Don't Mind Me...

So I started playing The Witcher this weekend and I think it's pretty fun. Very in-depth, which I enjoy, and really fighting is minimal and easy. Voice acting leaves quite a bit to be desired, but all in all this game works well for me.

I get to the first real town last night and I'm wandering around and I start off by checking out these abandoned huts. Looting as I go, of course, because what does any good RPGer do otherwise? Anyhoo, so a dead body doesn't need money or bread or potions. Snatch! Mine now!

But then it gets sticky because I come upon an area of inhabited homes. And apparently Geralt has no problem but to walk right in. Now Fable 3 handled this moment in game brilliantly. The residents would get upset, call you a trespasser, and even occasionally call the guard after you. Well, such is not the case in The Witcher.

These people just talk to you and watch as you take all the stuff right out of their cupboards.

Sure, come on in scary stranger, we don't care. We're all poor and downtrodden anyway, just take our last few pears.

The real kicker? There is an old beggar woman in several houses who you can "buy" information off of by gifting her food. She tells you, "I have no idea how we're going to eat" so I give her a bit of cheese so she'll tell me some lore. Then I turn right around and take the few pieces of meat she has hiding in her cupboard.

Next time I think I'll ransack her house while she watches, then give her the same food I just took for information.

Yeah, no glitches here....

Fantasy Trip

So thanks to my friend I have been alerted to this super cool destination restaurant. Not sure I'd go overseas just for this, but if I was in the area I'd certainly check it out.

In the meantime, I'd like to find a Hello Kitty jello mold.

Hello Kitty Restaurant

Victory is Mine!

Just wanted to put it out there that I beat another game, start to finish, all on my own. I'm on a roll! Now to decide what to play next. I might go for Uncharted, or perhaps Mass Effect 2. Or something else. I'll know soon but right now I'm proud of myself.

Fable 3.... done!

The End of an Era

The boy who lived... has come to die.

Spoiler alert: Harry Potter survives!

But for many of us, this weekend marks the end of an era, and I proudly count myself amongst that caste. I worked at Borders when the Harry Potter craze initially hit so many years ago in book form, and I was lucky enough to lead children's reading hour with the book and discussion at the store. So not only did I fall in love with Harry and his friends myself, but I got to watch literal dozens of others become entranced as well.

And now after I think... 10 years or more? We finally get to see the end of it all take place on screen with child actors who have become adults and visions of grandeur that will forever be marked in our minds as the true look and feel of Hogwarts, Diagon Alley, and more.

I was lucky enough to read the books before I saw the movie, but never have I been so enthralled with visions taken from page to screen. Sure, there are discrepancies -- I'm absolutely devastated that the whole "side plot" of Neville being great was somewhat left out in the end -- but the music makes my heart lift every time and I am excited to be a part of the audience for the final moving in its first theatrical run.

For those of you not interested in Harry Potter, this may seem like folly. But for me, I look to this final film with excitement and sadness both. I've waited years to see it, and now there is no more. The Harry Potter tale has come to an end, and all we can do is use our own imaginations to dream how the boy who lived becomes the man who lives on.

My Dying Wish

It doesn't matter if I'm 90 years old and have to spend the remainder of my life savings to do it, if the holodeck ever becomes a reality, I would want to spend a day in one before I die. Some people spend their millions on trips to outer space, some to stay in strange exotic resorts around the world. But why when you could do all of those things and more in just one day with a holodeck? What's more, I would try to program it in such a way to make me feel as though my one day lasted a week, or longer.

I guess, if the holodeck is a possibility, so is the chance that my daydream will become real and try to attack me. I mean, didn't that happen to Jean Luc quite a few times? I guess this means that somewhere, somehow, I must prepare for these possibilities. I will begin studying, and training, to survive my greatest achievements. Haha.

The biggest question is which program I'd want to run. There are so many possibilities, it becomes almost impossible to choose. Part of me would just want to live a day in so many of the books I read. Or become a part in them. I'd be the wizard at Hogwarts, use a knife to slice windows into different worlds, maybe even meet a few Gods at a strange merry go round.

Hey, a girl can dream... can't she? 

Pip pip - She's British!

So it turns out that Hello Kitty is older than I am and was actually born in London. Did you ever imagine that? Also, she has a twin sister named Mimmi that it seems almost nobody knows about, though I'm not sure why. Would seem to me that some twin kitty swag would be all the rage.

Didn't really do that much research because there wasn't really that much to find in the end. She's just a fun icon over there like Mickey Mouse is to us Americans, or any other collectible really. Though there was an open murder case for sometime called the Hello Kitty murder which I believe was in Hong Kong?

God bless Wikipedia and the information it can provide. It makes us weirdos with goofy hobbies seem smarter.