ERR, NOW WHAT?

I must be trying to break or set a personal record. Three eroge finished in four weeks. Of course this means I haven't been able to write the closing chapter to my ambitious, doomed to failure multi-series crossover, and so I'm feeling a little bit guilty.

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I'm taking this rare opportunity to update - the house DSL connection is spotty and shaky at times. Sigh. And I'm paying 1200 bucks out of my salary for this? There is something broken with this situation, and I'm pretty sure it's not my network devices.

Nothing special going on, really. A couple of my coworkers have leveled up, so to speak, which puts pressure on the rest of the team. The lower-level peeps are reminded to take the same challenges, while we "older" next-level guys have to push up and reach for the next tier so we can prove our seniority. We're afraid that the shiny, sparkly newly promoted guys would make it seem so easy to reach the next level, and we're afraid of losing face and credibility to the guys and gals on the lowest rung. I think. I speak for myself. I guess.

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Aside from the eroge, I've also finished all 4 acts of the doujin game Battle Moon Wars. It's a mouse-driven turn based simulation rpg in the same vein as Super Robot Taisen, except that the characters and plot devices are drawn from Type-Moon's novels and games instead of various mecha series past and present. One advantage that BMW enjoys over SRT/Super Robot Wars is that there is a wonderful soul who has made it his labor of love to translate all of the game into English, allowing those of us who could not make sense of kanji and hiragana to enjoy the story and game play. Granted, Atlus has translated SRW OG and OG 2 for the GBA into English, which I enjoyed, but there's still something about BMW that grabs my heart and keeps it.

Maybe it's the level of detail / animation for the map sprites. The sprites march, saunter, wave their arms about when jumping, fall down on their knees when reaching critical HP, and in one case explode in a crying mushroom cloud. I kid you not.

Or maybe it's the fact that the game allows you to order about in heated fights characters from visual novels and eroge. Guh, why'd I end up talking about eroge again?

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The readout on my taskbar says that it's almost 12 noon. I yawn, and really should consider going to bed instead of thinking up lines to write.

Forgive me, my fanfic. I will attend to you soon - as soon as I get my teeth fixed up.