Alicia is awesome.
Sometimes I forget that she isn't used to some of the things that I just take for granted. In the past week I planned to cook and have Thanksgiving. It's not much (for a Thanksgiving). On the menu is-
- a turkey
- green bean caserol (the one with the onions on the top)
- cranberries (two types of canned, or as I like to think of them, as creamy and chunky)
- mashed potatoes (real potatoes, no flakes for us!)
- stuffing, and lots of it (It was about four years ago when Alicia found out that you could buy and have stuffing on other days besides Thanksgiving and went bonkers. She loves the stuff)
- Jello
- brown and server rolls (as a person who likes to bake, it hurts me to use these, but it's one of the things that Alicia loves to have, so they take priority over home made rolls for this meal, I'm sure for Christmas or just a random Tuesday, I could make homemade rolls and then promptly eat the entire batch)
- two pies
For the traditional American, that is what I would consider a 'bare bones' Thanksgiving while still sticking with the made at home option. Maybe going a bit overboard with two pies AND a Jello, but turkey, rolls, stuffing, cranberries from a can, it's just the bare bones of Thanksgiving.
Tonight, when I was putting her down to bed (I needed to stay up and do the Jello and the pie) she said that she was shocked with how much I was doing for Thanksgiving and wasn't expecting to any of it and just how over the top I was doing Thanksgiving. I said it wasn't anything, and then she hit me with this one- "You know what me and my mom did for one Thanksgiving? We went to the 7-11 and had hotdogs."
I might get mad at her sometimes for some things around the house and in family life that I take as normal, but sometimes I just forget that Alicia's childhood was slightly different than mine and simple things like her own bedroom and not just a couch to sleep on are still newer things for her and she simply doesn't know how to do things like clean her bedroom because it was never an option.
Now, let's just hope that she never finds out about this blog because she will murder me dead when she finds out that I wrote about her in a place that could be read by other people. So I will say it again, Alicia is awesome, and somedays I forget just how awesome she is.
Nov 27, 2013
Nov 25, 2013
Trophy Whore
So I started looking around for what trophies I do have, and what I don't have, and then that started to make me think about which ones are the best that I have versus the ones that everyone seems to have. Oddly enough, the games that I'm most proud of, and have easily dumped the most time into, are the ones that are on my rarest trophy list (Borderlands, Disgaea, SSX)
I know that I should be working on my final paper for my theory class, but this just seemed to be much more interesting that feminist theory in The Turn of the Screw. I really do need to start working on that, I was so overjoyed this morning when I checked blackboard and found out that it was Thanksgiving week this week, so that my paper was put off another week that instead of working on it, I procrastinated myself into this.
While I'm typing, I might as well put some thoughts out about it.
The general idea is that although people would like to throw a feminist reading and interpretation onto the story, that upon a true reading of the story that the story does not support that, and that the reading feminists would come up with is wrong.
That means that the first thing that I have to do is come up with a legitimate and stable understanding of feminist theory in application to The Turn of the Screw. Once I am able to create a feminist reading, then I'll be able to deconstruct it and show it for the flaws that it has, and the arguments that it makes is not true, specifically in the fact that the expectations given to one gender completely undermine and subvert the standards that are being put upon the other. (Typically feminist theory is going to privilege the woman and the role of women within the story, and completely forget about the men and what they are dealing with)
The only way that I'm going to be able to do that is to deep read the feminist theory for the class, make sure that I know them and their arguments forwards and backwards, and then I'm going to have to re-read the story with a pen in hand and highlight and show through the text where their theories are supported and where they are deconstructed and shown as something else. That's a lot of reading. Hopefully staying home for Thanksgiving will give me the time to do that . . . just after as I platinum Skyrim first.
I know that I should be working on my final paper for my theory class, but this just seemed to be much more interesting that feminist theory in The Turn of the Screw. I really do need to start working on that, I was so overjoyed this morning when I checked blackboard and found out that it was Thanksgiving week this week, so that my paper was put off another week that instead of working on it, I procrastinated myself into this.
While I'm typing, I might as well put some thoughts out about it.
The general idea is that although people would like to throw a feminist reading and interpretation onto the story, that upon a true reading of the story that the story does not support that, and that the reading feminists would come up with is wrong.
That means that the first thing that I have to do is come up with a legitimate and stable understanding of feminist theory in application to The Turn of the Screw. Once I am able to create a feminist reading, then I'll be able to deconstruct it and show it for the flaws that it has, and the arguments that it makes is not true, specifically in the fact that the expectations given to one gender completely undermine and subvert the standards that are being put upon the other. (Typically feminist theory is going to privilege the woman and the role of women within the story, and completely forget about the men and what they are dealing with)
The only way that I'm going to be able to do that is to deep read the feminist theory for the class, make sure that I know them and their arguments forwards and backwards, and then I'm going to have to re-read the story with a pen in hand and highlight and show through the text where their theories are supported and where they are deconstructed and shown as something else. That's a lot of reading. Hopefully staying home for Thanksgiving will give me the time to do that . . . just after as I platinum Skyrim first.
The List
I'm a big fat gamer nerd, and as such I have a bookshelf worth of games that I either want to beat, or people have told me that I have to beat to be a member of society. The problem with this is that if a game is good enough (I don't want to murder myself just getting to the end of the story) I will want to platinum the game.
The developers set a few goals for players to reach, typically ones that involve the extras that are in the game, or difficult things to do, and if you get all of the trophies within a game, you get the platinum of the game. Typically speaking getting a platinum trophy within a game translates to, 'there is nothing more for you to do with this game, you won at everything, you did everything, you found everything.' The funny part about dealing with these trophies is that even on the games that I let fall by the side I've typically done somewhere around 60-70% of the trophies. There are only a few games that I outright gave up all hope on because I just couldn't stand (GTA I'm looking at you!)
I'm not obsessed with getting 'easy' platinums just so I can brag about it to other people, I'm obsessed with feeling like I've done everything within a game, especially expansive time sinks where you're never quite sure if you've done it all. For example; Skyrim (my current game of time sink) is a huge, endless game. You can never finish it in any reasonable sense because there will always be something more to do. The trophy list gives me a point where I can put the disk away and say, 'yeah, I did everything that was worth mentioning' so I can start the next game. That event, the platinum trophy, and the ability to put the game back on the bookshelf next to Borderlands, Borderlands 2, FFXIII-2, Tales of Graces, Dynasty Warriors 7, Silent Hill 3, and Infamous 2 (my platniumed games) is happening this week. I'm 6 items, one wedding, and a few dead guards away from getting the platinum, which means I have to consult the list.
The list is the games that I haven't beat to platinum level (that I'd like to get there) and games that I haven't even played that I need to give at least one playthrough.
First there is the list of games that I've played but sped through, and they deserve a second look, or at least a few more hours of play time to give them a second shot.
- Fallout 3 (I need to do the bad/neutral karma routes)
- Modnation Racers (Need to at least finish the career mode, only went about half way through that)
- Marvel Vs Capcom 3 (I really should give fighting games a chance. This is my only fighting game, I played it solo for about a day or two and then got frustrated with it and shelved it. I haven't seen it since. I need to give fight games a chance more than 6 hours of trying to figure out how in the world to do something as simple as block)
- Sonic Ultimate Genesis Collection (I've hardly touched this package of games. They're classics and deserve some love, I just don't know if I want to go back to 8 bit graphics)
Then there is the list of games that I haven't played, but are sitting on my bookshelf waiting to be played.
-Dragon Age Origins
-Dragon Age 2
-Batman Arkham Asylum
-Batman Arkham City
-Bioshock 2
-Resistance 2
-Resistance 3
-Ratchet and Clank HD
-Ni no Kuni
-Tales of Xillia
I THINK that is all of them, I could be missing one that I forgot about, but with those lists I need to figure out which game is next for me to play. I don't know what I'm going to go with, so any suggestions would be loved (hahahahaha that means that someone out there would actually be reading this)
I'm not obsessed with getting 'easy' platinums just so I can brag about it to other people, I'm obsessed with feeling like I've done everything within a game, especially expansive time sinks where you're never quite sure if you've done it all. For example; Skyrim (my current game of time sink) is a huge, endless game. You can never finish it in any reasonable sense because there will always be something more to do. The trophy list gives me a point where I can put the disk away and say, 'yeah, I did everything that was worth mentioning' so I can start the next game. That event, the platinum trophy, and the ability to put the game back on the bookshelf next to Borderlands, Borderlands 2, FFXIII-2, Tales of Graces, Dynasty Warriors 7, Silent Hill 3, and Infamous 2 (my platniumed games) is happening this week. I'm 6 items, one wedding, and a few dead guards away from getting the platinum, which means I have to consult the list.
The list is the games that I haven't beat to platinum level (that I'd like to get there) and games that I haven't even played that I need to give at least one playthrough.
First there is the list of games that I've played but sped through, and they deserve a second look, or at least a few more hours of play time to give them a second shot.
- Fallout 3 (I need to do the bad/neutral karma routes)
- Modnation Racers (Need to at least finish the career mode, only went about half way through that)
- Marvel Vs Capcom 3 (I really should give fighting games a chance. This is my only fighting game, I played it solo for about a day or two and then got frustrated with it and shelved it. I haven't seen it since. I need to give fight games a chance more than 6 hours of trying to figure out how in the world to do something as simple as block)
- Sonic Ultimate Genesis Collection (I've hardly touched this package of games. They're classics and deserve some love, I just don't know if I want to go back to 8 bit graphics)
Then there is the list of games that I haven't played, but are sitting on my bookshelf waiting to be played.
-Dragon Age Origins
-Dragon Age 2
-Batman Arkham Asylum
-Batman Arkham City
-Bioshock 2
-Resistance 2
-Resistance 3
-Ratchet and Clank HD
-Ni no Kuni
-Tales of Xillia
I THINK that is all of them, I could be missing one that I forgot about, but with those lists I need to figure out which game is next for me to play. I don't know what I'm going to go with, so any suggestions would be loved (hahahahaha that means that someone out there would actually be reading this)
RIP Trip
Once upon a time, this was a blog of a story I wrote back in high school. I've deleted all of it considering that I've written much better, and wanted a place to put some thoughts onto paper. I'm not writing that much with pen and paper now days due to Addison and just not having the time or the place to do it, so I'm just going to put it here instead. I'm not really sure how often I'll even use this blog, it's more like a place for me to put thoughts out in the world than for any real blogging getting done. I kept the D&D story up just for memories that will never be forgotten, and that's why I'm on the #2 blog.
With that being said, let's get this random ball rolling, and welcome to my life.
With that being said, let's get this random ball rolling, and welcome to my life.
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