The Gamer's Quarter

[Toto]

Because we love video games and stuff, let's assign the arbitrary systems of achievement found in video games to our very lives, but instead of things like combos and health lost being the judges, we use stuff like useful things done, or helpful, or ultra fun stuff.

Use any game ranking system you see fit to rank your life. I will use the Japanese system, with D through to S as the range.

I woke up, and it's holidays, so that's a point there.
My friend came over and we lasted the power outage together. He lives literally a 1 minute walk away. Nice!
Watched Dr. Phil and laughed heartily.
Here's the good stuff:
Washed the bathroom so hard it took 2 and a half hours. Scrubbed the tub, the sink, the toilet, the taps, the WALLS, the floor, and basically just cleaned the shit out of it (literally! haha I'm funny).
Washed the dishes.
Collected the clothing.
Went out and had a smoked salmon and ricotta cheese bagel, but was overcharged for it.
Bought Lebanese Bread.

OVERALL RANKING:



A.
(although minor improvements could have been made, on the whole a solid performance! 700 bonus points!)

[dessgeega]

i score points when i finally remember to take out my trash.

but i like to think a multiplier goes up every day i leave it.
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[OtakupunkX]

MySpace = Tokimeki Memorial gone terribly, terribly wrong.

[GSL]

I'm a sucker for Tokimemo, but it would have to be very, very wrong indeed to even approximate the horror of MySpace. Explain yourself!

Now, about my day.

+ I had more than six hours of sleep
+ I had time before class to buy a scone and tea at the library coffeeshop
- I'm still coming down from being sick so I didn't get coffee
+ I stayed awake through 9am class
+ I finished Japanese homework before class
+ I obliterated the weekly Japanese grammar test
+ Finished classes at 2
- I have no groceries
+ I have a whole case of Lipton Green Tea with Citrus

Rank: B
The day was good, with not much that went wrong. If I wasn't sick and had food, or if something extraordinary happened, it may have gone up to an A.

[seryogin]

I woke up.
Talked with my mother
Watched a Russian movie that my mother bought me
Had a tuna sub for lunch
Then left for Manhattan and bought a few things
Then went back
And received a call from Shaper


5.5 overall. Talking to Shaper made me despair as usual; his horrible jokes caused me to groan through every second.
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[TheRumblefish]

I woke up, started my research paper on Maya Angelou and Zora Nele Hurston. After turning into MLA format, I then started my other research paper for World Cinema, on Takashi Miike. It looks to go quite smoothly. My dad flipped out while trying to remodel the bathroom and claimed that "The world is fucking ending" and then threw soem tile around or something that crazy.

I go to Algebra in about three and a half hours. MY day is already over as far as I am concerned.

I won't rate this day, instead I'll leave that up to the professors who grade my research papers.
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[dessgeega]

zora neale hurston is awesome.
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[Shapermc]

[TheRumblefish]

[dessgeega]

all of the most brilliant women have died alone and unrecognized.
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[TheRumblefish]

[Szczepaniak]

[dhex]

except virginia wolfe - she died recognized, alone and quite soggy.

and flannery o'connor, who died with a lot of peacocks and her super pita mother while quite recognized.

(my wife is a big wolfe fan. she delivered a paper at the bloomsbury group conference in the uk, no less - on wolfe and her relationship to objects in her work. exciting stuff! i don't really care for female authors. ok, that's not true, i really like flannery o'connor too. she had the ability to make loathesome characters very funny. probably due to her mother, who by all reports was more or less malice on toast.)

my day: b- (i did a lot, but it was counterbalanced by the vcr eating my wife's video for class and that's bad, etc)

my evening: a+ ? (if i fix the vcr)
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[Shapermc]

[TheRumblefish]

[dessgeega]

[SuperWes]

[TheRumblefish]

[dessgeega]

i thought death was a woman.

shaper will back me up on this one.
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[Shapermc]

[Szczepaniak]

[Shapermc]

[dessgeega]

INGMAR BERGMAN
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[dhex]

i had a really great picture book of hell and a picture book of death (with various cross-cultural explanations and art) and the best part was that when chinese politicians die, they're consigned to a karmic waystation (my snarky shorthand for a buddhist theological concept to explain what happens to bad people before they're reborn as monkeys or whatever) where they were doomed to grab at paper money swirling around them in a neverending windstorm.

pretty fucking awesome. we have the technology - WE CAN BUILT IT.
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[OtakupunkX]

[TheRumblefish]

[GSL]

[Tablesaw]

[Shapermc]

[dessgeega]

so lessee.

i remember getting up last night and re-coding how walking is handled in my new (new) game. actually i spent twenty minutes or so staring at the screen wondering how i could possibily do it, and then i figured it out and earned a few points, with a bonus because zuntata was playing. i coded it, and that drained most of my stamina.

so then i hefted the chair over to where my consoles are set up (+1 to strength) and put in a few hours with shiren and the tower, which will keep my proficiency meter from dropping, though i skipped super hydlide because i was getting really hungry and wanted to finish and make some food.

i microwaved a burrito and then had to carefully balance my hunger timer against the cooling-down level of the burrito. i let it cool just enough, so it didn't lose too much health.

then i remembered that i'd wanted to take out the garbage that night, because it's full. it was morning by then, and my camoflage rating had dropped. so in the pail it remains.

i coded some more stuff in the game, hit a strange error, and made a workaround, though i'm not entirely comfortable with it, because i still don't really know why the problem occured. it's servicable, though. +5 EXP.

i played a bit of adam cadre's narcolepsy. that got me ready for a nap.

i went to bed and, uh, did things that aren't available in the T-rated version of this game. i raised my multiplier by looking at some porn first. so big points, but it wasn't that satisfying. i was using cheat codes, i guess.

then i realized i'd completely forgotten i had to correct some of the images for the print version of issue 5. i resolved to do so after the nap. the nap only lasted like an hour.

i got up and made some food. the "peanut butter and jelly sandwich" bonus was lit up, so i made that. the jelly was technically strawberry preserves, and the peanut butter was - peanut butter. mara natha peanut butter, so extra yumminess points.

after eating it, i decided to try and max out my yumminess by making another, but i had to be wary of overloading my tummy inventory, because if it gets too heavy my speed goes down. fortunately, i was able to just fill myself up enough. i spilled a cup of soy milk on my leg, but it was a tiny paper bathroom cup because that's all the clean cups i have right now, so i didn't take too much damage.

then i fixed the images, but my mother IMed me, and i am easily distracted and forget what i'm doing. but i managed to finish them. and now i am trying to send them, and gmail keeps spitting an error message back at me.

and i'm trying to think of something to write for the escapist's upcoming "girl power" issue, so i can have money. and buy an exorcist sickle +3, maybe.
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[Mr. Apol]

Umm... I got up, drove someone to school while listening to the new Sambomaster album, then drove to work.

I worked.

I posted on here. I sent some emails to the people I'm interviewing for the article I'm working on.

I had a sweet onion chicken teriyaki sub at Subway that was horribly made.

I went to a record store on my lunch break, bought an album by The Go! Team and let the record store owner listen to track 5 of previously mentioned Sambomaster album. He liked it. Thought it sounded like the Boredoms whoever they are.

Then I came back to work, posted some more on here, posted on IC, posted on digitalmzx, checked email and myspace.

I believe that I may have urinated a few times.

Read a lot of stuff on LPN, then sent some more emails.

And now, I'm here, posting agian.

I'll be leaving in 10 minutes, getting a shower and heading off to a rock and roll show. Hopefully it won't suck!

[dhex]

boredoms is good for you.
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[seryogin]

I have the worst hangover ever.
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[Lackey]

F-
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| Little bird fighting against a bat sect game |

[purplechair]

Speed: 50
Firepower: 20
Technique: 30

Rank: C


Must try harder.

[dhex]

spending easter at the in-laws: f-

my wife passed this along regarding female authors:

[Scratchmonkey]

I'm gonna give a shoutout to HD here, whut whut.

Additionally, the best Gertrude Stein moment is from Hemingway's "A Movable Feast"* where Hemingway realizes that Stein is a lesbian and throws up in his mouth and runs out of her apartment. If it were set contemperaneously, Papa would have been wearing a baseball hat and a pre-faded Abercrombie & Fitch t-shirt.

I'm knocking around the house, preparing for an afternoon bout of cleaning and wedding logistics, which will be followed by a dual birthday bash held by a friend who delights in cooking multi-course meals starting with a molten wheel of brie. We are preparing for this by not eating anything except for a light breakfast.

* - Which is full of great moments, including a conversation between Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald while they're at the urinals in a bar where Fitzgerald breaks down about how his wife thinks his dick is too small and Hemingway tells that you have to use pillows, man, it's all about the angle.

[seryogin]

I don't remember the lesbian moment, SM. Can you tell me approximately what page it's on.

I do, of course, recall Fitzgerald bitching about his small cock. I particularly liked it when he took him to see some sculptures and told him: "See they weren't that big back then. And, you know, it's all about how big it gets, amirite."
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[Scratchmonkey]

[GSL]

I'm taking a modernist literature class right now that is heavy on both the Stein and HD. I'd have beat Hemingway out of the room just to get away from the horror of her writing. A friend once told me of some intentionally banal Photoshop edits that I showed to her, "Just because you can doesn't mean you should." Photoshop is entirely irrelevant in this discussion, but the spirit of her comment remains: it's cool that you can do weird and interesting things with the language, but what good does it do if a reader can't even make out what in hell you want to say? (I have The Making of Americans firmly fixed in my mind as I write this.) I could just not be 'literary' enough to appreciate her genius; I prefer to think of it as another case of the Emperor's new clothes.

And is it just me, or are so many female authors regarded as great in the current canon startlingly formulaic? Mix equal parts odd stylistic choices, vague undercurrents of sexual abuse, and thinly-veiled dislike for The Establishment (parents, religion, etc.) and voila! Sylvia HD Woolfstein. Though I'm sure there are some delightful exceptions that are, you know, FUN to read, the big names all strike me as trying too hard to be the black sheep in the traditionally male-dominated herd that they only succeed in making themselves irrelevant by sheer virtue of being utterly inaccessable.

But I digress.

Today is a firm C-. I arose early to assist my housemates in putting together a nonmovable Easter feast; my contribution being an experimental ham recipe involving brown sugar, honey, and apples. However, I am currently three hours into work while the housemates, girlfriend, and various other aquaintences partake of the fruits of our labors. It's cold leftovers for me when I get home, followed by a delightful evening of finishing taxes and writing reports. At least I have internets here.

[OtakupunkX]

I will be going to bed with a stomache. A-.

[dessgeega]

my knee has been inexplicably aching for the past couple days whenever i move it. boo!
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[Pijaibros]

I forgot it was Easter and discovered that everything is closed for the day.

I have no food aside from assorted spices and a jug of milk.

Luckily the Chinese place down the boulevard is open on holiidays. I ordered a soda with my food, but they forgot to give it to me when I went in to pick up my order.

I still need an iron and a board. Couldn't find a Cadbury Cream Egg to brighten this boring holiday. Alone in my apartment.

Grade: C-

[OtakupunkX]

[dessgeega]

i finished the best game i have ever made.

so, SSS.
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[SuperWes]