Audio Books

I love audio books. Not just because words hurt and written words are easier to understand when they are in large print and I can only understand an instruction manual if it has appropriately coinciding pictures with the text. I am a simpleton but a proud one so shut your mouth. Audio books get a lot of crap and not enough love. Quite often they have the writer doing the reading or a highly qualified narrator with a calm and soothing voice with a hint of a sense of humor. True they can be expensive but mind you the cost of owning quite a few is negated when you realize in your late years you have nothing to do but listen to the radio or music choice channels because you are blind and your fingers have too many callouses from doing things better left unspoken of to understand what braille is telling you.

In conclusion: Audio books are good and you should buy them.

On a side note, I would like to add I have been listening to Zero Punctuation with Yahtzee since I woke this morning at 8 am so I may have unwittingly channeled him in this entry.

A Change In Post

This entry will involve something different. It involves my cats. We went to Walmart and picked them up a toy called SmartyKat Catnip Kiss catnip toy. It's a pretty great buy and if you want to see your' cat high as hell and rolling on the floor this is definitely a great toy for it. I don't know how much it cost but you should buy it.

Unless you want to vomit...

I for one am a lover of Final Fantasy games. I like the style, innovative play, and characters that it gives us. Usually. And more often than not I leave the game after a battle feeling happy how I was rewarded for playing such an at times difficult boss or monster.  That was until I played Final Fantasy 13. Or as it has been come to be called in my house: the bane of my PS3. Graphics wise this game is beautiful. Environments,  characters, weapons, and effects are very nice to look at. Graphic wise it is solid. Combat wise feels like a half heated RTS they pulled from their MMOs and said "Deal with it." I'm sorry but when I play Final Fantasy I want a turn based game.... Not this. I also want to be able to control what my fellow party members are doing. Do I get to in this? No. The game feels like it's some off shoot world where Zanarkand kind of won the war with Bevelle eons ago and they kept the machina. That was probably because of the music which sounds HEAVILY FFX inspired. When you fight in this game, you don't win even if you are declared the victor. You get no money after battles, hardly  get items even with a 5 star rating most of the time and very little CP. This sucks monumentally as abilities later on can cost up to 80,000 points to unlock 1 spot. Things in shops are EXPENSIVE and add that to the grind you have to do constantly to obtain items to sell to get money you're getting boned harder than a helpless damsel being held hostage by a horn dog army of tentacle monsters. And let's not forget that wonderful little bug that will cause your' system to die if the game freezes.

THAT'S RIGHT KIDDDIES: FFXIII is so bad it will cause your' PS3 to do the Sony equivalent of Red Ring but broguht on by your game!

Don't buy this game. Rent it from a friend. Watch a playthrough on Youtube. Unless you are suffering from mind numbing boredom and have nothing else to do DON'T PLAY THIS!!! Don't give Square Enix you're hard earned money. It's sad but due to the absence of good rewards in here, this game has suffered a horrific blow to it's name sake and I can only pray FFXIII-2 can fix it. If not: my love for Final Fantasy has died and I won't be buying another game of this series ever again. ... Unless it's an older version on PSN, then I will buy that because those were good. So technically my love won't be dead... Just horribly horribly maimed.

Nier

So I've been playing Nier for the Playstation 3. The original unfortunately not the one titled Nier: Replicant for said system which was apparently only released in Japan. Stupid bastards who thought of that pissing me off... Any who! I have come to realize that this game is far better than FFXII & FFXIII and if there was any brains in Square Enix's head they would have made this XIII instead of what they put out. The characters are awesome storyline is fantastic and replayability though not perfect is good. I also am highly broken hearted when I watch the scenes with certain shades and monsters and hear and see their sides of the conflict. Also the Shade possessing Kaine is just a 7 layer bean dip of crazy creepiness with a side of murderous joy. The graphics are a 10 for me neck in neck with one of the most beautiful music scores I've heard in a freaking long time. I seriously will spend a good 30 to 40 minutes with my char standing in the tavern listening to Devola and Popola sing. This game is a gem. Intriguing and heartbreaking in all the right places I do not mind running around getting EXP and items in it unlike the nauseating grind the was FFXIII, which by the way in spite of how much it makes me pissed and want to vomit I ill still attempt to finish just so I can get the trophies.