The Steve-Out: The Brown Bunny is my movie of the year.

[Elin]

It helps to remember that the snake itself cost 200 dollars, not to mention all the money for the set up and such. This three dollar rat is awfully cute (especially since I've kept rats as pets on multiple occasions), but I don't want my snake to starve to death.

Also, rats only live about 2 years maximum. My snake is supposed to live for 20 or so. If he ever gets to be big enough to eat the larger rats, they'll be pretty close to being dead, anyway.

But I am, on occasion, a little disturbed at my ability to kill small animals with hardly a second thought. I refuse to look at them for very long, or else I'll start feeling guilty.

Yeah, you can't put a cost on life...except when there's already a cost on it and it's 200 dollars. And it's not really fundamentally different to feeding a cat meat. It's just that there the animals have been chopped up into tiny pieces.

I didn't realise you fed it live rats, though. Scary. My friend had frozen mice for his. Though it was quite a small snake, which maybe made some sort of difference.

[Elin]

I'm one of those people who listens to bad dubs, and comes to love them.

I know what you want. You want the stone. It's safe inside my belly.

I enjoy my bad dubs. I still love the English dub for Grandia. But ARF, man, ARF. It takes a hard turn into the badlands and ends up somewhere in the vicinity of Chaos Warsville.

[Elin]

welp, let's see if the cops actually show up this time

Wha...?

[Colamisu]

Wha...?

Front desk/security at a hotel or something like that? He probably had to call the cops for someone doing something stupid at night.

[Zaladane]

Wha...?

Oh, last night we had to call the cops about a suite and 2.5 hours later when we were leaving work, they still hadn't shown up.

They just did now and the people had already quieted down which means once again there's nothing to be done

I don't like having people yelling at me in the lobby saying nothing ever gets done. I wanna nail these idiots. It's a couple of people subletting and they always have a bunch of people over (college age ) they're always a problem, whenever I go up there to tell them to stop they do for 5 minutes and start up again. So hence the cops. I'm also trying to convince the strata council to have them evicted.

[Milady]

Yeah, you can't put a cost on life...except when there's already a cost on it and it's 200 dollars. And it's not really fundamentally different to feeding a cat meat. It's just that there the animals have been chopped up into tiny pieces.

I didn't realise you fed it live rats, though. Scary. My friend had frozen mice for his. Though it was quite a small snake, which maybe made some sort of difference.

It sounds cold hearted, but it's much easier to replace the rat than it is to replace the snake.

We've tried feeding ours frozen/thawed animals, he doesn't seem to be too interested in them. Ball pythons are sort of known for being weird eaters. Plus, frozen animals are super expensive to ship, and neither of the two stores here stock them. If I wanted to freeze them, I still have to kill them myself.

I pre-kill them actually. My snake is stupid and likes to grab everything by the back end then it eat tail first. If the rat was alive during this, he'd tear my snake to shreds.

And I'm going to stop talking about this now, because I'm feeling super guilty.

[Milady]

Oh, last night we had to call the cops about a suite and 2.5 hours later when we were leaving work, they still hadn't shown up.

They just did now and the people had already quieted down which means once again there's nothing to be done

I don't like having people yelling at me in the lobby saying nothing ever gets done. I wanna nail these idiots. It's a couple of people subletting and they always have a bunch of people over (college age ) they're always a problem, whenever I go up there to tell them to stop they do for 5 minutes and start up again. So hence the cops. I'm also trying to convince the strata council to have them evicted.

Bahaha. I live in a building almost entirely populated by loud, idiot university students. They couldn't care less if they're being loud, even if you have to get up in two hours to go take care of people that are dying. Their drunken amusement is always more important.

[Ivolt]

The memories of this LP

wow.

[Zaladane]

Bahaha. I live in a building almost entirely populated by loud, idiot university students. They couldn't care less if they're being loud, even if you have to get up in two hours to go take care of people that are dying. Their drunken amusement is always more important.

I'm just surprised nothing really gets done here, it's a high-rise condo filled with professionals and still nothing gets done. Plus we also believe people are living there illegally. But meh I do my job so no one can blame little ol me.

[Elin]

I pre-kill them actually. My snake is stupid and likes to grab everything by the back end then it eat tail first. If the rat was alive during this, he'd tear my snake to shreds.

And I'm going to stop talking about this now, because I'm feeling super guilty.

The scariness of this situation has now been nullified by the thought of your snake crawling over to you saying, "Mommy, mommy! I tried to eat his tail, but he bit me on the head. ;__; Beat him up for me!"

Aww. Sorry for prying. ;__; Like I say, it's not inherently any worse than feeding a cat meat out of a can.

[Gare]

All I'll say is 'get used to it'. You have a huge range of powerful options at your disposal in battle as the game goes on, and if you play the game well you don't need to level to beat most any boss. But unfortunately playing the game well generally demands that you have prior knowledge of a boss's capabilities. Which means getting curb-stomped at least once. The difficulty level isn't unfair, but it's pretty darn ruthless. I don't know how much harder it gets after the 20-25 hour mark, but I'm pretty sure I picked up more game overs in its first half than in any RPG I've played since like...uh... I don't even remember.

Undub, I take it? Or are you actually enduring that...thing? That being said, I suppose the undub might be disadvantageous if you don't speak Japanese, as the things your characters say at the start of each round give you big clues as to how a boss is going to attack that turn. Can't remember exactly what the line was for a really big attack, but I'm pretty sure it was some variant on 'iya na yokan ga suru' (I've got a bad feeling about this). Listen for that at the start of a round, and when it comes up in later boss fights, prepare for the worst. :'D

Oh, and trying to avoid spoilers, but in the dungeon where your party gets cut in half, get as much earth protection for L'Arc's party as you can. You'll thank me later. The boss isn't that much harder than any of the others, but there's no save point before the boss of that dungeon, meaning that dying forces you to repeat the whole dungeon. And all my characters got petrified on the first round, giving me an instant game over. XD That was the one time the game really crossed into masochistic territory for me.

I beat him on my second try, thankfully. Just had to remember to heal more often and cast fire resistance on myself. Fuck him and his fire spells that take half of my HP. In any case, we'll see how it goes. I always bitch and moan about modern games being way too easy/dumbed down, so this was a welcome slap in the face. Or curbstomp, whatever.

Undub, yes. Disadvantageous or not, there's no way in hell I'm subjecting myself to that... thing.

Thanks for the tips, by the way. Seems like this will be one those games. Many delicious FFFFUUUUUUU- moments will be had, no doubt.

[Milady]

The scariness of this situation has now been nullified by the thought of your snake crawling over to you saying, "Mommy, mommy! I tried to eat his tail, but he bit me on the head. ;__; Beat him up for me!"

Aww. Sorry for prying. ;__; Like I say, it's not inherently any worse than feeding a cat meat out of a can.

D'awww. Snakie. It's too bad he couldn't care less about my existence. I guess snakes are kind of like cats, in a way, but at least cats like to be petted.

It's not your fault, so no worries. The only trouble is that cat food isn't cute and fuzzy when it gets to you. Also, our conversations are usually filled with tons of cuteness and lots of . It's weird to go against that and talk about feeding my snake. I find him to be cute in a reptilian sort of way, but his food is pretty cute, too.

At the very least, he always eats the pre-killed ones, so they never go to waste. I'll likely never bother with trying frozen ones again, it makes me feel even worse when I just have to throw them away because he won't eat.

[Milady]

Also, I'll make myself feel a little better later when I'm writing on my calendar. German Shepherd puppies =

[Elin]

I beat him on my second try, thankfully. Just had to remember to heal more often and cast fire resistance on myself. Fuck him and his fire spells that take half of my HP. In any case, we'll see how it goes. I always bitch and moan about modern games being way too easy/dumbed down, so this was a welcome slap in the face. Or curbstomp, whatever.

Undub, yes. Disadvantageous or not, there's no way in hell I'm subjecting myself to that... thing.

Thanks for the tips, by the way. Seems like this will be one those games. Many delicious FFFFUUUUUUU- moments will be had, no doubt.

It gets easier as it goes on, I think. Not because the bosses get easier, but because you get better.

You're welcome. Did you finish Tales of Graces?

[Gare]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdPGXClOE5g

This cracks me up every time. That shocked/betrayed look on the seal's face is priceless.