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Oct. 6th, 2012 06:13 amPlayed three rounds of Getter Love!! yesterday morning. Lost the first one fairly enough, and aborted the second one, seeing no chance of winning. Towards the end of the third round, I couldn't have had a bigger heart with Ayumi, but the game denied me a win with her three times. Picked a fight with Daisuke, who had a winning chance with Natsuki, and ended up with the quiz game. He won. That was in the morning, and in the afternoon on the same day, I had a date with Ayumi at Panda Park, and picked a wrong answer. Daisuke then proceeded to win the game.
What the fuck!?!
Honestly, that's just really inexcusable. Or at least Ayumi rejecting me was. This never does happen with any of the AI-characters (or at least it never did early in the marathon of 2009; I usually turn the game right off if they select the heart), unless either of their energy bars is almost empty. I lose rounds all the time; that's frustrating enough, but most of the time, it's fair game, and it is kinda the point of a challenge, but to be outright denied a win when I damn well deserve to!?!
Fuck you! Wouldn't have been so bad if I were able to beat Daisuke and allow myself to get a Love Love ending (requires the girl in question to ask you if you love her) or Reika's ending (which was just two days away), but no. It's an outright win for one of my opponents.
I've taken this as a cue to pull the plug on this session. I say for now, because the game is rarely this much of a dick, unlike what TV Tropes said about Pokemon (mainly regarding Stadium and the Battle Towers, Frontiers, and Subways). I still stand by my decision never to have anything to do with the Pokemon games again, but with this game, the next time I'll likely be playing it will be after I complete unit IV of Kanji in Context, if not later than that. Right now, I need to focus on getting stuff done online, and mornings are the best time to get started on anything (especially since Mom and Dad will supposedly be going to the gym this morning, leaving me home by myself).
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Mom asked me if I wanted to come out on the boat shortly after she came home from work. I find it boring, and normally only go out when Brian or Marie is home with us to come, since they usually don't stay home for more than a week. Having little else to do at the moment, though, I decided to come along for the first time in ages that neither of them were.
We didn't lift the sail up, since Dad isn't supposed to lift anything heavy. Simply drove out to another boatyard, where these two guys that Mom and Dad used to know, named Howie and Warren, live. They chatted with them for a bit, and also had me wave to them, and one of them said that they haven't seen me since I was four. After they were all done talking, Mom then told me about their lives there, how she and Dad first met (living in separate houseboats in the same spot), and that the time she started having us kids was when they moved to Medford while Howie and Warren continued to live in their houseboat and still do to this day.
From there, we just kinda let the wind drift us away from the boatyard for a bit. We noticed four cormorants fly by, which Dad jokingly called "The four cormorants of death". I then told him and Mom that the number four actually is related to death according to oriental superstition, due to the fact that "four" and "death" are pronounced the same way in Japanese and other oriental languages. Unrelated, either Mom or Dad (don't remember who) mentioned the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, which according to the Book of Revelations, represent famine, pestilence, war, and something that slipped our minds. (I never really thought about it myself, but as it turns out, the last one is death.)
Later, when we were docking back at our own boatyard, Mom asked me to get ready to jump. I was at the corner of the boat further away from the dock, but tried to make the jump anyway. Didn't quite make it, but I clung onto the boom and supporting rope so as to avoid falling into the water, and ended up falling off the dock and landing against the back of the boat, bumping my right knee and my left toes before climbing back onto it. Made me feel a bit lightheaded and tired due to energy being drawn from my brain towards it. (Also noticed when we got home that I happened to crack one of my toenails.)
As far as messages go, the only ones I had received by the time we did come home were one group message about someone requesting to join Job Offers, and one email from Jake regarding a Kamen Riders fic he would like my help with. At that point, nanashi-no had also already read my latest PM to her, but considering that she took more than a day to respond to the first one I sent her after being unblocked, she hopefully will answer that one as well.
What the fuck!?!
Honestly, that's just really inexcusable. Or at least Ayumi rejecting me was. This never does happen with any of the AI-characters (or at least it never did early in the marathon of 2009; I usually turn the game right off if they select the heart), unless either of their energy bars is almost empty. I lose rounds all the time; that's frustrating enough, but most of the time, it's fair game, and it is kinda the point of a challenge, but to be outright denied a win when I damn well deserve to!?!
Fuck you! Wouldn't have been so bad if I were able to beat Daisuke and allow myself to get a Love Love ending (requires the girl in question to ask you if you love her) or Reika's ending (which was just two days away), but no. It's an outright win for one of my opponents.
I've taken this as a cue to pull the plug on this session. I say for now, because the game is rarely this much of a dick, unlike what TV Tropes said about Pokemon (mainly regarding Stadium and the Battle Towers, Frontiers, and Subways). I still stand by my decision never to have anything to do with the Pokemon games again, but with this game, the next time I'll likely be playing it will be after I complete unit IV of Kanji in Context, if not later than that. Right now, I need to focus on getting stuff done online, and mornings are the best time to get started on anything (especially since Mom and Dad will supposedly be going to the gym this morning, leaving me home by myself).
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Mom asked me if I wanted to come out on the boat shortly after she came home from work. I find it boring, and normally only go out when Brian or Marie is home with us to come, since they usually don't stay home for more than a week. Having little else to do at the moment, though, I decided to come along for the first time in ages that neither of them were.
We didn't lift the sail up, since Dad isn't supposed to lift anything heavy. Simply drove out to another boatyard, where these two guys that Mom and Dad used to know, named Howie and Warren, live. They chatted with them for a bit, and also had me wave to them, and one of them said that they haven't seen me since I was four. After they were all done talking, Mom then told me about their lives there, how she and Dad first met (living in separate houseboats in the same spot), and that the time she started having us kids was when they moved to Medford while Howie and Warren continued to live in their houseboat and still do to this day.
From there, we just kinda let the wind drift us away from the boatyard for a bit. We noticed four cormorants fly by, which Dad jokingly called "The four cormorants of death". I then told him and Mom that the number four actually is related to death according to oriental superstition, due to the fact that "four" and "death" are pronounced the same way in Japanese and other oriental languages. Unrelated, either Mom or Dad (don't remember who) mentioned the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, which according to the Book of Revelations, represent famine, pestilence, war, and something that slipped our minds. (I never really thought about it myself, but as it turns out, the last one is death.)
Later, when we were docking back at our own boatyard, Mom asked me to get ready to jump. I was at the corner of the boat further away from the dock, but tried to make the jump anyway. Didn't quite make it, but I clung onto the boom and supporting rope so as to avoid falling into the water, and ended up falling off the dock and landing against the back of the boat, bumping my right knee and my left toes before climbing back onto it. Made me feel a bit lightheaded and tired due to energy being drawn from my brain towards it. (Also noticed when we got home that I happened to crack one of my toenails.)
As far as messages go, the only ones I had received by the time we did come home were one group message about someone requesting to join Job Offers, and one email from Jake regarding a Kamen Riders fic he would like my help with. At that point, nanashi-no had also already read my latest PM to her, but considering that she took more than a day to respond to the first one I sent her after being unblocked, she hopefully will answer that one as well.