Your money is now our money

I hit 20 pounds lost today. Actually, this is the third time I've hit my "20 pounds lost" marker. Ha ha. Did I mention I like yo-yos? I feel good, yes I do, even though I've essentially been eating out of cans and bags for the last 6 weeks*.

* Not entirely true. I've also been adding fresh fruits and veggies and skim milk and bread and peanut butter. Hooray peanut butter!

Been playing Final Fantasy XII lately. The game engine? Playable, I guess. It's very MMORPG-ish, which is too bad since they didn't take it that far.

Well, no, I DON'T want an MMORPG Final Fantasy. There are things called "ego" and "uniqueness" and "universal influences" that make console RPGs so cool. The world hangs in the balance, for example. The continent of blah blah is destroyed and it's not part of a GM event or a patch but as a result of something YOU did.

MMORPG land: Frogloks have taken over Grobb. It just happened one day overnight with a patch. Maybe it was (all of a sudden) overwhelming force. Maybe it was some powerful ally or mysterious item that "somehow" got into their hands. Contrived. The move was made by design of the developers and players did not influence it one iota.

Console RPG land: Frogloks have taken over Grobb. You finished a quest for the Froglok factions giving them a powerful item. It was in exchange for the war with the Trolls to end but they double-crossed you and your people and have used the power of the item to turn the tide of power. Betrayal! The move was made by design of the developers and triggered exactly when you did it.

What I would LOVE to see is a true MMORPG/Console RPG hybrid. It can work, too. Ask me how. *WINK*

Lets just say that if I had the time or the money to support myself on this endeavor for the years it would take, I could completely design an RPG engine with all the dynamics and fun of a MMORPG raid along with the "instanced yet still dynamic" world of a console RPG. I hesitate to give it away because it really will be next-generation MMORPG technology. 9 million WoW players? Ha.

Enough dick-waving. No, wait, I'm not done. *wave wave wave* There, that should do it.

Sorry about that, lady, must have had some semen still dripping out of it. Damn my mutant ability of shooting seed across a room. My best has been an impressive 12 feet, btw. Fuck TMI.

Anyway, this is funny. It's begging for In The Groove steps. I'm totally cereal.
(And before you get cute, I've got lossless audio of it, so, don't make them without consulting me first to get an .ogg authored.)