I been kicking offline early the past several nights after working on homework and crap to play Re: COM because I never actually finished it, and 358/2 made me want to play it like burning thanks to the tutorial levels with the C.O. crew. The last time I played, I got to the second fight with Repliku (floor 8, IIRC) and had my ass handed to me eight hundred times, which lead to my usual strategy of massive sulking, throwing the controller, and dropping the game for a year. On this play through, I opted to go to Hollow Bastion first instead of Atlantica in the hopes of getting massive amounts of levels in the quickest amount of time possible because grinding is boooooooring. It worked~! :D By the time I got to floor 8 this time, I was seven levels higher
and I had finally figured out how to activate all those dumb gray cards that eat my CP. /was under the impression they were automatic at the start of a battle and highly perplexed as to why they weren't working, shut up.
I was pretty wired at this point, so I kept going far longer than I should have and eventually hit floor 10, where I got
this cut-scene, and oh my god, Marluxia, why are you so fine? Larxene is hopping up my personal ranks in leaps and bounds as well. I liked them well enough before, but aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah now I'm like <33333333333333.
My buddy Dustin and I are at comical odds over Marluxia right now. He's only played COM on the GBA and had been convinced until I showed him a video from the opening of Re:COM that Marluxia was a girl because of the pink hair, pretty face and flower petals. I am of the opinion that Marluxia is the stud of the Organization and one of the few I list as completely straight in my head-canon. Dustin now thinks that Marluxia is about as straight as a mountain road for the same reasons he thought Marluxia was a girl. This leads us to interesting arguments while walking to class together and strange looks from passersby.
I was thinking about writing up my personal ranking of the Organization, but I think I'll put that off until after I finish Re:COM because I might end up changing my mind some more after playing with the other half of the crew on Riku's storyline. It's been so long since I played with them at any great length (liiiiiiiiiiiiike, four years or so) that I'm mostly ambivalent towards them like I was with Marluxia and Larxene.
This weekend's looking to be fairly busy, which I'm down with. On Saturday, Dustin and I, and possibly Russ, are going to Altoona to pick up Arceus at Toys 'R Us, and then we're going to spend a few hours dicking around down there just so that it's not like we drove an hour down and back to get a stupid Pokemon. (THERE'S YOUR REMINDER, LYNX! Saturday is the last day!) I took the morning off work so we could do this, and then we have to be back by 7 p.m. because I still have to do my usual evening shift.
I haven't picked up any shifts for Sunday because Mom is coming up to visit, go out to lunch and help me find something to wear to an internship interview on Tuesday. I'm scheduled to meet with a gentleman from the Philadelphia Inquirer about a 10-week paid internship as a copy-editor, which is the direction I kind of plan to go in this industry. If the kids from other colleges write just as poorly as the majority of my cohorts in class write, copy editors are going to be a vital necessity. Right now, my biggest problem is that we're to show up to the interview "dressed as we would be for the first day at work," and I don't think my usual (read: only) style of over-sized hoodie + baggy carpenter jeans = corporate casual at one of the largest papers in the country.
Augh, work tonight.