Rave: I've been playing Xenoblade Chronicles so much to the point where I forget about sleep. My father is even concerned about this, but he assumes I'm just on the computer too much when I told him I'm just playing games on my Wii console. I haven't been this interested in a J-RPG game in so long. The storyline, it's just saturated with TV Tropes themes, motifs, etc. that I wanted to spend hours on TV Tropes just to know all of these concepts, and then find more and more and possibly forget that I need to sleep again.
I guess I have this huge interest because I didn't play any video games frequently for 2 years now. Maybe I might be bored again when I finish it, but I don't know, there's so much shit to do in this game. The storyline itself is at least 60 hours, excluding the fact of the hours of level you have to do, and the quests are probably another 30 hours or so, and to be a completionist in this, it's a least 120+ hours when you aren't used to the game.
Crazy, crazy, crazy! I haven't had this much fun since Twilight Princess that presumably took 100-200 to really unlock everything (I think that's was exaggerated by the Zelda Community)
Rant: I hate it when relatives that teach you how to drive tell you that you have to be calm and relaxed, and they're next to you barking more than a Sergeant at Boot Camp. I understand that you want me to be conscious of my environment and eventually become proficient in safe driving, but when your condescending voice keeps hammering my concentration, and you're asking me why I'm not doing a turn right, it's probably because I want to make us both crash (kidding).
I understand that people just want you to be safe, but there's a time where you're forgetting that person has to be able to practice what you're teaching without you being domineering. I get that if I'm not careful, I might run over a child, and that would be the end of me, I get that, just let me calm down and practice. We're at an empty parking lot at a school, there's no one for me to crash into, and I'm going to get this down because I just want to be able to drive already.
I guess another Rave is that my father is going to give me his jeep, and that I'm academically suspended. Yes, that's a Rave, because it's a lot better than being Academically dismissed. So I have 12 months to start thinking about what I want to do, and hopefully get a part-time job or something, or work in freelancing for commissions with drawing (in the general art community, and especially for the adult and fetish communities, because finding the right people who are horny enough to get their favorite preference/character(s) is easy money).
I just need to study how to advertise and get into freelancing and finding an actual job, and hopefully going to a community college and get my basic courses settled. I really should have taken my AP Government teacher's advice to do community college and find the credits that can be transferable. My father has been surprisingly calm since I admitted to him about me not doing well this semester, but I have to eventually tell him I'm suspended. It was bound to happen, so it'll just make him want me to find a game plan. Other than that, I managed to get 3 people interesting in doing a sub-lease for an apartment I have a contract with, hopefully I can go make another ad on Craigslist and other sites for anyone interested in taking over the lease.
That's a bit of wishful thinking, but either way, I'm glad I'm starting to do things that are realistic instead of being trapped in that apartment trying to survive college like any other person.
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