write. XD At least it'll be out.
Ico is getting close to the end, I suspect, because shadow creature encounters have increased. Good thing I went and looked up about the SECRET WEAPON, which makes them easier to kill. It also looks cool. Yay yay. I originally thought of Yorda (Ico's companion in the big spooky abandoned castle) as an interesting game mechanic, but I actually genuinely care about her welfare now and appreciate the hints and help she gives me (if I wander about fooling around for too long, she'll point at areas where I need to be heading... the AI work on her is amazing, any of the reviews complaining that she was retarded or a baby are written by soulless assholes). I feel panicky when I have to leave her alone, because I actually care if the shadows get her now.
Haven't done much sewing, but I did get the cloth for my Ellone shawl wrap thing and a bunch of cheap patterns (including one that I had gotten before, just in the wrong size... duh). May be putting up a mis-sized pattern on etsy soon.
Still waiting on the other half of my pyramid stud order... I should check on that. Been nearly a month, but then, the seller was international. Should def take pics of what the Paine shawl thing looks like so far. I keep meaning to. Maybe tonight before Ico I'll sit down and do progress shots.
This weekend, I plan on cutting out the pieces for the Daryl coat, so that I can sew it during the week (cutting is the longest part of sewing!).
At work, I'm doing some fix-it type tasks, and getting even more of the data prepared for analysis. I've been given permission to get a few login codes for AstroEngineer, so a few of you may get to play it! (Oh and
lassarina, why it didn't work for you was they'd just released a new version internally, but not on the public download site yet... ah production guys). Almost done with a random Rufus/Elfe story that wouldn't leave my head after FFEX, despite having other things to write. XD At least it'll be out.