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The most must-have rpg for the psp

The PSP version also has proper widescreen support. The lag is not really any different from how the original version ran on the original PSX.

My favorite PSP RPGs are Jeanne d'Arc and Crimson Gem Saga. I also like Final Fantasy VIII, available on the PSN store. Final Fantasy VII is pretty good too I guess. Old Final Fantasy games play really well on the PSP.

How tolerant are you to legitimately difficult bosses?

I don't like difficult bosses. I prefer it when we can get along and work together without anyone causing trouble for the other. On the other hand, I don't like easy bosses, because they let you slack off and not earn your salary.

What Videogames Are You Playing Right Now?

I love Final Fantasy XII and would love to replay it - if I could play it in HD. I don't care about NEXT GENERATION GRAPHICS so much, but the low resolution for FFXII has two problems on my HD set:

a) The textures are so detailed at low resolutions that the whole screen is a jaggy, incoherent mess. It looks great in SD, but HD it actually causes eyestrain.
b) The text and everything is low-resolution and does not have optimal readability.

SD CRT sets have natural, warm anti-aliasing because of the way scanlines were set up, but my LCD HD set does not have that. I can always turn on smoothing and make it look blurry, but then the problem is worse. I have heard that really nice plasmas don't have this problem, but my current television already cost two weeks' salary.

I have always wondered how HD CRTs would look - I bet you they would look really nice. I know that they are out there but that they are the size of a yacht.

My Girlfriend is Having an Emotional Affair

Hey so a day or two has gone by and maybe there can be an update for this whole thing! I will tell you a story and answer all of your questions:

Yesterday, my girlfriend wasn't answering my text messages. I sent her several text messages throughout the day trying to figure out what was going on that night - I couldn't get ahold of her, of course. I assumed she was ignoring me; Yoguitar always visits her at school (maybe he doesn't have a job) so my paranoid mind made that connection. I made plans with friends, went out, had a truly massive sandwich and several tall orders of gin. Fun time.

Late in the evening, I checked my email. I noticed that she had sent me many angry emails accusing me of being out with another woman. I had not come home, after all. The emails from her had gotten progressively more and more angry. They culminated in a message informing me she was leaving me, would not be there when I got home, and wishing me that my affair was worth it.

So I rushed home (armed with the time-stamped receipt from TGI Fridays and a picture of me with my male buddy to assuage her fears). She was still home. She had not packed, but had drunk all of the wine. She was crying.

She was furious with me. I had not done anything, but she had gone so far in one direction that it was several hours before she could calm down (emotional intertia and all that).

So this episode revealed to me that there is a crazy cycle of insecurity going on. I am made insecure by this other guy who is way cooler than I am, which makes me paranoid, which in turn makes her paranoid, which makes me even more paranoid. We don't trust each other, but we probably care about each other or else we wouldn't worry so much.

However, she is a girly-girl so she refuses to really learn from this situation and understand that Yoguitar makes me feel the way that she felt last night. The other person is always wrong, after all - particularly when he is right. So I guess the episode did nothing to improve the situation.

Anyway so here are answers to your questions:

About contacting the guy: That was my plan, but I don't have any way to get in touch with him short of getting his number from her phone.

About my being nosey: That's kind of a policy in our apartment. She reads my text messages sometimes too (she started it). I used to get really angry, but eventually I decided that I shouldn't have anything to hide. It's very liberating when you know that you have no privacy and can't get away with anything. For example, I use my real name on the internet, so I am not shielded by a wall of anonymity.

About it being an innocent friendship: This is certainly not the case. They have known eachother for a week or two. This guy is hitting it hard and contacting her every day. I have game, too, and I know what he is doing. For example, within the week or two since they've met, he's gone in for several massages. They cost over $50 each, and he is in his early 20s (so he can't afford it) and he also does yoga (so I doubt that he actually needs therapeutic massages every day). The only problem is that the girl he met isn't single!

There is a small chance that it is innocent on her part, but not on his. She does not have many friends after all, and would like some new ones. However, like I said earlier, I know what game is and I know how to pick up a girl and this guy is doing all the things a guy does when he wants someone. I bet you each a month's salary that, if Yoguitar met someone else at the bar this weekend, he would not run to his platonic friend (my girlfriend) to excitedly tell her about the new girl he met. When a person makes a new platonic friend, the person have the sort of aggressive interaction that Yoguitar has with my girlfriend. Rather, new friends tend to chat relatively infrequently until they get close enough to share deep secrets.

What makes me worry about this so much is that I am boring. I am pretty attractive; I stay in shape, I dress well enough, am well-groomed, etc. I am somewhat charming. When I meet people, I make a good impression and they often like me. But I am also a government employee and a graduate student in a management program where I learn a lot about accounting, data centers, and human resources management. I don't play any instruments that aren't hooked up to my computer. And I love video games that have lots of numbers in them.

So, I am not really the cool guy that I feel can keep my 19-year-old girlfriend's interest. I feel insecure about how attractive I am to women under the age of 40. I was talking to WIP the other day about how well I would get along with a 40-year-old divorcee with several kids whose ex-husband was in a band. I am really confident that in the long run she or anyone else would be very happy settling down with me. However, I'm still the "nice guy" with all of its benefits and drawbacks in a relationship.

Art Stuffs

That isn't a bad sketch.

I think that women have a hard time drawing anime breasts because they actually have them. So, women draw breasts the way they really look - like a teardrop. Anime breasts are actually more like a big sphere pasted onto the outside of the woman's chest. It is anatomically impossible and makes no sense whatsoever, but that is how anime artists draw them.

What is your all time favorite video game character

Yeah Ghalleon was a great character.

My favorite video game character is the hero's arm the in Bionic Commando remake.

What fictional monster scares you the most?

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god damn gorgons scare the living shit out of me.


Here's the thing - for as long as I can remember I always thought that mythical creatures like gorgons, mermaids, or harpies were an incredibly sexy idea. I don't know, maybe I like the feeling of slimy scales rubbing against my naked body. But maybe also it is because I was unindated with American fantasy art when I was young and they all had giant boobs (see: your reference image for a gorgon).

This isn't a fictional creature, but it is a monster of mythical proportions and I am afraid of it:

Where will you be in 10 years? (Discussion)

In 10 years I will be 34 and will have completed a JD and hopefully passed the bar. I am not interested in being a lawyer, but I do have a long-term career goal of working with the NTIA/FCC on spectrum management policy. Being a qualified lawyer is sort of a prerequisite for that. So hopefully I will be well on my towards that goal.

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working for "the man" 6 hours a day

Are you kidding me?? How do Europeans get anything done :( YOU GUYS ARE SO LAZY

My Girlfriend is Having an Emotional Affair

Yeah Nightblade is right. The thing is that when there is a problem like this, you can't just go "THIS MUST BE FIXED OR ELSE". Because trust is broken. It's been expressed that you are no longer the guy she likes. You can't just get that back.

I mean I didn't help it by snooping. But she snoops through my stuff all the time. Like she digs up old internet posts and is like WHAT IS THIS????????? I bet you if we don't break up we will have a fight over this thread in 2011.

My Girlfriend is Having an Emotional Affair

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Don't feel bad dude that he might be better than you

Hahah you are so supportive!

Also I won't fight for someone that isn't interested in me.