Yes. Mish has it right. Bambi wins the pot. Bambi's mother got so owned. That movie was so sad.
It was probably a typo. It's for PS2.
Publicity campaigns are done separately for each region. Square is obviously focusing on Japan's campaign right now. Hopefully we'll learn more about a possible NA release after FM+ is out in Japan.
Daylight Saving screwed me over today. I was late for Calculus lecture this morning.
Pulitzer Prize, right there.
Now all Sora needs to do is get a breastplate and a crimson cape. Although he's not one of the Armoured Knights, he'd look cool in one of those--minus the helmet. Not a big fan of the helmet.
He should've been a Shadow longer. I would've loved to have gone a small battle of trying to kick Donald and Goofy's *** at that Castle entrance.
No clue. I must have a baby face or something.
The song made that video 100x more fun to watch. Haha, nothing like watching Sora defy gravity and fall down through an endless abyss while listening to Low Rider. Nice find/creation.
Lark-seen would be my best guess.
Modifications of any kind to your PS2 put your console at risk of a shorter lifespan than it originally would have had. Mod-chips that need soldering definitely do this to your PS2. It weakens the laser and slowly slows down the processing speed. Eventually, games will start freezing at loading screens and cause you to open the tray and close it again to 're-load' the loading process you were doing before. This won't work for burned games, and you'll have to reset your game. Eventually, your PS2 will stop reading things altogether. I've personally owned a modded PS2 that underwent soldering, and the console itself lasted a few years, maybe about 5-6. It *still* works to this day, but it has massive difficulties loading screens and freezes a lot. It also can't read legitimate discs anymore. (LOL). I now use my Japanese model PS2 for imports and my PS3 for all Region 1 PS1/2/3 games. Swap Magic is a lot 'safer' in the sense that your PS2's internal hardware is not tampered at all. However, even though this is ideally more 'safe' for your PS2, it does not guarantee that your PS2 will not go unharmed in the long run. If it were still 2000, I'd say think it over before buying, but seeing as how the PS2 is reaching its end-game, I don't see a big problem with using Swap Magic. It's several times safer than any soldered mod-chip available, and will definitely not destroy your PS2 very quickly--if at all. But do keep in mind that if the PS2 *does* mess up, your PS2 should still have its warranty because you haven't tampered with it at all. That's another big plus of Swap Magic vs chip soldering, as chip soldering voids your warranty immediately. The safest option is to own a Japanese model PS2 like I do, but that's obviously more expensive. By the way, this is in the wrong section.
Now, would this dollar be through PayPal?
If you mean placing an image in a post: ex. [img ]http://www.lolhome.com/funny_avatars/fat-beaver.jpg[/img] becomes:
lol, what is Kairi using to kill those Heartless, a yo-yo?
I actually considered getting a PSP just for this game, even if that thought lasted for a few moments. I'll probably wait until I see more on the game before I make a decision to get a PSP.
Meh, I'm never offended--I've gotten it often enough times to not really think much of it. And all the best, hahannuh. I don't really know what I want to do with my life either. But if you have no real idea, just pursue what makes you happy and things you enjoy. It's a hell of a lot better than trying to conform to something you think *will make you happy*, and find out later that it really didn't. I know I've tried for several years to convince myself that science was the way to go for me, and constantly threw myself into it. Why? Because everyone close to me was some sort of science achiever, made lots of money, and the science field is always looking for new people to employ; it's an easy way to secure your livelihood in the future. However, by college, I realized that I couldn't handle it (grades were slipping, and I felt like I was studying and struggling for no reason), so I thought: if I'm going to struggle at something, at least let it be something I enjoy and feel is worth my time and effort. So now I'm a Psychology major, and intend to continue pursuing it--and luckily enough, I'm doing well at it, at least for now. You may not know what you want to do now, and that's perfectly normal; not everything we plan at the beginning may transform into truth and reality later on. So don't try to kid yourself and say "I wanna be this because it'll get me this, and then I can do this and then...". Instead, just look at what you enjoy, and then pursue it and say "I'm going to do this because I like it, and because I feel I can be great at it." The future won't wait for us; it's constantly on the horizon and will reach us whether we like it or not. So if we can't escape this inevitability, you might as well greet that future with your best foot forward, and smile--and just take it one day at a time.
My favourite RPG series of all time would be different, and have several hundred hours of my life back. XD And what a shame that would be.
Ahaha, I wonder why everyone must think I'm a girl. Sorry if I've ruined any perception you might've had for me, StupidAquarius, but I'm a guy.
You don't know what'll happen to you in the future. You just don't. You can still do the same things (liking video games, etc) if it's really something you like, because it's something you do naturally, and thus isn't easy for it to shake off. You want to go watch a movie? Go watch a movie. That isn't something anyone shouldn't be allowed to do, whether they're 13 or 31. You want to go to a party? Go to a party. These things *won't* change as drastically as you say they will if they are truly things you enjoy and do because you like doing them. If you're going to watch movies because 'you're a teenager', or 'being "immature"" because you're a teenager, then sadly I don't think you're doing these things for the right reasons. I'm in college, and drinking and sex is *not* what it's all about. It happens, but so do other things. *You* are in control of what your experiences are. *You* are the one who gets to decide just what you want to do, and when. Just because you see 'drinking' and 'sex' as 'what college is all about', that doesn't mean you have to do it. Hell, that's how it was in high school for me. People running around partying out late till 4am getting drunk and having sex. Me? Not my thing, and I can easily say no. Friendships come and go at any age of your life. I'm not particularly close with my friends that I had back in elementary; I made new ones in high school. And because I *wanted* to, I'm still in close touch with my high school friends even now at college, even though many of us are at different institutions. These are choices *we* have to make, it is not in the control of anyone else. What you find funny isn't something you think about, because it just happens. How your 'humour' changes shouldn't frighten you, because amusement is innate and we never really think about it. As well, you pointed out children. While I haven't addressed anything specifically about what you said, I just want to say: Having children is not an obligation. Many people like to stress about how having children is a must after marriage and how "having children just makes my responsibilies go over the roof" or "I can't have as much fun as before because I have kids". Well, those that think that way shouldn't even think about having children. And this isn't a bad thing. Some people just aren't ready to be parents and many will never be. If you enjoy just being only accountable to yourself (and let's say, to a special someone in the future), then you have every right to keep it that way. Maybe you enjoy the 'lovers' scene far too much, and don't want it to become the 'parents' scene, and that's fine too. It's a lot better to realize that you appreciate that freedom more than to have kids and resent and neglect them later. I'm personally not afraid. Maybe it's because I welcome development and welcome learning and becoming wiser about the things I previously didn't know. Maybe it's because I still haven't reached a point of independence that I want, like living on my own and doing whatever I want whenever I want. I can't do that when I'm still being cared for by my parents, shackled down by rules and regulations. I want to live on my own with a special someone and let it be the two of us to decide where to go, what to do, things to see. Maybe it's because I believe that even after I enter a new stage in my life--high school, college, eventually the workplace--I still feel I have been and still will be true to myself, and made and will make every choice wholeheartedly and without regrets. Why? Be crazy, laugh out loud, roll in the grass, swing on the swings, talk about anybody. Why? Not because you're an adult. Do it because you're *you*, and do it because it's what *you* want. Who can define what adults should do? No one. The term 'adult' was made to coin a particular physiological stage in human growth and development for society and the law. This does not reflect how we grow mentally and emotionally or governs what we should do.
One can never really know how any of the characters may change in the span of three years. I never wanted them to be the same as how they were in KH1/KH2. I've purposely changed many of the characters in the way they perceive, say, and act on things. We can only assess what is 'real' or 'in character' if Square was so nice as to give us that information first hand in a KH game that continued Sora's journey three years later. All I'm merely doing is taking a cast of characters whom I've grown rather fond of and taking liberties with them as a writer. While it's not written on paper or said in the fic, my idea of a seventeen year old Sora, a seventeen year old Kairi, an eighteen year old Riku; individuals that have come to terms with the experiences they have had over the past 2-3 years, is expressed in the actions and words that they say within my fic. To a certain degree, their 'new' characteristics are engraved in my head and I can hear and see them interact in my mind. Kairi was a character who never really got to say all the things she might've wanted to say, but in KH2 she definitely showed that she had strong opinions and held strong beliefs about certain things--and to a point, she is fearless. Taking that intepretation and adding on two years--I've tried to make a Kairi that I felt best represented who I feel she would be today. Sora is no different. Here we have a young boy who--despite the game's 'censoring'--has experienced fear, danger and death in a way we couldn't even begin to imagine. To be perfectly honest, *I* found it rather unrealistic that Sora could experience something like a Darkside and still be incredibly sane and giddy about his adventures to come. Shadow Sora, plagues of all sorts of Heartless; the game really made it look like a game. But in my opinion, if Sora were really like an average fourteen year old, he would have to have had some psychological scars from some of his adventures. Of course I'm not saying he'd go insane, but I am saying that a life like that would eventually create a person who's 'seen so much' and 'experienced so much' to the point where they just can't be the same happy-go-lucky individual that they might've once been. I've tried to convey this in my interpretation of Sora's seventeen-year-old self. As such, taking three years into account, with all characters developing physically and mentally, letting the cold, harsh memories sink in, lots of things I felt had to change about their personalities. I don't feel any of the characters have strayed away from the characters they were in the KH games. Instead, I feel as if I've developed them further, added certain quirks to their personalities that we didn't see in the past KH games. Of course, I'm not saying this is how they would be, but I am saying this is my best interpretation of what I feel should be what each character might've turned out to be these three years later. So Roxas, I'm not saying it shouldn't bother you, because I can't control what others feel about my writing, but I do want to stress that I feel it's a little unfair to say "they don't stay true to their video game counter parts" or "not do things that the actual characters would do". We don't know what three years can really do to a person. Maybe they might not have 'said such things or done such things' it in KH1, maybe not in KH2, but certainly in three years time--and in the case of Sora, Riku and Kairi--how one sees and acts at the age of 14/15, can drastically change at the age of 17/18. The cognitive development and perception of the two ages are very very different. Basically, you can look at it as if they've almost grown from children to adults, and as such, they're bound to act far differently than they did before.
