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☁ Not much of anything is happening in LJ-land today. *pokes it*

☁ I forgot to mention that the New York Post on Sunday had a fabulous Rapture related headline- "WORLD ENDS! Heaven looks exactly like New York City" I totally started cracking up when I saw that on a customer's paper. Customer looked at me like I was nuts, but it was totally worth it. Brilliant. <3

☁ Did I mention that I found a new video game/book/movie/music organization site? Well, I did. Yes, I realize that when you go to the site, it talks about buying and selling, but you can just have "collections" too. You don't have to sell anything if you don't want to. On the upside, if you do decide to sell anything, you can do that really easily from there too. (Though they do take a percentage, but most sites like that do.) I only have some DS games on there so far- it's kind of neat because the way they set it up, it's almost like you're shopping through your own stuff, which is kind of neat. ^_^ Of course, you can buy on the site as well as sell, which could be dangerous. But we'll ignore that.

☁ Stef had me watch Once Upon a Mattress, which was cracky and kind of hysterical. Zooey Deschanel's eyes are kind of weird though, aren't they? It seems like she's always like O_O, at least in this movie, and it was a bit off putting. Though Google shows plenty of pictures where she looks normal, so I think it's just a thing she does. She's a pretty girl, but seriously, this? Creepy.

☁ Sobering fact I just learned: in over HALF of the country, 29 states in fact, you can legally be refused service in a restaurant because of your sexual orientation. Just. There are no words. New York is thankfully not one of them, but Texas is. Which isn't actually surprising, but it's disheartening. The list: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

Many of those aren't a surprise. The southern states especially, and to a lesser degree, the Midwestern ones. But PA? Really? I don't really think a state that boasts "The City of Brotherly Love" really has any room to discriminate against gay people, but whatever. It's just disappointing that in 2011, so much of the country is still hell-bent on making our lives miserable.

☁ Related: This is disgusting. It's not up to doctors to make judgements about who their patients are. They're supposed to DO THEIR JOB. Funny how the two religious people didn't seem to care, but the doctors did. This isn't the first time we've heard something like this, of course, but the fact that this KEEPS HAPPENING is proof that we need marriage rights. What we have isn't good enough, because they can ignore it when you have all of the legal documentation that you're supposed to need. Civil unions are not enough. We need marriage or this kind of despicable behavior is just going to continue.

☁ Tierkreis: done. I have to say I was a bit disappointed with the ending. Suikoden fans know that this is a series that LOVES to kill off characters, especially ones that they make us love. (Gremio, I'm looking at YOU). But they sometimes get brought back if you get all 108 characters. I was really hoping they'd bring back this one character, but no dice. As a matter of fact, the only thing that getting all the characters seems to do is it gives you an extra short scene with Zenoa, where she's commenting that she didn't expect Hero to be such a good leader and how he managed to get all of the Stars. It kind of made all the extra time running around getting people feel like a waste of time.

The One King wasn't that hard either. :/ I had Chrodechild and Fredegund doing True Falcon almost every round, Hero was Ire-d and then kept doing Two Way Thrust continually, and Diadora kept everyone alive with a Healing Wave every round. I only had a character die once. I almost ran out of mixed herbs because I was using those pretty liberally, but it turned out okay. Everyone was on level 60 except Hero, who was on 61. (On the other hand, at least it wasn't like IV, which I -still- haven't finished because THE GOD DAMN TREE KEEPS KILLING ME.)

All in all, it was interesting and quite long for a handheld game (Last save was 47:20, so we're probably talking around 48 hours to finish. Though also consider that I spend a decent chunk of time wandering around aimlessly in video games.) Was it the best in the series? No. But it certainly wasn't the worst, either. Though if I ever play through it again, I probably won't bother recruiting quite a few of the really pain in the ass characters. Also, taking back the shipping thing from the other day. The last scene with Hero and Atrie had my brain going SHIPSHIPSHIP! So uh. Yeah. <_<

I think I'm going to play Final Fantasy III next as my "at work" game. :D