Then the monkeys fly out of my butt

[quesarah]

Ack. Had a weekend that left me badly in need of another RIGHT NOW. Friday was a 12 hour day; got some spiffy new highlights in the hair and had a fun chat with my stylist. She turns stereotypes on their ear, being one of the few lesbian hairstylists I've ever met. She is fab; she does great hair and is also a blast to talk to. I listened to the latest installment of the Melodrama that is Her Love Life and made appropriate groany noises. We swapped gaybashing stories; fun, that.

Saturday was a slug day, and that evening I went out with the boys. There was beer, a wee bit of karaoke, some foosball, and lots of talk about women's asses. Good night. As I promised the missus, I had no whiskey (only beer) and was home at a reasonable hour.

Sunday we had the practice session for wafflelips' interview. I had no idea what was happening; it may as well have been conducted in Latin. I think I faked it all right, though. It seemed to be productive.

Rehearsal on Sunday was a bust. I usually count on choir practice to energize me for the coming week; lately it's been nothing but an energy drain. I was already dog tired, and by the end I was completely zonked. Had to get out and go home to my girl. She and I curled up on the couch and were vegetables for the night. Necessary.

Today I want nothing more than to be sitting in living room, wearing sweats, eating junk food, and playing Knights of the Old Republic all day. Dude, I swear that one Jedi is hitting on me. She totally wants me. Oh yeah.

Comments

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

I'll have to look into those. We picked up KOTOR on the recommendation of half our collective flist. We haven't been disappointed, although I am disappointed in gonzo21's observation that you cannot romance the cute Jedi if your character is female. 'Cause, she so totally wants me! It's not fair!

:)

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

I must admit, it is highly bonkers that you can't romance the cute jedi if you're playing as a female PC. The company that made KOTOR have a reputation for being slash-friendly, they even went so far as to re-write some of the romance dialogue in BG2 ToB so that it read gender-neutral, so that it could be equally applicable to a male or female PC.

I guess it must be because it was a console game, instead of a PC game, and those have a slightly different audience to consider. Or something.

I've had a little look into it, and there doesn't seem to be any way of spoofing the programming. If there was only some way of starting the game with a male character, then switching to a female, that would probably do it. But, alas.

You can romance useless pilot bloke. But, that has all the attraction of seducing a Hutt.

Gotta say though, it was Mission that I really fell in love with.

It's a fairly epic love story too, with the cute jedi chick. All hail the story-telling prowess of Kotor. And I hope Lucas was forced to sit and play it, so that he could see what telling a real story in the Star Wars universe looks like.

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

Ah well. I had such hope, particularly after a bit of dialog with Juhani (the other Jedi chick) in which one of my response choices was "Are you hitting on me?" I expect I will romance useless pilot dude, just for the full story aspect. Then I will play a male character and get the Bastila romance.

Le sigh. Starcrossed, that's what we are.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Certainly gives the game more replay value.

Though I must admit, even though it is one of my all-time favourite games, there are one or two niggly little problems I have with it.

Noteably that by the time I got to the end, I had levelled out at the experiance point cap, and found all of the fights to be a little too easy.

And some of the mini-games were mercilessly hard. The pod racing. Sheesh.

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

Noteably that by the time I got to the end, I had levelled out at the experiance point cap, and found all of the fights to be a little too easy.

Yeah, the fights are getting easier. Once you learn a trick or two about equipping the characters, and can make sure their health stays good the fights are much easier.

I do like the mind games, though. Fun! I suck at swoop racing, though. On Tatooine I tried multiples times and never made it past the first race. Ugh.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

I managed to complete the first 2 (of 3) swoop races at Tatooine, and, the ocean planet. Got to be, I think, quite good at it, but the margins of error are measured in tenths and hundredths of a second, and I think it's just impossible to complete.

Which is irritating. Okay, the quests are really minor ones, but I'd still like to complete them to see what happens.

How are you at Pazaak?

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

I'm much better at Pazaak than I am at the racing. I bought a couple of +/- cards from various folks to enhance my deck. I like that I can play with Mission on the ship.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

play with Mission on the ship

Mhmm.

::blinks::

Sorry. What was that? I think I sort of faded out there for a moment.

(Curse you game for not letting your character persue a romance with Mission!)

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

I know, our characters should have all options open. What if I want to hook up with Canderous? Or Juhani? Or Jolee? Like they're not interesting in their own right. Hah.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

I wonder if the sequal is going to have the same characters?

I'd guess probably not, because they'd start out at stupidly high levels.

Apparently there has been some downloadable content for the game released on XBOx live, a new spacestation, and some new equipment.

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

I wonder if the sequal is going to have the same characters?

I'd guess probably not, because they'd start out at stupidly high levels.

I suppose you could start a new game with everyone back at zero. But that would be slightly dumb, unless you could bring in your KOTOR characters as is. I wish there were a way for everyone to hang out together. *sigh*

Apparently there has been some downloadable content for the game released on XBOx live, a new spacestation, and some new equipment.

I will have to investigate!