Dracozombie

Because a word would still somehow be missing, and even by KH standards that's a little WTF (not that the characters themselves act like it is).

Birthday happy, Shana! Feel free to gorge on eggnog and coal.

... y'know, if I squint, her skirt thingies kinda reminds me of dish towels.

It's the octopus, kids. Don't tease him.

I guess I can see those similarities on the surface, but deep down they're not all that similar at all; Cloud was far from the first thing I thought of when Roxas appeared (well, except maybe the hair... but I associate Cloud more with his spiky unicorn 'do, anyway.)

What, no Xion?

Yeah, a little, but not by that much. Maybe my expectations were too high because Steve Burton can emote when he puts his mind to it. Maybe I also shouldn't judge so harshly against a single line. 'Sides, FF titles generally don't have stellar voice acting to begin with. Cloud's not really that cold, though. He starts off pretty apathetic, but that only lasts for maybe the first twenty minutes of the game. Then Cloud starts caring first for his teammates and then the world at large. Serious, yes, but not cold. He's even a little goofy at times. Steve Burton can emote when he wants to, but like you said, that's usually only when Cloud's angry. I was just hoping that voice acting oomph could be put into other emotions.

It feels like Steve Burton as Cloud still can't emote, but... holy crap this actually looks really really cool. Not super duper ultra hyped for it, but I get the feeling I'll be much more excited for it closer to whenever its release date is.

Not to mention how they've run FFVII into the ground so much that I think a lot of people forget what made it cool to begin with... including its creators. I hear it's becoming kind of a joke that Cloud's Smash Bro's trailer makes it seem like Nintendo knows the game and character more than the guys who made it. I'm the kind of person who generally assumes the creators know best, so for me to kind of agree with that joke really says a lot. It would be nice if they could give other FFs in the series some attention. No single FF represents the whole series, after all, so even though VII is my favorite, I also love other games in the series. More on topic, I don't feel good calling anything overrated. It doesn't even matter whether or not I actually like the game in question -- it's not a judgement call I feel like I have the right to make, because who gets to decide what deserves its popularity or not? Even that FFVII example above has more to do with the direction the games and characters have been taking over how much praise it gets. Besides, more often than not 'overrated' is just a buzz word people throw around when things they don't like get attention. It's lost its meaning.

For a while I was too busy wondering if that crossed out sos had anything to do with the joke. Then I realized what the joke actually was. The joke's on Santa, though. Roxas has no mommy. Merry Christmas!

Something amounting to, Oh hey it's Roxas, that blonde-haired kid I play as in the prologue that's supposed to be Sora's Nobody and he's part of Organization XIII and he's slashed with Axel a lot and he dual-wields Keyblades and he's gonna disappear after this prologue is over so maybe I shouldn't get too attached, oh and I know all this because I only got into KH/played KH2 not long before BBS got released in the west and I spoiled myself silly about everything.

Yeah, sad to say but at a $500 budget you probably won't get anything long-lasting, let alone have all the features you want. Being able to draw art and record/edit footage takes some decently powerful stuff. You'll either have to save up for longer or settle for something much less.

10. Wow and I thought I bombed Lea's quiz. D:

56. I DIDN'T KNOW YOUR FAVORITE SHOE BRAND GOD I AM THE WORST BUDDY EVER I'm also deeply ashamed that I thought your favorite food was seafood instead of steak. That was my first choice. I knew it was the steak, dammit.

If we're embracing stereotypes, then my mind tends to stereotype CoD players as in the 12-14 range with a vocabulary mainly consisting of racial/sexual slurs. I'm not actually sure where the "17-year-olds should play CoD" stereotype comes from.

Yes. So much shame.

"The closer you are to light, the greater your shadow becomes." I know it's ominous but it also gets me thinking. The intensity of one side affects the intensity of the other. Taken literally, your shadow doesn't look all that noticeable until you're in front of a strong light source, then it becomes very deep. Or, picture a painting that's white with a bunch of black splotches, versus an otherwise stark white painting with a single prick of black in the middle. You'll notice the black in the second picture more than the first, where the black is more evenly distributed, right? It can be like how the awesomeness of victory is proportional to the danger you have to face, or not seeing where you truly stand until you compare yourself to someone else, or being afraid to succeed because failure is too scary. The more perfect something is, the more you'll notice what's not perfect -- the flaws stand out more. Or, the higher up you go in success, the greater the consequences for screwing up (the bigger you are, the harder you fall). Or, you might not notice how selfish you are until you meet someone who's truly altruistic and see the kinds of things you do -- your selfishness didn't really stand out until you met that generous person. Or maybe you're actually fairly kind, but you don't notice how far kindness can truly go until, say, you see someone sacrifice everything for a cause. Somehow your brightness isn't all that bright compared to them. But for the consequences to be great, or the light to be strong, it means you're in a position where you're accomplishing something worthwhile i.e. you're closer to light. If you're playing pro baseball and you strike out your team, then that's pretty much a disaster. But if you're just playing with your friends in a backyard, is a strike-out that big a deal? Does the success/failure of a huge corporation seem as grand in scope as the success/failure of a mom-and-pop shop? (Well, okay, that depends on how you're measuring that success; the family-run shop might not rake in millions, but it probably has more personal meaning for its employees). You only fall as high as you've climbed. I dunno if I explained myself well. It makes sense in my head. But yeah, that's my two cents on a line about killing shadow thingies with big keys.

But all the name changes are confusing enough as it is. D: What if you're one of the heretic few who's had the same name since joining? Would your first avatar work for this (assuming you're also one of the heretic few who rarely switched avatars)? Man, that old Roxas was so ugly. The things I do for nostalgia...