I take back anything I said about Leon’s voice being decent. *sob* He’s a nasal SOMETHING that overacts and ARGH NOT LEON and Cid is some old guy that got told to talk like a surfer boy and Aeris is some preteen they must have grabbed off the street who can’t read! ARGH. WHY MUST THE VOICE ACTING SUCK SO BADLY. At least Yuffie is decent. (Never thought I’d say that, and it probably shows how dismal the rest of the cast is.)

On the plus side, Haley Joel Osmont (I always think his full name, for some reason) has learned how to act with emotion. Srsly. And he’s audibly older, which is like really cool. Also, the Drive system makes me happy in my pants. Mmmmmm dual keyblades. :D From what I’ve seen of the final form, it is orgasmically awesome. Telekinetic control of multiple keyblades? SIGN ME UP.

Now for spoilers! It was really obvious to me right from the first Ansem Report that there are two Ansems - the one we defeated in the last game was actually a Heartless that took Ansem’s form. The real Ansem is kicking around somewhere, I’m sure. No clue who the Ansem chatting up DiZ is. I find it most amusing that there are two VAs for Ansem listed. It kinda confirms what I’m thinking.

I miss Axel already. Damn you, Roxas! Damn you and your stupid lack of Sora’s morals!

So yeah, I think I pretty much know the plot of the game already, even though it’s much more ambiguous than the last game. The gummi ships are so goddamn annoying, though. I had fun building ships in the last game, but now I can barely see what I’m doing. Rar. *tacks on super amounts of HP to her gummi ship and grumbles about aesthetics*

And yes, I shall doubtlessly spout KH2 at this blog until further notice.

NO SPOILERS. Spoilers will be colored white, so as to not show against the background of this layout.

The game is promisingly long, so far. It tossed the title screen at me a good three and a half hours in. Seriously. Three and a half hours of exposition. It’s awesome. The voice acting tends to make me cringe, particularly Ansem; they changed his voice actor, which involves some badly-dubbed voiceovers on clips of KH1. Also, his VA is the same as the main baddie, and they interact quite a bit, which makes things a little flat. However, his VA was Saruman. *squee* Squall’s VA changed as well, but tolerably; Aeris’ VA makes me want to kill things. Mandy Moore did an excellent job, and this chick just sounds like… like Yuffie. Prepubescent and hyper. Does not compute.

However, there is one character so far I really enjoy: Axel is so expressive! I want to write a letter to his VA thanking him for being so cool. Like when he says “umm”, his voice does this little uncertain tremor. It’s so cute. And his face is well-animated, just as expressive as his voice. I am totally in love. But, uh, it seems I won’t be seeing much of him anymore. At all. Ever. ;_; *sob* The plot takes a lot from Chains of Memories, but explains the missing bits very well for people who haven’t played it. I’d still recommend a quick review of that game’s plot before taking on KH2, though.

Also, they incorporated the Super Secret Special Ending with the blindfolds and the dual keyblades and shit. Roxas was the one with the dual keyblades. SO HOT RAR. It makes me so happy! Oh yeah, and the funniest thing so far? Sora was unconscious through Chains of Memories, and uh no one changed his clothes, and it’s been two years, so he kinda grew. His clothes are so small on him hee hee! That must chafe so bad.

And now I have three hours in which to play before work, so I shall go to it.

P.S. SETZER WAS SO CUTE AHAHAHAHA.

It is probably sad that my first reaction was HOLY SHIT A MOOD DISORDER I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF.

…BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA.

KH2 came out yesterday, but apparently VT is excluded from that whole “stocking” thing. So I get it later today, theoretically. Rar. I wanted it yesterday, on my day off, when I’d, you know, have time to play it. Emo tear.

I am in a great deal of pain today. And that is an understatement. I have apparently returned to the crippling cramps of periods past, which is to say that I was pretty much in tears through work today. I now have very large amounts of painkillers and heat, so it’s tolerable but still whine-worthy. I can only hope it’s a one-day feature, since curling in on yourself makes things like standing and reaching kinda difficult. And honestly? It hurts more than when I broke my foot. But that might be because my foot didn’t really hurt that much, for a broken bone. Or it might be because I have CRAMPS FROM HELL. At least I only bled through twice in five hours. It used to be every half hour. And at least I’m on time, which is really awesomely cool and still makes me yay. You guys are used to hearing TMI from me, right? Right.

Someone remind me to visit a doctor when I recover from my recent splurges on computer parts and cloth.

So! In better news, I am actually rather cheerful. Not sure why, considering the general pain and grumpiness and ow and lack of KH2. Mmm, I love this heating pad. So much. I will take a nice long shower later, too. That will make me feel much better. ♥ I’ve also been writing some FF7 stuff, which always makes me happy. I don’t think I could ever explain the joy FF7 gives me, and maybe it’s better that way. People think I’m strange enough as it is.

It should be a holiday so I could end this with a happy something. Happy Yukimas!

Edit: oh god I feel so much better now that I’ve been sitting for an hour with heat and painkillers and YAY. It hardly hurts at all. <3 This is so awesome. And KH2 later~! In like three hours. X3 Depending on Shan, but still! So nice out! And I might wash cars tomorrow. X3

* so got the first comment on Kaasan’s latest comic*

So it seems I am sewing, for no particular reason, and kinda enjoying it. Just simple things, a little more complicated than a kimono but less than, say, a handbag. Matching patterns and stuff. I bought most of a roll (what is the technical term for those cardboard rolls of fabric?) of a fabric that was on clearance for $3/yd, but then I had to go back and buy the rest so I could pattern-match the sleeves. I also discovered that they had me cutting the front of the robe in half for no good reason, as I would just be sewing it up in a straight line, so I modified the layout so I didn’t have to deal with cutting it. >_> I’m also ignoring half the directions. Yay modifications! <3 I did give in and buy real interfacing. I dun really wanna make the collar. :/ I’m not so hot with collars. I’ll make Shan sew it. :D

So yeah, making random clothing is kinda fun. <3 I’m doing it slowly. Yesterday was pinning and discovering I needed more fabric, today is final pinning and cutting and more pinning, and either tonight or tomorrow or sometime in the future is sewing and uh getting thread. Not in that order. I can’t believe I got buttons and no thread. D:

I will also at some point make myself a random Amestrian uniform. I have the pattern and half the doohickies. I just need the cloth (and thread, zomg). I can never find the right blue in the right weight of cloth. ;_;

I feel I should mention that it is eerie how Shan and I agree on what is and isn’t pretty. We both like some passably odd colors, for example. Greens and reds that border on fugly. We both like the Asian-influenced-but-not-overly-modern furniture. We like the same combinations of colors. We also spent two hours in the fabric store together squeeing over what fabrics to use and nearly tussled over one particular one (which I got because I paid for all of it).

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♥

I can’t wait for KH2. *wriggle* It comes out this Tuesday, so I’m not sure when I’ll actually get it, but still! KH2! Eeeee!

Also, I would like to point out for the record that I am horrible to new people because they are, generally speaking, stupid and rude and willfully ignorant. Generally speaking. There are always exceptions.

Gibraltar is up and running, although not entirely done. As I understand it, the Windows partition has yet to be played with. And Amarok is being SUCH A BITCH. *rar* But Gibraltar is remarkably quiet, despite having a GIANT fan in the front of the case with blue lights and everything. <3 I’m in love. I can’t wait to see how he runs my games. <3 So quiet! I hardly know he’s on.

Aaaaaand now I’m bored. D: Nothing is holding my attention today.

EDIT: Aaaand Gibby is up! I just have to move the Windows stuff around and reinstall some things, like FFXI and uh oh god Shan said something about not having to wait for patches to install. ;_; DAMN YOUR EIGHT BAJILLION HOURS OF INSTALL. So in the meantime I’ll put in Oblivion and play with the character creation. From what I’ve seen of Shan playing, I expect to despise it. What’s that MMO you play, Karie? It’s like that, just shinier. And this is one of those times where the shiny is not enough for me.

SON OF EDIT: As I expected, I could play with the character creation for days, but as soon as I start playing the game I have small panic attacks and get frustrated the INSTANT I go into battle. I did, however, make a nearly perfect replica of myself. D: The character creator is INCREDIBLE. Let me put it this way: I can change the shape (in at least five different variables, including width and concavity) of both the jaw and the cheek areas. Changing one property slightly affects the entire face; you can set an overall ratio and then finetune it, you can pla with skin tones in various areas as well as overall, you can change age and complextion and and and! I am totally in love with the character creation.

Now if I could just figure out screencaps.

The computer is now named Gilbraltar, but that is not the point. The point is

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I thought you were dead. ;_; *spasms all over your Livejournal*

Quick! Mythology masculine names! The case arrived today and it is MASSIVE. And heavy, even though it’s empty. This thing is gonna be like the Rock of Gilbawhatsit. I am totally in love already! <3

To make the day even better, I finally have time to DO THINGS while I’m awake, and I got an awesome smoothie drink, and Sasuke appeared in the Naruto manga again, and life is shiny and wonderful and almost Spring-like and JOY TO THE WORLD!!

Being this happy means I will be utterly miserable tomorrow, but I don’t care <3

When the case arrives tomorrow (ostensibly; it could be the day after) I will have a new computer. Or mostly new; we’re using my existing RAM and hard drive, but little else. And then, so I can recoup some of my losses, we’re selling what’s left of Mayu.

Goodbye, Mayu. I will not really miss your schizophrenic issues, you mangy good-for-nothing overheated piece of plastic.

So! Looking for ideas for a name! I want a good, solid name. Possibly male. Preferably not one with ISSUES, like a David or a Muraki. Ugh. This is what the case looks like. Any ideas?