I... I am actually really digging these crappy little subtitles of mine as I read them in some super excited anime voice actor tone. Anyways... Cue the banner!

There Will Be No Pretty Images In This Blog

So no handsome and insanely creepy anime men for y'all this week. I probably could have waited to do this blog later, but ehhhhhh, that'd be actually preparing myself and putting in an effort. And I truly cannot be arsed to do that. Also mostly wanted to talk about some cool games I've played lately and totally try not to dwell on the fact that I've been called lazy and told I have no aspiration to be anything by someone who didn't finish high school until they were 22, what a rude and thoughtless person who also hasn't held a job in over a year so I will have NONE OF YOUR SASS TODAY OR EVER, DAMMIT... not to use run-on sentences. Yes. That is what I meant. Yep.

I've played a couple of things lately that I feel like sharing! I'm actually pretty damn shocked I haven't been back to Mesteros lately. As a reminder, Mesteros is only THE most average ACNL town ever. Be jealous.

Stick It to the Man!

So did y'all know this game was free for PS+ members right now? Yeah, I'm a sucker for those freebie. Anyways, for those who don't know what Stick It to the Man! is about, you play as Ray, a dude who tests hard hats for a living because of some messed up shit that happened with his pops when he was a kid.

Ray is suddenly struck by an unknown object that fell from the heavens and wakes up to find a really like pink spaghetti hand sprouting from his head. Personally, I thought it looked more like those cheap slap hand capsule toys I used to get at K-Mart when I was younger, the ones I would immediately throw away because I somehow got a fuckload of dirt and hair stuck on it and water did nothing in terms of removing the sickening filth. Barf. Waste of 50 god damn cents. Coulda gotten those cute little aliens instead...

Haha, aliens. Anyways, Stick It to the Man! is a fairly simple puzzle/platformer and using the abilities of your fuchsia goo arm is pretty fun! I managed to play all of this game in one sitting and was fairly impressed by how few the number of vocal talent was in the game (and for how many vibrant and lively characters they all played. Truly amazing, fellow duder.). Some of the combat, if you can really call it that, was a bit tricky due to me being impatient, but if you're in the mood for a quick and quirky story, I can't recommend this title enough. I am also a huge sucker for animated characters who talk by having the top portion of their head bop around. Something about it just amuses the ever loving crap outta me. :D

Trials Fusion

I feel like most people have moved on from this game and that's a bummer for 2 reasons:

1. I don't have as many ghosts to "race" against later on. (Please, add Sparklykiss on PSN. Be my ghost friend.)
2. My friends have some insanely stupid scores on the leaderboards that cripple my hope for success.

Which makes me super terrible at this game. I just don't want to be on page two of my leaderboards. That makes me super sad! And those challenges frustrated me because I tried to do as many of them as I could with the starter bike and just... I was a bucket of sad. Sad sad sad.

And does anyone else think the story stuff in this game is a bit odd? I don't know how to handle it since I haven't played that many tracks (just unlocked the ability to do tricks, after all) but hearing the dialog is just super weird. And U-Play is a hot mess and will never work for me. I don't know where I'm going with this post. Probably flipping all over and somehow not crashing because I have some odd luck in that regard.

Mercenary Kings

If you haven't noticed the trend here, I'm pretty biased to the PS4. And I really like this game! It's a damn shame I'm too nervous to play this online with anyone. I should probably invest in a headset at some point. I really dig being able to just sorta fuck around in a level and barely finish the objective. I'm the "gotta get as much loot as I can and finish in the last possible moment" type of gal. I've been repeating a lot of the early stages to try and get stars instead of checkmarks once I realized that was thing. I should probably progress and buy things that are useful instead of pizza decorations for my tent.

This game is pretty strange and I can't help but want to return to the Scott Pilgrim game because, gosh, I keep forgetting the DLC for that is finally out. It took so long!

Also as a bit of an aside, this game was no fun to try out at PAX East. I was a teensy bit offended that the guy I met in the booth had no interest in answering my questions and didn't seem to take me seriously. But ah well. I try not to hold grudges, game's still fun to me so...

I should probably learn to put my thoughts into a more coherent and understandable pattern at some point. Instead of just letting what the heck ever pour on out. So.

SCHOOL'S OUT FOR SUMMER

Still making the wise choice of not tagging this to the forums. I'm proud of my restraint. So, yeah, I'm finished with the spring term. I'm still kicking myself for taking so long to get back to school even though I've been back at school for a year and a half now. It was a really stressful term, but I managed to leave with much higher grades than I thought I would. It hasn't been the biggest self-esteem boost, but it's something and I'm trying to take this all in stride instead of reverting back to being sad/bitter/angry/whatever-other-negative-thing-a-person-can-be. I guess this is a big surprise to people that I can have such a downward swing. My usual preference is to just force myself to be the opposite. But I decided a ways back to be much more honest. So hopefully with no school to distract me for a bit, I can find some decent work and really enjoy and better myself! Progress! It's totally radical!

Chicago is Fun

So one of the big changes I want to make in my life is to move to Chicago and go to school there. I've already made a few impromptu visits (like for the Tabletop Deathmatch screening that Cards Against Humanity hosted, I got to play Discount Salmon, too! That game is really fun and I enjoyed it quite a bit.) and will be returning for the Giant Bomb meet up so that should be fun! It's always really cool to meet and greet with some like minded duders and focus on something exciting. Hopefully I can play my cards right and be living in the city for school next fall. I've been telling my family that I want to take summer classes so that they'll actually help me out and I will be moved out come fall, my true goal. I am an evil mastermind from a family of slowpokes.