９月１３日

Woke up at 3am. Curry-filled bread and matcha ice-cream crepe for breakfast. Can't find a regular bathrobe anywhere. Ate a hot dog at IKEA and found someone's iPhone in a toilet stall. Spent too much time looking at stickers - bought one with an amazing pun.

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３時に起床。朝ご飯はカレーまんと抹茶アイスクレープ。 
お気に入りのバスローブがどこにも見当たりません。
IKEAでホットドッグを食べて、誰かのiphoneをトイレで見つけた。
ステッカーを見ながら時間をつぶして、凄いダジャレの書いてあるステッカーを買った。

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Google Translation:
Up at 3. Breakfast matcha ice crepe and curry man. Bathrobe favorite I can not find anywhere. Eating a hot dog at IKEA, I found in the toilet of the iphone someone. And wasting time, while looking at the sticker, I bought a sticker that says the terrible puns.

９月１２日

Went to Softbank yesterday to buy a prepaid phone and was told to come back the next day before noon instead; Went back today and was told to come after noon in a couple of hours instead. Ate octopus and had a 7kr Dr Pepper. Went through 6 ATMs before I found one that wasn't offended by my foreign card. Saw an obese Japanese person. Got several scrapes on my leg from carrying around a bag with pointy-edged objects inside.

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昨日１２時ころにソフトバンクに行ってプリペイド携帯が売り切れで「明日の午前中に来てください」って言われたのに、今日１０時に行ったら「スタッフがいないので１時にまた来てください」って言われた。
たこ焼きを食べったり、７クローネのDr Pepperを飲んだりして時間をつぶした。
私の外国のカードを受け付けるATMを探すのに６台もを試した。
病的な肥満の日本人を見た。
鋭いものを入れた袋を持っていて足を擦りむいた。

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Google Translation:
Prepaid cell even though told me, "Please come in the morning tomorrow," sold out to go to Softbank at 12 o'clock yesterday, Tsu "Please come again at 1:00 because there is no staff," When I went to 10:00 today I was told Te. You can Tsu eat takoyaki, and killed time by drinking Dr Pepper 7 Krone. I tried for six die can to find an ATM that accepts the card foreign to me. I saw the Japanese of morbid obesity. I scraped his leg you have a bag that puts things sharp.

９月１１日

Waited 4 hours for my luggage to arrive; spent 4 hours re-arranged all the furniture in my room until it stopped feeling so bleak. Went to buy a phone and they were sold-out of phones. Got flip-flops for the showers - prison style. Configured wifi. Went to the grocery store trying to find something I could cook and ended up buying nothing but 3 different brands of milk-tea.

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荷物が届くまで４時間程待ちながら、重苦しい感じがなくなるように部屋の家具の位置を繰り返し変えた。
プリペイド携帯を買いに行ったら売り切れ。
服役囚のようなシャワー用のスリッパを買った。
wifiを設置した。
何か料理できる食事を買いに行ったけど、３種類のミルクティーだけにした。

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Google Translation:
Was changed to repeat the position of the furniture in the room, waiting about four hours luggage to arrive, feeling of heaviness to eliminate. Sold out I went to buy a prepaid cell. I bought a shower slippers for like prisoners. I set up a wifi. I went to buy a meal that can be cooking something, but it was only milk tea of three.

First-Impressions: Limbo

... Because I can't be arsed to finish the game in order to write a "fair" review. Not that I need to. Cause I'm always right anyway.

I'd been excited about Limbo for a while, so when it when on sale on Steam today for 2.5 euro, I grabbed it.

Total waste of 19kr and 8 minutes of my life.

It is my sincere hope is that my time and effort spent writing this might spare someone else 8 minutes of Limbo. (I see what I did there).

The game started out as what I thought was a cut-scene, until nothing happened for about 2 minutes and I realized I was supposed to move. The kid you play as seems to be slow in the head and a poor jumper. I'm fairly certain he was mentally challenged. Or possibly even Mexican. My first encounter with water went something like "Oh, I'll just swim across this little puddle. What? You DROWNED from that?". Pathetic. He also steps on bear traps and can't do anything cool for that matter. Who wants to escape from reality to one where you play as a slow, short, snot-faced incapable kid? Not me. The game was too slow-paced, and controls unsatisfying unresponsive. Maybe if there was some background music I wouldn't have been so utterly bored. Though I may just be spoiled by all the fast-paced, high energy games I've been conquering lately, like VVVVVV, Super Meat Boy and Bit Trip Runner. All of which you play as awesome characters!

In Super Meat Boy, you get to play as, you guessed it! A PIECE OF MEAT. Who leaves a succulent trail of meat juice behind it, and sticks oh so deliciously to walls, and splatters beautifully all over the level when you get yourself ground up. In Bit Trip Runner you're basically farting rainbows as you run at impossibly high speeds. No further argument needed.

Oops, I went off track talking about games that are actually cool.

I'll give Limbo one thing, they certainly picked out a good title that expresses just how unexceptional it is:
Limbo: An intermediate, transitional, or midway state or place; an unknown intermediate place or condition between two extremes: in limbo.
I was definitely in a condition between two extremes while playing Limbo: apathy for the game, and sympathy for the retarded kid.
In conclusion, here's a fairly accurate depiction of how I felt playing Limbo:

VVVVVV

So I finally beat this game, and it was a blast. Never had so much fun being frustrated before! I would highly recommend it to anyone who loves difficult sidescrollers. And awesome music.













Doing this was, of course, my proudest moment:

How YOU doin'?

I've decided that I'm going to stop punishing my blog with all this neglect (a good years worth!). It looks like it has learned its lesson, so maybe I'll make an effort to start posting again. My other "blog" is, after all, becomingly increasingly pathetic. SO I'm going to try to balance out my imaginary literary scale a bit.

Also, I apparently saved a handful of drafts before the dry-spell.. So I have something to go on. Thank you, overly-zealous past-self!

Facebook feels sorry for me

If facebook asks you to "suggest friends" for me, please don't do it. I know facebook probably feels terribly sorry for me cause I have under 100 internet friends and all, but I really don't need it's pity. YOU'RE JUST MAKING ME LOOK PATHETIC TO ALL MY FRIENDS, FACEBOOK. CAN'T YOU SEE THAT??? STOP MAKING IT LOOK LIKE I DESPERATELY NEED HELP!!