One day, many years ago, I went and picked up a copy of Star Ocean: The Second Story. While I had never actually played it prior to this it looked and sounded like a fun game. And it was.

I played through almost the whole game and then got creamed by the final boss. After trying him a few times I realized I'd have to increase my level if I was to beat him. I was feeling lazy and didn't want to spend the time leveling up so I put the game aside for a while.

A few months later I went back and played some more. I leveled up another 10-15 levels and was ready to beat the boss. Before I challenged him again however I decided to visit all the various towns to make sure there weren't any private actions (little cutscenes where the main character interacts with other characters, with the choices you make affecting the ending of the game). There was indeed a private action I had missed that dealt with the end boss and his daughter. Seeing said private action (which I found out later could only be seen if your most recent save was at the final save point) turned off the boss' limiter meaning that instead of being around level 80 or so to beat him, you had to be at or near the max level of 255. Seeing as I saved before I realized that the boss was now much, much stronger the only way I could beat the game would be to put in all the time leveling up that high. I didn't really feel like putting that time in and so the game was untouched for sometime.

Recently I have gone back to the game and now I am closing in on the final boss battle. With any luck in the next day or two I will finally beat the game after many a year.

Defunct Word of the Day: pocock
It's just an obscure form of 'peacock'

Ah, the weekend. Gotta love the 3 days off I get every week. Well maybe you don't love them but I sure do.

Never ended up getting my story workshopped in class today. Because of the late due date most people didn't get a chance to read the stories which meant they had to be read before they could be commented on. It will get covered next class though (Tuesday) so maybe I'll throw it up here after that.

Defunct Word of the Day: ungig
It is a verb which means to unravel.

Got to be all creative tonight. My creative writing class required a 100-500 word postcard story for tomorrow's class (well technically today's). I hadn't started it yet and I didn't really know what to write.

It's kind of tough to write a story that is that short. You want to still have a plot, characterization and all the other elements you would normally see in a short story without making any of them incredibly simple.

I wasn't sure what to write on for a while but eventually I came up with an idea and I think it's a pretty neat little story. We have to workshop them in class tomorrow so there'll be some revisions made I would imagine but maybe after the revisions are made I'll throw it up on here to see what everyone thinks.

Defunct Word of the Day: fis
It's like 'is' but used to describe things that only exist in fictional settings.

I watched my shiny new Superfriends DVD tonight. Definitely worth the money. Classic Superfriends action. :) Line of the night: "Quick Robin, use the bat lube!"

And look, I'm actually going to bed kinda early! I'm not even tired but I am bored and I figure it would be good for me to get 7-8 hours (or more) for a change of pace.

Defunct Word of the Day: aliation
It's a change in quality/state (such as hot to cold, hard to soft, etc)

I got about 5 hours of sleep last night so I figured I'd go to bed early tonight. I even felt really tired around 11 or 12 so I figured I'd probably go straight to bed when I came back upstairs after watching the PPV. And now it's 5:30 AM and I'm still up.

It's weird. I kind of just stopped being tired. Around 4 I entered a state of feeling tired and not tired at the same time. If it wasn't for the fact I have some things I want to do and a 2+ hour movie to sit through in class tomorrow night, I might have just stayed up. As it is though, I really should get some sleep. Not enough sleep last night + not enough sleep tonight is probably not going to make for all that great of a combination as it is. :P

Defunct Word of the Day: bezzle
It's a hard drinker, it is!

Another late night. I rather enjoy them. The only downside is that I almost always get up before 1 regardless of when I go to bed. I've not had many 8 hour or more sleeps of late and therefore I'm tired. Though seeing as it's 4:32 AM, that's not all that surprising. Anyway sleep now.

Defunct Word of the Day: Zounds

OED is down at the moment and I'm too tired to poke around other sites. Besides, zounds is good.