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Apr. 3rd, 2012 12:31 pm-well hi, I'm in Boston again. This took 3 miserable days on the road and I am so not inclined to now put the effort into my life that, unfortunately, I really really have to. M, C and Nakki are going to Pax this weekend (because Nakki is fucking magical); I am really not invested enough for it to be worth my hogging a ticket, wish I could go to Eastercon and stalk Tricia Sullivan instead, but if any of you guys have come over for Pax and want to do coffee or something you should let me know. Spending April 6-8th hiding somewhere and writing is kind of a good idea anyway.
-I've played most of FFXIII-2; sadly unsatisfying. It's much more like a Kingdom Hearts game than a Final Fantasy game, and what I mean by that is that you visit places briefly, do a couple of small quests/kill something, get some halfhearted cameos from familiar characters, and are occasionally treated to 30 seconds of plot. Continuity and character-building are hard to find, the time travel element is just used as a KH mini-worlds mcguffin, the base game characters are missing all the fuckedup that made them interesting, and Noel is a boring, grating Manpain Sue. Why did I sink a week of my life into it? a) because I could, b) I am easily hooked on exploration/side-areas, c) ALYSSA. SHE IS REALLY KIND OF AMAZING. I MEAN, ADORABLE-LOOKING MAD SCIENTIST WITH TIME-DISTORTION TRAUMA WHO IS CLEARLY USING HOPE TO GET AT SERAH? YES. I AM NOT SURE HOW SHE CAME FROM THE SAME DESIGN PROCESS AS ALL THE GODAWFUL NEW CHARACTERS LIKE NOEL, CAIUS AND YUEL.
Sucks that (due to being up here) I'm not going to get through it before the FFEX prompts window closes, so I shall have to prompt something kind of vague in the knowledge that I'll have it done long before the June 1st reveal. I can only think up two prompts atm, this sucks :(
-I haven't mentioned this in a while, but, my I-751 is amazingly late right now. Going by the stated processing times I should have got a decision over a month ago. While this isn't particularly worrying, it has occurred to me that I have no idea what happens if an extension letter runs out before USCIS do your fucking paperwork that you only need an extension letter on because they do it so slow in the first place. lol, I paid $590 to this racket.
-I've played most of FFXIII-2; sadly unsatisfying. It's much more like a Kingdom Hearts game than a Final Fantasy game, and what I mean by that is that you visit places briefly, do a couple of small quests/kill something, get some halfhearted cameos from familiar characters, and are occasionally treated to 30 seconds of plot. Continuity and character-building are hard to find, the time travel element is just used as a KH mini-worlds mcguffin, the base game characters are missing all the fuckedup that made them interesting, and Noel is a boring, grating Manpain Sue. Why did I sink a week of my life into it? a) because I could, b) I am easily hooked on exploration/side-areas, c) ALYSSA. SHE IS REALLY KIND OF AMAZING. I MEAN, ADORABLE-LOOKING MAD SCIENTIST WITH TIME-DISTORTION TRAUMA WHO IS CLEARLY USING HOPE TO GET AT SERAH? YES. I AM NOT SURE HOW SHE CAME FROM THE SAME DESIGN PROCESS AS ALL THE GODAWFUL NEW CHARACTERS LIKE NOEL, CAIUS AND YUEL.
Sucks that (due to being up here) I'm not going to get through it before the FFEX prompts window closes, so I shall have to prompt something kind of vague in the knowledge that I'll have it done long before the June 1st reveal. I can only think up two prompts atm, this sucks :(
-I haven't mentioned this in a while, but, my I-751 is amazingly late right now. Going by the stated processing times I should have got a decision over a month ago. While this isn't particularly worrying, it has occurred to me that I have no idea what happens if an extension letter runs out before USCIS do your fucking paperwork that you only need an extension letter on because they do it so slow in the first place. lol, I paid $590 to this racket.