Packing, along with the requisite procrastination, is really pretty boring. Well, maybe not always. But it was today. For me. So, I’ve really got nothing today. I’m sorry. I really hate coming here and not actually posting any content. It’s boring for you. But I also hate not posting at all. I’ve gotten into a groove, and I’m actually posting regularly, and I’m afraid to miss a day for the fear that it might just spiral into a week that morphs into a month and all of a sudden, I’m just some girl with a dead blog.
So. The boring post in which I write about how I have nothing to write about. So boring. So meta.
Things I Can Do In The US That I Can’t Do In Taiwan:
- Speak the native language. Oh, what joy, to be able to ask where things are, to be able to know that I can go do whatever needs doing without worrying if I know enough words or if the person working knows any English or if there are picture menus or whatever. Kato tells me that I’ll be overwhelmed with all the conversations I’ll be able to hear and understand, but I think it’s an okay trade. I may think differently in a week or so.
I have some new Sega CDs to try out later. Three games in a torrent of, I think 98, finished while I was sitting at work with nothing happening. Yay, Underground-Gamer! I can hardly wait to get home, fire up Gens, and have my mind blown by the coolest thing the early 90s had to offer. Man, I would have killed for this stuff in Junior High. Maybe not Snatcher, I didn’t even now about it then, but now it’s one of only a handful of Sega CDs that I think of as legitimately good. It was the first game that ever managed to keep me playing until sunrise, and that’s quite an accomplishment considering I was 23 at the time. Up to then I’d never been so captivated that I lost time to that degree. Unfortunately I never did finish it, after I fell asleep the moment was gone. I think I’ll have to do the whole game in one shot. I’ll dedicate a caffeine-heavy weekend to it someday.
Also, I recently acquired a number of TurboGrafx CDs, and oh-my-god-are-they-ever-bad. It Came From the Desert is pretty cool, largely due to the fact that it was camp to begin with, and camp doesn’t generally fade. Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective is like the Sega CD version, but with somehow magically worse video, and everything else was forgettable enough that I actually don’t remember them.* I’ll probably try them again later, either out of fairness, or self-loathing, or if I find a good way to capture the video from them** to put together a show, which is a post for another day.
*That’s not to say that NEC/TTI had a monopoly on bad CD games. I played Marky Mark: Make my Video, so I know from bad games. Heck, I’ve purchased Night Trap, Double Switch (twice, once on Sega CD, once on Saturn,) Ground Zero Texas, and Dragon’s Lair, possibly others as well that I’ve just blocked out. Oh yeah, also Sewer Shark. Maybe Space Ace too, I can’t recall.
**Without video and a capture card. I want to dump the video via emulator like I can with modified Gens, FCEU, SNES9X, etc.
PS, sorry for almost every link being from wikipedia, I’ll change that later if I think of it. I was in a hurry.