• 28Aug 08

  Final Fantasy IV

  So I've been playing Final Fantasy IV for my DS Lite, and it's really good.

  You have to do some training, and you can't just breeze through it, but that's a good thing. Even random battles can be challenging, and if you don't pay attention, you can come out of even a random encounter with a dead party member or two.

  The spell system is also really good. You can choose to hit a single target or multiple targets in one shot. If you use a healing spell for your guys like this, they're healed, but not as much, but it's better for healing everyone with 5 mana than having to waste 20-25 patching smaller wounds. If your enemies have a weakness to a magical element, you can hit them all with it at once to do spread damage, all for the same price as an attack on one.

  I do like Cecil's darkness ability, so it sucks when I heard you have to change your class, but Paladins are really cool too so I'm OK with that. I'm at Mount Hobbs right now. The storyline is really good, and the main character for once isn't a spunky teenaged villager with one parent(Or none) and a destiny to live up to! It's a dark knight who serves a corrupt, bastard king, and runs around destroying villages for the first twenty minutes of the game.

  Much better than the stereotpyical JRPG opener of your hapy village with your orphanage being burnt down or whatever.

  This time, the characters actually have some depth, thank God.

  • Posted Aug 28, 2008 9:54 am PT
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• 24Aug 08

  Good news for me on this fine day!

  For those of you who don't know, I have to wear glasses. I wore them on and off from 10-12 because back then, my vision was about 20/40. Now, I hate those evil metal boxs around your eyes, the lack of periphrial vision, and the glare from bright lights, the inability to wear normal sunglasses, the fact that they can break, wearing them in the pool, not being able to wear goggles or masks without them, and being reliant on them, but if you don't wear them or your vision doesn't suck without them, then you have no idea how much it can depress you having to put those things on.

  Having 8 years to grow caused my nearsightedness to pretty much ravage my decent eyesight, at 18 I'm left with roughly 20/200 vision in my right eye(Possibly lower, but above 20/150) and a little better in my left eye(I'm guessing 20/180-170).

  For those of you who don't know eye lingo, that's piss poor. It means that without my glasses, I am legally blind in my right eye. That's how bad my vision acuity is.

  At around 13 I had to begin wearing glasses on a daily basis, and at 14 they were stuck on my face 24/7. At 17, on my birthday, I got contacts, and after that I was much happier. It still made me mad that I just couldn't have nice vision when 90% of the people around me were free from this curse, but I was always glad that it was my only problem, and that I didn't have cancer or something like cataracts in my eyes that caused scarring, permanent damage, and possibly blindness. I consider myself very blessed.

  Well, recently I read about vision requirements for Special Warfar programs in the Navy.

  I was terrified of not getting in the limits, but when I learned I did, I was very happy. I still worried about the future, as although most of the damage is done alrea, 18-21 can be a time of more eye development.

  Thankfully, my problems are solved.

  First off, the Navy will issue waivers that will let me do the job regardless if I'm still otherwise capable, therefore eliminating the problem. But it was recent news that PRK and Lasik surgery(Where they go ACHARGIN DER LAZAS IN MAH EYEZ) allowed you to apply if your eyes got to 20/20(Normal vision acuity) or better.

  A talk with the doc confirmed that my eyes are at least correctable to 20/15, which is above average, superior vision acuity. I would like 20/10, which is TWICE normal vision acuity, but just 20/20 would make me a very happy person.

  It only took forty hours of looking around to learn how it all actually works, and constant talks from my dad who told me it was all AOK regardless, but all my questions are solved.

  I can apply for anything I want.

  When I get in, I'm going to apply for the IA program, which is a program where they train sailors to act as soldiers(Including Army training) for deployment alongside US Army soldiers. I don't know about you, but to me, that is not only a great honor, it would be the GREATEST honor I can think of.

  Nothing would make me prouder than to march alongside them as an equal, nothing. It may sound silly, but my father and his father did it, and if it works out, I would like to go Airborne, like my father and his father before him.

  I will definitely apply for that.

  • Posted Aug 24, 2008 9:03 pm PT
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• 16Aug 08

  No vlog, just blog.

  So, I decided to just type everything out because I didn't want to make a video. This may actually be long, so don't read it if that bothers you, but I don't really care, so yeah.

  I finally got to take the ASVAB, which is basically the military version of the SATs, and I scored and 85 out of a max score of 99. Before you ask, yes, that is very good, but I'm sure you figured that out already. This video here explains what it is that I will essentialy be doing when I join:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j22WrnOjVU

  I would, however, in a few years in, like to do something like this:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2nl8TeRFzU&feature=related

  SWCCs, or "Swicks", are United States Navy Special Forces.

  Anyway, outside of military stuff, I also got something very special:

  A Wii.

  Our family got one this week, and we got a second controller and Brawl. Of course, I use the Gamecube controller for Brawl. When I actually learn my FC, I'll post it.

  It's really fun, and currenly I'm best with Ike, but my old favorite is Captain Falcon, and I will probably use him after I unlock him, unless I simply become too attached to Ike.

  I also got Rogue Galaxy for the PS2 and Final Fantasy IV for my DS Lite.

  So as far as I can remember, that's it.

  • Posted Aug 16, 2008 7:34 pm PT
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