games, games, games...

hmm. weird thought, but i don't understand why humans would want to engage in intimate weeheehees with animals. isn't that just kinda... hmm how would you put it. otherworldly?

that aside. we finally got ourselves a new philips dvd player. NO CAN BUY HYUNDAI DVD BUYER OKS MINNA-SAN. it's crap.

that aside, i am back to playing Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3. i just realised it's rated above 8/10 at gamespot...and that's a good score :) and they gave Chrono Cross 10/10 -- that i won't forget cuz i remember replaying at least 6 times without once saying it was getting boring. and at that time i had no idea of its ratings. now that i know, i can't agree more! love love love.

weird tip for mga2 players. no one's gonna read this, but hey, who cares.

so, i was trying to earn points. i used the Big Boss card that generates 2x PTS each time you complete a mission, but the highest i ever got with it was some 11000 or so PTS. card packs are sold from 600PTS to 1500PTS and you get to buy 10 packs per category every intermission, so 11000 really isn't a lot when you think about it (there are 4 categories). single cards are worst. i haven't seen anything more expensive than 50000PTS but that's still ex anyway.

i got really sick of earning an average of 10800PTS every round when rare cards keep appearing in the single cards shop. eventually i started to use military gain cards. i think the best place to use it is at the Cargo Train eliminate missions. all your enemies are sukiyaki boxes, things that the Stingers (now called FIM2A, Redeye II or something to that effect) can aim from the starting point.

so my basic set up for PTS earning:
Military Gain+ cards for both Venus and Snake
at least 3 stingers per person
a big boss card on snake
lots of cost reduction cards just in case you can't get all the above 3 asap. it's a real pain in the butt if you don't have cost reduction cards to cut the wait.

this method nabs me 18800PTS per round in maximum 5mins worth of gameplay...compared to the same time of 10800PTS. (all because of the military gain+ cards that generate 1000PTS per enemy destroyed while standing in the military gain+ traps) since you don't have to move out of the trap due to the auto-aim feature of stingers... i kinda think this is the cheapest way of doing it.

mwahahhaha. my points have hit the million mark (L)(L)(L) actually, i didn't check out if gamefaqs already has this tip. if it does, what the hell? and if there's a better tip, what the double hell??

come to think of it, i was talking about budokai 3. wtf? k. schizophrenic outburst.

nonsense aside, budokai 3 is quite entertaining. but i think it's not something you can play for years...it's something that once you've forgotten what it's like and when you replay it from start, it's a really great game. the crap is i have a saved data for it, but i decided not to use it and use my other memory card to start a clean slate. and i unlocked uub whom i didn't in the previous data simply because i didn't think a dumb game like that required faqs. (i didn't know the existence of uub, supreme kai and omega shenlong as unlockable characters.) so what the hell. i think i'm playing this game far better than i did in the past, but whatever; seems to apply to everything i do anyway.

i suddenly got the desire to draw and so i started to draw. but after i started drawing, i'm starting to wonder, am i too late to return to the artist's path? and so i started and started and started (i was just reviewing my sentence and i realised wow i have powerful language!). it's a pretty intense world out there, not to mention competitve. mgs2 has an interesting point to say about competition. near the end of the game, it talked about "censorship". and it said, sometimes information is a confusing thing. "nice to others," we're taught, but later in life, we're taught a different thing: "beat out the competition." quite food for taught, no? i often imagine a wonderfully peaceful world where we just do our own thing and not cross each other's line but that's the perfect world that doesn't exist. do the same as someone else and you get the same thing. is it true? i don't know. all i do know is that given the way i learn, it's going to take me at least another 10yrs to reach anything with commercial value.

it could be a matter of strategy, or diligence...or something else? i don't know. i might have mentioned before that i don't have much imagination. i piece stories up, i make relations, but i don't have images in my head when i do these things. most images in my head are nothing more than fogs, seriously.

drawing is something of a precise nature but i'm so haphazard with a lot of things i do. i like broad and general things. and when it comes to precision, i am next to a hopeless pile of wooh! whatever that is. :D

then again, oh well. enough whining. i think the bigger challenge is sucking it all up and continue drawing. i hope this whole idea of quantity drawing really is the way to improving, as is writing. i do believe reading out loud and writing a lot are the key elements to improving your linguistics abilities, not so much the quality of.

ramble ramble ramble. lalallaa. i wanna bathe. the weather sucks. oooooo.

humourless me. maybe i'd be a little bit more lively once i stop kicking myself over drawing. grguuhh.

btw, manpuku is quite nice. :D