Skinning a cat and tossing babies out of gardens

[thistlechaser]

Cats, skinning, multiple methods:

The trolls and spammers will never reach my MUSH! It's down! Ha ha on you! Okay, it's probably not exactly down, but it's unreachable. Same diff, from this end of things.

Tossing babies:
My Harry Potter CoS game arrived today. Woo. I had more fun than one probably should throwing gnomes out of the garden. They really looked like babies though, so I kept snickering. I was very disappointed to see that you could not zap Ron with your spell; the redheaded stepchild kept mocking my early throwing attempts, so I finally turned on him and zapped him, but it went right through. Mutter.

I threw gnomes for about twice as long as you had to, then I just zapped gnomes and didn't bother throwing them, then moved on in the game. Borgin and Burkes was annoying as hell. Between this game and not being able to see Kingdom Hearts because it was too dark, I'm pretty sure there's something wrong with my TV. Took me forever to do the tasks, it was just too dark (even with Lumos) to see. I got out of the building and saved/quit at the first place. Might go back to playing again tonight, if there's nothing on TV and the MUSH stays down.

Time vanishes way, way too quickly and easily when playing games.

Oh, semi-sad Animal Crossing news: I needed a memory card for HP, so I destroyed my second AC town. I had stuff there I wanted to move to my main town, but... I really wanted to play HP and didn't care too much about AC. If I go back to AC some day I'll buy another card and make a new second town.

Tonight was my first night that the crock pot meal failed to the point of me not wanting to eat it: Chicken breast with honey and mustard. Too much mustard, and I guess the honey burnt because the whole thing was black. I have stew meat thawing for tomorrow, but I don't know how I'll make it...

Comments

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Heh. Again, you are my byte-me Information Hookup.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Heehee! Happy to be of service!

[tersa.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure there's something wrong with my TV...it was just too dark

Sounds like your Brightness and/or Contrast is off. This is adjustable, usually.

What'd you think of the game, otherwise? BTW, that extra time gnome tossing will come in good stead later. Play Neville's mini-games. Trust me. :)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've been playing with the brightness and contrast, but they're making no difference. That, plus that the sound now has some odd buzz in it, is poking me to go get a new one. Sooner or later.

I mostly like the game, though the gnome tossing is still my favorite part of it. I played for an extra hour last night, finding Ginny's first lost thingie.

I like that you can zap random people on the streets, but I don't like it that you can do it endlessly without anything more than an 'Ow!' from them. How about something like 'Harry Potter! You're not acting like yourself at all!' or 'Stop that!' or something more likely to happen if you run around zapping everyone you see over and over?

Luckily I found a walkthrough for it, otherwise I would have been frustrated last night with all the running around and pushing this and pulling that and jumping and moving boxes. I never have any idea how the game makers think people will figure all that out on their own. Or maybe I just look for something else in a game... My idea of fun is *not* spending four hours trying to figure out the order of pulling switches and moving boxes. Maybe some people like that...

Hey, when your game does that 'loading' thing, for moving from one scene to another, does your Gamecube make clicking noises? I never got a noise like that while playing Animal Crossing, but the graphics/sounds are no where near as ... um, intense. I can see it needing more loading time, but is clicking normal?

[tersa.livejournal.com]

I mostly like the game, though the gnome tossing is still my favorite part of it.

Gnome tossing is pretty fun, although my current challenge is gnome tossing with accuracy. I love the broomstick races. And I want to practice Quidditch on this second run through. But you won't get to do those things until you get to Hogwart's (not sure if you're that far yet).

Luckily I found a walkthrough for it, otherwise I would have been frustrated last night with all the running around and pushing this and pulling that and jumping and moving boxes. I never have any idea how the game makers think people will figure all that out on their own. Or maybe I just look for something else in a game... My idea of fun is *not* spending four hours trying to figure out the order of pulling switches and moving boxes. Maybe some people like that...

I think of HP:CoS as a puzzle game and, in that, figuring out the order of pulling switches and moving boxes is a puzzle to be figured out. It may not be your cup of tea. I like it to an extent, but I'm glad there are walkthroughs as I sometimes get frustrated and stuck, too.

Hey, when your game does that 'loading' thing, for moving from one scene to another, does your Gamecube make clicking noises?

I haven't noticed, but I can check it. I sit pretty far from my GameCube most of the time (all hail wireless controllers!), so I don't tend to hear it running.